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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Sessions confirms DOJ investigating Bruce Ohr for his ties to Steele Dossier, more actions coming
[Big League Politics] The attorney general told Boston talk show host Howie Carr that the Justice Department is investigating career government attorney Bruce G. Ohr regarding his professional conduct, which already cost him his position as associate deputy attorney general with an office at "Main Justice" and could lead to his termination.

"I hate to second guess you, Mr. Attorney General, but why isn’t he just fired," asked Howie Carr, who hosts the syndicated program, which is the top-rated talk show in Boston and New England.

"It now turns out that he was meeting with the people who did this dirty dossier‐I mean these people, who were paid and during the campaign last year, he was meeting with people, who were basically taking money from Hillary Clinton to produce this fake dossier‐shouldn’t that be a firing offense?" he asked.

The "dossier" is the collection of negative stories about Donald J. Trump that purport to document his personal and business dealings with Russians. The dossier was produced by GPS Fusion, a Washington-based opposition research firm, and supplemented by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.

Attorney General Jefferson B. "Jeff" Sessions, the country’s top law enforcement officer, told Carr he knows Ohr and has worked with him in his capacity leading the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, a position he continues to hold.

The former Alabama senator said he did not know for certain if Ohr’s interactions with political opponents of the president were a firing office.

"We’re going to look at that," he said. "It is being looked at and if it requires discipline it will be carried out."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 01:36 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From listening to FBI Director Wray's recent testimony to congress, one might assume that Goudy and Jordan have a source within the FBI.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 1:55 Comments || Top||

#2  One would hope most at the FBI are disgusted by the partisanship of a few.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2017 10:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Fusion GPS tried to tie Trump to Clinton's pedophile pal Epstein as part of smear campaign
[Wash Times] Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm whose Democrat-financed Russia dossier fueled an FBI investigation into Donald Trump, pitched other stories about the Republican presidential candidate to Washington reporters, including an attempt to tie him to a convicted pedophile who was once buddies with former President Bill Clinton.

Journalist sources told The Washington Times that Fusion founder Glenn Simpson pushed the idea of a close relationship between Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from an underage girl.

The Trump-Epstein link appears purely social, far short of Mr. Clinton’s 20-plus plane rides on Epstein’s "Lolita Express" private jet around the globe in the early 2000s.

Ken Silverstein, the reporter who ultimately wrote an Epstein-Trump report, confirmed to The Times that Fusion had sourced the story. Mr. Silverstein, founder and editor of WashingtonBabylon.com who wrote the story for Vice.com, defended Mr. Simpson as a solid source of information that must first be confirmed.

For years, Fusion GPS has been an influential hidden hand in Washington, with entree into the city’s most powerful news bureaus.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 02:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That would backfire, especially now with the sex allegations.

I say we bring this out and see how many of the powerful fall
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/11/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Look at Giuchi links next
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/11/2017 14:22 Comments || Top||

#3  I say we bring this out and see how many of the powerful fall

I'd say quite a few.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/11/2017 15:36 Comments || Top||


Frank Luntz shocked at Bamian focus group support for Roy Moore
[Breitbart] MONTGOMERY, Alabama ‐ Frank Luntz, a GOP establishment messaging consultant, was visibly flabbergasted as every single one of his focus group participants in a Birmingham area Vice News-produced panel backed Judge Roy Moore for U.S. Senate.

Titled "Why These Alabama Voters Are Sticking By Roy Moore," Luntz’s Vice News focus group aired on Vice News Tonight on Dec. 8 on HBO.

"Are you all Christians here?" Luntz opens the seven-and-a-half-minute long segment. "Yes," all of the focus group participants, who joined Luntz in a Birmingham area restaurant, replied.

"Is Roy Moore a good Christian?" he followed up.

"Yes," one woman replied. "Absolutely," another said.

"Absolutely?" Luntz followed up in disbelief. "Yes," the woman shot back. "Without any doubt whatsoever?" Luntz asked again.

After some more back and forth, a man in the focus group spoke up. Scottie Porter, a real estate developer, said:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They definitely haven't heard about the boy who cried wolf on the coasts.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 1:11 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/11/2017 2:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Always found Frank Luntz's complete lack of out of touch surprises disgusting. Right up there with limo liquor Mike Wallace, They are both clearly much better then all of use.

Legends in their own minds.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/11/2017 8:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Flipped that orange toupee, did it?
Posted by: Frank G || 12/11/2017 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  We've seen this B.S. too many times. An election seems close, Gloria Allred is parachuted in to save the day for the leftards, she recruits some women who need money 40 years after the supposed deed, they go to the fake news with the bogus story, they take out the candidate, the women dissapear and are not heard from again. On to the next political character assassination. Only one thing, it"s not 2008 or 2012.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/11/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#6  I like the idea of Luntz's toupee on fire.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/11/2017 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm glad I'm not on one of these panels - I'd probably pull a Jim Everett on the guy.
Posted by: Raj || 12/11/2017 12:31 Comments || Top||


Schiff (D,CA): Evidence of coordination between Trump campaign and Russia ‘pretty damning'
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nonsense or the intelligence community would have laid out actual evidence by now.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/11/2017 0:17 Comments || Top||

#2  It took a year to get... nothing.

Democrats live in some other reality that never was, never is, and never will be.
Posted by: newc || 12/11/2017 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Democrats live in some other reality that never was, never is, and never will be

Tell it to the Cambodians, or North Koreans.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 1:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Now Senator Ted Kennedy and the Russians around the second Reagan campaign, there's the documentation.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/11/2017 7:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Must be doing some powerful drugs
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/11/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Schifflessness in motion. He is like the Bammer in tell the biggest lie you can.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/11/2017 8:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Schiff = lying pencil-necked bobblehead
Posted by: Frank G || 12/11/2017 8:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Marxism is eventually a shortage of everything important, but it starts with a shortage of truth.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/11/2017 9:06 Comments || Top||

#9  Russians kept trying and trying to contact the Trump team but never got a real nibble. The thing that is damning is the Partisan hacks trying to make something of that while ignoring those pesky Uranium sales.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/11/2017 10:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Schifferbrains.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/11/2017 10:44 Comments || Top||

#11  If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State...Herr Doktor Goebbels
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/11/2017 11:07 Comments || Top||

#12 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/11/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#13  I h-8 Mondays...


Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/11/2017 12:53 Comments || Top||

#14  Schifferbrains

Good one. :-)
Posted by: gorb || 12/11/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#15  "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

That is the Democrat marketing strategy, and it works on the young, the ignorant, and corrupt.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/11/2017 15:02 Comments || Top||

#16  Yes it is damning, but damning to the sources of that evidence, not to the alleged coordinators.
The evidence, remember, was paid for by Trump haters, and supplied by the Russians, and used to seek means of attacking Trump, by crazed Trump enemies in the FBI, the Department of Justice and by high level people in the Obama administration, after the election.

Was looking for such evidence from NSA sources after the election a normal part of transition activities by an outgoing administration?

What was the purpose of such abusive behavior?

It could only be fear; fear that the Trump administration would discover dreadful behavior that took place during the previous administration if it were allowed to take over normally.

We shall see.
Posted by: Daniel || 12/11/2017 16:43 Comments || Top||

#17  These people are going to go to hell.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/11/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||


Trump forces public apology from Washington Post writer for fake news
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Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Weigel is a Journolister
Posted by: Frank G || 12/11/2017 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Good! Make’em crawl!
Posted by: Clyde Elmusoling7114 || 12/11/2017 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  "Keep up the skeer"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  CNN Walks Back Jeff Sessions-Russia Bombshell
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/11/2017 14:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Opening Volley: Trump Sexual Harassment Accusers Unite for Press Conference, Interview with Megyn
[Breitbart] Women who have accused President Trump of sexual harassment will hold a press conference to demand a Congressional investigation, according to CBS news.

The press conference will be held by Brave New Films, a documentary company. Beforehand, three of the women will also appear on Megyn Kelly Today.

The president denied all of the women’s accusations during the 2016 presidential campaign and the White House has stood by those denials.

Megyn Kelly plans to interview three women accusers; Jessica Leeds, Samantha Holvey and Rachel Cooks.

Holvey, who competed in the Trump led beauty pageant said that Trump "personally inspected each woman" prior to the pageant.

Leeds accused Trump of groping her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt over 30 years ago.

Crooks accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside of an elevator.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/11/2017 10:34 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Holvey, who competed in the Trump led beauty pageant said that Trump "personally inspected each woman" prior to the pageant.

Leeds accused Trump of groping her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt over 30 years ago.

Crooks accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside of an elevator.


So, he didn't consider a single one of them worth going all the way?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 11:34 Comments || Top||

#2  "Crooks accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside an elevator." I see what you did there.

A little late there with the accusations. No credibility. No proof. They are following the plan to throw some $hit out there and hope it sticks. Is this another Allred smear job?

Posted by: JohnQC || 12/11/2017 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Too bad, Megyn, nobody watches your show.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/11/2017 12:05 Comments || Top||

#4  You Won’t Be Surprised To Hear Who’s Behind Today’s Press Conference By Trump’s Accusers
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/11/2017 13:29 Comments || Top||


#6  The witness, Gilberthorpe, doesn't have a very good reputation when it comes to sticking with the truth. Either way, because of his reputation, the left will take this as confirmation of their accusations.
Posted by: gorb || 12/11/2017 14:46 Comments || Top||

#7  "Crooks accused Trump of forcibly kissing her outside an elevator." I see what you did there.

I heard it was from before Trump married the 1st lady. They (Crooks and Trump) were on a date and he tried to kiss her on the CHEEK.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/11/2017 14:50 Comments || Top||

#8  Billionaire harasses you and there is no payout for silence? Color me skeptical.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/11/2017 15:04 Comments || Top||

#9  New ploy by MSM. Sue them and all the liars they are parading around for every penny they have and ever will have.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218 || 12/11/2017 17:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Now Leeds has invoked the "C" word. That would have been a very memorable event in front of a crowd of people. Let's see what happens.
Posted by: gorb || 12/11/2017 17:05 Comments || Top||

#11  the next time she [Leeds] saw Trump was at a corporate event when he insulted her in front of a room full of people

So she has plenty of witnesses.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/11/2017 17:45 Comments || Top||

#12  ...and give his TV exposure, lots of company in being insulted. Just be happy it wasn't Chef Ramsay (cause he's within arms reach of sharp objects).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/11/2017 18:35 Comments || Top||

#13  Dear Congress,

Go ahead and investigate DJT for sexual harassment.

Just want to suggest though that you take a look at the Book of John, Chapter 8, Verse 7.

And think long and hard about the fact that you don't know what he knows.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/11/2017 20:01 Comments || Top||

#14  So solid in their accusations, they had to read from a script.
Posted by: newc || 12/11/2017 22:07 Comments || Top||



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