[Breitbart] Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under oath that a text exchange with FBI agent Peter Strzok meant that "it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing" to the Russia collusion story on the eve of Robert Mueller’s appointment to investigate that issue as special counsel, according to a Sunday Fox News report.
In July, Page and Strzok were called to testify before a joint session of the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees about their text exchanges.
According to the report by Justice Department Inspector General (DOJ-IG) Michael Horowitz in May 2017, Strzok texted Page to let her know he was considering joining Mueller’s investigation, which was just beginning. He told her he wanted to join to "fix it" after the Clinton mail investigation and complete "unfinished business," stating he was willing to forgo an assistant directorship to be part of "[a]n investigation leading to impeachment." But Strzok still had reservations about joining Mueller. As the DOJ-IG report puts it:
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It's not going to happen TW. Socialist memes now pervade our society. Things are fine now - enjoy your years.
Due to the pervasive indoctrination of (incoherent) leftism in schools, as well as the gradual die off of all the rational and reasonable folks, it means that the US, and the world, will go full Venezuela in a short period.
[Breitbart] It was mid-May, about six weeks after Trump appointee Mari Stull began her new job as senior adviser at the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs.
As senior adviser at the bureau, Stull was in charge of making sure President Trump’s agenda was represented at the many international organizations the U.S. participates in and mostly funds, such as the United Nations and its various agencies.
Stull and her boss, Amb. Kevin Moley, had just left for a trip to Geneva for the World Health Assembly. Back at the State Department, Erin Barclay, a senior career diplomat at the IO Bureau, invited more than ten civil servants within the bureau to a lunch meeting.
At the meeting, Molly Phee, another senior career diplomat, went around the table and asked each civil servant for complaints about Stull and took notes. Another senior career diplomat in the IO bureau, Nerissa Cook, was also there. One civil servant who participated in the meeting would later say the meeting felt uncomfortable, and that there was pressure to say something.
Several weeks later, the first hit piece against Stull ran in an exclusive Foreign Policy report. The June 13 piece alleged that Stull was "vetting" U.S. employees at the State Department and at the United Nations to determine whether they were "loyal" to President Trump.
The piece also alleged Stull had a "highly secretive management style," had emerged as the most "dominant force" in the bureau, had required that she review new directives from the office before they went out, and that she was stripping references to "international law" and "international order" from action items and memos.
Not one source was named in the piece, which cited the allegations from "nearly a dozen" anonymous "current and former U.S. officials." The piece did, however, mention three deputy assistant secretaries of state in the bureau: Phee, Barclay, and Cook, who were said to be leaving to other positions at State.
After the article published, three top Democrats ‐ Sen. Bob Menendez (NJ), Rep. Eliot Engel (NY), and Elijah Cummings (MD) ‐ then sent a letter dated June 19 to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo citing the article and demanding documents related to Stull and her alleged vetting of employees’ loyalty.
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan then launched an investigation into whether Stull had been vetting employees for loyalty, according to a source.
Some officials now believe the meeting was to collect ammunition to be leaked to Foreign Policy. At least several civil servants who participated in the meeting are now planning to file a complaint against Phee for putting them on the spot and making them gripe about Stull, according to the source.
The episode reveals what some officials and outside observers believe is a concerted leak campaign to force out a Trump appointee at a bureau that has seen results in the implementation of Trump’s policies.
Leaks like these from what has become known as "the Deep State" have plagued the Trump administration since it took office.
Most operators in the Deep State ‐ a loosely connected group of holdovers from the Obama administration, Republican appointees who disagree with Trump’s agenda, as well as several of the 2.8 million career government employees working throughout the federal bureaucracy ‐ have operated with near impunity, facing no consequences for their actions.
They remain anonymous, like the author of a recent op-ed in the New York Times, and have been aggressive ‐ wiping out many of the president’s appointees. Breitbart News, through this exclusive report, is exposing just a sliver of how these leakers maneuver ‐ naming names and detailing the process through which they engage in their anti-Trump attacks.
When queried about the leaks, a State Department spokesperson told Breitbart News "the unauthorized release of information, whether it’s classified or not, is always a concern of the State Department."
"The Bureau of Diplomatic Security takes the lead on investigating potential instances of improper disclosure of classified and sensitive information. We do not comment on ongoing investigations."
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"The Bureau of Diplomatic Security takes the lead on investigating potential instances of improper disclosure of classified and sensitive information. We do not comment on ongoing investigations."
We are limited to making recommendations and guarding the hen house.
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Molly Phee, Erin Barclay, Nerissa Cook: Three witches stirring the cauldron. Their employment should be terminated. However, since it is impossible to fire anyone at State, send them off as admin officers to Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea and Rwanda. That likely will stimulate them to find employment elsewhere.
State Department on Hidden Cam, “Resist Everything,” “I Have Nothing to Lose”
Federal Employee for State Department: “Resist everything… Every level. F**k sh*t up.”
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Embedded in Federal Government Positions, Actively Resisting
Stuart Karaffa Does Work for DSA While on Taxpayer’s Dime: “I’m careful about it. I don’t leave a paper trail.”
“I have nothing to lose. It’s impossible to fire federal employees.”
Ethics Officer Fails to Recognize Breach on Ethics Form: “somebody just rubber stamps it and it goes forward…”
The investigation took more than a year, according to James O’Keefe, which suggests there will be more than a few videos released. Interesting times, indeed.
[WaPo]Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh and the woman who has accused him of sexually assaulting her decades ago will testify publicly before the Senate on Monday, setting up a potentially dramatic and politically perilous hearing that could determine the fate of his nomination. The WaPo article is timestamped 10:53 pm, yet the local Dallas News managed to hold the presses and get this on the front page, delivered at 7 am.
"I have never done anything like what the accuser describes ‐ to her or to anyone," he said in a statement. "Because this never happened, I had no idea who was making this accusation until she identified herself yesterday."
Yet his denials only prompted further questions. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), a member of the Judiciary Committee, said that Kavanaugh had told him that he was not present at the party in question ‐ which prompted some to wonder how Kavanaugh could make such a claim given that Ford had never specified the exact date or location of the gathering. The same way I could testify I was not there, without knowing the date or location. ...30-odd years ago. Unexpectedly Soon after Grassley announced the hearing, Democrats began to protest his decision, insisting instead that the FBI reopen his background check investigation rather than going ahead with a full-fledged public airing of the accusation.
"If there's a hearing before that investigation, the committee is going to be shooting in the dark with questions," said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the committee. "As a former prosecutor and state attorney general, there's no way I would put a crime survivor on the stand in front of a jury, let alone the American people, without a full investigation so that I know what the facts are before I start asking questions." Crime survivor? So the Judge is already guilty?
In a statement Monday, the Justice Department signaled that the FBI doesn't plan on re-opening Kavanaugh's background check for now ‐ noting that it forwarded information about Ford's allegation to the White House, consistent with federal guidelines.
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So the Judge is already guilty?
98% of what you'll hear and see - Yes
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Fine... Now only *womyn* are eligible for judgeships ... I wonders if Kavanaugh discovered his "inner female" would "she" (after the gender change) then get a free pass as well?
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How could the FBI or anyone do an investigation?
Professor Ford can't provide the date of the incident or the location of the incident nor any witnesses nor any people to whom she provided information contemporaneously to the incident.
I guess that's the point. No vote without an investigation and no investigation is possible, thus no vote.
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which prompted some to wonder how Kavanaugh could make such a claim given that Ford had never specified the exact date or location of the gathering.
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She needs to be careful when she gives a date. He just might be able to prove he was not there....
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"I don't remember a date, Senator Feinstein. I only remember that face - that terrible face - looming over me, trying to cut off my very breath. It was 1982. I think."
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Tell DiFi to Foad and get out of the way. Enough alinsky lynching tactics.
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When I lived in the U.S. I was told to never be alone in an elevator with a woman.
Seems that's not good enough anymore.
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When I lived in the U.S. I was told to never be alone in an elevator with a woman.
When was that, European Conservative? I’ve never been given advice like that, though Mr. Wife did joke about avoiding Saudi coffee shops, back when he travelled in that part of the world.
Like Anita Hill the accursor is a lawyer. More likely to anticipate and handle questions without going off script.
They will not give details for the ability to counter by Kavanaugh with investigators or witnesses.
They only want him not confirmed. So they will focus on his behavior but mostly on her emotional impact from the allleged incident. Wait for the ‘if he only apologized’....
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Btw I take accusations like that very seriously. This would have been a felony.
But to come forward and say: He did that to me but I can't tell you when and where, this means the accused person has no means to defend himself.
This is "Someone must have slandered K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.”
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Denied his permission to stay,
But under arrest, declared K.,
"I could sure use a hug...
If I wasn't a bug!"
"Sorry, son, this just isn't your day."
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They want the FBI to investigate the alleged assault. How do you do that? The only "witness" she can name says nothing like this ever happened. Without time and location, what's there to investigate?
This means you could actually slander anyone with impunity, ruin his career, without having to face any consequences. The accused has no means to defend himself, the accuser could never be proven wrong, and as the Romans said: aliquid semper haeret (something always sticks).
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[WhiteHouse.gov] At the request of a number of committees of Congress, and for reasons of transparency, the President has directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to provide for the immediate declassification of the following materials: (1) pages 10-12 and 17-34 of the June 2017 application to the FISA court in the matter of Carter W. Page; (2) all FBI reports of interviews with Bruce G. Ohr prepared in connection with the Russia investigation; and (3) all FBI reports of interviews prepared in connection with all Carter Page FISA applications.
In addition, President Donald J. Trump has directed the Department of Justice (including the FBI) to publicly release all text messages relating to the Russia investigation, without redaction, of James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and Bruce Ohr.
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...And there's already screams from the Usual Suspects(TM) that 1) this is obstruction of justice and therefore an impeachable offense, and 2) lawsuits need to be filed this morning stopping the declas.
And extra butter on mine, please.
Mike
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"Er, sorry but the dog ate them."
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Better send over the U S Marshals or you will never get it.
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[Daily Caller] The Democratic nominee for governor in Florida who ran a primary campaign claiming he was the only "true progressive" in the race is proposing a 40 percent hike in the state's corporate taxes, and is selling the idea in-part by comparing his proposed tax rates to California, one of the highest states for corporate taxation in the nation.
"By adjusting our state corporate tax level to a modest 7.75%, which allows our richest corporations to receive a tax cut and keeps our corporate tax rate more than 1% lower than California, we'll be able to recoup at least $1 billion and put it where we need it most ‐ investing in our future," the Gillum campaign website says.
Florida's current top marginal corporate tax rate is 5.5 percent, half-a-point lower than neighboring Georgia, and a full point lower than Alabama, according to data compiled at the Tax Foundation.
Republicans are already highlighting the proposal as a stark difference between Gillum and the Republican nominee, Rep. Ron DeSantis.
A recent report from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune produced a long list of civic and business entities as well as former politicians saying the issue was certain to create on of the bigger clashes in the remainder of the campaign.
"National headquarters of companies in this state are focused on this like a laser beam," Tom Feeney, a former Republican Florida House speaker and president of Associated Industries of Florida, told the paper. Feeney's industry group represents some of the biggest companies in the state.
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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[Breitbart] Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page admitted under oath that a text exchange with FBI agent Peter Strzok meant that "it still existed in the scope of possibility that there would be literally nothing" to the Russia collusion story on the eve of Robert Mueller’s appointment to investigate that issue as special counsel, according to a Sunday Fox News report.
[Daily Caller] The Democratic nominee for governor in Florida who ran a primary campaign claiming he was the only "true progressive" in the race is proposing a 40 percent hike in the state's corporate taxes, and is selling the idea in-part by comparing his proposed tax rates to California, one of the highest states for corporate taxation in the nation.
