[Daily Caller] Out of distrust and disdain, former FBI Director James Comey memorialized his conversations with President Donald Trump from Day1 in FBI memos to his FBI colleagues. Along with his coconspirators James Clapper, John Brennan and others, he planned to set up the incoming president.
Comey had already signed the bogus application for a FISA warrant on Carter Page in October 2016, and after his meeting with President-elect Trump on January 6, 2017, Comey reported to Clapper. They deliberately placed the incoming president under a cloud of suspicion with leaks of an "investigation" of his connections with the Russians. For months, then, Comey refused to confirm what he repeatedly told the president privately‐that Trump was not the subject of the investigation.
Meanwhile, at the request of Democrats in Congress, the Inspector General for the Department of Justice was investigating Comey and his FBI for their conduct of the Clinton email "matter" for which both sides of the aisle wanted Comey fired.
Skipping down a few paragraphs to the question:
Comey knows the Inspector General of the Department of Justice is working on a mammoth report that will address what the FISA Court has already found to be serious abuses of the law by Comey’s FBI, Fourth Amendment violations against Americans, and violations of FISA by providing raw intel to two private contractors. The Inspector General’s investigation has already caused the replacement of the entire upper echelon of the FBI, including Deputy Director McCabe’s termination and criminal referral.
Yet, remarkably, the incomparable Comey does not seem to have a care in the world as he appears on every friendly platform available to him, preaches his “Higher Loyalty,” and says whatever he wants to say—including contradicting his statements to Congress and asserting now that House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes effort to find the truth is “a danger” to the country.
Is James Comey so narcissistic that he thinks he is invulnerable? Or, has buddy Bob Mueller given him immunity like Comey and the Obama Department of Justice did for the Clinton cabal?
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Robert Mueller never mentioned in his Special Counsel findings that he had worked with Deripaska in the past.
Monday night on Hannity Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) reminded Sean that FBI Director Chris Wray would not tell Congress if Derispaska was involved with the Russian dossier.
Here is that exchange between Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) asking Christopher Wray about Deripaska:
[Center For American Experiment] It is certainly a contender. Fox 9 television uncovers a far-reaching scandal: last year, more than $100 million in cash left the Twin Cities airport in carry-on luggage, bound for the Middle East and Africa:
This story begins at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where mysterious suitcases filled with cash have become a common carry-on.
On the morning of March 15, Fox 9 chased a tip about a man who was leaving the country. Sources said he took a carry-on bag through security that was packed with $1 million in cash. Travelers can do that, as long as they fill out the proper government forms.
Fox 9 learned that these cloak-and-dagger scenarios now happen almost weekly at MSP. The money is usually headed to the Middle East, Dubai and points beyond. Sources said last year alone, more than $100 million in cash left MSP in carry-on luggage.
Where does the money come from, and where is it going?
It was coming from Hawalas, businesses used to courier money to countries that have no official banking system.
Some immigrant communities rely on Hawalas to send funds to help impoverished relatives back home.
[Former Seattle police detective Glen] Kerns discovered some of the money was being funneled to a Hawala in the region of Somalia that is controlled by the al Shabaab terrorist group.
Great. But the real scandal is where the money came from in the first place‐welfare fraud:
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First of all I can't believe that the fraud leftists at Fox 9 covered this. The same lib tv rag that refused to cover the Mall of America jihadi stabber admitting in open court mind you, that his attack was jihad.
The same for the earlier Saint Cloud Islamist stabbing. The exact talking head anchor's quote, "he was referencing god". For shit sake the jihadist was running through the stores asking people if they were Christians, muslims the screaming allah fubar!
Of course the next day Somali CAIR was there and so was Fox 9.
Like all the other Twin Cities TV news fraud stations, CAIR is there go to "islamophobia" experts.
So welfare monies heading for jihad, that much? Aside from arabs going to the Mayo clinic, Minnesota muzzies are in no way flush with that much cash.
One way the Somalis defraud the counties and state is by claiming someone else's new babies as their own dependents for what? More welfare case. Something I accidentally ran into myself in the Anoka County court building.
My mother and I were riding in an elevator when an older 50ish somali man and a very young somali girl with a newborn came on. Mom asked the girl how old her baby was. Without going into details, she had no idea. None. So when she go off I tagged alone.
The girl went to a welfare entry desk and explained in broken English how she had a new baby and wanted more "benefits". And when do the cash EBT payments stop? They don't.
After 9-11 there was an independent law enforcement lecture held. One of the topics that came up was what do the Minnesota somalis do with their dead? The on stage folks admitted, they had no idea.
Another cash flow comes from somali "grocery stores". They literally have little if no inventory but stacks upon stacks of old newspapers. All the paper sale coupons are clipped out.
Then there was the FBI head here that had attended muslim group gatherings with guests that were known jihad supporters. Powerline covered that story.
I honestly doubt Fox 9 will follow up, nor the other media here. The Tribune might. Despite being a DFL paper they do some interesting deep reporting.
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Our politicians are well aware of all of this and permit it to continue. It's happening more rapidly in Europe than here, but the truth of the matter is we're being replaced.
Similar to any ponzi scheme, large government structures require large, ever expanding constituencies. If we refuse to reproduce and grow the base, we will be replaced with those who will.
Its fabled welfare state is forecast to need an extra 208,000 employees by 2025 just to keep up with growing demand. Trouble is, only 207,000 workers are projected to join the country’s entire labor force (comprising both the private and public sector) over the same period.
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It is amazing that the Islamic radicals are very clear about their goals and yet the left just doesn't believe them (or hope the crocodile will eat them last).
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Truth be told, the libs, msm and mn dfl will not go after islamic terrorists because, they aren't Christians. White Christians.
Bottom line. And our Governor Dem Mark Dayton knew for sure about some of this crap. Minn Repubs are meeting at the capital today to try and figure out how much he knew.
Little late for the minnesota GOP to grow spines. If they ever had any and that's a big if.
[Washington Examiner] "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah said in a new interview that his show doesn't focus on Fox News as much as it did under the prior host, and said he doesn't want his audience watching the network.
"We seldom engage with Fox News," Noah said, according to the Hollywood Reporter. "And, that's been because, as Trevor, I don't watch Fox News. I encourage my audience to not watch Fox News. I don't think you should put yourself through that."
The show's prior host, Jon Stewart, spent a lot of time mocking Fox News. But Noah said he doesn't see value in attacking Fox News every day.
"We don't see Fox News as the villain we're chasing after," he said.
Noah said he was uncertain if he would want to speak at the annual White House Correspondents' dinner following the controversy that ensued after "Daily Show" correspondent Michelle Wolf’s comments at the dinner last month.
"I honestly don't know. I don't know," Noah said. "Because I think of what the intention is. What am I trying to do? What is the dinner trying to do? What is it for? And, after this dinner, I ask that question even more now."
Included in Wolf’s controversial performance were jabs at White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, who Wolf argued "burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect smokey eye." Wolf also called Sanders an "Uncle Tom" for white women, and compared her to a character in the dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
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The reason Jon Stewart "engaged with Fox News" was because a large portion of the audience watched Fox News. The same is true of the current audience.
He is going the way of Air America.
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Noah was competent at being an African liberal which gives him some kind of authority on African liberally kind of things.
[Aljazeera] New York City - A South African organisation that represents many white Afrikaners, has come under fire over their decision to travel to the United States to lobby for the interests of the Afrikaner community.
The group, Afriforum, who describe themselves as a civil rights group, but who have also called apartheid a "so-called historical injustice", are currently in the US to lobby government officials about the murders of white farmers and to warn investors about the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party's proposed plan to expropriate land without compensation.
Max du Preez, a veteran journalist and author based in Cape Town, said the idea that a tiny lobby group like Afriforum made up of around 200,000 paid members, could attempt to pressure the US government into deciding how South Africa resolves its land issue, was ridiculous.
[AAWSAT] In June last year and days before Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , the United Arab Emirates, Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Bahrain announced their decision to sever ties with Qatar, US President Donald Trump
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Taxpensions at very high rates. Since courts will not allow the benefit promises to be cut tax them to help fund them.
Now THAT's one I haven't heard of. Ninth District blackrobes would probably slap that discriminatory tax down in a heartbeat.
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He's right that Illinois has an unfunded pension crisis. However, raising taxes (esp. property taxes, which are already some of the highest in the nation) isn't the answer. Amending the state constitution to allow pension rules to change is the answer. Of course, the Dums won't allow that.
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Tax pensions at very high rates. Since courts will not allow the benefit promises to be cut tax them to help fund them.
A great idea: make these gold-plated pensions "self-funding." If Seattle can tax business head counts to fund the hobos, anything goes, no?
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These comments seem to come from ignorance about what you are commenting on.
The vast majority of these "gold-plated" pensions are mere ruminations on your part. The City of Chicago police and firemen retirees and those currently working, which make up a significant part of the "benefit promises", fund their portion of the pension with a pension payment deduction from their salary, about 8% of their wages. The city, chose not to make their required matching contributions as far back as at least 30 years ago. This is the problem, not a lack of contributions by the workers.
Lest you forget as well, most public workers are not covered under social security.
Those individuals who did work a second or post-retirement social security job AND did pay into social security, receive about 1/4th of the amount that they should receive due to the democrats cutting out these benefits as a "windfall" in an attempt to shore-up the failing social security system in the 80's due to their diversion of these funds for "other public" purposes.
Please understand these issue first before commenting with inane, ignorant and just plain silly wisecracking.
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I know a scam when I see one and I know a Ponzi scheme when I am force to participate in one. The public pension plans are unsustainable. If they were sustainable the attached article would not exist nor the trillions in debt in this country nor crushing tax burden. Nothing inane, ignorant or silly about fiscal irresponsibility.
[American Thinker] The true story of how senior officials in the FBI and intelligence community conspired to spy on the Trump campaign and presidency on suspicion of nefarious dealings with Russia is starting to emerge, and with it, the possible role of a shadowy figure: Stefan Halper. The counterintelligence investigation at the FBI was officially launched, as Sundance notes:
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So to break it down to my level. A new candidate comes in, he sucks in the polls, yet he is winning in the vote. The FBI has no clue that the polls are rigged, or don't care, or just not paying attention. This new guy, not a political figure, turning our process on its ear. We know the Russians are meddling. To what extent we don't know. The two old parties are well known and trusted. With just the facts, there is good reason to look into the Trump campaign during the campaign. This I do support. Where they missed the mark was the FBI leadership took it on themselves to try and protect the old guard and influence the election. Then they went after him when he won, I believe in an effort to protect the two parties from an outsider. Then they leaked and covered it up, amateur hour. If they were open, honest and forthright, I believe America would have understood. Instead we have this rats nest that will never get resolved, and they will never really look into Russian interference and the other parties.
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A new candidate comes in, he sucks in the polls, yet he is winning in the vote. The FBI has no clue that the polls are rigged, or don't care, or just not paying attention. This new guy, not a political figure, turning our process on its ear.
You know 7^2, that's exactly what I thought when Barak Hussein Obama (eh?) popped up from nowhere in 2007.
[The Hill] Special counsel Robert Mueller has withstood relentless political attacks, many distorting his record of distinguished government service.
But there’s one episode even Mueller’s former law enforcement comrades ‐ and independent ethicists ‐ acknowledge raises legitimate legal issues and a possible conflict of interest in his overseeing the Russia election probe.
In 2009, when Mueller ran the FBI, the bureau asked Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska to spend millions of his own dollars funding an FBI-supervised operation to rescue a retired FBI agent, Robert Levinson, captured in Iran while working for the CIA in 2007.
Yes, that’s the same Deripaska who has surfaced in Mueller’s current investigation and who was recently sanctioned by the Trump administration.
The Levinson mission is confirmed by more than a dozen participants inside and outside the FBI, including Deripaska, his lawyer, the Levinson family and a retired agent who supervised the case. Mueller was kept apprised of the operation, officials told me.
Some aspects of Deripaska’s help were chronicled in a 2016 book by reporter Barry Meier, but sources provide extensive new information about his role.
They said FBI agents courted Deripaska in 2009 in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris; Vienna; Budapest, Hungary, and Washington. Agents persuaded the aluminum industry magnate to underwrite the mission. The Russian billionaire insisted the operation neither involve nor harm his homeland.
"We knew he was paying for his team helping us, and that probably ran into the millions," a U.S. official involved in the operation confirmed.
One agent who helped court Deripaska was Andrew McCabe, the recently fired FBI deputy director who played a seminal role starting the Trump-Russia case, multiple sources confirmed.
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And if you read through, the deal to get Levinson out was going to go through. Until Hillary at the last moment decided to not release a statement of some sort. Not exactly shocked.
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If Mueller is the attorney in any potential trial can he be questioned in front of the Jury of the trial he is involved in?
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[IsraelTimes] It will take weeks to months to repair Kerem Shalom's diesel and gasoline terminal after rioters, allegedly directed by Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,, set them alight
The Israeli military is convinced that the Hamas terrorist group, which rules the Gazoo Strip, directly ordered the rioters to destroy the fuel terminal and conveyor belts.
"The people who came to Kerem Shalom and destroyed the crossing, they didn’t go there by themselves. We know that Hamas sent them," said the COGAT officer in a conference room in the Gazoo Division’s headquarters in Re’im.
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[Detroit News] Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a successful takedown of drug traffickers in Operation Saigon Sunset, dismantling a major criminal network responsible for trafficking drugs from Detroit to Huntington, West Virginia. The investigation was massive, seizing enough fentanyl to kill a quarter-million people.
Every American should be grateful for the brave law enforcement agents who took these drugs off our streets, but they should be troubled that toxic synthetic opioids like fentanyl are able to enter Michigan so regularly and easily in the first place. A security gap in the global postal service enables much of this deadly trade, and is helping fuel the opioid epidemic in Michigan and across the country.
Fentanyl, carfentanil and other potent synthetic opioids are commonly manufactured abroad before being shipped into the United States and mixed, sometimes unknowingly, into the drug supply. National security and law enforcement agencies like Customs and Border Protection use basic security information — advance electronic data, or AED — to screen for dangerous material and stop illegal drugs at ports of entry. While AED is required on all foreign packages delivered by private carriers, it is not mandated for packages sent via the global postal network and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. This has left international drug traffickers with easy access to reach American markets.
A bipartisan report from the United States Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) found that only 36 percent of foreign packages delivered by the USPS include AED, and that the limited data provided is too low quality to be useful.
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[Center For American Experiment] It is certainly a contender. Fox 9 television uncovers a far-reaching scandal: last year, more than $100 million in cash left the Twin Cities airport in carry-on luggage, bound for the Middle East and Africa:
Our politicians are well aware of all of this and permit it to continue. It's happening more rapidly in Europe than here, but the truth of the matter is we're being replaced.
[Washington Examiner] "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah said in a new interview that his show doesn't focus on Fox News as much as it did under the prior host, and said he doesn't want his audience watching the network.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
