Posted on 03/04/2019 8:30:32 PM PST by bitt
They though with the recusal of USAG Sessions and the appointment of Mueller they would be able to protect themselves. With the firing of Sessions and confirmation of former US AG Barr, they now are completely exposed to potential legal and civil liability. Barr has confirmed yesterday he WILL NOT recuse himself from overseeing Mueller.
The Republicans in the House and Senate wimped out by not holding hearings on the Obama Administration and the Clinton campaign. The swamp refuses to be drained. If Trump is defeated in 2020 the Constitution will only live through patriots.
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iirc, perkins coie, simpson/gps fusion law firm had their bank records subpoenaed
can't wait to see the MSM payees on their check register. (and the 1099’s_
can’t wait to see the MSM payees on their check register. (and the 1099’s_
American Pravda...let’s see if they declared those payments as income on their tax filings...
It is with no pleasure at all that I have to agree with you 100% and have thought so for some time now.
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Here's a compilation of some info on Jonathan M. Winer, one of the rats in the nest, an old Kerry Commie ally who became a link between the Clinton and Kerry State Departments and Christopher Steele:
“Jonathan M. Winer, a Washington lawyer and consultant, is a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state for international law enforcement and former special envoy for Libya.”
https://www.offshorealert.com/conference/2017/miami/get-speaker.aspx?id=55823
“Jonathan M. Winer is a lawyer, consultant, and diplomat who served as the State Department’s first Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Law Enforcement from 1994-1999 during the Clinton Administration, and until January 2017 as the U.S. Special Envoy for Libya in the Obama Administration. Previously, he was Counsel to Senator John Kerry from 1995-1994 [s/b "1985-1994"], during which he participated in the earliest Congressional investigations into Iran-Contra, money laundering in Latin America, and the global criminal network of the world’s the dirtiest bank, BCCI.”
https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/240474.htm
“#ad#Kerry gained further fame — or infamy, depending on your point of view — as head of “the Kerry Committee,” more formally the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. In this period — the late 1980s — Kerry devoted himself to trying to prove that the Contras were drug-runners; he was particularly interested in linking Vice President Bush to this criminality (as Bush was running for president). The Kerry Committee never accomplished its objective, but it attracted a lot of media attention and damaged individual reputations. On this committee, all the hopes, energies, and notions of IPS, the Christic Institute, CISPES, and the rest of that now-forgotten crowd came together.
Leading the charge were Kerry’s staff men, such as Jonathan Winer (still a Kerry foreign-policy adviser) and the notorious Jack Blum. This latter is considered by some Republicans a sort of Roy Cohn of the Left. One GOP aide from the period describes Kerry’s people as “drooling fanatics”: “Kennedy’s people were liberal, to be sure, and so were Dodd’s. But Kerry’s people were much more rabid. They promoted the most bizarre conspiracy theories around.” You have to remember, says this aide: “There was a real fruity network of goofball and semi-subversive people, and Kerry ran with those people. He was always a bit aloof himself, but you can tell a lot about politicians by the people they let in. These weren’t liberals. They had a shockingly hostile attitude toward the United States — our military, our intelligence community, our policies.””
https://www.alston.com/en/insights/news/1999/11/jonathan-m-winer-former-deputy-assistant-secretary
“Chief Counsel and principal legislative assistant to Senator John F. Kerry (D-MA). In that capacity, Mr. Winer assisted in the drafting of numerous laws and legislation, such as those aimed at money laundering and campaign finance reform. He also aided in the investigation of a number of important subjects, including the Iran-Contra Affair, the problem of drug trafficking and financial crime in Central and South America, the handling of the Savings and Loan bailout by the RTC, and HUD’s management of multifamily, low-income housing. Mr. Winer also led the investigation of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International in the late 1980s and early 1990s.”
http://www.mei.edu/profile/jonathan-m-winer
https://2009-2017.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/240474.htm
As Winer tells it, he and Steele were old pals. They “met and became friends” in 2009, when both were in the business of selling “business intelligence,” much of it involving Russia. Winer went back to work at State in 2013, after his old Capitol Hill boss, John Kerry, had become secretary of State. But he didn’t lose track of his friend Steele—not at all. He shared, and shared, and shared Steele’s corporate intelligence work with the State Department’s Russia desk. “Over the next two years, I shared more than 100 of Steele’s reports with the Russia experts at the State Department, who continued to find them useful.” (Let’s not speculate about how much it may have been worth to Steele to be able to tell his clients that the materials they were paying for were being regularly consumed by policy-makers in Foggy Bottom.)
Come the summer of 2016, Steele’s prime client was the campaign of Hillary Clinton, by way of the hired-guns at Fusion GPS, for whom he was assembling a grab bag of Trump tales from some sort of Russian sources. Come the fall Steele was spreading dossier info to various news organizations, the FBI, and the State Department. “In September 2016, Steele and I met in Washington and discussed the information now known as the ‘dossier.’” Here’s where it starts getting particularly weird: “I was allowed to review, but not to keep, a copy of these reports to enable me to alert the State Department,” Winer writes. “I prepared a two-page summary and shared it with [Winer’s boss at State, Victoria] Nuland.” I doubt I’m the only one who finds this bit of peekaboo passing strange. . .
[Much more info at link]
http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/08/steele-dossiers-coincidences/
“Known as “Vicious Sid” and “Mr. Fixer,” respectively, the two friends passed salacious allegations about Trump to a State Department official named Jonathan Winer...Winer, who is friends with Blumenthal, in turn, gave the information to Steele.”
From 2008 to 2013, Winer worked at the global public affairs and strategic consultancy firm APCO Worldwide, where he served as senior vice president. Before that, his biorelates he served under the Bill Clinton administration as “the State Department’s first Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Law Enforcement from 1994-1999.” He returned to the State Department in 2013.
From 2007 until 2016, APCO did extensive pro bono work for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
Obama State Dept Official Who Aided Dossier Author Was Key Player in Dubai Ports Scandal
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