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-Lurid Crime Tales-
British ex-spy will not talk to U.S. prosecutor examining Trump probe origins
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele’s London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

Trump has given Barr broad authority to declassify intelligence materials related to the investigations. Last week Trump ordered the heads of U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Durham.

Steele, who had previously collaborated with the FBI on issues such as corruption in the global soccer organization FIFA, was hired in 2016 by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based private investigations firm working for lawyers representing the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Steele produced for Fusion GPS a set of controversial and sometimes salacious reports describing alleged contacts Trump and his team had with Russians before the election.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 06:51 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Steele, who had previously collaborated with the FBI on issues such as corruption....

Well there you have it. I'm sure the FBI and CIA can provide us a full accounting of Mr. Steele's activities and contacts.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  His report was funded the Democrats.
Posted by: Herb McCoy || 05/29/2019 7:06 Comments || Top||

#3  He's the person who "interfered with" the 2016 election. I say cut GCHQ off cold until he is handed over.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/29/2019 7:10 Comments || Top||

#4  Appears to be some turmoil at #10. Probably just a coincidence.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 7:15 Comments || Top||

#5  McStain started it...
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/29/2019 8:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Steele needs some refresher training on waterbording. To make sure he can stand up to it if captured by Martians or something.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/29/2019 8:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Mr. Steele (not to be confused with Chris Steel, gay sex star from the late 90s), claims he has now been exposed to certain murderous Russian oligarchs and is hiding with his family in an undisclosed location.

Friends of the rich intelligence mercenary say he has recurring dreams of flaming orange hair and a large man in a suit swaggering toward him.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/29/2019 11:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Maybe the Russians could snatch him up for us.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/29/2019 12:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Rendition time, send him to a black site and figure it out....
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/29/2019 13:06 Comments || Top||

#10  While we all watch the ball on Russia and the collusion our constitutional right have been removed. We are no longer a Republic. This is a train wreck of constitutional crisis that in a few months will be too late to fix, by 2020 at least. When the blue states conspired to vote and give their electors to the popular vote, they have, in essence conspired to change our constitution from Republic to a full democracy. The smaller states are now cut out of their right for a fair election. Our constitutional right to vote has been removed. Why vote when the vote will go to six counties in New York. When you look at the demographic of the last election, and apply this new action buy states, New York will be the only state that needs to vote. This whole process needs to get in front of the supreme court for a constitutional look. The argument I have heard here is we elected our state leaders and they changed it so its on us. Not true, no representative, state or otherwise, can take our god given rights away. This needs to be resolved or the next election will never get resolved and we will have a real problem on our hands...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/29/2019 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  When they try, and power, water, and food gets cut off to the democrat strongholds and they die of starvation and internal strife, they will then be the least populated sections of the country.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/29/2019 16:26 Comments || Top||

#12  We have a real problem on our hands now. The deep state and the dems have a number of projects in progress for fixing the outcomes of any so called election.

  • Popular vote by the back door, not amending the constitution;

  • Putting so called green initiatives through the states one by one

  • Going for impeachment in the House in an effort to tie up the President

  • Cherry picking judges to prevent any action for control of the border

  • Having the Speaker of the House let the islamic radical house members have their agenda pushed forward

  • Dems fighting any ID necessary in voting



And a whole lot more. They are at war with our constitution and our Republic. They are the enemy, just like ISIS and alQ.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/29/2019 16:28 Comments || Top||

#13  The path feels in some ways like the middle 1930's in Europe, and the trajectory seems to be shaping for the same kind of terminus.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/29/2019 18:21 Comments || Top||


Joe DiGenova blows the lid off the real scandal: The Russia hoax was a cover-up effort for Obama's political spying since 2012
[American Thinker] Hold on to your hats. At last, we are on the verge of getting to the bottom of the weaponization of the nation's top law enforcement and spy agencies to spy on political opponents, and it is far bigger than obtaining bogus FISA Court warrants to spy on Carter Page. Barack Obama's minions have been spying on his political opponents since before his 2012 re-election, and the entire Russiagate hoax was an effort to cover up that ongoing spying.

As I have stated before, the best sources for understanding the unfolding of the biggest political scandal in American history are D.C. super-lawyers Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, who have an unmatched track record in explaining the events we see in the media and predicting the forthcoming revelations. I am not in communication with them, but it does appear they have superb sources ‐ which would not be surprising, given their long history as key conservative players at the highest level of the D.C. legal and political circles.

Yesterday, Joe DiGenova made his customary Monday-morning guest appearance on WMAL radio's Mornings on the Mall radio show. (WMAL is the premier conservative talk station in D.C.). The 15-minute segment is jam-packed with must-listen insights. In addition to his revelations about the true nature of the Russiagate hoax, there is another quiet bombshell he dropped ‐ see the end of this blog post for the tantalizing perspective he revealed. You can listen on the YouTube version here.

The basic story is that Admiral Mike Rogers, who was head of the NSA in the spring of 2016, discovered that the NSA's comprehensive database collecting all electronic communications in the United States was being searched by unauthorized FBI "contractors" and moved to cut off that access. He also visited Donald Trump, after which Trump moved his campaign HQ out of Trump Tower. Trump's much derided claim that his campaign was "wiretapped" likely also was the result of gaining this insight from Admiral Rogers.
Joe and Victoria apparently follow the Burg. My emphasis added.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In other John Brennan, Analysis Corp. US State Dept. passport office contracting news from 22 March 2008:

Chief of firm involved in breach is Obama adviser
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 6:39 Comments || Top||

#2  It was reported that Brennan was spying on Senate personnel back in July, 2014 in WAPO. The Atlantic reported on this in Dec. 2014. Initially, this was all denied by Brennan. It wouldn't be a surprise that he started as early as 2012 and that Obean was involved. Both are turds that need to be flushed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/29/2019 8:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Trump fired Comey. Why can't he fire Wray?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/29/2019 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Muller resigns...going fishing.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/29/2019 11:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Mueller.....oops.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 05/29/2019 12:03 Comments || Top||

#6  Joe has made some seriously wrong predictions before.

He predicted (in Jan or Feb 2016) that Hillary would withdraw from the 2016 nomination process and be indicted.

so his track record isn't quite what the article says
Posted by: lord garth || 05/29/2019 13:15 Comments || Top||

#7  So The FBI was sifting through the NSA feeds, the CIA was setting up bogus meetings outside the country-to stay legal and set up republicans, and the DOJ was running inference, all the while the liberal press spewed propaganda about the right. This is coordinated, fully executed, run to plan, this is sedition, by definition.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/29/2019 16:28 Comments || Top||

#8  If these people are not accountable for their crimes, nobody is accountable. Very bad. That means anarchy,and warlords, kind of like Somalia.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/29/2019 16:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Ref #7: Probably right on target.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 17:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
KKK Tries To Stage A Rally In Dayton, Ohio. Only 9 People Show Up
[DAILYCALLER] After media outlets ran headlines warning a Dayton, Ohio, KKK rally on Saturday could be a "powder keg," the gathering proved insignificant when nine people showed up compared to roughly 500 protesters.

Outlets including The Hill ran stories with headlines like "’Powder keg’ in Dayton: Ohio city braces for KKK rally." The city estimates it spent $650,000 on security for the event, including about $250,000 on personnel and about $400,000 on materials, reported WKYC 3.

Democratic Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley told residents to avoid the downtown area Saturday.

"This hate group that is coming in from outside our community wants to incite problems in our community and we want to stop that from happening," Whaley told Ohio’s Fox45 on Thursday. "We really don’t want people to go downtown, because that’s what this hate group wants and we don’t want to give this hate group what they want."
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Democratic Party's strong arm doesn't seem to be doing well. Maybe if they sang a few catchy tunes, like "Horst Wessel", more people would show up.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/29/2019 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  So much for wide spread 'white supremacists' [which is the neo-Marxist corrupted term for Western Civilization]
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/29/2019 7:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Poor weather and global warming kept them away. Should have been tens of thousands, possibly a million attendees and followers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Horst wessel? Is that like a nuclear wessel?
Posted by: gorb || 05/29/2019 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  The KKK is mostly a problem in the heads of the left-wing and MSM. The Dems trying to pass the buck off for creating the KKK in the first place.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/29/2019 9:44 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 Gorb, are you thinking of Horst Weasel?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/29/2019 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Of course, the dem's actual "muscle," Antifa, is a bunch of white guys in balaclavas and bandannas. With Tupperware armor.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/29/2019 9:48 Comments || Top||

#8  With Biodegradable Tupperware armor.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/29/2019 10:51 Comments || Top||

#9  How many of the 9 were paid informants for the government?
Posted by: Airandee || 05/29/2019 11:51 Comments || Top||

#10  And seven of those were journalists.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/29/2019 13:14 Comments || Top||

#11  I wont be surprised if they were 9 Nigerians in white cloaks and Klan hoods.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/29/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||

#12  Simple way to deal with modern KKK folks. Put your emotions on hold and ignore the clowns. They're way less likely to start trouble on their own than the BLM or Antifa crowd.

They were looking for the exposure and got it....big time.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/29/2019 15:40 Comments || Top||

#13  FBI agents?
Posted by: charger || 05/29/2019 18:58 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Biden Praises 10-Year-Old Girl as ‘Good Looking' and Holds Her Shoulders
[Breitbart] Former Vice President Joe Biden cozied up to a 10-year-old girl on Tuesday, despite his promise to control his personal interactions with women and children.

"I’ll bet you’re as bright as you are good-looking," Biden said to a girl who asked him a question at an American Federation of Teachers town hall in Houston, Texas.

He exclaimed when the girl told him that she wanted to be a journalist, and led her over to meet the reporters in the room.

As he introduced the child to the press, he leaned over and spoke in her ear, before finishing his speech.
Ick.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 06:05 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And the left continues to say the Orange Man needs an intervention.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2019 6:13 Comments || Top||

#2  That was common in his day, but these days it not only seems chauvinist, but also downright fucking creepy.

Keep it up Joe!
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/29/2019 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  The poor little misguided girl is being groomed to be a journalist? Indeed there needs to be an intervention to protect her from "Wandering Hands Joe" and urinalism.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/29/2019 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  The poor little misguided girl is being groomed to be a journalist propagandist?

FIFY
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/29/2019 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  As he introduced the child to the press, he leaned over and spoke in her ear, before finishing his speech.

"I'm in room 402," he whispered.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/29/2019 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Could you see both of Sniffer's hands?
Posted by: Woodrow || 05/29/2019 10:19 Comments || Top||

#7  "I'm in room 402," he whispered.

Is this why he went missing on Memorial Day?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/29/2019 11:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought this was a satire until I saw the video.

Ewwww
Posted by: lord garth || 05/29/2019 16:25 Comments || Top||

#9  MSM collectively does a face-palm and immediately writes a "Mayor Pete" story.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/29/2019 18:20 Comments || Top||



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