[Daily Caller] The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
"The FBI has protected information that would identify the identities of other confidential sources who provided information or intelligence to the FBI" as well as "information provided by those sources," wrote David M. Hardy, the head of the FBI’s Record/Information Dissemination Section (RIDS), in court papers submitted Friday.
Hardy and Department of Justice (DOJ) attorneys submitted the filings in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for the FBI’s four applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page. The DOJ released heavily redacted copies of the four FISA warrant applications on June 20, but USA Today reporter Brad Heath has sued for full copies of the documents.
Hardy’s declaration acknowledged that the confidential sources used by the FBI were in addition to Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the infamous anti-Trump dossier.
"This includes nonpublic information about and provided by Christopher Steele, as well as information about and provided by other confidential sources, all of whom were provided express assurances of confidentiality," Hardy wrote, referring to information disclosed in the four FISA applications. I believe the term for Carter Page is 'mole.' Notice how rapidly interest in Page literally evaporated upon his departure from the Trump Campaign ?
[IsraelTimes] Elena A. Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg is accused of creating thousands of social media and email accounts appearing to belong to US citizens
What next? It’s nice that she’s been charged, but she is completely beyond the reach of the American court system.
The US accused a Russian woman Friday of a sweeping effort to sway American public opinion through social media in the first federal case alleging foreign interference in the 2018 midterm election.
Elena A. Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg is accused of creating thousands of social media and email accounts appearing to belong to US citizens, NBC News reported.
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Could Bonnie Blair Brown be beloved
In the city that's doubly dubbed
In an age of Bad Becky's
And rage-driven wikis?
One flub and she's snubbed and unsubbed.
[Breitbart] House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told a gathering at the 92nd Street Y in New York on Sunday that there may have to be "collateral damage" to those Americans who do not agree with the Democratic Party agenda.
Pelosi was being interviewed onstage by Paul Krugman, the left-wing New York Times columnist and Nobel economic laureate who predicted, the day Donald Trump won the presidency, that Trump would trigger "a global recession, with no end in sight."
In a long, rambling monologue, during which she stumbled on her words and appeared to lose her train of thought, Pelosi said:
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Paul Krugman, the left-wing New York Times columnist and Nobel economic laureate who predicted, the day Donald Trump won the presidency, that Trump would trigger "a global recession, with no end in sight."
He should be beaten. Every single day that there's no global recession. To remind him how "scientific" economics is, especially by a mental political midget
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Paul Krugman?
Exile him to a deserted atoll with a straw hat and a fishing pole for the rest of his life. If we are feeling generous have the crew put in a hut, vegetable garden and two (2) goats before dropping him off. Maybe he will actually use the "quality time" away from politics to create something useful.
[Free Beacon] New court filings document the extent to which the Obama administration used government power to target disfavored industries, and subsequently sought to avoid responsibility for its targeting program.
The new information comes from a motion for summary judgement filed in federal court by the plaintiffs in Advance America et al. v. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. et al.
Advance America, a payday lender, was one of the firms targeted by Operation Choke Point. The company contends‐and the documents it filed show‐that the FDIC was consciously working to target a totally legal industry, and also at a number of points to deny its involvement in the same work.
Choke Point was an initiative under which the Obama administration tried to shut down disfavored industries by removing their access to payment processing and other banking services, thereby cutting off their financial "oxygen." They did so by applying pressure to third-party banks through the FDIC and other federal financial regulators. Targeted businesses were almost all entirely legal, and included ammunition sales, online gambling, and payday loans.
The FDIC has repeatedly denied that it specifically targeted payday lenders. FDIC chairman Martin Gruenberg told Congress in written testimony that targeting payday lenders was "not consistent with our policy," and claimed that the corporation had taken "a number of significant steps" to discourage targeting firms that were otherwise operating within the law.
However, the new court filings tell a completely different story.
They go back to late 2010 and early 2011 when, according to a deposition from Chicago Regional FDIC Director Anthony Lowe, the FDIC's leadership in D.C. informed regional chiefs that "if a bank was found to be involved in payday lending, someone was going to be fired." This directive made clear to Lowe and his colleagues that they should exercise their power to make sure that payday lenders could not get access to banks.
This effort was clearly in line with the priority of the highest levels of authority at the FDIC. Gruenberg told colleague and Director of the Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection Mark Pearce that "we should discuss" a New York Times article about payday lending and banking in an email. Another email shows that Gruenberg also met personally with a senior bank official to push the bank to withdraw from its involvement with payday lending.
The targeting of payday lenders flowed out of Washington and to the various regional directors. Atlanta Regional Director Thomas Dujenski, who was deposed for the lawsuit, wrote in an email released by Advance America that he "literally can not stand pay day lending. They are abusive, fundamentally wrong, hurt people, and do not deserve to be in any way associated with banking." He would later tell employees that "any banks even remotely involved in payday [lending] should be promptly brought to my attention."
Dujenski's specific focus on choking off payday lenders was clearly of interest to top brass. In one email, he reported to FDIC director Mark Pearce that "I think you will be pleased" because a bank had stopped permitting payday loan providers to use its payment processing service.
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They are abusive, fundamentally wrong, hurt people, and do not deserve to be in any way associated with banking.
An excellent description of Wells Fargo - which is still in business.
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Back in FDR's reign presidency the stories about his feud with the politician Huey Long involve stories of every facet of the Federal workforce being "weaponized" in the struggle. After FDR the presidency was limited to two terms or we would probably be stuck with President For Life Obama.
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Same as they're still politically doing with legal 2nd Amendment firms - denying banking, credit card services. The Trump admin should say: service them equally or we'll withdraw funding, FDIC coverage, deposit insurance BY BANK NAME
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Sue and or depose the Bammer. Now that would be a popcorn feast.
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Publicly Traded Banks have fiduciary interest ion their shareholders. Make their policies hurt their bottom lines and they'll change. Visa and Mastercard have the same. Perhaps they shouldn't be allowed to operate without servicing all legal businesses the same?
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Given time, he could financially starve businesses and owners who disagreed with him and his policies . . . .
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[Daily Caller] The U.S. government revealed in court filings Friday that the FBI used multiple confidential informants, including some who were paid for their information, as part of its investigation into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
[IsraelTimes] Elena A. Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg is accused of creating thousands of social media and email accounts appearing to belong to US citizens
[Free Beacon] New court filings document the extent to which the Obama administration used government power to target disfavored industries, and subsequently sought to avoid responsibility for its targeting program.
