[Wash Times] A senior Obama State Department official gave the green light to an FBI agent in 2016 to meet with dossier writer Christopher Steele, a new book says.
The two met at Mr. Steele’s London office, touching off a relationship that would fuel the ongoing investigation into possible Donald Trump-Russia election collusion that shows no sign of ending.
Mr. Steele’s sensational charge that prompted an FBI wiretap on Trump volunteer Carter Page was sourced to the girlfriend of an unidentified Kremlin figure, according to the book. Republicans have roundly criticized the bureau for relying on the unverified, Democratic Party-financed dossier to ask a judge to approve a year of surveillance in 2016 and 2017.
John O. Brennan, Mr. Obama’s CIA director, worked behind the scenes before the election to get his suspicions about Trump and Russia into the news media.
These disclosures, including that Victoria Nuland, then at State, started the FBI-Steele marriage is contained in "Russian Roulette." The book, which was released Tuesday, was authored by two longtime Washington media figures: Yahoo News reporter Michael Isikoff and Mother Jones magazine’s David Corn.
[TruePundit]. Special counsel Robert Mueller is getting the cooperation of a Lebanese-American businessman with ties to Arab royalty in his probe of foreign influence on the Trump presidential campaign, including the possibility of a back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team.
George Nader testified last week to the Mueller grand jury.
Mr. Nader is an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, the de facto ruler of the United Arab Emirates. According to The Times, Mr. Mueller is investigating whether Emirati money found its way to the Trump campaign, which would be illegal.
That sounds very official and all but perhaps Mueller might ask his new star witness in the Trump investigation what he was doing partying on an exclusive island resort with Bill Clinton.
Especially when The Clinton’s have been caught helping fund the bogus Trump dossier which helped launch Mueller’s probe.
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To whom do I send the invoice for my replacement keyboard?
Sorry, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, but that is a known risk for reading Rantburg comments — or many of the articles, for that matter. I have a fund set aside, as it’s a regular expense. I’ve had to give up Starbucks, but it’s worth it. ;-)
[DAWN] Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... told an audience in India that the United States did not "deserve" 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... ’s presidency and these are "perilous times."
The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate spoke over the weekend at a conference in Mumbai.
Clinton said the Republican president has "quite an affinity for dictators" and said Trump "really likes their authoritarian posturing and behavior". But she said she thinks it’s "more than that" with 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... and Russia.
India likes Russia. Associating Trump with Russia only improves Trump's image in India.
Clinton was critical of the reality campaign tactics of her opponent and questioned whether she should have provided more entertainment to voters who responded to Trump’s brash style.
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I won't comment on that, but - as an Israeli (i.e. somebody who needs strong & wealthy, and rational USA) - I find Trump's presidency quite congenial. And that's aside from considering what a presidency by that mad witch would've been like.
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"I won't comment on that, but - as an Israeli (i.e. somebody who needs strong & wealthy, and rational USA) - I find Trump's presidency quite congenial. And that's aside from considering what a presidency by that mad witch would've been like."
I would also to retain Bibi for much longer term if you would so kindly.
I do not see much leadership in the wings as of now and he is doing correctly his duty.
But it would be nice to find a another Virtue laden Leader for the House of David
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Nice pick grom. How about next election? Or you would like him now?
I still prefer to keep Bibi for now but it is Your Country.
I especially like the Sovereign talk "He suggests a tripartition of the Palestinian territories. Thus, Israel should unilaterally annex Area C, authority over the Gaza Strip should be transferred to Egypt, while Area A and Area B would remain with the Palestinian National Authority, but under the security umbrella of the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet to "ensure quiet, suppress Palestinian terrorism, and prevent Hamas from taking over the territory". Area C constitutes 62% of the area, and approximately 365,000 people live in Israeli settlements. The Palestinians that live in this area would be offered Israeli citizenship or a permanent residency status (between 48,000, according to Bennett, or as many as 150,000, according to other surveys).[33] Finally, Israel would invest in creating roads so Palestinians can travel between Areas A and B without checkpoints, and invest in infrastructure and joint industrial zones, because "Peace grows from below - "
Judeah and Sumariah belongs to Israel, addressing Gush Katif is useful too. Sinai is the outlet. Very nice.
Also a plus wikipedia hates him. Let's open a door for him soon, no?
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Hillary = Hubris personified. Of course she only means the unhinged radical left doesn't deserve Trump. She also means she was supposed to be POTUS. WTF is that Gong show hook that pulls this evil witch off the stage?
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Well, if Hill hadn't been running, we probably wouldn't have got Trump. Maybe a third of Trump's voters were people who couldn't stand the notion of Hillary Clinton as president.
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She just don't get this democratic republic thing does she?
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#7 I don't know if I've a preference newc. Or, to put it more precisely.
The major job of successive Israeli governments since Oslo is buying time. Bibi is the best at this. Bennett might be best for then the time comes - which isn't yet. On the third hand, Iran must be taken care of, and soon. And, I kinda, don't think Bibi is up to it.
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Seems to me there used to be a sort of a gentlemen's agreement to the effect that partisanship stops at our shorelines. But then, Democrats these days are not gentlemen.
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They haven't been for a long time Abu. See also Reagan and Teddie boy.
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Half the country doesn't deserve Trump but they'll still get the lift provided by his tax cuts and removing excessive regulation. Might give CA a few more years before the pension crisis explodes.
[JimmyDore] Being in the unelected government isn't enough, so now they're trying to take over the elected government. Get out there and vote, people! Take friends with you to vote!
According to Wikipedia, Mr. Dore is a comedian and political commentator, one of Cenk Uygur‘s Young Turks. Politically he is a Bernie Bro turned Independent, and has opined that the Trump presidency would split the Republicans, possibly not having noticed that Senator Sanders has already split the Democrats.
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Dore split with TYT some time back and is being demonitized and attacked by YouTube for being a leftist who dares criticize the left. This is a big no-no. No friends to the right, no enemies to the left, is the slogan.
[ARABNEWS] America should create its own separate military space force, 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... mentioned in an offhand remark Tuesday that would change the course of US space policy.
But don’t expect Captain Kirk ordering phasers set on stun, Battlestar Galactica or ray guns blazing in orbit in the near future, space experts said. And some said a military space force may make it harder to keep Earth’s orbit a place of peace.
Saying his national security strategy "recognizes that space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air and sea," Trump said at a San Diego Marine Corps base that he’s considering "a space force" that would be the equivalent of the Air Force, Army and Navy.
Trump said at first he wasn’t serious when he floated the concept, but "then I said what a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that."
This is more about boosting reconnaissance and cybersecurity than fighting in orbit, said Sean O’Keefe, who was both NASA administrator and Navy secretary under President George W. Bush.
Trump’s own defense secretary and Air Force secretary argued vociferously against it when members of Congress pushed it last year, O’Keefe said. You can emphasize more help for the military in space without going to the massive organizational change and expense, he said.
It could be a bureaucratic nightmare, said O’Keefe, a professor at Syracuse University.
He said some people may argue that a space force would "compromise the sanctity of considering space to be off limits from warfare."
SpaceNews dot com on SpaceForce.
Trump's real reason appears to be that money allocated for Space Resources by the President or Congress is always redirected to the USAF pet projects and the space effort is starved. So this is Trump's F-U to the Air Force. It's not new to Trump. Obama, Bush, Clinton and others have played with the concept over time. Trump just got upset and put the option play in play.
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well, we could use some shield to protect our e-infrastructure from solar storms and EMP and if we get a shield we could have a shield generator
although maybe not have it sited on the ewok planet
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This is more about boosting reconnaissance and cybersecurity than fighting in orbit, said Sean O’Keefe, who was both NASA administrator and Navy secretary under President George W. Bush.
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Wash Times] A senior Obama State Department official gave the green light to an FBI agent in 2016 to meet with dossier writer Christopher Steele, a new book says.
. Special counsel Robert Mueller is getting the cooperation of a Lebanese-American businessman with ties to Arab royalty in his probe of foreign influence on the Trump presidential campaign, including the possibility of a back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition team.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
...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...
