[NBC] On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News.
The interviews with FBI agents are part of the Justice Department's effort to fulfill a promise an assistant attorney general made to Congress last month to examine whether a special counsel was warranted to look into what has become known as the Uranium One deal, a senior Justice Department official said.
At issue is a 2010 transaction in which the Obama Administration allowed the sale of U.S. uranium mining facilities to Russia's state atomic energy company. Hillary Clinton was secretary of state at the time, and the State Department was one of nine agencies that agreed to approve the deal after finding no threat to U.S. national security.
NBC's Tom Winter, Pete Williams, and Ken Dilanian report that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered DOJ prosecutors to interview the FBI agents who investigated possible corruption in the Uranium One deal and its players' links to the Clinton Foundation.
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We're still waiting out here Mr. Sessions to see if there are two systems of justice in this country--one for the Washingtonian elites and another for the rest of us. We hope your tardiness in these matters is only because of the gathering of information and your serious deliberation. These matters left over mostly from the last administration are most likely, the greatest threat to Constitutional law outside of the Civil War that we, as a country, have faced.
[PJ] Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's closed-door interview with House Intelligence Committee investigators on Tuesday did not go well for him, Fox News' James Rosen reported in an exclusive on Wednesday.
According to congressional sources, McCabe's answers during his seven-hour interrogation conflicted with the testimony of previous witnesses, prompting one House investigator to tell Fox News, "It’s hard to know who’s telling us the truth."
The discrepancies have spurred Republican majority staff of the intel committee to issue fresh subpoenas next week for other Justice Department and FBI personnel.
Fox News reports that those personnel are likely to be "demoted DOJ official Bruce G. Ohr and FBI General Counsel James A. Baker, who accompanied McCabe, along with other lawyers, to Tuesday’s HPSCI session." Ohr -- whose wife Nellie worked for Fusion GPS through the summer and fall of 2016 -- is set to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee later this week, as well.
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McCabe claimed he could not recall – despite the reported existence of documents with McCabe’s own signature on them establishing his knowledge of the dossier’s financing and provenance.
This statement is very damning--McCabe invokes the Hillary defense? He's got to be eyeball deep in this and lying. McCabe is the number 2 guy at the FBI, he had to know what's going on with this and many other things under investigation as well.
McCabe has been asked to come back today. What's it going to take to refresh his memory and peel this onion of corruption?
Meanwhile the Dems are still trying to breathe life into the dead corpse of a feeble Trump-Russia collusion investigation. Get on with the burial of this stinking corpse. Have a little dignity and decorum. Quit $hitting in your pants and clean yourselves up.
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OK, McCabe, here's the deal: You give us the straight story and you get five years at Leavenworth instead of ten.
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Andy, please think of Jill. I hope you realize we'd really rather not go there unless we are forced to. Now, be a good chap and give us a hand with this tawdry matter won't you ?
[Breitbart] Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said he believed people in the FBI and the Justice Department were involved in "an orchestrated plan" to keep President Donald Trump from becoming president.
Jordan said:
I think they were putting together a plan to stop Donald Trump from being the next president of the United States. I think it’s amazing in spite of the fact that the Democrats were against him, the Republican establishment was against him, the mainstream press was against him. and now I believe the FBI and the Justice Department were against him, the American people still said that’s the guy we want to be the next president.
"But everything points to ‐ from what we learned several weeks ago that they paid to the dossier to the fact that I believe that fake dossier was used as the basis to get Warren to now what we learn about Peter Strzok and Bruce Ohr and the FBI and the Justice Department, respectively," he said, continuing, "Everything points to the fact that there was an orchestrated plan to try to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the President of the United States."
Furthermore:
When you look at the text messages and see the inherit bias that they had against President Trump. And then look at this idea that Peter Strzok thought he was — I believe — Mr. James Bond super secret agent at the FBI. The guy ran the Clinton investigations, interviewed Mills, interviewed Abedin, interviewed Secretary Clinton, changed the exoneration letter from the criminal standard of gross negligence to the non criminal standard of extreme carelessness, ran the Russia investigation, interviewed Flynn, this guy thought he was the guy charged with stopping President Trump from being the next president. I just don’t buy the spin and that text message is pretty clear. I’m afraid we can’t take that risk and need an insurance policy. I think that insurance policy was to use that dossier to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the next president.
He added, “To date, there’s not one bit of evidence that Donald Trump worked with the Russians to influence the election. But we know for a fact the Clinton campaign paid Russians. They paid Christopher Steele through the law firm, though Fusion GPS they paid Christopher Steele who actually paid Russians for this false, fake dossier information. So that’s the frustrating part. I want to get these people in. We need to subpoena Bruce Ohr. We need to subpoena his wife. We need to subpoena Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, and Lisa Page. That needs to happen.”
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And then look at this idea that Peter Strzok thought he was — I believe — Mr. James Bond super secret agent at the FBI. The guy ran the Clinton investigations, interviewed Mills, interviewed Abedin, interviewed Secretary Clinton, changed the exoneration letter from the criminal standard of gross negligence to the non criminal standard of extreme carelessness, ran the Russia investigation, interviewed Flynn
If folks kept coming to me to solve these kinds of problems, I'd start asking "why?"
[Jpost] ...In setting out this analysis, I am not taking sides. I am simply sharing my 50 years of experience as a criminal defense lawyer who has seen the criminal justice system up close, warts and all. As James Madison wrote in "Federalist 51": "Perhaps everyone will agree that if we were all angels, no state would be necessary, and if angels were the governors, they would require neither internal nor external constraints to ensure that they governed justly." Neither the Trump team nor the Mueller team are angels. They are human beings with human limitations. But an investigation of a president must be as close to angelic as any human endeavor can be. Otherwise the public will not have confidence in the results.
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a few more testimonies about the palace coup the FBI was trying to create and Mueller might just find himself below the fold in the Arts and Entertainment section of the WaPo
[Townhall] Last night, the Senate adopted the final version of a major tax overhaul that nonpartisan organizations all agree will boost economic growth, make the US corporate tax rate far more competitive on the global stage, and will cut taxes, on average, for every single income group in America. Every single Democrat who cast votes on the bill in both legislative chambers voted no. 'Resistance' now requires consigning your working class and middle-income constituents to higher tax burdens, apparently. Thanks to Democrats' unified failure, more than 80 percent of taxpayers will see an immediate cut, with less than five percent getting an increase -- a tiny group heavily tilted toward wealthier itemizers living in high-tax states. More than eight years from now, those percentages would have barely budged, with the vast majority of all taxpayers (including and especially the working and middle classes) receiving tax relief, totaling roughly $7,000 for the average family by that point. These are facts; facts that Democrats and their media allies have gone into overdrive to hide from the American people. Some of this propaganda push has entailed flat-out lying and laughable hyperbole:
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Prosperity? Hell no, it's about power. Beggars are easier to please. Besides its in the program to destroy the Middle Class in order to have more efficient plantation socialism.
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... with less than five percent getting an increase -- a tiny group heavily tilted toward wealthier itemizers living in high-tax states...
High tax states = blue states and that tiny group heavily tilted toward wealthier itemizers are people who work, produce value and pay taxes. Most likely many of them vote Republican so when they leave those high tax states they'll get even bluer and eventually go bankrupt just like Detroit. Sometimes I think that's Brown's plan. He wants to turn California into a Third World hell hole on a par with Venezuela so he can be the dictator like Maduro.
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The problem that CA would have in this case is that people can leave freely. They had better get working on that.
But they reliably inform me they're anti-fascist...
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Bright Pebbles, does the phrase "Heil Hillary" mean anything to you? That's the antifa favorite phrase.
BTW "Antifa", really stands for "Anti-First-Amendment!", they're trying to confuse us by saying it's "anti-fascist", not very successfully as most Americans apparently knows better.
[THEHILL] Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday won the top Democratic spot on the powerful House Judiciary Committee, beating back a challenge from Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) to fill the seat held by former Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) for almost a quarter century.
The House Democratic Caucus voted 118 to 72 in favor of Nadler, a 13-term Manhattanite known for his constitutional expertise.
The vote marks a victory for the seniority system that could have outsized implications if the Democrats win back the House in 2018 and the investigations into Russia’s election meddling turn up any damning evidence against the Trump administration.
Among the host of hot-button issues under the Judiciary panel’s jurisdiction is that of impeachment ‐ a factor highlighted by Nadler in pitching his colleagues in the weeks leading up to Wednesday’s vote.
After his victory, Nadler characterized the political moment as "a critical time" in the country’s history ‐ one he thinks he’s uniquely qualified to confront.
"Our efforts to hold the administration and those wishing to turn back history’s long arc towards justice accountable are central to the defense of progress and democracy," Nadler said.
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both are leftist Dem hacks.
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[PHILADELPHIA.CBSLOCAL] Philadelphia election Commissioner Al Schmidt told state politicians this past week that there may be tens of thousands of non-US citizens who have registered to vote in Pennsylvania...
...perhaps they were the ones who turned PA red in 2016...
and that for their sake, state officials should try to contact them.
Commissioner Al Schmidt told a Senate committee that many of the non-US citizens who registered to vote in Philadelphia, perhaps unwittingly, did so through a glitch in the state’s motor voter system. While the known cases number only several hundred, he says they are all self-reported. Schmidt says more than 100,000 PA driver’s license numbers with Immigration and Naturalization Service indicators match with voter registration records. That doesn’t mean that there are that many non-citizens registered to vote, but...
"We’re not talking about an insignificant number here," said Schmidt. "We’re talking about a potentially very significant number of thousands and tens of thousands."
Schmidt says those people should be contacted. Besides the issue of election integrity, he says registering to vote ‐ even unintentionally ‐ will derail an immigrant’s path to US citizenship.
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[THEHILL] Sen. Al Franken will step down on Jan. 2, a front man for the Minnesota Democrat said Wednesday.
Franken announced earlier this month that he would resign from the Senate in the face of sexual harassment allegations. But he did not announce a date for when he would officially leave the chamber.
Franken came under fire last month after multiple women accused him of inappropriately touching them. One woman said the comedian-turned-politician forcibly kissed her and groped her during a USO tour in 2006.
The allegations against Franken prompted numerous Democrats in the Senate to call for his resignation. The Senate Ethics Committee launched a probe into the allegations last month.
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13. All slain enemies will be cremated, or at least have several rounds of ammunition emptied into them, not left for dead at the bottom of the cliff. The announcement of their deaths, as well as any accompanying celebration, will be deferred until after the aforementioned disposal.
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[Free Beacon] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday attacked AT&T by name for not passing along tax savings to its employees immediately after the telecommunications giant announced that it would do just that.
AT&T announced Wednesday that it will give $1,000 special bonuses to more than 200,000 "union-represented, non-management and front-line managers" and invest an additional $1 billion in the U.S., citing the House and Senate passage of the sweeping Republican tax reform bill as its reason for doing so.
"Congress, working closely with the president, took a monumental step to bring taxes paid by U.S. businesses in line with the rest of the industrialized world," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO. "This tax reform will drive economic growth and create good-paying jobs. In fact, we will increase our U.S. investment and pay a special bonus to our U.S. employees."
"Since 2012, AT&T has invested more in the United States than any other public company," the company added. "Every $1 billion in capital invested in the telecom industry creates about 7,000 jobs for American workers, research shows."
Almost simultaneously with the AT&T announcement, Schumer gave a prepared speech attacking the notion of trickle-down economics and arguing that companies receiving tax breaks would just pocket the difference.
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I understand that $1000 is a drop of interest gained from the congressional sexual assault payoff slush fund, but that would go a long ways for me right now.
Especially since the health insurance I have to have, and I pay for in addition to the duty I owe for the good congressman's health insurance, went up some 30% this year.
[Politico] In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran.
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Project Cassandra was an attempt to provide an unending supply of blow for Obama while at the same time taking down the country? Also...
Cassandra of Greek mythology, was cursed to speak true prophecies that no one believed. A common version of her story relates how, in an effort to seduce her, Apollo gave her the power of prophecy: when she refused him, he spat into her mouth to inflict a curse that nobody would ever believe her prophecies. Another version has her fall asleep in a temple, where snakes licked (or whispered in) her ears so that she could hear the future.
"Cassandra" is Also a rhetorical device used to indicate that someone's B.S. is not to be believed.
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Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
Same agency that stumbled upon the Awan car dealership money laundering and Paki intelligence operation in Falls Church....and allegedly mentioned it to no one ?
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[NBC] On the orders of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Justice Department prosecutors have begun asking FBI agents to explain the evidence they found in a now dormant criminal investigation into a controversial uranium deal that critics have linked to Bill and Hillary Clinton, multiple law enforcement officials told NBC News.
[PJ] Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe's closed-door interview with House Intelligence Committee investigators on Tuesday did not go well for him, Fox News' James Rosen reported in an exclusive on Wednesday.
Andy, please think of Jill. I hope you realize we'd really rather not go there unless we are forced to. Now, be a good chap and give us a hand with this tawdry matter won't you ? 
[THEHILL] Sen. Al Franken will step down on Jan. 2, a 
[Free Beacon] Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) on Wednesday attacked AT&T by name for not passing along tax savings to its employees immediately after the telecommunications giant announced that it would do just that.
