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Mark Penn sends the signal to Democrats to abandon ship.

This @#$&* is going down!

1 posted on 05/20/2018 6:32:39 PM PDT by CWW
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Very strange title for an article. You didn’t change it by any chance.


2 posted on 05/20/2018 6:35:25 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
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Linky dinky no worky.


3 posted on 05/20/2018 6:35:42 PM PDT by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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Link: http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all


5 posted on 05/20/2018 6:39:02 PM PDT by tellw (ed)
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Correct link:

Stopping Robert Mueller to protect us all

6 posted on 05/20/2018 6:40:04 PM PDT by Petrosius
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link

http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all


7 posted on 05/20/2018 6:40:06 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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link

http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all


8 posted on 05/20/2018 6:40:09 PM PDT by nobamanomore
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I remember FReeper LS saying to pay attention when the lefties start turning on Mueller.


9 posted on 05/20/2018 6:40:11 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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Penn has been on Tucker’s show several times with similar comments. Evidently he wants to work again in the future.


11 posted on 05/20/2018 6:43:08 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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Penn has done it a couple of times. Mueller is corrupt.

Penn and Schoen are committed Democrats, but honest ones.


12 posted on 05/20/2018 6:45:47 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Better link:

http://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/388549-stopping-robert-mueller-to-protect-us-all


13 posted on 05/20/2018 6:46:40 PM PDT by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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The deep state is reviewing and commenting right now. They know the contents and are now in deep panic.


15 posted on 05/20/2018 6:53:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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You can’t change the titles when posting articles. Sheesh. I wish people would learn the F rules. FR went through this crap already with the Compost and LA Slimes back in the 90s.


16 posted on 05/20/2018 6:56:53 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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Very good summary of the facts.
Does seem intended as a warning to the Left.


17 posted on 05/20/2018 6:57:17 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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Ow, that’s gonna’ leave a mark.

I’ve long said that this all ends up at Obama’s feet as it will once the rat-fink’s start squealing on Kenyan Barry to save their own lousy hides.

It’s gonna’ be great to watch.


19 posted on 05/20/2018 7:07:58 PM PDT by Bullish (government=overfunded stupidity.)
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Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.
Yes. But the problem is that wire service journalism has all this information available to it, just as much as you and I - and you’d never know it, because they simply stonewall. They do so in concert because they can - because they are in cahoots, with each other and with the Democrat Party.

That cabal has to be delegitimated before the truth can even begin to sink in to the non-conservative public.


20 posted on 05/20/2018 7:16:19 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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“Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.”

YUGE!


22 posted on 05/20/2018 7:24:46 PM PDT by maggief
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This FINALLY might break the damn of near total unity on the Left/Dem side regarding this whole mess. Key points from Mr. Penn's article:

Perhaps the murkiest event in the timeline is Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of a special counsel after he personally recommended Comey’s firing in blistering terms. With Attorney General Jeff Sessions shoved out of the way, Rosenstein and Mueller then ignored their own conflicts and took charge anyway. Rosenstein is a fact witness, and Mueller is a friend of Comey, disqualifying them both.

Unfortunately...the Mueller investigation comes with no “off” switch: You can’t fire Mueller. He needs to be defeated...

Finding the “off” switch will not be easy. Step one here is for the Justice Department inspector general report to knock Comey out of the witness box. Next, the full origins of the investigation and its lack of any real intelligence needs to come out in the open. The attorney general, himself the target of a secret investigation, needs to take back his Justice Department. Sessions needs to act quickly, along with U.S. Attorney John Huber, appointed to conduct an internal review of the FBI, on the Comey and McCabe matters following the inspector general report, and then announce an expanded probe into other abuses of power.

Stopping Mueller isn’t about one president or one party. It’s about all presidents and all parties. It’s about cleaning out and reforming the deep state so that our intelligence operations are never used against opposing campaigns without the firmest of evidence. It’s about letting people work for campaigns and administrations without needing legal defense funds. It’s about relying on our elections to decide our differences.

Sad to say, but I don't think Sessions is up for the job that needs to be done. I just don't think he's strong enough. He's just another a milquetoast Republican creature of the Senate.

23 posted on 05/20/2018 7:28:10 PM PDT by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA American Dreamer.)
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That's quite a piece, and Penn is right - if they get away with this, no one will be safe participating in any political campaign ever again. We truly will be under a dictatorship of the intelligence insiders and the media.

The latter are, and are likely to remain, unindicted co-conspirators in all of this. None of this would even be possible if it weren't for an open declaration of war on the part of the media and the resulting "damn the truth, get Trump" attitude. We have negotiations in Korea, a diplomatic scuffle over the Iran deal, a burgeoning economy, a tax reform, and yet we were treated today with a "major" scandal involving the misspelling of the First Lady's name. The institution has failed, and its death throes aren't pretty.

25 posted on 05/20/2018 7:35:01 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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It seems like everyone in DC knows what’s in the Inspector’s report and who will be hanging by their thumbs. There is a rush to either discredit or shift your posture. I think we are in for some interesting times very soon.


27 posted on 05/20/2018 8:01:18 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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cont

If you read her email, along with Senator Grassley’s letter to Rice, it is obvious that it is a CYA memo. But the question is, whose A is being C’d?

Most attention, so far, has focused on the first two paragraphs of the email, which describe a meeting that occurred around two weeks earlier.

The participants included
<><>Barack Obama,
<><>Joe Biden,
<><>James Comey,
<><> Sally Yates–who turns up like a bad penny whenever skulduggery is afoot–
<><>and Rice:

Rice made sure to underscore that Obama began the conversation by stressing his continued commitment to ensuring that every aspect of this issue is handled by the Intelligence and law enforcement communities “by the book”. Rice writes Obama stressed that he is not asking about, initiating or instructing anything from a law enforcement perspective. He reiterated that our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book.

This is pure boilerplate.

It represents, obviously, the company line. But Rice did not write her email to cover Barack Obama’s rear end. If she or
anyone else had wanted to document the claim that Obama said to proceed “by the book,” the appropriate course would have been an official memo that copied others who were present and would have gone into the file. (My guess is that such a memo was written, but we haven’t seen it.)

The important part of the email is not the paragraph that purports to exonerate Obama, but the paragraphs that follow: “From a national security perspective, however, President Obama said he wants to be sure that, as we engage with the incoming team, we are mindful to ascertain if there is any reason that we cannot share information fully as it relates to Russia.”

The next paragraph of the email remains classified and has been redacted. The email concludes:
The President asked Comey to inform him if anything changes in the next few weeks that should affect how we share classified information with the incoming team. Comey said he would.

CONCLUSION Why did Susan Rice send herself an email purporting to document this part of the meeting? Because she was C’ing her own A. Rice was nervous about the fact that, at the president’s direction, she had failed to “share information fully as it relates to Russia” with President Trump’s incoming national security team.

Her actions violated longstanding American tradition. Outgoing administrations have always cooperated in the transition to a new administration, whether of the same or the opposing party, especially on matters relating to national security.

Susan Rice is far from the brightest bulb on the tree, but she was well aware that by concealing facts ostensibly relating to national security from her counterpart in the new administration–General Michael Flynn–she was, at a minimum, violating longstanding civic norms.

If she actually lied to Flynn, she could have been accused of much worse. So Rice wanted to be able to retrieve her email, if she found herself in a sticky situation, and tell the world that she hid relevant facts about Russia from the
new administration on Barack Obama’s orders.

What were the secrets that Obama wanted to keep from the new administration? We can easily surmise that the fact that the Steele memo was paid for by the Democratic Party; that the FBI had to some degree collaborated with Steele; that the Clinton campaign had fed some of the fake news in the dossier to Steele; and that Comey’s FBI had used Steele’s fabrications as the basis for FISA warrants to spy on the Trump campaign were among the facts that Obama and his minions didn’t want Michael Flynn and Donald Trump to know. Susan Rice, we can infer, was told to keep these secrets, and if anyone ever asked why she had failed to disclose them to Michael Flynn and others on Trump’s team, or even lied to those people, she would have the defense that President Obama ordered her to do it.

There may be more to it than this. The redacted paragraph likely contains more information about what it was that Rice wasn’t supposed to tell the Trump team. One of these days, we will learn what was blacked out.
The fact that Michael Flynn was Susan Rice’s counterpart in the incoming administration may also be significant. We know that the FBI agents who interviewed General Flynn–even Peter Strzok!–reported that they didn’t think he had lied about anything.

And yet, Obama’s DOJ and Bob Mueller’s “investigation”–basically a continuation of Obama’s corrupt Department of Justice under another, less accountable name–persecuted Flynn to the point where he finally pled guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in order, as he says, to end the madness and the financial drain.

Why were the Democrats so determined to discredit General Flynn? Perhaps because they wanted to pre-empt any outrage that may otherwise have followed on revelations that the Obama administration’s National Security Advisor hid important facts from her successor during the transition, and may have lied to him about those facts, in violation of all American tradition.


29 posted on 05/20/2018 8:05:01 PM PDT by Liz
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