[Just the News] Declassified memo show intelligence community's assessment in December 2016, two months after FBI had already used dossier to support FISA warrant.
Two months after the FBI used Christopher Steele’s dossier to support a warrant targeting the Trump campaign, U.S. intelligence officially declared his evidence was "highly politically sensitive," minimally corroborated and not worthy of including in its analysis of Russian election interference, a newly declassified document shows.
The so-called Annex A of the official Russian election interference Intelligence Community Assessment was declassified this week by Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, providing the most definitive proof to date that the U.S. intelligence in December 2016 as President Obama was leaving office was wary of a dossier that was essential to the FBI probe into now-disproven Trump-Russia collusion.
"An FBI source, using both identified and unidentified sub sources, volunteered highly politically sensitive information from the summer to the fall of 2016 on Russian influence efforts aimed at the US presidential election. We have only limited corroboration of the source reporting in this case and did not use it to reach the analytic conclusions of the CIA/FBI/NSA assessment," the appendix stated.
The intelligence community assessment also warned that Steele appeared to have leaked his information to the media just before Trump was elected Nov. 8, 2016.
"The source’s reporting appears to have been acquired by multiple western press organizations starting in October," the annex stated.
The annex confirms Republicans’ long-held suspicions that the intelligence community saw the Steele dossier as suspect even as the FBI portrayed its allegations as verified to a FISA court starting in October 2016.
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[Babylon Bee] Seattle protesters have successfully abolished the police in their "autonomous zone." In their place, the leaders of the group have installed squads of armed officers who are tasked with enforcing a set of agreed-upon rules.
"We have achieved a police-free utopia," said one of the group's leaders, Taz "No Rulez" McGuffin. "Now, we are going to need someone to do the job of enforcing the rules we all decide upon and making sure everybody's safe. Instead of oppressive police, let's select a few individuals -- we'll call them 'officers' maybe -- and give them guns. They can patrol the area and stop anyone who goes against our set of laws -- err, guidelines."
"Having thrown off the shackles of the oppressive police, we now welcome these new guideline enforcement officers."
Everyone was treated the same in the utopia of equality, at least for a few hours. The leaders decided that they should have some special protections under the new guidelines and perhaps some way to collect mandatory voluntary donations from everybody to fund their efforts. Eventually, the leaders of the autonomous zone went and met with the mayor, who agreed to accept them back into Seattle proper and give the leaders cushy consulting jobs in the government.
"It was weird," said one Antifa member. "We looked from our Antifa leaders to the government officials, and from the government officials back to the Antifa leaders, and already it was impossible to say which was which."
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[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—The world is hurting right now, and everyone knows the only way to heal the wound is for politicians to pander awkwardly to various demographics.
To that end, the Democrats said they wanted to show their blackness by performing the "Cha-Cha Slide," a popular song among white people wanting to show their blackness.
As the music started playing and horrified reporters looked on, Pelosi introduced the song and dance: "We want black people to know we see them and we understand them -- so now, we're going to get funky! Everybody clap your hands!"
All the Democrats clapped their hands but not a single one clapped on the right beat.
"Slide to the left!" shouted Nancy Pelosi along with the music. "Now slide to the right!" Most of the Democrats refused to go to the right, only going as far left as possible, making some of them run into each other and topple over like elderly, brittle bowling pins.
Democrat leaders ran into further problems when Mr. C The Slide Man told everyone to "go down low" and they had trouble getting back up.
After the song was over, Pelosi began rapping the theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air to everyone's horror.
Fun Gun Reviews Presents: The CZ Scorpion EVO 3 S1 9mm Carbine. This is the most fun I've had as the range in a while. Light and easy to handle with mild recoil. It's a keeper.
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I'd love to own one of these or a SIG MPX. Problem is the new cartridge scene is moving so fast buying a 9mm carbine may get you left in the dust. Yes, 9mm is cheap and universally available, but if I had my druthers right now, I'd want an AR pistol that shoots 22 TCM. Imagine that with AP or Glaser Safety Slugs coming out at 2800 FPS. Especially now that buffer tubes are no longer necessary.
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BTW, as a part Slovak boy, I'd buy the Grand Power Stribog if I went 9mm carbine / pistol.
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America's political system is coming apart. Cities are once again burning because of the plight of what an older class of liberals used to call the underclass. They don't use that term anymore, and not just because lefties have to refresh their terminology to keep the educated class they have wrapped around their media outlets from realizing that the ideology they treat as progressive is older than the telegraph, but because the underclass consists of ghetto kids making nothing and NBA players.
When the star of an HBO series is out there protesting on the front lines, when the sons and daughters of millionaires go to war with cops who couldn't afford to buy their shoes with a week's salary, when Black Lives Matter, an organization backed by the Ford Foundation, one of the country's wealthiest institutions, organizes the burning and looting of family shops, the underclass is a laughable term.
The uber-underclass acts as if social mobility doesn't exist when it's been the beneficiary of the single greatest effort at subsidized social mobility in human history. There's hardly an institution, corporation, or government agency that hasn't put diversity in its mission statement. Contractors and colleges move minority applicants to the front of the line in this oppressive racist nation of ours.
Those predatory corporations who, in the lefty narrative, are grinding the bones of the underclass, are out front cheering on the very people who are looting their stores. "Smash us," cry the capitalists.
The uber-underclass cries that it's being oppressed, but who, besides the occasional police officer, who has undergone more diversity training than most college graduates, has body cams welded to every part of his uniform, and knows that one single smartphone video clip can destroy his life, is oppressing anyone? The government, the corporations, the media, academia, Bueller, Bueller?
Is there a single institution in modern American life that isn't obsessively cheering on the rioters? The best evidence of that is that there's nobody standing between them and anything they want to take except the occasional exhausted officer nervously holding a shield in front of his face while facing a mob howling for his blood. The only form of oppression that still exists is one of those overworked public servants making chump change in exchange for risking his life to protect everyone else.
...We want to be good people. Not really in the biblical sense or any traditional American sense. We want to be the heroes of a Hollywood movie. We want to be the guys who sit in the balcony cheering for the underdog, not the smug fat rednecks or the capitalists in top hats who like things the way they are. We want to fight for change, and a better world, and all those things that fit so well on bumper stickers. Even the best of us is often quite stupid that way. We can't help it. It's our culture.
[American Thinker] - The news out of Seattle is that Antifa has captured a seven-block area in central Seattle that they've dubbed the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ for short.
Given the protests (read: riots) across the country over the past two weeks and the feckless (at best) handling of said riots by leftist mayors and governors, that Seattle permitted this to occur is not surprising.
Seattle's Mayor, Jenny Durkan all-but encouraged the takeover of her city
... it's not about justice. It's about rubbing raw the sores of discontent, as Saul Alinsky asserted in Rules for Radicals. Rubbing these sores, as their tactic goes, energizes the most radical elements of the movement.
Seattle suburbanites have been tacitly down with the struggle, as they have wanted to present their "wokeness" bona fides to their more radical leftist brethren. These woke suburbanites need to be exposed.
Let Antifa have as much land mass as it can acquire through the weekend, invite as many of its brethren to enter the autonomous zone as it wishes, then cordon off their booty and blockade any and all raw materials and supplies from entering the, ahem, zone.
Setup a checkpoint, à la East Berlin, and require any and all those wishing to return to America to pledge allegiance to our Constitution and our flag. Those unwilling to re-enter civil society can remain in the autonomous zone until they come to their senses or perish.
Seattle suburbanites need to be made to suffer for the consequences of their choices at the ballot box. You want to subvert our Constitution, attempt to run roughshod over civil society? Pay the price.
Bad idea. Sh*t breeds contagion. Clean it up and disinfect, removing the disease vectors, AKA elected officials allowing and encouraging this aberration.
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Set up a bounty system. $100/pair of ears. Let the market work.
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/\ I should have added the /sarc tag, if for no other reason than to cover my ass. Maybe this is an 'asking for a friend' moment.
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They've been checking IDs, eh? Then they should have no problem with collection of their DNA and biometrics when this little escapade is over.
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I hope these little Lenins keep it up past the election. The Republicans should have a daily press conference/status update highlighting residents' rights violated, economy devastated, crimes committed and disease spread. Anyone who leaves must be thoroughly vetted and if participated in this insurrection, charged to the full extent of the law. Give them what they want, good and hard, and sell tickets to the resulting circus.
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Skilled revolutionary leaders know that a really good bloodbath and martyrs are a huge boost to growing zeal, especially given our progressive monopoly of the mainstream media and social media to give supportive coverage. I agree with the removal of this cancer immediately but in ways that provide nothing to be photo-op’d into another Floyd moment. Like Flynn being dragged on to troll for a Pardon that will be touted as proof or corruption, a Seattle bloodbath will let them sell November as a vote against Trump, since only a clueless idiot or mindless partisan would vote for a senile pervert and the BLM/Antifa Soros tool standing in the wings.
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They got bailed out with free service by the very people they despise and denounced.
Why would that demoralize them?
If anything, they've learned that tribute will be paid.
I guess we could send somebody in a time machine back to the thirteenth century, and they could tell Genghis Khan how he's really losing the argument, despite his seeming success.
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.
[Just the News] Declassified memo show intelligence community's assessment in December 2016, two months after FBI had already used dossier to support FISA warrant.
[Babylon Bee] WASHINGTON, D.C.—The world is hurting right now, and everyone knows the only way to heal the wound is for politicians to pander awkwardly to various demographics.
