[Daily Caller] Ahead of a highly anticipated Senate hearing later this week, FBI Director James Comey is being accused of making inconsistent statements about the bureau’s relationship with Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy behind the Trump dossier.
Oh dear.
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the allegation in a letter sent to Comey on Friday.
"There appear to be material inconsistencies between the description of the FBI’s relationship with Mr. Steele that you did provide in your briefing and information contained in Justice Department documents made available to the Committee only after the briefing," Grassley wrote to Comey. (RELATED: FBI Director Pressed On Agreement With Trump Dossier Author)
Grassley will have a chance to quiz Comey on the issue on Wednesday, when the FBI chief testifies before the Judiciary Committee in a routine oversight hearing.
[FREEBEACON] The campaign committee of former Rep. Corrine Brown (D., Fla.), who is currently on trial for corruption charges, spent thousands on hotels and small travel expenses after Brown was defeated in the Democratic primary last year.
Brown, who lost to former Florida State Sen. Al Lawson in the August 2016 primary, spent $11,278 on "lodging" at a Marriot Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland in late September 2016, nearly one month after the election.
In addition to the hotel expenditures, the campaign disclosed three "petty cash" transactions totaling more than $2,000 during the two-week span between October 16 and November 4.
A small amount ($185) also was spent on travel expenses in Houston, Texas and Jacksonville, Florida.
Thousands more were spent on more typical transactions following an election loss, such as payments to campaign vendors.
Brown and her chief of staff, Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, were indicted in July 2016 on 24 counts of fraud stemming from a sham foundation created by the former congresswoman.
More than $800,000 was deposited into Brown's Virginia-based foundation, One Door for Education, which spent only $1,200 on charity.
Federal authorities found that Brown, Elias, and Carla Wiley, the foundation's president, spent $200,000 of the group's funds on luxury vacations, NFL tickets, plane tickets, car repairs, and lavish events.
Wiley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud in March 2016. Simmons pleaded guilty to fraud in February.
An FBI agent testified Wednesday against Brown, saying the money was taken from her foundation and put into a bank account shared by Brown and her daughter.
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I guess she didn't get the memo that only the Clintons are allowed to run phony foundations.
[TheFinancialExpress] A group of top Democratic Party strategists have used new data about last year's presidential election to reach a startling conclusion about why Hillary Clinton lost. Now they just need to persuade the rest of the party they're right, according to the Tribune Washington Bureau.
Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clinton's defeat: Her base didn't turn out, Donald Trump's did and the difference was too much to overcome. But it was all due to Putin's meddling, right?
But new information shows that Clinton had a much bigger problem with voters who had supported President Barack Obama in 2012 but backed Trump four years later. Didn't Obama say the election was a referendum on his term? Apparently, the Dems didn't believe him.
Those Obama-Trump voters effectively accounted for more than two-thirds of the reason Clinton lost, according to Matt Canter, a senior vice president of the Democratic political firm Global Strategy Group. In his group's analysis, about 70 percent of Clinton's failure to reach Obama's vote total in 2012 was because she lost these voters. Who thought O was going to give them what they wanted, but couldn't stand Shrillary.
"We have to make sure we learn the right lesson from 2016, that we don't just draw the lesson that makes us feel good at night, make us sleep well at night," Canter said. The 'Putin Connection' didn't keep you awake at night?
His firm's conclusion is shared broadly by other Democrats who have examined the data, including senior members of Clinton's campaign and officials at the Democratic data and analytics firm Catalist. (The New York Times, in its own analysis, reached a similar conclusion.) Well, there you have it! The details of the super-sophisticated analysis they used to arrive at this shocking conclusion, after six months of sleeping well at night with Putin pulling the strings, is revealed in the remainder of the article.
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Well that must have been an expensive study.
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Maybe not so expensive. I bet the guy who wrote the Trump Russian pee dossier threw it in as freebie.
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Biggest reason Hillary(!) lost?
Because - Hillary Clinton
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Sorry. Should have used the /sarc tag, MM.
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The Dems lost me when they started trying to criminalize man spread in public!
Ay-Pee. Trying to bribe and buy loyalty so he doesn't get Musollini'd
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro hiked wages and handed out hundreds of free homes Sunday amid his efforts to counter a strengthening protest movement seeking his removal.
On his regular television show, "Sundays with Maduro," the president ordered a 60 percent increase in the country's minimum wage starting Monday. It was the third pay increase the socialist leader has ordered this year and the 15th since he became president in 2013. When the businesses don't have any money, or goods for sale, it doesn't matter what the "minimum wage" is, it's ZERO. Idiot
It is small solace to workers who seen the buying power of their earnings eroded by a sinking currency and the world's highest inflation - forecast to accelerate to 2,000 percent next year, according to the International Monetary Fund. So, you only lost 1940% next year
With the latest wage increase and mandatory food subsidies, the minimum take home pay for millions of Venezuelans now stands at 200,000 bolivars a month - or less than $50 at the widely used black market rate.
"We're here to take care of the workers, those who are most humble, and not the privileges of the oligarchs," Maduro said.
In addition to the pay hike, he announced a special "economic war" bonus to retirees to make up for what he says are attempts by the opposition to sabotage the economy.
The president also watched as officials in several states handed over the keys to hundreds of new apartments, some built with Chinese funding, bringing to 1.6 million the number of public housing units built by a program started by the late President Hugo Chavez. China's gonna get a zero return on their yuan dinero
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Well.
That's that, then. All fixed.
Mike
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[HotAir] Anyone noticing anything different in this version of the tale?
You may recall that when the story first broke Rice spoke to Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC and at least heavily implied that Trump’s initial accusations were all some sort of fever swamp fantasies. (What she actually said was that she never leaked anything.) But before very long the details which emerged told a very different story. Within days it was revealed that she had, in fact, actively sought to have names revealed to her even if they had originally been picked up "incidentally."
Eventually we reached the point where the best they could say was that it appeared that she hadn’t done anything that was technically illegal."
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In my list of lyingest MF'ers in the Obama admin, she is in the top five, and the top five is CROWDED with only a point or two of full spread as separation between worst and damned close to worst.
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It all redounds to scumbag Obama.
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Maybe not, but you certainly "USED" it on American "People"
Is discovery over yet, or is this still in the old coffee maker for later? Reused coffee for a slam dunk case.
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hadn’t done anything that was technically illegal
Of course. Hitmen only kill people who were already dead when the contract was let, and, in reality, the bullet did the killing.
Likewise, that guy at the state pen only throws the switch. As one of the witnesses at the hangings of the In Cold Blood killers said when a reporter asked "Does the executioner have a name?"
"Yeah. 'We the People...'"
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I did a bit of research on her and before she joined the Obamas and Clintons she was a very ethical and straight-forward person. Corrupt people will corrupt others.
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Perhaps her thinking is that technically, legally, there is a difference between leaking the intel herself and causing it to be leaked by one or more of her underlings. That little bit of hair splitting just might be enough to keep her out of jail.
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I always got the impression she was hired to lie to the public. Being a black woman she can always pull the racist/sexist card if things ever got too hot.
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I always got the impression she was hired to lie to the public. Being a black woman she can always pull the racist/sexist card if things ever got too hot.
No need to "pull the racist/sexist card." It is now simply assumed.
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Ryno's widows peak, schlitterbahn nose and watery blue eyes really bug me. What the F is wrong with those asshats in Congress. Alright, stupid question...
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He was so overconfident that he assured Trump he had the votes.
Really!?! So exactly how does the author know about this dynamic? Answer; More than likely he has no clue as to any personal assurances of the sort. It was generally accepted passing legislation was a crap-shoot from the get. In agenda journalism that's what's called the setup line.
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M'Lady and I were watching the interview a few months ago where Hannity was interviewing SoH Ryan. He had this nice little wrapped up package about his schedule and what he was going to do.
I turned to M'Lady and said to her, "Look at his body language, especially his facial expressions. He is just a lying POS."
As they say on Western Rifle Shooters: "Republicans, they thirst for death."
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A Master Political leader who has achieved petty tyrant status and will occupy a corner office for decades and do nothing wow!
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Daily Caller] Ahead of a highly anticipated Senate hearing later this week, FBI Director James Comey is being accused of making inconsistent statements about the bureau’s relationship with Christopher Steele, the ex-British spy behind the Trump dossier.
Many Democrats have a shorthand explanation for Clinton's defeat: Her base didn't turn out, Donald Trump's did and the difference was too much to overcome.
