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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Deputy AG Won't Say Whether The FBI Paid For Dossier
2017-12-14
[Daily Caller] Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein refused to say on Wednesday whether the FBI paid for the infamous Trump dossier.

Rosenstein, who was grilled by the House Judiciary Committee, suggested that he knew the answer to the question, which was posed by Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis.

"Did the FBI pay for the dossier?" DeSantis asked.

"I’m not in a position to answer that question," Rosenstein responded.

"Do you know the answer to the question?" the Republican DeSantis followed up.

"I believe I know the answer, but the Intelligence Committee is the appropriate committee..." Rosenstein began.

DeSantis interjected to assert that the Judiciary panel has "every right to the information" about payments for the dossier.

Congressional Republicans have long questioned the Justice Department and FBI over whether payments were made for the Trump dossier, which was written by former British spy Christopher Steele and funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC.
Posted by:Besoeker

#25  Remember this?:



Yeah, me neither.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2017-12-14 22:38  

#24  I’m with SPOD on method. Let the crows feast.
Posted by: Blackbeard Bumble5724   2017-12-14 20:17  

#23  Wonder where the deputy AG is?
Oh yeah, he pulled out early.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-12-14 20:00  

#22  #12 Well, my preferred method would really be a modern take on the "Boats" form of execution, only with glass boats and shown on CNN from 8-9pm daily. With IV's and modern medicine used, I'll wager they might live more than a month before their bodies fail.

Ah yes, scaphism.:)

Make sure their families and close associates have to watch; and then send them the bill, like the Chinese do.
Posted by: charger   2017-12-14 18:13  

#21  "Burn DC to the ground and start over"

FTFY, #9 Darth.
Posted by: Barbara   2017-12-14 15:48  

#20  The system of checks and balances has broken down; they is no transparency and no accountability. The MSM has abdicated its role which is necessary for a free society. Justice has been made a farce. I don't think these apparatchiks appreciate the dangers they have created for themselves. They have not yet experienced the wrath of a really ticked-off populace who look around and see nothing but corruption and lies. They feel they are not respected and have lost their voice and representation.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-12-14 15:15  

#19  Boats?

Oh you mean SCARPING, where the criminal is force fed honey and milk and then smeared with honey and tied spread eagle in a boat. The combination of diarrhea and insects attracted to the honey lead to a very gruesome death...slow and very very painful.

I like it but I still think impaling in a public square leaves a more profound impression.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-12-14 14:27  

#18  How is it gonna hurt national security if he answers the question? Oh, right. The whole wide world will find out how corrupt the FBI is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-12-14 14:24  

#17  Nother nail in Mule'rs coffin. Russian Pres Puton tells ABC interviewer the Russian meddling tail is cooked up by the Trump oppositiom to undermine Trump and America. Praises 1st year in office and refers to American stock market performance as proof.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218   2017-12-14 14:19  

#16  Speaker Paul Ryan is leaving Congress in 2018 - hattip Politico and Drudge Report.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218   2017-12-14 13:44  

#15  I've been saying we might follow how the French dealt with their nobility problem. Which is what we seem to have here.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-12-14 13:38  

#14  #12 How very Persian of you, and obscure. I like it! The glass and televised idea will let people literally see how full of it these people are.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-12-14 12:49  

#13  You people are either too nice, or unimaginative - I say, make them work for a living!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-14 12:14  

#12  Well, my preferred method would really be a modern take on the "Boats" form of execution, only with glass boats and shown on CNN from 8-9pm daily. With IV's and modern medicine used, I'll wager they might live more than a month before their bodies fail.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2017-12-14 11:12  

#11  I think the Assyrian way of impaling them on the White House fence would send a better message
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-12-14 10:15  

#10  There should be a law that any government official refusing to answer questions about their job be tried for it and upon conviction, forever barred from government employment, loss of all retirement pensions, priviledges, and spend no less than 10 years in prison, with voting and gun rights forever removed. I'd prefer they hang on the white house lawn like the traitors they are but I'd settle for 10 years in general population of prison.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2017-12-14 10:01  

#9  Burn DC to the ground and start over.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-12-14 09:50  

#8  They dare to make themselves a Praetorian Guard, playing politics with the politicians.

Call a joint meeting with the Intelligence committee post haste, and ask the question again.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-12-14 09:39  

#7  And yet the GOP pussies refuse to demand firings and or imprisonments. An honest man would start with Comey.

Because the GOP pussies are complicit up to their eyebrows, not to mention compromised six ways to Sunday. Everyone of them has to go, burn D.C. to the ground, fire every Federal employee and start over.
Posted by: Zebulon Spogum6667   2017-12-14 09:20  

#6  They paid for the dossier, he might as well have shouted it from the rooftop.
Posted by: Zebulon Spogum6667   2017-12-14 09:11  

#5  And yet the GOP pussies refuse to demand firings and or imprisonments. An honest man would start with Comey.

Republicans are morally down to the core. Apparently obvious treason isn't a gander raising item. Calling them cowards is to kind. In my opinion the White Star Line J. Bruce Ismay might be a better comparison to these Nellies.

Much in the fashion of bending over for an up the arse celebration over Obama funding Iran. Yup funding a Nuclear jihad.

So when the deep state attacks our anti corruption President, the Repunks pretend outrage. A choice of cowardice fitting for their spineless path to hell.

Burgers will remember when Steele went into hiding.
Posted by: Woodrow   2017-12-14 08:37  

#4  But with Nellie's HAM set, we can now reach Christopher Steele on the Isle of Mull.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-12-14 06:11  

#3  So....

Not only were they corrupt as F

But they got the taxpayers who'd voted one way to fund something to over throw democracy

While paying an agency they accused the opposition of colluding with to overthrow democracy!

YJCMTSU
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-12-14 06:06  

#2  I think these people (term used solely for purposes of reference) been getting away with things too long.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-12-14 03:46  

#1  An admission that US taxpayer dollars may have made their way into the hands of the Russian GRU is a very difficult thing to undertake.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-12-14 03:17  

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