Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

[Chris]

“I used to work for the Special Surveillance Group (SSG) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Robert Mueller was my Director. I have been wrestling with his disregard for my safety and his dishonesty with my and other coworkers’ concerns. That is why in 2008 I decided to quit the Bureau early and start my own business and get away from the corruption of certain members of the FBI management. I saw firsthand how dishonest some of them could be. Since Mueller has taken over as Special Counsel, I’ve been concerned about him continuing that behavior which leads me to the following.

Mueller and certain members of FBI Management deceived the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in 2005 and they intimidated and bullied the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 2005 through 2008.

Mueller and individuals in FBI Management were continually notified by members of the SSG that their surveillance activities were growing way beyond the scope of their operational plan before Congress and that their safety was at stake. After 9/11, the program had expanded at a rapid pace. The members of the SSG were happy to take on the vastly growing surveillances throughout the country but they wanted better protection, better compensation and more clear duties defined through Congress. Mueller and FBI Management continually ignored their cries for help.

In the Summer of 2005, two FBI employees in the SSG Program wrote a letter and mailed it to every member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). The two FBI employees were notified by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s office of receipt of the letter. Those same two FBI employees and two additional employees wrote another letter and mailed it to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). That opening letter to the OPM was very generic because their work is considered Secret due to their undercover status conducting Counter Terrorism and Counter Intelligence work. The OPM letter only listed their names, job le, office and generic nature of their complaint. The letter to the SSCI was more informative due to SSCI’s level of classification regarding U.S. Intelligence.

The two employees involved in the SSCI letter were informed by staff at Senator Hutchison’s Office of Mueller’s response to the letter. The two employees knew the response was not truthful.

OPM opened a routine complaint/inquiry based on the letter that they received from the four FBI employees. The OPM officer that had the misfortune to be assigned the job, sent an initiation letter to FBI Headquarters to gain security clearance to begin her assessment. She was immediately threatened with arrest by FBI agents. Subsequently and because of the letter, the four FBI employees were threatened with arrest, imprisonment, raids of their residences and loss of their job. Although better security and more defined operational duties eventually were hammered out, it was no thanks to Mueller. The four employees and their squad supervisor were overtly and covertly punished, then and to this day.

The information I have relayed to you is important but in the current climate of intimidation of whistleblowers and continued dishonest activity of some in the FBI, I have been reluctant to relay in this much detail. The reason (beyond disgust with Mueller and Comey) that I inform you now is because I know you have contacts with Judicial Watch. Judicial Watch may benefit from a FOIA request regarding communications Mueller and FBI Management had with Senator Hutchinson’s Office and the OPM from 2005 thru 2008. I know the OPM Officer, the FBI employees and their supervisor because obviously I was one of the four employees. I do not suspect the gathering of evidence to Mueller’s dishonesty regarding this matter will be easy to obtain because of the cloud of secrecy it entails but I pray Mueller will answer for his actions.”

Chuck Marler’s statement ends

[Chris]

“This is very, very, very powerful technology, and it was created under Robert Mueller’s watch. The last person I would think that should be investigating Donald Trump is Robert Mueller, who was collecting information on Donald Trump ten years ago … Mueller has a huge conflict of interest, a huge conflict of interest,” Montgomery said in an interview.

“I provided to the FBI seventeen businesses of Donald Trump, including the Trump Tower, the Trump leasing programs, all of these different programs, and including Trump himself and the various family members that had been wiretapped under these programs,” said Montgomery. “There has been a wiretap on Trump for years.”

“I started by going to Maricopa County and showing that Sheriff Arpaio himself was wiretapped under the Obama administration,” said Montgomery.

“I was a CIA contractor both under John Brennan and under James Clapper and these individuals were running domestic surveillance programs in the United States collecting information on Americans. This isn’t political. They were collecting information on Republicans and Democrats. But they collected everything they could find. Bank accounts, phone numbers, chats, emails, and they collected a massive amount of it under the Obama administration,” Montgomery added.

Montgomery, the whistleblower, has sued James Comey for allegedly covering up information on the program, which Montgomery said was being operated on FBI computers.

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Chris

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Oliver ridicules Julie Annie

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/don...t-truth-gaffe/

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Putin Reportedly Close to Firing Giuliani




MOSCOW —Vladimir Putin is reportedly “very close” to firing Rudolph Giuliani as Donald J. Trump’s attorney, a source close to the Russian President confirmed on Monday.

According to the source,

Putin allowed Trump to hire Giuliani

in the first place because “it’s important to let Trump think that he has some autonomy from time to time,”

but now the Russian President has apparently determined that “enough is enough.”

Over the next few days, the source indicated,

Putin is likely to replace Giuliani with a handpicked successor, Arkady Lubetkin, a criminal-defense attorney

who has represented several prominent Russian Mob figures.

After hearing anecdotal reports of Giuliani’s appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Putin initially theorized that the nonsensical nature of Giuliani’s utterances had to be chalked up to “an error in translation,” the source said.

After reading an official transcript of Giuliani’s statements, however, the Russian President was apparently “flabbergasted.”

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...iring-giuliani

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Keep An Eye On This

by Josh Marshall

Over the weekend,

before the Don McGahn story started driving fevered speculation,

the Post published an article about Elliott Broidy, the venture capitalist and GOP fundraiser who is already tied up in the Cohen/Hush Money saga as well as the Russia probe.

This story detailed investigations into Broidy allegedly trying to get paid to fix federal criminal investigations in the US for interests in Malaysia and China.

To me though, the most notable part of the story, is that the

investigation is run by the DOJ Public Integrity Section, not the Special Counsel’s Office.

Let’s step back and consider a few cases.

To the best of our knowledge, the Special Counsel’s Office handed the Michael Cohen probe off to the Southern District of New York.

The case against Mariia Butina is being run by the DOJ’s Counter-Intelligence Division and is separate from the Special Counsel probe.

This investigation into Broidy is running out of the Public Integrity Section of the DOJ.

It’s not explicitly clear where the Broidy probe started. Did Public Integrity get it on its own? Did the Special Counsel’s Office hand this non-Russia part of Broidy’s work off to Main Justice? Not clear.


But regardless of where the probe started, it seems to have at least in part grown out of Broidy’s hacked emails that were published last year.

It gets a little complicated here but bear with me.

There’s the UAE/Saudi part of the Russia story, tied to George Nader, the Seyc es meeting with Erik Prince etc.

That connects up with the on-going diplomatic war between those countries and regional rival Qatar.

There is a decent amount of cir stantial evidence that the hacking of Broidy’s emails was done at least by people sympathetic to Qatar if not the Qatari state itself.

Point being, whether or not the Special Counsel’s Office started the investigation,

Broidy’s legal trouble tied to Malaysia and China seems rooted in the stuff he’s involved with in the Gulf and thus indirectly connected to the Russia story.
Remember too that Cohen and Broidy were both made Deputy RNC Finance Chairs under Trump.

And Cohen arranged that hush money deal with the woman who was allegedly Broidy’s longtime mistress.
What all of this tells me is that

there is an increasingly large range of federal investigations tied to the Trump White House

which are not actually handled by the Special Counsel’s Office,

presumably because they are examples of corruption which require investigation but which are not tightly connected to Russia.

This is not terribly surprising.

We see every day that

the Trump administration is a sort of free-fire zone for the most blatant and unrestrained corruption.

This was particularly the case in the early months of the administration.

But these are investigations will continue regardless of the fate of the Special Counsel’s Office.

There are probably more that we don’t yet know about.

They are also, probably by definition, more liable to political pressure to end them since they are the subject of less press attention.

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[Pavlov]

Those brave, fearless men willing to come out 13 years later to talk about irrelevant things no one remembers.

Big league politics!

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The most intense and dangerous period of the Trump presidency is about to begin

here are some other things that could or, in some cases, will happen between now and the first week in November:

• Paul Manafort will either be convicted or acquitted in his first trial, presumably this week (the jury is currently deliberating). And his second trial — which will deal more directly with his work in the former Soviet Union and the ways it may have affected his actions as Trump campaign chairman — will begin in mid-September.
• Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III could hand down more indictments, or even release a final report on all that he has learned in his investigation.
• Trump will likely continue to revoke the security clearances of his critics in the intelligence community, which will generate more bipartisan condemnation and comparisons to Richard Nixon.
• Omarosa Manigault Newman will release more tapes she recorded of conversations with people in the White House.
• A lawsuit will begin in Texas in which Republican states and the administration will be arguing for the entire Affordable Care Act to be struck down, handing Democrats a priceless campaign issue.
• Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings will take place. Even if the process ends with a win for Trump, it will also likely generate an immediate backlash, a wave of fear and opposition from Democrats as they realize the implications of an intensely partisan, intensely conservative Supreme Court.

That’s just what we know about.

There are other things, both foreseeable and not,

that could increase the president’s stress during this period.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...nl_most&wpmm=1

[Reck]

Those brave, fearless men willing to come out 13 years later to talk about irrelevant things no one remembers.

Big league politics!

What are the chances these disgruntled ex employees got fired unceremoniously?

hilarious. Mueller is evil!

But I”m going to wait a decade plus to say it. My courage and love for my country demands it.

[TSA]

djohn claiming Papadopoulos was wiring a wire for Mueller

[Spurminator]

Those brave, fearless men willing to come out 13 years later to talk about irrelevant things no one remembers.

Big league politics!

I get all of my news from sources that don't know how to conjugate verbs in their headlines.

[Chucho]

djohn claiming Papadopoulos was wiring a wire for Mueller

LOL, seriously. I'm pretty certain Papadopoulos isn't an electrician. Stupid djohnn.

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Trial lawyer tells CNN that Giuliani’s bumbling cable news spots have put Trump in ‘significant legal peril’

trial attorney Seth Berenzweig argued that Giuliani’s frequent cable news spots are harming Trump legally far more than they might be helping him politically.

“I think Mr. Giuliani is putting his client in significant legal peril,” he said.

“If you take a look at what’s going on right now, there are a lot of unforced errors.

Just focus on the situation right now with Don McGahn —

there could be arguments either way about whether the president wanted to waive privilege,

whether he could or should,

but at the end of the day,

that’s not necessarily a bad strategy.

What is utterly shocking is that,

when you waive privilege, and

then you find out that Don McGahn has been speaking with the special counsel’s office for 30 hours and

you’re reading about it when you find out about it in the New York Times?

That’s absolutely shocking.”

Berenzweig then went on to hammer the Trump administration

for believing they could still claim executive privilege over McGahn’s testimony

even though they’ve already made him available as a witness.

“Once waived, it’s waived permanently,” he said.

“There’s a lot of misdirection going on and the president is in significant legal peril.”
Toward the end of the segment, the attorney took one more shot at

Giuliani’s competence.“He doesn’t know the facts,

he doesn’t know the case,

he doesn’t know the law of his own case,”

he said.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/tri...e+Raw+Story%29

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[djohn2oo8]

Another day, Doneld still not cleared. PeeSA

[Winehole23]

DJT will never be cleared, but he may very well evade prosecution.

[TSA]

Another day, Doneld still not cleared. PeeSA

How’s that prison sentence coming along

[TSA]

DJT will never be cleared, but he may very well evade prosecution.

Mueller will have no choice but to clear him.

[TSA]

another informant exposed

[Pavlov]

frosty avenue told the TheLastRefuge2 so IT MUST BE TRUE

[Winehole23]

frosty avenue is careful to use weasel words and pose hypotheses as questions, but you seem awfully sure of yourself TSA

[Pavlov]

frosty avenue is careful to use weasel words and pose hypotheses as questions, but you seem awfully sure of yourself

Betteridge's Law counts for Twitter too.

[djohn2oo8]

How’s that prison sentence coming along

You mean For Susan Rice?