Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

[RandomGuy]

Something something Hunter Biden something something Joe threatened to murder Ukraine something something please don't look at the Senate report.

FBI Attorney Admits Altering Email Used for FISA Application During "Crossfire Hurricane" Investigation

Former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith, 38, pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a false statement offense stemming from his altering of an email in connection with the submission of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) application, announced John H. Durham, Special Attorney to the Attorney General.

Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the guilty plea proceeding occurred via videoconference before U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg.

According to court do ents and statements made in court, between July 2015 and September 2019, Clinesmith was employed with the FBI as an Assistant General Counsel in the National Security and Cyber Law Branch of the FBI’s Office of General Counsel in Washington, D.C. On July 31, 2016, the FBI opened a Foreign Agents Registration Act investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane,” into whether individuals associated with the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign were coordinating activities with the Russian government. By August 16, 2016, the FBI had opened cases under the Crossfire Hurricane umbrella on four individuals, including an individual identified in this case as “Individual #1.”

Clinesmith was assigned to provide legal support to FBI personnel working on Crossfire Hurricane, and he assisted FBI personnel with applications prepared by the FBI and the Justice Department’s National Security Division to conduct surveillance under the FISA. During the investigation, there were a total of four court-approved FISA applications targeting Individual #1. Each of the FISA applications alleged there was probable cause that Individual #1 was a knowing agent of a foreign power, specifically Russia.

On August 17, 2016, prior to the approval of the first FISA application #1, another U.S. government agency (“OGA”) provided certain members of the Crossfire Hurricane team a memorandum indicating that Individual #1 had been approved as an “operational contact” for the OGA from 2008 to 2013 and detailing information that Individual #1 had provided to the OGA concerning Individual #1’s prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers. The first three FISA applications did not include Individual #1’s history or status with the OGA.

Prior to the submission of the fourth FISA application, and after Individual #1 stated publicly that he/she had assisted the U.S. government in the past, an FBI Supervisory Special Agent (“SSA”) asked Clinesmith to inquire with the OGA as to whether Individual #1 had ever been a “source” for the OGA. On June 15, 2017, Clinesmith sent an email to a liaison at the OGA (“OGA Liaison”) seeking clarification as to whether Individual #1 was an OGA source, and the OGA Liaison responded via email to Clinesmith. On June 19, 2017, Clinesmith altered the email he received from the OGA Liaison by adding the words “not a source,” and then forwarded the email to the FBI SSA. Relying on the altered email, on June 29, 2017, the SSA signed and submitted the fourth FISA application to the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The application did not include Individual #1’s history or status with the OGA.

Clinesmith pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement within both the jurisdiction of the executive branch and judicial branch of the U.S. government, an offense that carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000. Judge Boasberg scheduled sentencing for December 10, 2020.

This case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Neeraj N. Patel and Assistant U.S. Attorney Anthony Scarpelli, with the support and assistance of other members of Special Attorney Durham’s team.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/f...fire-hurricane

Something something FISA something Carter Page something Pizzagate pedophilla ring deep state please don't look at the Senate report

[Spurs Homer]

So, Manafort colludes with russian spy Kilimnik and supplies election polling to russia...

Flynn colludes with ambassador kislyak to have russia NOT worry about USA Obama sanctions and assures the russians that “trump team got your back”

Stone colludes with wikileaks under orders by Trump- to accept stolen materials and coordinating their release to damage an american citizen and cheat a USA election- under orders of trump who stated hundreds of times how much he “loved wikileaks”

Trump Jr. colludes with russian spies and meets them in trump tower to accept damaging materials to hurt an american citizen and steal an election using russian govts help and kushner attends the treason meet...

trump aids and abets russia/putin at Helsinki by telling the world that he believes Putin and does not believe USA intel after colluding with the theft of the USA election



Marco Rubio and the rest of the GOP (Govt of Putin) senate panel traitors: “the report says absolutely NO COLLUSION!”

Cult: “makes perfect sense!”

[Spurminator]

I was wondering why this Bannon story was being pushed so hard. Now I know.

DOJ prepares new probe of Clinton’s email server

https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/doj-pr...-email-server/

From 2018.

Any theories on what today's Bannon news is really hiding, TSA?

[Spurs Homer]

emailssss!!!!

[Winehole23]

Did I miss it?

[ChumpDumper]

Did I miss it?

Uh, I guess it was this?

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State Department finally agrees to give Joe Biden copies of do ents sent to Republicans senators

Weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo provided a “portfolio” of do ents for Republican senators—and only Republican senators—

concerning the investigation of the Russia investigation and

the ongoing attempt to flesh out Donald Trump’s conspiracies about Joe Biden’s actions in Ukraine.

Pompeo shipped to his partisans topped 1,600 pages.

That includes

information provided to the State Department courtesy of pro-Russian former Ukrainian officials eager to get the Putin line into U.S. do ents.

provided to committees at the request of Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and reliable conspiracy theorist Ron Johnson.

Though, somehow the State Department only provided the do ents to the Republican members of those committees.

a State Department official has ordered that Biden be provided the results of the same do ent search.

Republicans have been on a fishing expedition,

attempting to pile up everything they possibly can for use against Biden, not matter how obscure.

Johnson has been issuing long lines of such statements, insinuating that they prove some complex crime …

one that

Johnson completely fails to articulate.

Instead, he just keeps inserting “coincidence?” into his tweets.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/202...cans-weeks-ago

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DC Circuit Tells Don McGahn To Shut Up And Sing

Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the House Judiciary Committee can go to court to enforce its subpoena to former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn.

With the DC Circuit sitting en banc, Judge Judith Roberts wrote for

the 7-2 majority

what should have been clear all along:

Of course Congress can subpoena executive officials.

And Congress also has standing to go to court to enforce those subpoenas.

Responding to McGahn's assertions that a ruling against him would allow Congress to "arrogate power to itself" and unilaterally take over the world or something,

the court reminds McGahn that he is actually the problem here, not the House Judiciary Committee.

The court ruled that the House Judiciary Committee was en led to compel McGahn's testimony,

in March, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit was all like,

"We can't decide this; what are we, JUDGES?!"

and

just pretended that it was completely absurd for a federal court to do something like enforce a subpoena

(which, here in reality, our courts do every single day).

The en banc court disagrees.

https://www.wonkette.com/dc-circuit-...ena-2646920162

[Winehole23]

DC Circuit Tells Don McGahn To Shut Up And Sing

Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled that the House Judiciary Committee can go to court to enforce its subpoena to former Trump White House counsel Don McGahn.

With the DC Circuit sitting en banc, Judge Judith Roberts wrote for

the 7-2 majority

what should have been clear all along:

Of course Congress can subpoena executive officials.

And Congress also has standing to go to court to enforce those subpoenas.

Responding to McGahn's assertions that a ruling against him would allow Congress to "arrogate power to itself" and unilaterally take over the world or something,

the court reminds McGahn that he is actually the problem here, not the House Judiciary Committee.

The court ruled that the House Judiciary Committee was en led to compel McGahn's testimony,

in March, a three-judge panel of the DC Circuit was all like,

"We can't decide this; what are we, JUDGES?!"

and

just pretended that it was completely absurd for a federal court to do something like enforce a subpoena

(which, here in reality, our courts do every single day).

The en banc court disagrees.

https://www.wonkette.com/dc-circuit-...ena-2646920162

Last thing I read the testimony will be after the election, if at all. This two week old article gives no scheduling info.

This is electorally moot, unless the McGahn testimony is accelerated, as I understand. I could be wrong.

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

Committee Report breakdown @lawfareblog.com

The fifth and final volume of the Select Intelligence Committee’s bipartisan report on Russian interference in the 2016 election is an incredibly long and detailed do ent. At a whopping 966 pages, volume 5 alone is more than twice the length of the Mueller report, and it covers a great deal more ground.


It is important for another reason: Along with the shorter volumes 1-4, the Senate’s report is the only credible account of the events of 2016 to which Republican elected officials have signed their names. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a press release praised the report on the investigation he set in motion way back in December 2016, saying, “I commend my colleagues on both sides for keeping their work out of the partisan spotlight and focused on the facts.”

https://www.lawfareblog.com/collusio...committee-find

[Winehole23]

This volume is an attempt to describe comprehensively the counterintelligence threats and vulnerabilities associated with Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. So it’s inherently a little more free-wheeling and speculative.

[spurraider21]

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Trump ‘exploded with anger’ in front of UK leader after learning he missed a Putin phone call

President Donald Trump blew up at a former national security adviser after learning he missed a phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The U.K.-based Independent reports May’s former chief of staff, Nick Timothy, described how Trump “exploded with anger” about the missed call while appearing on the “What Were They Thinking” podcast.

“Somebody just mentioned in passing that Vladimir Putin had asked for a call with him,

and right in front us he absolutely shouted down Mike Flynn,” Timothy explained.

“Like really shouted.

This was at a formal dinner with butlers and fancy crockery –

and he was properly shouting at him down the table.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trump-exploded-with-anger-in-front-of-uk-leader-after-learning-he-missed-a-putin-phone-call-report

[Winehole23]

deep background:

The story we wanted to tell would have gone back all the way to the start of the Bolshevik Revolution, when America and its western allies militarily intervened in the Russian Civil War on behalf of the proto-Nazi “White” Russians — putting around 15,000 “boots on the ground,” killing and imprisoning Red Army soldiers.


But the core of the story would have focused on the 1990s, when the United States — and particularly the Clinton Administration — intervened in Russia’s domestic affairs to such a profound degree that the word “meddling” doesn’t begin to describe it, at least in the way that people like Rachel Maddow think of “meddling.” It was more of a top-down, colonial relationship between a conquering superpower, and a weak, defeated vassal state. And that’s exactly what Russia was back then: a colonized state.


How totally subservient was Russia to America? Well, consider this: Thanks to recently declassified presidential transcripts, we know that in 1999 Boris Yeltsin called up Bill Clinton to tell him that Vladimir Putin would be his hand-picked presidential successor months before anyone in Russia knew, and all but asked Clinton for his nod of approval.

https://yasha.substack.com/p/america...1990s-this-096

[Winehole23]

“We created a virtual open shop for thievery at a national level and for capital flight in terms of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the raping of natural resources and industries on a scale which I doubt has ever taken place in human history.”
—E. Wayne Merry, a U.S. Embassy official in Moscow during the 1990s.

[Spurs Homer]

deep background:

https://yasha.substack.com/p/america...1990s-this-096

propaganda?

[Winehole23]

propaganda?

Yasha Levine is a Russian expat. He wrote a really cool book called "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet."

Would you kindly point out which claims in the article you're taking issue with? Or do you dismiss the whole thing sight unseen because Levine was born in the Soviet Union?

Did you happen do know it is somewhat dangerous to be a Jewish political satirist in Putin's Russia?

[Spurs Homer]

Yasha Levine is a Russian expat. He wrote a really cool book called "Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet."

Would you kindly point out which claims in the article you're taking issue with? Or do you dismiss the whole thing sight unseen because Levine was born in the Soviet Union?

Did you happen do know it is somewhat dangerous to be a Jewish political satirist in Putin's Russia?

nope

i had no issue with any particular thing - but i was asking if this is propaganda or is it fact based or vetted

i had never heard of this source

so no issue until i can research but it didnt ring really true to me but i would rather research that source

[Winehole23]

nope

i had no issue with any particular thing - but i was asking if this is propaganda or is it fact based or vetted

i had never heard of this source

so no issue until i can research but it didnt ring really true to me but i would rather research that source

Go for it.

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Trump whines about ‘the Russia, Russia, Russia narrative’ — and lashes out at Congress as ‘deranged lowlifes’

Trump has received harsh criticism after Director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe informed Congress that the intelligence community would no longer hold briefing sessions on foreign election interference in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Trump accused Democrats of “leaking” information on Russian’s interference in the 2020 election to help Trump.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/tru...nged-lowlifes/

[Spurs Homer]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/polit...ein/index.html


Didn’t I try to tell this exact thing to comrade TSA?
Didn’t I sound the warning that trump was installed by Russia?

Didn’t I point out that in the Mueller report It was thinly disguised that Rosenstein tied Muellers hands?

Didn’t I say over and over and over again that Mueller report is still under a cover up and that Barr/Rosenstein protected trump and tied muellers hands and that ONLY when a new LEGIT administration is in place can we see the entirety of trumps treason?


Trump is an illegitimate traitor puppet and the truth is starting to come out even though many are working to cover it up.


This news is just the tip of the treasonous black iceberg.

[Winehole23]

Kelly dropped a dime on Trump...


...too late to make any difference.

[Winehole23]

DOJ kept McCabe in the dark about counterintelligence concerns related to Trump's longtime dealings with Russia, and limited the scope of its own investigation.

Mr. Rosenstein never told Mr. McCabe about his decision, leaving the F.B.I. with the impression that the special counsel would take on the investigation into the president as part of his broader duties. Mr. McCabe said in an interview that had he known Mr. Mueller would not continue the inquiry, he would have had the F.B.I. perform it.


“We opened this case in May 2017 because we had information that indicated a national security threat might exist, specifically a counterintelligence threat involving the president and Russia,” Mr. McCabe said. “I expected that issue and issues related to it would be fully examined by the special counsel team. If a decision was made not to investigate those issues, I am surprised and disappointed. I was not aware of that.”

https://www.motherjones.com/politics...ssia-he-wasnt/