[Daily Caller via Political Insider] Chuck Ross on December 7, 2018
An FBI and Justice Department email chain shows that top government officials knew that dossier author Christopher Steele and his associates "were up to some really bad and nefarious activity," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said Thursday.
In an interview on Fox News, Nunes claimed that the email constitutes "the first clear evidence" that the FBI committed a "major crime" by lying to federal judges in applications for spy warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"It would be very clear that there were people within the FBI and DOJ that knew well and good before they went to the FISA Court that Christopher Steele and others were up to some really bad and nefarious activity," Nunes, a California Republican, said in an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity.
The email chain is part of a group of documents that Nunes and other Republicans want President Donald Trump to declassify. The lawmakers claim that the documents will show that the FBI and Justice Department misled federal judges when they applied for four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page, an energy consultant who joined the Trump campaign in March 2016.
The FBI relied heavily on the unverified Steele dossier, which was funded by Democrats, to obtain the warrants.
On Wednesday, The Hill reported some details of an email chain that appears to be the same being sought by Nunes for declassification.
According to The Hill, the email chain was exchanged in October 2016, before the FBI obtained its first FISA warrant against Page.
The emails, which included then-FBI Director James Comey, FBI officials, and Justice Department lawyers, show that the intelligence community expressed concerns about Steele’s reporting, The Hill reported. The documents also include evidence that the FBI was aware that Steele, a former MI6 official, was in contact with reporters before applying for the first Page FISA.
The FBI stopped formally using Steele as a confidential source on Nov. 1, 2016, after discovering that the private eye was in contact with Mother Jones reporter David Corn.
But Steele has revealed in a court case in London that he briefed reporters from several other news organizations in September and October 2016.
Steele was also the main source for a Sept. 23, 2016 article published by Yahoo News. That article, which was the first to level allegations contained in the dossier about Page, was cited in the FBI’s FISA applications.
Eight minutes by cab from Steele's Orbis Bus Ltd to HQ SIS. Note also the location of the U.S. Embassy, London. Yes, that would be the new £800m embassy that President Trump refused to visit back in January. The veracity of Christopher Steele? You decide.
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At the academy of things never discussed we learn that Gina Haspel was recently summoned before congressional committee to discuss her knowledge and opinions of the late Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi. Strangely however, no discussions of the activities or the veracity of Christopher Steele are uttered or requested.
One would think someone within our intelligence community might speak up, or down for him....if asked.
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Like many artists, Kashhoggi was nobody until he died...
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Apparently we are meant to really, really, really care about the dead Deep State critter Kashhoggi, but I admit to having trouble following the approved narrative.
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I continue to vote Republican because I believe they will f*ck me slower and with less enthusiasm...
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Ref #5: My assessment as well. Any special assignment and previous career similarities btwn Trump campaign worker and would-be FISA warrant target Carter Page and General Petraeus' biographer and pipe cleaner Paula Broadwell....purely coincidental. I say again, purely coincidental.
[MarketWatch] European markets traded lower on Monday, as investors failed to shake a hangover from last week’s selloff, with fresh signs of slowing growth in Germany and France, adding to the worries. Among individual stocks, BASF AG tumbled on a profit warning.
A decline for sterling gave the FTSE 100 a lift after a report a key parliamentary vote on Brexit has been canceled.
What is driving the market?
Sterling slid after a midday report from Bloomberg that U.K. Prime Minister May would cancel a key parliamentary vote expected Tuesday on her Brexit plan for and reschedule it. A stronger pound can weigh on the FTSE 100, as the index’s multinational companies generate most of their sales in other currencies, and the reverse works true as well.
Earlier Monday, the European Court of Justice ruled on Monday that the U.K. could officially cancel Brexit without the permission of the other 27 EU member states.
On the economic front, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office released showing that the county’s trade surplus with the rest of the world narrowed. Blaming protests across the country that have cut into industrial production for a number of sectors, the Bank of France said the French economy will grow slower than originally projected.
Global growth concerns and worries that the U.S. and China will struggle to meet common ground on trade were also hanging over stocks, with U.S. stock futures lower, while weaker oil prices also weighed on heavyweight energy companies.
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They probably expected more burned cars to spur auto sales, but the modern yellow jacket protesters are more akin to the tea-party and not about mayhem.
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I think there's a nice Nazi built guillotine in a museum over there somewhere. Short uprights, a spring driven drop to make up the difference. Story is even SS got tired of how "customers" screamed while being put on the platform, so they curtained it off to keep the "customers" more calm.
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No guillotines, just take the elites and send them to subsahara Africa without money or a passport. Let them enjoy the third world without turning Europe into the Third World.
#7
...what a waste of manpower. They've opened up new opportunities with their meddling. Put them on the block and make some money all at the same time.
BLUF:
[GATESTONE] According to the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism of the Netherlands, Islamic terrorism has been growing for several years. "Despite stagnating growth, the size of the Dutch jihadist movement is cause for concern," it wrote. (Image source: iStock)
"Right-wing extremists are growing more confident. They continue to focus on protesting against the perceived Islamisation of the Netherlands, the arrival of asylum seekers and the perceived loss of Dutch identity..." [emphasis added] wrote Dutch authorities in a September threat assessment.
Islamization in the Netherlands, however, is not merely a "perception" of "right-wing extremists" but an increasingly established trend. The threat assessment by the country's National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, for example, shows that Islamic terrorism has been growing for several years. "Despite stagnating growth, the size of the Dutch jihadist movement is cause for concern," it wrote.
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Also Muslim political parties, rape grooming gangs, and violence against Jews. But say anything about it and you’ll be shunned as a radical right wing raaaaaccciiiist, as previously conventional democratic socialist Geert Wilders learnt to his sorrow.
#2
you’ll be shunned as a radical right wing raaaaaccciiiist
Shunned or stabbed or shot. Ask Pim or Theo.
"[Right-wing extremists] continue to focus on protesting against the perceived Islamisation of the Netherlands, the arrival of asylum seekers and the perceived loss of Dutch identity"
A lot of cultures have an expression equivalent to "you can't piss on my back and tell me it's raining". Telling people it's raining works for a while. Then the preference cascade kicks off and your previously docile citizens are in the streets. This is a sign that your "enlightened policies" ain't generally perceived as such.
CAUTION: SATIRE AHEAD [Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.‐ Barack and Michelle Obama have committed to donate all of the money they are slated to receive as part of their recent multimillion-dollar book and Netflix deals to combat wealth inequality in the nation, the celebrity politician couple announced Monday.
Obama told the press he wanted to make sure people didn’t think he was using his experiences in public service for his own personal gain, but rather for the good of all, in order to remain consistent with his party’s platform.
"We talk a big talk when it comes to wealth inequality in our nation, and it’s time for us to start walking the walk," Obama said, speaking to reporters in front of his newly purchased $8.1-million home in an exclusive neighborhood in D.C. "That’s why we’ll be giving every dollar of our ridiculously profitable book and film deals to charities that help the less fortunate."
Obama also confirmed the millions of dollars he makes from speaking engagements with large Wall Street banks and other private sector firms will be donated to help the poorest of the poor in our nation. "It’s time we redistribute the exorbitant fees these Wall Street scumbags gave me to the people they oppress the most."
"It’s only the right, consistent thing to do," he added.
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Wiki: Obama Foundation
The Foundation held its inaugural summit on October 31, 2017, in Chicago. According to Obama, he intends for the foundation to be central to his post-presidential activities, which he sees as having the potential to be more consequential than his time in the White House.[1]
On September 25, 2018, an IRS report revealed that the Foundation no longer identified any possible mega-donors.[2]
#5
Impoverishing the middle classes to barely above the benefit addicts is his idea of "fixing" wealth inequality. Of course that vast wealth goes to a vanishingly small number of people, himself included, but when you "average" it out on a per person basis, everything is grand.
[Ynet] Analysis: Hezbollah assists Houthis in their war with the Saudis and hides Iranian weapons underground in the Bekaa Valley. Now that Assad has regained control of Syria, Nasrallah is back to his usual focus: preparing for war with Israel.
Hezbollah's role in Syria has ended. The organization is now re-engaging in its regular role: preparing for a war against Israel. Hezbollah is preparing for the next battle in the air, on the ground and underground with thousands of recently upgraded missiles, battle-hardened fighters trained in Syria and underground tunnels.
In contrast to the uproar in Israel over the exposure of the Hezbollah tunnels, the terror group's al-Manar channel's news broadcast on Tuesday was quite laconic: "There is quiet on the southern border of Leb except for bulldozers near Kafr Kela and the Fatma Crossing, following statements by the military front man of the Israeli enemy regarding Operation Northern Shield to expose the tunnels Hezbollah had dug." The Lebanese al-Mayadeen channel also reported on the operation to expose the tunnels that "the Zionist enemy claims were dug by Hezbollah."
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