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Amnesty: All sides violated international law in Mosul
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
IBD throws down the gauntlet on Comey and Mueller
[American Thinker] It needed to be said, and Investor's Business Daily has stepped up and said it well, now that we have reason to believe that a majority of the memos prepared by James Comey on his conversations with the president contained classified information. An IBD editorial extends the logic of the situation to the ultimate conclusion that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, must recuse himself from investigations of President Trump. The writing is excellent, so I urge you to read the whole thing, but here are some key excerpts:

No wonder former FBI Director James Comey refused to press charges last summer against Hillary Clinton for her egregious security breaches: It turns out, he may have been guilty of the same thing. ...

Not surprisingly, perhaps, Trump on Monday morning tweeted out an angry response: "James Comey leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media. That is so illegal!"

He may be onto something there. ...

What Comey did is against FBI rules, and it's a violation of federal secrecy laws, on a par with the violation that Hillary Clinton committed when she decided to run the Secretary of State's office from a private, home-brew email server that was clearly illegal.

The agreement signed by all FBI employees says that "all information acquired by me in connection with my official duties with the FBI and all official material to which I have access remain the property of the United States of America." ...

Hillary signed a similar agreement at the State Department. Yet, she routinely put classified information onto public servers, where it could be grabbed by unscrupulous actors, such as the Chinese and the Russians. ...

Comey's later actions suggest, if anything, he learned from Hillary's chutzpah. You can flout U.S. law, and as long as you have friends and political clout, get away with it ‐ even use your illegality as a bludgeon against your political foes.Comey got Hillary off the hook last year from what appeared to be a slam-dunk prosecution. And please remember, no one thought at the time that Trump had any chance at all of beating Hillary.

Now, we find out Comey played a double game with the public and the newly elected president. A case of a deep-state operative, Comey, trying to sabotage Washington-outsider Trump? Or just someone with a fast-and-loose idea about following the law?

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2017 03:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So the FBI is corrupt. Who investigates the FBI?
Posted by: Spanky Uloluns9394 || 07/12/2017 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  The whole govt is corrupt. Checks and balances are out the window. Congressional investigations are just Kabuki Theater. Courts are political. Look what President Trump is up against from Republicans. Where will you go for justice? The people are forgotten.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/12/2017 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, AP, draining the swamp is gonna be a big, tough job and it might even be impossible. Let's hope not.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/12/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Draining the swamp might just be burn down DC with everyone in it at this point.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/12/2017 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  In a world before it got tainted by corruption, the FBI would be answerable to the AG and the Office of Professional Responsibility within the DOJ. Congress would provide oversight. FBI investigations would be reviewed by the Judicial System during court proceedings. During recent admins., the Executive Branch has tried to do an end-around of these oversight and review systems. We have seen the executive branch perform unmasking unilaterally, spying on members of Congress, and other shenanigans. We have seen corruptible AGs. We have seen the weaponization of government agencies such as the IRS, Bureau of Land Management, the press (e.g. James Rosen) as well as other agencies used against law-abiding citizens. The Patriot Act has acted to deprive law-abiding citizens of fundamental Constitutional rights. Draining the swamp and a re-set are not going to be easy. I'm not sure where the country and its citizens go from here. Pitchforks and tar and feathers--2nd Amendment solutions? ;-)
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/12/2017 15:18 Comments || Top||

#6  We have seen the executive branch perform unmasking unilaterally, spying on members of Congress, and other shenanigans. We have seen corruptible AGs. We have seen the weaponization of government agencies such as the IRS, Bureau of Land Management, the press (e.g. James Rosen) as well as other agencies used against law-abiding citizens.

...the weaponization of government agencies such as the IRS, Bureau of Land Management, as well as other agencies used against law-abiding citizens and the press (e.g. James Rosen). FIFM
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/12/2017 15:21 Comments || Top||

#7  So the Non-disclosure Agreements (NdA) (IC Form 4414) people with access to classified are supposed to sign are not worth the paper they are printed on, right?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 07/12/2017 23:50 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's Intelligence Networks in United States Include 25,000 Spies
[Free Beacon] Beijing's spy networks in the United States include up to 25,000 Chinese intelligence officers and more than 15,000 recruited agents who have stepped up offensive spying activities since 2012, according to a Chinese dissident with close ties to Beijing's military and intelligence establishment.

Guo Wengui, a billionaire businessman who broke with the regime several months ago, said in an interview that he has close ties to the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the civilian intelligence service, and the military spy service of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

"I know the Chinese spy system very, very well," Guo said, speaking through an interpreter, in his first American interview. "I have information about very minute details about how it operates."

Guo said he learned about Chinese spy activities from Ma Jian, a former MSS vice minister, and Ji Shengde, former PLA military intelligence chief.

Ma was director of MSS's No. 8 Bureau, in charge of counterintelligence against foreign targets--including diplomats, businessmen, and reporters--until he was swept up in a Beijing power struggle in December 2015. He was expelled from the Communist Party and imprisoned in January.

Guo said Ma was imprisoned because he had uncovered details of corruption by China's highest-ranking anti-corruption official, Wang Qishan.

Ma said in a video made public by the Chinese government several weeks ago that he worked with Guo in assisting Chinese national security.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2017 03:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  ...on expired student visas.
Posted by: Snavimble Omeart9524 || 07/12/2017 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Spy info found in a Chinese fortune cookie!
Posted by: borgboy || 07/12/2017 12:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Not to be confused with all those Chinese made chips in your computers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/12/2017 13:36 Comments || Top||

#4  and the ones who just pass along anything they think helps the mother country, because they are sure the 21st century ends with the ascent of the Middle Kingdom again, and stealing from the West is just a way to make it happen faster...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 07/12/2017 17:46 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Failed Coup Takes Toll on Turkey's Foreign Policy
[AnNahar] The consequences of the failed July 15 coup in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
increased Ankara's international isolation, exposing shortcomings in the government's sometimes overambitious foreign policy, analysts say.

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Posted by: trailing wife || 07/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Government
In Search of Nelson DeMille's TWA 800 Video
[American Thinker] Nelson DeMille’s bestselling novel. Nightfall, opens on July 17, 1996, with a steamy encounter on a Long Island beach. The man and women involved decide to videotape their coupling. In the process, they inadvertently capture the destruction of TWA Flight 800. The novel centers around that video.

Through his many contacts with the NYPD/Joint Terrorism Task Force DeMille learned there was a real video out there. To the best of my knowledge, the FBI confiscated the original from the MSNBC studios in the early morning hours of July 18, 1996.

Although I have communicated with scores of people who saw the video when it briefly aired, I have only spoken to one who knows exactly what he saw. His name is Thomas Young. Here is his story:
Could this be why the Clintons appear to be virtually untouchable ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2017 03:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The two prevailing theories of the 1982 KC-135 crash in Illinois were electrical in nature; 'over heated fuel pump' and 'spark from communications gear onto leaked fuel fumes in fuselage.'

I have always wondered if the suspected electrical cause of the KC-135 in 1982 crash formed the basis of the 1996 TWA-800 crash (fuel tank) finding, or if their similarities were simply a coincidence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/12/2017 4:45 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Oooooooookay.

These people just ain't gonna give up, are they?

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 07/12/2017 5:10 Comments || Top||



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