[FoxNews] The committee continues its probe of the Russia investigation and FISA abuse.
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr is on Capitol Hill Tuesday, answering questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee behind closed doors, Fox News has learned.
The former associate deputy attorney general is one of dozens of individuals the committee subpoenaed earlier this month as part of their investigation of the Russia probe and the FBI's abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) in obtaining a warrant to conduct surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Ohr, who did not answer questions about his meeting while he was on his way to the committee, was a key contact inside the Justice Department for ex-British spy Christopher Steele, who authored an anti-Trump dossier for research firm Fusion GPS as opposition research for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. Ohr's wife, Nellie Ohr, worked for Fusion GPS at the time.
That dossier, which remains unverified, was instrumental in obtaining the FISA warrant for Page, according to a report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Earlier this month, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that he would not have signed a FISA warrant renewal application for Carter Page had he known about since-revealed "significant errors" in the application.
A transcript of a closed-door meeting Nellie Ohr had with the House Judiciary Committee in 2019 revealed that she had worked extensively on opposition research for Clinton's campaign, although she largely did not work on the dossier itself.
The transcript also confirmed that Bruce and Nellie Ohr met with Steele at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. the day before the FBI launched its investigation into the Trump campaign, known as Crossfire Hurricane.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has said he wants to get to the bottom of what happened behind the scenes of the Russia investigation, particularly regarding the use of the dossier. Graham has often pointed to Steele's sub-source, who said the information in the dossier was unreliable, and questioned who among FBI and DOJ leadership was aware of this.
"I can't believe the FBI is that poorly run," Graham told "Hannity" earlier this month, "that [during] the most important investigation in 30 years of a sitting president that nobody told the top of the FBI, 'Oh, by the way, our case fell apart.'"
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Nelly and her connection to the CIA as well as Fusion GPS and oppo research just screams a need to look at Brennan and the billions Sydney Powell says Flynn was gonna in investigate. That Ham Radio license story as a hint of old school trade craft brought ack memories of the numbers stations and one time pax’s.
[Breitbart] Five-term Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO), who was backed by President Donald Trump, lost his primary to Lauren Boebert, the owner of Shooters Grill in Colorado.
Dave Wasserman, the editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, called the primary for Boebert over Tipton in Colorado’s third district Republican primary.
The primary serves as another primary loss for Trump, who had endorsed Tipton over Boebert.
He wrote on Monday, "Congressman @ScottRTipton is a great supporter of the #MAGA Agenda! He fights for your #2A rights and the Border Wall. Scott is working hard for Colorado and has my Complete and Total Endorsement!"
Boebert is a 32-year-old gun-rights activist, the owner of the Garfield County Shooters Grill. Boebert has charged that Tipton has not successfully fought off leftist policies in Washington, DC.
Wasserman said on Tuesday night that the district voted for Trump in 2016 by 12 points over Hillary Clinton, meaning that Democrat candidate Diane Mitsch Bush would have a tough time taking the district. Mitsch Bush lost to Tipton during the 2018 midterm elections.
Boebert gained public attention after she defied public health orders when she reopened in-restaurant dining in May. She subsequently lost her restaurant license.
Boebert’s victory over Tipton serves as Trump’s third primary loss. This shouldn't be seen as a repudiation of Trump, it should be seen as the locals being finally fed up with their entrenched politicians that don't really support them and thus their firing. These are local house seats and is a local fight.
Conservative outsider Bob Good unseated Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA) in June despite the House Freedom Caucus backing Riggleman over Good. Good managed to defeat Riggleman by focusing on reducing legal immigration.
"As Americans are trying to get back to work, they have to compete with hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who will take lower wages and take our jobs," Good told Breitbart News in May.
Conservative millennial Madison Cawthorn then defeated Lynda Bennet, who was endorsed by the House Freedom Fund, the Senate Conservative Fund, the American Conservative Union (ACU), and other influential D.C. conservatives.
In 2016, Bennett reportedly declared herself a "never Trump person."
Boebert tweeted on Tuesday before the primary election that she will continue to fight against the rising tide of socialism in America.
She wrote, "America didn’t just happen. Our founders fought hard to create this incredible country. We’re not going to let it fall to socialists!" I lived in that area and graduated from school in Glenwood. Republicans/independents there just voted for another giant FU to the establishment with this. While I liked Tipton and appreciated a lot of what he did, he has been getting a bit swampy the past few years. Which is why he lost. If the Republican party does not grow a backbone and stand up to the communists, expect a lot more defeats. They really need to get over being the stupid party and pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Is she seeing anybody? Is it serious? Just curious of course.
PS. Riggleman defeated himself choosing to vote multiple times with Dems and very loudly presiding over a gay wedding in his guise as congressman. He also voiced less than saluatory opinions about his constituents. Another man who made it plain that the approval of DC and Charlottesville were more important than the concerns of his actual district.
Very long, lots of detail. Not every community chooses their judges well and, sadly, once on the bench they benefit from being part of the in-crowd. Herewith the opening section:
[Reuters] Judge Les Hayes once sentenced a single mother to 496 days behind bars for failing to pay traffic tickets. The sentence was so stiff it exceeded the jail time Alabama allows for negligent homicide.
Marquita Johnson, who was locked up in April 2012, says the impact of her time in jail endures today. Johnson’s three children were cast into foster care while she was incarcerated. One daughter was molested, state records show. Another was physically abused.
"Judge Hayes took away my life and didn’t care how my children suffered," said Johnson, now 36. "My girls will never be the same."
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It seems like the only way to get rid of them is for them to reach that final, terminal level of stupidity where they finally kill themselves. Unfortunately, they seem to have enough secretaries and caregivers to avoid such a fate.
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"...and then they discovered the Judge had been dead for years. He'd been stuffed and equipped with motors and a speaker system. The clerks and secretaries had been using it as a cash cow for over a decade..."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A coordinated hacking campaign is filling Roblox with Trump 2020 propaganda
More than 1,200 accounts have been affected so far
Hacked accounts say, 'Ask your parents to vote for Trump this year!#MAGA2020' Nope, nothing suspicious here...move along.
[RedState] More Violence in the CHOP: Radical Leftists Surround Fox Crew, Allegedly Assault Reporter.
Fox News correspondent Dan Springer and his crew had a run in with the radical leftists in CHOP
...formerly known as CHAZ, and before that as Seattle...
when they went to the zone in Seattle to do some location shooting.
It seems they did not quietly leave in the night, as previously reported.
But according to Fox, he was having trouble with the shot because of the “filthy language” being used by the radicals which he told his producer. According to Fox, it was then that one of them shoved him and threw a hot cup of coffee in his face and on his jacket. You can see the apparent altercation here where he was clearly assaulted and he didn’t start the contact. Yet reality didn’t seem to matter and it degenerated from there.
Springer and the crew then tried to leave in their car, but they were surrounded by people demanding that he apologize to the woman, claiming he pushed her.
They then followed the crew to their car and wouldn’t let them leave. The woman claiming that he pushed her jumped on top of his car, others surrounded the car and wouldn’t let them leave. One man even laid down in front of the car, as they agitatedly demanded he apologize to the woman.
[RedState] Part Three below looks more closely at the actual sentencing proceeding, the activity of Zelinsky & Company as part of that sentencing process, and the degree to which their actions actually deviated from DOJ policy notwithstanding Zelinsky’s loud protests to the House Judiciary Committee and to the media that the prosecutors were subjected to improper political interference.
The truth of the matter — if you understand the process — is that Zelinsky & Company proposed what is known as and “objectively unreasonable” sentence when they asked the Court to sentence a 67 year old first time offender to over 7 years in federal prison rather than a more typical term of between 2 and 4 years — largely because of hyperbolic and rhetorical “threats” made by Stone to someone who was a “frenemy.”
[MSN] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot accused President Donald Trump of targeting Democratic, female mayors in larger U.S. cities with "misogynistic and racist rants" after the president wrote a letter to her on the city's increasing violence.
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Once again confusing cause and effect. Sort of like high levels of crime in a neighborhood attract cops. Don't address the symptom, address the cause. Now look in the mirror.
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SHOULD BE "lite-BRAINED" instead of lightfootizes. A elevated MORON in the least. AND MORE IMBECILIC TW?TS that voted for this TW?T! THIS ONES BREAD IS NOT DONE! OH WAIT It is chit-cago.
Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease!
[THEHILL] Former national security adviser Susan Rice said Monday that she is "humbled and honored" to be considered as a possible running mate for former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020... . Asked by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow if she is "in talks with the Biden campaign," Rice responded: "To the extent that it is reported that I am under consideration in a serious way for the vice president slot, let me just say that I’m extremely humbled and honored to be talked about in the context of so many extraordinary women."
"All I care about is getting Joe Biden elected president of the United States so that we again have competent, compassionate, loyal, effective leadership in the White House and flipping the Senate so that the Democrats control the Senate so we can pursue an agenda of healing for this country, one that tries to address the extraordinary racial and socioeconomic disparities that have been plain for all to see and that can restore our global leadership," Rice continued.
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When at the State Department in the 90's Rice was a disaster. Inter alia, she allowed OBLaden to walk from Sudan after the US rejected the Sudanese offer to hand him over.
[THEHILL] Ryan Lizza, chief Washington correspondent for Politico, asked White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday if President Trump believes "it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War," prompting McEnany to call the question "absolutely absurd."
"I think a lot of people are trying to understand what his view of memorializing the Confederacy is and the proper place of the Confederate flag," Lizza, who also serves as a CNN senior political analyst, said at a White House press briefing. "Does President Trump believe that it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War?"
"Well, your first question is absolutely absurd. He's proud of the United States of America," McEnany responded.
Lizza also asked if Trump had any plans to ban the Confederate flag at his rallies, similar to NASCAR's decision earlier this month following the May 25 police killing of George Floyd that sparked mass protests across the country.
"That would be a question for his campaign," McEnany said before citing a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey that she said underscored the president's position on "preserving our history."
[NYPOST] Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ...We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... upbraided President Trump for his response to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic during a stump speech on Tuesday where he took questions from news hounds for the first time since March — and called one of them a "lying dog face."
Appearing before a giant American flag at a school in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, the former veep accused Trump of squandering the three months since the virus first arrived on US shores and said the country was no better prepared than in March.
"It’s almost July and it seems our wartime president has surrendered, waved the white flag and abandoned the battlefield," said Biden, 77.
"We don’t need a cheerleader, Mr. President. We need a president, Mr. President," he added.
The presumptive Democratic nominee outlined his plans for dealing with the pandemic as the nation experiences a troubling surge of new infections, including doubling the number of testing sites and fixing ongoing shortages in protective gear.
Biden, who has been stuck at his Wilmington home during the pandemic, also took questions from news hounds for the first time in months after the Trump campaign accused him of hiding.
But the gaffe-prone former politician lashed out when one news hound mentioned his own mental deterioration at age 65 and asked Biden if he had been tested for cognitive decline.
"You’re a lying dog face," Biden said, apparently irritated that the news hound kept asking questions as he tried to leave the event, before adding that he was "constantly tested."
"All you gotta do is watch me and I can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of the man I’m running against," he said.
The former veep infamously called a college student a "lying dog-faced pony soldier" at a campaign event in New Hampshire in February, an experience she described as "humiliating."
Biden also attacked Trump’s own cognitive abilities — a line of attack usually deployed by the Trump campaign against him — when quizzed on reports the president was briefed but failed to act on intelligence that Russia had paid Talibs to kill US troops, a claim the White House has denied.
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Constantly tested? Can he say how, perhaps name the staff resident psychologist who is doing it in the bunker and on trips? Seriously, this is an amazing lie, and if nothing else, doesn 't his admission here of "constant testing" show that the motive behind this is doubt on his own side about his mental acuity?
[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] Under normal conditions one might expect to identify this moment as the official moment the rubicon of DNC insanity has been crossed. However, it's easy to be generous with someone else's money... it’s 2020;... therefore as soon as you think the boundaries of DNC "If you're white you ain't right!"
stupidity have been reached, the DNC will bring out their stupid boundary stretchers.
In a tweet earlier tonight the DNC takes the official position that celebrating the fourth of July is the equivalent of celebrating white supremacy ...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts individual happiness first will invariably fail. Strangely enough, other successful societies, such as China, Japan, Korea, and those kinds of places could also be lumped with white supremacist societies, since they push the same values...
Anyone who identifies as a party Democrat will now have to rebuke the fourth of July to retain their party position. Additionally, any democrat caught celebrating the Fourth of July holiday will now be joining a celebration of white supremacy.
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Understand the masks are falling. These are anti-Americans. Americans are left with no place else to go. The Left literally has the world to go to that wallows in their tripe. Americans are given the choice, you either fight or die.
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The DNC, What a bunch of moronic dimwits. It is hard to believe anyone in their right minds would go along with. These people are at war with reality.
For the majority of people in this country, enjoy the holiday. Freedom is not free.
[Twitchy] We’ve written about Seattle City Councilwoman Kashama Sawant,
...properly spelt Kshama Sawant, according to Wikipedia, this immigrant from India claims she was so shocked by the poverty she saw when she arrived here that she gave up a career in software engineering to study economics. Kshama is not merely a Socialist, but an old-fashioned, full-bore (in both senses, I suspect) Trotskyite. She got her start in Seattle politics as an organizer for the local branch of Occupy Wall Street, which explains her enthusiasm for the current CHAZ/CHOP nonsense...
who’s a full-on socialist and heavily invested in the success of the tiny nation of CHOP: she blamed the first fatal shooting there on President Trump and the second on capitalism and its brutality. She’s also the one who unlocked the doors of city hall at the height of the George Floyd protests to let the protesters take over the building.
That last stunt has her in hot water with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, who isn’t a full-blown socialist but is also heavily invested in CHOP, likening it to a “block party,” albeit one with a body count. Reports are that Durkan has had enough of Sawant and is seeking her possible expulsion from city council:
Jenny Durkan's new campaign slogan: My Life Matters
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CHAZ/CHOP being chopped up right now..a couple of live streams on Youtube...one denizen with a bull horn is going on about "We are winning, we are winning!" as the authorities move in.
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The leftist always like to use the word empathy when describing the woke. If only the Mayor had some empathy for business, property owners and her cities own police station would she have cleaned this up before her $7.6 million dollar mansion was threatened by a member of her own city council.
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properly spelt Kshama Sawant, according to Wikipedia, this immigrant from India claims she was so shocked by the poverty she saw when she arrived here that she gave up a career in software engineering to study economics.
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.
[FoxNews] The committee continues its probe of the Russia investigation and FISA abuse.
...Failed seeker of the Democratic presidential nomination on multiple occasions, vice president under Barack Obama, giving it a last try in his dotage for 2020...
[THEHILL] Ryan Lizza, chief Washington correspondent for Politico, asked White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday if President Trump believes "it was a good thing that the South lost the Civil War," prompting McEnany to call the question "absolutely absurd."
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...the pernicious doctrine that laws were intended to be obeyed, that society works better when people don't pour shreiking from their places of worship every Friday for a weekend of rioting over insults real or imagined; and that cannibalism, beastiality, incest, murder, theft, rape, and similar activities are bad. A Dead White European (which invalidates his opinion) philosopher once opined that societies thrive when a person's word can be relied upon, and that a society which puts 
