[Daily Caller] Lawyers for a Russian tech executive suing BuzzFeed for publishing the Steele dossier say that a longtime associate of Arizona Sen. John McCain and two major news outlets are resisting subpoenas seeking their depositions for the case.
In a brief filed in federal court late Wednesday, lawyers for the executive, Aleksej Gubarev, claim that David Kramer, a former State Department official and McCain associate, "has been seemingly avoiding service" of a deposition subpoena for weeks.
And The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are challenging deposition subpoenas they have been served as part of the case.
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Having had some recent experience with this kind of situation, I can tell you that it is no small task for someone to intentionally avoid ("evade" is the more appropriate word) service of process.
There are remedies available to the serving party; ranging from hiring a private investigator to track down the receiving party to appealing to the court for other means of service (e.g. serving via certified mail, email, or even Facebook has been allowed in some cases).
While evading service of process obviously raises the cost to the serving party-- one might argue that is the intent of the party evading service, in whole or in part-- in many, if not most, instances the receiving party can be compelled by the court to reimburse the serving party for any expenses associated with the service of process; assuming the serving party has done a sufficient job documenting all of their service attempts as well as providing any supporting evidence demonstrating the receiving parties efforts to evade it.
In my own experience as the serving party, one of the defendants in the case was able to evade service of process for almost 3 months. This particular defendant went to great lengths in doing so, even not showing up to work during almost that entire time.
We were well prepared to appeal to the court for other means of service when the private investigator we had hired was finally able to track them down and serve them, despite this defendant denying their own identity at the time they were confronted by the investigator (talk about looking guilty!). You can be sure the judge will find out about that last part.
[Breitbart] Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) spoke with Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Thursday regarding a proposed Mueller amendment to limit the special counsel investigation to between March 2015 and the present, and also tax reform in the House.
"We know now without a shadow of a doubt that the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, paid Fusion GPS and Steele to acquire this dossier, which required colluding with Russian operatives and Russian nationals. So, they produced this dossier and I believe, yesterday I called for the FBI, the Justice Department to declassify all the FISA applications involving Trump associates because what I think happened is, I think they used the information from this dossier to be able to get surveillance on Trump and his associates."
"And then the fruits of that," he continued, "formed the basis of what had been leaked to the press over the first three or four months of Trump’s White House."
DeSantis also discussed the Uranium One scandal and the pending tax reform bill in detail. The full audio is available below. Emphasis added
If a dossier constructed by a foreign source ('former' British intelligence agent Christopher Steele) funded by the DNC, was used to harvest FISA warrants, the jig is up. Mueller's Trump-Russian efforts are now total rubbish.
This could possibly be why Mueller is now concentrating on Manafort's potential criminal activities well prior to the Trump candidacy. Mueller may be distancing himself from the 'fruits of the poison tree' hoping to take a few scalps elsewhere.
[SPEISA] "This Nightmare Must End: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO!"
So declare the opening lines of a full-page advertisement in the New York Times promoting mayhem and insurrection for this Saturday, November 4.
"Nov. 4 It Begins," the ad continues. "Join with the thousands who will gather in cities and towns across the country. A movement of protests that continue every day and night, growing until we become millions... determined now to stop until this regime is driven from power." (See the full ad below.)
The advertisement directs readers to go to RefuseFascism.org, "To Find a Protest Near You." At the website, information on planned Nov. 4 "protests" can be found for Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, New York City, Omaha, and other cities.
The New York Times, of course, knows ‐ even if many of its readers do not ‐ that Refuse Fascism is a front group founded and run by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a violent Marxist-Leninist group that idolizes China’s Communist mass-murderer Mao Zedong. Which makes the Refuse Fascism appeal to "humanity" doubly ludicrous and doubly offensive. "NO! IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY WE REFUSE TO ACCEPT A FASCIST AMERICA!", the ad declares.
The RCP/Refuse Fascism cadres form a major component of the masked, black-clad Antifa thugs who have been rioting and causing mayhem throughout America for the past year.
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It is a shame that nobody noticed the pattern every time Obama left the country or went on a trip and the major uptick in engineered idiocy and anarchy perhaps next time trump should tell the engineers to fuck off and stay in country !
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Wow, an ad in the NYT. I'm sure a legion of society matrons and investment bankers will leave their $20mm condos and take to the streets. "Hey hey! Ho Ho! My chauffeur has got to go!"
So I'm a kid on my first trip to NY. I decide to take the subway to my meeting. But I want to blend, so I buy a copy of the NYT for the ride. Get on the subway, and every single rider except me is reading the New York Post. A truly educational experience.
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[New York Post] CIA Director Mike Pompeo has just released hundreds of thousands of documents, long withheld by the Obama administration, that were seized in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
There are no surprise revelations ‐ but they more fully document the years-long extensive cooperation between al Qaeda and Iran that was still ongoing when bin Laden met his end.
And that raises even more disturbing questions about the nuclear deal Team Obama cut ‐ and the real reason these documents weren’t disclosed until now.
Particularly a 19-page assessment by a senior jihadist of the Qaeda-Tehran ties: how Iran supplied "everything [we] needed," including "money, arms" and "training in Hezbollah camps in Lebanon," as well safe haven for other jihadis.
Yes, there were occasional conflicts and jealousies ‐ but not enough to sever the relationship, which bin Laden himself described as post-2001 al Qaeda’s "main artery for funds, personnel and communication."
The Obama White House had this information for nearly five years before negotiating the nuclear deal ‐ talks in which it refused to address Iran’s continuing sponsorship of terror even as it agreed to provide it with more than $100 billion in sanctions relief and hostage ransom payments.
Secretary of State John Kerry himself admitted that much of the money would go to supporting terrorist groups.
And that includes al Qaeda ‐ which, the documents show, was very much under bin Laden’s control until the moment a Navy SEAL team took him out.
To ensure passage of the nuke deal, did Obama and his CIA directors withhold anything that could undercut their claims about encouraging Iranian "moderates"?
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.
[Daily Caller] Lawyers for a Russian tech executive suing BuzzFeed for publishing the Steele dossier say that a longtime associate of Arizona Sen. John McCain and two major news outlets are resisting subpoenas seeking their depositions for the case.
[SPEISA] "This Nightmare Must End: THE TRUMP/PENCE REGIME MUST GO!"
[New York Post] CIA Director Mike Pompeo has just released hundreds of thousands of documents, long withheld by the Obama administration, that were seized in the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
