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[The Federalist] “It’s outrageous that the FEC has sat around and done nothing – especially with such a detailed, comprehensive paper trail handed to them,” Backer told The Federalist. “It smacks of the same Deep State culture that shielded April Sand,” he said, in reference to the former FEC attorney “who played politics on the job,” by among other things “participat[ing] in a Huffington Post Live internet broadcast via webcam from an FEC facility, criticizing the Republican Party and then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney.” But Sand escaped criminal prosecution for violating the Hatch Act when the “Federal Election Commission recycled her hard drive before evidence could be recovered.”
Now for more than a year the FEC has ignored its statutory duty to address the CDP’s administrative complaint that laid out solid evidence that during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, the DNC, and the state Democratic parties illegally laundered nearly $84 million in campaign contributions. “But they also don’t want anyone doing the job they refuse to do,” Backer said in reference to the FEC’s motion to dismiss the CPF’s lawsuit.
Further, the FEC’s inaction holds significance far beyond the old news of Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential run: “The 2020 cycle has already started, and top-tier national Democratic contenders are already lining up,” Backer notes, adding that “Mark Elias of Perkins Coie, who represented both Clinton and the DNC during the 2016 campaign, is signed up with Kamala Harris.”
Soetoro and now Harris are Deep State puppets. Clinton was a Deep State puppet who simply failed to get across the finish line.
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“But they (FEC) also don’t want anyone doing the job they refuse to do,”
Of course not!
Are John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Mueller, Bruce & Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, Obama photos required in this article? Are discussions about clandestine 'home brew' communications systems really necessary? Is the unauthorized disclosure of thousands of classified documents really important ?
[PJ] President Trump's former lead attorney says the special counsel investigation has been "a terrible waste of time" that will probably end with no report. What's more, he said Special Counsel Robert Mueller told him the president was not a target almost a year ago (which is something the country should have been told well before the midterm elections).
Meanwhile, both Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday revealed that after two years and 200 interviews they have uncovered precisely zero evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.
"I don't think there'll be a report," John Dowd said during an interview on ABC News' "The Investigation."
"I will be shocked if anything regarding the president is made public, other than ’We're done,’" he added.
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If Mueller does not produce a report of some kind he should be arrested for scamming the government for whatever the investigation cost.
He should also be forced to provide a timeline of what he knew and when to justify how long the thing has gone on so the Congress can determine if he milked the government for money.
Do that and you can be sure the next investigation will be sorted out promptly.
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Not holding my breath, but why wouldn't Trump release some 'classified' documents to discredit .... oh, wait. I think I just answered my own question.
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[Washington Examiner] There are new revelations about what took place in Washington during the extraordinary period from May 9, 2017, when President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, to May 17, 2017 when Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed.
The short version is: The reports were true. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein really did discuss wearing a wire to secretly record the president. Rosenstein and others did discuss invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office. And the FBI did adopt an aggressive new investigation strategy, targeting the president himself, almost instantly after the Comey firing. It's all true, that is, if revelations in an upcoming book by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe are accurate. Could his words be more accurate than Comey's?
To promote his book, McCabe has done an interview with CBS's "60 Minutes." Correspondent Scott Pelley appeared on CBS Thursday morning with a preview. "There were meetings at the Justice Department at which it was discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the president of the United States under the 25th Amendment," Pelley said. "These were the eight days from Comey's firing to the point that Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel. And the highest levels of American law enforcement were trying to figure out what to do with the president." Deep State? Don't be silly! And then there were the talks about secretly recording the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. According to CBS, top law enforcement officials were discussing which Cabinet members might be persuaded to go along with an effort to remove Trump. "They were counting noses," Pelley said on CBS Thursday morning. "They were not asking Cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating." CBS is/will report this? What's their angle?
Much, if not all, of what McCabe reports has been reported before. But an eyewitness, insider account lends new weight to the idea that the highest levels of the national security apparatus experienced a collective freakout in the days after the Comey firing.
In particular, it intensifies questions about Rosenstein's behavior in those eight days. Remember that Rosenstein played a key role in the removal of Comey. A few days later, he was talking about removing the president for having removed Comey.
"The guy who wrote the memo providing the justification for firing Comey is then upset that the swamp is mad at him for helping fire Comey and then comes up with a plan to wear a wire and invoke the 25th Amendment," said the House Republican. The Swamp, as opposed to The Deep State. I got it now!
After the CBS report, the Justice Department, on Rosenstein's behalf, issued a statement saying McCabe's account was "inaccurate and factually incorrect." Rosenstein, the Department said, "never authorized any recording that Mc. McCabe references." That was not exactly a denial of the basic story that Rosenstein discussed wearing a wire. No, never 'authorized' it, he just tried to find somebody who would do it.
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I thought I clicked "tomorrow', but I was hoping it'd go today.
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02/14/2019 15:32 Comments ||
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My brother, who sent this to me, commented,
"Incessant, widespread and uncontrolled hate speech among higher ups in the Obama Administration and Clinton Campaign led to actual thoughts -- genuine beliefs (paranoia) -- that President Trump was unfit and must be removed from office."
A nice summary, donja think?
Posted by: Bobby ||
02/14/2019 15:37 Comments ||
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If now confirmed Attorney General Barr decides to connect these "thoughts" to illegal actions, that is the key.
#7
Rosenstein running to joint the circular firing squad. He knows his kak is very, very weak. Perhaps VDH was right after all when he said (paraphrasing)... "these people and their mischief will be revealed."
#1
Make them live up to their own rules the saying goes. He may be a leftist but the self proclaimed arbiters of right thinking tell me being anti gay marriage and anti abortion is the same as being a Nazi and a racist.
#5
Ruben has a number of strikes:
1. While a person of color (PR) he is not the right color.
2. He served in the military
3. He is a Christian - an ordained Minister of the Church of God.
He's doomed. Bio
Posted by: Bobby ||
02/14/2019 12:32 Comments ||
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[Breitbart] President Donald Trump demanded Wednesday evening that the State of California return $3.5 billion in federal funds after Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled most of the state’s high-speed rail project, saying it was too expensive.
"California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars," the president tweeted. "They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a "green" disaster!"
Newsom devoted the opening portion of his first "State of the State" address Tuesday to attacking Trump and his policies on the border. Yet he then bowed to conservative criticism ‐ and, arguably, to fiscal reality ‐ by canceling the high-speed rail project championed by his predecessors.
The governor added that while the bullet train would no longer connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, as first envisioned, the state would still continue "phase one" of the project between the rural towns of Bakersfield and Merced. "I know that some critics will say this is a ’train to nowhere,'" he said. "But that’s wrong and offensive."
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he said the almighty word "offensive". I believe they really think if they say something is offensive they automatically get their way.
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@ grom: i will volunteer for kneecap duty
Posted by: chris ||
02/14/2019 9:42 Comments ||
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The project may be a disaster but California has met the requirements that were part of the grant of $3.5B as long as they eventually have a usable section operating.
However, in a sense the $3.5B was a good investment because it resulted in a demo of the problems with this technology.
Posted by: lord garth ||
02/14/2019 11:18 Comments ||
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Cut out 3.5 billion for this year's federal money for CA.
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Money is fungible, next time the Feds send money to California they send a paid as part of the bullet train bill note instead.
I don't think California has the money to give back. Hopefully this is the start of tightening their belt and addressing the problem, even if they blame Trump every step of the way.
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Money's already been given to Brown's cronies. It pains me to think how that much money could have been used to repair Interstate 5 and other bits of crumbling California infrastructure.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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Meanwhile, Meanwhile, private railroad Florida East Coast Railway and investment money is getting started on Brightline and construction is due to start soon on the privately-financed Dallas-Houston Texas Central railroad using Japanese technology and some foreign investments (I think). I was offered a chance to come out of retirement to work on the Texas Central, but passed.
The California boondoggle had no real plan to get to population centers without massive Federal money from Barry and Hilly.
Posted by: Bobby ||
02/14/2019 12:23 Comments ||
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Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway?
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Why did they get Federal money for that stupid choo choo train anyway?
Probably they got that money while Obama was still in office.
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High speed rail is actually a wonderful thing - I love it and it's a great way to travel here (China). So, every time I read about California's ongoing screw ups, I always wonder why all the geniuses there can't do a few hundred miles but the Chinese have done thousands and thousands of miles. High speed rail is not the problem. It's an ID10T problem in California.
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And then there were the talks about secretly recording the president and using the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. According to CBS, top law enforcement officials were discussing which Cabinet members might be persuaded to go along with an effort to remove Trump. "They were counting noses," Pelley said on CBS Thursday morning. "They were not asking Cabinet members whether they would vote for or against removing the president, but they were speculating."
