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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Attorney For FBI Informant Demands DOJ Open Investigation Into Falsified Leaks to Media
[Gateway Pundit] The lawyer representing a former FBI informant demanded Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions open an investigation into unauthorized and falsified leaks to the media by "anonymous federal officials." The informant’s lawyer said the leakers disparaged her client in an effort to silence him from providing testimony to Congress regarding his role in exposing Russia’s long-term strategy to dominate the global uranium market and how Moscow achieved its goal in 2010 of obtaining roughly 20 percent of the U.S. uranium mining industry, according to a letter delivered to the DOJ.

Victoria Toensing
...former Reagan Justice Department official, former chief counsel of the Senate intelligence committee, and all around smart cookie...
is the attorney for William Douglas Campbell, the FBI informant who is providing Congress with troves of documentation he gathered, saved and turned over to the FBI during the nearly six years he worked as an undercover FBI asset when he was a contractor in Russia’s nuclear and energy field. She has also asked Sessions to investigate a December 15 briefing given by "senior officials" to the Senate Judiciary and House Intelligence and Oversight committees "with the same false information that was leaked anonymously to the media and later refuted by the Justice Department," as stated in her letter.

"The leaks were not only illegal but they were also false, intended to attack the credibility of Mr. Campbell," said Toensing, referring to the leaks by ’federal officials’ to the media. She attached a 38-page appendix of documentation disproving the leaks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Umm, wow.
I only had a web page full of your sins, but now, I have a docket.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  leaking classified information to the press is a crime, maybe a felony, though it is one that is apparently never prosecuted when done by the upper class.
Leaking false information is not that felony since being false it can hardly be classified.
since FBI officials are allowed to lie in attempts to incriminate their victims, they are probably allowed to lie to the press. I believe Ms. Miller, a journalist, claimed that Fitzgerald, who had her thrown in jail for several months lied to her and got her to give incorrect testimony in the Libby case. Fitzgerald was never investigated for this.
However, it is time that the FBI and other government officials should be required to reveal their all their lies to defendants as potentially exculpatory material in any trials. This was recently ordered by the judge in the Flynn trial even though he had already pleaded guilty.
Posted by: Daniel || 02/22/2018 1:30 Comments || Top||

#3  The trail leads to Hillary via the Clinton Foundation. Thats why the leftists in the FBI have not investigated - and why they refuse to investigate now: the Dems would be implicated in criminal acts, including FBI and Justice Department officials.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 02/22/2018 15:25 Comments || Top||

#4  "though it is one that is apparently never prosecuted when done by the upper class."

And that is exactly what must change.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/22/2018 16:13 Comments || Top||


Pittsburgh Lawyer Sexually Abused Dog Multiple Times
[KDKA] When you screw the pooch, you really screw the pooch.
And prominent Pittsburgh attorney Ivan DeVoren screwed Snoopy, his yellow lab, often and loudly enough that it disturbed the neighbours.
Certainly a story that will give one paws.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/22/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And did not even have the nerve to ask for a goat?
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 2:36 Comments || Top||

#2  What are they going to do with the dog after the lawyer's arrest? Put him up for adoption as stump trained?
Posted by: Sloluting and Tenille8977 || 02/22/2018 3:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Beastiality. As societies degenerate to where boys and girls are not only taught that they are not boys and girls and preached to about transgenderism (they are actually being groomed by a pedophile society) you start hoping the angels who assisted in the bringing down of burning blue sulphur upon sodom and gamorah would bring it down again in a thousand places in our many debased areas these days.
Posted by: Omeger Gray6606 || 02/22/2018 3:18 Comments || Top||

#4  But again, I have seen Human figures birthed by a goat.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 3:31 Comments || Top||

#5  What do you get when you insert human dna into a goat? Banned from the petting zoo.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/22/2018 7:08 Comments || Top||

#6  He practiced animal husbandry - until he was caught at it...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/22/2018 8:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Ivan DeVoren: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

"An environmental lawyer and animal shelter volunteer stands accused of sexually abusing his labrador Snoopy. Ivan DeVoren, 61, was taken in to custody on February 21 and charged with 10 felony counts of animal cruelty, 10 counts of sexual intercourse with an animal in addition to drug charges, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette."

Sort of a new wrinkle on "grooming."



Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/22/2018 8:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Comon, ZF, this story calls for some, er, doggerel...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/22/2018 8:46 Comments || Top||

#9  But again, I have seen Human figures birthed by a goat.

Other than Chelsea, how many?
Posted by: AlanC || 02/22/2018 11:29 Comments || Top||

#10  Like pulling teeth this was. Ick. But how could I say no?

"We had joy, we had fun, we had larks;
We had very short walks in dark parks
Where we buried a bone...
Now I whine, all alone,
For the sparks, and the beast with two barks."
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 || 02/22/2018 11:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Bra-vo! as Blondie said to Col. Mortimer.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/22/2018 12:05 Comments || Top||

#12  He better hope he makes bail real quick or its going to be , "Come on Ivan, bend over and whine like a dog !"
Posted by: Sloluting and Tenille8977 || 02/22/2018 15:17 Comments || Top||

#13  Bet the bestiality folks were pissed when the trans got ahead of them in the cries for attention and acceptance.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/22/2018 17:32 Comments || Top||

#14  But it was consensual?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/22/2018 17:38 Comments || Top||

#15  I'm guessing a muzzle /restraints were involved. I'd put him in Gen Pop the same way with advance notice of his "alleged" offenses
Posted by: Frank G || 02/22/2018 21:24 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Florida shooting survivor says CNN gave him 'scripted' questions at town hall event
A survivor of the massacre at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is accusing CNN of giving him scripted questions during Wednesday night’s town hall on gun violence.

Colton Haab told Miami’s local WPLG-TV that the network refused to allow him to raise his idea that schools consider employing U.S. military veterans as armed security guards and instead offered him canned questions.

"CNN had originally asked me to write a speech and questions and it ended up being all scripted," Haab said, adding that he decided not to attend the event as a result.

"I expected to be able to ask my questions and give my opinion on my questions," Haab told the station Janine Stanwood. "I don think that it going get anything accomplished. Itnot gonna ask the true questions that all the parents and teachers and students have."The network has categorically denied the charges.
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"There is absolutely no truth to this. CNN did not provide or script questions for anyone in last night's town hall, nor have we ever," the company said in a statement to TheWrap.

"After seeing an interview with Colton Haab, we invited him to participate in our town hall along with other students and administrators from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Colton's father withdrew his name from participation before the forum began, which we regretted but respected. We welcome Colton to join us on CNN today to discuss his views on school safety."
Posted by: 746 || 02/22/2018 12:37 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Donna Brazile to the white courtesy phone" Donna Brazile....
Posted by: Warthog || 02/22/2018 16:38 Comments || Top||

#2  You would be an idiot to watch CNN anyways.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 18:43 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/22/2018 20:17 Comments || Top||

#4  I think of a survivor as one that was shot and lived. Not somebody hanging around down the hall.
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/22/2018 23:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Internet sleuth confirms Seth Rich was the WikiLeaks informer. Offered proof to Mueller. Not interested. Does not fit the Russian collusion narrative
[PowderedWigSociety] Robert Mueller continues to chase his tail looking for evidence of Trump/Russia collusion, despite there being zero evidence.

There is evidence, however, that the Russians did NOT hack Hitlery’s or the DNC’s email, that the hack was no hack at all, but, rather, an inside job, which is what many suspected all along, and that the hacker was DNC employee Seth Rich who was shot twice in the back and murdered in Washington but not before he could transfer the stolen emails to Julian Assange.

Evidence of Rich being the hacker instead of shady Russians, as the Democrats want you to believe, is in the hands of Kiwi internet sleuth Kim Dotcom, who not only knows of Rich’s leak to Assange, but was involved in the leak himself.

Here is the really strange part of the story, or not so strange if you have followed it closely, in which case you can see clearly what is going on ‐ Dotcom offered his evidence that Rich was the WikiLeaks informant to Robert Mueller.... TWICE! But, both times Mueller refused to even consider it.

Why? Obviously, because it would destroy the Russian hacking narrative and end the witch hunt, which Democrats need desperately to stay alive if they are to have a prayer of gaining a congressional majority in November to ensure their dream of impeaching President Trump.

This proves that Mueller is not objective, impartial, or nonpartisan. He is a political tool of the Democrat Party, searching frantically for any evidence of Donald Trump being within ten miles of any Russian during the 2016 presidential campaign.

President Trump is all over this, hinting Dotcom’s involvement in a Sunday morning tweet. The "400 pound genius" President Trump alludes to is an obvious reference to Dotcom, who confirms in a follow-up tweet that the theft of the sensitive Democrat emails was NOT the work of Russians and that he has offered his evidence to Mueller who refused it, then correcting the president’s weight guess, tweeting "360 pounds!"
Continues with Tweetie thingies.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/22/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Get the FBI on this right away !

Then get their copy to Senator McCain and get him to shop it around like McCain did the Steele "evidence".

Then leak all the results to CNN and NBC and see what they do with it
Posted by: Glavise Sforza4112 || 02/22/2018 5:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, Wikileaks sources have sort of dried up a bit over the past year or so.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2018 7:43 Comments || Top||

#3  You don't want exculpatory evidence in your files when the judge orders you to turn over any such thing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2018 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Samuel Johnson is right.
Posted by: Howard Johnson || 02/22/2018 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  The Russian Collusion narrative is dying. There has been information floating around out there for over a year that it was not a Russian hack of the sociopath's email or her campaign manager or the DNC. It was clearly an inside job.

If Mueller is ignoring this information, perchance Nunes can grab onto it as he works his way through this scandal.

BTW, with all of this Russian Collusion stuff on CPR, what happened to all of that information about the Podesta brothers involvement with the Russians up to and during the election? Is Mueller even going there at all?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 02/22/2018 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Suspected here at Rantburg since the DNC rally and primary; Bernie Bro supporter or at least sympathizer. To top, the Seth Rich murder was very odd.

Not Mueller's job. His job is to piss in your face and tell you to stop crying.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2018 9:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Not much in the news about Seth Rich.
Not much in the news about Clinton e-mails.
Not much in the news about Platte River Networks
Not much in the news about the Awan bros.
Not much in the news about Huma Abadin's laptop.
Not much in the news about Loretta Lynch.
Not much in the news about Uranium One.
Not much in the news about Christopher Steele.

There's really just not much in the news.

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2018 13:01 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't forget the lies about the Benghazi QRF cancellations, and what is happening with the unprecedented exculpatory evidence referral by the Judge now hearing Flynn's sentencing hearing. Years ago there was a great novel by Arnaud de Bourchgrave (sp) called "the Spike".
It was about the choices of what NOT to print, and who made those decisions. Maybe an actual journalist could explore that process of collusion among the editorial elites in out media.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 02/22/2018 14:56 Comments || Top||


Fun With Red-on-Red: Sanders Blames Clinton for Not Informing People About Russian Meddling: ‘They Had More Information About This Than We Did'
[FreeBeacon] Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said Wednesday that he did not know at the time that Russian trolls promoted his 2016 presidential campaign and wondered why Hillary Clinton's team did not do more to tell voters about the extent of Russia's election interference.

In addition to their well-known efforts to boost Donald Trump, Russian trolls supported Sanders' presidential primary campaign, when he mounted a surprisingly strong but ultimately unsuccessful challenge to Clinton, according to special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment from last week.

Mueller's team indicted 13 Russian nationals and three companies for interfering in U.S. elections from 2014 to 2016.

In an interview on Vermont Public Radio, Sanders took issue with a listener's question that made it seem as if he knew about Russian bots promoting his candidacy at the time he was running.

"If he was aware that Russians were trying to promote him and divide Democrats against Mrs. Clinton, why did he not communicate this to his supporters?" the listener asked Sanders.

"This was not supporting me any more than they were supporting groups like Black Lives Matter that are fighting for social justice," Sanders said.

"I did not know that Russian bots were promoting my campaign," Sanders added. "Russians bots were not promoting my campaign. What we found out is that in April and May, it appeared that there were lots of strange things happening, attacking Hillary Clinton."

The interviewer asked Sanders why he and his campaign did not tell his supporters about Russian interference if they knew Moscow was meddling to sow divisions.

"I would say that the real question to be asked is what was the Clinton campaign‐they had more information about this than we did, and at this point, we were working with them," he responded.

"So did the Clinton campaign say, ’Don't talk about this?'" the interviewer asked.

"No, of course not, but who do you think would be raising that issue?" Sanders said.

"I could see a world in which Mrs. Clinton said, ’It's the Russians,' and Sanders supporters say, ’Oh, that's baloney,' but if Sanders says it, they say, ’OK,'" his interviewer said.

"We knew what we knew when we knew it, and that's about all that I can say," Sanders said.

Clinton pointed out in her book about her election loss, What Happened, that the Russians "made a particular effort to target voters who had supported Bernie Sanders in the primaries."
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 02/22/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do you not see this you simpleton commie bassackward idiot? It is all about HER.

You are such a stupid jackass. It is all about her.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 0:59 Comments || Top||

#2  I could see a world in which Mrs. Clinton said, ’It's the Russians,'

Why has no one said "It's the Awans"?
Posted by: Skidmark || 02/22/2018 10:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes. I wud very much like to learn more about the Awans.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2018 10:54 Comments || Top||


Top Democrats demand $300mn to protect the midterms from Russia intervention
[PRESSTV] "Nice elections we got here. Be a shame if somethin' happened to them!"
Posted by: Fred || 02/22/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing. NOTHING NOTHING until voter ID and clear the voter rolls.
And then nothing. I want full victory over these pieces of shit. Yes, you democrat piece of shit.
And then nothing

Never give them anything. Ever. They starve.
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 1:10 Comments || Top||

#2  BTW, they do not hack actual elections. They try to manipulate data
Posted by: newc || 02/22/2018 1:13 Comments || Top||

#3  ..that was Obama's DHS action as exposed in Georgia (USA).
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/22/2018 7:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Georgia Confirms Homeland Security Attempted To Hack Election Database 10 Separate Times

Last week we noted a letter from Georgia Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, to the Department of Homeland Security questioning why someone with a DHS IP address (216.81.81.80) had attempted to hack into his state's election database on November 15, 2016 at 8:43AM. Now, according to WSB-TV in Atlanta, we learn that Georgia's election systems were actually the target of hacking by DHS on 10 separate occasions.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2018 7:58 Comments || Top||

#5 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 02/22/2018 9:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Never waste a good crisis to spend more taxpayer dollars.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/22/2018 9:10 Comments || Top||

#7  And if they don't get it, the midterms will be tainted and they can cry about it for the next two years. Unless they sweep the board.
Posted by: Bobby || 02/22/2018 9:11 Comments || Top||

#8  Pulling in $300m from their constituents should not be that difficult. Oh wait, none of their constituents are currently working for a living.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/22/2018 9:14 Comments || Top||

#9  So the DNC opens the purse to the Clintons, who suck them dry and still lose, and they want the DHS/any Fed agency to receive funding to recoup some funds. Get some greasing done along the way.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/22/2018 9:46 Comments || Top||

#10  AlanC is only partially right, the money can be used for paper ballots, voter ID, and to clear the voter rolls. After that no money, none at all.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 02/22/2018 16:12 Comments || Top||



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  Mali Blast Kills Two French Soldiers
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