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As the left awaits the transfer of Power in the House this coming Thursday, they are busy bronzing their bodies and sharpening their fangs for what they anticipate the beginning of the end of our GOD appointed and deplorables backed President - Donald J. TRUMP

At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications. In...

At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications. In...

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Sunday that he plans to release transcripts of interviews with around 70 witnesses in the Trump-Russia probe within the next few weeks. “We believe that the depositions that we took, I think for nearly about 70 people those need to be published, and they need to be published I think before the election,” Nunes said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.” (RELATED: House Intel Committee Releases Long-Awaited Report On Trump-Russia Collusion) “By published I mean put out for the American people to review, so that they can...

Hillsborough, N.C. — Immigration officials fired back at the Orange County sheriff Wednesday afternoon during a battle over his jail releasing a man who was supposed to be deported. In a news release, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials accused the Orange County Detention Center of improperly releasing Udiel Aguilar-Castellanos, who had served his time for a child sex offense but had a federal immigration detainer. Aguilar-Castellanos walked out of the detention center on June 27 after pleading guilty in court to the sexual battery of an 11-year-old girl. The judge ruled he had more than served his time, but...

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 14, 2018  DOJ OIG RELEASES REPORT ON VARIOUS ACTIONS BY THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN ADVANCE OF THE 2016 ELECTION   Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz announced today the release of a report examining various actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the DOJ in advance of the 2016 election in connection with the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server (referred to by the FBI and DOJ as the "Midyear" investigation).  The DOJ Office of the Inspector General's (OIG) findings are summarized in detail in the report's Executive Summary, which is included below.  The scope of the OIG's review included:   •  Allegations that DOJ or FBI policies or procedures were not followed in connection with, or in  actions leading up to or related to, former FBI Director James Comey's public announcement on July 5, 2016, and his letters to Congress on October 28 and November 6, 2016, and that certain underlying investigative decisions were based on improper considerations (Chapters 3-11);  •  Allegations that DOJ and FBI employees improperly disclosed non-public information (Chapter 12, and as noted in our report, the OIG will separately report on related investigations as they are concluded, consistent with the Inspector General Act, other applicable statutes, and OIG policy);  •  Allegations that former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe should have been recused from  participating in certain investigative matters (Chapter 13);  •  Allegations that former Assistant Attorney General for the DOJ's Office of Legislative Affairs,  Peter Kadzik, improperly disclosed non-public information to the Clinton campaign and/or should have been recused from participating in certain Clinton-related matters (Chapter 14); and  •  Allegations that the timing of the FBI's release of certain Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)  documents on October 30 and November 1, 2016, and the use of a Twitter account to publicize the same, were influenced by improper considerations (Chapter 15).   During the course of the review, the OIG discovered text messages and instant messages between some FBI employees on the investigative team, conducted using FBI mobile devices and computers, that expressed statements of hostility toward then candidate Donald Trump and statements of support for Clinton.  We also identified messages that expressed opinions that were critical of the conduct and quality of the investigation.  We included in our review an assessment of these messages and actions by the FBI employees (Chapter 12, and as noted in our report, the OIG is preparing a separate report describing the OIG's efforts to recover text messages...

A Utah man who has been incarcerated in a Venezuelan jail since 2016 is set to be released, U.S. officials said Saturday. Joshua Holt, 26, has been jailed in Venezuela after he traveled to the South American country in the summer of 2016 to marry Thamara Candelo, whom he met on a website for Mormon singles. The two planned to return to the U.S. after getting married, but where jailed in El Hilcolde on what human rights groups said were largely trumped-up charges. “Good news about the release of the American hostage from Venezuela. Should be landing in D.C. this...

ANKARA (Kurdistan 24) - Selahattin Demirtas, Turkey's most influential Kurdish politician and a presidential candidate, could be released from prison within days, one of his lawyers told Kurdistan 24 on Tuesday."It is a shame that Mr. Demirtas has not already been freed. It's a great shame for the judiciary. It is legally unacceptable, especially after his becoming a candidate for the presidency," attorney Mahsuni Karaman said."I have no doubts that Demirtas will be released in a few days," he added, talking to Kurdistan 24 in the Turkish capital.Since Demirtas' arrest, his lawyers have made repeated requests to a penal court...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that three American prisoners released from North Korea were headed home.

[Full headline:] "If Sheriff Israel is the “amazing” leader he says he is, he will release videos of his deputies’ actions during Parkland shooting" It’s imperative that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel release video recordings of what his deputies did, and didn’t do, outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School while Nikolas Cruz was on a killing spree inside. First, Israel himself has said that the public needs to know this information. He’s right, and he should accommodate the people on whose behalf he and his deputies work. This is an extraordinary case in which his department bears a large share...

The Democratic rebuttal memo to the Republican House Intelligence Committee memo on alleged government surveillance abuses was released Saturday afternoon. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., acknowledged its release at his appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, at about 4 p.m. "It's just posted," he told American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp, quipping that the committee website was probably already crashing due to high traffic. Democrats say their memo was written as a rebuttal to provide greater context to a Republican memo that was released earlier this month, which outlines abuses by the FBI and the Justice Department...

https://www.scribd.com/document/370598711/House-Intelligence-Committee-Report-On-FISA-Abuses#from_embed andhttp://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20180129/106822/HMTG-115-IG00-20180129-SD001.pdf

Former FBI Director James Comey is in deep trouble — and he could have just hours left to breath. Thursday, the hammer of justice may finally come down on him and the alleged anti-Trump (and pro-Hillary Clinton) agents in the FBI. In a remarkably public clash of wills with the White House, the FBI declared Wednesday it has “grave concerns” about the release of a secret memo on the Russia election investigation that President Donald Trump wants released. The FBI’s panicked public statement, its first on the issue, laid bare a Trump administration conflict that had previously played out mostly...

On Wednesday night FBN host Lou Dobbs reported that the FBI sent five top agents over to the White House this week to alter the House Intel FISA memo. This was after the House Intelligence Committee voted on Monday to release the classified FISA memo that exposes FISA abuse by the Obama FBI and Department of Justice.   Lou Dobbs told his audience: Our chief correspondent at the White House, John Roberts, telling us that the new version of the memorandum has been altered in some ways by the White House review. Five professional members of the FBI were...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfn_sAtozmI

President Trump told a Republican lawmaker he will “100 percent" release a classified intelligence memo written by GOP members on the House Intelligence Committee, as he left his first State of the Union address. “[Inaudible] release the memo,” Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., can be heard saying on the C-SPAN hot mic.

President Trump broke with top officials at the Justice Department and called for the release of a classified memo purported to list Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the U.S. government, The Washington Post reported Saturday. Despite warnings from top officials at the agency, Trump reportedly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions through chief of staff John Kelly that he wants to see the memo released, believing that it will shed light on the special counsel investigation. Trump “is inclined to have that released just because it will shed light,” a senior administration official told the Post. “Apparently all the rumors...

After strict consultation with General Kelly, the CIA and other Agencies, I will be releasing ALL #JFKFiles other than the names and......addresses of any mentioned person who is still living. I am doing this for reasons of full disclosure, transparency and......in order to put any and all conspiracy theories to rest.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/924064610038272000#JFKFiles

Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/921716470140325889