This post from a comment provided today by our own Cingold.
[The Last Refuge] Foolishness and betrayal of our country have served to reveal dangers within our present condition. Misplaced corrective action, regardless of intent, is neither safe nor wise. The intelligence apparatus was weaponized against a candidate by those who controlled the levers of government. This is what AG Bill Barr needs to explain to the nation.
The purpose behind briefing Durham’s lead investigator William Aldenberg was essentially to provide an understanding of what we the people already know. The purpose behind releasing the investigator name is to cut through the chaff and countermeasures and give face to the unit holding the precarious responsibility of sunlight.
The position of Bill Barr, and indeed our nation today, is a direct result of decisions made by Main Justice -as run by the special counsel- in the Fall of 2017 & Summer of 2018.
The events surrounding the leaking of the FISA warrant used against U.S. person Carter Page; the purposeful cover-up by Andrew Weissmann; and the downstream 2018 DOJ decision not to prosecute SSCI Security Director James Wolfe for those leaks, was the fork in the road moment for the Department of Justice — and the institutions of government as a whole.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was recused. As admitted in his June 2nd testimony Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was providing no special counsel oversight, and the Mueller team was essentially controlling all DOJ activity. That was when the DOJ made a decision not to prosecute Wolfe for leaking classified information. DC U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu signed-off on a plea deal where Wolfe plead guilty to only a single count of lying to the FBI.
If the DOJ had pursued the case against Wolfe for leaking the FISA application, everything would have been different. The American electorate would have seen evidence of what was taking place in the background effort to remove President Trump; and we would be in an entirely different place today if that prosecution or trial had taken place.
[Real Clear Politics] News reports have downplayed the significance of former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith’s guilty plea, acknowledging he altered an official document in the government’s Trump-Russia collusion probe. There has been some coverage, mainly because it is so rare to see FBI agents charged with a felony and because it is the first tangible result of U.S. Attorney John Durham’s sprawling investigation of the investigators. But mainstream news outlets have minimized its importance. It’s only one count, they say, and it deals with a relatively minor crime by a mid-level figure.
That’s spin, and it’s wrong. This plea is like finding water seeping from the base of a dam. The problem is not one muddy puddle. The problem is that it foreshadows the dam’s failure, releasing a torrent. That’s what the Clinesmith plea portends.
WHAT DID CLINESMITH ADMIT?
Clinesmith acknowledges he altered an email from the CIA to the FBI, answering a question about Carter Page. Page is an American citizen and a Naval Academy graduate who spent considerable time in Russia. His time abroad raised a question for the FBI’s counter-intelligence division. Was Page a Russian agent? Or was he on our side, helping the U.S. gather intelligence about the Kremlin? The CIA would know.
The answer mattered because the FBI and Department of Justice were preparing warrants to spy on Page as a hostile foreign agent. The CIA gave them a clear answer in August 2016, before the first warrant was issued: Page was working for us. That answer was given to a still-unnamed FBI case agent, and we don’t know what he did with it. Did he show it to those preparing the warrant applications? Why else would he even ask the CIA for the information?
In 2017, after Clinesmith was tasked to the Mueller investigation, their team asked him to clarify Page’s relationship with U.S. intelligence. That’s when he took the CIA document and added a single word, "not." The altered document said Carter Page was not a CIA asset. It was a deliberate lie.
Clinesmith is pleading guilty to inserting that word and changing the document. That’s a felony. What made his crime more significant is that the altered document was then presented to the secret court overseeing actions taken under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The special counsel included it in the fourth FISA application to spy on Page.
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It's important because it's one of a whole cluster of lies all oriented in the direction of spying on Trump. Clinesmith didn't start this. He's too small. He was told to do it.
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No the dam will not break - its holding out for its new Swamp King, Biden. Just look at all those former GOP people like McCain (spit) wife, Powell, and all the other swamp anti-trumpers speaking out at the DNC.
Unless Trump is re-elected they will hold out in hopes that Biden and the swamp-GOP will rescue them.
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And, if Trump is re-elected, just keeping them all lawyered up for the next four years will hurt their a$$es plenty.
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I'm not all that excited.
I have seen this Upper level CYA political process play out too many times.
What we maybe be seeing is the Deep State has found their needed and semi-willing scapegoat(s).
Now the Deep State owned media can go to work to hint and argue now that ______ was the root cause of everything that transpired and _____ hoodwinked the others up and in the chain.
As is usually the case.
Those that get outed, charged and convicted will have a long drawn out or short hidden media process depending on which side to political spectrum they are on. Resulting in either a quick plea to bury it with a light slap. Or a long drawn out trial that the public's short attention span will get bored of and switch channels in 3 to 5 days. Both accomplishing the same goal, the Deflection of public attention from the real persons until after the election.
At most we may see a few other low level flunkies, get dragged into the media mud to accomplish their deflective goals.
Worry not tho.
DC appointed Scapegoats that have taken the time to have well documented "protection", are often well rewarded.
However, IF the person actually poses a uncontrollable threat to upper levels ... well accidents do happen.
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NN2N1, your thoughts are a cogent summary of how I pretty much believe this will play out.
Without all my incoherent cussing, of course.
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The corruption and arrogance of the [sarc on]Entitlement Class (TM)[/sarc off] extends right into the Republican-controlled uniparty Senate, which is why there hasn’t yet been an accounting.
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Nothing will truly happen until the election. Then if Trump wins, sometime after new years the dam will break as these weasels try to save their own butts.
The question is how far will it go up the chain and how much evidence will there be against those folks to do anything.
They should have cut deals blaming Obama earlier in the summer. Save their buts while daring Trump to go after Obama. Media would claim it was a politically motivated witch hunt. black vote would desert Trump.
[USA Today] Black newborns are more likely to survive during childbirth when cared for by Black doctors, according to a new study.
In the United States, Black babies die at three times the rate of white newborns during their initial hospital stays, according to a peer-reviewed study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But when Black doctors cared for Black babies, their mortality rate was cut in half.
While this data doesn't tell us exactly why this happens, a mix of structural issues could've contributed and "each are really disturbing," according to Brad Greenwood, study co-author and an associate professor of Information Systems & Operations Management Sciences at George Mason University said
"I don't think any of us would suggest as co-authors that these results are manifesting as a result of malicious bias on the part of physicians," Greenwood said. "I also think that underscores how insidious something like this is. Children are dying as a result of just structural problems."
Researchers analyzed 1.8 million hospital birth records in Florida between 1992 and 2015 and identified the race of the doctor. The study found the largest decrease in Black newborn mortality rate occurred in complex births and at hospitals that deliver more Black babies.
The race of the doctor caring for white babies did not make much difference to the likelihood of survival and there was no statistically significant improvement in maternal mortality — which is also higher for Black women —when mothers were the same race as their doctor.
'Going to the doctor is a fear':How doulas are helping one city lower its high rate of black infant deaths
The stark differences in infant mortality are not due to a biological difference, but rather likely due to the legacy of structural racism, according to study co-author Rachel Hardeman, a reproductive health equity researcher and associate professor at the University of Minnesota. She cited one theory that suggests Black women are less healthy and at greater risk for negative health outcomes during pregnancy because of the cumulative effects of racism and socioeconomic disadvantage over the course of their lives.
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While this data doesn't tell us exactly why this happens, a mix of structural issues could've contributed and "each are really disturbing,"
Is the "study" including Planned Parenthood" centers as a hospital stay? No mention of drug usage, or did I miss it? What about prenatal care? Could it be the same or similar "social issues" that account for violent death of so many urban youth ?
[EpochTimes] The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knows what’s coming to the people of China: food shortages. That’s the reason behind Beijing’s latest draconian edict to the people, the so-called "Clean Plates Campaign." Once enacted, the new law will limit the amount of food that people can order at a restaurant and may even extend into what amounts Chinese citizens can consume in their own households.
This latest totalitarian move by the CCP comes on the heels of Beijing’s very public arrest of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, whom Beijing designated a threat to national security. The two may not seem related, but evidently, freedom of speech and freedom of dining are both considered by the Party to pose national security risks.
Unfortunately, China has seen a significant rise in China’s food prices, particularly pork, which is the national staple. As of this past July, an almost 90 percent year-over-year rise in pork prices was recorded, and overall food prices rose 10 percent over the same time period.
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This means famine through the Third World (already reeling under Xi's gift), since China can outbid them (and humanitarian organizations) in food market.
[Washington Examiner] Stock markets hit their first records since the pandemic began, erasing a historic plunge during February and March.
The S&P 500 closed about a tenth of a percentage point above its previous high of 3386.15 on Feb. 19, making the pandemic bear market the shortest in history.
The record highs for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq come despite the millions of people who are out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic.
"Many continue to wonder why stocks are at new highs with 10% unemployment and nearly a million people filing for initial unemployment claims. The truth is, economic data is backward-looking, and stocks are looking ahead to a much brighter future," said Ryan Detrick, chief investment strategist at LPL Financial, according to Market Watch.
Shares of tech companies, which have been able to capitalize in many cases on mass social distancing, led the broader market to regain losses over the past five months.
"Markets are seemingly encouraged by a nationwide improvement in coronavirus data after a spike in various parts of the country last month," Brian Price, head of investment management for Commonwealth Financial Network, told Yahoo. "Big Tech and certain consumer companies like Amazon continue to do well."
Price added that investors will have to remain "vigilant" in the coming months for another resurgence in coronavirus cases similar to what the United States experienced over the summer. Other risk factors that could affect the market’s recovery include failure to pass another relief bill and the upcoming elections.
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There is also the "presidential cycle" for the stock market (trillions from the central banks aside). A market rise in this, the 4th year, is no surprise.
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[EpochTimes] The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) knows what’s coming to the people of China: food shortages. That’s the reason behind Beijing’s latest draconian edict to the people, the so-called "Clean Plates Campaign." Once enacted, the new law will limit the amount of food that people can order at a restaurant and may even extend into what amounts Chinese citizens can consume in their own households.
