Posted on 03/27/2017 6:47:22 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
A Senate panel will question Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and a top adviser, about a meeting he arranged with a Russian ambassador, according to a report on Monday.
The Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, wants to talk to Kushner about meetings with Kremlin envoy Sergey Kislyak, the New York Times reported, citing administration and congressional officials.
The White House has confirmed that Kushner met Kislyak in early December at the Trump Tower, but the report said Kislyak requested another meeting that month.
Kushner asked a deputy to attend that meeting.
But later Kushner met with Sergey Gorkov, the head of Vnesheconombank, which the Obama administration hit with sanctions after Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea, the report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3536837/posts
The real hacking scandal the MSM ignore
Phil Valentine’s blog ^ | 3/21/17 | Phil Valentine
Posted on 3/21/2017, 4:27:31 PM by moonhawk
TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2017
The real hacking scandal the MSM ignore I feel like I’m living in some parallel universe. The news media, the Democrats, and even some Republicans continue to beat the drum of some sort of collusion between Trump and the Russians. What if I told you that neither the FBI nor any other intelligence agency had ever inspected the DNC servers that were supposedly hacked? That would be front-page news, right? It’s true. FBI Director James Comey confirmed it in testimony in January and again this week before the House Intelligence Committee.
If the FBI didn’t determine the DNC servers were hacked, who did? It was a private firm hired by the DNC itself. This is the proverbial fox guarding the henhouse. Hillary’s people concoct this story that the Russians hacked their servers in order to help Donald Trump. Instead of investigating the allegations themselves, the FBI just took the DNC’s word for it. This is akin to a private investigator investigating a murder scene and the police just taking his investigation at face value. This is the big story in all of this and nobody’s talking about it.
If the Russians didn’t hack the DNC who did? Let’s look at the evidence. When we say “hacked the DNC” what does that mean? As far as we know, then-DNC chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s e-mails were the only ones hacked. Forget John Podesta. His e-mail account was a Google Gmail account. That, by definition, was not on the DNC server. That was an account any 16-year-old amateur hacker could break into.
So who had access to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s e-mails?
There’s only one person aside from Schultz herself who had access to her e-mail and dozens of other Democrats’ e-mail accounts. It’s a guy who’s currently under investigation for accessing Congressional members’ computer networks without their knowledge or permission and stealing data and equipment from Congress. Imran Awan. He and his brothers—Abid and Jamal—managed IT for more than two dozen Democrat members, including the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They owed money to a shady operator with ties to terrorists. The three men apparently went through little or no security scrutiny to get their jobs. After all, we wouldn’t want to make them feel uncomfortable just because they’re Muslim.
Who opened the gates and allowed this Trojan horse inside? Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She’s so politically correct that she wouldn’t dare question three guys who are Muslim and have ties to terrorism. In fact, even though they’re under police investigation for all sorts of crimes against the United States, Imran Awan still works for Debbie Wasserman Schultz!
But it gets worse.
According to the now-leaked e-mails from Wikileaks, Imran Awan had access to Schultz’s username and password at the DNC! Hello. We have leaked e-mails from Schultz’s account and the one guy who had access to her DNC e-mail is now under investigation for stealing data from Congress. Here’s the amazing thing. The Awan brothers are not under investigation by the FBI. It’s the Capitol Police. I’m not knocking the Capitol Police but you have guys stealing possibly sensitive data from Congress and the FBI is not called in?
Oh, did I tell you Imran Awan had a criminal record and bankruptcy? Not only did Schultz and the Democrats hire him, he didn’t even have to have Secret clearance. He also had major money problems giving him motive to sell secrets for cash.
While we continue this wild goose chase for Ruskies under every rock, the prime suspect is still sitting in Schultz’s office.
Phil Valentine is the host of the award-winning, nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Phil Valentine Show.
If anyone is interested in real crimes committed by the left wing, take a stroll through the link below where good freepers discuss itgate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/itgate/index
Sorry, Trump’s son in law directly meeting with a Russian bank under sanction was always going to be a problem. Dumb move.
Here’s what he should say:
“HAVE you no SHAME sir ? ! “
Trump taps Kushner to lead a SWAT team to fix government with business ideas
Washington Post ^ | March 27, 2017 | Ashley Parker, Philip Rucker
Posted on 3/26/2017, 11:22:01 PM by Pinkbell
President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and fulfill key campaign promises — such as reforming care for veterans and fighting opioid addiction — by harvesting ideas from the business world and, potentially, privatizing some government functions. The White House Office of American Innovation, to be led by Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, will operate as its own nimble power center within the West Wing and will report directly to Trump.
Viewed internally as a SWAT team of strategic consultants, the office will be staffed by former business executives and is designed to infuse fresh thinking into Washington, float above the daily political grind and create a lasting legacy for a president still searching for signature achievements.
(Snip)
Kushner is positioning the new office as “an offensive team” — an aggressive, nonideological ideas factory capable of attracting top talent from both inside and outside of government, and serving as a conduit with the business, philanthropic and academic communities.
“We should have excellence in government,” Kushner said Sunday in an interview in his West Wing office. “The government should be run like a great American company. Our hope is that we can achieve successes and efficiencies for our customers, who are the citizens.”
The innovation office has a particular focus on technology and data, and it is working with such titans as Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Tesla founder and chief executive Elon Musk. The group has already hosted sessions with more than 100 such leaders and government officials.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3538343/posts
Ivanka is an unpaid advisor but who ever claimed Jamie Gorelick worked for free? Fanny Mae paid her $26 million bonus to bankrupt the agency and let the taxpayers bail it out ... She learned all about ethics from Bill Clinton
Gorelick is / was a partner in the firm handling Kushner family real estate
Pro bono ? Ya gotta be kidding ...
Thanks for the link. I’ve been away working, so I haven’t had time to follow FR as closely as usual. Had missed this good article. However, one question that you may be able to answer. The author states that according to Wikileaks Imran Awan had access to DBS password and username at the DNC. I thought it was her password and username to her private iPad, which is not necessarily the same. Or did he have access to both?
In any case, where is the investigation?? Even Gowdy, when interviewed some days ago said he had no knowledge at all about the Awan affair. What are they doing??
“So, the Russians connived with Kushner to effect the November 2016 elections, in December 2016!!!!!!”
That’s not fair. The Russians might have developed time travel and could have impacted the election by going back in time!
Correct. His submitting to such questioning was a big mistake. All he had to do was to state clearly and loudly that he discussed business, that he divulged no state secrets, and that anything else is nobody else’s business.
Hardly a criminal act though
Podestas lobbying firm accepted $ 170,000 to lobby against sanctions - during the campaign
Actually they said on FOX this morning that he volunteered BEFORE they could ask.
The seriousness of this charge merits we investigate it.
All of the persons connected to trump who were spied on have volunteered to be questioned in front of the committee
This is not what “the committee” wants
They want to hear testimony about these people, with veiled allusions and unsupported speculation from lying weasels like Brennan and Clapper
They dont want to question them face to face because that would end the “ investigation’
When are the Fools on the Hill going to start questioning the “democrats” about meeting with the Russkis?
Kushner volunteered to be “questioned.” Manafort did the same thing. Trump’s team is cooperating with the investigation. n Let’s see how much cooperation we get from the Obama team on whether Trump was surveilled or not by the WH.
I’m getting pi@@ed off with this Russia BS.
There’s NO LAW against meeting Russians during an election.
Will they all be asked “Are you now or have you ever in the past been a conservative?”
And the obamacare repeal failure has given the left new lie.
Breaks my heart. And the health prices break my back.
It is what it is.
Back to winning!
What about Hillary and her six meetings at the Obama White House with the Russian ambassador where they brokered a deal to sell 20% of America’s uranium deposits to the Russians?
Then there’s the $145 million donation to the Clinton Foundation as a result, Bill’s two $500,000 speeches in Russia as a reward, etc.
How ‘bout that, dems?
He should show up with a list of the democrats who have met the Russians and the list of those taking bribes like the Clintons. That should shut them up... for a moment.
He met with Gorkov, at the request of the ambassador. Gorkov is a government official (chief of state development bank) in addition to being a big shot at Sberbank.
You are aware that the US has lots of financial ties with Russia.... companies that do business there include GE, Boeing, Morgan Stanley, McDonalds, and many more. NASA pays millions for each ride up to the space station.
You should also be aware that Podesta (The Podesta Group), last March, registered as a PAID agent of Sberbank:
Meeting with Russian officials was part of his job. Podesta, on the other hand, was getting paid by that bank... what's up with that?
Who cares??? This is a nothin burger!!
I suspect you’re asking this question ‘tongue-and-cheek’, but this is making me more than a little nervous, quite frankly.
Those two overly ambitious liberals see fit to do business with, and take advice from, Jamie Gorelick of all people.
There is no indication whatsoever any of them have our interests at heart, and every indication it’s okay with the President.
They must have a different definition of what it means to make America great again that I do.
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