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Senate 'Pubs examining email Susan Rice sent herself confirming Obama involved in Trump spying
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Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/13/2018 04:59 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What's all that scurrying noise at that rat exits?
Posted by: S. Thaick9166 || 02/13/2018 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Saw Marie Harf defending Susan Rice on Fox TV--Liars lying about liars. Some are still tenaciously hanging on.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2018 13:48 Comments || Top||

#3  HARF!
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2018 15:21 Comments || Top||

#4  And remember she was the talking head/originator of the narrative that Benghazi was the spontaneous result of a YouTube video...

Reading between the lines, I would say that they all knew they were screwed when Trump was elected and were trying to figure out how to blur the edges on what they had done and what kind of narrative to put out.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/13/2018 16:05 Comments || Top||

#5  The sad thing sock, is that if they had kept their heads down and kept quiet instead of launching a Russian collaboration investigation, they would be ok and most likely having a long career in government.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/13/2018 16:55 Comments || Top||

#6  The sad thing, Darth, is that we can't be sure that anything bad will actually happen to them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/13/2018 17:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Phase three has started. Bad things will happen.
Posted by: S. Thaick9166 || 02/13/2018 17:13 Comments || Top||

#8  Phase three has started. Bad things will happen. Posted by S. Thaick9166

My fear as well Thaick, my fear as well.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 17:15 Comments || Top||

#9  The left never ever gives up, and pulling things back from their clutches is always messy. No matter how solid the proof, they will throw a lot of smoke and H&I fires to keep the average American convinced that everyone is equally to blame......
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/13/2018 17:51 Comments || Top||

#10  My impression is that they have thrown their entire playbook at this mess and can't get any traction on alternate narratives.

Such is the bothersome nature of the Internet, if you said it, sent it by email, or posted it to a website, it will come back to bite you in the butt.

I think they are gone through the table of contents, the index, and the bibliography on their playbook. Given as how silent Cummings is these days and how completely obviously disingenuous Shiffless is, they are now at the squirrel stage, hoping for anything to throw out there to divert attention.

Hence, all of the colossal stupidity by the media over the Olympics and anything else they can find.

Porter is a victim of this. I know he's a serial spouse abuser, but were it not for the desperation of the media to find anything to throw out there, he would have never surfaced.

Have you noticed how the Russian Collusion narrative, Flynn and Porter suddenly don't seem to be in the news as much?

I have to hand it to you guys, my fellow Rantburgers, you called it. As soon as this Russian collusion/Trump dossier came up, a lot of us said that the Democrats will regret investigating it. With the Republicans in control of both houses, how on earth did they think the Republican chairs of the Intel committees would let this skate on by???
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/13/2018 19:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Porter is a victim of this. I know he's a serial spouse abuser, but were it not for the desperation of the media to find anything to throw out there, he would have never surfaced.

I don't know this. Has it been adjudicated in a court of law? Were any police reports or professional investigations filed? I have an ex-wife, who attempted to fake the same photos, etc, against me. Luckily I found out and it stopped.

He's been convicted and punished in the media, then his job. The mob moves on to Kelly, who was always the target. Who knew WhoTF Rob Porter was before this?
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2018 20:36 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Some of Obama's portrait artist's other work reported to be a bit troubling
[PJ] The official portraits of the Obamas were unveiled today to much buzz and criticism. The artist who painted Barack Obama's portrait is Kehinde Wiley, a well-known, far-left gay painter whose work is racially charged. Anyone with eyes can see Wiley uses race as his main subject. The New York Times pontificated endlessly about his edgy and important work highlighting injustice.

"He redresses the absence of nonwhite faces in museum masterpieces, 'using the power of images to remedy the historical invisibility of black men and women,' as Eugenie Tsai, the curator of the Brooklyn Museum show, observes in the accompanying catalog," the Times wrote.

Wiley's shtick appears to be taking famous paintings and recreating them with black people in order to represent blacks in Western masterpieces. (This, of course, begs the question of whether Wiley thinks white people are underrepresented in Asian art or in African art where very few white people are depicted.) His version of "Judith Beheading Holofernes" is raising eyebrows on social media.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Both portraits look like cheap photoshopped kid stuff.

I think the general shoddiness of the portraits is a perfect commentary on both of them.

Twitter has had a field day with these "portraits"

Will the National Portrait Gallery take them down after Zero is convicted of treason?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/13/2018 11:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Not impressed either. You get a better one from any street artist on Montmartre in 15 minutes
Posted by: European Conservative || 02/13/2018 11:53 Comments || Top||

#3  They should have gotten Sabbo to do a portrait. His Ted Cruz is assume.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/13/2018 12:55 Comments || Top||

#4  An insolent man of Mongolia,
Possessed by a cute melancholia,
Would give us the finger,
Then, grinning, would linger
Till covered in P. quinquefolia.

Sabo. Heh. Or Dubya. He's probably pretty good by now.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/13/2018 13:33 Comments || Top||

#5  #SPOD Ignoring for the moment, all the questions about "O's" origins, one has to wonder if "O's" election was rigged back in 2008 in light of all the rigging that went on with Hildo.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2018 13:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Can spot the portrait that appears slightly out of place ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 13:55 Comments || Top||

#7  "One of these things is not like the other"
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2018 15:15 Comments || Top||

#8  First impressions of Obammy's pitcher:
1) Is that Clint Eastwood's chair he is siting on?
2) the floral background would be right at home as a Dorothy and Toto backdrop, "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."


Regarding Moochelle's:

Never saw a cleanshaven Wookie before.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 02/13/2018 15:48 Comments || Top||

#9  As I recall, the JFK and Bill Clinton portraits were also non-classic in style. The Bill Clinton pixelated face is a bit of a horror; the Obama is merely insipid and sentimental. And executed at a good high school student level, but that's a separate issue. The Obamas wanted artists about whom there is a buzz, particularly in the African-American community, and that's exactly what they got.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2018 16:16 Comments || Top||

#10  re #8 - You know, Rantburg really needs Like/Haha/Wow buttons like Facebook.

USN Ret - now that is funny.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 02/13/2018 16:54 Comments || Top||

#11  A Cheech and Chong 60s type phsycodelic portrait. A chumb gang hippy who became President.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 02/13/2018 19:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Or at most the biblical Serpent in Americas Garden of Eden.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 02/13/2018 19:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
ADL: ‘Extremely Disturbing' That Democrats Met With Iran's President And Louis Farrakhan
The head of the nation’s largest Jewish civil rights organization called it "extremely disturbing" that three Democratic congressmen, including the vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), attended a private dinner with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

Democratic Reps. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Andre Carson of Indiana and Gregory Meeks of New York in 2013 attended the private dinner, which only became public on Friday. (RELATED: Three Democrats Attended Private Dinner With Iran’s President And Louis Farrakhan)

"Based on what we know, its extremely disturbing that Dem reps or members of any political group would attend a session hosted by hatemongers," Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said Monday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 00:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  'Extremely disturbing' to some possibly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 7:02 Comments || Top||

#2  its extremely disturbing that Dem reps or members of any political group would attend a session hosted by hatemongers

So were they extending their own, personal agendas?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/13/2018 8:48 Comments || Top||

#3  And still they vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
Posted by: Raj || 02/13/2018 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Disturbing but not suprising. An old photo popped up showing Obama chumming it up with Farrakhan before he became Potus. Alan Dershowitz, in an interview said had he known this, he would not have voted for Obama. I wonder how many other Jewish people are beginning to have buyer's remorse with both Obama and Hillary?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  ...not enough. Too many are socialists first and last. They're like Caucasian professors denouncing whiteness.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/13/2018 17:34 Comments || Top||


Anti-Trump Harvard Professor Floats Fake Claim That Dossier Source Died In Russia Plane Crash
[Daily Caller] A Harvard law professor and member of the anti-Trump "Resistance" floated the false rumor Monday that a source for the unverified Steele dossier was killed in a plane crash in Russia over the weekend.

Laurence Tribe claimed on Twitter that Sergei Millian, a Belarus-born businessman alleged to be a dossier source, was killed Sunday when a Saratov Airlines plane crashed near Moscow. All 71 passengers died.

"Among those killed in the tragic plane crash yesterday: Sergei Millian, a Papadopoulis friend who had emailed Kushner and is said to be behind one of the most salacious claims in the dossier on Trump’s involvement with Russia," wrote Tribe, who has been described as Barack Obama’s legal mentor from the former president’s days at Harvard Law School.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 00:17 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Leaving aside for the moment that a) Sergei wasn't on the plane and B) isn't dead, you have to admit it is pretty suspicious.
Posted by: SteveS || 02/13/2018 0:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Playing politics with the truth. Shameful!
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2018 1:21 Comments || Top||

#3  remember: probably a Hildabeest SCOTUS pick
Posted by: Frank G || 02/13/2018 7:39 Comments || Top||

#4  probably a Hildabeest SCOTUS pick

I thought that was Lynch?
Posted by: Z. Clagum2725 || 02/13/2018 8:16 Comments || Top||

#5  false rumor

WTF? Redundancy much?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/13/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  For a Harvard professor, he doesn't seem all that smart.
Posted by: Raj || 02/13/2018 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  #6 For a Harvard professor, he doesn't seem all that smart.

Harvard seems to be way over-rated judging from some of their near-recent alumni.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2018 13:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Saratov Airline Flight 703 , wiki

If you go down to the bottom of the wiki page, there is a passenger list to click on.

I've got to say that it looks like a complete loss of power or an explosion looking at the loss of altitude plot. The plane sank like a stone.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2018 13:32 Comments || Top||

#9  QANON thread
Posted by: S. Thaick9166 || 02/13/2018 13:54 Comments || Top||

#10  Just watched American Made with Tom Cruise on a flight back from Central America... getting bored with TC, but had a pretty creative final sequence where he politely asks strangers to take their conversations away from his car when he starts it. Wonder if some spy vs spy craftwork explains this event where the cause of the crash is always painfully obvious- gravity.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 02/13/2018 19:17 Comments || Top||


Remember this name: Bill Preistap. Peter Strzok's boss. Word on the street is he has flipped and is singing like a canary to investigators
[PowderedWigSociety] A new name in the greatest criminal conspiracy in the history of American politics, namely the conspiracy by liberal Democrats to frame and destroy President Trump with the 35-page lie we now know as the Trump dossier, is now being mentioned, but investigators want to keep his name as hush-hush as possible, obviously for his own protection and to maintain as much secrecy as possible in the investigation of the Obamagate scandal.

Bill Preistap is the Director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division and Peter Strzok’s boss. Multiple sources are now corroborating that Preistap has flipped and is fully cooperating with investigators in the Obamagate scandal.

Preistap was certainly a central figure in the acquisition of the Trump dossier, using it to obtain a FISA warrant to wiretap the Trump campaign even though the document and its source (Sidney Blumenthal) had no credibility whatsoever. Clearly, Preistap knows every detail of the conspiracy to frame President Trump.

Comey threw Preistap under the bus in his testimony before Congress. When asked why he didn’t notify Congress of the surveillance of candidate Trump as required by law, Comey said that he kept the Trump investigation secret because Priestap advised him to.

No wonder Preistap flipped!
Continues and vid from this weekend’s past "Justice With Judge Jeanine" segment regarding is embedded.
One hopes he avoids inclusion on this list.


Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/13/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yeah we'll see. Nothing ever seems to come with these. Remember the Congress spying scandal with the Amwan brothers and Debbie Schultz? That was going to ruin people, and then just disappeared. I'll believe this when people start going to prison.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 02/13/2018 2:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Herb McCoy7309,
Phase three is just ramping up.
Posted by: C. the Imp. || 02/13/2018 6:36 Comments || Top||

#3  The Awan brothers, interprising lads who operated freely from their lairs in Woodbridge and Falls Church Virginia for years.

Strange no one in the intelligence community ever took notice. Very strange.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 6:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe not so strange. Awan Brotherhood - Hackers in the House - A Webb Companion Day 139 Summary
Posted by: C. the Imp. || 02/13/2018 7:02 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt the Awan monitoring and IT storage effort was limited to DNC clients. The real money would have resided elsewhere. The Clinton's were probably witting of the effort, hence the Beest's remote server farm and haversack full of selectors, nyms, and passwords.

But perhaps I'm way out on a limb.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/13/2018 7:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Hmm! Sounds like pending Arkancide.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 02/13/2018 8:58 Comments || Top||

#7  If Priestap is flipped, it is game set match for the gang of twelve and their plot to unseat the president.

I still say the end game was to install Zero as a president for life. Hillary was to be a proxy for his continued reign...as would any democrat president to follow.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/13/2018 11:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Mr. Obama disliked the job of president, which is hard work done in front of critical eyes. But he would have enjoyed the perks of a Supreme Court justice, happily leaving the opinion writing to others — who would also have been happy he modestly held back his pen.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/13/2018 11:45 Comments || Top||

#9  "Whereas convictions depend on speed-ups, justice requires delay."
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/13/2018 13:38 Comments || Top||

#10  Hmm! Sounds like pending Arkancide.

Priestap needs a Secret Service detail and an Abrams tank to run errands in.
Posted by: gorb || 02/13/2018 16:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Better get three Abrams; the blackhats might have an AT-13 Saxhorn-2.
Posted by: S. Thaick9166 || 02/13/2018 16:22 Comments || Top||

#12  The Awan trial is held up over access to the laptop he left in Congress.
Posted by: dk70 the scantily clad || 02/13/2018 17:13 Comments || Top||



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  Jaish-e-Mohammad targets sleeping families at Sunjuwan Army camp, kills two soldiers
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