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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Former US Attorney Says FBI Did Examine Seth Rich Computer
[TheCount] A former Assistant US Attorney claimed under oath that the FBI examined the computer of late Democratic National Committee staffer, Seth Rich.
...Bernie Bro, possible leaker of Hillary Clinton emails to WikiLeaks, and definitely a suddenly mysteriously dead body...
Deborah Sines, the former Assistant US Attorney related to the case, admitted under oath that Rich’s computer was examined and that she met with an FBI Agent, a prosecutor and the Robert Mueller team.

The discovery indicates that the meeting should have been recorded in a form 302 but the FBI continues to claim no records related to Rich should be available, reports GatewayPundit.

Via GatewayPundit:

Attorney Ty Clevenger uncovered that the former Assistant US Attorney related to the case admitted that Rich’s computer was inspected by the FBI and that there would be records related to this investigation.
Posted by: JohnQC || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spookville.....
Posted by: crazyhorse || 04/04/2020 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Professionally erased it?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 4:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Professionally erased it?

Just like the laptops that belonged to Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#4  So where is the forensic copy of the drive? That’s the first action you take when you “examine” a computer. Unless, of course, you’re incompetent or have an ulterior motive.

Oh, it was recycled as being no longer of interest to the government?
Posted by: KBK || 04/04/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 04/04/2020 16:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
AOC wants coronavirus reparations for minorities: 'Inequality is a comorbidity'
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details...
declared Friday that inequality is a preexisting health condition and that minority and low-income communities should receive coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
relief in the form of reparations.

"COVID deaths are disproportionately spiking in Black + Brown communities," the New York democratic socialist tweeted to her 6.6 million followers. "Why? Because the chronic toll of redlining, environmental racism, wealth gap, etc. ARE underlying health conditions.

"Inequality is a comorbidity," she wrote. "COVID relief should be drafted with a lens of reparations."
Posted by: Fred || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yep she is on the list.
Posted by: Alistaire Tingle9882 || 04/04/2020 1:53 Comments || Top||

#2  AOC Syndrome* is a comorbidity
* terminal stupidity
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  The spike in COVID-19 cases have been in democrat run cities and states; this is the result of what tax dollars have disproportionally paid for already!
Posted by: Airandee || 04/04/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Not Bee.

Damn....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2020 8:34 Comments || Top||

#5  She must be staying at home. How come she is not sick yet?
Posted by: Beau || 04/04/2020 9:12 Comments || Top||

#6  gee, she learned a new big word.

look for that to be in all the leftists' new talking points
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 04/04/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#7  How come she is not sick yet?

Even the coronavirus has standards?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/04/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  At first I thought AOC was a dimwitted idealist. But it turns out she's just Chuckie Schumer with boobs.
Posted by: Matt || 04/04/2020 10:32 Comments || Top||

#9  #7 Professional courtesy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 10:33 Comments || Top||

#10  fvckov now.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2020 11:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Not ... Bee...? Demagogue and a petty, stupid one at that.
Posted by: magpie || 04/04/2020 12:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Who taught her that big word?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 13:02 Comments || Top||

#13  Reparations, eh? Funny how the solution to an unrelated problem just happens to be a favorite Dem platform plank.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#14  How nice! Baby learned a new word.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 04/04/2020 13:54 Comments || Top||

#15  Your preexisting condition is terminal stupidity, so shaddup, @sshole. Then FOAD - soonest.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/04/2020 16:31 Comments || Top||


International-UN-NGOs
UN Wants a 10% Global Tax to Pay for New ‘Shared Responsibility’ Program to Address Coronavirus Pandemic
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[GatewayPundit] The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has announced the creation of a fund for addressing the global coronavirus pandemic ‐ and he is simultaneously asking nations to contribute the equivalent of at least 10 percent of the annual income of the entire planet to a massive "human-centered, innovative and coordinated stimulus package" that would be administered at the international level.



Although Guterres doesn’t state it explicitly, he seems to be connecting the new fund, which he calls a "dedicated COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund," with the massive stimulus package plan, announcing both measures in the same press release.

If countries were to accept the plan, the United Nations or some similar coordinating agency would be given the equivalent of approximately 8.7 trillion USD, an unprecedented amount that would be 2,900 times greater than the UN’s annual budget of 3 billion USD.

The proposed plan would effectively place a global agency, presumably the UN itself, in charge of propping up the economies of the world during the coronavirus crisis, placing it in charge of 10% of global income.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ah..... no.
Posted by: Alistaire Tingle9882 || 04/04/2020 1:50 Comments || Top||

#2  That will buy a lot of Blue Cheese for UN staffers.
Posted by: Beau || 04/04/2020 2:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Can fuck right off...
The uks inter nhs has under performed.
Thia would be pure graft
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/04/2020 4:50 Comments || Top||

#4  A fat socialist wants other people's money? Ha ha ha - good one, buddy!
Posted by: Raj || 04/04/2020 6:12 Comments || Top||

#5  + 10% for his friends
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 6:17 Comments || Top||

#6  What I was thinking, Beau. Their Lunch Buffet stocks must be getting low.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/04/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#7  The fact that they are using the pandemic to push for this should get it an automatic 'Go F Yourself' just as an automatic reaction.
And a complete defunding of the U.N. as a measured response.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/04/2020 10:09 Comments || Top||

#8  FOAD!
Posted by: 3dc || 04/04/2020 10:10 Comments || Top||

#9  I think we need the money that we give to the UN more during this crisis. Might go on a very long time. Defund the UN and keep that money in the US.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2020 10:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Or, litigate damages from China.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2020 11:26 Comments || Top||

#11  How about we first have a full audit of the UN. Anyone found to have been stealing money, handing it to friends etc, you know the usual crap, will be publicly executed. As will whoever they gave the money to. Then if there's any UN people left, we can then tell them, "ESAD"
Posted by: Silentbrick || 04/04/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#12  How many years, no, decades has the UN resisted any attempt to have any public financial audit? FOAD.
Posted by: magpie || 04/04/2020 12:50 Comments || Top||

#13  Sorry, Tony. Try what swksvolFF said.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/04/2020 13:14 Comments || Top||

#14  Ummm, Tony? Which letter of the word NO do you not understand? The "N," or the "O"?

I'll be happy to explain them both.

After I do that, you can FOAD.
Posted by: Barbara || 04/04/2020 16:26 Comments || Top||

#15  Tax China that 10%. It's there turn to pay through the nose for awhile.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/04/2020 17:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Greta Thunberg Slams Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal
pluralist via Istapuntit
Greta Thunberg took a swipe at the pet project of fellow media darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, telling Rolling Stone in a recent interview that the Green New Deal would not do nearly enough to avert an impending "climate crisis."

Thunberg, who graces the cover of the latest issue of Rolling Stone, shared her thoughts on Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal in a wide-ranging feature piece published on Thursday.

According to the Swedish teen, the Green New Deal will fail to achieve climate change activists’ goal of keeping global temperature change below 1.5 C, the stage at which calamitous environmental changes begin.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:30 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Clash of the Titans.
Posted by: Matt || 04/04/2020 16:26 Comments || Top||

#2  There can be only one.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/04/2020 16:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Two hundred quatloos on the stupid one.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2020 16:33 Comments || Top||

#4  ^Perplexed, which one do you mean?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd need odds and IQ tests
Posted by: Frank G || 04/04/2020 17:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Joy Behar can referee.
Posted by: bbrewer126 || 04/04/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

#7  I have to hold my nose and go with the Viking chic on this one. She's got a worldwide support team and will surely be appointed UN Secretary General in a few years.
Posted by: jpal || 04/04/2020 21:43 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump fires Michael Atkinson, fraud intelligence IG who told Congress about Ukraine phone call: report
[FoxNews] President Trump has reportedly fired Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community who alerted Congress to concerns about a Trump phone call with the president of Ukraine – a matter that led to the president’s impeachment last year.

Trump formally notified the intelligence committees of both the Senate and House in a letter dated Friday that was obtained by Politico.

"This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, effective 30 days from today," the president wrote.

In January, Fox News reported that Atkinson was being investigated by Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee for his handling of the Ukraine matter, which began with a complaint filed by an unidentified "whistleblower."

Last August, Atkinson received a complaint from someone who raised concerns about Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Trump sought a Ukraine-led investigation into the past business dealings in the country of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

Democrats argued that the president had tied the investigation request to the withholding of U.S. military aid from Ukraine, in what they described as a "quid pro quo" arrangement. But Trump denied any wrongdoing in connection with Ukraine.

The House ultimately impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress -- but the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in February.

In a statement, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, one of the Democrats' leaders of the impeachment efffort, called the firing of Atkinson an act of "retribution" by President Trump.
The Jerusalem Post adds:
A US official said Thomas Monheim, a career intelligence professional, would serve as acting inspector general for the time being.

Atkinson, a Trump appointee, had determined that a whistleblower's report was credible in alleging Trump abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S. election for his political benefit.
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/04/2020 00:27 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Adam Schiff... called the firing of Atkinson an act of "retribution" by President Trump.

If you come at the King, you best not miss.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/04/2020 1:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Still waiting for the Biden-Ukraine investigation...
RINOs sitting on their hands again?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 04/04/2020 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Since Biden is not going to run...
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 5:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Patience. 4 (more) years is a decent interval in which to take care of unfinished business.
Posted by: Lex || 04/04/2020 6:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Trump formally notified the intelligence committees of both the Senate and House in a letter dated Friday that was obtained by Politico.

Golly gee - I wonder how Politico 'obtained' that letter?

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, one of the Democrats' leaders of the impeachment efffort, called the firing of Atkinson an act of "retribution" by President Trump.

Like I really had to ask.
Posted by: Raj || 04/04/2020 6:15 Comments || Top||

#6  The demoncrats are going to impeach him again anyway. Might as well clean house.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/04/2020 10:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Lesson to the next Republican administration - FIRE EVERYONE. Start with a clean slate made up of your own people.
Posted by: Iblis || 04/04/2020 12:20 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ That lesson should have been learned after the GWB misadministration...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/04/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Never let a crisis go to waste
Posted by: KBK || 04/04/2020 13:56 Comments || Top||

#10  Abolish civil service rules! Bring back the spoils system (we've the same problem in Israel).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/04/2020 15:28 Comments || Top||

#11  Timing here will ensure maximum Democrat craziness which in turn will ensure they lose the House.
Posted by: ruprecht || 04/04/2020 17:33 Comments || Top||



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  China orders 200,000 body bags from Taiwan!
Fri 2020-04-03
  Iran’s Speaker Reportedly Diagnosed with Coronavirus
Thu 2020-04-02
  Pakistan court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl
Wed 2020-04-01
  Trump says Iran planning 'sneak attack' on US troops in Iraq
Tue 2020-03-31
  Iran gas pipeline to Iraq blows up
Mon 2020-03-30
  Turkish military attacks Syrian Army, YPG
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Sun 2020-03-29
  Khamenei family fears he might have Coronavirus
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  LNA scores big advance around Tripoli
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  Riots in China
Thu 2020-03-26
  Mohammed Ali Al-Houthi confirms Saudi coalition ceasefire
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  LNA forces eliminate GNA/al-Qaeda leader Ayoub Bu Ras in Tripoli
Tue 2020-03-24
  Gutierrez calls for an immediate global ceasefire
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  27 Taliban militants killed, 19 others wounded in Kunduz
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  Greeks Find Tunnel Full of Weapons Under Athens,
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