[Gateway] Chairman of the House Intel Committee Devin Nunes (R-CA) privately told several colleagues Tuesday it’s time for the House GOP to hold Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress if they refuse to hand over requested documents.
Washington Post national political reporter, Robert Costa tweeted: House Intel Chair Devin Nunes privately told several colleagues today that it’s time for House GOP to hold Rosenstein and Wray in contempt of Congress, should they refuse to hand over requested docs, according to two people familiar with the discussions...
The Justice Department missed the initial April 5th deadline to give the House Judiciary Committee over 1.2 million documents related to Hillary’s email investigation and FISA abuses.
House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) sent a subpoena to the Justice Department on March 22nd requesting documents related to Hillary Clinton’s private server and email investigation.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was to appear before the House Judiciary Committee April 5th.
Bob Goodlatte requested these documents several months ago and only received a fraction of the documents.
President Trump blasted the DOJ for slow walking the unredacted documents related to Obama’s FISA abuse and wanted to know ’what do they have to hide?’
Why is the GOP acting in such a civil manner in the face of Deep State thuggery?
Why not have US Marshals raid the FBI and DOJ for the 1.2 million documents they are fiercely working to hide?
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The Special Counsel should be dissolved as well. They have found very little in over a year that would indicate that Trump's campaign had anything to do with the Russians trying to sway the election. It appears that the SC and supporters have broken the law in their witch hunt, is corrupt and tainted with conflicts of interests and has gone far beyond its mandate. Any collusion to rig an election was all on the part of Hillary and Obama and the Dems. It didn't work.
The SC appears to be a CYA effort to mask criminality by Hillary, Obama, the Dems and deep-state Pubs. In other words, a part of the coup d'état to take down a duly-elected POTUS. What's it going to take to clean up this mess?
No. We do not say things that could be interpreted as physical threats against Americans. The last time someone insisted on their right to say such things, we lost him for months. It was quite upsetting.
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#6 What's it going to take to clean up this mess
T.W. The question was a rhetorical question and not intended in any way to imply harm against fellow citizens. Watching the sausage get made is frustrating as it seems to take an excrutiatingly long time.
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Dear old Mom liked to make: Toasted White Bread (2 slices), Mayo + sliced dill pickles on one, and melted butter + sugar on the other, assemble and eat.
*Shudder* Whatever 'floats your boat', I guess...
[France24] At least 257 people were killed when a military plane crashed soon after takeoff in a field near Boufarik airport just outside the capital Algiers, state media reported on Wednesday.
Television footage showed crowds gathering around the smouldering wreckage near Boufarik airport southwest of Algiers. A line of white body bags could be seen on the ground next to what media said was a Russian Ilyushin transport plane.
A total of 257 people died in the crash, state TV reported.
The Defence Ministry did not provide a death toll but expressed condolences to the victims' families. The cause of the crash was unclear, and an investigation has been opened.
Earlier, the civil protection agency put the death toll at around 100 people, believed to be mostly military personnel, but it was later revised up to more than 250.
The secretary general of Algeria’s ruling FLN party, General Djamel, told private broadcaster Ennahar TV that the dead included 26 members of the Western Saharan Polisario independence movement.
[Breitbart London] Investigators from the European Union Commission have raided the offices of billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox UK offices and have seized computers and other documents.
The exact nature of the investigation is currently unknown, as is the reason behind the raid, which took place on Tuesday evening in the Hammersmith offices of 21st Century Fox the Telegraph reports.
According to sources within the building who spoke to the Telegraph, the EU Commission investigators told employees working in the office to not talk about the raid and that the investigators will likely continue to gather more evidence and information over the next day or two.
While no official announcement of the investigation has been made, some have speculated that the incident may tie into the recent attempt of Murdoch and Fox to acquire Sky News in the UK. The EU investigators have the ability to conduct raids if they believe that a corporation may be engaged in price fixing or abusing their dominant position within the market.
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The EU investigators have the ability to conduct raids if they believe that a corporation may be engaged in price fixing or abusing their dominant position within the market.
Or for no reason at all, just like here in the States. Puzzling though, no mention of Russians.
That is, after all, the default government system for Europe as well as the preference of the progressives and Dems here. There's a reason the left always to be more like Europe.
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I see it coming Alan. Governments are more paranoid they are losing their grip on the people, the people getting more angry about the invaders and their government shitting on them, lurch to the more nationalist and strong type governments.
Some form of fascism is coming again for some of Europe's countries.
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Sounds like the Brits have a long, long way to go with that BREXIT thing. Allowing foreign agents to raid the offices of a British citizen on British soil doesn't sound very British at all.
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The value of deals announced in 2017 fell by more than 90% from the year before, according to joint studies by the National Committee on US-China Relations and the Rhodium Group.
The reports said policy shifts in both countries triggered the decline.
China has curbed outbound investments, while the US is raising concerns about deals for national security reasons
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When the Japanese were economically threatened by Detroit Inc with tariffs after the oil embargo showed Americans flocking to their small, fuel efficient, well built, one short sticker price cars and taking 1/4 of the entire market, they started building auto plants in the US, undercutting any such future threat.
[AP]President Xi Jinping promised Tuesday to cut China’s auto tariffs and improve intellectual property protection in possible concessions aimed at defusing a worsening dispute with Washington over trade and technology that investors worry could set back the global economic recovery.
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U.S. oil net exports to China averaged about 435,000 barrels a day in 2017, more than double a year earlier, when they averaged about 180,000 barrels a day, according to a Citigroup Inc. report dated April 3. The notional dollar value rose even faster — at a rate of 200 percent — to about $8.24 billion last year, the bank said.
China bought about 750 million cubic feet a day worth of American LNG in the fourth quarter, the most of any country, according to U.S. government data. link
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He's crazy I tell you, CRAZY! We'll all be knee deep in soy beans in six months. Highly coveted Chinese luxury cars will be a thing of the past. Walmart and Target will be shuttered. We'll all be barefoot. The sky will fall, you'll SEEEEE !!!!
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Gorb the soybeans are not planted yet. The global warming has left most of the US MidWest still in winter. Perhaps hops will be planted and some barley.
[Spokesman-Review]. WASHINGTON ‐ A bipartisan group of four senators is moving to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s job as President Donald Trump publicly muses about firing him.
Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Sens. Chris Coons of Delaware and Cory Booker of New Jersey plan to introduce legislation Wednesday that would give any special counsel a 10-day window in which he or she could seek expedited judicial review of a firing, according to two people familiar with the legislation. They were not authorized to discuss the bill ahead of its release and requested anonymity.
The legislation, which combines two bipartisan bills introduced last summer, signals escalating concerns in Congress as Trump has fumed about a Monday FBI raid of the office of his personal attorney, Michael Cohen. Trump has privately pondered firing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and publicly criticized Mueller and his Russia probe.
In addition to investigating potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign, Mueller is also examining whether the president’s actions constitute obstruction of justice. As the investigation has worn on, Trump has repeatedly called it a "witch hunt." On Monday, after the Cohen raid, he said it was "an attack on our country." The raid was overseen by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan and was based in part on a referral from Mueller, said Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan.
After introducing similar bills in August, when Trump first began criticizing the Mueller probe, both Tillis and Graham had been quiet for months on whether the legislation was still needed as Democrats continued to push for a bill. Both Republicans said they didn’t think Trump would really move to fire Mueller. But the senators moved to push out a new, combined bill in the hours after Trump’s tirade.
Under the legislation, the expedited review would determine whether the special counsel was fired for good cause. The bill would also ensure that any staff, documents and other investigation materials were preserved as the matter was pending.
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A pox on Graham and these UniParty bastids! Trump has every right to end this kabuki dance any time he pleases. He's not one of them and they simply refuse to get behind the man.
Donald is a better man than me. I would have told them to stick the job up their crooked, lazy arses a long time ago.
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Trump has every right to end this kabuki dance any time he pleases.
I thinks his biggest problem is that he wants to restore the constitutional republic he was born in - which, in particular, makes him too respectful of the forms of it.
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I thinks his biggest problem is that he wants to restore the constitutional republic he was born in - which, in particular, makes him too respectful of the forms of it.
Trump is a successful business man, and now successful politician. For the most part, the UniParty is a cadre of losers who have sat around with the thumbs up their arses for decades pissing away other peoples money (OPM).
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They are gambling we will be come demoralized and return to accepting business as usual. Like myself, many I talk with are not demoralized but sullenly annoyed and pondering how to oppose business as usual.
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Can they consitutionally do that? I mean Trump is the head of the Executive branch.
Perhaps Trump should respond by firing a few Congressmen and Senators. Just to make the point.
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A definite unconstitutional infringement on the separation of powers between the Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary.
I think Graham knows that it would be struck down before the ink was dry. He's grandstanding for the constitutionally ignorant and RINOs that elected him.
As for the federal Russia probe that has occupied much of Washington’s attention for months, he said he had not been interviewed by special counsel Mueller’s team, but “I know we’re working with them.” He offered no details, citing a concern about confidentiality rules of the investigation.
Earlier this year Mueller charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in a plot to interfere in the 2016 presidential election through a social media propaganda effort that included online ad purchases using U.S. aliases and politicking on U.S. soil. A number of the Russian ads were on Facebook.
[DAWN] Sindh High Court Chief Justice Ahmed Ali M. Sheikh directed on Monday the provincial inspector general of police and sessions judge concerned to file reports on a reported assault on a 13-year-old girl near Tando Mohammad Khan.
Taking notice of the incident reported in a section of Sindhi press, the chief justice asked the IGP and the judge to submit the reports by April 11.
According to reports, the teenage girl was raped near Tando Mohammad Khan by a group of influential persons who had also filmed the offence. The suspects had been reportedly threatening the victim and her family of dire consequences since then.
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[DAWN] FAISALABAD: Despite being in full knowledge of the incident in which a man was kidnapped, tortured and the video of the episode uploaded on social media, Jhang Bazaar police did not act against the influential suspects till some news channels aired the news, official documents reveal.
When some news channels aired the footage of torture of Kashan on Sunday, police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Rana Ikhlaq, Ahmed Kuka, Umer Hayyat, Shahzeb, Ahsan, Rana Chand, Osama Ali, and Hamza on charges of allegedly kidnapping the victim, subjecting him to torture and humiliation and uploading the footage of the act on social media. The case was registered on the complaint of the victim’s mother Surayya Bibi.
An official document shows that the victim’s medical examination was got conducted by police on March 30.
The document (available with Dawn) reads that Khan Mohammad of Afghanabad had brought Kashan to the Jhang Bazaar cop shoppe and claimed he had a scuffle with Attaullah of Liaqatabad and Usman Ghani of Chak 279-RB and their accomplices.
The outhouse where Kashan was allegedly detained and tortured after kidnapping is situated in Afghanabad and two main suspects also belonged to the area.
It reads Assistant sub-inspector of Jhang Bazaar police, Mohammad Imran, had taken Kashan to the hospital for his medical examination and that the victim had torture marks on his head, left eye and bruises on elbows. After receiving the medical report, the document reads that Kashan reserved a right for taking legal action against the persons who injured him.
It also reads that after examination of the record it had come to surface that Kashan was booked in a cheque dishonour case (287/18) registered on March 26.
The SP concerned said Jhang Bazaar police had got the medical examination of Kashan conducted, but it did not register a case as no complainant was available. Meanwhile, ...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow... on Monday all the suspects were produced before Judicial Magistrate Taseer Imran who gave them in physical custody of Jhang Bazaar police for three days.
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[DAWN] An eight-year-old girl from Chichawatni, who was burnt alive after allegedly being raped, breathed her last at a hospital in Lahore, DawnNewsTV reported on Tuesday.
Residents of the area and the victim's family members erupted into the streets to protest the gruesome murder. A complete strike was also observed in Chichawatni.
They raised slogans of "Zaalimon! khoon ka hisaab do" ["Oppressors! answer for the blood (of the child)"], as the girl's body was carried for funeral prayers.
Carrying banners appealing for justice, the protesters demanded that the culprits behind the girl's murder be hanged.
The second-grade student, a resident of Chichawatni area of Sahiwal, had gone missing on Sunday evening after she left home to buy some sweets.
When she did not return after a while, her family members and neighbours started looking for her and found her in a street in an unconscious state, with burns all over her body.
She was taken to Tehsil Headquarters (THQ) Hospital, from where she was referred to Jinnah Hospital in Lahore due to her critical condition. According to doctors, she had received 70 to 80 per cent burns. The girl died during treatment late on Monday night.
The body was handed over to the family after a post-mortem examination. The child was laid to rest at a graveyard in Chichawatni after the funeral prayers, which were attended by a large number of people.
Sahiwal District Police Officer Mohammad Atif Ikram told media that police had filed a case and took a suspect into custody. He said that a murder case has been filed whereas rape charges will be added after receiving the forensic report. He vowed to arrest the culprits as soon as possible.
The father of the victim demanded of the government to provide his family justice.
Amidst unrest in the community, civil society representatives and political figures visited the victim's house and assured the affected family of their complete support.
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[DAWN] The prime suspect in at least five rape cases of children was locked away Please don't kill me! by Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... police on Tuesday.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) East Zone Zulfiqar Ali Larik said that they had been receiving similar sort of complaints in Malir, following which a special team was formed to investigate the matter.
"During the probe, the team discovered that in five such cases the DNA results pointed to the same perpetrator," he said, adding that in 2015 a case was registered at the Quaidabad cop shoppe for the rape of an 8-year-old girl and more such cases were reported in 2016, 2017 and in February of 2018.
"DNA results were able to confirm the identity of the perpetrator, who was subsequently arrested," the DIG said.
The police also identified a pattern to the suspect's alleged crimes, pointing out that all five of the rape crimes he's been accused of, took place on Fridays.
The DIG said that the suspect appears to be mentally ill and has been involved in such crimes for the past four to seven years, with girls of age seven to nine his prey.
The police also suspects that the accused could be involved in street crimes, adding that five phones and 10 sims were recovered from his possession.
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[Spokesman-Review]. WASHINGTON ‐ A bipartisan group of four senators is moving to protect special counsel Robert Mueller’s job as President Donald Trump publicly muses about firing him.
[DAWN] An eight-year-old girl from Chichawatni, who was burnt alive after allegedly being raped, breathed her last at a hospital in Lahore, DawnNewsTV reported on Tuesday.
[DAWN] The prime suspect in at least five rape cases of children was 
