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Home Front: Politix
Republicans Refute ‘Point by Point' Democratic Memo on Dossier
[Sara Carter] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said the Democratic opposition memo did not change the facts or change the outcome of the investigation’s finding his committee released in their own partisan memo several weeks ago.

On Saturday the much anticipated Democratic memo written by ranking minority member of the committee Rep. Adam Schiff, D-CA, was released and surmised that former British spy "Christopher Steele’s raw intelligence reporting did not inform the FBI’s decision to initiate its counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016" among other assertions. The dossier played a significant role in the investigation into President Trump’s 2016 campaign and alleged that members of the Trump campaign were colluding with the Russian government against then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2018 13:36 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Copy of Redacted Democratic FISA Memo
All ten pages of it.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Someone just please ask the FISA judge(s) who signed off on the warrant if he or they were TOLD or were AWARE the dossier was funded by the Hildebeest.

Guilt of omission it would appear.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/25/2018 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  McCabe testified that but for the fake dossier, the FISA warrant would not have been obtained.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2018 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Powerline's take on it
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2018 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  and Byron York's
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2018 10:46 Comments || Top||

#5  To me, the fact that the Schiff(less) memo is not front page news on every liberal rag in the US and Europe tells me that it is essentially worthless. If the memo accurately, verifiably, and forcefully repudiated the Nunes memo, CNN would be braying this thing 24/7. The fact that CNN, NBC, PMSNBC, CBS, and ABC, heck, even Pravda are silent on the memo, gives me all the information I need about this waste of paper.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/25/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#6  An attempt to repudiate the Nunes memo is on the front page of the Dallas Morning News.

WASHINGTON — The House Intelligence Committee released a redacted version of a Democrat-written memo rebutting GOP allegations that federal law enforcement agencies used politically biased information to conduct surveillance on one of the president's former campaign aides.

Link
Posted by: Bobby || 02/25/2018 11:36 Comments || Top||

#7  Meaning in History analysis: " The Schiff Memo and the Scandal of FISAGATE
The Schiff memo is out, and as could have been expected it's a complete joke from a strictly legal standpoint."
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2018 11:39 Comments || Top||

#8  And the Dems is seven pages, with two-and-a-quarter pages of footnotes.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/25/2018 11:58 Comments || Top||

#9  Again, if someone had told me in the early 70s that in 2018 the left would be rapturously in love with the FBI and CIA, I'd have said, "Oh yeah, sure. What are you smoking?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/25/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#10  "Our jets now."

Calm, comrades! A rosy mañana
Will rise on Obama's Okhrana.
The Don and Ivanka
Will love our Lubyanka's
New fabulous view of Astana.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/25/2018 18:24 Comments || Top||


Obama administration ‘concerned' about sharing intel with Trump
So they told everyone. In the strictest confidence, of course.
[PRESSTV] The administration of former US President Barrack Obama was "justifiably concerned" about sharing sensitive intelligence with his successor, Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, says a lawyer for his national security adviser, Susan Rice.

Rice’s lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, made the comment in a letter to US politicians, in response to GOP Senators Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Lindsey Graham
... the endangered South Carolina RINO, fellow maverick of Honest John McCain...
of South Carolina.

The former administration was "particularly" worried about Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, whom Trump had to dismiss later amid an investigation into Russia’s alleged meddling and possible collusion between the Trump team and the Kremlin to take on Democratic nominee Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton
... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away...
The outgoing administration’s reluctance, Ruemmler said, was memorialized by Rice through an email Rice drafted to herself a January 20, 2017, after she was advised to do so by the White House counsel.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Osama bin Obama Inc. afraid of being caught in obvious Treason (18 U.S.C. 2381) and Espionage (18 U.S.C. 794).

The last time I read the Constitution and Federal Law, those are named crimes named as capital offenses.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/25/2018 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  All this says is that Susan Rice, aka "Liar of Benghazi", has to write emails to herself in order to keep track of all the lies she's told.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/25/2018 8:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Obama administration ‘concerned' about sharing intel with Trump

Particularly the part where they're spying on him
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2018 9:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, if Susan Rice says so...
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/25/2018 11:19 Comments || Top||

#5  What kind of BS is this? Concerns about sharing intelligence with a newly elected President?

All this tells me is they were concerned about sharing a particular TYPE of intelligence with Trump.

Complete and utter crap.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/25/2018 11:19 Comments || Top||

#6  All this tells me is they were concerned about sharing a particular TYPE of intelligence with Trump.

You mean the type that could get them sent to prison?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 02/25/2018 11:22 Comments || Top||

#7  I am annoyed the Obama admin types are still consuming our oxygen.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/25/2018 13:27 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm annoyed that they are still around to annoy me and haven't been locked up in solitary confinement in GITMO
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/25/2018 14:46 Comments || Top||


Hundreds rally in DC for rights of unions working class ahead of Supreme Court vote
[PRESSTV] Hundreds of workers and labor union representatives from across the US rallied at the Freedom Plaza in Washington DC, Saturday, to defend the rights of the working class.

The rally, called "Workers Day of Action," gathered working class families and activists to defend their right to organize and stand up in solidarity ahead of the Supreme Court hearing crucial to workers' union rights.

On Monday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in the case of Janus v. the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, that is due to decide if public service workers who are non-union members would be forced to pay a union to advocate for them on political questions.

The union activists say this case is politically motivated and designed to benefit the corporations in favor of rich and powerful, undermining the rights of the working class.
They work for the government. Corporate fat cats have nothing to do with it.
Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They work for the government people. The people are sovereign. Fundamentally, there can be no 'equal' between the people and the unions. If you choose not to work for the people, you can take your labor elsewhere.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/25/2018 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Hundreds of workers (how Soviet! - ed.) and labor union representatives from across the US ... were bussed in from the four corners of the US after receiving $150 each from a Soros-backed Communist agitation front in order to give the appearance of widespread, popular support, with professionally designed placards shiny new bullhorns.
Posted by: Raj || 02/25/2018 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  It appears SCOTUS will kill required Shop Dues, if only from the caterwauling of the Dems and their Puppetmaster Unions. I have to pay dues for my job, even though I oppose most of their political positions, lobbying, and campaign donations. If they're so good for the worker they should get voluntary membership/dues
Posted by: Frank G || 02/25/2018 10:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Kind of a bald admission that the court *is* political.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/25/2018 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Were the protesters paid union wages to attend?
Posted by: Airandee || 02/25/2018 19:55 Comments || Top||


Kushner will turn on Trump after indictment in Russia probe: Wolff
[PRESSTV] The author of the explosive top-selling book exposing the inner workings of US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s White House insists that the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner will be indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into alleged Russia election meddling and will consequently turn on Trump.

Speaking at London event Friday evening to promote his book, Fire and Fury, author Michael Wolff further opined that Kushner’s indictment will come in the "bloodiest time in this administration," suggesting that Mueller’s investigation could prompt Trump’s biggest crisis yet prior to the midterm US elections next November, when it is highly anticipated that the ruling Republican Party will lose its control of both houses of the US Congress.

"There is a pretty good possibility at this point that Jared will be indicted," Wolff said as quoted in a Huffington Post report on Saturday in response to a question at the book-signing event on whether Trump would ultimately "fire his own daughter?"

"So the more direct question is will Trump throw his son-in-law under the bus, and then the corollary to that is, will his son-in-law throw his father-in-law under the bus?" Wolff emphasized. "And I think the answer to both of those questions is ’yes’."

Posted by: Fred || 02/25/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Muller is a festering boil on the butt of humanity. He has got to go. Low life sewer dweller.
Posted by: Dale || 02/25/2018 5:18 Comments || Top||

#2  In this particular case, Wolff is "a festering boil on the butt of humanity"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/25/2018 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  You are both right.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 02/25/2018 6:06 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 That was concise. Your words are measured as a surgeons scalpel.
Posted by: Dale || 02/25/2018 8:30 Comments || Top||

#5  I'd like to hear more about Mueller's complicity in Uranium 1 when he was Director of the FBI.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/25/2018 10:55 Comments || Top||

#6  There is no bus and there is no reason to find a bus. Everything Kushner has done is completely above board. Remember the fake mini-scandal about the Russian ambassador wanting a "back channel" to communicate with Trump? Well, that's perfectly normal, essentially SOP between leaders of major world powers to allow full free and open communication.

They want to neutralize Kushner because he has traction on a number of foreign policy issues in the ME and with Russia that will bear fruit. The left doesn't want Trump to "solve" the ME or improve relations with Russian and China. They want a shit storm in foreign policy so they can criticize Trump and contrast that with the "normalized" policies of Zero.

If anything is going to happen, it is that Trump will give any effort to tar Kushner a full broadside of his own intelligence that is far higher quality than the crap the FBI and CIA are dishing out.

The deep state really does not know the enemy and they are failing because of it.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/25/2018 11:38 Comments || Top||

#7  MSM is going under. Newsweak is bankrupt. CNN (Clinton News Network) is laying off dozens. Paywalls at Wall Street Journal is a hassel as they try to earn a dime.

Conservative media is stable. Fake news is dieing a disgraceful death.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 02/25/2018 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  The MSM refuses to admit they are not the only game in town and most anyone with a brain cell to produce cognitive thought, to include a few breeds of dogs, knows they are biased to the point of embarrassment against Trump.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/25/2018 14:48 Comments || Top||



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  UN Security Council unanimously votes in favor of Syria ceasefire resolution
Sat 2018-02-24
  US says Jerusalem embassy to open in May, Palestinians furious
Fri 2018-02-23
  Deputy of Islamic State’s Baghdadi killed in Iraqi airstrike: Intelligence source
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  Mali Blast Kills Two French Soldiers
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  SWAT force arrests senior IS, Al-Qaeda commander in central Ramadi
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  9 abducted civilians found dead in Afghanistan
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  Syrian Army deploys entire artillery division of howitzers, field guns, mortars and Grad rocket launchers for east Damascus battle
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  Senior IS Leader Returned to Iraq from Turkey
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  Rebels strike western Syria’s primary power grid to leave millions without electricity
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  Drone strike kills six Al Qaeda suspects in Yemen
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  Jaish-e-Mohammad targets sleeping families at Sunjuwan Army camp, kills two soldiers


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