[Daily Caller] On Fox Business Friday, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett outlined how former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey manipulated intelligence to target President Donald Trump.
Comey and Brennan are under criminal investigation for potential misconduct related to the Steele dossier, which fueled the FBI’s probe into alleged Russian collusion during Trump’s 2016 campaign. During an appearance on "Kudlow," Jarrett explained how Comey used the phony dossier to secure a FISA warrant, misleading judges by calling the document credible while withholding critical details.
"They used the dossier to try to entrap Trump in the infamous Trump Tower meeting just days before he was sworn into office. That didn’t work. So then Comey purloins FBI documents and leaks them to the media for the sole purpose of triggering the special counsel, which is his longtime friend and mentor, Bob Mueller, who’s a thundercloud over Donald Trump for more than two years of his presidency. And it really hobbled his ability to get things done," Jarrett said.
[Patriot Post] Former CIA Director John Brennan is one of the most contemptible and shady people in public life. Few people have abused their position, power and access with such impunity and hubris.
So, it was a pleasure to read a Fox News report that the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into Brennan, along with former FBI Director James Comey, for possible wrongdoing related to the Trump campaign-Russia collusion probe, including making false statements to Congress.
No, I’m not under the impression Brennan will end up in prison, where he likely belongs, or even see an indictment. The statute of limitations has largely sunset. And even if they hadn’t, the notion there will be any reckoning is remote.
My modest hope is that perhaps a better accounting of his corruption for the historical record will destroy Brennan’s reputation forever, which shouldn’t be a heavy lift.
Last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe released a report on the origins of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) that concluded Russia had interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump. It was more or less as one might have expected.
[Kunstler] No one in America — not even the most deranged, spike-faced, pink-haired transtifas — believes the latest Epstein story as played out by Mr. Trump and AG Bondi in this week’s cabinet parlay: nuthin to see, just a bunch of pointless child porn, fuggeddabowdit. . .
But stay! Much is moving, flowing unseen. The world is yugely in flux, large events in human affairs are in motion, many things are breaking, rotating, dissolving and re-forming, while others wind into giant hairballs. . . so many players acting as though they live in one great hall of mirrors, and treachery abides at every turn. Nobody seems to be actually managing any of it, though there is plenty of pretense, jockeying, staging. The public’s anger and anxiety rise in tandem.
One thing about Epstein is likely certain: it was an intel operation. And one thing is probable: it was a joint operation between the CIA, Israel’s Mossad, and the UK’s MI6. The object: to get as many political poohbahs on-the-hook for disgraceful behavior of the lowest kind and blackmail-able. Under the thumb. Theories and suppositions abound.
If Mr. Trump was in on the Epstein sex shenanigans, as Elon blurted this week, why did the Democratic Party not go after him for it in three election campaigns (and all the many months in between)? Well, not to put too fine a point on it, Elon appears to be losing his shit. His CEO at “X” bailed on him this week. His A-I app, Grok, started spouting Hitler gags, and his empire of world-beating genius is tottering on a broken business model.
You can write all that Elon stuff off as a sideshow for now — wildly grotesque as it may be. But what is actually going on in the three rings of this circus? Flux in the Middle East is one. Whatever else the “Twelve Day War” was about, it’s the end of Israel threatening to bomb Iran’s nuke program out of existence. We’ve done that favor for them, or pretended to, as some are saying, kabukied it out. So, Israel, shut up about that for now . . . is the policy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[Daily Caller] On Fox Business Friday, Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett outlined how former CIA Director 
