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He has more balls then Leonard
The FBI AGAIN failed to turn over critical do ents to congressional watch-dogs! Oh, and Rod Rosenstein still hasn't been impeached
He has more balls then Leonard
LEAKS: Peter Strzok flunked a 2016 FBI polygraph, yet RETAINED access to classified info and continued to run major espionage probes
MEMOS DETAIL FBI’S ‘HURRY THE F UP PRESSURE’ TO PROBE TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Multiple reviews of whether FBI agents’ political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal communications long withheld from public view.
We already know from FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s now-infamous text messages with his fellow agent and reported lover, Lisa Page, that Strzok — the man driving that Russia collusion investigation — disdained Donald Trump and expressed willingness to use his law enforcement powers to “stop” the Republican from becoming president.
The question that lingers, unanswered: Did those sentiments affect official actions?
Memos the FBI is now producing to the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general and multiple Senate and House committees offer what sources involved in the production, review or investigation describe to me as “damning” or “troubling” evidence.
They show Strzok and his counterintelligence team rushing in the fall of 2016 to find “derogatory” information from informants or a “pretext” to accelerate the probe and get a surveillance warrant on figures tied to the future president.
One of those figures was Carter Page, an academic and an energy consultant from New York; he was briefly a volunteer foreign policy adviser for the GOP nominee’s campaign and visited Moscow the summer before the election.
The memos show Strzok, Lisa Page and others in counterintelligence monitored news articles in September 2016 that quoted a law enforcement source as saying the FBI was investigating Carter Page’s travel to Moscow.
The FBI team pounced on what it saw as an opportunity as soon as Page wrote a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey complaining about the “completely false” leak.
“At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to interview,” Strzok wrote to Lisa Page on Sept. 26, 2016.
Within weeks, that “pretext” — often a synonym for an excuse — had been upsized to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant, giving the FBI the ability to use some of its most awesome powers to monitor Carter Page and his activities.
To date, the former Trump adviser has been accused of no wrongdoing despite being subjected to nearly a year of surveillance.
Some internal memos detail the pressure being applied by the FBI to DOJ prosecutors to get the warrant on Carter Page buttoned up before Election Day.
In one email exchange with the subject line “Crossfire FISA,” Strzok and Lisa Page discussed talking points to get then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to persuade a high-ranking DOJ official to sign off on the warrant.
“Crossfire Hurricane” was one of the code names for four separate investigations the FBI conducted related to Russia matters in the 2016 election.
“At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him,” Strzok emailed Page on Oct. 14, 2016, less than four weeks before Election Day.
Four days later the same team was emailing about rushing to get approval for another FISA warrant for another Russia-related investigation code-named “Dragon.”
“Still an expedite?” one of the emails beckoned, as the FBI tried to meet the requirements of a process known as a Woods review before a FISA warrant can be approved by the courts.
“Any idea what time he can have it woods-ed by?” Strzok asked Page. “I know it’s not going to matter because DOJ is going to take the time DOJ wants to take. I just don’t want this waiting on us at all.”
Until all the interviews are completed by Congress and DOJ’s inspector general later this year, we won’t know why counterintelligence agents who normally take a methodical approach to investigation felt so much pressure days before the election on this case.
Were they concerned about losing a chance to gather evidence at a critical moment? Or maybe, as some Republicans long have suspected, they wanted to impact the election?
The agents got the Carter Page warrant in October and, within two weeks, Democrats in Congress such as then-Sen. Harry Reid (Nev.) and some media members were raising questions about the FBI withholding word of a probe that could hurt Trump. FBI agents monitored those reports, too.
The day after Trump’s surprising win on Nov. 9, 2016, the FBI counterintelligence team engaged in a new mission, bluntly described in another string of emails prompted by another news leak.
“We need ALL of their names to scrub, and we should give them ours for the same purpose,” Strzok emailed Page on Nov. 10, 2016, citing a Daily Beast article about some of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s allegedly unsavory ties overseas.
“Andy didn’t get any others,” Page wrote back, apparently indicating McCabe didn’t have names to add to the “scrub.”
“That’s what Bill said,” Strzok wrote back, apparently referring to then-FBI chief of counterintelligence William Priestap. “I suggested we need to exchange our entire lists as we each have potential derogatory CI info the other doesn’t.” CI is short for confidential informants.
It’s an extraordinary exchange, if for no other reason than this: The very day after Trump wins the presidency, some top FBI officials are involved in the sort of gum-shoeing normally reserved for field agents, and their goal is to find derogatory information about someone who had worked for the president-elect.
As the president-elect geared up to take over, the FBI made another move that has captured investigators’ attention: It named an executive with expertise in the FBI’s most sensitive surveillance equipment to be a liaison to the Trump transition.
On its face, that seems odd; technical surveillance nerds aren’t normally the first picks for plum political assignments. Even odder, the FBI counterintelligence team running the Russia-Trump collusion probe seemed to have an interest in the appointment.
These and other do ents are still being disseminated to various oversight bodies in Congress, and more revelations are certain to occur.
Yet, now, irrefutable proof exists that agents sought to create pressure to get “derogatory” information and a “pretext” to interview people close to a future president they didn’t like.
Clear evidence also exists that an investigation into still-unproven collusion between a foreign power and a U.S. presidential candidate was driven less by secret information from Moscow and more by politically tainted media leaks.
And that means the dots between expressions of political bias and official actions just got a little more connected.
http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/395...trump-campaign
"expressions of political bias and official actions"
list FBI "official actions" that hurt PVL illegit so-called Pres Trash?
TLDR: we don't know anything but I will speculate the out of this with innuendo to excite TSA.
That's not what the charges were about and there's no reason for the SC to show his hand, if any, RE: collusion at this time.
Your excitement is so precious.
Tell us, TSA: do you loathe Mueller?
Trash is wailing in pain!
Croatia beats Pootin 4-3 on penalties!
Russia loses to Croatia, and Twitter users Putin their best jokes
The host country was eliminated Saturday, and social media thinks Putin is busily Googling Croatia's next election.
For some Twitter users, Russia's loss was all about Russian president Vladimir Putin. Wrote one, "Putin is looking into Croatia's next elections and how he can help."As far as the game itself, watchers marveled at Croatian goalkeeper Danijel Subašić, who suffered an apparent hamstring injury yet kept playing.
ALT- Immigration ?@ALT_uscis
#RussiaVsCroatia going to penalties.....
Putin is looking into Croatia's next elections and how he can help.
3:40 PM - Jul 7, 2018
✔@DeanObeidallah
if Croatia wins today expect Putin to respond by attacking Croatian elections. Im kidding, Putin was going to attack Croatia no matter what
3:10 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Shekkhar Dalmmia@ShekkharDalmmia
Putin: Buy the Whole Country Croatia before penalty shootouts.#RUSCRO #FifaWorldCup2018
2:49 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Chip Reiderson@ChipReiderson
Population 4.1 million.
Injured keeper.
Hostile crowd.
Fear of revenge murder from Putin.
it. We are Croatia.
3:58 PM - Jul 7, 2018
View image on Twitter
Axe Tee Mabuza@AxeTee02
#RUSCRO I need all the codes to lunch the missile trump
Okay Putin check your mails
Make sure Croatia don’t find out it was me who gave If to you
3:57 PM - Jul 7, 2018
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John Sz (Texas Ram)@Turnstile49
“Yes, all of them, and their families, and their pets”. #RUSCRO
4:01 PM - Jul 7, 2018 · Katy, TX
Michael Tannenbaum@iamTannenbaum
RIP to the referees who will die next week of a mysterious “nerve gas” attack#RUSCRO
3:59 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Matthew Garrahan
✔@MattGarrahan
To the “don’t mix football with politics” crowd: the second Russian equaliser against Croatia was scored by a Brazilian who was only cleared to play for the national team when Putin personally intervened #CRORUS
4:04 PM - Jul 7, 2018
COPA90@COPA90
Last minute drama! Subasic is injured, but #CRO have no more subs to use until extra time. This #WorldCup it has everything
2:50 PM - Jul 7, 2018 · Camberwell, London
Muhammad Saleh@MuhammadSuarez7
Subašić is the Definition of a warrior. Pulled a Hamstring Injury, Made vital Saves , and managed to go through penalties with a Croatian Win Tonight! #WorldCup18 #RUSCRO
Matt ?@AnthonyMattial
So let me get this straight:
Our goalkeeper gets injured.
We have run out of subs.
Lovren needs to do goalkeepers job.
And our goalkeeper Subašić STILL saves a crucial penalty in the shootout.
Lost for words.
4:19 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Shireen Footybedsheets Ahmed
✔@_shireenahmed_
Dear #ENG , if you think it's "coming home", you will have to go through Danijel Subašić at some point. Not happening as long as he's breathing.#CRO
3:59 PM - Jul 7, 2018
A@Captain_AMIRica
If they don’t built Subašić a statute in Zagreb, it will be a tragedy.
3:36 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Shireen Footybedsheets Ahmed
✔@_shireenahmed_
SUBAŠIĆ IS NOT HUMAN. THEY HAVE BEEN PLAYING FOR THREE DAYS ANS HE IS JUMPING LIKE A PUMA. #CRO
3:29 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Lady Doritos@knitmeg
Subasic has done well for someone who died a half hour ago.
3:28 PM - Jul 7, 2018
Jian@jianc14
I'll lend Subasic my legs to get through this
3:34 PM - Jul 7, 2018
- More memes, more cheers, more tears will come next week, when France plays Belgium on Tuesday, and England takes on Croatia on Wednesday. The winners of those games advance to the final, set for Sunday, July 15.
https://www.cnet.com/news/russia-loses-to-croatia-and-twitter-users-putin-their-best-jokes/
The world knows Pootin and his mafiya are ing murderers, and that Trash sucks his Russian .
‘God bless him’: Giuliani says Michael Cohen ‘should’ flip on Trump because ‘there is no evidence or wrongdoing’
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, on Sunday asserted that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen “should” cooperate with prosecutors.
During an interview on CNN, host Dana Bash noted that Cohen suggested he would flip on Trump because he puts his family and country first.
“I don’t know what he has to flip over,” Giuliani opined.
“What I do know is, there is no evidence of wrongdoing with President Trump.
So we’re very comfortable.
If he believes it’s in his best interest to cooperate, God bless him.
He should cooperate.”
“I do not expect Michael Cohen is going to lie,”
he added. “I think he’s going to tell the truth as best he can given his recollection.
If he does that, we’re home free.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/god-bless-giuliani-says-michael-cohen-flip-trump-no-evidence-wrongdoing/
Giuliani Reveals Trump Did Ask Comey to Give Flynn ‘A Break’, Despite President’s Prior Denials
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/giuliani...prior-denials/
MSNBC Panel Erupts in Laughter After 'TV Lawyer' Giuliani Claims He Was 'Probably' Present During June 2016 Trump Tower Meeting
“This is so incredibly ridiculous."
“I don’t think I’ve ever heard a president’s lawyer go on TV and say ‘oh, he’s going to charge him.’
but he seems to think his client will be charged with obstruction of justice,”
Joy Reid said.
Esquire journalist Charlie Pierce noted
Giuliani is “out there to change public opinion,” not to lead the president’s defense.
Reid
played a clip of Giuliani telling ABC he was “probably” present during the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting.
“I was probably there that day,” Giuliani declared in that clip.
“I don’t remember it.
Did somebody say something to me?
I don’t know.
You know what a campaign is like?
It’s helter-skelter.”
That remark prompted jeers from the panel.
“This is so incredibly ridiculous. Somebody ought to be at the New York State Bar Association filing a grievance against Rudy Giuliani, ” contributor Tiffany Cross said.
“The fact that Donald Trump has chosen this cousin-dater
to lead his defense team
shows how ill equipped he is to be at the helm of the United States,”
Cross continued
“But if Donald Trump refuses a [Mueller] subpoena,
this is an example of something that likely could end up before the Supreme Court and
what do you know? He has a Supreme Court pick coming up Monday.”
https://www.alternet.org/msnbc-panel-erupts-laughter-after-tv-lawyer-giuliani-claims-he-was-probably-present-during-june-2016
Hey everyone! Chris has a new conspiracy theory!
Nah, this was reported back in January
https://saraacarter.com/andrew-weiss...ecial-counsel/
Also logged at the Justice Department
lol Pavlov
Yes, it's been a conspiracy theory that long.Nah, this was reported back in January
https://saraacarter.com/andrew-weiss...ecial-counsel/
Also logged at the Justice Department
lol Pavlov
lol Chris
Mueller’s ‘Pit Bull’ Arranged Meeting With Reporters To Discuss Manafort Investigation
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2018/07/0...mpression=true
Doubling down
lol Pavlov
Another term you really can't use correctly.Doubling down
lol Pavlov
lol Chris
CROFL Rudy again
Will Trump Be Meeting With His Counterpart — Or His Handler?
A plausible theory of mind-boggling collusion.
The unfolding of the Russia scandal has been like walking into a dark cavern. Every step reveals that the cave runs deeper than we thought, and after each one, as we wonder how far it goes, our imaginations are cir scribed by the steps we have already taken.
But what if that’s wrong? What if we’re still standing closer to the mouth of the cave than the end?
What is missing from our imagination is the unlikely but possible outcome on the other end: that this is all much worse than we suspect.
After all, treating a small probability as if it were nonexistent is the very error much of the news media made in covering the presidential horse race.
we can responsibly speculate as to what lies at the end of this scandal without falling prey to their fallacies.
One of the oddities of the Russia scandal is that many of the most exotic and sinister theories have come from people within government and especially within the intelligence field.
The first intimations that Trump might harbor a dark secret originated among America’s European allies, which, being situated closer to Russia, have had more experience fending off its nefarious encroachments.
The contents of these communications have not been disclosed, but what Brennan learned obviously unsettled him profoundly.
In congressional testimony on Russian election interference last year, Brennan hinted that some Americans might have betrayed their country.
“Individuals who go along a treasonous path,” he warned, “do not even realize they’re along that path until it gets to be a bit too late.”
In an interview this year, he put it more bluntly:
“I think [Trump] is afraid of the president of Russia. The Russians may have something on him personally that they could always roll out and make his life more difficult.”
we should give more credence to the possibility that Brennan is making these extraordinary charges of treason and blackmail at the highest levels of government because he knows something we don’t.
suppose the dark crevices of the Russia scandal run not just a little deeper but a lot deeper.
If that’s true, we are in the midst of a scandal unprecedented in American history, a subversion of the integrity of the presidency.
It would mean that when Special Counsel Robert Mueller closes in on the president and his inner circle, possibly beginning this summer, Trump may not merely rail on Twitter but provoke a cons utional crisis.
it would mean the Russia scandal began far earlier than conventionally understood and ended later — indeed, is still happening.
Trump arranges to meet face-to-face and privately with Vladimir Putin later this month,
the collusion between the two men metastasizing from a dark accusation into an open alliance,
the summit is less a negotiation between two heads of state than
a meeting between a Russian-intelligence asset and his handler.
“1987 is Trump’s breakout year. There are only a couple of examples of him commenting on world politics before then.”
What changed that year?
The other important event from that year is that Trump visited Moscow.
During the Soviet era, Russian intelligence cast a wide net to gain leverage over influential figures abroad. (The practice continues to this day.)
In 1986, Soviet ambassador Yuri Dubinin met Trump in New York, flattered him with praise for his building exploits, and invited him to discuss a building in Moscow. Trump visited Moscow in July 1987. He stayed at the National Hotel, in the Lenin Suite, which certainly would have been bugged.
Trump returned from Moscow fired up with political ambition.
He began the first of a long series of presidential flirtations,
Most Republicans would rather win an election with Putin’s help
than lose one without it.
It seemed just too crazy to consider the alternative:
It was all exactly what it appeared to be.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...gEmail__070918
A VERY long article, connecting the FACTUAL dots, going back 30 years to Trash's first visit to Russia.
Trash is a Russian intelligence asset,
a Manchurian Candidate,
with Pootin as his handler,
executing Pootin's foreign policy.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 07-09-2018 at 08:00 AM.
"He has evidence that substantiates his claims but it will be revealed slowly."
Why slowly? Once you say they're active DEA and ATF agents, you gotta act really quickly.
Of course, you would act quickly only if you really had something.
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