[Wash Times] The FBI pushed in 2016 to include the discredited dossier into the official intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton, two former senior officials said.
The officials told The Washington Times that as the historic ICA, as it is known, was being drafted, the FBI wanted to fold in allegations and observations from dossier writer Christopher Steele.
One source said then-FBI Director James B. Comey directly advocated inclusion. A second source said FBI officials definitely wanted Mr. Steele’s charges on Kremlin behavior included but could not single out Mr. Comey as the main driver.
The sources said James R. Clapper, then director of national intelligence, and John O. Brennan, then director of the CIA, objected on grounds that the dossier remained largely unconfirmed information from a former British spy, not vetted U.S. intelligence.
"The IC assessment was corroborated intelligence that involved what the intelligence community agreed with," the source said. "The dossier was a totally separate thing that had not gone through that type of process, so it should not be included. That was the decision that was made."
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The sources said James R. Clapper, then director of national intelligence, and John O. Brennan, then director of the CIA, objected on grounds that the dossier remained largely unconfirmed information from a former British spy, not vetted U.S. intelligence.
But of course it's entirely up to you.
BLUF: Intelligence Community finally distancing itself from the dossier and FISA effort. Comey and bureau tossed under the bus.
[The Hill] Conservative House Republicans are calling on their colleagues to subpoena Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, after a deal fell apart this week that would have led to her voluntary testimony.
"Now that Nellie Ohr is not coming in it is time to subpoena her and get her in as soon as possible," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in an interview with The Hill.
He called it "unfortunate" that Ohr would not come in as planned on Friday for a deposition.
A Republican House Judiciary Committee aide separately told The Hill that the committee will use its subpoena power to try to compel Ohr to testify if she does not agree to do so voluntarily.
It’s unclear why the deal fell apart to have Ohr interviewed behind closed doors with the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees.
"Last week, we thought Nellie Ohr was going to be in for a deposition tomorrow. We thought she was coming in this Friday. Turns out she isn’t. That is unfortunate," Jordan said during a phone interview.
GOP lawmakers are also threatening to subpoena Jim Baker, former FBI general counsel, if he does not agree to testify voluntarily. Baker had initially planned to meet with the committee in late August.
"The Committee continues to seek the testimony of Nellie Ohr and Jim Baker and will compel their testimony if necessary," the Republican House Judiciary Committee aide told The Hill.
#2
Set aside the legal arguments for a minute - what hideous, deformed offspring have resulted from these two ugly fucking bozos banging each other? It'd make that banjo player in 'Deliverance' look like a runway model.
Why does this sounds familiar?
[VictoryGirls] If you are anywhere near a Democrat and you see trails of drool, well, move away quickly. A French court has ordered former presidential candidate, Marine Le Pen to undergo psychiatric testing because of tweets. Yup, a Democrat dream come true.
"Reuters.com" filed the following report:
A French court ordered Marine Le Pen to submit to a psychiatric evaluation as part of its investigation into her decision to post images of Islamic State executions on Twitter, the far right leader said on Thursday and denounced the order.
and more:
The investigation relates to three graphic images of Islamic State executions Le Pen posted on Twitter in 2015, including the beheading of American journalist James Foley.
She tweeted violent images of Radical Islamic Jihadists beheading people and the French Courts think she needs a psych eval. Like I said, fantasy of the left. And, they immediately proved me correct.
#2
Of course looking at enemy propaganda is a reasonable and sane method to evaluate the enemy.
By the court's reasoning any textbook on psychiatry's detailed description of certain patients' delusions would indicate the need for a psychiatric evaluation of the author.
Merely the continuation of psychology with other means...
"Dr. Stalin will see you now." "OUCH."
For a shrink, he was kind of a grouch
("No soft first-class sofas
For wreckers and loafers!"),
And his couch made two continents crouch.
[National Review] This is about preventing a conservative justice from being added to the Supreme Court, nothing more.
Senate Democrats’ blatant abuse of the hearing process, their "delay, delay, delay" strategy, continues to pay dividends. Putting a stop to it would be long overdue.
Thursday was the day Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s manifestly meritorious nomination to the Supreme Court should have been voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and sent to the full Senate. Instead the nomination languishes because of an eleventh-hour stunt pulled by committee Democrats ‐ led by ranking member Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.).
Notwithstanding that Feinstein was well aware almost three months ago of a flimsily supported allegation against Kavanaugh ‐ to wit, that 36 years ago, as a 17-year-old high school student, he groped and tried to force himself on a 15-year-old girl at an underage beer party ‐ the senator sat on the information rather than submitting it to the hearing process. Although she met face-to-face with Kavanaugh and later questioned him when he was under oath at the hearing, Feinstein did not utter a word about the ancient, unverifiable claim to Kavanaugh.
Instead, the senator referred the allegation to the FBI, without identifying the self-proclaimed witness, despite knowing that:
#1
Grassley is actually handling this pretty well. We have to give this woman a chance to tell her lies. We'll never hear the end of it in any event, but at least this way she had her 15 minutes.
#2
I still don't think the sorry SOB will ever testify. More money to be made from delaying the process and just letting the facts (or lack thereof) simply hang out there for months or years whilst covering yourself with the cloak of victimization and the sanctimonious #MeToo meme.
There are notable exceptions, but it has been my experience that where politics is involved, most of these creatures are nothing but trouble.
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#6
Don't say "whilst." And don't say "kit" this is America. Just sayin'...
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#7
Don't say "whilst."
I personally find it quaint and a reminder that not all Americans were born here. Or even live here, necessarily.
In Texas, it's common to see fridge magnets and bumper stickers saying "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could". America is like that.
#9
I stick by what I said. God made you special, you don't need to use regionalisms to signal me that you are special. I was born knowing you are special.
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#10
Want to report "incoming" in kilometers to people who have thought in miles all their lives?
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#11
In America kit is a baby fox...
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#12
The poor witch ( re: # 5) has more excuses than a third grader. If she doesn't like to fly, then she needs to sell her broom.
#13
In Texas, it's common to see fridge magnets and bumper stickers saying "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as quick as I could". America is like that.
Yeppers. And we have a sense of humour about it... or humor, as the case may be. And regionalisms are great fun —I used to collect them.
[Daily Caller] The attorneys for Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser were scheduled to headline a fundraiser for Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin next month but have now backed away from the event.
Debra Katz and Lisa Banks, two lawyers representing Christine Blasey Ford in her sexual assault claim against Kavanaugh, were listed as headliners for the Baldwin fundraiser on an invitation sent out Thursday morning.
According to a report by CNN, attendees were asked to contribute up to $1000 to attend the "cocktails and conversation" event, which was to be held at the attorneys’ firm, Katz, Marshall & Banks, on Oct. 1.
Despite the invitation being sent out Thursday, Katz told CNN it was an "old invite" and that the attorneys are no longer doing the fundraiser.
"The short answer is this: We did a fundraiser for Sen. Baldwin six years ago when we ran for the Senate, we supported her then," Katz told CNN. "We are not going to be doing a fundraiser now. We’re going to be focused on the issues involving the Kavanaugh confirmation process."
[Daily Caller] Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford is getting advice by Democratic super-activist Ricki Seidman, Politico reports.
Seidman, currently an executive at a public relations company, has worked for the Dukakis, Mondale and Clinton campaigns for president. She served as Joe Biden’s communications director when he was named Barack Obama’s running mate in the 2008 election, and managed the confirmation of Obama’s Supreme Court justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor. Recently, Seidman served at the the executive director of the liberal voter turnout group Rock the Vote.
Seidman served in Bill Clinton’s campaign’s "war room" and served as deputy communications director in the Clinton White House, according to Politico.
Most importantly, Seidman is no stranger to high-profile fights over nominations to the Supreme Court by a Republican president. She cut her teeth running attack ads against Robert Bork, a nomination that was eventually derailed. She then moved to Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy’s office, where she was instrumental in convincing Anita Hill to go public with her claim that Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her, The Weekly Standard reports. Seidman was also instrumental in leaking the Hill story to the press, according to "The Real Anita Hill" by David Brock.
[GP] Is this a case of mistaken identity? Accuser Christine Blasey Ford is waging a war on Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh with decades-old, unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault in an effort to derail his confirmation to the Supreme Court.
Judge Kavanaugh has categorically denied the allegations and even told Senator Orin Hatch he wasn’t at the party in question.
Ed Whelan, Justice Scalia’s former law clerk and president of conservative think tank the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), came out in defense of Brett Kavanaugh and said compelling evidence will come out next week exonerating Kavanaugh.
On Thursday afternoon, Ed Whelan started dropping pictures and evidence that may blow Christine Ford’s case wide open.
The "Maryland suburban home"‐the scene of the alleged sexual assault described by Christine Ford to WaPo as being ’not too far from the Columbia Country Club’ may have belonged to Kavanaugh’s friend named Chris Garrett.
#2
Let me state why I care.
(a) My son will be 13 tomorrow - I don't want him to grow into a World where a woman's say so is enough to destroy a man's life.
(b) Israeli social trends follow American ones.
So, fix it! Make an example of Christine Blasey Ford - something horrible enough to discourage this kind of sh*t for a long long time!
#3
Thirteen? Are you going through the joys of bar mitzvah prep, g(r)omgoru? Mr. Wife was terribly impressed after seeing what trailing daughter #1 went through, concluding that the training explained the habit of Jewish success. Though he may have been influenced by the fact that in her speech td#1 did not compare the process to winning a baseball game, unlike one of the lads in her Hebrew school class. ;-).
#4
Christine Ford may simply be misremembering or she may have passively let herself be used as a leftist tool or maybe a bit of both.
However, based on her obvious limitations, she is not a 'mastermind' and her destruction, if it occurs and to the extent that it occurs, will likely be self inflicted.
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She claims she knew both and wouldn't confuse them. But that rings hollow given that she can't remember a date/place/etc. Honestly, I believe this is a political hit job. And if it can be proven to be a lie, she needs to go to jail along with all of her enablers.
#6
It's all Fox Mulder "I want to believe" territory. How appropriate, a conflicted fictional FBI agent...
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#7
Heckler's Veto plus Lawfare plus Politics...
There are always unsolved homicides in major cities, so what happens when this escalates (and success will invite escalation)? ...Turning into Witch Trials where they must prove their innocence by dying by drowning?
#12
If colonial justice ducked wood,
Which, to smoke out the wicked, it should,
All would burn but the fool,
For -- to float an old rule --
It's the perfect chuck over the good.
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[Wash Times] The FBI pushed in 2016 to include the discredited dossier into the official intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton, two former senior officials said.
[The Hill] Conservative House Republicans are calling on their colleagues to subpoena Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, after a deal fell apart this week that would have led to her voluntary testimony. 
[Daily Caller] The attorneys for Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser were scheduled to headline a fundraiser for Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin next month but have now backed away from the event.
[Daily Caller] Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford is getting advice by Democratic super-activist Ricki Seidman, Politico reports.
[GP] Is this a case of mistaken identity? Accuser Christine Blasey Ford is waging a war on Trump’s SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh with decades-old, unsubstantiated claims of sexual assault in an effort to derail his confirmation to the Supreme Court.
