[PJ] Former FBI Assistant Director James Kallstrom says a strong case can be made for an obstruction of justice charge against demoted FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok and many others at the FBI and Department of Justice. Strzok, the former assistant director argued, "belongs behind bars."
Kallstrom was on Fox Business Thursday to talk about the conflicts of interest in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s influence in the 2016 U.S. election.
He began by ridiculing Strzok's apparent self-image as a "Lone Ranger riding to the rescue of America."
"Nothing could be further from the truth," Kallstrom scoffed. "Obama went a long way toward destroying this nation in my view. The economy -- he doubled the debt, he screwed up the military, he had the FBI become extremely politically correct, and never mind the foreign policy disasters," Kallstrom argued.
"And here's that so-called Lone Ranger riding in to save the country. It's just outrageous!" he added.
"I've talked to some legal minds recently here and I think ... an investigation would bring a strong, strong obstruction of justice case against him and many others. I think this is a cabal, I think this is a conspiracy," he argued. "That whole thing -- that dossier -- is B.S. and if they took that to the FISA Court and they knew it was B.S., then they're in a lot of trouble. And if they didn't know it was B.S., then they're totally incompetent."
Kallstrom pointed out that the vast majority of people in the FBI are good, honorable people, but a small cabal in leadership positions are a "disgrace."
"That wife of that guy in the Justice Dept. [Bruce Ohr, the former associate deputy attorney general] on a shortwave radio talking to that guy over there in Great Britain [British spy Christopher Steele]. ... What a disgrace! This thing is an absolute fraud!" he exclaimed. "The attorney general of the United States should either resign or do something about it."
Kallstrom opined that based on what he could see from Strzok's damning text messages, Strzok "belongs in Leavenworth."
"He belongs behind bars," the former G-man argued. "These things cannot happen in a democracy, particularly in the FBI."
Kallstrom expressed profound disappointment in Robert Mueller, whom he worked with years ago, saying his treatment of Paul Manafort was particularly outrageous.
#2
There's probably a few more DOJ type in trouble, whether they know it or not. Looking at the recent slew of 'mistaken' stories running in the news, I'm wondering if the IG's office has been playing a round of feed the mole.
It runs like this: The IG has investigated and come up with a list of likely leakers, but you need to indict them for certain. So what you do is you set up your 'trails and traps', and feed each of them a plausible piece of BS, let's say "they've supoena'd Trump's Deutschbank records", and wait to see who runs to a phone.
If an indictment follows, they got them. If an indictment doesn't follow, it means the leak and their contact (i.e. newsman) have agreed to be played.
Just sayin'...
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I agree Ed, hopefully the IG report will dovetail with indictments.
#2
Major gain of salt given the source (Conservative Nuthouse is not exactly reliable when it comes to truth vs sensationalism).
But if true, then AG Sessions must terminate Mueller and prosecute him for breaking the law. And do it quickly.
There is already a very bad political stench coming from the FBI and Justice Dept regarding the partisan nature and politicization of the both organizations prior to the election by people closely involved with the Mueller team now.
If the political parties were reversed, the press would be howling about the corruption and demanding action. This is the worst since the days of Nixon abusing the NSA and other agencies for political purposes.
He's really had it in for Barry since the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner and the very public personal insults from 'O' at that venue.
Watching a video showing Trump's expression changes during Barry's 'performance', I saw Trump's jaw 'set'. The timeline for extreme payback had begun.
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#5
I only hope that "playing possum" or "giving rope" ends in Mueller getting the same treatment as Manafort.
I'd love to see his home raided by armed FBI.
#6
Could it have been that the reason the long knives came out so early for Flynn is that he knew about this early on? You don't get into NSA without some connections and understanding of intelligence.
I am still hoping for the grand visual of Obama and Hillary and Slick Willie being led off in handcuffs.
#7
Could it have been that the reason the long knives came out so early for Flynn is that he knew about this early on? You don't get into NSA without some connections and understanding of intelligence.
Prior to he and his civilian deputy being fired by the Obama team, Flynn was the director of DIA. Flynn however, was pals with Keith Alexander, former NSA director. BTW, Flynn's firing at DIA was said to have been over a DIA squabble with the Klingon's concerning the expansion of human intelligence collection.
#8
I think that human intelligence collection issue was directed at Trump and Flynn called BS on the FISA warrant and got fired...or is my timeline out of whack again?
[Daily Caller] European populist leaders met in the Czech Republic over the weekend to discussed a united continent without the European Union.
Leaders from countries including the Netherlands, Italy, Austria and the United Kingdom rallied together in Prague under the theme "For a Europe of Sovereign Nations." French National Front leader Marine Le Pen blamed the E.U. for "everything wrong" on the continent.
"Because we love Europe, we accuse the EU of killing Europe," Le Pen said, according to CBS. "We are not xenophobes, we are opponents of the European Union."
Geert Wilders of the Dutch Freedom Party backed U.S President Donald Trump’s call to limit immigration with walls and travel bans.
"We must have the courage, to introduce travel bans as President Trump has done in the United States," Wilders said. "We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it. We must have the courage to repatriate the illegal immigrants."
[Breitbart] Saturday on Fox News Channel’s "Watters’ World," host Jesse Watters suggested that anti-Trump texts from Peter Strzok and another FBI agent could be proof of "coup" going on in FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to remove President Donald Trump from office.
Waters said, "The investigation into Donald Trump’s campaign has been crooked from the jump. But the scary part is we may now have proof the investigation was weaponized to destroy his presidency for partisan political purposes and to disenfranchise millions of American voters. Now, if that’s true, we have a coup on our hands in America."
BLUF:
[American Thinker] The scenario is of a horribly politicized, lawless operation within the FBI and DOJ, tied to the Obama-Clinton cabal. It's bad actors doing unthinkable, unprecedented, and horrid things. This is far beyond Watergate. It's the worst political scandal we've ever seen, and it's about to blow.
All these rumblings are the "opportunities to be seized" from Sun Tzu. It's been noted that so much is leaking out about all this, there must be a plan to slowly make the public aware of just how big the train is around the corner. We can all hear it coming now.
Ladies and gentlemen, the fan is about to be hit. Operation Counter-Strike. Deceptive. Yet right in front of us all. The trap is sprung. The Hessians were drunk on their own self-righteousness and sleeping while the battle crept up on them. Planned by an orange oaf.
#1
The Flynn plea deal also has nothing to do with Trump-Russia, as was so poorly reported. We have little to go on, because the mainstream media want it so badly to be about Trump-Russia that they've reported that as fact. But it isn't. Say what you will, but Flynn is not stupid. He knows more about this mess of counter-intelligence than anyone. We know he despises the Obama-Clinton cabal, and we know he is a Trump-supporter, so something isn't clear about his part.
My guess (and only a guess) is Flynn's plans to coordinate a repatriation of Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen created the storm. Gulen would have never been able to survive a Turkish interrogation. Fact or fiction, once back in Turkey, Gulen would have outed his US Intelligence handlers within 24 hours of his return.
Erdogan would have gleefully used a Gulen admission as justification for pulling out of Nato, seizing Incirlik, demanding huge US monetary ransom for the failed July 2016 military coup, or all three.
Added to the mix is the potential involvement of Mike Flynn's son. A man will say or do nearly anything for a son or daughter.
Lastly, the 12 Turkish security guards arrested back in June of beating "protesters," may have not been security guards. Taking it a bit further, the protesters may have also had full-time positions elsewhere within the beltway.
#2
So, when (not if) they tie this back to the Obama white house, have we ever had a former POTUS indicted and imprisoned for any "High Crimes" in the past?
We know this entire stinking pile of feces that is about to hit the fan starts and finishes with Obama and his lefty friends and their militarized IRS, BLM, and various other SWAT teams wanting to turn the US into a Trotsky/Lenin dictatorship.
#3
How can Turkey open an embassy in East Jerusalem without Israeli approval? He is expressing the pious hope for a Palestinian nation with its capitol in East Jerusalem “Speedily, speedily, in our day.”
[American Thinker] With the news that his people illegally obtained the Trump transition emails ‐ many of them having no conceivable bearing on his "inquiry" -- Robert Mueller’s investigation proceeds even further into disintegration.
This is not at all how it was supposed to turn out. Hillary, the DNC, and the #NeverTrumpers no doubt hoped that the special counsel would result in the ouster of Donald Trump, or at least the crippling of his administration. For his part, Mueller very likely foresaw a few easy convictions and the humiliation of a president followed by the customary best-selling book, lucrative lecture tour, and a secure place in the pantheon of left-wing heroes somewhere between Woodward, Bernstein, and Valerie Plame.
But that’s not what happened. Instead, Mueller’s effort lurches unstoppably toward the abyss, while the counsel himself more and more closely resembles Captain Edward John Smith, standing rooted on the bridge while the iceberg glides inevitably closer.
The Mueller team’s lunge into criminality reveals exactly how desperate they’ve become. (and despite what you may have heard from Our Loyal Media, seizing those emails was in fact a crime ‐ presidential transition materials remain private by federal statute. Mueller never should have been allowed near those messages.) Soon enough, they’ll be accused of more crimes than anybody they’re investigating
#1
Edward John Smith, RD was a British Merchant Navy officer. He served as master of numerous White Star Line vessels. He is best known as the captain of the RMS Titanic who perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage
[LI] Rep. Adam Schiff said Thursday he’s concerned Republicans are working to end the Russia investigation. If this man walks up to the urinal next to yours, finish your business quickly and get out.
"I think they view shutting us down as a prerequisite to shutting Bob Mueller down," Schiff said on CNN’s "The Situation Room." "And we see some very disturbing signs that that’s what they intend to do."
In the interview, Schiff noted several Republicans who were critical of special counsel Robert Mueller during a hearing on Wednesday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
And when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked the Democrat from California if he feared Republicans were attempting to pave the way to shut down the investigation, Schiff replied: "I do."
"We are scheduled to have witness interviews out of state at a time next week when we’ll be voting to keep the government running, when we’ll be voting ... potentially, on this tax bill for the wealthy, so we can’t leave to do these interviews, and nonetheless even though these witnesses are very important and have been on our witness list for months and months and they haven’t been willing to bring them in until now, they’re pulling these kind of tactics, which say to me they’re trying to bring this to an end," Schiff later added.
#1
Do these useful idiots understand what happened to them in the days following the Russian Revolution?
Obviously, the left is not as well read as the right on some things and that has left them with a huge blind spot in their self-righteous posturing and fake news.
Too bad they didn't learn the death by a thousand cuts can work both ways.
While an assistant U.S. Attorney, he gained attention by prosecuting a case against Richard Miller, a former FBI agent convicted of "passing secret documents to the Soviet Union in exchange for a promised $65,000 in gold and cash."
When all of the sedition gets out in the open and you are exposed as a useful idiot. How will you feel when you learn you were played by the FBI and the DoJ?
Your 15 minutes of fame are rapidly coming to an end and then it will be a long period of public ridicule for your role in the fake news false flag crap you are transmitting from your talking papers.
[IsraellyCool] Dr Mordechai Kedar, an Israeli scholar of Arabic culture and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University who also speaks fluent Arabic, was recently interviewed by Al Jazeera about Donald Trump’s announcement on Jerusalem.
I bet they wished they hadn’t invited him.
Video at the link, with Hebrew and English subtitles. Utterly devastating.
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Though he loves "killing terrorists," former deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka said Friday that in order to claim victory against ISIS, the U.S. needs to eliminate the caliphate’s ability to recruit jihadists.
"I love killing terrorists. It’s great, but it’s not a metric of victory," Gorka, who was ousted from the White House in August, said at the Heritage Foundation. "You win when people no longer want to become jihadists. That’s victory. Not measuring body bags. That was a bad metric during Vietnam, and it’s not much of a better metric today."
ISIS continues to recruit terrorists all over the world, inspiring deadly attacks everywhere from Barcelona and London to New York and California. This is made possible by recruitment leaders like Mohamad al-Arefe, a radical Saudi cleric with more than 20 million Twitter followers. Just like the Cold War, Gorka said, victory will only come with the defeat of the ideology. He described the more than 16-year war on terror as an "exquisite" game of whack-a-mole.
#1
They will always want to become jihadists - but, maybe, if they're too afraid... The problem with this, Muslims have short memories except for imaginary slights.
#2
"The problem with this, Muslims have" instructions in the Quran to become violent jihadists if a cleric decides to teach it that way.
FIFY.
I disagree with Mr Gorka on one thing: Body bags counts do matter if they are the right bodies. Like if Mohamad al-Arefe were to be filling one, for instance.
Late last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... met the leaders of Iran, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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[American Thinker] Some years back, I decided I had to quit the teaching profession to which I had dedicated half my life. The modern academy, I felt, was so far gone that restoration was no longer possible. Indeed, I now believe that complete collapse is the only hope for the future, but as Woody Allen said about death, I'd rather not be there when it happens.
Three reasons determined my course of action. For one thing, administration had come to deal less with academic issues and more with rules of conduct and punitive codes of behavior, as if it were a policing body rather than an arm of the teaching profession. Woe betide the (male) student accused of sexual assault or misconduct; the administration will convene an extra-judicial tribunal to punish or expel the accused, often with a low burden of proof. It will find ways to shut down conservative speakers. It will browbeat faculty and students to attend sensitivity training sessions on matters of race and gender. It will strike task forces to deal with imaginary issues like campus rape culture and propose draconian measures to contain a raging fantasy. The administration is now beset by two basic compulsions: to expand its reach at the expense of the academic community and to ensure compliance with the puritanical norms of the day. I thought it prudent to take early retirement rather than wait for the guillotine to descend.
For another, colleagues were increasingly buying into the politically correct mantras circulating in the cultural climate. The dubious axioms of "social justice" and equality of outcome, the postmodern campaign against the Western tradition of learning, and the Marxist critique of capitalism now superseded the original purpose of the university to seek out truth, to pursue the impartial study of historical events and movements, and to remain faithful to the rigors of disciplined scholarship. Most of my colleagues were rote members of the left-liberal orthodoxy: pro-Islam, pro-unfettered immigration, pro-abortion, pro-feminist, anti-conservative, anti-Zionist, and anti-white. Departmental committees were now basing their hiring protocols not on demonstrated merit, but on minority and gender identities, leading to marked pedagogical decline. Professional hypocrisy could be glaring. Case in point: The most recent hire speaking at a department meeting was a white woman advocating for more brown and black faces on staff ‐ though, as a recent hire, she had never thought of stepping aside in favor of minority candidates vying for her position. In any event, faculties were and are progressively defined by firebrands on the one hand and soyboys on the other ‐ partisans rather than pedagogues, plaster saints all. I found I could no longer respect the majority of people I had to work with.
But the primary incentive for flight had to do with the caliber of students I was required to instruct. The quality of what we called the student "clientele" had deteriorated so dramatically over the years that the classroom struck me as a barn full of ruminants and the curriculum as a stack of winter ensilage. I knew I could not teach James Joyce's Ulysses or Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain since they were plainly beyond the capacity of our catechumens ‐ mind you, all old enough to vote and be drafted. The level of interest in and attention to the subjects was about as flat as a fallen arch. The ability to write a coherent English sentence was practically nonexistent; ordinary grammar was a traumatic ordeal. In fact, many native English-speakers could not produce a lucid verbal analysis of a text, let alone carry on an intelligible conversation, and some were even unable to properly pronounce common English words. I could not help thinking of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, in which the children of the planet are all translated into some otherworldly dimension. I titled one of my books about our educational debacle The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods, based on an initially mysterious phrase in a student's essay by which, as I discovered after long consultation, he meant to say "the total epidemic of psychopaths." (This is a true story.)
Of course, many of my former colleagues insisted that their students were "just great," that they constituted a "savvy generation," that they were "a privilege to teach." The degree of self-delusion is off the charts, though I suspect that one motive for such professional vagrancy is the half-conscious awareness of a guilty complicity in the advancement of decadence. The desire to vindicate their roles as teachers and to justify obscenely fat salaries takes precedence over simple honesty.
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The level of interest in and attention to the subjects was about as flat as a fallen arch. The ability to write a coherent English sentence was practically nonexistent; ordinary grammar was a traumatic ordeal. In fact, many native English-speakers could not produce a lucid verbal analysis of a text, let alone carry on an intelligible conversation, and some were even unable to properly pronounce common English words.
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The quality of what we called the student "clientele" had deteriorated...
My sister, PhD in Ed and all that, decided to teach Remedial Math courses at a local Junior College. Every semester she had at least one "student" that was there seemingly to harvest the government checks and wanted to pass on trivial matters like attendance, homework and passing tests.
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I put in 4 years as a middle school substitute when I retired in our upper-middle class district.
The kids, in general, were decent and nice, which is not to say diligent. I could reach some of them which was rewarding.......BUT aside from one assistant principal there was not much support from the administration and the support from the teachers was non-existent for the most part.
I stopped when 'common core" became wide spread. You'd think that a math minor and 30+ years in computers would make me competent to teach 7th grade math wouldn't you?
The left-wing indoctrination was grim in all things despite a few stalwart teachers holding out for real scholarship.
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AlanC,
Can I get a heads-up; my daughter is doing stuff in 5th grade I didn't do until 7th grade. Was it the subject matter or the students' lack of preparedness. Daughter is lucky to have a tutor (me) who went far in math and genuinely enjoys the subject. I can see how that isn't the case for a goodly number of students.
every school is different; every teacher is different
in math, there have been a number of technical improvements in teaching over time; in algebra and geometry and trigonometry, there are on line resources that are really wonderful and some of the best teachers made videos of their classes and other teachers watched them
in social science, alas, the field has been invaded by charlatans, propagandists and the like
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swks...
Sorry it was the course work that basically said that any answer was the right one if you thought it was. I left a couple of years ago now and the details are a bit hazy but the statistics unit was bizzare in the extreme. The regular teacher quickly believed that the traditional way of adding up the values and dividing by the quantity of entries had no benefit or validity.
Social studies refused to allow reference to the holocaust.
#8
Indeed, one of the reasons I am where I am instead of where I was.
Couple years back I came home to a house of crying and shouting because of the frustration of a homework page. After getting everyone to chill TFO I looked at the problem at it was an Algebra problem. I was like, 'they don't even have their multiplication tables memorized, what is this?' So I went to the school and asked them. Long answer short, the Kansas version of Common Core is confusing the teachers, who then had a hard time teaching. I thought, my goodness, all the parents who never learned algebra or forgot enough of it to not being able to help their children.
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Khan Academy might be of interest. I remember when the Khan Academy site first started up — he was a Wall Street finance guy, as I recall, and several of his nieces and nephews came to him for help because they were having problems with their various math classes. So he worked up a series of short videos showing them how — and why — to solve the problems they were facing.... and it grew from there. Now one can do an entire education from kindergarten through college just with his material.
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Thank you TW. Daughter is pushing the ceiling and I think the only good reason she is not a grade above would be skipping all the math. If I can fill that gap without burning her out, she could go on.
I have already shown her how, with math, there are various ways to figure the volume of, one example, a clay bowl.
And then from there, we went to 'two choices for clay - one is $1 per unit, the other is $0.75 but requires twice as much to build a bowl...which is the better deal?
A week after this one on one, and a few wry jokes from me about the abysmal wording of her word problems, she got it.
#11
Two opposable thumps up for the Khan Academy. Watching the lessons is like having your Dad sit with you at the kitchen table explaining your homework.
And it is not just for kids. I used them to help backfill the lack of probability in my math education when I took part one of the first massive online courses in Artificial Intelligence.
Udacity, Coursera and edX also have some good stuff, although the latter two are more focused on college level material.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[AmericanSpectator] 
[Breitbart] Saturday on Fox News Channel’s "Watters’ World," host Jesse Watters suggested that anti-Trump texts from Peter Strzok and another FBI agent could be proof of "coup" going on in FBI special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe to remove President Donald Trump from office.
[American Thinker] With the news that his people illegally obtained the Trump transition emails ‐ many of them having no conceivable bearing on his "inquiry" -- Robert Mueller’s investigation proceeds even further into disintegration.
[LI] Rep. Adam Schiff said Thursday he’s concerned Republicans are working to end the Russia investigation.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[American Thinker] Some years back, I decided I had to quit the teaching profession to which I had dedicated half my life. The modern academy, I felt, was so far gone that restoration was no longer possible. Indeed, I now believe that complete collapse is the only hope for the future, but as Woody Allen said about death, I'd rather not be there when it happens.
