[CND] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said phrase three of his investigation will expose former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI Director James Clapper, and former national security adviser Susan Rice for lying about the Steele dossier.
Nunes said he has evidence showing Brennan perjured himself in public testimony before Congress about his role in elevating the discredited anti-Trump dossier to trigger the phony Russia investigation.
During his testimony in May 2017 before the House Intelligence Committee, Brennan denied the dossier was part of the intelligence community’s publicly released conclusion indicating that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election "to help Trump’s chances of victory."
Brennan swore under oath that he wasn’t aware of who compiled the dossier, but the recently released Nunes memo reveals that numerous senior national security and counterintelligence officials at the Justice Department and FBI were aware that the dossier was funded by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee.
Phase three will identify how Obama used Brennan, Clapper, Rice, and others to collect the dossier and use it as a basis of their intelligence reports to launch the Russia investigation against Trump.
"John Brennan did more than anyone to promulgate the dirty dossier," a senior investigator working with Nunes told Real Clear Investigations. "He politicized and effectively weaponized what was false intelligence against Trump."
Phase two of Nunes’ investigation exposed how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top two confidants, Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer, were feeding inaccurate information to former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to use in his dossier.
Phase one was Nunes’ first explosive memo revealed surveillance "abuses" by the Obama DOJ and FBI officials by using the discredited dossier to obtain a warrant from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on Carter Page, a part-time volunteer to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Steele was hired by Fusion GPS to compile the 35-page dossier, which contained a slew unverified claims the FBI admitted it couldn’t corroborate.
The FBI and DOJ also failed to notify the FISC that Fusion GPS was given more than $9 million to fund the dossier by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Nunes’ investigation seeks to piece together the entire puzzle about how Obama used Brennan, Rice, Clapper, and others to take the dossier ‐ which has Clinton’s fingerprints all over it ‐ and elevates it to the highest levels of our government to trigger the Russia investigation.
By doing so, they legitimized a piece of political opposition research and weaponized it to derail Trump’s presidency.
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From what I can tell, this is on a predetermined flight plan. The American people have to be prepared for the extent of the donk corruption. All I can counsel is patience.
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[SmallWarsCouncil] All of the risks point to profound social instability. If accurate, and I think we can already see that is the case, the threat of extremism for both state (hyper-nationalism) and non-state actors will increase overwhelming our capacity to manage it if we have a threat based strategy where we are constantly responding to threats. Any hope of success in my view is the necessity to shift more effort towards prevention. Arguably our new national security and defense strategies are largely neglecting prevention to rebuild credible deterrence. This is understandable based on years of under investing in our military, but perhaps also short sighted.
As in previous years, the 13th edition of The Global Risks Report is based on the annual Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS)1, completed by 900 members of the World Economic Forum’s global multi-stakeholder community. Respondents are drawn from business, academia, civil society and the public.
#3
Al Gore and Christine Lagarde (IMF) are on the Board of Trustees. So far as I can tell, the Leadership of the WEF is made up of globalists with linkages to other globalists orgs. I don't mean to stick my head in the sand; they have a few points which the U.S. is addressing--terrorism, cybercrime, corruption, unemployment. One problem I didn't see mentioned was opioids and drugs. One other threat not mentioned is from the globalists themselves.
#4
We see an even stronger interconnectivity between “failure to climate change adaptation“, with “food and water crises”, “extreme weather events” and “large scale involuntary migration”.
If it’s Al Gore, et al, they mean catastrophic global warming, global cooling not even being on their radar. The thing is, mass migrations occur because people believe they will not be stopped. Shut the borders tight, and they’ll make shift at home.
#6
Most recent migrations have occurred because migrants are encouraged and rewarded for migrating. The Open Society has aggressively pushed open borders as a plank of the NWO. Policies such "Sanctuary Cities" encourages illegals to come to the U.S. and stay without penalty. Wars have created a flood of migrants up through Europe. Human trafficking, the desire for cheap labor, and the promise of new voting blocs for certain parties has caused increased migration--both legal and illegal.
[Wash Times] Churches for decades have had to fend for themselves when hurricane winds ripped off the chapel roof while the nonprofit YMCA next door ‐ because it’s not religious ‐ pocketed Federal Emergency Management Agency payments to repair similar damage to its building.
That treatment of houses of worship was written out of U.S. law last week.
A provision tucked into the budget deal that President Trump signed into law Friday put churches on equal footing with YMCA, senior centers and other nonprofit groups when it comes to FEMA disaster relief.
The Bipartisan Budget Act made churches, synagogues, mosques and other houses of worship permanently eligible for FEMA’s Public Assistance Program grants, which can pay for the removal of debris and repairs to buildings, parks and recreational facilities owned by nonprofits.
"Congress has delivered a big victory for houses of worship," said Diana Verm, legal counsel at the nonprofit religious liberty law firm Becket that represented Texas churches and Florida synagogues last year in challenging the FEMA policy. "This is a happy ending for a long story for houses of worship responding to disasters."
#2
It isn't just evangelicals. There are plenty of denominations that will bend over backwards to avoid offending you in any way. You may not get a lot of religious fervor there, maybe a cup of coffee and a donut. But the Gospel is there if you look for it.
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Strong signal Christians are not blacklisted. Except at Target. Does that buy votes? No but it does point out the relief track records. My own observation, Churches are far more effective, efficient that Federal DNC Unions.
for Afghans, duping well-meaning but ignorant foreigners into funding their wars is the national pastime. The artistry and skill of separating foreigners from their money has been passed down from fathers to sons among regional tribal elders and modern-day politicians for millennia. Simply stated, this is what they do.
President Trump should form a team of advisors to develop an actual tangible goal and strategy to achieve it... I doubt President Trump will form the committee or if he does they can’t or won’t clearly state a Final Result Desired. Not because the questions above are hard to answer, they aren’t. Rather the answers these questions produce cannot be sold to the American people which means new tactics are just the noise before eventual defeat.
#5
The enemy no longer requires remote “safe havens” in places like Helmand province to plan attacks on our homeland. And even if they have a few safe havens our current ability to detect and destroy them is light years ahead of where it was in 2001. So, ask yourself, what are we really getting in return for our investment?
The guy makes a good point. Money might be better spent on a wall or infrastructure instead of an endless war.
#6
What is the end-game? What does “success” even look like?
Make Afghans, Muslims and other international players understand that organizing and facilitating asymmetrical attacks on the US and the West in general is a deadly mistake, always. IOW restore and enhance US & Western deterrence after the challenge of 9/11.
This would have been the essential and indispensable objective after 9/11. Rebuilding Afghanistan & the ME, stabilization, development, aid etc would have been options only after achieving this central objective.
Alas, what happened was tactics without a strategy and a political framework. Western deterrence has faded away further. Others have been emboldened to challenge the West.
Now the rational assumption is that Western threats are empty bluster.
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achieving this central objective
That is the crux of this issue. The electorate can't or won't face it. Our officialdom is not serious in its refusal to face it. Last I checked (about 2002) the USA doesn't even have publicly available college instruction in Dari, the lingua franca of Afghanistan. Dari (despite what the internet says) is not the same as Persian.
#9
Dari language skills would have been an elements of the optional program after deterrence was restored.
Making the Taliban share in the terrorists' fate, whether the Afghans approved or not, and holding the Afghan people accountable for having tolerated the Taliban, that was the indispensable goal.
Some in the Bush administration paid lip service to it in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Nothing more was done about it later.
Ultimately the Afghanistan war has rendered Western deterrence less than credible.
The consequences are emboldened enemies, war in Europe, a cancerous police and surveillance apparatus in the West, tensions in Asia, and the prospect of asymmetrical WMD attacks.
#10
An interesting read. Mining in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan may hold 60 million tons of copper, 2.2 billion tons of iron ore, 1.4 million tons of rare earth elements such as lanthanum, cerium and neodymium, and lodes of aluminum, gold, silver, zinc, mercury and lithium.Sep 4, 2014
#11
If Afghanistan has all that wealth the US should set up something akin to the privateers of the Elizabethan era. Allow mining companies to legally take over responsibility and use mercs to pacify lawless zones in the name of the flag.
Left would hate it, but it'd be better than throwing blood and lives into a black hole.
#12
W's first big mistake was trying to create Democracy in Afghanistan instead of setting up a MacArthur style occupation. If the Imperial Japanese could be made peaceful I believe the Afghan tribes could have been. If not, destroy and move on.
[Wash Examiner] Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Sunday "sexism" and a "macho atmosphere" helped doom Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
"I think it was difficult for Hillary Clinton to get by even the macho atmosphere prevailing during that campaign, and she was criticized in a way I think no man would have been criticized," Ginsburg said during a discussion at Columbia University.
The liberal-leaning associate justice, who is 84 years old, shared a stage with CNN reporter Poppy Harlow and took a long pause before continuing.
"I think anyone who watched that campaign unfold would answer it the same way I did: Yes, sexism played a prominent part," she said.
Harlow had asked Ginsburg to clarify her statement late last year to Charlie Rose, then a journalist at PBS, that sexism "no doubt" contributed to Clinton's loss. Rose left PBS in November after facing sexual misconduct allegations.
Despite arguing that in 2016 sexism kept Clinton from the presidency, Ginsburg said Sunday she believes the country is ready for a female president.
"I think we were and will be the next time. Anyway, we should be careful about not getting me too much into the political arena," she said.
#1
In a rational world it would be obvious that Trump supporters include lots of brilliant and well-informed people. That fact - as obvious as it would seem - is invisible to the folks who can't even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong. To reconcile their world, they have to imagine all Trump supporters as defective in some moral or cognitive way, or both.
#4
She is a defective drunk. Long overdue exit. She reminds me of the cartoon of her as a robotic Dialect wheel chaired menace of evil. Couldn't find it but it was right on the money.
#7
folks who can't even imagine a world in which their powers of perception could be so wrong
It's a fallen world, get used to it. People like Ginsberg can serve as a useful lesson for the rest of us.
#8
Strange, I was under the misunderstanding it was the voters, Electoral College and her personality that made her a loser again. Thanks for making it clear, Ruth.
[The Hill] Jennie Willoughby, an ex-wife of former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, fired back at President Trump and the White House after Trump praised Porter following domestic abuse allegations. Reject me at your own peril! I will not remain silent.
In a piece published in Time, Willoughby wrote about how it felt to watch Trump and other members of the White House come to Porter's defense, even after Porter announced he was resigning following multiple reports that he was abusive to his ex-wives, including Willoughby.
"I can’t say I was surprised. But when Donald Trump repeated twice that Rob declared his innocence, I was floored," she wrote. I have now become a handsomely paid spokesperson for sexual cannibalism.
"What was his intent in emphasizing that point? My friend turned to me and said, 'The President of the United States just called you a liar.' Yes. And so he did," she wrote.
She also cited Trump's tweet Saturday in which he said lives are being ruined by "a mere allegation" and questioned whether there was "such thing any longer as Due Process?"
"There it is again. The words 'mere allegation' and 'falsely accused' meant to imply that I am a liar. That Colbie Holderness is a liar," she wrote. "That the work Rob was doing in the White House was of higher value than our mental, emotional or physical wellbeing. That his professional contributions are worth more than the truth. That abuse is something to be questioned and doubted."
Willoughby went on to write in Time that the issue is deeper than Trump. Society as a whole, she said, has a "fear of addressing our worst secrets."
#2
You sound surprised Besoeker - haven't you yet grasped that "I won't accept any limitations on my behavior - making sure that there are no adverse consequences for me is society's duty!" is what modern feminism (and the rest of the isms) is all about?
#3
As the causative factors are further revealed through her very public statements, they may indicate Mr. Porter is indeed guilty of the charges and simply fled the union for her safety.
#4
Seems to me the Democratic memo(?), the Grassley referral, and the Nunes Memo have disappeared.
We had two senior DoJ officials suddenly resign over the weekend.
I don't want to make light and marginalize domestic violence and spousal abuse, but all of this and the phoney feud between Pence and the Olympian, seem to smack of "Squirrel" as the media has done a deep dive into the trivial to avoid covering the dossier and the false narrative.
Rather than report how the dossier was a set up, as was the surveillance of Porter, they are going to other topics.
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Always willing to stoke the fires of conspiracy - is it possible the FBI 'lost' the information on Porter's (alleged) abuses to further embarrass the POTUS?
Somebody tell me it can't be!
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Aren't these investigations handled by contractors? Mine always have been.
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Jennie and Rob did not choose wisely.
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[Hot Air] The inauguration of President Trump has ushered in an ugly time of politicization for the sports world. With the Olympics here, we are getting a fresh wave of it in social media and from a willing press.
Gus Kenworthy, a skier, decided to make a random statement about his sexuality in order to bash Vice-President Pence. While stating he is so honored to be competing for America, he’s proud to represent the LGBT community. While displaying a photo of himself and figure skater Adam Rippon on Instagram, Kenworthy ended it with, "Eat your heart out, Pence. #TeamUSA #TeamUSGay"
Rippon was not pleased to learn that Pence would be leading the American delegation to the Olympics so he went public about it last month. (L.A. Times)
Rippon said of Pence: “I don’t think he has a real concept of reality. To stand by some of the things that Donald Trump has said and for Mike Pence to say he’s a devout Christian man is completely contradictory. If he’s OK with what’s being said about people and Americans and foreigners and about different countries that are being called ‘shitholes,’ I think he should really go to church.”
Rippon is 28 years old and only came out in late 2015. Pence’s office has reached to him but so far there has been no meeting between the two. It seems to me if these two guys were serious about bringing people together with civility, then a meeting would have been accepted by now. Pence tweeted his support, too. (L.A. Times)
#2
The line between asking tolerance and demanding submission was cross many many miles ago.
In the term of reference "line crossed" are you referring to the subject at hand, BLM and Affirmative Action, or one or more of the organizations found at this link ?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CND] House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said phrase three of his investigation will expose former CIA Director John Brennan, former DNI Director James Clapper, and former national security adviser Susan Rice for lying about the Steele dossier.
[Hot Air] The inauguration of President Trump has ushered in an ugly time of politicization for the sports world. With the Olympics here, we are getting a fresh wave of it in social media and from a willing press.
