[WASHINGTONTIMES] The co-founder of the Washington-based firm that commissioned the explosive and largely unsubstantiated anti-Trump campaign research dossier will reject a Senate subpoena to testify before Congress next week and invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, according to the heads of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Glenn Simpson, the former Wall Street Journal news hound who helped start political intelligence firm Fusion GPS, has been a key figure in the Russian election meddling saga ever since the dossier, which alleged a years-long Kremlin conspiracy to elect 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... and included colorful sex stories, was leaked to the press after the Republican’s November victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... Since March, the Senate Judiciary Committee has pressed for Mr. Simpson’s testimony and documents relevant to the case. His attorneys, Joshua A. Levy and Robert F. Muse, have rebutted with numerous defenses, including citing confidentiality agreements between Fusion GPS its clients. This week, a Judiciary hearing which would have featured Mr. Simpson -- had he voluntarily attended -- was canceled.
Late on Friday committee leadership executed hardball tactics to force him to tell what he knows as chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, and ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein ...Dem Senator-for-Life from Caliphornica. She has been a politician since about the time she was weaned. Feinstein was the author of the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban, and tried it a second time in 2012. Feinstein has chaired the Select Committee on Intelligence since 2009. At age 80, Feinstein is the oldest currently serving United States Senator.... , a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, Democrat, announced they’d subpoenaed him.
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Glenn Simpson invokes the 5th protects against self-incrimination. Typically, people think someone who invokes the 5th is guilty of something. The 5th Amendment also guarantees the right to a grand jury. Perhaps, Simpson would prefer going before a grand jury.
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You would think that when the man behind this entire Russian Collusion thing wants to plead the fifth rather than discuss his sources, the entire Russian Collusion narrative comes apart. Time for Mueller to close up shop and go home. It's all false flag to me. The real collusion was running against Trump.
Let me be more precise. As a rational argumentation construct, the implication of a manufactured dossier's author taken the fifth unravels the narrative
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Comey gave out immunity to Hillary coterie like candy to the kids on Halloween. Suppose Simpson is offered immunity to testify about Fusion GPS, the DNC, Hillary and election rigging, the dossier and collusion. Is his testimony worth it?
ExxonMobil ‐ a favorite whipping boy of the left ‐ found itself back in the deep state’s crosshairs this week.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Asset Control, a haven for burrowed bureaucrats, announced it has fined the energy giant $2 million for purportedly violating sanctions by dealing with a Russian businessman who had been placed economically off limits to Americans because of his involvement with Russia’s effective takeover of Ukraine.
In March 2014, President Obama issued an executive order that gave the Secretary of the Treasury the power to designate Russian officials viewed as contributing to the Ukraine problem and block them from acquiring property or interests or dealing in property or interests with anyone so designated.
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On April 28, Igor Sechin was so designated, but Rosneft OAO, the Russian energy conglomerate of which he is president, was not.
So, on May 8, according to the Treasury Department, ExxonMobil signed eight legal documents related to oil and gas deals in Russia with Sechin in his capacity as president of Rosneft OAO.
ExxonMobil said in a challenge to the fines filed in U.S. District Court in Dallas that signing the deals does not constitute a violation of the sanctions because the sanctions applied to Sechin individually and not in his capacity as president of Rosneft OAO.
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It’s clear what is going on here. The Deep State within the Treasury Department is striking back at a company associated with President Trump, fining it for actions taken while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was at the helm.
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ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson's outfit. The Office of Financial Asset Control--left-over policies from the previous administration. Housework and cleaning are so easy. Dust and dirt keep building up.
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ExxonMobil ‐ a favorite whipping boy of the left ‐ found itself back in the deep state’s crosshairs this week.
