[American Thinker] It has always niggled me as to what the always arrogant 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, actually meant when he was caught on an open microphone telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he needed more "flexibility" from the Russians. They needed to give him "space" since "it was [his] last election" but "after '[his] election, [he] would have more flexibility."
Medvedev's retort was "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."
While Medvedev may have understood what Obama was saying, most Americans were left quite bewildered by this cryptic message. Until now.
Enter the breathtaking information that the most intricate and shady backroom deals were happening both nationally and internationally while Congress and the American public were deliberately kept in the dark, not only by the Obama administration, but also by Obama's Department of Justice and the very same FBI officials who are now attempting to concoct a fictitious collusion story about Trump.
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How could Hillary Clinton possibly have lost the election?
Was it the Russians?
Wikileaks?
Podesta ?
Comey's investigation ?
Her sexual predator/rapist husband ?
A staff member's husband, Wiener’s, immoral pictures and sexting to adolescent girls ?
The subpoena violation ?
The corrupt offshore Clinton Foundation, whose foreign government donors remained anonymous under Canadian law ? the congressional lies ?
The Bengazi bungle and lies to the victims’ families ?
Pay for play graft scheme through the Foundation?
Re-directing funds from the Foundation for Haitian victims to political cronies that ended up in federal prison ?
Travelgate scandal ?
Whitewater scandal ?
Cattlegate scandal ?
Troopergate scandal ?
How about the more-than-fifty coincidental murders/suicides of Clinton “associates” that have never been thoroughly investigated?
Or was it the $15 million for Chelsea’s apartment purchased with Foundation money ?
Perhaps paying Chelsea a million dollars a year to do exactly what for the Foundation?
Or her husband’s interference with Loretta Lynch and the investigation ?
Was it stealing debate questions ?
Was it forensically deleting 33,000 emails in violation of USC Section 8, rendering her ineligible to run for federal office?
Was it the Seth Rich murder ?
Could it have been approving the sale of 20 percent of U.S. strategic uranium resources to Russia in exchange for exorbitant speech fees to her husband and gargantuan donations from Russian businessmen to the Foundation?
Was it calling half the USA deplorable ?
Was it the underhanded treatment and cheating of Bernie Sanders out of the Dem nomination ?
Was it the Vince Foster murder ?
The Jennifer Flowers assault ?
The Jennifer Flowers settlement ?
The Paula Jones lawsuit ?
The $800,000 Paula Jones settlement ?
The lie about taking on sniper fire in the Balkans?
The impeachment of her husband?
The 6 billion dollars she "lost" when in charge of the State Department ?
The 10 million she took for the pardon of Marc Rich ?
Gee, I just can’t quite put my finger on it, but it seems to be right in front of me somewhere.
[The Hill] When the story broke in April 2015 that the Obama administration, with the help of Hillary Clinton’s State Department, paved the way for Russia to gain control of 20 percent of America’s uranium, it sent shock waves through the halls of power in Washington. It caused red flags to go up and raised scores of questions with enormous implications.
Many people wondered why the United States would give Russia and Vladimir Putin a sweetheart deal like this. In the context of the 2016 presidential campaign, the central questions were about the money flowing to the Clinton Foundation, accusations of pay for play with financial benefits for the Clintons winning out over national security concerns, and why the Obama Justice Department seemed to do nothing about it.
There was more than enough smoke for the FBI to investigate official government favors in exchange for big donations to the Clinton Foundation, but agents ran into a hyper-politicized Attorney General in Loretta Lynch, whose public integrity section said it "did not have enough evidence to move forward," according to to Washington Post in October 2016.
[DAILYCALLER] Joule Unlimited, a secretive green energy ... the attempt to produce energy without using fossil fuel. The preferred methods are solar, wind, geothermal, phlogiston, philosophers' stones, and rattling bears' teeth. The approach with the most promise involves attaching generators to perpetual motion machines, but using Words of Power to summon energy-rich demons may also work. The green in the term refers to the vast number of greenbacks that have been thrown at the problem since 1973 with indifferent results... company that appears to have placed a big bet hiring Democratic insider John Podesta to its board, appears to have been doomed when former Secretary of State Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... lost the 2016 election.
When the 2016 presidential election ended, senior company executives admitted the prospects for their renewable energy "biofuels" company evaporated. "We had a lot of prospects last year," former Joule CEO Brian Baynes told BioFuels Digest in a rare interview in July. "But those new investor prospects walked away, particularly post-election."
Dmitry Akhanov, the president and CEO of Rusnano USA Inc., a Kremlin-owned venture capital firm nicknamed "Putin’s child," oversaw the Russian government’s investment in Joule and sat on its board along with two other Russians with ties to the Kremlin. Akhavov agreed that Clinton’s loss doomed the company.
"We lined up investors who were willing to buy the bonds, but after the elections, with some statements from the new administration regarding potential uncertainty, the future support of biofuels was stopped," he told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. "The company was not able to do the deal and it was one of the reasons why the company was closed."
Akhanov confirmed to TheDCNF his company invested and lost 1 billion rubles, worth $35 million when Joule closed its doors.
The two other board members with ties to Moscow were Ruben Vardanyan, who Putin appointed to a Russian economic modernization council, and Anatoly Chubais, a close personal friend of former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... and economic advisor to former Russian President Boris Yeltsin. Chubais allegedly made millions in the sell-off and "privatization" of Russia’s state-owned industries.
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All the ills of the world increased because Hildabeest lost the election (sarc).
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One problem we have as a country is that the elite believe they are too important and influential to go to prison for their crimes. Maybe so. We couldn't impeach Obama because he was the first black POTUS despite having done things that rose to high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeachment was not even on the table. Similarly with the Clintons; they have been betting on the fact that "No former POTUS and first lady" have been indicted for crimes after leaving office.
[Daily Caller] Tony Podesta and his Democratic lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, are now being investigated as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, three sources with knowledge told NBC News.
Mueller’s investigators began looking into the Podesta Group after they discovered that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked with the firm on a pro-Ukrainian lobbying effort. What began as a cursory examination of the firm, designed to gauge Manafort’s level of involvement in the lobbying campaign, has become a criminal investigation into possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by the Podesta Group, sources told NBC News.
Manafort reportedly worked along side the Podesta Group for the European Centre for a Modern Ukraine (ECMU), a nonprofit dedicated to increasing pro-Ukrainian sentiment in the west. Investigators are currently examining whether the lobbying firm violated FARA by failing to disclose their work for a foreign government. Both Manafort and the Podesta Group did not disclose their relationship with the ECMU until media reports exposed the arrangement.
The ECMU is reportedly backed by the party of Regions, a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party funded by oligarchs who paid Manafort’s firm millions.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Big websites like Facebook, Drudge Report, Breitbart News, Google and the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... would face substantial punishment if they don't make "reasonable efforts" to block foreigners from posting political ads under new election legislation pushed by Sen. John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... and two Democrats.
The "Honest Ads Act," co-sponsored by Democrats Virginia Sen. Mark Warner and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, would put new legal requirements and punishments on websites with 50 million unique monthly readers that take a tiny $500 or more in political ads from one advertiser.
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Can't they just contribute something to his reelection compaign?
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And if foreigners can't take out political ads here, why was Baraq in London telling the Brits to vote against BREXIT?
It might be appropriate to require that political ads identify their sponsors, foreign or domestic.
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Our experience with Amy Klobuchar here has been a case study in how to perfectly imitate Obammer's "tell a HUGE lie" not small ones. And the Twin City's DNC (DFL) media covers her BS as if Gospel on stone tablets. It's infuriating.
In her last campaign Soro's money was listed on her donation sheet.
But why McCain. Simple. He is covering for the massive bribers that fund his swamp monkeys.
When the DC roaches are exposed to daylight, ouch Johnny. Does it hurt must bassturd? Yup.
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So this "pizzagate" guy was on to something. Huh. Would never have guessed.
What I don't get is why anybody in the entire freaking world does this stuff ON FREAKING LINE.
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Before Pizzagate, I thought pizza was just a pizza and didn't have a darker meaning.
[WAPO] The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to the people.
Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Prior to that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.
The Clinton campaign and the DNC through the law firm continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day.
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.
Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.
After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to the people.
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Two major elements in this story of deep corruption: a) this was the basis for the approach to the FISA court in order to spy on Trump's campaign; and b) the FBI participated in financing the "research" after Clinton and the DNC had gotten it going.
One question: could Comey have attempted to use that "dossier" to embarrass/blackmail Trump?
Another question: the GPS dossier had a pre-Russia phase, paid by some GOPe character(s). Was it Bush or McCain? Where did Jeb's 100 campaign million go? Trump's recent warning to McCain, about fighting back, may not be innocuous, at this time.
Bonus question: given Mueller role in the Uranium One cover-up, does he feel he could now exonerate himself by pursuing Clinton-Obama-DNC corruption?
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And don't forget how 0bumhole spread the use of any information far and wide to make it more difficult to figure out what happened.
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte announced Tuesday morning they have officially opened a joint investigation into decisions made at the Obama Justice Department surrounding the FBI's criminal investigation into former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They also want to know why the FBI kept quiet about ongoing investigations into members of the Trump campaign, like Paul Manafort, while publicly discussing the Clinton probe.
"Our justice system is represented by a blind-folded woman holding a set of scales. Those scales do not tip to the right or the left; they do not recognize wealth, power, or social status. The impartiality of our justice system is the bedrock of our republic and our fellow citizens must have confidence in its objectivity, independence, and evenhandedness. The law is the most equalizing force in this country. No entity or individual is exempt from oversight," Gowdy and Goodlatte released in a statement. "Decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016 have led to a host of outstanding questions that must be answered."
The Committees will investigate the following:
-FBI's decision to publicly announce the investigation into Secretary Clinton's handling of classified information but not to publicly announce the investigation into campaign associates of then-candidate Donald Trump;
-FBI's decision to notify Congress by formal letter of the status of the investigation both in October and November of 2016;
-FBI's decision to appropriate full decision making in respect to charging or not charging Secretary Clinton to the -FBI rather than the DOJ; and
-FBI's timeline in respect to charging decisions.
"The Committees will review these decisions and others to better understand the reasoning behind how certain conclusions were drawn. Congress has a constitutional duty to preserve the integrity of our justice system by ensuring transparency and accountability of actions taken," the statement continues.
The Department of Justice and FBI have come under extra scrutiny in recent months after it was revealed former FBI Director James Comey drafted a letter exonerating Clinton long before agents were finished with their investigation. The letter was also drafted before Clinton and her top aides were interviewed for the case.
Comey was fired in May after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded he had usurped his authority by publicly announcing Clinton's exoneration.
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Why is it taking so long to get these investigations off the ground? Are they waiting for Mueller to vacuum up all the agenda-driven lawyers?
[Free Beacon] A number of longtime aides to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton are still being paid from her campaign committee nearly one year after her defeat, Federal Election Commission filings show.
The aides‐who have remained close to Clinton, some working with her as a private citizen‐have through the end of the third quarter collected thousands of dollars in payments from Hillary for America, Clinton's presidential campaign committee, the most recent filings show.
Huma Abedin, Clinton's longtime friend and aide who acted as vice chair of the campaign, has been paid nearly $65,000 between mid-November to the end of June. From the beginning of July until the end of September, during the third quarter, Abedin was paid a little more than $2,000, bringing her total payments to around $67,000 since the election.
Nicholas Merrill, former Hillary for America spokesman, has been paid $24,357 this year from the campaign.
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I mean, they did such a great job and everything...
(Actually, I think it has more to do with the coven master supporting the minions so they will do her bidding.)
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[FOX] Movie producer Frank DeMartini, an outspoken conservative, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination to oppose 14-term Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters in California next year.
DeMartini, a 55-year-old lawyer, is a rare conservative in left-leaning Hollywood, having mounted his own Republican Hollywood website ‐ now his campaign website ‐ and written several articles for Breitbart.com. His producing credits include "Mechanic: Resurrection" with Jason Statham, "Mad Money" with Diane Keaton, Ted Danson and Katie Holmes, "Elephant White" with Kevin Bacon and "Journey to the End of the Night" with Brendan Fraser. A native New Yorker who has lived in California since 1986, he announced his candidacy to represent the 43rd Congressional District on "The Adam Carolla Show."
Waters, 79, has represented three districts in California since she was elected to the House in 1990. As the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, she has been a liberal lighting rod against President Trump and was one of at least 70 Democratic House members who refused to attend his inauguration last January.
"Maxine is one of the prime examples of what is wrong with Washington," DeMartini told Fox News. "She has been in Congress so long she is out of touch with our community. She is out of touch with the country. She lives in a Washington bubble and it’s time for change, basically..."
"I think I am going to be the welcome change that the people in that district need. At least I can understand what is going on over there. I come from blue-collar parents. She came from them, but she has no idea what they are anymore."
[Conservative Tribune] The Florida Democrat who slammed President Donald Trump this week for allegedly being "insensitive" during a phone conversation with a slain U.S. soldier’s widow has her own sordid history of insensitivity, especially in regard to veterans.
According to an analysis of Rep. Frederica Wilson’s congressional voting record, conducted by Fox News, she’s voted against bills that would have provided "continued funding for veteran benefits, including payments to widows of fallen soldiers," multiple times over the last several years.
"She has also opposed measures designed to improve the Department of Veterans Affairs," reported Fox. "In March 2013, Wilson opposed the ’Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act,’ which prevented a government shutdown and provided funds for the U.S. military and the VA."
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The Widow Johnson has a fundraiser page that seems to be doing quite well. Pretty sure Rep. Wilson's hysterics have assisted in the effort.
Per Wiki: Wilson is an avid wearer of hats. She has a large collection that includes hundreds of hats of all different varieties. She wears one every day to honor her late grandmother. (?!)
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I don't think the President can release the tapes of such a private phone call without the permission of the other participant.
I think this was planned to create a Trump Bengazhi. They are going to keep hitting on it until it longer brings in donations.
I also think that none of the pro-military folks buy it for as second but the anti-Trump folks just know it must be true and that if he didn't say those foul things he really must have thought them.
[Free Beacon] The federal government collected approximately $3.3 trillion in taxes in fiscal year 2017, but the federal government still ran a $666 billion deficit during that time, according to the latest monthly Treasury Department statement.
Treasury receipts include tax revenue from individual income taxes, corporate income taxes, social insurance and retirement taxes, unemployment insurance taxes, excise taxes, estate and gift taxes, customs duties, and other miscellaneous items.
The 2017 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1, 2016, and runs through Sept. 30, 2017. During this time, the amount of taxes collected by the federal government totaled $3,314,894,000,000.
Most of the $3.3 trillion that the government collected from this fiscal year came from individual income taxes, which totaled $1.59 trillion. Corporation income taxes totaled about $297 billion.
The amount of taxes collected this year was slightly lower than the amount collected last year, after adjusting for inflation. In fiscal year 2016, the federal government collected $3,266,688,000,000 in taxes, but after adjusting for inflation, that number rose to $3,339,836,430,000.
Although the federal government brought in approximately $3.3 trillion in revenue in fiscal 2017, according to the Treasury, it also spent approximately $3.98 trillion, leaving a deficit of $665,712,000,000.
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.
[The Hill] When the story broke in April 2015 that the Obama administration, with the help of Hillary Clinton’s State Department, paved the way for Russia to gain control of 20 percent of America’s uranium, it sent shock waves through the halls of power in Washington. It caused red flags to go up and raised scores of questions with enormous implications.
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Little wonder Mueller has changed directions. I anxiously await the retirement (for medical reasons) of McCain. 
House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte announced Tuesday morning they have officially opened a joint investigation into decisions made at the Obama Justice Department surrounding the FBI's criminal investigation into former Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They also want to know why the FBI kept quiet about ongoing investigations into members of the Trump campaign, like Paul Manafort, while publicly discussing the Clinton probe. 
[FOX] Movie producer Frank DeMartini, an outspoken conservative, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination to oppose 14-term Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters in California next year.
[Conservative Tribune] The Florida Democrat who slammed President Donald Trump this week for allegedly being "insensitive" during a phone conversation with a slain U.S. soldier’s widow has her own sordid history of insensitivity, especially in regard to veterans.
