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Scapegoats have been identified. High paying, think tank or media jobs found for them. The real perps, and their loot protected. Our job here is done!
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I'd like to believe it if Maria says so but history teaches me to believe DV.
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You've broken my heart too many times, Maria.
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Although I agree with all of the posts on this thread so far i do hope they really get all the dirt before they make arrests so that its a slam dunk so we don't hear about them being railroaded or whatever.
[JPost] - A U.S. judge on Monday flatly rejected a last-ditch effort by President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn to get criminal charges against him dropped based on his accusations of misconduct by prosecutors and the FBI.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered Flynn to appear for sentencing on Jan. 28, concluding that Flynn had failed to prove a "single" violation by the prosecution of withholding evidence that could exonerate him.
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saw another article this am, where the judge said Flynn gave up his Constitutional rights by pleading guilty. Gee I didn't know you could give them up since THEY ARE INALIENABLE. Would think being railroaded into a false confession would have some impact.
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Judge Sullivan relied on the Meuller report that stated there was no bias in the FBI. Grounds for appeal when the Durham report will state the opposite.
FBI’s McCabe Might Have Been Out for Revenge in General Flynn’s Case Sally Yates and James Clapper have never offered any evidence but they’ve utterly destroyed Ret. General Flynn’s reputation. We now find out that the FBI’s Acting Director Andrew McCabe had a serious motive for revenge against the general.
Instead of recusing himself, he’s in charge of the Flynn matter.
Circa News reports that secret memos show Trump adviser roiled the bureau by intervening in an agent’s discrimination case before he was targeted in Russia case.
Two years before the FBI launched their probe against Flynn, he intervened on behalf of a decorated counterterrorism agent who accused now-Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and other top officials of sexual discrimination.
Flynn’s intervention on behalf of Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz was highly unusual. He was in effect a hostile witness against McCabe, a rising star.
The FBI, instead of considering Flynn’s views, sought to keep him from becoming a witness in her Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case. Her case is pending.
McCabe has a sketchy role in this. He admitted the FBI opened an internal investigation into Gritz’s personal conduct after learning the agent “had filed or intended to file” a sex discrimination complaint against her supervisors.
#9
Gen Flynn served his country honorably for years.
However, once he retired he set us a biz, the Flynn Intel Group for himself that was basically lobbying. He wrote an anti Gulan editorial and got lots of money paid indirectly by Erdogan.
This actually has nothing to do with the charge for which he pled guilty (which involves lying about a not particularly significant conversation with the Russian Ambassador) but it shows that Gen Flynn is not worthy of much crying.
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One of the weird things about this case is that even though Flynn plead guilty, the govt has repeatedly requested that sentencing be delayed.
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the Judge wanted Flynn to retract his guilty plea
but Flynn did not do that
perhaps because the process crime to which he pleaded guilty isn't as serious as things he hasn't been charged with
for example, he took in lots of bucks from agents of Turkey between mid 2016 and mid 2017 which would be legal except that he didn't register as a foreign agent until Mar 2017 - this is also a pretty trivial crime, however, he was an official of the US Govt from Jan 20 to Feb 13, 2017 a time when he was also a foreign agent. He may not have been actively working for Turkey those three weeks but then again he may have (per some witneses he delayed one of the anti ISIS ops by the Kurds in order to help Turkey during that time).
I don't think Flynn wants to be prosecuted for that and I don't think the US wants to prosecute him for that as it requires a lot of secret clearance testimony and makes the US look bad.
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Curioser and curioser.
We're not hearing the whole story, methinks
[KLIF] Beto O’Rourke; ...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President... isn’t running for Senate again, and Democrats who have unusually high hopes for Texas in 2020 are facing an unsettled landscape. There’s no clear frontrunner among a dozen Democrats challenging Republican incumbent John Cornyn. None have raised big money and most candidates remain widely unknown.
O’Rourke narrowly lost to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz last year and his presidential bid flamed out in November. Democrats urged the former El Paso congressman to run again for Senate, but the deadline to get on the 2020 ballot in Texas came and went this week.
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maybe he's planning on becoming an Instagram star?
Does he still have his skateboard?
Or maybe he'll just live off of his wife's inheritance?
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Or maybe he'll just live off of his wife's inheritance?
Maybe the wife or her parents said no more funding for his vanity project.
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He'll change his mind after a few weeks because, like Hillary!, sooo many people (are alleged to) have 'urged' him to run again. Plus it will keep his name in the spotlight, for whatever fleeting, redeeming value it has to the fake Mexican.
[PJMEDIA] Yelling and screaming and interrupting people while they eat dinner or try to have an event is the Democrats' favorite activity ‐ until it's used on them.
Adam Schiff ...Showboating U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has served in Congress since 2001. He currently serves as the chairman of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. In a manner reminiscent of Joe McCarthy, on March 22, 2017, in a interview with Chuck Todd on MSNBC Schiff claimed there was “more than circumstantial evidence now” that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia." Todd followed up by asking if he had seen direct evidence of collusion and Schiff responded that there was "evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation"... (D-Calif.) hosted a town hall event celebrating a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide Saturday. His remarks came to a screeching halt when protesters began to jeer and chant "LIAR" and "you're going to jail!" at him. It was beautiful. Many people in the room seemed confused as to why people were protesting the shampeachment clown show. This is not surprising to anyone who only watches mainstream news, which makes it appear that Americans hate Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... . At least one protester made sure to point out several times that they were not there to protest the Armenian people being recognized but to protest Schiff and the impeachment of the people's president.
The interruption caused people in the crowd to turn on the protesters and members of the crowd attacked. You can see in the video at least one man was physically assaulting the Trump supporters without being retaliated against and the police refused to arrest him. The protesters can be seen and heard on camera asking the crowd to stop hitting and attacking them and stealing their signs and flags. Two elderly men fight over a Trump flag, falling to the ground. At one point, a woman with the protesters holding a camera is attacked by a man in the crowd. It's ugly.
Imagine the outrage there would be in the press if anyone attacked the left-wing protesters who chased Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant or if Tucker Carlson had assaulted protesters outside his house. We would never hear the end of the "violent right" in that scenario. (Example: the massive overreaction to Proud Boys scuffling with Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... in a street brawl. Somehow only the Proud Boys got blamed for the violence when Antifa pulls that crap all the time.) But what do we hear in the mainstream press about this event?
The Los Angeles Times said, "When some in the audience asked them to refrain from yelling, scuffles broke out throughout the room." They did not identify who started the "scuffles" which should tip you off to who did it.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana-1905)
Keep stoking them fires. The interesting aspect of 'civil wars' is that they are very uncivil. Civility usually returns after large quantities of blood are spilled.
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When you weaponize protest making "Peaceful Petition == Street Riots" you will inevitably reap the whirlwind. There is no way to persuade them to put down the club and the molotov cocktail except "a whiff of grapeshot" ... unfortunately.
[THEFEDERALIST] Robert Powell, the husband of Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, D-Fla., reportedly took $700,000 from a Ukrainian oligarch named Igor Kolomoisky. Mucarsel-Powell sits on the House Judiciary Committee, the committee that drafted two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons...... for his alleged abuse of power with regards to Ukraine.
In 2018, the Daily Beast reported that a number of businesses linked to Kolomoisky hired Powell as an attorney. One of those firms paid Powell at least $700,000 over two years, according to public records.
The Miami Herald reported Powell was working for companies tied to Kolomoisky for 10 years. Powell made most of his money in the two years leading up to his wife’s election in 2018.
Kolomoisky has been accused of contract killings and embezzlement in the past. Yet, in 2018 when Mucarsel-Powell was running for her seat, she did not see her husband’s work as relevant to her campaign.
"Debbie Mucrasel-Powell is running for Congress, not her husband. To imply that Debbie has anything to do with her indirect shareholder of a parent company that once employed her husband is an enormous stretch," said Michael Hernandez, senior communications advisor for her campaign in 2018.
While Mucrasel-Powell may have convinced her constituents that her husband’s work is unrelated, it is a clear conflict in the current impeachment of Trump. Mucarsel-Powell voted to impeach Trump.
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Ukraine = Uniparty's Pinata.
Dems, you don't really want this slime to emerge from your impeachment Shitshow, do you?
Can we stop treating Ukraine as a political football and source of wealth for shi!tty politicians, and start taking Russia's security concerns in the region seriously?
One of the great things about the Trumpening is that masks are coming off, facades are being ripped down, and we are getting a glimpse of how the game is played.
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Re #7: The comment "One of the great things about the Trumpening is that masks are coming off" reminds me of a passage from Luke Chapter 2: "a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed."
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#7 SteveS One of the great things about the Trumpening is that masks are coming off, facades are being ripped down, and we are getting a glimpse of how the game is played.
Truer words were never spoken.
A rare moment in history when the broader society recognizes that it's being led by corrupt and mendacious morons whose absurd rhetoric has no connection to reality.
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"Sanctuary city" = No sanctuary/safe place from illegal alien thugs and criminals
"Religion of Peace" = Doctrine of terror
"God's children" = devil's spawn
"Diversity makes us strong" = uncontrolled unskilled immigration destroys our working class, our communities, our public schools, our hospitals, our rule of law, our ...
#13
"Russkies are spying on us and subverting elections!!!" = Comey's/Brennan's/Obama's intel agencies are spying on their opponents and subverting elections
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump ...the Nailer of NAFTA... has threatened former FBI director JamesThe spine of the FBI is the rule of law Comey The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI... with "years in jail" over the bureau’s Russia investigation.
The threat came after Comey admitted in an interview with Fox News Sunday that he was "overconfident" when he defended his former agency's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during a probe into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
According to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s new report, there had been 17 "significant errors and omissions" made by the FBI’s investigative team when applying for a FISA warrant to surveil Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser in 2016.
"He's right, I was wrong," Comey said about how the bureau used the FISA process. "I was overconfident in the procedures that the FBI had built over 20 years. I thought they were robust enough. It’s incredibly hard to get a Fisa and he was right there was real sloppiness. It was not acceptable."
The president followed up by attacking Comey, whom he fired in May 2017, saying he was admitting "because he got caught red-handed."
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Clever Chuckie is assuming the Senate Pubs will vote it down, without a trial. So he can claim, "They wouldn't even give it a fair trial!"
I waver between the Senate 'laughing it out of town' or a three-month long trial. At the moment, because Chuck wants 'a fair trial', I think he should have it.
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I used to be of the opinion that I wanted a trial with witnesses and disclosure. Now I'm of the mindset that I want an acquittal up front followed by investigations. Why?
1. Do the investigations not in the public eye followed by full disclosure (yeah I know...) Don't tie it to impeachment..would just drag it on.
2. A trial is presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...one John Glover Roberts Jr. and I don't trust him not to screw us over.
Make no mistake: Schumer is hoping for a long trial in which he and his Senate caucus can paralyze the federal government and give left-wing groups the time to agitate against the GOP Senate, much as they unsuccessfully tried to derail the confirmation hearings of current Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
McConnell, the president, and the overwhelming majority of the GOP Senate caucus have already gone on record against impeachment and against the charges brought against the president through impeachment.
They tend to favor a speedy trial in the Senate so that the government can get back to doing the business of the people.
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Consider this. Knowing that they have a monumental loser in the impeachment outcome in the Senate, and that the motive has always been to dirty up Trump with the vague charges anyway, a new strategy is emerging that is the best political outcome from this for a party with terrible candidates for the 2020 presidential contest. What if Schumer’s proposal is an intentional deal breaker, allowing them to pass impeachment in the House but refuse to transmit it to the Senate because of “doubts about GOP integrity “. They have a looming story of a corrupt president for the 2020 election without ever having it considered and exposed for the codswallop it actually is. They get the political value and never get exposed for their seditious intent.
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Any fair minded judge in the land would laugh these bogus charges out of court. Warthog is right. Leave the investigations and court trials to Mr. Barr.
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My opinion is that if the trial goes long Schumer will be begging to have it cut short. An endless procession of 'no quid-pro-quo' followed by actual evidence of what happend is not something the Dems want competing with their primary.
ATLANTA (AP) ‐ A federal judge is holding a hearing Monday on Georgia’s planned mass purge of its voting rolls, following an emergency request from a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams. Went Judge-shopping for an Obama Appointee
U.S. District Judge Steve Jones had ruled earlier in the day that the purge should be placed on hold until a Thursday hearing, but he later decided to hold the hearing Monday afternoon.
The motion was filed by Fair Fight Action in U.S. District Court, just hours before the secretary of state’s office planned to begin the purge of inactive voter registrations.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in October released a list of over 313,000 voters whose registrations were at risk of being canceled, about 4% of the state’s total registered voters. Notices were mailed in November giving those voters 30 days to respond in order to keep their registration intact. A spokesman for the secretary of state’s office said last week that the purge was set to begin Monday evening.
Update:
A federal judge is allowing Georgia to proceed with a mass purge of its voting rolls planned for Monday evening, but he also scheduled a hearing later in the week to hear more arguments about the matter.
That decision came after a lawyer for the state assured him that if the judge finds later that some people should not have been removed, they can be easily and quickly reinstated.
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.
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. 
[PJMEDIA] Yelling and screaming and interrupting people while they eat dinner or try to have an event is the Democrats' favorite activity ‐ until it's used on them.
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
The disgraced, except in his own mind, former head of the FBI...
ATLANTA (AP) ‐ A federal judge is holding a hearing Monday on Georgia’s planned mass purge of its voting rolls, following an emergency request from a voting rights group founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams.
