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[AFF] The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is a partner at Perkins Coie, which has represented the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee and which reportedly hired Fusion GPS, the firm responsible for compiling the Steele dossier.
The Washington Examiner’s editorial board provides more context for why this means more than it appears to mean:
Sussmann, who had worked with the FBI during its investigation into the Russian hack of DNC servers, told the FBI he had information showing a link between Trump and a Russian bank. During the meeting, Sussmann insisted to the FBI that he was turning the information over simply as a concerned citizen and that he was not working on behalf of any client. He further claimed that cybersecurity experts had approached him about a possible link between Trump and a Russian bank, but he never mentioned the true source of the data, Tech Executive-1.
This was a monstrous lie, and now, it has been exposed. Sussmann had been billing Hillary Clinton’s campaign for his collusion with Tech Executive-1 the whole time. That is, he was working for her. If the FBI had known that Sussmann approached it on behalf of the Clinton campaign merely so he could dish dirt on her political rival, it might never have opened an investigation. But since Sussmann lied about his motives and an investigation was opened.
[Seth] Rich’s laptop is also mentioned in these new files as having been collected on May 19 by the FBI from law firm Perkins Coie. It is unclear why counsel for Hillary Clinton and the DNC would have had it.
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What a disgusting crew.
This is truly a low point in our history. I can't think of a time--since the 1850s at least-- that we have endured such a string of incompetent, malicious grifters occupying our highest offices.
Looks like America's run of good luck has come to an end. Dark times are here
#8
It does appear like the internal warfare inside the ruling democrat factions is reaching a total war stage, and there is a hint that the Cackle-Jackal is aligned with the Clinton faction against the Obama/ValJar/Rice puppeteers at the White House, with Jill and Klain trying to just keep the ruse going day to day, with grand scheme after grand scheme to soak up all the special interest money they can from every source, foreign and domestic. This ought to give great comfort to the chance for a widespread flushing of the sewers that are the Washington Establishment/Federal government, but the voter fraud expertise on display in California coupled with the MSM and utterly clueless voting block that is fed by the Tech Propaganda system give me great concern.
[AMERICANTHINKER] The Center for Immigration Studies, sent a senior researcher named Todd Bensman ask those questions on the ground, going to the immigrants colonists themselves, and he came up with a doozy of an answer:The surprising answer, which the migrants colonists provided independently in different places and at different times, was universal: on Sunday, September 12, the Mexican government effectively sent a mass of migrants colonists it had bottled up for months in its southern states up to the American border. This move, which appears to have been done under the cover of Mexico's independence week of celebration known as El Grito, essentially foisted a humanitarian problem onto the Americans in a single week.
Mexico was the one who did it. Turns out Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass. Don't say he didn't warn us... promised them some things and based on the available information, apparently never delivered. Mexico's response to that was comparable to that of the underpaid wedding photographer who deleted a camera full of wedding photos after the callous client denied her a bathroom or meal break after a multi-hour shift. They had been penning up thousands of illegal Haitian migrants colonists on their southern border in the town of Tapachula from entering the U.S. and opened the floodgates, all to teach Joe Biden a lesson about messing with them.
So much for Joe Biden vaunted 'diplomacy is back' claim -- he can't even manage the U.S. Diplomacy 101 task of managing relations with our nearest neighbor, Mexico. Biden had been touted in the press for his supposed foreign policy expertise but he's beyond incompetent of this, managing to severely alienate both La Belle France and Mexico, and sure enough, Mexico has already bit back.
As for why they all chose to head for Del Rio, Bensman found the answer to that, too - migrants colonists were told that cartels did not hold sway over that crossing as they did at other illegal crossings, and so, migrants colonists could get across without paying 'fees' to the cartels for the privilege of entering the U.S. illegally. And it certainly helped matters for them that Joe Biden halted the border wall.
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Ummm... They received a letter from a Nigerian Prince and lawyer saying former President Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier had left them $1.74 Million Dollars each, and to claim it, they had to be in his Houston legal office by 12 o'clock on 20 September 2021.
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Michael Yon was reporting months ago that people from all over the world were coming through South America, thru Panama, to our southern border. I don't remember seeing Haitians in his articles.
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But the 'don't mess with Messico' angle might explain why Joe wants them all expelled.
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Bobby, Yon did write about Haitians, one family in much detail.
#6
Hurricane Grace sucked them up and dropped them in Mexico. (Auntie Em, Auntie Em, It's a BIG twister!)
It's as plausible as any answer you'll get from the government.
Snark O'The Day
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Will Smith at the beginning of Men In Black: "It be rainin' black folk!"
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I suspect Biden wants to keep the Haitians out for the same reason the Cubans are. Clinton Foundation royally screwed Haiti and I suspect they are unlikely to vote Democrat. hopefully they're talking to the Spanish speakers at the border about the joys of the Democrat corruption.
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] "For Lightweight General Mark Milley to have called the Chinese to "bring down the temperature" of my negotiations with them, negotiations that were having a major positive impact on large-scale benefits to the United States, is outrageous. We were not going to make any Military moves—never even thought of it, but we were hitting them so hard in all other ways," Trump said.
"’Dumbo’ Milley inserted himself right in the middle of my trade negotiation, and if he did what is reported, he would have had a profound negative effect on those negotiations," Trump said. "Milley is an idiot with no common sense or ability to negotiate—that’s why he left $85 Billion of the World’s best Military equipment in the hands of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... for no reason whatsoever. That’s also why 13 young Warriors are not with their families tonight."
Trump wasn’t finished. He went on to comment about the Russia investigation that lingered on throughout his presidency. It was all a scam.
"Mark Milley hurt our Country very badly, and he should pay a big price, just like the crooked politicians and lawyers on the Crooked Hillary Clinton ...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do... campaign for the years of Fake Russia, Russia, Russia stories that are now being revealed with the arrest yesterday of Attorney Michael Sussmann of the Democrat’s Law Firm Perkins Coie, who was one of the heads of the operation," Trump said.
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[10 News] The Senate's nonpartisan parliamentarian says Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens.
The decision by the parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, deals a blow to what was Democrats' clearest pathway in years to attaining that long-sought goal.
And it's a disheartening setback for President Joe Biden, congressional Democrats and their allies in the pro-immigration and progressive communities.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats are disappointed with the decision but have prepared alternate proposals.
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Chair of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, today released the following statement regarding the Parliamentarian’s ruling on a pathway to legal status via reconciliation:
"We are deeply disappointed in the Parliamentarian’s decision, but the fight for immigration reform will continue. Senate Democrats have prepared alternative proposals for the Parliamentarian’s consideration in the coming days."
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I somehow don't think "against the rulez" will stop them...
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[Axios] Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke is preparing to run for governor of Texas in 2022, with an announcement expected later this year, Texas political operatives tell Axios.
The man is delusional. Still, his candidacy will put billionaire money into the Texas economy, from whence it will trickle in all directions.
O'Rourke's entry would give Democrats a high-profile candidate with a national fundraising network to challenge Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and give O'Rourke, a former three-term congressman from El Paso and 2020 presidential candidate and voting rights activist, a path to a political comeback. Imagine the look he gets from Dems who've funded his past two losing campaigns
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I saw this in another article yesterday and was reminded he promised to confiscate all AR-15s in a state with '700,000 registered gun owners - more than any other state.'
Enjoy the use of "Other People's Money", Robert.
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Bleato is not well thought of by the hispanic community in Texas. Bleato should probably move to another state where he'd have better luck....maybe to Portland or Seattle he'd be able to win a race.
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He came close in his Senatorial bid, and we've added a lot more immigrants from California and Mexico since then, plus a lot more dead voters. He has a real good chance.
Bret Stephens
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A civilization "is born stoic and dies epicurean," wrote historian Will Durant about the Babylonians. Our civilization was born optimistic and enlightened, at least by the standards of the day. Now it feels as if it’s fading into paranoid senility.
Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
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Bret Stephens says he voted for Biden because he would restore decency.
What a doofus.
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It took the entire weight of the deep state and corporate media (yes, I repeat myself) to suppress (but not utterly defeat) Trump's presidency. Joe is making a bollocks of it all on his own.
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At this point, failed is the about the best option we've got. It could get worse, and probably will.
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Trying to take advantage of the opportunity their actions created.
[EpochTimes] The Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation... has issued a warning that the pending federal debt crisis might trigger an economic recession that would affect economic growth and trigger job losses across the United States.
"Hitting the debt ceiling could cause a recession. Economic growth would falter, unemployment would rise, and the labor market could lose millions of jobs," the White House said in a letter (pdf) to state and local governments that was released Sept. 17.
Arguing that Congress needs to raise or suspend the U.S. debt ceiling, the administration said the debt crisis may affect the country’s recovery after the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. In July, Congress missed its deadline to suspend or raise the debt limit, prompting several recent warnings from Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen that her agency will exhaust its cash reserves.
"The U.S. economy has just begun to recover from the pandemic and a manufactured debt ceiling crisis would threaten the gains we’ve made and the future recovery," the White House said.
If the United States defaults for the first time in its history should Congress not act, a number of federally funded programs could be stopped, the White House letter continued to say. That includes Medicaid, infrastructure funding, and disaster relief efforts.
"If the U.S. defaults on its obligations, the ripple effects will hurt cities and states across the country," the letter added, further saying that the S&P 500 could plunge due to a prolonged standoff.
The warning comes after Congress approved trillions of dollars in spending and relief packages in recent months, while Democrats are currently pushing a $3.5 trillion budget reconciliation bill designed to provide funding for a variety of new programs targeting social welfare, the climate, and some infrastructure projects. Because trillions of dollars have been injected into the economy, some have expressed concern that the measures are triggering a rise in inflation, which has rattled markets in recent weeks, although the Federal Reserve has said it believes the inflation spike is transitory.
Yellen recently spoke with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to try to get Republican senators on board with the debt limit increase. The GOP leader told media outlets, however, that he doesn’t believe any Republicans would vote to raise the debt limit.
"I can’t imagine a single Republican in this environment that we’re in now—this free-for-all for taxes and spending—to vote to raise the debt limit," McConnell told Punchbowl News.
Boom! Mic drop.
But some Biden administration officials have said they’re optimistic that Congress will take action in the coming weeks to avoid a crisis.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Curiouser and curiouser:
Perhaps this is why the Deep State is reluctant to declare Harris ready for prime time. 
...46th president of the U.S. 
[TRENDINGPOLITICS] "For Lightweight General Mark Milley to have called the Chinese to "bring down the temperature" of my negotiations with them, negotiations that were having a major positive impact on large-scale benefits to the United States, is outrageous. We were not going to make any Military moves—never even thought of it, but we were hitting them so hard in all other ways," Trump said.
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
[10 News] The Senate's nonpartisan parliamentarian says Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion package bolstering social and climate programs to give millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens.
...the pack of self-imagined masterminds of strategy and intrigue at the service of the Biden Crime Family and a grateful nation...
