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Several dead in Kabul suicide blast as exiled VP Dostum returns
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI Cited Anti-Trump Media Articles to Wiretap Carter Page
[Gateway Pundit] On Saturday, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton announced documents related to the FISA warrants on Trump’s former campaign advisor, Carter Page were released by the FBI ‐ and arrived at JW headquarters.

Obama’s Deep State FBI and DOJ obtained a FISA warrant on Carter Page in October of 2016 and three subsequent renewals in order to spy on Trump’s campaign and transition team.

Comey, Rosenstein, McCabe and Sally Yates all signed the FISA applications even though Hillary’s fraudulent Russia dossier was used as a pretext to obtain the warrants.

The newly released docs reveal Obama’s Deep State DOJ and FBI withheld information about Hillary Clinton and the DNC being behind the information used to obtain the FISA warrant.

It gets worse...

The newly released docs reveal the FBI used anti-Trump media reports from liberal news sites in order to obtain the Carter Page FISA warrants.

The FBI relied on a July 18, 2016, story in the Washington Post with the headline, "Trump campaign guts GOP’s anti-Russia stance on Ukraine" ‐ a blatantly false description of events, says the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The newly released docs reveal the FBI used anti-Trump media reports from liberal news sites in order to obtain the Carter Page FISA warrants.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 10:53 Comments || Top||

#2  The newly released docs reveal the FBI used anti-Trump media reports from liberal news sites in order to obtain the Carter Page FISA warrants.

The MSM is complicit? What a shocker.

If the premiere intelligence agencies are relying on the MSM for their actionable info, we are in trouble. That's the Obumble approach: "I just saw it on TV or read about it in the newspaper." Just a way to shuck off complicity in some SNAFU or something that went bad or blew back.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 11:02 Comments || Top||

#3  It's like the intelligence agency uses the establishment media to solely protect the establishment...

They're probably too busy making sure the drugs flow.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/23/2018 14:04 Comments || Top||


House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte: We Want Brennan To Testify
[Daily Caller] House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte confirmed to Fox News Channel’s Maria Bartiromo Sunday morning that his committee among others want former CIA Director John Brennan and other former Obama officials to testify before its members.
"We have lots of questions for John Brennan and he will definitely be sought by the Committees for an interview," Goodlatte said. "This is an extremely disturbing thing to see both he and James Comey, supposedly impartial government officials carrying out their jobs in very important areas in intelligence gathering and law enforcement, express the kind of extreme bias that they’ve shown now, which I think reflects quite accurately on what they were doing back in 2016."

Goodlatte went on to confirm that not only will Brennan and Comey be sought but also former Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch, whose meeting with President Bill Clinton on an Arizona tarmac during the 2016 election became scrutinized as it happened while his then-presidential candidate wife Hillary Clinton was under federal investigation.

The news comes as the FBI released over 400 pages of highly redacted FISA document applications relating to the surveillance of onetime foreign policy advisor Carter Page during the 2016 Trump campaign.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If Brennan's cooperation is not forthcoming or is found to be deceptive, I strongly recommend enhanced interrogation techniques.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2018 3:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Thinking rental of an electric chair from Virginia, Florida or Alabama might be the best approach...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2018 3:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Ahh... you would need a chem war level decontamination team on the house floor if this man was pretending to testify.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/23/2018 6:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Congressional hearings have devolved into clown shows. With rare exceptions, all we ever get is a stream of laughable lies, or "I don't recall", or "the answer will harm national security" or the oldie but goodie taking the fifth, interspersed with political speeches. They may be good theater for some, but good governance they ain't.

/MoO
Posted by: PBMcL || 07/23/2018 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Brennan will most likely invoke one or all of the following:
1. Lie
2. Invoke the 5th
3. Say that's classified
4. Use the Hillary rope-a-dope of "I can't recall."
5. Ignore any subpoena and not show up.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 14:11 Comments || Top||

#6  if he ignores the subpeonas, they need to grow a pair. Clap him in irons and jail him for contempt.
Posted by: Boss Spoper5850 || 07/23/2018 16:50 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Clinton State Department's Major Security Breach That Everyone Is Ignoring
h/t Instapundit
...The media, however, virtually ignored another exchange between Gohmert and Strzok that revealed a potential bombshell. Gohmert asked Strzok about his meeting in 2016 with Frank Rucker and Janette McMillan, an investigator and lawyer, respectively, for then-Intelligence Community Inspector General Chuck McCullough (an Obama appointee).

McCullough sent them to see Strzok, who was the FBI’s deputy assistant director for the Counterintelligence Division, to brief him and three other FBI personnel about an "anomaly" that their forensic analysis had found in Clinton’s server.

According to Gohmert, the inspector general discovered that, with four exceptions, "every single one" of Clinton’s emails‐more than 30,000‐"were going to an address that was not on the distribution list."

In other words, according to the information Gohmert received from the intelligence inspector general, something was causing Clinton’s server to send copies of all of her email communications outside of the country "to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia."

If true, this means that Clinton’s email communication with her top aides, department leadership, ambassadors, and other officials, including President Barack Obama, may have been read by an alien entity, perhaps a foreign power hostile to the United States. That could include confidential, sensitive, and even classified information about our foreign policy or our allies.

Gohmert’s exchange with Strzok doesn’t reveal who the foreign entity is, but if not the Russians, the likely culprit is the Chinese government, which has a special unit of hackers within its military that has long targeted the U.S.

Our intelligence agencies have identified the Chinese as responsible for the biggest data breach to ever hit the federal government, the 2015 hack of the Office of Personnel Management that stole the files, including security clearance applications, of 21 million current and former federal employees.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2018 01:32 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's being "ignored" because it very likely involves espionage, and it involves the communications (both classified and unclassified) of Clinton, Soetoro, and others.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2018 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Who really wants to see any member of the Bathhouse or Clinton cabals with their knickers or BVDs down around their ankles?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2018 3:20 Comments || Top||

#3  IMO, many, many, many would like to see that M.M.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 11:16 Comments || Top||

#4  I was thinking literally. I get what you are saying and agree...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2018 11:31 Comments || Top||

#5  "every single one" of Clinton’s emails‐more than 30,000‐"were going to an address that was not on the distribution list"

Chelsea's Wedding Planner, no doubt.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 07/23/2018 12:31 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 The treachery of the written word is my enemy. There may be many who would like to literally see the cabal with their pants down but I thought you meant speaking figuratively, i.e. the cabal prosecuted and in the slammer. There are probably many who have have seen WJC in that way. With Hilda, it is difficult to go there with the imagery although there may be those who have such knowledge such as those who might pitch for the other team.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 13:21 Comments || Top||

#7  The whole clinton crap alot legacy every federal agency the supreme court nato the un foreign countries imf mostly the clinton plague though!
Posted by: Jack Chaiter7913 || 07/23/2018 13:30 Comments || Top||

#8  I think there is an IG investigation in State. I also think the Clinton Foundation is being looked at by the DOJ/FBI. These things seem to take forever. I hope things get cleaned up before the clock runs out.

Hillary's health appears to be on the wane. She's taken to wearing hospital gowns in public. I Don't think she is going to be a viable candidate in 2020 or beyond.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 14:00 Comments || Top||

#9  If the republican's run against the Dem's plan to abolish the USofA by removing it's borders, they'll win easily.

I'm pretty sure the majority of dem voters don't follow the dem parties lurch into Political Oikophobia as a policy..
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/23/2018 14:07 Comments || Top||

#10  Hillary is wearing a life alert button.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 07/23/2018 22:27 Comments || Top||


Keith Ellison Suggests Republicans Want to Suppress Voting
[Daily Caller] Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison suggested that Republicans want to suppress voters in a Sunday tweet.

"Yup," Ellison, who’s also the Democratic National Committee’s deputy chair, replied to another tweet saying "’If voting didn’t matter, the GOP wouldn’t be working so hard to prevent people from doing it.'"

This isn’t the first time Ellison has linked the GOP to voter suppression.

“More proof of Republicans using race to suppress POC votes. Read before you judge,” Ellison tweeted in 2016 with a link to an article that said Republicans who live in districts with “substantial” black populations are most likely to be supportive of voter ID laws.

Ellison also tweeted in March: "We’ve got to ask who benefits from all this racism. Who loses? All of us! Because Florida purged black voters, the whole country got George Bush, which led us into war and enriched big pharma. This happened to everyone of every color. Racism helps elites control everyone else."
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/23/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They don't want "African Americans" to vote more than once?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/23/2018 1:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't want "non citizens" to vote at all. But that's only "voter suppression" if you are a neo Marxist dem...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/23/2018 3:22 Comments || Top||

#3  The Left want to suppress the vote of Americans, by importing new voters, thus open borders.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/23/2018 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Only fools and zealots believe the old tripe that its too difficult to get a drivers license or alternate legal ID.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/23/2018 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  The demoncrats want to keep the rules loose so they can cheat. Anything to tighten them is "Voter Suppression"
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/23/2018 10:57 Comments || Top||

#6  Keith Ellison Suggests Republicans Want to Suppress Voting

Nah, they just want to stop the fraud, rigging, and corruption of the Donk Party.

Rep. Keith Ellison (Dem, MN), what do you have to say about your recent interview with Jake Tapper?: "Jake Tapper Questions Keith Ellison on Connections to ‘Bigot’ Louis Farrakhan."
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/23/2018 11:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes. We want to suppress the dead vote.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/23/2018 11:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Scary thing is there hasn't been a GOP AG in Minnesota for 40 years or so. Based on that, he's gotta be considered the front-runner. Ellison, Al Franken... for a state full of nice people we sure elect some real
Posted by: Mercutio || 07/23/2018 16:12 Comments || Top||

#9  ^ "Shut your mouth!"
"Just talkin' about graft!"
"Then we can dig it."

Almost a haiku innit.
Posted by: Omailing Ominerong7790 || 07/23/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#10  "And politicians say 'Mo taxes will solve everything'"
Posted by: AlanC || 07/23/2018 19:45 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/23/2018 19:51 Comments || Top||



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  Several dead in Kabul suicide blast as exiled VP Dostum returns
Sun 2018-07-22
  Iraq protests death toll reaches 11 amid ongoing popular unrest
Sat 2018-07-21
  Rebels handover more towns to ISIS in southwest Syria
Fri 2018-07-20
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  26 persons killed in regime offensive on Daraa and Qunaitra
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