Posted on 04/25/2020 2:59:33 PM PDT by bitt
The attorney general has suggested that the Justice Department review of the Russia investigation has uncovered “troubling” findings without going into details.
For years, President Trump has complained bitterly about F.B.I. officials who investigated his campaign’s ties to Russia, and about the “rogue bureaucrats of the Deep State” at the intelligence agencies, portraying them as enemies out to delegitimize his presidency.
Now, a special Justice Department inquiry investigating those officials has taken on another of Mr. Trump’s irritants: leaks to the news media.
Investigators for John H. Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut leading the investigation, have asked witnesses about news articles published in early 2017 that former administration officials blame for prompting the chaos that dominated the early days of the Trump presidency, according to three people familiar with the inquiry. Among them was a Washington Post column about Michael T. Flynn, the president’s first national security adviser, one of the people said.
What Mr. Durham has found is hidden from public view, and the coronavirus pandemic has slowed his progress, the people said. But Attorney General William P. Barr has promoted the investigation in recent days, saying that Mr. Durham has uncovered “troubling” problems and indicating that some results could made public before the general election in November. Mr. Trump has said he looks forward to the outcome of the inquiry, and a report or criminal charges before the election would all but assure that he weaponize it for political gain.
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i’m confused - is this story from a leak? /s
Hey Durham.....you've got WAY bigger fish to FRY than a LEAK!!
It took e ADULTS to WRITE this!!! OMG!!
Hey Durham.....you’ve got WAY bigger fish to FRY than a LEAK!!
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Because the msm chooses this one thing to report, this must be the only thing being done.
The same msm that lies to you every day on every issue.
We have always been at war with Eastasia. Eastasia has always been our ally.
President Trump needs to ‘weaponize’ anything and everything against the Democrats, the NYT, the Enemy Media in general, Leakers of all stripes, Never Trumpers and lame-@ss RINOs.
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CONFIDENTIAL To Democrat Senator _______ ___________
Dear Senator _________:
I am writing to you with information concerning the background of the current Republican nominee to ____________.
As I am a loyal Democrat, I trust that you will keep this confidential from Republicans, especially Senator _________, until we can spring this on them at the last minute with no chance for rebuttal or fact checking.
Also, may I ask that our colleagues in the usual social media companies carefully scrub my posting history for the past ____ years.
Republican named ________ physically __________ me and sexually __________ during ___________ in the time frame ______ to ______ on at least ___ occasion(s).
These acts were performed in front of the following witnesses: ________, ________, _________, and ________ ; although I already stated I was too ________ (choose one) inebriated / frightened / surprised / transported into ecstacy to remember the details, such as the day and year, or even how many people were in the room, I am sure that ________, the current nominee to _______________, was the main perpetrator. ___________ pushed me onto ___________ where he proceeded to _______ and _________, and even _________ my _________ while the others (choose one) did nothing / took photos with their phones / joined in / pointed and laughed /
After a few minutes, __________, the current nominee to _______, stopped for a few moments to _________. The others in the room, who were not victims, but may have been perpetrators, depending on whether their memory contradicts mine, began to ask _________, the current nominee to to "Stop it already, can't you see ______ (choose one)" she's had enough / you've made your point / it's MY turn / it's almost midnight /
I don't know how I escaped, or how I made it home. It's all a blur. I was so ashamed, I didn't mention a word to any of my friends, to the police, or to my ________, until we were in marriage counseling decades later. And nobody in _______ ever talked about the incident, or gave me any funny nicknames either.
I waited until _________, ___ days before the formal Senate vote for confirmation of ___________ to ______, because I felt it my duty as a loyal Democrat to stand up against the patriarchy and for a woman's right to choose. Did I say patriarchy?
I am available to speak further to you about this should the derailment of the nomination of _________ to the ____________ be going badly for our party. Contact me through my local #MeToo local for information on any secret numbered bank accounts if you feel impelled by conscience to make a purely voluntary donation merely to show solidarity with the movement and without any hint of bribery, collusion, or conspiracy whatsoever.
Confidentially yours (Even though I will end up plastered all over the front page of every website in the Country)
______________ ______________ (choose one) New York / Massachusetts / Florida / California
True. Let's hope this little minnow isn't all he has. Throw it back.
Wow, leaks huh.
He’s really on the ball that Durham guy.
Nancy Pelosi actually detailed the "Democrat smear technique" in a presser.
Apparently destroying people is no big deal to a Democrat, as long as it gets them back in power.
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In 2017, at a press conference, Pelosi blithely revealed the tried-and-true Democrat demonization tactic called the “wrap-up smear.”
PELOSI: “We Democrats call it the ‘wrap-up smear. You smear somebody, with falsehoods and all the rest,
and then you merchandise it to the media,” Pelosi said matter-of factly, as if she were giving out a recipe for apple pie.
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Hillary is extremely good at this——in 2016 she’d “leak” what she said was damaging info on Trump to the media.
Then when the smear was published-—she’d wave around the clipping to show that she was the superior candidate.
The MSM is largely controlled by telecom.
Telecom is essential, licensed infrastructure.
The subscribers are forced to support the malicious MSM controlled by the malicious telecom operators.
DOJ must break up ATT & Comcast.
Court Filing: Obama Holdover Heading Office Under Investigation for ‘Illegally Leaked’ Clas
11/27/2019, 10:29:55 AM · by bitt · 26 replies
epoch times ^ | 11/27/2019 | Christopher C. Hull
The Obama holdover heading the Pentagon office reportedly under investigation by the U.S. attorney who is conducting the criminal probe of the Trump–Russia investigation was accused of leaking a classified document, in a recent court filing for retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. The connection hasn’t been previously reported. According to a Nov. 21 report by independent journalist Sara Carter, U.S. Attorney John Durham is questioning personnel in the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment (ONA). ONA awarded about $1 million in contracts to FBI informant Stefan Halper, who appears to have played a key role in alleged U.S. intelligence agency spying...
SCOOP: CIA, FBI Informant Was Washington Post Source For Russiagate Smears
11/4/2019, 11:28:30 AM · by SeekAndFind · 115 replies
The Federalist ^ | 11/04/2019 | Margot Cleveland
The Federalist has learned that the now-outed CIA and FBI informant Stefan Halper served as a source for Washington Post reporter David Ignatius, providing more evidence that the intelligence community has co-opted the press to push anti-Trump conspiracy theories. In addition, an email recently obtained by The Federalist from the MI5-connected Christopher Andrew bragging that his long-time friend Ignatius has the “‘inside track’ on Flynn” adds further confirmation of this conclusion.Svetlana Lokhova, the Russian-born English citizen and Soviet-era scholar, told The Federalist that she only realized the significance of her communications with and about Ignatius following the filing of attorney...
Mistakes were made, but nobody made them.
The End
The Durham report.
Not a little minnow... the guy who leaked to Ignatius appears to be Stefan Halper
I retain a tiny glimmer of optimism that Durham will get it done.
Your reply helps me keep that alive.
Would LOVE to see that fish FRIED!!!
Not so.
The leaks being investigated pertain to the “news” stories that were planted to initiate the beginning of placing spy’s into the Trump campaign.
They’re all tied together.
the length of time this investigation is taking is getting silly. we are already in the campaign for the 2020 election and no-one has been held accountable for all that has been documented in minute detail in two books by Gregg Jarrett, just for starters! how come?
NYT makes it clear any indictments pre-November will be seen by the FakeNewsMSM, which is up to its necks in the scandal, as political.
OMG!! The Leak investigation was 2 damn YEARS AGO!!
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