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-Lurid Crime Tales-
An FBI Analyst Is Going to Prison (7 days + $500. fine) for Illegal Email Hacking of a Political Enemy...to Protect Mueller
[Townhall] While U.S. Attorney John Durham continues his criminal investigation into FISA abuse and other misconduct at the FBI, CIA, DIA and other federal government intelligence agencies, one of Special Counsel Robert Mueller allies was just sentenced to prison.

Mark Tolson, a former FBI analyst, illegally accessed the emails of right wing activist Jack Burkman in order to protect Mueller. He admitted to doing so in federal court last week. He will serve seven days behind bars and has been ordered to pay a $500 fine.

"I did what I did to try to protect Director Mueller, who can protect himself," Tolson told U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema.

After illegally sifting through emails, Tolson attempted to leak them to the press.

"After snooping through Burkman’s account, Tolson sent screenshots of the messages and offered the password to an unspecified journalist, court filings say," POLITICO reports.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 03:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We don't need no stinking warrants. If we do, we can just lie to the judge. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2019 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Just 7 days?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/28/2019 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  ...professional courtesy. Now if he was Wikileaks, something short of death.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2019 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Hopefully Tolson and the Durham team will be able to establish a very close working relationship. I recommend 7 days at the Jekyll Island Club Resort.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 7:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Hard to imagine the guy isn't a descendant of JE Hoover squeeze Clyde Tolson.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  That was worth it.
Posted by: gorb || 12/28/2019 9:34 Comments || Top||

#7  Is this LE criminal still pension eligible?
Posted by: Regular joe || 12/28/2019 11:17 Comments || Top||


Well Well, Look Who Doesn't Want to Testify at a Senate Impeachment Trial
[Townhall] It turns out that 2020 Democrat presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has no intention of testifying during a Senate impeachment trial against Donald Trump.

During a discussion with the Des Moines Register editorial board Friday, Biden said that even if he were subpoenaed for testimony, he wouldn't attend.

"The reason I wouldn't is because it's all designed to deal with Trump doing what he's done his whole life, trying to take the focus off him. The issue is not what I did, not a single person, not one, not a single person, even that thug Guiliani and his (inaudible) compatriots, have said I did anything other than my job," Biden said. "This is all about a diversion."

Biden also tried to explain why he advocated for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating gas company Burisma. At the time Burisma paid Hunter Biden $83,000 per month to sit on the board, despite having no experience in the industry.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 03:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I see Pelosi got the Biden memo and his planning to wait until after the election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  This bragging clown is so dirty
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2019 5:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Come on Joe, you can always take the 5th. Congress is famous as a location for people taking the 5th.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#4  Simply say "you can't recall" or give an answer about a totally unrelated question. No one will question you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 7:44 Comments || Top||

#5  … or, during testimony, just blurt out 'thank you, Iowa / New Hampshire' and wave your hands around like you're at a rally - 100% airtight 'senility defense'.
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2019 10:06 Comments || Top||

#6  What if Bernie gets the nomination? Expect a "September Surprise" Impeachment?
Posted by: magpie || 12/28/2019 10:32 Comments || Top||

#7  That’s ok. We can just play that video of you bragging about it as your testimony. Over and over again.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/28/2019 10:51 Comments || Top||

#8  ...no,no, that's not me. That's my...er...cousin.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2019 11:30 Comments || Top||

#9  The reason I wouldn't is because it's all designed to deal with Trump doing what he's done his whole life, trying to take the focus off him.

...is this a Donald Trump from another nearby dimension we're talking about?
Posted by: Secret Master || 12/28/2019 20:04 Comments || Top||


Durham Investigation Focusing Attention On John Brennan And Some CIA Veterans Aren't Pleased
[Hot Air] A week ago the NY Times reported that the ongoing Durham investigation was looking at former CIA Director John Brennan’s possible role in pushing the Steele dossier. Today Politico published a piece which reads like push back against the Durham investigation from the CIA:

So who are these folks expressing concern about the Durham investigation? John McLaughlin is a former CIA Deputy Director who said last month "Thank God for the deep state" when talking about the push to impeach President Trump [Notice that John Brennan is sitting next to him]:
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 03:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shhh!
It's a secret!
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/28/2019 5:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Afraid the details of the opium trade will be revealed?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 12/28/2019 6:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Durham Investigation Focusing Attention On John Brennan And Some CIA Veterans Aren't Pleased

Dear CIA Veterans,

Life is full of little disappointments. This is one of them.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/28/2019 7:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Take heart Brennan colleagues. Prisons everywhere are full of people disappointed about one legal outcome or another. You're in good company.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  How can just another failed engineered coup attempt among many upset the 'veterans'? After a handful or so, its all sort of SOP isn't it?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2019 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Dear CIA veterans,

You don't run the country.

You don't set foreign policy.

You aren't kingmakers.

If you don't agree with the above, resign. Otherwise worse things will come to you.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/28/2019 10:19 Comments || Top||

#7  The deport or execute plan for retired bureaucrats looks better and better.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 10:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Afraid the details of the opium trade will be revealed?

Isn't that really what it's all about? I mean, gimme just one other reason why we're still in Afghanistan after all these years.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/28/2019 12:41 Comments || Top||

#9  #8 That would explain "Russian Collision" - making Russian evidence of CIA's involvement inadmissible.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2019 13:03 Comments || Top||

#10  Shoot a few. Pour encourages les autres.
Posted by: SR-71 || 12/28/2019 16:59 Comments || Top||

#11  John McLaughlin is a former CIA Deputy Director who said last month “Thank God for the deep state”

Thank God for Durham probe--may he use a Roto Rooter in the probe?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/28/2019 18:59 Comments || Top||

#12  The only way to solve "The Beltway first, the Beltway last, the Beltway always" problem is to nuke it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 21:10 Comments || Top||

#13  #12 Hear! Hear!
Posted by: SR-71 || 12/28/2019 22:04 Comments || Top||


Exposing the 'Whistleblower': Judicial Watch Sues CIA, DOJ for Eric Ciaramella Docs
[PJ] Judicial Watch has filed two lawsuits after the CIA and the Department of Justice (DOJ) did not respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for the communications of Eric Ciaramella, a CIA employee who reportedly worked on Ukraine issues with both the Obama and Trump White Houses. Many outlets have named him as the "whistleblower" who coordinated with staffers for Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) before filing a report on Trump's Ukraine call, sparking the investigation that led to the president's impeachment.

On Thursday, President Donald Trump tweeted an article claiming ‐ once again ‐ that Ciaramella was the impeachment "whistleblower."

Previous reports have shown Ciaramella worked with former Vice President Joe Biden (and attended a State Department banquet at his invitation), the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate whose son is mentioned in the Ukraine call. Ciaramella was also cited in the Mueller report. When DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz revealed horrific FBI abuses in the FISA warrants obtained to spy on members of the Trump campaign in 2016, his report drew attention to the Obama administration's targeting of political opponents in that election ‐ potentially involving Ciaramella.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 03:09 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Britain
MI6 Floor Plans LOST!
[Twitter-BBC]

Call that Christopher Steele fellow — he’ll get them from the Russians.
Posted by: 3dc || 12/28/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Following the Lockheed method: "Oh dear, now we'll have to start all over with a different set of plans. Of course you'll have to pay for it!..."
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/28/2019 3:57 Comments || Top||

#2  After the Durham investigation is released, the Orange Man may end up owning it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 4:04 Comments || Top||

#3  It's not so much the exits, as the escape pods and the "cone of silence".
That and the executive roman baths...
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/28/2019 5:22 Comments || Top||

#4  ^^ Heh
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2019 5:24 Comments || Top||

#5  Barfatorium!
Posted by: Shereth Cromoling4950 || 12/28/2019 7:55 Comments || Top||

#6  Cant have that recent slab pour that ol chap Steele is in coming to light now, can we?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 8:52 Comments || Top||

#7  Christopher Steele's old office to MI6 HQ, less than 10 minutes via cab.

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 9:06 Comments || Top||

#8  and a 5 minute walk
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/28/2019 10:54 Comments || Top||

#9  Not, but, but, he was a 'former' employee.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 11:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Trump Trolls Pelosi Over Her Son's Business Dealings in Ukraine
[RedState] After One America News reported on an old promotional video which had surfaced on Thursday, featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her son Paul, President Trump took the opportunity to draw attention to her son’s ties to “an energy company which does business in Ukraine.” He tweeted the OAN report with the caption, “Wow Crazy Nancy, what’s going on? This is big stuff!”

According to OAN, at the time of the video, Paul Pelosi was a board member at Viscoil and an executive at a related company, NRGLab.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2019 10:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Surprise meter.... ZERO.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/28/2019 14:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Pauli-poo and Queen Nancy would both look good in orange.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Snack5985 || 12/28/2019 15:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Criminals in plain sight with no shame.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/28/2019 15:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Mother's love explains the impeachment shitshow?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 12/28/2019 16:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I couldn't walk into a boardroom as a propped up loser kid like these kids do.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 12/28/2019 17:13 Comments || Top||

#6  "business"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/28/2019 18:40 Comments || Top||

#7  This explains why Crazy Nancy was so desperate to impeach Trump. What's next, a horse's head in Trump's bed?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/28/2019 18:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Wow. Didn't think it was possible to get even worse. Clintons, Biden, Kerry, Pelosi: Grifters all. Brazen. Shameless.
Posted by: Lex || 12/28/2019 19:10 Comments || Top||

#9  I've stopped numbering the episodes to The Shitshow: obviously, there is no point in counting anymore - it's infinite.

Corruption + clownery + virtue-signaling redirects, without end.
Posted by: Lex || 12/28/2019 19:13 Comments || Top||


Federal judge to block latest North Carolina voter ID mandate
[NBC] RALEIGH, N.C. ‐ Republican attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents.

A federal court announced that next week U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs will formally block a photo ID requirement scheduled to begin in 2020. Unless the upcoming preliminary injunction is successfully appealed, the requirement will be halted until a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and others is resolved.

Thursday's short written notice from the federal court in Winston-Salem previewed Biggs' order because state election officials were planning to expand efforts to educate voters about the ID law within days. Although the mandate would be carried out beginning with the March 3 primary, the requirement would actually start in just a few weeks with mail-in absentee ballot filers, who also would have to provide an ID copy.

The mandate identified several types of qualifying photo IDs and allowed people lacking one to get a free ID card or to fill out a form while voting explaining their "reasonable impediment" to obtaining one.

GOP leaders in charge of the legislature have been trying for most of the decade to advance voter ID, saying that more than 30 states require it and it builds confidence in elections. Data show voter impersonation is rare, however. The voting pool ‐ currently 6.8 million registered voters ‐ is critical in a closely divided presidential battleground state where statewide races are often competitive between the major parties.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 08:25 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another Obama appointment, but you knew that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Judge. Tar. Feathers. Rail. Some assembly required...
Posted by: Dave D. || 12/28/2019 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  But your airline pilot, neusurgeon and police officers still need ID to enter secure facilities. You still need ID to get on a plane, drive or come into the courthouse. Oh, and to buy cigarettes if you don't look old enough
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 9:03 Comments || Top||

#4  What about proof of where you live? Residency matters when voting yet we are just suppose to expect honesty from the general population while voting has been expanded from one day to several weeks.
Posted by: Airandee || 12/28/2019 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Voting is too important to regulate. Orwell smiles knowingly.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 9:41 Comments || Top||

#6  1) I had to produce ID to turn in my old cable box and get a new one. The lady in front of me was black and had to cough up an ID as well.

2) Now that the Feds are doing the Real ID thing (I had to produce a birth certificate to renew my driver's license), does that have any impact on this whole issue?
Posted by: Raj || 12/28/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||

#7  Your registration and ID have been validated. Please proceed to table #2 and pick up your ballot:

Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 9:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Voter ID requirements must be effectice; otherwise the Dems wouldn't oppose these requirements so strongly. Many Dems must not be legitimately be elected.
Posted by: Hupert Johnson4504 || 12/28/2019 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Voter ID harms the constitutional rights of undocumented Americans?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2019 11:01 Comments || Top||

#10  That Grom, and it makes it easier to stuff the ballot box if we can't track who should vote.

Demoncrats have been playing this game for nearly a century and they have no intent of losing it now.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/28/2019 11:11 Comments || Top||

#11  #9 in Mexicalifornia. Yep. Last election. Next election.

Given that the federal government demands a pic id to board a plane, anyone suggesting it suppresses black and latino travel?

Real voter suppression is allowing unqualified people vote. See - MN Senate election where the margin was less than the number of unqualified felons voted
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/28/2019 11:36 Comments || Top||

#12  Appeal the thing, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2019 14:15 Comments || Top||

#13  They wouldn't squeal like stuck pigs every time voter ID is proposed if they weren't getting illegal aliens to vote for them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/28/2019 15:38 Comments || Top||

#14  #13 They wouldn't squeal like stuck pigs if they weren't pigs.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru PB || 12/28/2019 16:08 Comments || Top||

#15  I had to show a driver's license when I checked into a hotel. I was going to ask the clerk if that was racist. He was black, so I refrained.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/28/2019 16:26 Comments || Top||


AOC Rails Against Politicians 'Funded by Billionaires' After Accepting Cash From Tom Steyer
h/t Instapundit
[PJ] - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Grow Yucca in NYC) defended ideological purity tests and railed against politicians "funded by billionaires" last weekend. Yet she herself has been funded by a billionaire ‐ none other than former coal investor and current presidential candidate Tom Steyer.

AOC made her remarks after Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Not a Woman of Color) attacked one another for private fundraisers during the Democratic debate on December 19.

"For anyone who accuses us for instituting purity tests ‐ it’s called having values," AOC declared at a rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR), the candidate she has endorsed for 2020. "It’s called giving a damn. It’s called having standards for your conduct to not be funded by billionaires but to be funded by the people."

For all her sermonizing about not being "funded by billionaires," AOC is herself funded by a billionaire. In the 2018 cycle, she received a $2,700 donation from environmentalist billionaire Tom Steyer, who made his billions at an investment firm investing in coal.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2019 03:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uhmmm, this is telling, AOC accept cash and yet keep on berating the rich. Something tells me that Tom Steyer may be heavily into S&M 'eh?
Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 12/28/2019 4:01 Comments || Top||

#2  To a leftist money is only bad when other people have it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 10:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Something tells me that Tom Steyer may be heavily into S&M 'eh?

"Eventually me and a friend,
sort of drifted along into S & M..."
Posted by: Frank Zappa || 12/28/2019 10:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Apparatchiks have no problem with money or perks for themselves. It's very necessary the kulaks get none...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 11:34 Comments || Top||


2 years after tweeting anti-Semitic screed, Valerie Plame now attends synagogue
[IsraelTimes] Former CIA agent, who is planning run for Congress, says interest in Judaism stems from discovery that her great-grandfather was a rabbi.

Valerie Plame, the outed CIA agent at the center of a George W. Bush administration scandal, said she is now the member of a synagogue in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The revelation comes as Plame is running for Congress as a Democrat, and two years after her tweet of an anti-Semitic article led to her apology and professional repercussions.

Plame told Tal Schneider, a political reporter for Globes, an Israeli business daily, that her interest in Judaism stemmed from her discovery that her great-grandfather was a rabbi who fled Ukraine at the turn of the last century.

“I’ve always been drawn to that aspect of my Jewish heritage,” Plame said in tweets with videos that Schneider posted on Friday, “so it led me to Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe.”

Plame said she was especially attracted to the temple’s social justice initiatives, and that she is a member. Schneider confirmed with members of the local Jewish community that Plame had attended some services.

Plame had mentioned her Jewish background when she launched her congressional bid in September but did not say she identified in any way as Jewish.

Figures in the Bush administration outed Plame after her then-husband, retired diplomat Joseph Wilson, revealed in the lead-up to the Iraq War that on a Bush administration mission he had debunked one of the major pieces of evidence that Saddam Hussein was seeking weapons of mass destruction.

In 2017, Plame apologized for retweeting an article on a white supremacist website that claimed Jews were behind a push for war between Iran and the United States. She apologized again in her interview with Schneider.

The tweet led Plame to resign from the board of Ploughshares Fund, an influential anti-war foundation.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/28/2019 00:27 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She has many Jewish friends?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/28/2019 3:18 Comments || Top||

#2  She claimed she was a secret agent. Now she claims to be Jewish. Next week she hopes to become a German Shephard.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/28/2019 3:23 Comments || Top||

#3  "Hi, Valerie, I'll see you at temple...
Why, sure I am! Sorry, no sample...
It's not just a figment!
I've dug up a fragment
My Rabbi declares more than ample...
And she should know, being from the old country herself... Oh, yes, we're very close. Been married for weeks now! Don't ya love what she's done with the braids?"
Posted by: Ominens Ebbereger4643 || 12/28/2019 5:31 Comments || Top||

#4  The circumcision was overkill, hon
Posted by: Frank G || 12/28/2019 6:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Half the people at a lot of synagogues hate themselves too, Val, so no worries.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 9:13 Comments || Top||

#6  "Hanoi Jane" Fonda later claimed she got (Christian) religion and currently claims to worship Gaia... Maybe it is an old age and oncoming mortality thing for Plame and Fonda -- or Plame to fool the rubes into electing her.
Posted by: magpie || 12/28/2019 10:29 Comments || Top||

#7  'Optics'....
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/28/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||

#8  Well, Joe kicked off. Guess the price of sweet tea has gone down. Working for Ophrabama doesn't pay as well as it used to...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/28/2019 12:08 Comments || Top||



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