This headline, entire story, is a case study in bias. Lawyer is among many that wants good regulatory policy, and so opposes bad, economy-crushing climate rules. But is accused here of "dismantling" clean air for "industry" paymasters. https://t.co/Cf1RBVF7cJ
Uh, @CNN just petitioned the court to doxx jurors in the midst of deliberations in a blatant attempt at intimidation. That is whatâs disgusting. https://t.co/NPbDfQY15N
Just a friendly reminder: In the past, CNN has threatened to dox a random Reddit user and has accosted a random old lady at her home about why she promoted a Facebook event. https://t.co/D5CMf3Lj4u
Here is Trump Derangement Syndrome so acute that an American newspaper is taking the side of an Islamist regime holding an American hostage: https://t.co/APIib5d9r0
Congressional candidate bans media from public campaign events and of course same â threat to free mediaâ journalists called it out.. Wait no they didnât. They complimented & retweeted it. pic.twitter.com/5OX27Bkcux
Guess who is suddenly comfortable with politicians banning the press from events? Iâll give you a hint: heâs very reliable. pic.twitter.com/RwbtJPBcMX
Bruch Ohr was deeply tied to the Clinton campaign while inside the FBI – @KimStrassel, again, on why POTUS should declassify & disclose. https://t.co/TWTKUFtxvZ
Over the weekend the NYTimes released a “bombshell” narrative slanted story regarding one of Pres. Trump’s lawyers, Don McGahn, spending 30 hours being interviewed by Robert Mueller. The Times, and in lock-step the MSM, presented this to viewers as McGahn having turned on Trump and ‘ratted out’ the President.
The fact(s) remains, there has been not one glistening dripped drop of evidence that Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia during the 2018 presidential campaign. However, there continues to be a flood in the Swamp of evidence of a massive and deep dark collusion between the Clinton camp, the Obama administration, and the DOJ/FBI that is being left to stagnate and stink as it is willfully ignored by the Mueller machine and the MSM.
All the while, Mr. Ohr failed to disclose on financial forms that his wife, Nellie, worked alongside Mr. Steele in 2016, getting paid by Mr. Simpson for anti-Trump research. The Justice Department has now turned over Ohr documents to Congress that show how deeply tied up he was with the Clinton crewâwith dozens of emails, calls, meetings and notes that describe his interactions and what he collected.
Mr. Ohrâs conduct is itself deeply troubling. He was acting as a witness (via FBI interviews) in a case being overseen by a Justice Department in which he held a very senior position. He appears to have concealed this role from at least some superiors, since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that heâd been unaware of Mr. Ohrâs intermediary status.
Lawyers meanwhile note that it is a crime for a federal official to participate in any government matter in which he has a financial interest. Fusionâs bank records presumably show Nellie Ohr, and by extension her husband, benefiting from the Trump opposition research that Mr. Ohr continued to pass to the FBI. The Justice Department declined to comment.
But for all Mr. Ohrâs misdeeds, the worse misconduct is by the FBI and Justice Department. Itâs bad enough that the bureau relied on a dossier crafted by a man in the employ of the rival presidential campaign. Bad enough that it never informed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of that dossierâs provenance. And bad enough that the FBI didnât fire Mr. Steele as a confidential human source in September 2016 when it should have been obvious he was leaking FBI details to the press to harm Donald Trumpâs electoral chances. It terminated him only when it was absolutely forced to, after Mr. Steele gave an on-the-record interview on Oct. 31, 2016.
But now we discover the FBI continued to go to this discredited informant in its investigation after the firingâby funneling his information via a Justice Department cutout. The FBI has an entire manual governing the use of confidential sources, with elaborate rules on validations, standards and documentation. Mr. Steele failed these standards. The FBI then evaded its own program to get at his info anyway.
And it did so even though we have evidence that lead FBI investigators may have suspected Mr. Ohr was a problem. An Oct. 7, 2016, text message from now-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok to his colleague Lisa Page reads: âJesus. More BO leaks in the NYT,â which could be a reference to Mr. Ohr.
The FBI may also have been obtaining, via Mr. Ohr, information that came from a man the FBI had never even vetted as a sourceâMr. Simpson. Mr. Steele had at least worked with the FBI before; Mr. Simpson was a paid political operative. And the Ohr notes raise further doubts about Mr. Simpsonâs forthrightness. In House testimony in November 2017, Mr. Simpson said only that he reached out to Mr. Ohr after the election, and at Mr. Steeleâs suggestion. But Mr. Ohrâs inbox shows an email from Mr. Simpson dated Aug. 22, 2016 that reads, in full: âCan u ring.â
The Justice Department hasnât tried to justify any of this; in fact, last year it quietly demoted Mr. Ohr. In what smells of a further admission of impropriety, it didnât initially turn over the Ohr documents; Congress had to fight to get them.
But it raises at least two further crucial questions. First, who authorized or knew about this improper procedure? Mr. Strzok seems to be in the thick of it, having admitted to Congress interactions with Mr. Ohr at the end of 2016. While Mr. Rosenstein disclaims knowledge, Mr. Ohrâs direct supervisor at the time was the previous deputy attorney general, Sally Yates. Who else in former FBI Director Jim Comeyâs inner circle and at the Obama Justice Department nodded at the FBIâs back-door interaction with a sacked source and a Clinton operative? …
>@SallyQYates has yet to respond to inquiries about whether she knew that Bruce Ohr was in contact with Christopher Steele or that his wife worked for Fusion GPS. Will update if/when she responds. Her successor, Rod Rosenstein, has testified he was unaware of Ohr's activities.
Kris Paronto, Army Ranger and member of the CIA security team during the 2012 Benghazi ordeal. Hillary ordered him and his team to keep their mouths shut and go along with the âMuslim videoâ story. He refused and lost his security clearance. Guess who took it? John Brennan. pic.twitter.com/F2IqWJbltv
âIf we had a real media and not the worldâs most pompous Democrat transcription service, the CIAâs blown Chinese spy ring disaster would be front page news but hey, Omarosa! In any case, the only consulting anyone should do with the members of this class of unmitigated failures whose incompetence brought us 9/11, Iraq, Libya, ISIS, and a future where we would all be wise to learn Mandarin, is to ask their opinion and then do the opposite â Costanza style. Letâs look at our eliteâs track record of success. Donât worry â it wonât take long.”
Since the surprise announcement of his indictment and guilty plea on Oct. 30, 2017, the short-term, volunteer Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos has often been described as a central figure in the Trump-Russia affair. Now, a new court filing from special counsel Robert Mueller suggests Papadopoulos was a bit player all along.
Mueller never charged Papadopoulos with any crime involving a conspiracy, or collusion, between the Trump campaign and Russia to fix the 2016 election. Instead, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the FBI. He is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 7.
In preparation, Muellerâs office on Friday submitted a memorandum to U.S. District Court in Washington outlining the special counselâs position on sentencing. Although Mueller is adamant that Papadopoulos serve some time in jail â the range for the offense is between zero and six months â the special counsel suggested the final sentence should be just 30 days. As justification, Mueller cited the 30-day sentence given to Alex van der Zwaan, one of the small-time figures caught up in the Trump-Russia probe.
It wasnât the stuff of a âconspiracy against the United Statesâ that Mueller cheerleaders like to cite, nor even of a significant player in the Trump-Russia matter.
Escort who claimed she has audio/video relevant to 2016 election inference says she's turned it over to….Oleg Deripaska, who is close to Putin, worked w/ Manafort, and may have hired Chris Steele. https://t.co/RY90Gz2XHM
My statement was not meant as a pontification on moral theology but one referring to the situation where two people make precisely contradictory statements, the classic âhe said,she saidâ puzzle. Sometimes further inquiry can reveal the truth other times it doesnât.
Since proven leaker Comey is now sanctimoniously lecturing us on truth, I can say sometimes the truth is clear itâs the opposite of what Jim Coney is saying. His disgraceful performance with the FBI makes him the last person who should pontificate on truth.
Sen. Wyden on Clapper: Regardless of what was going through [Clapper's] head when he testified, failing to correct the record was a deliberate decision to lie to the American people about what their government was doing. https://t.co/zEkBayrFOr
Note that Schumer now is 180 degrees in opposition, not only to Pres. Trump’s stance on illegal immigration, but his own stance nine years ago.
No. You don’t ‘change’ your opinion this much on one of the nation’s biggest and most important issues in the 21st century in that short amount of time.
How deep is the swamp? (how deep is the swamp?)
I really need to learn
âCause weâre living in a world of fools
Breaking us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me…
BREAKING: John Brennan’s security clearance revoked (finally):
John Brennan was CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia when the Khobar Towers were bombed. He was deputy exec. director of the agency on 9/11. He was CIA chief of staff during the Iraq WMD debacle. And he ran the CIA when it spied on Congress (which he lied about under oath).
âputting personal petty politics ahead of patriotism and national securityâ!?! Like your âshadow diplomacyâ to undermine President Trumpâs plans to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal?
An eternal top secret security clearance is a God-given, unalienable right for ex-government employees who lied to Congress under oath. The things you learn from watching CNN! https://t.co/4iocNPslPR
Having a Security Clearance has absolutely NOTHING to do with freedom of speech. It's a special privilege given to key individuals who are trusted with national security secrets.
At least six senior FBI officials involved in the Hillary Clinton email investigation have been fired or have resigned since May 2017. đ pic.twitter.com/8yl7TVuSWM
If âcollusionâ with a foreign power and foreign agents were a crime then the Clinton team would already be in jail. The real collusion scandal is the one surrounding the Clinton team.
The FBI is corrupt, and this is just the start of draining the deep state swamp:
Director Comey: fired Dep Dir McCabe: fired Chief Counsel Baker: demoted, left Chief of Staff Rybicki: left FBI Counsel Page: demoted, then left Dep Dir of Counterintel Strzok: demoted, FIRED
DOJ's Bruce Ohr fed Steele's "intel" to FBI after Steele removed as source But Rosenstein told Congress he ânever involvedâ Ohr w/ Russia investigation & did not "assign" him ANY role in Crossfire Hurricane. Did his former boss Sally Yates? @FDRLSThttps://t.co/aroXCXXyvN
MORE SWAMP-DRAINING NEEDED: At Master Resource, a twopart investigation by Paul Driessen and David Wojick into how Obama-era climate policies are still being carried out at USAID.
The DNC and leftist MSM just are not too interested in what their beloved democrat party leader is being accused of (at least until his primary of yesterday was over)âŠ
.@CNN covered domestic abuse allegations against former Trump aide Rob Porter more than 24 times as much as they covered abuse allegations against DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison pic.twitter.com/z9lNqie84Z
It’s basically made up courses and curriculum with no employment opportunities for degree holders, except for the job(s) of the professor(s) that taught the courses. And given the ridiculous $12-$15k wage disparity with professors who teach actual math, science, engineering studies that DO prepare student-debt-riddled graduates for real jobs and careers in order to make a living … and pay back those loans, colleges are digging themselves yet another hole…
Under the project, white males in senior academic posts will be assigned a junior female colleague from an ethnic minority as a mentor.
Prof John Rowe, who is overseeing the project at Birmingham University, said he hopes the scheme will allow eminent professors to confront their own biases and leave them âfeeling quite uncomfortableâ.
The moment they feel âuncomfortable,â they should report her for harassment. Thatâs how it works, right?
And so, yet more hints of why you’ll get Trump again in 2020…
A fairly large crowd of counterprotesters are gathered near the White House. âFuck youâ this person keeps yelling at officers. Many are angry at officers here for protecting the white nationalists and keeping the crowds separated. pic.twitter.com/jLYk4iiGz9
âLet me just remind CNN that you just preached to us for almost two weeks about how chanting âCNN sucksâ is going to lead to violence and how wrong it is.â https://t.co/YxOy9rBUai
I consider myself an ally. I research proper etiquette, read writers of color, vote in a way that will not harm P.O.C. (and other vulnerable people). I engage in conversations about privilege with other white people. I take courses that will further educate me. I donated to Black Lives Matter. Yet I fear that nothing is enough. Part of my fear comes from the fact that privilege is invisible to itself. What if Iâm doing or saying insensitive things without realizing it?
You're completely free to practice your religious faith in America, provided you're willing to fight an endless string of legal battles all the way to the Supreme Court and surrender your livelihood until they are resolved. https://t.co/xrwkTlTS9L
