[Daily Caller] WASHINGTON ‐ Subpoenas sent to the Justice Department and FBI from the House Intelligence Committee requesting documents related to documents about the infamous Trump dossier are allegedly being held up by officials at the agencies behind the backs of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
"The House Intel Committee had repeatedly asked the agencies for documents related to the dossier since May. After the agencies failed to produce the documents following numerous requests, the committee sent out subpoenas on August 24, the Chairman sent a letter on September 1, and finally new subpoenas were issued on September 5," a congressional staffer told The Daily Caller Thursday.
"It’s hard to tell to whether Sessions and Wray are personally involved in these requests or whether people around them are slow-rolling this without keeping them fully informed," the staffer added.
The House Intel Committee as well as the Senate Judiciary Committee want to understand how the FBI became involved in the dossier as well as understand how the GPS Fusion dossier author, former British spy Christopher Steele, fits into the bureau’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
(1) investigation of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation; (2) Seth Rich; (3) allowing federal judges to not adhere to the law (I think Roland Freisler was no less honorable); (4) Obama illegal intelligence activities; &c, &c, ad nauseam.
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Orbis Business Intelligence LTD is nearly within hand grenade range of the SIS building in London. There is a reason why you see very little about Chirstipher Steele in the British press, and there appears to be little interest regarding his activities within the U.S. gov't. I generally look for what is not being spoken about.
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"It’s hard to tell to whether Sessions and Wray are personally involved in these requests or whether people around them are slow-rolling this without keeping them fully informed," the staffer added.
Afraid to peel the onion back for fear of what might be found at the core?
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Afraid to peel the onion back for fear of what might be found at the core?
If Trump truly wants to shake up things in Washington, serious investigations are the easiest way to do it. It would get a lot of powerful folks out of his way.
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Wonder if he is holding out for bigger impact close to the election either 2018 or 2020. Nailing Dem hide to the wall as corrupt, especially the minions like Holder et al, would be huge
[Daily Caller] Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial is an unfair attack on Hispanic Americans, the lawyer for Menendez’s co-defendant argued on the second day of the trial.
Prosecutors say Menendez sold political favors to a friend, Dr. Salamon Melgen, in exchange for more than half a million dollars worth of bribes, including helping Melgen navigate government issues while Melgen committed Medicare fraud. Menendez is facing a dozen corruption-related charges.
Melgen’s attorney, Kirk Ogrosky, attempted to frame the trial in racial terms while addressing the jury on Thursday, Politico reported.
"Sal and Bob were part of a fellowship of Hispanic Americans. Entrepreneurs, businessmen, doctors, politicians. You’ll hear this at trial: their idea was to pay it forward, help young Hispanic Americans improve their lives, lift up their community, play a larger role in their community," Ogrosky said. "This case isn’t only an attack on those two men. It’s an attack on that whole group."
Prosecutors say Menendez repeatedly lobbied then-Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and acting Medicare administrator Marilyn Tavenner on Melgen’s behalf in Medicare disputes. Prosecutors say Melgen defrauded the government of more than $105 million.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday he has "not detected any whiff of interference" by the White House into the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Speaking publicly for the first time since being confirmed as head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Wray also expressed confidence in Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia during the election.
"I can say very confidently that I have not detected any whiff of interference with that investigation," Wray said during a panel discussion at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington.
Wray was installed as FBI director after his predecessor, James Comey, was fired by Trump in May. In an interview with NBC after Comey’s removal, Trump admitted he was thinking about "this Russia thing" when he decided to fire the then-FBI chief.
Comey later told Congress he believed Trump had tried to get him to drop an FBI probe into former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, as part of the broader Russia investigation - testimony that has raised questions about whether Trump was potentially trying to obstruct justice.
The White House has repeatedly denied the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the election.
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Washington is one of those places where you ask someone for the time of day and they friggin tell you how to build a clock and all about all the regulations surrounding clocks.
[DAILYCALLER] NBC News has published an article incorrectly claiming that New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez — who is on trial for corruption — is a Republican. Menendez is actually a Democrat, yet in the lead of an article from Wednesday, NBC falsely identified him as a Republican. Confusingly, they later called him a Democrat in the same sentence.
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Maybe if you clowns at NBC say it enough times, it'll become true.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Over 6,000 individuals registered to vote in New Hampshire on Election Day Nov. 8 using out-of-state driver’s licenses ‐ and since then the vast majority have neither obtained an in-state license nor registered a motor vehicle.
Speaker of the New Hampshire House Shawn Jasper, a Republican, issued the findings on Thursday based on inquiries he made to the Department of State, which oversees elections, and the Department of Safety.
Since election days, Republicans have charged that a significant number of non-resident Democrats, principally from Massachusetts, flowed into New Hampshire to vote illegally, tilting close elections to their party. Mr. Jasper’s findings give credence, though not outright proof, to those allegations.
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They all were Russians! /sarc off
The only way this is going to get the coverage it warrants is on the internet cause the Donk Operatives will bury the answer to their lies about voter suppression and the exposure of theirs of the real residents of NH.
[DAILYCALLER] A former staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... who fled to Pakistain while under criminal investigation has struck a deal with federal officials to return to the U.S. to appear at an arraignment.
Two former Democratic staffers, Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, both face charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. Alvi who has a warrant for her arrest, struck a deal with prosecutors that would allow her to return to the U.S. for a mandatory court date in October, according to new court documents.
"Because the Court has already scheduled defendant Awan’s continued status hearing for October 6, 2017, at 9:15 am, the government respectfully requests that the Court also summon defendant Alvi to appear for her arraignment on that date and time, or at the earliest available date for the Court thereafter," the document reads.
The FBI incarcerated Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! Awan after he wired nearly $300,000 to Pakistain and misrepresented the purpose. He had previously wired money to the country and was frantically liquidating multiple real estate properties on the day he was arrested, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group discovered in July.
Alvi moved to Pakistain after learning the family was the subject of a criminal investigation into their work as IT administrators for House Democrats. On the day of Imran’s arrest, the couple accepted a buyer for one house owned by Hina with an asking price of $618,000 (Hawkshead Dr.) and listed another property for sale at $200,000 (Pembrook Village), according to real estate records.
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I take it from this that they'll drop all charges on the wife, but Awan's still a pig in a poke, if you'll pardon the expression.
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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is a very important DEMOCRAT. There is no way she will be prosecuted. There will be consequences if she is.
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As I understand it, he left his ID and other documents and the laptop which has DWS tagged as owner, in a tiny room that was previously a public phone booth in the Rayburn Building, most probably the evening before he was scheduled to fly back to Pakistan. Clearly meant as a smoking gun of some kind, so the contents have to be important, either for what they reveal as the truth, or what was intended as a revelation but was disinformation. Either way, smells of ISI tradecraft and all the suggests about how deeply infiltrated the Demorat party is by the Nation or Peace.
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Strategically placed remote servers. Electronic monitoring of your opposition. US Intelligence augmenting or picking up the tab for your IT support? What's not to like ?
[Miami Herald] At first glance, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen’s letter to the Dominican Republic’s ambassador to the United States looks like standard fare for a chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
"Recent reports that the illicit drug trade and the presence of drug cartels may shift towards the Dominican Republic are of increasing concern to the Committee," the Miami Republican, then committee chair, wrote Ambassador Aníbal de Castro April 10, 2012.
"I am interested to hear what specific steps your administration is tak[ing] to improve cargo security," she closed, "and reducing the flow of drugs to the United States and how we can work together towards achieving this goal."
Someone else was keenly interested, too: Dr. Salomon Melgen, investor in a Dominican Republic port security company, ICSSI, which wants to X-ray cargo at the very ports Ros-Lehtinen was concerned about.
Ros-Lehtinen's letter came a month after Melgen contributed $5,000 to her campaign in a race where she faced token opposition (in 2011, he contributed $4,800). And, a few months before that, Ros-Lehtinen held a benefit for medical research in which Melgen cut another $15,000 check.
Melgen’s West Palm Beach offices were raided last week by federal agents in a Medicare-fraud investigation. FBI agents are also examining his ties with Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ.
Melgen has a reputation, among some political insiders, of being "transactional," meaning he gives donations but also expects to get something in return. Sources tell The Miami Herald the doctor has asked various members of Congress over the years for help with one of his lawsuits, his port deal, Medicare and a tax issue.
The top recipient of Melgen’s largesse, Menendez, has been most-vocal about the need to X-ray cargo at Dominican ports. He held a hearing on the matter that was trumpeted in February in VOXXI, the Hispanic-centric news website owned by Melgen.
I wonder how long it'll take for this 'fundraiser' to be identified. Two days, max?
After days of the media reporting on leaked excerpts from Hillary's upcoming book entitled "What Happened," it now seems that some Democrats are growing just as weary of Hillary's perpetual excuses and endless clamoring for the spotlight as their colleagues on the right side of the aisle. According to The Hill, one rather blunt former Hillary fundraiser said that he wished "she’d just shut the f**k up and go away."
Not everyone was so charitable. Even some of Clinton’s allies have grown weary of her insistence on re-litigating the 2016 campaign at a time when the Democratic Party is looking to forge a new identity in the age of Trump.
"The best thing she could do is disappear," said one former Clinton fundraiser and surrogate who played an active role at the convention. "She’s doing harm to all of us because of her own selfishness. Honestly, I wish she’d just shut the f--- up and go away.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Hillary Clinton revealed in her new memoir she feared Trump's campain threat to 'lock her up' after her email scandal
She talks about her frustration upon watching anti-Trump protesters after her stunning election loss
She asked where their 'solidarity, outrage and passion' had been during the election
She also griped about 'Today Show' anchor Matt Lauer's questioning of her emails
Calls it 'a pointless ambush'
President Obama assured her of victory the night before her stunning loss
He told her at a packed rally that 'You've got this' - but Bill Clinton told his wife 'You might lose'
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He still can. Brahahahaha....
I hope it keeps her up at night.
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What an utterly revolting hag - self-pity is not good box office, you whining battleax. Go throw some ashtrays at your husband if you want to take out your frustrations on someone; leave the rest of us out of it.
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Hey, I'm still hopeful that justice will be done. But then I tend to be overly-optimistic too. I also like to think there are not two systems of justice. Signed Pollyanna.
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Oooh, I hope she runs in 2020 and goes down by 49 states and takes all of her backers with her.
"We can't afford to feed you "people" so bombs away."
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A Democratic senator tried to tie one of President Trump’s judicial nominees to a “hate group” Wednesday, saying the woman’s decision to speak at an event sponsored by Alliance Defending Freedom, a religious liberty law firm, makes her unfit to sit on a federal appeals court.
Sen. Al Franken lobbed the charge at a hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, Mr. Trump’s pick to fill a seat on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump’s nominee to the 6th Circuit, Michigan Supreme CourtJustice Joan Larsen, faced questions over a conservative advocacy group Judicial Crisis Network, which ran ads to pressure her home state senators — both Democrats — to back her confirmation.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, said he worried about who was contributing to fund the ads.
“I look out at a very significant machinery of influence that is designed — that has at its purpose — to bring the will of ideological and commercial interest into our courts,” he said.
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Given that Howard Dean just called anyone who voted for Trump a Nazi, I'd say he's qualified the entire party as one big hate group. And to play the Left's game, since they hadn't repudiated him on the point, they support him.
[VANITYFAIR] On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... ’s memoir slash election postmortem, What Happened, will be released, followed by a cross-country airing of grievances-cum-national book tour that will run through December. Perhaps unsurprisingly, members of her own party and even people who worked to get her elected are less than enthused about the 15-city tour, which kicks off in D.C. on September 18. “Oh, God,” “I can’t handle it,” and “the final torture” were among the responses from former campaign aides polled by Politico. “I think she should just zip it, but she’s not going to,” one major Democratic donor said.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, members of her own party and even people who worked to get her elected are less than enthused about the 15-city tour, which kicks off in D.C. on September 18
Mid-term election campaigns in 2018 also kick off around that time as well.
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Captain Queeg: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers...
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'Ah. but the strawberries...', Procopius I salute you. That is a shade or 2 beyond perfect. You have considerably lightened an otherwise dark day, many thanks!
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Education Secretary says current rules fail both the accused and accuser
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Why don't the universities simply follow the laws of each state for sexual assault? Those should be sufficient to deal with these crimes. We don't need extra-judiciary courts/hearings in the universities.
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The problem is that too often, the legal system does not convict the "rapist", due to all that annoying due process, burden of proof, etc. Also, many of the sexual assault charges do not rise to the level of rape.
So to achieve justice, it is necessary for the colleges to hold their own kangaroo courts to protect the victims.
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it is necessary for the colleges to hold their own kangaroo courts to protect the victims. their image.
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.
[Daily Caller] Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez’s corruption trial is an unfair attack on Hispanic Americans, the lawyer for Menendez’s co-defendant argued on the second day of the trial.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday he has "not detected any whiff of interference" by the White House into the ongoing investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Over 6,000 individuals registered to vote in New Hampshire on Election Day Nov. 8 using out-of-state driver’s licenses ‐ and since then the vast majority have neither obtained an in-state license nor registered a motor vehicle.
Sen. Al Franken lobbed the charge at a hearing for Amy Coney Barrett, Mr. Trump’s pick to fill a seat on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Hillary Clinton
