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Fifth Column
The Mueller investigation is no longer a search for Russian collusion with Trump in the 2016 race. It is now a much more far-reaching inquiry into corrupt lobbying practices all across Washington DC
Tucker Carlson yesterday. Full show at the link, but this is the gist of it.
The Podesta Group was hired by Paul Manafort on behalf of foreign clients because the company was perceived to have a direct line to powerful politicians, like Hillary Clinton.

The chairman of one major presidential campaign colluded with a brother of the *other* major presidential campaign to enrich themselves by secretly advancing the interests of a foreign adversary. That happened. That's "the swamp" everyone is saying needs to be drained.

The Mueller investigation is no longer a search for Russian collusion with Trump in the 2016 race. It is now a much more far-reaching inquiry into corrupt lobbying practices all across Washington DC, the so-called "swamp". An investigation that is very likely to ensnare figures close to Hillary Clinton.

In press accounts, Mueller's investigation is still framed as a hunt for collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and the government of Russia, but that description is mostly bogus. The investigation has broadened now to determine which people and which organizations in Washington DC have spent years working *secretly* as de facto operatives on behalf of Russian government and business interests.

The Podesta Group is chief among these.

They are more focused on facilitators of Russian influence in America than they are on election collusion.
I sense a shift in the Force. For the first time in decades, a threat from Tony Podesta doesn't have the intended effect. Suddenly, no power. It was the day when everything changed.

I mean we know from the John Podesta emails how they worried and worked to stamp out stories with pressure and leveraging behind the scenes. If you are a new reporter in D.C. getting a lead on a Tony Podesta story you were not able to get it out in the "old days".

John Podesta has not Tweeted since October 14th. He knows shit is about to go down.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 11/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  corrupt lobbying practices

Color me skeptical unless and until we see some Zero/Hildabeast cronies start doing perp walks.
Posted by: PBMcL || 11/01/2017 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  And here I thought I heard Sessions say if the probe found anything outside the Russian collusion objective it would be turned over to others for prosecution. Robespierre to the courtesy phone.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2017 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  And here I thought I heard Sessions say

Might want to stop putting nickles in it once you hear that.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2017 6:51 Comments || Top||

#4  I had better see results.

The whole District is built on sand as far as I AM concerned.
Posted by: newc || 11/01/2017 7:00 Comments || Top||

#5  It is now a much more far-reaching inquiry into corrupt lobbying practices all across Washington DC,

I don't think it will lay a glove on the Clintons. They know too much about Mueller
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2017 7:46 Comments || Top||

#6  It's not a matter of who Mueller gets behind.
It's who he sticks the knife in that counts.
Remember who this guy is.
Posted by: ed in texas || 11/01/2017 8:18 Comments || Top||

#7  An investigation that is very likely to ensnare figures close to Hillary Clinton.


Why do I think, "Close but no cigar."
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/01/2017 10:47 Comments || Top||

#8  If all this is true then why wasn't Podesta indicted on Monday right along with Manafort?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2017 11:21 Comments || Top||

#9  Your tax dollars spent on Mueller's Whitewash Campaign? All of the "Usual Suspects" that are Dem-affiliated will be let go because there is insufficient evidence -- see Comey for Act I of this farce.
Posted by: magpie || 11/01/2017 13:17 Comments || Top||

#10  I wonder if Mueller is writing the exoneration documents now before starting the sham investigation (with leaks so they can tidy up before he gets there).
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 11/01/2017 14:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Why do I think, "Close but no cigar."

Maybe because somebody hid the cigar?
Posted by: gorb || 11/01/2017 15:21 Comments || Top||

#12  Seems like someone might have found the plug. If they can just pull it free the swamp might start to actually drain (or at least the swamp creatures may go into hiding for a short while).
Posted by: rjschwarz || 11/01/2017 16:11 Comments || Top||

#13  He got along with Holder, never beefed the Fast and Furious story to any degree, and hired a lefty staff....expecting honest investigations to reveal the heart of the corruption on the left side of the aisle....not likely. He may be expected to reveal some lower level naughtiness but the tip of to Podesta to file foreign agent paperwork after his work started seems just a tad too coincidental.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/01/2017 16:29 Comments || Top||

#14  "I'll trade you one Paul Manafort and a Mickey Mantle for a Hillary Clinton."

BTW, where's our Florida girl, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 11/01/2017 19:19 Comments || Top||

#15  It's almost like there are some pretty good reasons politicians spend millions to get jobs paying in the low 100-thousands.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 11/01/2017 21:24 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Allahu Akbar-itis: America's Deadly and Debilitating Disease
[Townhall] "Shout 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers."

Who knew hijacker Mohammed Atta's parting words, discovered in his journal after the 9/11 attacks, would become a national punchline? The louder and more frequently jihadists around the globe shriek their signature battle cry, the more fervently multicultural apologists deny its meaning. They've transformed the Islamic supremacists' obvious and explicit call for violence into a bland utterance of peace as indiscernible and nonsensical as "Aloha Snackbar."

With blood still fresh on the pavement in Manhattan after Monday's outbreak of Allahu Akbar-itis that took at least eight innocent lives, Palestinian-American propagandist and Hamas cheerleader Linda Sarsour tweeted:

"Every believing Muslim says Allahu Akbar every day during prayers. We cannot criminalize 'God is great.'"

Rice University sociologist Dr. Craig Considine mourned: "It begins. CNN reports murderer said "Allahu Akbar." Queue the Islamophobia."

And confused former director of national intelligence James Clapper mused: 'It's hard to comprehend...what moves a human being to do that to another human being."

Instead of striking fear, "Allahu Akbar!" has unleashed collective foolishness.

"Allahu Akbar!" screamed Amor Ftouhi just five months ago at Bishop Airport in Flint, Michigan, before stabbing a police officer in the neck.

"Motive still unknown," the experts declared.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2017 02:18 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And confused former director of national intelligence James Clapper mused: 'It's hard to comprehend...what moves a human being to do that to another human being."

Poor helpless bugger. Please someone, show him to the door.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2017 7:17 Comments || Top||

#2  There's the proof Clapper was never fit for any job more complicated than working a fry vat at McDonald's.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/01/2017 8:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know Rob, those fry vats are dangerous.

There's been more than 1 fat fire that has burned down more than 1 restaurant.
Posted by: AlanC || 11/01/2017 8:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Please someone, show him to the door.

Then slam his head in it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 11/01/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#5  There's the proof Clapper was never fit for any job more complicated than working a fry vat at McDonald's.

The bar for making Lieutenant General in the USAF must be pretty low.
Posted by: Solomon Hitler2620 || 11/01/2017 9:49 Comments || Top||

#6  And always open for high ranking members.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/01/2017 16:52 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Roland Martin to John Kelly: ‘Shame on You,' Too Many White People in This Country ‘Don't Know History'
Too many people in this country don't know history. Americans, in general, prefer to think about the future.
[Breitbart] Tuesday on MSNBC "Velshi & Ruhle," discussing White House chief of staff John Kelly’s comments on Fox News about Confederate monuments, host of "News One Now" Roland Martin said "too many people in this country who are white" didn’t know history and wanted to "somehow glorify these Confederate leaders."

Martin said, "I’m not going to allow four stars stuck on stupid to simply go on. Here’s a man who’s utterly clueless. For him to say, ’Well, we could have compromised’‐really? We did compromise. It was a thing called United States Constitution, and you know what that said? If you’re a black, you’re three-fifths of a human."
Pathetic, but typical of those who don't know history.
He continued, "I need John Kelly to actually go back and read a history book that my 12-year-old nieces are reading right now, because clearly, he fell asleep in history."
One hopes they will read all the chapters, rather than fixating on a single highlight box as their uncle did.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2017 06:59 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  msnbc is at the end of the sewer attached to the devils excrement.

Nothing there is redeemable.
Posted by: newc || 11/01/2017 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Martin wouldn't make a good bump on the arse of Kelly.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2017 7:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Sad to say, too many lefties watch MSNBC and take this putrid dribble as the gospel.
Posted by: JohnQC || 11/01/2017 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  People in this country don't know history, or know the distorted version of history.

All by design.
Posted by: DarthVader || 11/01/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#5  read a history book that my 12-year-old nieces are reading


Chomsky and Zinn? Those aren't history books. They're just anti-American/Western Civ propaganda.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2017 9:27 Comments || Top||

#6  So many ignorant people misunderstand the 3/5s Compromise. Counting slaves as 3/5 of a person reduced the voting power of the slave states and left the voting power of the slaves (none) unchanged.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/01/2017 10:05 Comments || Top||

#7  I suggest Roland travel to the slave coast of W. Africa and learn the real history of slavery. I lived there for 2 years and certain tribes STILL blame other tribes for capturing and selling them.

John Kelly's pinky toe knows more history than Roland will eve know.
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 11/01/2017 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  Let me guess, Mr. Martin votes Democrat (party of slavery, KKK and Jim Crow laws) because he "knows" the Republicans (party of emancipation and anti-slavery) is going to force him back into "slavery" (take away his victimhood).
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 11/01/2017 11:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Too many white people put up with this kind of racist screed ....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 11/01/2017 16:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Didn't know Laugh-in got a reboot.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/01/2017 17:49 Comments || Top||

#11  A white guy who said this about blacks would have been fired minutes after the statement. That's what black privilege is all about - impunity.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 11/01/2017 18:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Why am I thinking reconstruction?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/01/2017 19:28 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2017-11-01
  Iraqi army takes control of Turkey border from Kurds
Tue 2017-10-31
  At least eight dead and more than twelve injured in shooting and truck ramming in downtown Manhattan
Mon 2017-10-30
  Barzani Resigns as Iraq and Iran Threaten Kurdistan's Border Crossings
Sun 2017-10-29
  Mozambique: First Islamist Attacks Shock the Region
Sat 2017-10-28
  Palestinian-American idiot sentenced to 20 years for going to Syria to become ISIS suicide bomber
Fri 2017-10-27
  Pakistani man wanted for 70 murders arrested in Hungary
Thu 2017-10-26
  ISIS seizes large part of Yarmouk Camp
Wed 2017-10-25
  Kurds freeze independence vote, call for ceasefire
Tue 2017-10-24
  6 ISIS Big Turbans die trying to escape Diyala
Mon 2017-10-23
  Filipino troops battling final 30 ISIS-linked gunmen in Marawi
Sun 2017-10-22
  ARSA open to surrender, but only under UN supervision
Sat 2017-10-21
  US drone strike targets al-Shabab after Somalia's 'deadliest attack'
Fri 2017-10-20
  Iraq and Iran compel Kurdish withdrawal from Kirkuk
Thu 2017-10-19
  TTP names successor to APS mastermind Umar Mansoor
Wed 2017-10-18
  US-Backed Forces Say Have Captured Raqa from IS


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