[RoosterRedux]

Mueller will turn the screws on these guys and the dragnet expands.

[King Hawk]

Rod Rosenstein should never be allowed to even act as if he’s on the right side of the law. Disgraceful!!

[CarolinaReaganFan]

The indictment says the defendants and their co-conspirators used fictitious online personas to interfere with the 2016 presidential election in the United States.

Didn’t Hillary have facebook volunteers doing the same thing?

[CarolinaReaganFan]

The defendants allegedly conducted “information warfare” against the United States election process.

Hasn’t congress already been doing this every two years?

[robroys woman]

The way it’s worded, I suspect this may be the end of the investigation or close to it. It was careful to point out that any conversations Trumps people had with them were done without knowledge of them working for “the Russians”.

I think the fact that they bothered to call it out at all is where my position gets most of its foundation.

[for-q-clinton]

Agent these guys in Russia?

BTW I think they must have been using Bandon that’s why he’s talking to Mueller so much.

[Maris Crane]

They come out with this TODAY.

This is a classic case of SQUIRREL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Mueller will turn the screws on these guys and the dragnet expands.

They are RUSSIAN citizens. They will go home and be beyond Mueller's reach. Are we going to stop them from getting on planes? It's just an indictment, not a conviction.

[Liz]

The report....“From Russia With Money — Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset and Cronyism”.....
raises serious questions about the cash connections between the Clintons and participants in Hillary's
State Department-era’s failed five-year effort to improve, or “reset,” US-Russia relations.

A Moscow-based Silicon Valley-styled developer of biomed, space, nuclear and IT technologies called “Skolkovo” — allegedly poured tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation.

Hillary Clinton was at the center of these efforts author Peter Schweizer argues. “Of the 28 US, European and Russian companies that participated in Skolkovo, 17 of them were Clinton Foundation donors” or sponsored speeches by former President Bill Clinton, Schweizer told The NY Post.

<><> Hillary presented the flawed "reset button" to Russia in 2009.

<><> Circa 2010--Ex-Pres Clinton is in Moscow having a laugh w/ Putin. Bill also got a 500,000 speaking fee in Moscow.

<><> A Jan 2014 document shows that Hillary's campaign chair, John Podesta, transferred more than 25,000 of 75,000 shares in a Russian company to Leonidio Holdings LLC, an address listed as his daughter Megan Rouse’s Shannon Court home in Dublin. Rouse operates Megan Rouse Financial Planning from that same address.

[Liz]

85% of NSA searches by Obama Were Illegal
Freedom Outpost ^ | 01-24-2018 | Tim Brown
FR Posted on 1/24/2018, 4:10:09 PM by ReformedMedia

In trudging through the FISA document that came to light on Tuesday, it was discovered that the National Security Agency had been illegally conducting searches on people in the US. The document has gone on to state that those illegal searches, which were conducted under Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Sobarkah, mounted to a whopping 85% of the total searches involving US person indentifiers.

Section 702 data on US persons identifiers may be conducted if they are first “approved in accordance with [internal] NSA procedures, which must require a statement of facts establishing that the use of any such identifier as a selection term is reasonably likely to return foreign intelligence information.” The problem is that querying US persons without a warrant amounts to a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment, no matter what “internal NSA procedures” are followed.

The Fourth Amendment is crystal clear:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

On page 81, the FISA report pointed out that “In May and June 2016, NSA reported to oversight personnel in the ODNI and DOJ that, since approximately 2012, use of [redacted] to query communications in [redacted] had resulted in inadvertent violations of the above-described querying rules of Section 702 information.”

The NSA claims that “the violations resulted from analysts not recognizing the need to avoid querying datasets for which querying requirements were not satisfied or not understanding how to formulate [redacted] queries to exclude such datasets.” more at freedomoutpost.com ...

[Liz]

OBAMA ADMIN'S UNRELENTING KISS-UP TO RUSSIA---Russian Skolkovo Scandal –

While serving as Obama's secretary of state, Hillary Clinton oversaw a program meant to “reset” relations with Moscow and improve ties. The program centered around the Russian city of Skolkovo near Moscow with the stated aim of “identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the American and Russian people.”

Obama had Hillary's State Dept program transform Skolkovo into a technology hub akin to a Silicon Valley. Sensitive American technology was transferred to the Russians, substantially enhancing their military and cyber capabilities.

Hillary said they wanted to "help" Russia.

The US Army and the FBI concluded that Russia had exploited the program for military applications. The FBI warned American technology companies doing business in Skolkovo that the Skolkovo project was a means by which the Russians would acquire dual use technologies and apply them for military ends.

According to investigative author Peter Schweizer, Russian and American companies and individuals involved in the Skolkovo fiasco “had major financial ties to the Clintons.”

Moreover, during the Russian reset period, those entities provided the Clintons with “tens of millions of dollars” in the form of “contributions to the Clinton Foundation, paid for speeches by Bill Clinton, or investments in small start-up companies with deep Clinton ties.”

Your guess as to Obama's "cut" is as good as mine.

[Liz]

Susan Rice’s email: Obama thought Trump was a Russian spy
Flopping Aces ^ | 02-14-18 | DrJohn
FR Posted on 2/14/2018 by Starman417

Susan Rice wrote an email and sent it to herself in the minutes during which Donald Trump was inaugurated.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is giving former Obama National Security Adviser Susan Rice until February 22 to answer questions relating to an email she sent to herself prior to exiting from the Obama administration. It occurred during President Trump’s inauguration.

The email contains classified information, so it’s a partial disclosure from the Judiciary Committee, but it seems to show that on January 5, 2017, then-President Obama, Vice President Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey, and then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates had a meeting in the Oval Office about the fallout from the Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Here’s that letter. It concerned a meeting in which she participated on January 5, 2017. It’s very odd.

That Rice would write and send herself a letter at the exact time Trump was being inaugurated is strange by itself. But there are a couple of things that really jump out. One, obama was concerned that the incoming duly elected President was a Russian spy from whom intelligence should be kept:

Former President Barack Obama suggested in January 2017 that information related to a federal probe of Russian election interference might have to be withheld from aides to then-President-elect Donald Trump, according to an internal White House email released Monday by two senior GOP senators.

The warning Obama delivered on Jan. 5, 2017, came during an Oval Office conversation shortly after senior intelligence officials briefed him on Russian cyber-meddling in the 2016 election. It was documented in an email then-national security adviser Susan Rice sent to herself on Jan. 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration.

The meeting occurred on January 5 was heretofore was not known to the public. The attendees included “Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Rice deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and (James) Comey.”

The very next day Comey met with Trump allegedly to give him a “heads-up” on the dossier which was going to be published in the near future.

Comey being at the meeting is a new revelation. His testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee never mentioned it:

(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...

[MayflowerMadam]

“Mueller will turn the screws on these guys and the dragnet expands.”

I was thinking that if Mueller had 0.5 oz. of decency in him, this would be a perfect time for him to wrap up his investigation and end the attack on Trump. But ... no decency.

[bgill]

Mueller will turn the screws to get them to take down Trump. Do not trust that snake.