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-Lurid Crime Tales-
FBI Knew The ‘Bleach Bit' Computer Guy Lied In Clinton Email Testimony, Gave Him Immunity
[Hot Air] The Hill published a story today based on leaks from a recent House Judiciary Committee meeting where FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe discussed elements of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Republicans on the committee say McCabe outlined some irregularities that suggest the outcome of the investigation was rigged in Clinton’s favor. Among the new findings is that an unnamed tech specialist who used Bleach Bit to wipe Clinton’s server after a congressional subpoena was issued admitted lying to the FBI [emphasis added]:
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2018 05:54 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  PRN holds the keys to the entire matter. The gov't failure to aggressively pursue PRN is telling.

Denver Post September 2016 - FBI report: Platte River Network employee used BleachBit to delete old Clinton e-mails

Platte River Networds. As they say in Louisiana - "Who dat?"

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2018 6:06 Comments || Top||

#2  He asked on REDDIT how to do it.

He was called StoneTear
Interesting

Stone Tear Link found here on reddit.

Way back over a year ago, when it first came out that Hillary never had a State Department email address, and conducted all of her business as Secretary of State through her private server, the very first thing that I said was that this proves conclusively that Darrell Issa and the House Committee on Benghazi weren't investigating anything. The Benghazi hearings were faked.

My reasoning was pretty straightforward. It had been well over two years since the supposed investigation started, so it made no sense to come out now that Hillary never had a Secretary of State email address. By all logic, the very first documents subpoenaed pursuant to the Benghazi investigations should have obviously revealed "Hr22@clintonemail,com."

I now know the truth. Darrell Issa and the House Committee took two years to discover that Hillary Clinton never had a State Department email address BECAUSE the documents they were given CONTAINED a State Department email address. Hillary ordered her tech support to strip out her private address from all the records, and replace it with a spoofed State Department address.

On July 23, 2014, the House Select Committee on Benghazi had reached an agreement with the State Department on the production of records, according to an FBI report

The Reddit post evidence that [unnamed reddit user] wanted to remove a "VERY VIP" email address from archived emails? On July 24, 2014.

There is no doubt that the document dump that Hillary gave to the House Committee was forged. StoneTear stripped the "Hr22@clintonemail,com" address from the emails and replaced it with a spoofed State Department address. Two years later, somehow, the House Committee realized they'd been duped, and that's when the story broke that Hillary used a private server during her four years as Secretary of State.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/04/2018 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  If the FBI knew this, isn't that at least obstruction of justice and at more, worse.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/04/2018 9:35 Comments || Top||


Grassley Says Comey Appears To Have Leaked Classified Memo To Friend
[Daily Caller] James Comey may have leaked at least one classified memo to a friend shortly after he was fired as FBI director.

That’s an assessment from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley, who wrote a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday demanding answers about the handling of memos that Comey wrote following his conversations with President Trump.

Grassley noted that he and his staff recently reviewed seven memos that Comey wrote after his meetings with Trump. Four of those documents contained information classified as "CONFIDENTIAL" or "SECRET."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2018 05:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I thought he already admitted that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/04/2018 10:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Having to go to SIPR to read a leak is a very bad thing.
Posted by: newc || 01/04/2018 21:46 Comments || Top||


Texas County ‘Concealing’ Noncitizen Voter Records, Says Group
[BREITBART] A public interest watchdog put one Texas County on notice for failing to disclose noncitizen registered voter records, the group says.

Shortly before the holidays, the Indiana-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) sent a letter to attorneys representing Bexar County Elections Administrator Jacqueline Callanen to state her office is "hereby notified that it now faces federal litigation should [it] continue to deny access to requested" records related to voters that were later removed for failing to be U.S. citizens. The correspondence noted that Bexar County officials denied the group’s request to personally inspect or duplicate records on the matter in a letter sent on December 14.

The PILF shared its original request dated December 1, 2017, with Breitbart Texas. In that document, the group sought a variety of records in the hopes of determining how many non-U.S. citizens managed to join the local voter registry; the duration of time until they were discovered; and how they came into contact with the voter registration system in the first place. Also requested was any evidence or indication that illegally registered individuals were actually forwarded to proper law enforcement.

On December 14, the PILF received a curt letter from the office of Nicholas "Nico" LaHood, Bexar County District Attorney. Officials declared that under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the same law that PILF cited to seek access to the information, the County was not necessarily subject to such responsibility requiring transparency and access to records. Additionally, the Bexar County D.A.’s office stated that if any person on behalf of the PILF appeared to inspect the requested Bexar County Elections office records, they will be not be granted access beyond the receptionist.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What if they came with a U.S. Federal Marshal and a federal court order?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/04/2018 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully the watchdog won't give up. Bexar is the 3rd or 4th largest county by population in Texas, San Antonio is the county seat.
Posted by: brujotejano || 01/04/2018 11:10 Comments || Top||


Manafort sues DOJ, Mueller over Russia probe authority
[CNN] Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman indicted on money laundering and other charges, filed a lawsuit challenging the broad authority of special counsel Robert Mueller and alleging the Justice Department violated the law in appointing Mueller.

The suit brought Wednesday in US District Court in Washington where Manafort and another former Trump campaign aide are charged, challenges Mueller's decision to charge Manafort with alleged crimes that they say have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign, but rather relate to lucrative lobbying work Manafort and his deputy did for a former Russia-friendly government in Ukraine. That work ended in 2014, the suit says. Manafort and his deputy Rick Gates deny the allegations in the charges.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now that's yuge!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/04/2018 3:06 Comments || Top||

#2  When's podestra getting arrested?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/04/2018 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Breaking on Fox: a Federal Judge denied GPS Fusions' request to withhold their banking records.

Let the discovery begin! Let's see how many reporters were paid distributors of a DNC/Hildabeast's Russian-sourced Propaganda and who else paid for this shit
Posted by: Frank G || 01/04/2018 18:36 Comments || Top||

#4  posted the article on #3 for tomorrow's Burg
Posted by: Frank G || 01/04/2018 18:57 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'Backstabbing, Harassing, Lying': Trump Jr. Goes After Bannon
[FoxNews] President Trump's eldest son responded to accusations of "treasonous" behavior by Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser.

In excerpts from an upcoming book by Michael Wolff, Bannon criticized a meeting Donald Trump Jr. had with Russian nationals at Trump Tower in Manhattan, N.Y..

"Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s**t, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately," Bannon said.

Bannon also said the 40-year-old executive vice president of the Trump Organization will "crack like an egg" in any possible public testimony about the situation.

Trump Jr. fired back on Twitter late Wednesday, calling Bannon "an opportunist" who brought "a nightmare of backstabbing, harassing, leaking [and] lying" to the White House.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 01/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon

Just a reminder to Steve Bannon, Breitbart news is about the legacy of Mr. Breitbart, not Steve Bannon.
Posted by: Ulaigum Ebbineng7056 || 01/04/2018 4:53 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Keith Ellison Poses With Antifa Handbook
Is this what they call a dog whistle to his peeps?
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic National Committee Deputy Chair Keith Ellison endorsed Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
on Wednesday, tweeting a picture of himself smiling with an Antifa handbook.

Ellison posted a picture with "Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook" and asserted that the book would "strike fear in the heart" of 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...
The book, written by Dartmouth professor Mark Bray, argues that "militant anti-fascism
...a political system developed in Italy, symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. Its distinguishing philosophical feature is the Corporate State. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about...
is a reasonable, historically informed response to the fascist
...anybody not a leftist...
threat that persisted after 1945 and that has become especially menacing in recent years."

According to Bray, it is acceptable to use violence against "fascism" because what he considers to be fascist ideas ‐ like those shared by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopolous ‐ aren’t worthy of debate.

Bray also states that anti-fascists must be prepared to "physically confront the far right when necessary."

During an MSNBC interview in August, Bray even argued that Antifa needs to preemptively strike against white nationalists because "fascism cannot be defended by speech."
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa

#1  Move along. Nothing to see here. It's a Tea Party Photoshop conspiracy. Keith, or any other democrat would never embrace antifa.
Posted by: anymouse || 01/04/2018 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  He was always a piece of shit. No wonder they wanted him as DNC chair.

Fighting against the Man... which you are

Phoney.
Posted by: newc || 01/04/2018 1:07 Comments || Top||

#3  A muslim POS.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/04/2018 1:57 Comments || Top||

#4  A pack of Alt-Right lies. Ellison would never endorse a organization as centrist as Antifa.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2018 4:50 Comments || Top||

#5  You want to get shot in a revolution? 'cause this is how you get shot. And usually by your own side when they don't need the useful idiots anymore.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/04/2018 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Keith X can proudly hang his new photo right next the one of him and SDS domestic terrorist Kathleen Soliah as well as the one with him and Vice Lords gang leader Sharif Willis.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/04/2018 11:52 Comments || Top||

#7  As a Technical writer I'm unhappy I've never been asked to write such a document. It must be enlightening to hear the meetings on what should go in and what should not be included in such a manual.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/04/2018 16:12 Comments || Top||

#8  I remember back in the 90s when the Anarchists cookbook was a big seller and a number of kids lost digits because the bomb-building instructions were not exactly correct. I hope for similar results in this professors greedy attempts to profit off his revolutionary brothers.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/04/2018 16:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Good on him, making it official and all.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/04/2018 19:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Separating the Wheat from the Chaff is the rule of the decade.
Posted by: newc || 01/04/2018 21:58 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Thu 2018-01-04
  Revolutionary Guards deployed to crush Iran demonstrations
Wed 2018-01-03
  Egypt executes four Islamist extremists over 2015 bomb attack
Tue 2018-01-02
  Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Lashkar-e-Taiba
Mon 2018-01-01
  Nigeria: Scores Killed in Boko Haram Attacks in Borno, Yobe
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  Iran protests: Telegram and Instagram restricted
Sat 2017-12-30
  IS says it was behind Saint Petersburg supermarket bombing
Fri 2017-12-29
  Senior Pakistani Taliban leader blown by own explosives in Kunar province
Thu 2017-12-28
  Islamic State claims attack on Shiite center in Kabul, 41 dead
Wed 2017-12-27
  Swede among 'terror' suspects arrested in the Netherlands
Tue 2017-12-26
  Six Islamic State, involved in killing policeman, killed in Kirkuk
Mon 2017-12-25
  ISIS military commission chief killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan
Sun 2017-12-24
  Taliban’s IED expert famous as Osama killed in NDS operation
Sat 2017-12-23
  Terror Attack in Pennsylvania's State Capital?
Fri 2017-12-22
  US drone strike kills Qaeda propaganda chief in Yemen
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  ISIS shadow judge among 5 killed in Afghan forces operations


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