[The Hill] The Justice Department on Wednesday night released a former FBI informant from a confidentiality agreement, allowing him to testify before Congress about what he witnessed undercover about the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win favorable decisions during the Obama administration.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores confirmed to The Hill a deal had been reached clearing the informant to talk to Congress for the first time, nearly eight years after he first went undercover for the FBI.
"As of tonight, the Department of Justice has authorized the informant to disclose to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, as well as one member of each of their staffs, any information or documents he has concerning alleged corruption or bribery involving transactions in the uranium market, including but not limited to anything related to Vadim Mikerin, Rosatom, Tenex, Uranium One, or the Clinton Foundation," she said.
Multiple congressional committees have been seeking to interview the informant, whose name has not been released publicly, because he stayed undercover for nearly five years providing agents information on Russia’s aggressive efforts to grow its atomic energy business in America.
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Why even take the testimony if they're not gonna do anything about it?
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Guy better have good bodyguards.
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Kobayashi tosses two legal-size manila envelopes on Mueller's desk. Mueller remains seated. Comey stands behind Mueller and continues looking out the window.
COMEY: (croaking slightly) I've seen my file.
KOBAYASHI: Oh, but Mr. Comey, you have not enjoyed this most recent update.
MUELLER: What the hell is this?
KOBAYASHI: Your file, Mr. Mueller. My client is displeased.
MUELLER: So who the hell is he and why should I care?
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] It's claimed that Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 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... campaign lawyer Marc Elias and other Democrats falsely denied to reporters their involvement in the 'dirty dossier'
Two New York Times journalists say they were lied to at every turn
It's now established that Clinton lawyer Marc Elias arranged for the campaign and the Democratic Party to pay a dirt-digging firm to produce the dossier
'Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year,' Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted
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'Folks involved in funding this lied about it, and with sanctimony, for a year,' Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted
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"...The Times can lie to you all we want, Peasant...but you dare NOT lie to the Times."
Mike
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Golden showers sounds more like something Slick Willy would actually do. According to the lefty media, Trump is a germaphobe. "Golden showers" never seemed like they were in Trump's wheelhouse. Since the dossier was faked, there is little need to think about it other than for prosecution purposes.
What I'd like to know is when is someone going to be doing the "perp walk" over the vast amount of corruption that occurred during the past administration? When that happens, I will begin to believe that we follow the rule of law and have one system of justice for all.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 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... ’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee violated campaign finance law by failing to disclose payments for a dossier on Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... , according to a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission.
The complaint from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center said the Democrats effectively hid the payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law. By law, campaign and party committees must disclose the reason money is spent and its recipient.
"By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures," said Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a former FEC official. "Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money. The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action."
Media reports on Tuesday alleged that a lawyer for the Clinton campaign hired Fusion GPS to investigate Mr. Trump in April 2016. The private research firm reportedly hired Remington Christopher Steele, a former British spy with ties to the FBI, to conduct the opposition research, and he compiled a dossier containing allegations about Mr. Trump’s connections to Russia.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC funded the effort until the end of October 2016, just days before the election.
"Questions about who paid for this dossier are the subject of intense public interest, and this is precisely the information that FEC reports are supposed to provide," said Brendan Fischer, director of federal and FEC reform at CLC. "Payments by a campaign or party committee to an opposition research firm are legal, as long as those payments are accurately disclosed. But describing payments for opposition research as ’legal services’ is entirely misleading and subverts the reporting requirements."
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[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] A disturbed individual named Ryan Clayton came within inches of the President of the U.S. and Majority Leader of the Senate today while, inside the Capitol Building and embedded with the press pool.
How this unbalanced person was capable of hiding within a credentialed and security processed press pool is a little unnerving. He’s within a few feet of the president when he launches his confrontation. Did members of the press pool facilitate the attack? It would seem likely.
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Did Ryan Clayton pull the short straw or something?
Even though this picture is of Ryan Clayton, this one time I really wouldn't mind the mods removing this disgusting picture (and comment) of the true nature of this frickin fairy.
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I've met Ryan Clayton more than once. He is the same guy who organized and coordinated the "russian flag" stunt at CPAC earlier this year.
He is an arrogant nutjob and jackass and President of Americans Take Action, an anti-Trump PAC.
The alternative reality that he built up in his mind is imploding, leading to this latest stunt which is nothing more than a transparent and pathetically desperate attempt to deflect from all of the seriously damaging news coming out now about HRC, the 0bama admin, the DNC, the Trump dossier, and the Uranium One scandals.
He is also a rabble-rousing attention whore drunk on his own delusions; an unscrupulous pied piper of the Trump-hating millennial crowd. He is unable to accept that HRC lost and Trump won the election and is living proof of the consequences of acute cognitive dissonance. I hope they throw the book at him and we never see or hear from him again.
[FOXNEWS] President Trump, in a wide-ranging sparring session with news hounds Wednesday afternoon, blasted Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 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... over new revelations her campaign helped fund a salacious anti-Trump dossier last year ‐ calling the project a "disgrace" and claiming the tables have turned on Democrats over the "Russia hoax."
"They’re embarrassed by it, but I think it’s a disgrace," Trump told news hounds, before heading to Texas for a briefing on Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts and a Republican fundraiser. "It’s a very sad commentary on politics in this country."
In the midst of a court case that threatened to reveal the dossier’s funding, it emerged Tuesday night that political consulting firm Fusion GPS was retained last year by Marc E. Elias, an attorney representing the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. The firm then hired former British intelligence officer Remington Christopher Steele to write the dossier that contained unverified and lurid allegations against Trump and his team’s ties to Moscow.
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Maybe the hoax is turned around, but what is more important is whether or not the consequences are also turned around.
I think you forgot your /sarc tag, grom. They pleaded the Fifth in Congress. Then they went out for drinks and dinner. They'll be sorry if and when they ever have to do the perp walk but they lack the feelings of guilt and shame that most people have so they will not off themselves.
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It's not turned around until: we know to what extent the FBI financed it under Comey; the FISA court decisions based on that "dossier" are investigated; and Mueller ends his "special project" with a public admission that it was Clinton+Obama-directed corruption.
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Bonus turnaround point: some journalists with integrity and ambition dive deep into this corruption of epic scale -- a million times worse than the Watergate. Surely there are some such journalists somewhere in America?
Since every major scandal must have a nickname, what shall it be?
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I didn't mean they'll commit seppuku, Abu. I meant people who know too much about Hillary...
h/t Instapundit
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) is starting to lose patience with the stonewalling FBI and DOJ.
He told Fox News host Bill Hemmer on "America's Newsroom" this morning that as interesting as the question of who paid for the "dirty dossier" is, the real question is whether the Justice Dept. and the FBI relied upon its dubious "findings" to launch the Russia investigation.
"I want to know whether the nation's premier law enforcement agency relied on a document that looks like the National Enquirer prepared it," Gowdy, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said.
[The Hill] Current and past leaders of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) say they had no knowledge that the national party was helping to fund a dossier compiled by a British spy that contained scandalous accusations about President Trump.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC paid millions to the law firm Perkins Coie, where Democratic lawyer Marc Elias worked with the opposition research firm Fusion GPS to construct the memo, which was compiled by British spy Christopher Steele.
The memo is at the center of several investigations into Russian meddling and it may have been used by the FBI as part of its investigation into allegations that Trump campaign officials had improper contacts with Russian officials. Former FBI Director James Comey has said none of the allegations in the memo have been verified.
The bombshell Washington Post report has emboldened President Trump, who on Wednesday lashed out at the "fake dossier" and described it as the cornerstone of "the whole Russia hoax."
DNC communications director Xochitl Hinojosa said chairman Tom Perez, who only became the Democratic leader in April, had nothing to do with the arrangement. The law firm Perkins Coie handles a range of issues for the DNC.
"Tom Perez and the new leadership of the DNC were not involved in any decision-making regarding Fusion GPS, nor were they aware that Perkins Coie was working with the organization," Hinojosa said. "But let’s be clear, there is a serious federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, and the American public deserves to know what happened."
But wait a minute. Past leaders like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and/or Donna Brazille? Those past leaders? They denied it? Because they denied other things too and now we all know better.
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Can you really trust anything put out by anyone at the DNC?
[ConservativeDailyPost] Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, revealed a bombshell revelation about the Obama administration Tuesday. Former Attorney General Eric Holder manipulated his controversial "slush fund" to pump money into liberal causes.
"It is not every day in congressional investigations that we find a smoking gun," Goodlatte, R-Va., said Tuesday. "Here, we have it."
The Obama Justice Department struck up an unusual deal with prosecutors. Large corporations were forced to divert some of their settlement payments to outside groups that had no connection to their lawsuits.
"Republican lawmakers long have decried those payments as a ’slush fund’ that boosted liberal groups, and the Trump DOJ ended the practice earlier this year," Fox News reports.
The funds could have been used to help Americans, but instead, Holder and Obama used to money to pad liberal causes. Conservative groups were more than overlooked, they were explicitly excluded.
"Aiding their political allies was only the half of it," Goodlatte said. "The evidence of the Obama DOJ’s abuse of power shows that... (his) team went out of its way to exclude conservative groups."
The Obama administration repeatedly discriminated against conservatives. The man who was deemed the next great American hope turned out to be a typical politician. He used his Justice Department to reward his friends and supporters.
"When the federal government settles a case against a corporate wrongdoer, any settlement funds should go first to the victims and then to the American people ‐ not to bankroll third-party special interest groups or the political friends of whoever is in power," current Attorney General Jeff Sessions said.
Obama was a smooth talker. People were so distracted by his honeyed words that they were tricked into thinking that he was an upstanding guy. The Obama administration was as corrupt as any other, perhaps more so, yet liberals remember him as an honest politician.
Goodlatte’s uncovered emails show that Justice Department officials complained about Holder’s process.
"Concerns include: a) not allowing Citi to pick a statewide intermediary like the Pacific Legal Foundation (does conservative property-rights legal services)," the official wrote under the title of "Acting Senior Counselor for Access to Justice."
"We are more likely to get the right result from a state bar association affiliated entity."
The Justice Department wasn’t supposed to involve itself in choosing recipients for its slush fund but it’s clear that they did.
"We are flattered that the previous administration would be concerned enough about our success vindicating individual liberty and property rights to prevent settlement funds from making their way to Pacific Legal Foundation," PLF CEO Steven D. Anderson said in a statement.
The groups who were lucky enough to be funded obviously expressed a different view of the scheme.
"Now that it has been more than 24 hours for us all to try and digest the Bank of America settlement, I would like to discuss ways we might want to recognize and show appreciation for the Department of Justice and specifically Associate Attorney General Tony West," wrote Charles R. Dunlap, executive director of the Indiana Bar, in a 2014 email.
He added that West "by all accounts was the one person most responsible...for the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts group receiving money."
"Frankly, I would be willing to have us build a statue [of West] and then we could bow down to this statue each day after we get our $200,000," someone crudely responded to Dunlap’s email.
Obama and Holder probably thought that their secrets were buried. Obama, in particular, has been sure to keep his name in the public’s eye. He’s even gone back to giving political speeches. It’s hard to believe that he would seek so much publicity if he knew his crimes were going to be revealed.
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Fun with "Dick and Jane" on pedeo island is not the only Christmass Gift Americans will get from all this,
But reality TV of "Past persons in power in Leavenworth" could actually save cable TV!
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The funds could have been used to help Americans, but instead, Holder and Obama used to money to pad liberal causes. Conservative groups were more than overlooked, they were explicitly excluded.
Where were the Pubs during this time? Most people here in fly-over land understood Obama's corruption dating back to 2009. Were the Pubs busy with Kabuki theater and tap-dancing? The swamp is indeed vast. It will take some time to drain.
[WRKO] Sen. Elizabeth Warren Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts, who traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that...
has just jumped the shark. The Massachusetts Democrat has been caught lying about being a victim of sexual harassment. The question is: Will the GOP hold her accountable? If they do, this scandal may be too much even for the progressive icon to withstand.
Recently, Warren went on “Meet the Press,” claiming she had a “Me Too” story as well—in reference to the #MeToo campaign, which began after the Harvey Weinstein allegations by countless women as a way to give voice to their experiences of sexual assault and harassment.
“I was a baby law professor and so excited to have my first real teaching job and there was a senior faculty member who would tell dirty jokes and make comments about my appearance,” she said. “And one day he asked me if I would stop by his office, which I didn’t think much about, and I did, and he slammed the door and lunged for me. It was like a bad cartoon. He’s chasing me around the desk trying to get his hands on me and I kept saying ‘You don’t want to do this. You don’t want to do this. I have little children at home. Please don’t do this.’”
The faculty member Warren is referring to is law professor Eugene Smith, who was her mentor and close friend at the University of Houston.
Warren conveniently—and deliberately—left out a seminal fact: Smith suffered from polio. He was unable to walk or move around without a wheelchair or crutches. According to his former colleagues, Smith’s polio was so severe they felt pity for him.
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Burnishing her reputation for telling whoppers that don't even have a vague patina of believability. Bound to be a big hit with dem voters, who eat that sort of thing up.
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Burnishing...a vague patina of believability. Good stuff Mr. Murcek, is this you?
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"Elizabeth Warren lied about being sexually harassed"
FTFY.
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An innocent Indian maiden.
The Captain with trade goods is laden.
Her frantic excuses:
"Eugene, my papooses!"
He shrugs and gets back to his gradin'.
[WashingtonTimes] An investigation into official flight records of financier and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s "Lolita Express" are once again dragging former President Bill Clinton into the national spotlight.
Flight logs obtained by Gawker in January 2015 put Mr. Clinton on the billionaire’s infamous jet more than a dozen times ‐ sometimes with a woman whom federal prosecutors suspect of procuring underage sex victims for Mr. Epstein. Fox News reported Friday that records show Mr. Clinton declined Secret Service protection on at least five flights.
The network’s investigation reveals Mr. Clinton flew on the Boeing 727 "Lolita Express" 26 times, more than doubling the previously reported 11 trips.
"Bill Clinton ... associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a pedophile. Why would a former president associate with a man like that?" said Conchita Sarnoff of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking, Fox reported. Ms. Sarnoff also authored a book on Mr. Epstein titled "TrafficKing."
Mr. Epstein was arrested in 2005 and signed a plea agreement in 2007 with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, accepting a single charge of soliciting prostitution. He agreed to a 30-month sentence, registered as a "Tier 1" sex offender with the U.S. Virgin Islands and paid dozens of young girls under a federal statute providing for compensation to victims of child sexual abuse.
A Clinton spokesperson did not return the network’s emails requesting comment. Martin Weinberg, Mr. Epstein’s attorney, declined multiple inquiries into the flights.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[The Hill] The Justice Department on Wednesday night released a former FBI informant from a confidentiality agreement, allowing him to testify before Congress about what he witnessed undercover about the Russian nuclear industry’s efforts to win favorable decisions during the Obama administration.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
"By filing misleading reports, the DNC and Clinton campaign undermined the vital public information role of campaign disclosures," said Adav Noti, senior director of trial litigation and strategy at CLC and a former FEC official. "Voters need campaign disclosure laws to be enforced so they can hold candidates accountable for how they raise and spend money. The FEC must investigate this apparent violation and take appropriate action."
[The Hill] Current and past leaders of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) say they had no knowledge that the national party was helping to fund a dossier compiled by a British spy that contained scandalous accusations about President Trump.
"Republican lawmakers long have decried those payments as a ’slush fund’ that boosted liberal groups, and the Trump DOJ ended the practice earlier this year," Fox News reports.
[WRKO] Sen. Elizabeth Warren
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