If you’ve paid attention to Sen. Lindsey Graham’s statements on FISA abuse and the coming IG report, you know that he’s consistently insisted that he won’t schedule any hearings on the matter until the IG report has been released. His logic is that without the report, he won’t have the totality of the information needed.
Given that, this is a pretty big development.
With that, things suddenly got a lot more official. Graham would not be scheduling this hearing if he did not have assurances that the report would be released beforehand. In this case, perhaps the rumors it was coming right before Thanksgiving (likely dumped on the eve of the holiday if you are making bets) are true.
While I’m still a cynic anyone will be held accountable, multiple sources are saying that the report itself will contain numerous criminal referrals. We could be just a few days away from finding out just who is being targeted here. Is it James Comey? John Brennan? That will be revealed soon enough.
As impeachment begins to lose steam, the IG report and DOJ investigations into exactly what happened during the Trump-Russia investigation could prove to be a big shift in the political atmosphere. While the media will do everything they can to downplay it, they won’t be able to hide the truth from voters.
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Kind of looks like the FISA abuse / FBI coup etc was being held in reserve in case the Dems went ahead with their impeachment charade, and that eventually the Dems got desperate and decided to move forward anyway.
“I appreciate all the hard work by Mr. Horowitz and his team regarding the Carter Page FISA warrant application and the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign,” Graham released in a statement. “Mr. Horowitz will be appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 11, where he will deliver a detailed report of what he found regarding his investigation, along with recommendations as to how to make our judicial and investigative systems better.”
[Washington Examiner] House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff once praised a doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit photos, and later invited him to his 50th birthday party.
Schiff, now 59, who is leading the Democrats in their efforts to impeach President Trump, introduced Bruce Hensel, now 71 and then a TV medical correspondent, at a contentious healthcare town hall in Alhambra, California, in 2009. The following year, Hensel was among the "close to 300 friends and supporters" at Schiff’s Hawaii Five-O-themed 50th birthday party.
"It gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this evening, a wonderful doctor and a very brave moderator, and that is my friend, Dr. Bruce Hensel," Schiff said at the 2009 event.
"Dr. Hensel is one of the preeminent medical and science journalists in the country. He’s published two books and has won numerous Emmys and Golden Mikes for his work on NBC TV and ABC TV radio. Perhaps even more significantly, he writes and produces much of his own TV and radio material, and is one of the only such medical experts to be a practicing physician and teacher.
"He is board-certified in two specialities ‐ emergency medicine and internal medicine ‐ and is a full-time professor of medicine at UCLA. I don’t know how you find time to do all of this. He’s an award-winning filmmaker and continues to take medical shifts. And he’s dedicated his life to empowering people with information to get and stay healthy. So, please join me in welcoming Dr. Bruce Hensel."
[NYPOST] The mayor of the Indiana city of Muncie, Dennis Tyler, was arrested by the FBI at his home Monday amid a years-long corruption probe.
An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to the Muncie Star Press that the arrest warrant was executed at the 76-year-old Democratic mayor’s northside home.
"I can confirm an arrest warrant was executed at the home of Mayor Dennis Tyler this morning and he is currently in jug," spokeswoman Christine Bavener said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear what charges Tyler, who has held the office of mayor since 2012, was facing.
According to the Muncie Star Press, a federal investigation into allegations of corruption linked to the Tyler administration has been underway for nearly four years.
The probe, according to the news outlet, started in early 2016 with Craig Nichols, Tyler’s former building commissioner.
Nichols pleaded guilty last January to wire fraud and money laundering and was sentenced to two years in federal prison, according to the report.
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Isn't Muncie larger than South Bend?
Maybe the Muncie mayor should have run for POTUS-- or does he not check off any identity boxes?
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The current mayor is a Republican. City council swung to GOP majority for the first time since 1979. I had to go spelunking to find out Tyler is a dem. Whuttasurprise!
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Oops, newly elected mayor, not current.
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[DAILYCALLER] Massachusetts Judge Shelley Joseph allegedly helped an illegal alien avoid Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) apprehension by directing him to leave through a back door in April 2018, prompting federal prosecutors to charge her with obstruction of justice.
Some in the immigrant activist community are not standing by Joseph, noting that she went so far as to turn off a recording of her conversation with lawyers while conspiring to help the illegal alien, which violated courtroom policy.
Joseph is refusing to take a plea deal and is instead choosing to fight the charges. The court case could take years to reach its conclusion.
#2
Arrest every public official who in any way shape or form helped illegal alien criminals to elude law enforcement, for aiding and abetting felony crimes.
Just four days after the last filing deadline, everybody! It's all there, including a link to the 2018 tax return (Federal Form 990), which I'm going to rip through this afternoon (70 or 74 pages); not an overly complex 'foundation' in those terms. If I spot anything noteworthy (like officer's salaries, etc.) I'll add a comment below.
[Zero Hedge] - Hillary Clinton’s name is pure poison and no one in their right mind wants anything to do with her.
This is evidenced nowhere more in the fact that the Clinton Foundation has gone from turning over a revenue of almost $400 million in 2013, to actually LOSING almost $33 million since Donald Trump wiped the floor with Hillary in 2016.
Newly released tax records show that the foundation reported a loss of almost $17 million in 2018, to add to the net loss of $16.1 million the previous year in 2017.
The numbers don’t lie.
Total revenue reported for 2018 was just $30.7 million, less than a tenth of what was being pulled in While Hillary was Secretary of State.
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I had hoped her pet vultures start feasting on her even before she's dead. The spoils of America denied them, may they cannibalize her foundation and her.
#1
US Attorney for Utah, John Huber, has been tasked with investigating the Clinton Foundation. So far there has not been a single leak out of his office over its work. That could mean either that they have turned up nothing, or that the investigation and grand jury are proceeding with the secrecy that the law demands.
Huber. I've heard that name before. Let's hope his work is proceeding nicely.
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That could mean either that they have turned up nothing, or that the investigation and grand jury are proceeding with the secrecy that the law demands.
#4
When you have nothing to sell, people don't buy, funny how that pay-to-play seems out of place for a "CHARITY" but fits selling influence perfectly!
h/t Instapundit
[Boston herald] President Trump is calling Nancy Pelosi’s bluff, dramatically raising the stakes of the impeachment hearings with a threat to offer testimony to House investigators.
And the ploy could work.
Trump is hijacking the hearings for a second straight week, overshadowing the Democrats’ carefully choreographed plans to methodically call witnesses to show Trump tried to bribe Ukraine to dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
The House speaker initially launched this latest twist, in an interview suggesting Trump should testify himself or in writing. It was said more in a condescending tone than a serious offer, and even the CBS interviewer scoffed at it.
But it was the perfect opening for Trump, who tweeted on Monday that he liked the idea and would "strongly" consider it.
[BBC] “Did the president lie?" a House lawyer said in court as he requested files from the special counsel's inquiry. Congressional impeachment lawmakers are reportedly scrutinising the president's statements to Mr Mueller on WikiLeaks.
Mr Trump did not testify in the Mueller investigation, but he did submit written responses to some questions from the Mueller team.
During Mr Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, he was asked whether Mr Trump's incomplete written responses showed he was not always telling the truth. Mr Mueller replied: "I would say, generally."
It is unclear what exactly Mr Mueller meant by his response, except he was not too lucid at that time but Mr Letter told the court on Monday he believed it meant the president "had been untruthful in some of his answers". He believed? Or did he hear it from somebody's cousin who said his Aunt Hillary told him?
US media report Mr Letter may have been referring to whether Mr Trump lied about contacts with WikiLeaks and knowledge that they were going to publish hacked Democratic emails.
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Mueller filled that report with landmines a partisan congress could use to launch fresh investigations.
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The plan is to keep investigating until hell freezes over.
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They need a "Wheel of Fortune" type device to decide what handful of dung to fling at the wall next.
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This will be the thing, every time Trump is found to be innocent of the charges a new accusation will surface. It will be like this until the coup end.
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^Unless, in 2020, there is a Republican (not RINO) majority in both houses
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What's up with all the Wheel of Fortune references or allusions today? My wife and I love the show, we watch each afternoon while enjoying our first vodka martinis of the day. And don't forget Sajak was an Army DJ in old Saigon.
1. Emoluments Clause: too nerdy, long, hard to grasp. Also, no evidence to support. So...
2. Collusion: easier to grasp but not actually a crime. Also, no evidence to support.
2. Collusion: easier to grasp but not actually a crime. Also, no evidence to support. Next:
3. Treason: easier to grasp, definitely a crime but the exact opposite of Trump's extremely anti-Russian, confrontational foreign policy actions. Then:
4. Ukraine: not easier to understand than Russia ties, but hey, no evidence to support Russia, so why not change the field? OK, so...
5. Quid Pro Quo: see #1. Also, no evidence to support. oops...
6. Bribery: much easier to understand than #6. But no evidence to support. Oh f--- it all, what the hell....
7. Liar Liar Pants on Fire: easy for morons and kindergarten children to understand. Of course, no evidence to support.
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March along, sing our song, with the Shitshow of the Fools
Count the nuts, count the sluts, who have dunked us in their pools
We’re the Shitshow and proud of our name
We’re the Shitshow and proudly proclaim
Verse: First to fight for the woke,
Of our Nation make a joke, And The Shitshow Goes Rolling Along
Proud of all we have done,
Fighting till the battle’s won, And the Shitshow Goes Rolling Along.
Refrain: Then it’s Hi! Hi! Hey!
The Shitshow's on its way.
Count off the cadence loud and strong (TWO! THREE!)
For where e’er we go,
You will always know That The Shitshow Goes Rolling Along.
Verse: Hurricane, Mueller's ranks,
Hillary and Nancy’s skanks,
And the Shitshow went rolling along
Twitter bots, spreading lies,
Putting blinders on your eyes, And the Shitshow keeps rolling along.
(refrain)
Verse: Men in tights, chicks with dicks,
Still that Shitshow got the clicks, And the Shitshow went rolling along.
Faith in Gaia, 'til we’re mad,
Fight for dear DC-abad, As the Shitshow keeps rolling along.
(refrain)
[MAIL] Pete Buttigieg's 2020 presidential campaign used a photo of a Kenyan woman to promote his plan to help black Americans, it has emerged. "They all look alike to me"
The Pete for America website used the stock image of a black woman and child to illustrate the candidate's Douglass Plan.
However, the woman in the photo is from Kenya and has since voiced 'confusion' about why her picture was used at all.
'What's the meaning of the message accompanied by the photo? Have no idea of what's happening,' she told a reporter from The Intercept.
[American Thinker] Joe Biden, whose own kid somehow managed to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his cocaine habit in the Navy, is out condemning President Trump for pardoning a few military small fry whose draconian sentences didn't match the "crimes" they were convicted of.
Skipping past tweets:
The troops were guilty of minor offenses, such as posing for a private picture with the body of a dead Taliban terrorist, as was the case of Gallagher. In earlier ages, that was called a victory dance. The others were imprisoned for heat-of-battle crimes under terrifying circumstances, entirely entitled to some kind of clemency, given the courage they showed and the sacrifices they made. They weren't crooks out to gain something for themselves when they became foot soldiers. If these guys aren't entitled to clemency, why the heck is Hunter Biden not in the brig?
They were little guys, forced to pay a huge price, and their families were ecstatic with appreciation for President Trump's mercy shown. While Joe was condemning Trump as "unfit" for throwing them a few crumbs of mercy, here are the families Biden insists deserve no mercy whatsoever:
[POWERLINEBLOG] The Daily Mail has recently published two stories ‐ here (October 21) and, most recently, here (November 12) ‐ covering the tabloid-friendly aspects of Ilhan Omar ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She is apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side... ’s life and career. These stories directly demonstrate a few of the lies that Omar is living and indirectly illustrate the protective cover provided by the Star Tribune.
The Daily Mail is doing the work that the Star Tribune refuses to do, as I am here on Power Line. My thing is the incredible frauds in which Omar is enmeshed. I mean to keep at it until she removes herself from high political office. She is not the most important political figure in our firmament, but she lives and works in my back yard and I have developed knowledgeable sources as well as an appreciative readership in Minneapolis’s Somali community. Attention is warranted.
The Daily Mail’s coverage of Omar has had an impact in the Somali community. They are embarrassed by her. They do not appreciate the humiliation of her most recent ex-husband husband (Ahmed Hirsi, universally known by the nickname Southside), a widely respected player. They have come to see that she is quite the phony. They have come to see her as unrepresentative of the community. (I can’t say the same about the millennial snowflakes and other DFL activists in the district.)
In the past two weeks I have met with three new Somali sources. They have confirmed everything we have previously reported here about Omar’s back pages. I have in addition continued to meet with my original Somali sources. Their reliability has been proved many times over. Taken together, they have made the following points:
• There is widespread fear of Omar in the community. They do not feel free to speak out publicly. They require assurance that I will keep their identity in confidence.
• At a meeting with two of my three new sources last week, we spotted Hirsi through a window. "There is Southside," said one of them, and told me to "close your notebook" (she actually closed it for me).
• They all know that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is Omar’s brother. They didn’t all know that Omar purported to marry him in 2009 until we began covering the issue in 2016.
• Omar made a separate side deal with Hirsi to continue his public silence. She has agreed to pay him $250,000 over time. None of this is reflected in the October 31 divorce decree itself.
I would add only this note based on my own experience. This story is out there for the asking. Any serious news hound who spent time in Minneapolis would find it. The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , the New Yorker, the Daily Beast, the Star Tribune and all the rest ‐ they don’t want it. They want to leave it right where it is.
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If this were a Republican...
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I strongly suspect she works for, or facilitates and employs Al-shabab functionaries within America. I've heard her speak, watched her move. There's no way that woman is not a fully committed, pathological, extremist. The kind that shall plot the next 9/11.
#3
She's obviously mentally unstable.
As is her comrade Batshita.
As was the serial liar and perjurer and slanderer Blowsey Ford.
As is the serial liar and perjurer and extortionist Avenatti.
As are the serial liars at the New York Times who suborned perjury and coaxed their Yale classmates to concoct absolute lies about Kavanaugh.
Most of these Shitshow Stars are emotionally or mentally deficient.
Schifferbrains is a pathological liar. His "parody" was a national disgrace.
Hillary is a sociopath who is mentally and physically unwell.
Pelosi is showing signs of dementia.
This crew is an open-air mental asylum. Through the Looking Glass, we are.
#4
And of course there's Fauxcahontas, the women whose entire professional career has been based on repeated fables about her DNA.
Plus the hysterical, deranged antics of the Weekly Standard Never-Trumper types.
The violent psychotic characters who don masks and crack heads for Panty-fa.
The less violent but equally deranged characters who accost politicians, and also ordinary strangers, in public and bark nonsense at them for alleged thoughtcrimes.
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.
[Washington Examiner] House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff once praised a doctor who was arrested last week for allegedly asking a 9-year-old girl to send him sexually explicit photos, and later invited him to his 50th birthday party.
[NYPOST] The mayor of the Indiana city of Muncie, Dennis Tyler, was arrested by the FBI at his home Monday amid a years-long corruption probe.
During Mr Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, he was asked whether Mr Trump's incomplete written responses showed he was not always telling the truth. Mr Mueller replied: "I would say, generally."
[American Thinker] Joe Biden, whose own kid somehow managed to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his cocaine habit in the Navy, is out condemning President Trump for pardoning a few military small fry whose draconian sentences didn't match the "crimes" they were convicted of.
...Somali-
