Posted on 03/11/2017 6:53:19 PM PST by mdittmar
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Saturday lauded former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara after the high-profile federal prosecutor said he was fired earlier in the day.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Something definitely happened, or President Trump discovered something since he's been in office, about Bharara. On the other hand, according to Judge Pirro, the White House denies they ever told him he would be kept on.
If UpChuckie looses 9 Senate seats in ‘18, will he have anything to do?
Dennis Consejo
GOP leaders associated with the NeverTrump movement and what is known as the GOP “Mormon Mafia” hired a company named Fusion GPS in Washington DC to conduct “opposition research” against now President Trump in late 2015. Fusion GPS is run by three former Wall Street Journal reporters: Glenn Simpson; Tom Catan; and Peter Fritsch. Individuals involved in recommending and securing Fusion GPS services included Sen. John McCain, Mitt Romney, Frank VanderSloot and Evan McMullin.
Fusion GPS hired UK based Orbis Business Intelligence, run by ex-British spies Christopher Steele and Christopher Burrows. Steele was MI6 and had been posted in Moscow in the 1990s. Orbis used Steele’s ex-KGB sources to attempt to dig up information against Trump. Orbis created the famous and now discredited “dossier” against Trump. Sen. John McCain notified the FBI of the dossier in October 2016. He hand delivered the dossier alleging secret Trump-Russia contacts and extremely embarrassing allegations to the FBI in November. The files were widely circulated within the Obama administration.
In their enthusiasm, FusionGPS/Orbis and their Russian operatives placed numerous calls and sent emails to both to Trump campaign members and to current Russian intelligence operatives early in 2016. The volume of these calls and emails caught the attention of the CIA. An FBI Counter-Intelligence project was started to assess whether these communications represented a threat to the US. Because of the sheer volume of the communications and the known Russian agents involved, FBI Director James Comey sought a FISA Court warrant to investigate the nature of the calls in June 2016. The FISA Court rejected the request. Not to be thwarted, the FBI, working with the CIA and the NSA, created a list of Russian individuals that had communicated with the Trump campaign that would be monitored. The calls and emails were intercepted without warrant under current FBI Counter-Intelligence authorizations. The communications were recorded and attempts to identify the US person(s) on the lines were conducted. The now famous call between Gen Flynn and the Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak was captured in this sweep.
Following the GOP Convention, the funding for FusionGPS/Orbis from NeverTrump and the GOP Mormon Mafia ended. Fusion GPS did not want to see their efforts end and solicited the continuation of the project to Democracy Partners and others in the DNC. They were successful in securing some additional funding form DNC affiliated donors. With the assistance of James Comey, the FBI agreed to pick up some of their expenses to continue forward. The FusionGPS/Orbis efforts continued until early January 2017. James Comey and all of the members of the Obama administration national security leadership knew that the Trump/Russian interference conspiracy was based on these FusionGPS/Orbis activities in October of 2016.
No evidence of wrong-doing by any member of the Trump campaign was found.
Bharara lost me completely once I read in detail about how he railroaded Dinesh D’Souza.
On another thread, there are those on Free Republic that are in mourning also. Nothing surprises me any longer.
Thank you for the excellent information!!
Apparently he is a douchebag Obama appointee that got good press in conservative circles even though he never went after the Clintoon Foundation and persecuted and imprisoned Dinesh for political reasons.
No reason Sessions can’t appoint someone who will actually indict Coumo and Diblasio instead of just talking about it and doing nothing.
I like it big time.
Just for the prosecution of D’Souza as a political prisoner (under Obama wink and nod I am sure) is enough to justify this clown getting fired. Good riddance.
Trump flushes the toilet. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The great Waste Treatment Act of 2017n has begun. Keep flushing, Mr. President. Just keep flushing. Flush and flush some more, than wipe until it comes out white. Get rid of all the waste matter in and out of Washington.
That’s what I was thinking too.
With fake news and MSM games I had seen conflicting opinions about this Judge.
Thank you, a****le Schumer, for clarifying things for me.
CIAO! Bharara...
• abolish amendment 17, this makes us a republic again, see Federalist #63
• limit the judiciary to yes/no decisions,
• let governors cancel a SCOTUS decision by majority vote,
• mandate Constructionist rulings by the SCOTUS,
• and reinforce states powers EXPLICITELY using Article 1 section 8 – an iteration of the powers of congress.
Yeah and Dinesh D’Souza.
“Truth is this guy prosecuted both sides of the aisle. I don’t think he should have been fired”
I just found out from a prosecutor that Preet submarined some charges related to Harry Reid. Not our friend.
Have read lately that he was and is Schumers buddy
Another signal that Schumer’s political power is on the wane.
If we blow out the 2018 elections in the Senate, Schumer’s new office will be next to the trash compactor in the basement.
Great catch if you have a link it would be much appreciated.Tis is some of the stuff that I obviosuly missed no telling how much more there is. We know he was weak on prosecuting the big banks who played fast and loose with the mortgage fiasco as well not to mention the disaster he created with Dinesh.
meanwhile here is only one of many like it that we will have to counter and soon or the blowback wont be pretty:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-11/us-attorney-preet-bharara-refuses-resign-will-make-trump-fire-him
Additionally, according to a report in the Daily Beast, Bharara told his section chiefs that he’d yet to submit the requested letter and may instead challenge Sessions to fire him. Bharara’s office is working through an investigation of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and about to start the trials of two close allies to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Should Trump fire Bharara, who has been the US Attorney responsible for Wall Street crime for more than seven years, he may be seen a further siding with Wall Street - which has been the source of most of his close economic advisors - against one of the few attorneys who pressed charges against banks in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Ironically, some have accused Bharara of not being strict enough on the institutions found to have been criminally liable with virtually no bankers ending up in jail, and instead it was mostly shareholders being punished with banks forced to pay nearly a quarter trillion in legal fees and settlements over the past decade for violations from RMBS selling, to LIBOR, to FX and gold market rigging.
As the NYT adds, should Bharara be fired, “it was unclear what effect his expected departure might have on the office’s current investigations.” Among his existing investigations, the highest profile one involves a group of former aides and associates of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in a wide-ranging bribery and bid-rigging case and has been investigating Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign fund-raising as part of an inquiry into whether he or other officials exchanged official acts for political donations. The investigation into Mr. de Blasio’s fund-raising, perhaps the office’s highest profile continuing inquiry, began roughly a year ago and appears to be in its final stages, with prosecutors and F.B.I. agents interviewing the mayor for four hours two weeks ago. Investigators have scrutinized scores of donors to the mayor’s 2013 campaign and his now defunct political nonprofit, seeking to determine whether anyone received favorable city action in exchange for their largess. It remains unclear whether Mr. Bharara and his top aides have determined whether they will seek charges — against the mayor, any of his top aides or his primary fund-raiser.
Among the names of lawyers mentioned as a possible United States attorney in Manhattan in the Trump administration is Marc L. Mukasey, a former Southern District prosecutor and the son of Michael B. Mukasey, the former attorney general in the Bush administration. The younger Mukasey is now a lawyer at Greenberg Traurig, a law firm in New York where Rudolph W. Giuliani, a close associate of Trump, also works. Mr. Mukasey declined to comment on Friday.
Bharara is no stranger to politics: as the NYT notes, before being appointed United States attorney by President Barack Obama in 2009, he served as chief counsel to Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, and played a major role in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation into the politically motivated firings of United States attorneys by the Justice Department under President George W. Bush
I agree. I had heard he was one of the good guys. If Chuck Schumer thinks he was good, obviously I was wrong about him. Thanks, Chuck, for being like a mislabeled compass and letting us know which direction NOT to go.
If schumer is sad than we know he had to go
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