[Washington Examiner] Former FBI Director James Comey appears to be at the center of the criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, according to former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova.
Over the past few days, former CIA Director John Brennan was interviewed by U.S. Attorney John Durham's team at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, after which his longtime aide said he was told he is not a "subject or a target" of a criminal investigation, and Comey told CBS News on Sunday that he "can't imagine" being a target of the inquiry.
During an appearance Monday on WMAL's Mornings on the Mall show, diGenova, a lawyer whose work was caught up in the Ukraine-impeachment controversy, surmised that Brennan is now a witness against Comey.
"I don't know whether he's a target or not. I can't concede to the fact that he isn't given that Kevin Clinesmith guilty plea last week. But there's no doubt that Comey is at the center of the investigation," he said. "The fact that he has not been interviewed and the fact that the FBI, it is obvious, is now the central focus of the Durham investigation."
DiGenova, a vocal Trump defender who makes weekly appearances on the radio show to offer his take on Justice Department matters and other legal developments, said he doesn't doubt the statement released by Nick Shapiro, Brennan's former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser, which noted that Brennan praised Durham for the "professional manner" he and his team conducted the interview.
"The fact that Brennan's representative said that he was interviewed for eight hours at the CIA by Durham and was told that he was not a subject or a target — I have to believe that. I can't imagine his spokesman would make a false statement about the nature of his relationship Durham, which Durham could quickly correct," DiGenova said.
"I'm assuming that Brennan is free, and as a result of that, he has become a witness against James Comey," he added. "Not willingly, but I think he's been forced to become a witness. And I think it's pretty clear right now that what they are doing is, they're following up on Bill Barr's prescription, which is not every abuse of power is a crime. And that is what Brennan got the benefit of."
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If you want to get Brennan, the dirtiest player for ValJar and Champ, and who is well insulted behind layers of tradecraft and compartmentalised information, you need to get Comey and the FBI leadership thinking they are looking at the bus grill up close. Then the personal safes open and insurance policies suddenly appear. “...you don’t have one of these Jack?”
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Comey's the exact species of weasel to roll back on Brennan and Clapper. For morality and virtue, of course. Bet Brennan's not the only one with records, remember Comey's memos to himself?
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[The Federalist] Last week’s guilty plea by Kevin Clinesmith represents the first concrete evidence of movement in U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the Russia collusion hoax. The plea agreement, which was released on Wednesday, suggests another area ripe for inquiry: FBI Agent Stephen Somma’s earlier misrepresentation of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page’s status to those preparing the initial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications to surveil Page.
Clinesmith, who served as an assistant general counsel in the National Security and Cyber Law Branch of the FBI’s Office of General Counsel, admitted in his plea agreement that he had added the phrase "was not a source" to an email from an unidentified governmental agency, most likely the CIA, concerning Page’s "operation contact" with that agency.
Clinesmith admitted that he had altered the email after a Crossfire Hurricane FBI supervisory special agent (SSA) had asked him to determine if Page had ever been a source for that agency, and wanted something "in writing." Clinesmith forwarded the altered email to the SSA. That cleared the way for the U.S. Department of Justice to obtain the final FISA surveillance order on Page.
Significantly, the plea agreement also noted that "[o]n August 17, 2016, prior to the approval of FISA #1, the [other governmental agency] provided certain members of the Crossfire Hurricane team a memorandum (’August 17 Memorandum’) indicating that [Page] had been approved as an ’operational contact’ for the [other governmental agency] from 2008 to 2013 and detailing information that [Page] had provided to that [agency] concerning [Page]’s prior contacts with certain Russian intelligence officers."
As the plea agreement highlighted, "the first three FISA applications did not include [Page]’s history or status with the [other governmental agency.]" And they should have, as Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse concluded. Wait until DoJ Special Investigator U.S. Attorney John Durham hears about this !
So, while Clinesmith bears responsibility for altering the email concerning Page’s status, thereby clearing the way for the fourth FISA warrant, someone or some-many are responsible for failing to inform the individuals drafting and approving the initial FISA application (and first two renewals) about the details of the August 17, 2016, memo. That fault lies with those "certain members of the Crossfire Hurricane team" who received the August 17, 2016, memo.
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Significantly, the plea agreement also noted that "[o]n August 17, 2016, prior to the approval of FISA #1, the [other governmental agency] provided certain members of the Crossfire Hurricane team a memorandum (’August 17 Memorandum’) indicating that [Page] had been approved as an ’operational contact’
This paragraph is key. Underlined above is the request process, and it must be accompanied by justifications and report forwarding caveats. I believe what we are now seeing is clear evidence of a bilateral operation between agencies.
"Corruption Goes Way Higher." Yes indeed it does. Evidence of the weaponization of US Intelligence and the FBI against the Donald Trump campaign just become more visible.
[Victory Girls] The Democrat Party has always been the party of racism and segregation. That party has always been divisive. I get lectured all the time by black folks and young white women that the Republican party is the party of racism, segregation, and division, but they just don’t know their own history or present. Exhibit One is that New York University has announced that they will have "black only dormitory housing" for the Fall 2021 semester. Separate but equal is back.
I know you are shocked, right. For those of us who have actually read history, we know that the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education ended "separate but equal". Well, not really, because the Democrat led welfare plans keep minorities in housing with bad schools, but on paper it was gone. Now, black students at the very prestigious and private New York have demanded segregated dorms.
The best reporting on this new segregation has been done by the World Socialist Web Site. This website is produced by the Fourth International, Trotskyists who are devoted to the destruction of global capitalism and the formation of global socialism. Well, we cannot rely on the mainstream news organizations so we have to get the truth from somewhere. From the article:
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It's really not working is it? Geen, dit sal ook nooit wees nie. (No, nor will it ever). How many more towns, cities, and countries must be turned to ruin before someone acknowledges the obvious ?
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There are still colleges out there for those who 'feel' oppressed.
UNCF,the United Negro College Fund, also known as the United Fund, is an American philanthropic organization that funds scholarships for black students and general scholarship funds for 37 private historically black colleges and universities. - cite.
Nothing stops them from going there if they want to separate themselves from the general community.
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/\ "NYU does not have and will not create student housing that excludes any student based on race," John Beckman, a spokesperson for the university, told Reason.
It very well may not be NYU policy or something NYU creates. That however, does not mean it won't happen on it's own.
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Let them have all the precincts in the country bounded by "Martin Luther King Drive" and "Malcolm X Avenue" and such.
And stay there.
Segregation Now, Segregation Forevuh
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*Sigh* in the 80's I was told with utmost seriousness that a "Blacks Only" fraternity was a "Good Thing" and a STEM Honor Society not admitting every non-White regardless of their grades was a "Bad Thing"... You can't talk with Zealots.
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Back when I was the dorm, some people thought it fun to blare out rap music at concert level volume. My go to response was to simply put in the Royal Scots Dragoons Pipe & Drum band, max volume for 3-5 minutes. When I turned it down, there would be silence. Only had to do it three times before they learned. Cause you can't drown out bagpipes.
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If you told me, back in the day, that we would be having this conversation in the year 2020, I would have laughed in your face, you acid-addled hippie! So if I did, I apologize.
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Just heard from my mom that a hippie uncle went to Howard university back in the 60s. White guy going to an all black university. Apparently they didn't like him there. Funny that, liberals virtue signaling wokeness before wokeness was even a word.
[NYPOST] Public Advocate Jumaane Williams last week wrote Police Commissioner Dermot Shea demanding answers about "rumors" that the NYPD "is taking part in a deliberate slowdown," implying that this is the explanation for the "horrific rise in shootings across every borough."
What effing chutzpah.
Williams has devoted much of his career to handcuffing the NYPD. As a blistering critic of stop-and-frisk, he led the City Council to pass the Community Safety Act in 2013 over then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg ...Billionaire former Republican mayor and nanny of New York, Dem candidate for president in 2020. Wants to rid the country of assault weapons, other kinds of guns, and 32-ounce soft drinks... ’s veto, installing an Inspector General over the department and creating a "ban on racial profiling" — one in a long series of police "reforms," all authored or backed by Williams, that leave officers second-guessing their every move, with ever-growing fears that their lives will be ruined simply because they did their jobs in a way that doesn’t meet standards that ignore street reality.
The capper was the new law that criminalizes not just police use of "chokeholds," but a large variety of physical contact with a perp — even one violent mostly peacefully resisting arrest.
Last month, as the council moved to "defund the NYPD," Williams threatened to block city property-tax collections if he didn’t think the cuts were deep enough. Then he complained that a budget that eliminated the entire next NYPD class of recruits to shrink the force by 1,000-plus still allowed for a chance of hiring new cops.
Beat officers, especially, have gotten the message: Avoid trouble.
Don’t act on any mere suspicion or instinct to check out possible criminal activity. Leave the obvious gang-bangers alone — the gangs all have lawyers ready to make your life hell. Beware of any physical contact. Unless explicitly ordered, stay out of areas where a crowd might surround you screaming the instant you try to act on a clear violation.
"Deliberate slowdown," Mr. Advocate? No, this is the result of your deliberate demands — the end of the aggressive policing that you’ve been complaining about.
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He's gotten everything he's ever asked for and has every expectation of that state of affairs continuing.
All the fulminating in the world about his chutzpah won't change that fact.
Saying "Have you no decency?" to sociopaths who possess cunning in place of any capacity to reason or empathize is a fool's errand.
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There are NO obvious conditions of improvement between the Mayor, City Council, and Governor. You all voted them in (even if you didn't vote). Enjoy
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NYC may be mostly dead, but it will come back. Eventually. We're just betting on the time-line.
My advice: Don't hold your breath. Detroit is going on 70 years from its peak in the 1950's.
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Detroit is going on 70 years from its peak in the 1950's.
Detroit with a Republican mayor would be back within five years. The problem is they refuse to elect anyone not a party machine Democrat. We’ll see whether New York City learns that lesson — they at least remember thriving under Mayor Giuliani.
[Washington Examiner] Democratic Georgia state Rep. Vernon Jones denounced his own party Monday evening, saying it is "infected" with "intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias."
"The Democratic Party has become infected with a pandemic of intolerance, bigotry, socialism, anti-law enforcement bias, and a dangerous tolerance for people who attack others, destroy their property, and terrorize our own communities," he said during the first night of the Republican National Convention.
Jones broke with his own party earlier this year in supporting President Trump, saying in April that Democrats have "used and abused folks in my community for far too long."
"The Democratic Party does not want black people to leave their mental plantation. We've been forced to be there for decades and generations," Jones said Monday evening. "But I have news for Joe Biden: We are free, we are free people with free minds. I am part of a large and growing segment of the black community who are independent thinkers. And we believe that Donald Trump is the president that America needs to lead us forward."
Jones then reflected on growing up in the South and attending a historically black college.
"I grew up in the South. ... My parents, Robert and Rufer, built with their own hands a four-room cinder block home with no indoor plumbing. They had very limited education. But they instilled in us a strong work ethic that drove me from those tobacco fields of North Carolina to those hallowed halls of the Georgia General Assembly," Jones said. "My parents taught me if I believed in God, worked hard, and treated every person fairly, there was no limit to what we could achieve."
[American Thinker] To my surprise, Jack Cashill's new book, Unmasking Obama, couldn't be more relevant to the political struggle facing us today. In 2020, as in 2008 (and throughout the two Obama presidential terms), the key to political power is what must be called "information warfare" (my term, not Jack's) between the mighty establishment media and the feisty conservative alternative media, which Jack likens to the samizdat underground commentary in the old Soviet Union. It is the process of the unmasking of the phony propaganda peddled by the all-powerful establishment by the resource- and prestige-poor "Lilliputians" (an appropriation of Jonathan Swift's work that the satirist surely would approve of) that is the heart of the book.
The narrative history presented in Unmasking Obama is captivating. Jack takes readers along with him as he was both a participant in the warfare and a historian of it, digging up parts of the elusive truth about the real Barack Obama in the face of derision and obstruction that came his way. But Jack is far from the sole hero of the story of the warfare. Because of his literary detective work, proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Bill Ayers wrote the autobiographical book, Dreams from My Father, that first established Obama as a serious intellect, Jack enjoyed access to many of the most formidable truth-tellers about Obama. The book's prologue, in fact, begins with a phone call Jack received in 2011 from a then little-known lawyer named Michael Cohen, acting as a lawyer for Donald Trump.
Unmasking Obama takes the reader through the major aspects of the fraudulent picture of Obama that was painted by the media and political establishments and details how the truth was uncovered and often partially suppressed by the retaliatory efforts launched in response. It often resembles detective fiction in the drama of the struggle to get at the truth and the struggle to prevent that. I hesitate to call it beach reading, for it is not in any sense fluff, intended to while away time. But it is vastly entertaining and thought-provoking, and the 218 pages fly by rapidly.
Today, exactly the same struggle is underway between the Lilliputians seeking to uncover who really is running the front-man candidacy of Joe Biden and the shadowy movement that is looting and destroying our cities and the coordinated might of the mass media that spends 95% of its time pushing a party line that Trump is an unprecedented threat to human civilization and Joe Biden an amiable and pragmatic centrist.
Future historians, if there are any left still interested and able to dispassionately understand how America came to the current point of crisis, will find the story told in Unmasking Obama a very helpful guide. If journalism is the "first draft of history," Unmasking Obama is a well considered second draft, adding crucial perspective and assessment of the consequences of the real-time reports. You don't have to wait that long, though. It went on sale last week, and is well worth your time.
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
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[Washington Examiner] Former FBI Director James Comey appears to be at the center of the criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, according to former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova.
[The Federalist] Last week’s guilty plea by Kevin Clinesmith represents the first concrete evidence of movement in U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the Russia collusion hoax. The plea agreement, which was released on Wednesday, suggests another area ripe for inquiry: FBI Agent Stephen Somma’s earlier misrepresentation of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page’s status to those preparing the initial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications to surveil Page.
...Billionaire former 
[American Thinker] To my surprise, Jack Cashill's new book, Unmasking Obama, couldn't be more relevant to the political struggle facing us today. In 2020, as in 2008 (and throughout the two Obama presidential terms), the key to political power is what must be called "information warfare" (my term, not Jack's) between the mighty establishment media and the feisty conservative alternative media, which Jack likens to the samizdat underground commentary in the old Soviet Union. It is the process of the unmasking of the phony propaganda peddled by the all-powerful establishment by the resource- and prestige-poor "Lilliputians" (an appropriation of Jonathan Swift's work that the satirist surely would approve of) that is the heart of the book.
