[WSJ] The confirmation this week that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid an opposition-research firm for a "dossier" on Donald Trump is bombshell news. More bombshells are to come.
The Fusion GPS saga isn’t over. The Clinton-DNC funding is but a first glimpse into the shady election doings concealed within that oppo-research firm’s walls. We now know where Fusion got some of its cash, but the next question is how the firm used it. With whom did it work beyond former British spy Christopher Steele ? Whom did it pay? Who else was paying it?
The answers are in Fusion’s bank records. Fusion has doggedly refused to divulge the names of its clients for months now, despite extraordinary pressure. So why did the firm suddenly insist that middleman law firm Perkins Coie release Fusion from confidentiality agreements, and spill the beans on who hired it?
[American Thinker] When the Democratic anti-Trump mantra of "Russia, Russia, Russia" was in its infancy, House Intelligence Committee off ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff from the People’s Republic of California was in high dudgeon over Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes daring to report to the public and the press that, yes, members of Team Trump were in fact surveilled and the contents of their conversations and their names were recorded and disseminated.
Rep. Schiff had no problem with intel leaks to the New York Times, but an intelligence committee chairman giving the President a heads-up that his transition team was in fact caught up in surveillance by his own government is out of bounds? Schiff insisted it was, and claimed Nunes was not acting as a committee chair but as a surrogate of Team Trump:
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Schiff is a liar? This tends to run in the left-wing party of corruption. Benghazi, Uranium One, Fast and Furious, IRS scandal, election fraud, fake dossiers...need I go on and on and on?
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Smokescreen tactics are occasionally difficult to detect but these guys are rank amatuers. Whenever asked if there is any evidence of Trump/Russian collusion Rep. Schiff is always quick with the boilerplate 'refusal to answer based on classified information' schtick. However, he always leaves a lingering suspicion with his "concerning questions still remain" follow up comment. And as if to solidify justification for an endless "investigation" Schiff ends with the obligatory 'we will go where the evidence leads us' line.
Now observe the response when their narrative is exposed. There is no classified information to protect because it's all been debunked in the press. There are no concerning questions because it's all been debunked in the press. And there's no further evidence to pursue because...you guessed it...it's all been debunked in the press.
It's the old defense lawyer trick. If you know there's about to be damaging information exposed - go on offense and discredit the process.
[Breitbart] Buried under countless paragraphs of outright lies or those soon-to-be retracted "bombshells" from anonymous sources, the national media will sometimes slip in a variation of the only thing we know to be true in this matter: As of now there is no evidence President Trump colluded with the Russians to rig the 2016 presidential election.
The same can no longer be said for Hillary Clinton. Although her lackeys in the media are trying to tell us that "opposition research" is the usual-usual for presidential campaigns, the Clinton campaign paying Fusion GPS millions of dollars to fabricate dirt against Trump, is nothing even close to standard operating procedure. If it was, the Clinton campaign would not have spent a full year lying to everyone about their role in producing what is now widely known as The Discredited Anti-Trump Russian Dossier.
Before we get to the proof of Hillary colluding with Russia, we need to debunk off a few of the narrative-myths the liars in the mainstream media continue to hurl.
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This entire matter (similar to the Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS, and Comey scandals) will likely go nowhere. The first Kenyan president's legacy shall not be blemished.
[FOX] Not since Eliot Spitzer, aka Client Number Nine, zealously prosecuted sex traders has someone so purposefully and hypocritically marched towards their own political execution.
Hillary Clinton has brought hellfire down upon her own head by demanding a thorough and intensive investigation into purported Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
She is right, Americans should be appalled at the idea that Vladimir Putin and his thuggish operatives might gain a foothold in our body politic. She is right again that Moscow has aggressively tried to subvert our democracy.
But it turns out that it wasn’t Donald Trump who was complicit in those efforts but Hillary Clinton, husband Bill, and possibly her boss Barack Obama.
These stories have circulated for some time; now there is proof. The Hill has reported that beginning in 2009 "the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States."
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...What I love about all of this is it shows, in Mount Rushmore-sized imagery, just how arrogant Hillary Rodham Clinton really, truly is. She and her handlers entered into all of this supremely confident that they were destined to waltz into the White House and never have to be concerned with it ever being revealed.
At the very first mention of the dossier, Trump was supposed to have gone into a defensive crouch that he'd never emerge from. The Republicans in Congress wouldn't have uttered a single word in his defense, and even if they had found out later that it was all false, they would have done nothing, and we know it. Hilary was going to be President, and it was probably better if we just accepted it.
It makes you wonder - the accounts we've seen so far say that it was maybe about two weeks before the election that Clinton's people started feeling a sense of impending doom. I think it was a lot earlier...when Trump didn't panic on the dossier reports. And by that point, they were so locked into their own expectations, they augered in with them.
Makes you wonder what a President Hilary would have done staring down an adversary who wasn't behaving the way she expected them to.
Mike
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Hilda thought the fix was in for her coronation. She probably thinks the fix is in for keeping her out of jail. Maybe so, but the momentum seems to be building. It might all be Kabuki theater on the part of Congress and the DOJ. Sessions appears to be a nice guy. He also appears to be way in over his head. He is not a crime-fighting crusader.
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I have yet to encounter a single story that puts Hillary in a good light.
She is the most malevolent evil troll of a person with which this country has ever had to deal. Her unlimited unlikeability is the only reason that she is not also the most dangerous.
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Not since Eliot Spitzer, aka Client Number Nine, zealously prosecuted sex traders has someone so purposefully and hypocritically marched towards their own political execution.
Hillary Clinton has brought hellfire down upon her own head by demanding a thorough and intensive investigation into purported Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
She might be a masochist and/or just plain stupid. Maybe she wants to get away from WJC and spend time for R&R in the Graybar Hotel. Maybe she is completely whacko or all of the above.
[Townhall] In my earlier analysis of the latest dossier/collusion developments -- which have taken an abrupt turn in the last week, to the dismay of many liberals -- I wrote that newly-revealed and -confirmed details raise serious and uncomfortable questions for both the Democratic Party and the FBI. In a house editorial published today, the Wall Street Journal's editors explicate several of those questions that demand a full accounting. First, on the Democrats:
The Washington Post revealed Tuesday that the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee jointly paid for that infamous "dossier" full of Russian disinformation against Donald Trump. They filtered the payments through a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie), which hired the opposition-research hit men at Fusion GPS. Fusion in turn tapped a former British spook, Christopher Steele, to compile the allegations, which are based largely on anonymous, Kremlin-connected sources. Strip out the middlemen, and it appears that Democrats paid for Russians to compile wild allegations about a U.S. presidential candidate. Did someone say "collusion"? This news is all the more explosive because the DNC and Clinton campaign hid their role, even amid the media furor after BuzzFeed published the Steele dossier in January. Reporters are now saying that Clinton campaign officials lied to them about their role in the dossier. Current DNC Chair Tom Perez and former Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz deny knowing about the dossier arrangement, but someone must have known. Perhaps this explains why Congressional Democrats have been keen to protect Fusion from answering dossier questions‐disrupting hearings, protesting subpoenas and deriding Republican investigators.
Are Perez and Wasserman Schultz's denials credible? As a New York Times reporter notes, Democratic dollars that flowed to Fusion GPS and Steele were effectively laundered through a law firm -- but they were still coming out of DNC coffers:
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[The Hill] There has been progress toward future adoption of a VMT, which would charge drivers by the mile, not by a gallon of gas. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently awarded $15 million collectively to six states to explore how best to implement such a plan.
A VMT system is also a much fairer method of collecting highway taxes. Today, someone who can afford a new Tesla pays almost nothing toward road repairs, while a family still driving an older, less fuel-efficient car or SUV pays far more than they should in gas taxes.
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VMT, yes it's only fair. We'll need to keep the gasoline tax and highway toll charges until our highway infrastructure is rebuilt and we're all caught up.
You people commuting to work from the country may have to move closer to the urban 'city state' areas. Urban clustering really is the future, you'll see.
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A gasoline tax is a decent proxy for vehicle usage, and wear and tear on the roads (perhaps better than mileage). Excepting electric vehicles of course.
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...I've always said that the hybrid and electric drivers were going to discover that if they thought gas was expensive before, wait till they find out how much it costs when they're not using it.
Mike
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Roads cost money. Both to build and maintain. As much as I hate paying tolls at least they're "fair" in that they are based on use. But one thing I think we do need to do in this country is get away from the "build it as cheap as we can" attitude. When road or bridge work in high traffic volume areas I personally would rather see these projects get built to a higher standard. Yes it would cost more initially. But if it eliminates fixing problems from wear and tear as frequenctly as is the case now it would be cheaper in the long run. Just like a good pair of shoes is cheaper in the long run vs going to Shoes r Us for that cheap pair that wears out in 6 months. Now the time it takes to get these projects done is another matter. Contractors bidding on jobs when they already have more work than they can handle resulting in delays and jobs not being done on time.
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Doesn't make any difference. All money collected will be diverted just like the old money for political handouts. The roads and bridges will still collapse and fail. How about a huge tax for every word a politician utters?
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As cars have become more fuel efficient, the gas tax has failed to keep pace with rebuilding and maintaining our highways, roads and bridges, let alone the bike paths, nature trails and streetcars
Shows what happens when one part of the government is working against another part of the government (e.g. EPA vs. DOT) It also demonstrates what happens when the government politicizes the underlying science to favor political agendas.
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VMT is also the camels nose under the tent of tracking all drivers all the time. Look at Europes proposals for their GPS system and how it could/would be used.
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VMT is also the camels nose under the tent of tracking all drivers all the time. Look at Europes proposals for their GPS system and how it could/would be used.
Exactly correct! They'll be SENDING you your mileage report and monthly tax invoice. April 15th will come every month.
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Don't forget the new Federal department to oversee collections, audit compliance, determine reporting requirements, file the reports, update the Congress ... a cast of thousands. Of thousands.
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Loss of tax revenue from purchases of fuel for boats, gas operated lawn care equipment, heavy construction equipment, small planes, back up power generators, industrial forklifts and machinery, farm equipment food industry, the list goes on and on. Drivers out on the highway will be paying so much taxes to cover the shortfall because of brain dead political know nothings.
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TJ8135, the folks around here only use their boats (or snow machines) for 3-4 months a year, leave the old gas in the tank over the winter, then wonder why boat doesn't run in the next spring.
Home generators, same thing only fuel is left in even longer. Whine bigly when the thing doesn't start during an outage.
Should be a 'leaving fuel in tank stupid fee' or something. Even that wouldn't cure anything, though.
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If the gasoline tax is unfair because electric car owners don't contribute, then tax them by the mile and leave the rest of us alone.
[Townhall] I've already written about how today is Hillary Clinton's 70th birthday, and how last year she sent what is quite possibly the worst-aged tweet in the history of the platform.
Not to be outdone, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) sent out a tweet wishing "Madame president" a happy birthday and tagging Hillary Clinton.
[BREITBART] In a contentious interview with BBC radio, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Governor Jerry Governor Moonbeam Brown ... those who ignore history are bound to repeat it ... has threatened to sue the Trump administration over climate change, while vowing to "stabilize the ship of state."
"The president is working to delegitimize the very notion of climate change," Brown told Jim Naughtie of the BBC in a program that aired Tuesday, while the position of California is to go "against the policies of President Trump."
"I hope the rest of the world does their part in providing a forceful opposition," he said.
"Trump has declared war on a majority of the American people under the guise of supporting his minority base and it’s very dangerous," Brown said. "It’s very disruptive for America, and I’m going to do everything I can to stabilize the ship of state."
The governor went on to say that the president uses the issue of global warming to "work" his constituency. "I think he sees this as a galvanizing rhetoric for his base," he said.
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And a choo choo train.
Do you think you could add 10 Trillion more to our debt while you are at it, and let moslems over-run our nation please, moonbeam?
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The governor went on to say that the president uses the issue of global warming to "work" his constituency. "I think he sees this as a galvanizing rhetoric for his base," he said.
His base, who put this POTUS Trump in office, did not believe the climate change/GW B.S. Gov. Moonbeam, keep pushing this putrid scam and you will have Trump for a second term.
Moonbeam will stabilize the U.S? He and his ilk are the biggest destabilizing force in the U.S.
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yah, Darth, it does sound like the pronoucement of some tinpot wanna-be dictator.
On another note, the pic reminds me that when Moonie took Linda Ronstadt on an African trip he took some flak. He swore up and down he never touched her... thing is, he's such a lame-stain nearly everybody believed him
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The only ship he could stabilize is the Titanic.
[MAIL] A Bernie Sanders campaign organizer and long-time Democrat has filed a lawsuit today accusing the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton of fraud and seeking access to their servers ‐ a move that his lawyer believes will solve the murder of DNC staff member Seth Rich.
Gary Frazier, an organizer with Black Men for Bernie and DNC contributor, claims that the DNC and Clinton committed fraud, negligence, and violated their charter as a non-profit, political organization during the 2016 presidential primary.
He also accuses the DNC of being negligent with his personal and financial information and making it vulnerable to hackers.
On June 14, 2016, the DNC database was compromised by Russian government hackers, security sources told the Washington Post. A Kremlin spokesman ruled out Russian involvement but day later, solo, anonymous hacker 'Guccifer 2.0' took credit for hacking the DNC database, saying it was 'very easy' on his website.
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There was a previous class suit filed on behalf of Bernie supporters by Miami lawyers Jared and Elizabeth Beck .), in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida on June 28, 2016. The suit got dismissed by the judge.
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Given that Bernie registered himself as a Socialist for so many years, only to change to Donk for the primary, I got to question where the fraud really is.
[American Thinker] Among the many scandals of the Obama administration that went unnoted by the MSM was a massive political hijacking. Fines levied against financial institutions were diverted from the federal treasury into the coffers of left-wing allies of the Obama administration. Now the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he has proof of political bias in selection of nonprofit recipients.
Alex Pappas writes at Fox News:
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee claims he obtained a "smoking gun" email that proves the Obama Justice Department prevented settlement payouts from going to conservative-leaning organizations, even as liberal groups were awarded money and DOJ officials denied "picking and choosing" recipients.
"It is not every day in congressional investigations that we find a smoking gun," Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said Tuesday. "Here, we have it." ...
But internal Justice Department emails released Tuesday by Goodlatte indicated that not only were officials involved in determining what organizations would get the money, but also Justice Department officials may have intervened to make sure the settlements didn't go to conservative groups.
In one such email in July 2014, a senior Justice Department official expressed "concerns" about what groups would receive settlement money from Citigroup ‐ saying they didn't want money going to a group that does "conservative property-rights legal services."
"Concerns include: a) not allowing Citi to pick a statewide intermediary like the Pacific Legal Foundation (does conservative property-rights legal services)," the official, whose name is redacted in the email, wrote under the title of "Acting Senior Counselor for Access to Justice."
The official added that "we are more likely to get the right result from a state bar association affiliated entity."
That is political bias, all right, and it makes the case that this was illegal.
[FOXNEWS] The White House has named a Treasury official to succeed John Koskinen at the helm of the IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... next month, while allowing the controversial commissioner to finish out his five-year term.
David Kautter will serve as acting IRS commissioner beginning Nov. 13, the last day of Koskinen’s term, the White House said.
"Assistant Secretary Kautter has had an illustrious 40-year career in tax policy, and I am confident that the IRS and the American people will benefit from his experience and insight," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement, noting the Senate would still have to confirm a permanent commissioner.
The announcement came as the Trump Justice Department settled lawsuits with Tea Party and other conservative groups targeted for extra scrutiny by officials in the Obama IRS.
Koskinen was brought in to lead the agency in the wake of that scandal, but Republicans criticized him for an allegedly slow response. GOP politicians for months had called on Trump to remove Koskinen before the end of his five-year term.
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'Settled', for a) no financial recourse to the plaintiffs and b) if I understand this right, there are still a number of these org's that haven't been granted 501(c) status. In other words, Lerner & Co. completely got away with it.
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Koskinen and Lerner are cowardly feather merchants who were likely backstopped at the highest levels of the government. They were simply following orders.
They will never be prosecuted. To do so would reveal their Kenyan benefactor. This will not be permitted.
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The IRS is the agency everyone loves to hate. It is the lifeblood of the Deep State.
The IRS has had 7 Commissioners in slightly over 10 years. Some have been acting commissioners. Some have held office only a short time. The turnover has created turmoil. The weaponization of the IRS by the last administration ruined any reputation the IRS might have had.
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
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[Townhall] I've already written about how today is Hillary Clinton's 70th birthday, and how last year she sent what is quite possibly the worst-aged tweet in the history of the platform.
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