[The Last Refuge] Representative Elise M. Stefanik is a young, freshman republican congresswoman from the Albany New York area. And using a probative questioning timeline, she single-handily pulled the mask from FBI Director James Comey, yet no-one seemed to notice.
Obviously Ms. Stefanik has not been in the swamp long enough to lose her common sense.
In the segment of the questioning below Rep. Stefanik begins by asking director Comey what are the typical protocols, broad standards and procedures for notifying the Director of National Intelligence, the White House and senior congressional leadership (aka the intelligence Gang of Eight), when the FBI has opened a counter-intelligence investigation.
The parseltongue response from Comey is a generalized reply (with uncomfortable body language) that notification of counter-intel investigations are discussed with the White House, and other pertinent officials, on a calendar basis, ie. "quarterly".
With the statement that such counter-intel notifications happen "generally quarterly", and against the backdrop that Comey stated in July of 2016 a counter-intel investigation began, Stefanik asks:
..."when did you notify the White House, the DNI and congressional leadership"?
BOOM! Watch an extremely uncomfortable Director James Comey outright LIE... by claiming there was no active DNI -which is entirely false- James Clapper was Obama’s DNI.
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Shut down CIA. Re-affirm that FBI is domestic only with severe legal sanctions for any who don't get it. No fruit salad uniform types involved in any domestic intelligence anything.
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the brutally obvious question(s), then lead to the follow-up: If the only criminal activity is the sourcing of the leak, and the two people giving testimony are potential suspects in that criminal activity, then: A) How can we trust their testimony, and B) Why are we even having this hearing”? (with two people who are suspects in an ongoing investigation)…
[Daily Caller] Democratic super-lobbyist Tony Podesta grossed more than $500,000 to represent a Chinese company criminally convicted in March of sending illegal shipments of telecom equipment to Iran, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
The seriousness of the illegal sales to Iran were so extreme and continued for so long -- from 2010 to last year -- the Department of Justice (DOJ) imposed a record $1.19 billion fine on the ZTE Telecommunications company, making it the largest penalty ever imposed in a U.S. sanctions case.
The Chinese firm hired the Podesta Group, one of Washington’s biggest and best-connected lobbying companies in the nation’s capital, in January 2016. ZTE retained Podesta’s personal help as negotiations intensified for a final resolution with DOJ during the final year of President Barack Obama’s tenure in the White House.
The Shenzhen-based company pleaded guilty on March 7 to violating a 22-year-old ban on shipments to Iran, including "conspiring by illegally shipping ... U.S.-origin items to Iran, obstructing justice and making a material false statement," according to the DOJ.
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Did Podesta get "MikeFlynned or PaulManaforted" by the echo-chamber media and the Demonrat Party? I haven't heard much about Podesta and his proclivities from the MSM.
To have Freedom of the Press, you have to have a free press.
[National Review] In light of how controversial the matter has become, it’s unfortunate to find so much uninformed commentary, especially in cable-TV land, about foreign intelligence collection and its so-called minimization protocols -- particularly, the guidelines about revealing, or "unmasking," the identities of Americans whose communications are "incidentally" intercepted.
The question arises because of reporting -- most recently, the coverage of disclosures last week by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes -- that the communications of figures associated with the Trump campaign were intercepted "incidentally" by U.S. intelligence agencies because they had some interaction with people connected in some way to foreign powers, principally Russia.
The Trump associates subjected to such intelligence-agency monitoring certainly include former national-security adviser Michael Flynn, who was intercepted when speaking with Russia’s ambassador to the United States. In addition, the intercepted individuals probably include at least three others: Paul Manafort, who ran the Trump campaign until being ousted in July (when reports surfaced of payments to him by the former government of Ukraine -- a Putin puppet regime); and two others, Roger Stone and Carter Page, who had informal connections to the campaign (but longstanding ties of varying degree to Trump and Manafort).
Nunes’s disclosures further suggest that the communications of others associated with Trump’s campaign (perhaps even Trump himself) were also intercepted. During the press conference, a reporter asked, Nunes, "Was the president [i.e., Trump] included in that incidental collection -- his communication?" Nunes responded, "Yes." Based on the little that has been reported, the interception and handling of these communications seems more disturbing because, according to Nunes, they have nothing to do with any known government intelligence investigations of Russia. Unless there is some legitimate connection to foreign activities, the specter of political spying hovers.
The reported intelligence collection efforts raise four separate questions that are too often conflated in the commentary:
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There is a lot to wade through in the article. The bottom line:
The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures and requires any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.
The question might ought to be, "Do we need a FISA Court?" A court that is secretive and not open to the protections of public scrutiny.
Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., caused a scene at a Manhattan restaurant when he began yelling at a wealthy and well-connected Donald Trump supporter that the POTUS is "a liar." Hmm, so is Chuckey.
Schumer, the top Senate Democrat, lost his cool on Sunday night at Upper East Side restaurant Sette Mezzo, according to witnesses.
He was dining with friends when he encountered Joseph A. Califano Jr. -- the former U.S. secretary of health, education and welfare under President Jimmy Carter and domestic policy adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson -- and his wife, Hilary, who were having a quiet dinner. Trump derangement syndrome is worse than Bush derangement syndrome.
Onlookers said Schumer was incensed that Hilary -- the daughter of William S. Paley, the founder and chairman of CBS -- had voted for Trump, even though her husband, Joseph, is a well-known Democrat. You are a Democrat! Don't you know you can't vote for just anyone? You have no choice!.
One witness said of the restaurant rant, "They are a highly respected couple, and Schumer made a scene, yelling, "She voted for Trump" The Califanos left the restaurant, but Schumer followed them outside." On the sidewalk, Schumer carried on with his fantastical filibuster: " How could you vote for Trump? He's a liar" He kept repeating, "He's a liar "
Hilary confirmed the confrontation, telling Page Six, "Sen. Schumer was really rude . . . He's our senator, and I don't really like him. Yes, I voted for Trump. Schumer joined us outside and he told me Trump was a liar. I should have told him that Hillary Clinton was a liar, but I was so surprised I didn't say anything."
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Can we have a court look at this evidence and declare him unfit and remove him from office?
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Ambrose Bierce and the Devil's Dictionary comes to mind as I read this:
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. Bierce was cynical about politicians.
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More Bierce. SENATE, n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors. and all too very rarely, high crimes and treason, and bribery.
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Can we have a court look at this evidence and declare him unfit and remove him from office?
That might be the best way to deal with it but I'm afraid I would have resorted to a good old fashioned punch in the nose.
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Following someone outside a restaurant in Georgia as they are attempting to extricate themselves from an unpleasant altercation, could easily be seen as life threatening to one's self and loved ones. A fit of kinetic unpleasantness could easily result. In fact, I suspect you could count on it.
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A liberal aquaintence says since she is a Trump supporter and this was on Fox news it's all fake. I pointed out it's also in the Daily Caller, a UK agency and in the New York Post. Still fake news. She voted for Trump therefore she's lying.
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East Coast looking a little limp wrist these days - whereas CA just hits back.
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[Breitbart] President Trump’s attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators.
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is more interested in building his political career than he is taking on the Green Blob, insiders report.
Pruitt is also said to be behind attempts to remove at least one of the key phrases from the president’s long-awaited Executive Order on the environment.
It concerns a proposal to repeal the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on CO2 (the disastrous, unscientific, job-killing ruling introduced during the Obama Administration, which rebranded the harmless trace gas Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous substance).
If Pruitt is successful and this clause is removed from the Executive Order it will represent a major setback for President Trump’s war with the Climate Industrial Complex. It may also put into jeopardy the promises Trump made on the campaign trail to scrap "any regulation that is outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers, or contrary to the national interest."
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Every law Congress writes should be limited to one sheet of paper.
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It concerns a proposal to repeal the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on CO2 (the disastrous, unscientific, job-killing ruling introduced during the Obama Administration, which rebranded the harmless trace gas Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous substance).
Leave it in, get rid of Pruitt. You've got to win the narrative in this war to start changing things around. The best narrative is the truthful narrative.
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It concerns a proposal to repeal the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on CO2 (the disastrous, unscientific, job-killing ruling introduced during the Obama Administration, which rebranded the harmless trace gas Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous substance). which all animals exhale constantly.....
[Wash Times] As pressure mounted Monday night on the House intelligence committee over its Republican chairman and the Russia probe, President Trump took to Twitter to change the subject to Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Trump called the entire Russia-ties story fake news and demanded an investigation of the Clintons’ involvements with the Kremlin.
"Why isn’t the House Intelligence Committee looking into the Bill & Hillary deal that allowed big Uranium to go to Russia, Russian speech money to Bill, the Hillary Russian "reset," praise of Russia by Hillary, or Podesta Russian Company. Trump Russia story is a hoax," Mr. Trump wrote over two tweets.
Earlier Monday evening, in an unusual move for a panel known for bipartisanship, Rep. Adam Schiff of California, the panel’s ranking Democrat, said Chairman Devin Nunes should recuse himself from the Russia probe because he acknowledged having gone to the White House complex to view classified documents on Obama administration’s surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
In his demands for a probe Monday, Mr. Trump referred to several matters -- most already acknowledged and reported -- related to Mrs. Clinton, former president Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.
[Last Refuge] Freedom Watch notifies congress of a "Deep State" intelligence community whistle blower, Dennis Montgomery, with hundreds of millions of documents showing CIA and FBI and Intelligence Committees were spying on, and conducting surveillance on, American citizens for political purposes.
Mr. Montgomery is trying to use a legal "whistle-blower" process and not follow the same approach as Edward Snowden.
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"Deep State." I read this to mean akin to East Germany and Stalinist Soviet Union. In other words, despotic tyrannical regimes. It's the "legacy chaff" left behind.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money -- and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past.
Speaking at the White House, Mr. Sessions said his department is preparing to dole out more than $4 billion in funds this year, but will try prevent any of it from going to sanctuaries.
"Countless Americans would be alive today ... if these policies of sanctuary cities were ended," Mr. Sessions said.
He said he’s carrying out a policy laid out by the B.O. regime last year, which identified three grant programs -- the COPS grants, Byrne grants and State Criminal Alien Assistance Program money -- that already require sanctuary certification.
The B.O. regime didn’t end up enforcing that policy, but Mr. Sessions said he’ll begin.
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You endanger everyone harboring Violent Criminals. That is not "Sanctuary" That is rape my daughter madness.
Forget this. No such thing.
I know there is autonomy, but there are also bench warrants that work nice when criminals have taken refuge in other states.
And Judges and politicians protect them. There are great big records.
Also occupancy of substandard housing,
and property taxes from absentee landlord property management services,
and 'revenue sharing' commerce for local bodegas,
and acceptance of substandard municipal services,
and a source of cheap temporary labor,
and 100+% markup on labor services by general contractors,
and a cohesive demographic community.
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Last I checked, violating federal law by aiding and abetting criminals was grounds for getting yourself locked up.
Start arresting city leaders and putting them in the federal pen along with pulling funds and putting fines on cities and you will see a quick turn around.
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Are there any "2nd Amendment sanctuary" cities?
"Sanctuary cities" ought to be opposed by everyone. Supporting (assisting) and abetting sanctuary cities is law-breaking. Public officials who promote this ought to be removed from office.
"The Mississippi bill says cities, state agencies and public colleges in Mississippi can’t prevent employees from asking about someone’s immigration status (A little "squishy," but it's a start.) . These public agencies also can’t give aid to people who entered the country without permission, such as by issuing an identification card.
Immigrant advocates and some religious groups argued against the measure."
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
I reckon time will tell. 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Monday he’ll begin punishing sanctuary cities, withholding potentially billions of dollars in federal money -- and even clawing back funds that had been doled out in the past.
