[The Federalist] The recently released transcript of George Papadopoulos’s congressional testimony reveals a significant fact: Papadopoulos’s introduction to Joseph Mifsud‐the source of the "Russia has Hillary’s emails" tip that purportedly prompted the FBI to launch an investigation into the Trump campaign‐was arranged mere days after Papadopoulos announced he was joining the Trump campaign.
Saturday evening, Papadopoulos rocked Twitter with claims that "a woman in London, who was the FBI’s legal attaché in the U.K." encouraged him "to meet Joseph Mifsud in Rome in March 2016." These new revelations raise fresh concerns that, with the approval of the FBI, foreign governments were meddling in the 2016 election.
Mifsud has long been a focal point of those on the right attempting to disembowel the Russia collusion hoax. The basics have been known for some time.
From court documents filed in connection to Papadopoulos’s guilty plea for lying to the FBI and from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence’s (HPSCI) report on "Russian Active Measures," we know that "on March 14, 2016, George met London-based college Professor Joseph Mifsud while traveling in Italy." During that meeting, "Mifsud, then director of the London Academy of Diplomacy, claimed connections to the Russian Government."
A week later, on March 21, 2016, Trump publicly identified Papadopoulos as one of his foreign policy advisors. Then on March 24, 2016, Mifsud traveled to London, "where he introduced George to a young woman named Olga," telling the newly named Trump advisor that Olga was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s niece and suggesting they could arrange meetings with high-level Russian officials.
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It seems the FBI does not investigate crimes. They set people up and then bust them. Their recent terrorist busts are FBI recruited radicals that they sold weapons to, fast and furious, etc... Maybe they need to slow their roll on undercover work and work real crimes...
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I’m appalled at the shit my 30 year employer was into.
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I’m appalled at the shit my 30 year employer was into
Such a comforting comment, Jack. This says to me that there is a solid core of good men and women who just need help removing the Deep Staters grafted onto the organization. President Trump was right to speak directly to them shortly after he was sworn in.
[Tip of the hat to an e-mail from an old high-school friend]
The latest telephone poll taken by the California Governor's office asked whether people who live in the southwestern United States think illegal immigration is a serious problem.
29% of respondents answered:
"Yes, this is a very serious problem."
71% of respondents answered:
"No es una problema seriosa."
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[American Thinker] Gun-owners, they are coming: on March 21, a Fredericksburg man was prosecuted and convicted of the misdemeanor crime of merely holding a B.B. gun in public. I know because I was in the trial, as the attorney defending Mr. Wolff.
The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and bear arms. However, gun control activists are trying to criminalize gun ownership. Their next step is that you are a criminal if you take a gun out in public. If they have to let you own a gun, you can't ever take it out of its case.
Liberals continue to try to criminalize private ownership of guns, despite losing a key battle in District of Columbia v. Heller, 128 S.Ct. 2783, 2820‐2821, 171 L.Ed.2d 637, (2008). Unlike conservatives, left-wingers never quit. They intend to win the war eventually and disarm the American people.
Now they claim that it is illegal to "open carry" a firearm. The mere existence of a gun if anyone else is around now has become the crime of "brandishing" and/or "assault" (which means frightening people, contrary to popular misunderstanding) or both.
In Virginia, in the Fredericksburg General District Court, my client was charged with two counts of "brandishing" a firearm under Va. Code § 18.2-282 and two counts of assault under the all-purpose (vague) Va. Code §18.2-57, for a single incident that took no more than 30 seconds. (In my own defense, I took the case knowing that Virginia statutes are bad and need to be challenged by a campaign of appeals.)
[DailyBeast] For 40 years, I’ve advised at-risk public figures and government agencies on high-stakes security matters. My career has included working with the CIA, FBI, at the Reagan White House, counseling foreign leaders, and advising on controversial murder cases. I’ve seen a lot. And yet, I’ve recently seen things that have surprised even me, such as the National Enquirer’s parent company, AMI, being in league with a foreign nation that’s been actively trying to harm American citizens and companies, including the owner of the Washington Post. You know him as Jeff Bezos; I know him as my client of 22 years.
To understand where this story goes, some background is needed.
In January, the National Enquirer published a special edition that revealed an intimate relationship Bezos was having. He asked me to learn who provided his private texts to the Enquirer, and why. My office quickly identified the person whom the Enquirer had paid as a source: a man named Michael Sanchez, the now-estranged brother of Lauren Sanchez, whom Bezos was dating. What was unusual, very unusual, was how hard AMI people worked to publicly reveal their source’s identity. First through strong hints they gave to me, and later through direct statements, AMI practically pinned a "kick me" sign on Michael Sanchez.
"It was not the White House, it was not Saudi Arabia," a company lawyer said on national television, before telling us more: "It was a person that was known to both Bezos and Ms. Sanchez." In case even more was needed, he added, "Any investigator that was going to investigate this knew who the source was," a very helpful hint since the name of who was being investigated had been made public 10 days earlier in a Daily Beast report.
Much was made about a recent front-page story in the Wall Street Journal, fingering Michael Sanchez as the Enquirer’s source‐but that information was first published almost seven weeks ago by The Daily Beast, after "multiple sources inside AMI" told The Daily Beast the exact same thing. The actual news in the Journal article was that its reporters were able to confirm a claim Michael Sanchez had been making: It was the Enquirer who first contacted Michael Sanchez about the affair, not the other way around.
AMI has repeatedly insisted they had only one source on their Bezos story, but the Journal reports that when the Enquirer began conversations with Michael Sanchez, they had "already been investigating whether Mr. Bezos and Ms. Sanchez were having an affair." Michael Sanchez has since confirmed to Page Six that when the Enquirer contacted him back in July, they had already "seen text exchanges" between the couple. If accurate, the WSJ and Page Six stories would mean, clearly and obviously, that the initial information came from other channels‐another source or method." We'll soon see what kind of MSM "legs" "Bezosgate" has.
[Washington Examiner] Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone says he doesn’t believe it’s anti-Semitic to hate Jewish citizens of Israel ‐ the bulk of the population in the Middle East's only democracy.
Livingstone, known as "Red Ken" for his left-wing policies during his 2000-2008 mayoralty, is among cadre of Labour officials, who are open and virulent critics of the Jewish State. Livingstone has aligned himself with the Labour leader of the opposition in Parliament, Jeremy Corbyn. Their supporters have tried to portray them as victims and truth-tellers, forming a group to bolster such views, Labour Against the Witch Hunt.
"It’s not anti-Semitic to hate the Jews of Israel and you can’t have a proper functioning democracy in a world in which the media, whether it’s the press or internet, can just spread lie after lie after lie," Livingstone said during a meeting of Labour Against the Witchunt last week, according to the Daily Mail.
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"It’s not anti-Semitic to hate the Jews of Israel
We don't hate Jews. We just hate the country they live in. And all the people there.
and you can’t have a proper functioning democracy in a world in which the media, whether it’s the press or internet, can just spread lie after lie after lie,"
Been watching the Mueller/Deep State debacle over here, eh?
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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