Posted on 06/10/2018 4:01:18 AM PDT by SkyPilot
The indictment of James Wolfe, 58, former security director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), has sent shockwaves around Washington. Wolfe faces three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. 1001, for making false statements to criminal investigators, and could easily face serious jail time if convicted. After a year of leaks cascading down Capitol Hill, Wolfe is a cautionary tale for many members, staffers and journalists. Yet, one person should be especially discomforted by the indictment: former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe
The Wolfe indictment shows the Justice Department has been actively pursuing leaks out of Congress. Given the lack of prior action, members and staffers may have become emboldened over time, but it now appears the Trump administration has been quietly tracking down the source of some news articles. Wolfe was an obvious concern for any allegations of leaks, given his work at the SSCI for three decades, from 1987 to 2017.
In his capacity, the most sensitive material passed over his desk from the executive branch to the committee. The Justice Department alleges that he “lied to FBI agents in December 2017 about his repeated contacts with three reporters, including through his use of encrypted messaging applications. Wolfe is further alleged to have made false statements to the FBI about providing two reporters with nonpublic information related to the matters occurring before the SSCI.”
The alleged disclosure in this case has proven far more salacious than expected. Wolfe reportedly had an intimate three-year relationship with Ali Watkins, a reporter for the New York Times. The relationship reportedly occurred when Watkins worked for BuzzFeed. It raises ethical issues on the relationship of sources and reporters, but a greater concern is raised by the targeting of a journalist by the FBI.
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Fortunately, you don’t matter
Your thoughts are just irrelevant
My understanding is that the reporter gave sex for information. Why haven’t the reporter and the NYT been indicted for bribery?
Was the Hussein gambit an attempted coup?
Coup d'état , also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
A coup does not have to mean overt, kinetic activity with opposing set piece armies. The founders, as highly educated Englishmen, were well versed with Shakespeare political tragedies like Macbeth, Richard III, Julius Caesar, et al. Richard III, as regent to the two legitimate princes, simply had them disappeared in order to assume the throne. So, like the 1A doesn't mean just the printing press, and the 2A isn't restricted to muskets, a coup can involve subtleties such as espionage, subterfuge and legal maneuvering.
Once you accept the Hussein treachery was an attempt to overthrow the duly elected and legally constituted government of the USA, then you should agree that it was a highly leveraged revolutionary act of war. That means treason for all parties involved, not only those directly levying, but others providing subsequent aid and comfort.
Which, for those paying attention, would include Sessions if he is truly trying to oppose Trump's attempts at fully prosecuting the war effort against the deep state enemy.
Trump to Rudy: Tell McCabe his only hope is to spill everything on McCain and Hillary. No pretrial immunity deal. After he’s convicted, we’ll talk about him cooperating as a witness in their cases. Maybe he’ll get a reduced sentence out of it. Maybe he’ll end up getting married to the guy on the cellblock with most cigarettes. The choice is his.
You make a great case for sending in the Marines, mass arrests, imprisonment of domestic enemies, and executions.
This legal bullshit just isn’t working at all, and there will be no justice, only emboldened WASHINGTONIANS that will make Damn sure NOBODY like Trump is elected President ever again.
Tim is running out.
I am always amazed at the arrogance of a public official confronted with his or her own criminal conduct. Rather than simply refuse to answer, as is their right under the Fifth Amendment, they will lie. It makes no sense, especially for trained criminal investigators.
McCabe needs to get his, but I’m also interested in the implications of all this for John McCain.
Ali Watkins worked for Buzzfeed before and after Buzzfeed published the Steele Dossier. Buzzfeed says they knew about her relationship with Wolfe. Then she had a meteoric rise when hired by the NYT. Great Big Questions that Need Answered:
Did Ali Watkins provide the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed?
Did James A. Wolfe provide it to Ali?
Did John McCain provide it to Wolfe?
When was the Dossier “made available” to the SSCI and by what source?
If McCain was not involved, it was a big waste of coincidences.
I hope you’re not saying since it would be a circus just look the other way. The whole gang needs to be tried. If there are no penalties for the obvious felonies what happens when the next Rat is president? The Clintonistas got away scot free which begot the Obama gang which if not prosecuted will usher in an absolute leftist police state.
I think the vested begins at 62 and is calculated based on his high so many years of pay, while employed. That means a portion of his retirement will be delayed till he is 13 years older. The social security portion remains as is and is equal to everyone elses. His other portion, assuming he has 25 years of law enforcement service, remains in tact
HA! No one going to jail... It’s all hype. The fix is in and has been for generations. Two sets of rules...
Pay attention to little news leaks about what Trump “says.”
Several months ago he said he wants to reorganize the FBI.
Watch, in a few months, for a full policy to be rolled out-—having once again avoided any D input or criticism.
It’s like how the tax plan just magically “appeared.”
‘Who’s going to give back the young and beautiful lives (and others) that have been devastated and destroyed by the phony Russia Collusion Witch Hunt?’ Trump wrote.
‘They journeyed down to Washington, D.C., with stars in their eyes and wanting to help our nation...They went back home in tatters!’
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Why didn’t the 13 Angry Democrats investigate the campaign of Crooked Hillary Clinton, many crimes, much Collusion with Russia? Why didn’t the FBI take the Server from the DNC? Rigged Investigation!
10:13 AM - May 27, 2018
“The whole thing [Mueller’s witch hunt] was a mistake and should never have happened,” Giuliani told the Associated Press, adding that the Justice Department should acknowledge the error.”
“I’m not sure McCabe got anything.”
He’s married to a democrat hag....a singular punishment in itself.
“LOL. McCabe’s head looks shopped in that picture.”
He looks like a dentist who is beyond miserable with his lot in life.
“At least Wolfe got 3 years of very young tail out of it..”
“What would you like to know Ali?”
“The Wolfe indictment shows the Justice Department has been actively pursuing leaks out of Congress... it now appears the Trump administration has been quietly tracking down the source of some news articles.”
DoJ (Sessions) has been working big time. He established a new counterintelligence unit within the FBI (announced last August) and those professional spyhunters have been tracking down the leakers in DC. Back then, he also said that he would address DoJ policies on surveilling media as part of the (27!) investigations into leaking.
The indictment of Wolfe makes it clear that he had been under surveillance before he was confronted in December 2017, and forced to resign. It also reveals that a senior Federal Prosecutor (US Attorney Jessie K. Liu) had a Grand Jury issue search warrants against at least one reporter (Ali Watkins, NY Times), which were executed February 2018, or earlier. The Prosecutor got ALL of her electronic communications, for the last several YEARS, including encrypted messaging applications they thought were secure.
The indictment specifically mentions FOUR reporters.
@TheLastRefuge on Twitter, identifies the reporters in the indictment as:
Reporter #1 Manu Raju at CNN
Reporter #2 Ali Watkins at NYT
Reporter #3 Marianna Sotomayor NBC
Reporter #4 Brian Ross ABC
It seems likely that those reporters, and by extension their organizations, have also been subjected to search and surveillance.
Wolfe was busted in December, and has obviously been under a gag order as part of a plea deal since then. By now, prosecutors should have collected a mountain of evidence, and have likely swept up a wide network of leakers - likely including legislators, like Adam Schiff. Wolfe’s indictment indicates that the broad investigation is complete, and they no longer have to conceal it.
There is a Storm Coming!
“I used to be a Sessions critic, but many months ago, several Freepers convinced me otherwise.”
Well, “several Freepers” should try and convince Trump otherwise as well.
Technically, it might be charged as prostitution rather than bribery, since you don’t have to be paid in cash for it to be considered as such.
Yeah, because of that; and Wolfe/LittleRedRidingSlut --
the entire DC Cabal owes Judge Roy Moore an apology, and a Senate Seat.
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