[Washington Examiner] U.S. Attorney John Durham interviewed former CIA Director John Brennan for eight hours on Friday as he wraps up his inquiry into the Russia investigation, according to a statement on behalf of the Obama administration intelligence chief.
Getting ahead of whatever report the federal prosecutor is expected to release, which President Trump and his allies believe will be a damning assessment of the actions taken by top intelligence and national security officials taken against Trump's campaign and administration, Brennan also declared he confronted Durham about the politicization of his efforts.
A statement from Nick Shapiro, Brennan's former deputy chief of staff and senior adviser, also claimed the former CIA director was told he is not under criminal investigation. I seem to remember the Orange Man being told something quite similar.
They met at CIA headquarters and discussed "issues related to Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election," Shapiro said, adding that Durham informed Brennan that "he is not a subject or a target of a criminal investigation, and that he is only a witness to events that are under review." Met at CIA headquarters? I thought Brennan no longer worked at the CIA? 'Red Badged' was he ?
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Apparently clear of legal jeopardy, Brennan took aim at the premise of the inquiry.
So Brennan ends up grilling Durham on Brennan's own turf and real locus of power. Nice, very nice. Hat tip to host Director Gina Haspel and Durham for the thrilling, closed session softball game.
Looks like the big one just got away, as has been predicted here for three years or so. Obama and Biden walked to home plate and scored runs. Both were met with raucous cheering and 'high fives' in the Deep State dugout.
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Of course Brennan was going to quickly spin this. Let's see how it goes - anything out of his or his spokeshole's mouth is a lie by definition and character
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Eight hours to purger yourself. Give them enough rope.....
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Brennan also declared he confronted Durham about the politicization of his efforts.
Really good lawyers and investigators listen a lot more than they talk, hoping the person being interviewed will reveal useful information of his own free will. Brennan’s confronting, in this context, may well have been exactly what U.S. Attorney John Durham was hoping for from the man not currently under criminal investigation.
[NYPOST] Norman Seabrook, the former head of the city jails union, must surrender to prison in December after being convicted of steering union funds to a shoddy investment firm in exchange for bribes.Lawyers for Seabrook had requested that he be given until December to surrender because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic that has ravaged some federal prison facilities.
"In a time when inmates are being released from [Bureau of Prisons] facilities in light of COVID-19, it makes little sense to require a non-violent mostly peaceful defendant to surrender to such a facility," his lawyers wrote in a filing.
On Friday, a Manhattan federal judge responded to the request by ordering Seabrook to surrender to Otisville prison Dec. 29.
Earlier this month, Seabrook lost his appeal to get his conviction tossed, in part because a three-judge panel ruled he’d knowingly made a risky union investment to line his pockets.
"The record contained evidence that Seabrook hid from the [Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association] board communications from its counsel discussing the specific risk of losing the investment," Judge Rosemary Pooler wrote in her opinion for the three judges who shot down Seabrook’s appeal.
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SCOTUS ruled orgs affiliated w Soros’ Open Society lose the protection of 1A & can be treated as international threats as this impacts supporters in the US & abroad.
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KAVANAUGH, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which ROBERTS,
C. J., and THOMAS, ALITO, and GORSUCH, JJ., joined. THOMAS, J., filed a concurring opinion. BREYER, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which GINSBURG and SOTOMAYOR, JJ., joined. KAGAN, J., took no part in the consideration or decision of the case
These assholes vote in total lockstep
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What is the one thing that worries the Liberal-Socialist-Democrat (LSD) party more than anything and causing them to go off the deep end?
Trump being able to appoint 1 more SCOTUS Justice that follows the US Constitution and not the
LSD Political Agenda.
In order to obtain taxpayer money for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, organizations must make an anti-prostitution/sex trafficking pledge. A Soros foreign affiliate claims this violates their first amendment rights. SCOTUS rules they have no first amendment rights.
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First Amendant is about the right to make pro-prostitution; pedophilia, islamist et al, statements. It is not about the right to get taxpayer money if you do them
[DefendingDemocracyTogether.org] We are profoundly concerned about our nation's security and standing in the world under the leadership of Donald Trump. The President has demonstrated that he is dangerously unfit to serve another term.
We are former national security officials who served during the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress. We are profoundly concerned about the course of our nation under the leadership of Donald Trump. Through his actions and his rhetoric, Trump has demonstrated that he lacks the character and competence to lead this nation and has engaged in corrupt behavior that renders him unfit to serve as President.
For the following reasons, we have concluded that Donald Trump has failed our country and that Vice President Joe Biden should be elected the next President of the United States.
Followed by the expected blahblah, then an interesting list of names bringing themselves forward into the light — entirely misapprehending their influence on their former political comrades... or their future ones.
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Their views (a pox be upon them all) of "character and competence" are vastly different than my own. Number 3 has it. The two party systems is little more than a sad illusion. Once they arrive in Washington and begin to taste the power and money, it's an entirely different ballgame.
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Once they arrive in Washington and begin to taste the power and money
Look them up Besoeker: most come from long term "public service" families. Far as they're concerned, they are in charge of running the country. They are farmers, you are ...
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Convenient list of deep state swampers and globalists, mainly Bushies.
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@ #19. Schumer has a cooking show now on Food Ntwk. (At least, they were advertising it last week. Haven't heard anything since.)
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Does she steal recipes like she stole jokes?
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Does she ever complete a recipe without eating all the ingredients before finishing?
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Neocons turned GOP into warmongers.
Worst thing Reagan ever did was brining Bush into the government. I know it seemed like the comprimise to do but a lot of crap resulted.
[PRESSCALIFORNIA] As the state of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, prepares to send mail-in ballots to more than 20 million registered voters ahead of the general election, concerned citizens have raised questions about the role of hired experts with ties to partisan Democratic groups. One South Bay voter expressed her concern this week on KSCO’s Charles Freedman Show after she received a letter from the Democracy Fund with details about her mail-in ballot.
The Democracy Fund, hired by Secretary of State Alex Padilla in May to oversee the mail-in ballot program in California until January 15, 2021, purports to be a non-partisan organization. In California, the state’s top election monitors for the general election includes Jennifer Morrell, president of the Democracy Fund since 2018, and Noah Praetz, the former director of elections in Cook County, Illinois, which has a reputation of voter fraud going back decades.
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The Dem mail-in scheme is going to come to a head soon. If it doesn't, we are going to experience the biggest cluster*&%$ in U.S. election history. 2000 Gore vs. Bush election hanging chads on steroids, except far worse.
[NYPOST] Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware threw a fit at his staffer when the senator nearly missed his turn to grill Postmaster General Louis DeJoy at a hearing on election mail."F—k, f—k, f—k!" Carper said Friday morning, swiveling in his chair to bark the expletives at an aide because his audio was initially off when his turn for questions came around.
The aide walked over to Carper’s desk and helped him work his livestream.
Many politicians struggle to unmute their feeds during the virtual committee hearings common in the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Carper seemed to believe he was still muted.
Before Carper erupted, Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said, "Is Senator Carper there? We’ll move on to Senator Lankford."
As Carper swore, Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) informed Johnson that the Delaware senator appeared to be on the line.
"I think Senator Carper is there, I think he’s trying to be able to cue it all up right now," Lankford said.
My favorite three paragraphs:
[FrontPage] The theme of the DNC convention that pretended to nominate Biden and the speech in which he pretended to accept is that Democrats are a unifying force and that their political opponents are the forces of darkness. That’s not an election speech. It’s an argument for a one party state.
The Democrats want to pretend that they’re responsible leaders because they keep saying that they’re good people who care about specific categories of oppressed people and global problems. But that’s a leftist fallacy. Talking about how much you care about problems doesn’t mean you have any aptitude for solving them by working together with everyone else.
The true message of the DNC convention, spoken and unspoken, is that it represents a cultural class that is entitled to absolute political power, because it is morally superior to everyone else. The facade of religion and of fake former Republicans was as real as the "democratic" process leading to a rigged nomination and a fake convention of videos recorded weeks if not months ago. Behind that facade is a small class of wealthy coastal donors pulling all the strings.
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This Dem cast of characters isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for truth, honesty and morality. Would you entrust them with anything?
BLUF:
[Daily Beast] Now the celebrity tabloid OK! Magazine is reporting that ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "gifted" Maxwell’s nephew, Alexander Djerassi, a position within her department when he was just out of college and gave him "special treatment."
A State Department spokesperson told The Daily Beast that Djerassi served as a "Staff Assistant" from May 2009 to June 2012. The Daily Beast could not confirm whether the role was in fact "gifted" by Clinton.
But a friend of Djerassi told The Daily Beast that Maxwell played no part in introducing Djerassi to Clinton or recommending him for the jobs with the former First Lady.
"These are false allegations against a talented and qualified public servant," the friend said.
The reports come as Maxwell, 58, awaits trial in a Brooklyn federal lockup for allegedly grooming and trafficking girls for Epstein.
The report also appears to reference Djerassi’s LinkedIn profile, which lists his role as chief of staff for the "Office of the Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs" from May 2011 to June 2012. Djerassi served as special assistant to the office from May 2009 to May 2011, his online profile says.
Djerassi’s name also popped up in a collection of Clinton’s emails hacked via WikiLeaks. In a November 2011 message, Assistant Secretary Jeffrey Feltman referred to his "special assistant, Alex Djerassi." Feltman mentioned Djerassi again in a January 2012 email, according to WikiLeaks.
Djerassi was also a nonresident associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A biography on the endowment’s website states Djerassi’s research "focused on Tunisia and U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East and North Africa." The bio adds, "From 2009 to 2012, Djerassi was chief of staff and special assistant in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering U.S. relations with Arab states, Israel, and Iran. He worked on matters relating to democratization and civil society in the Arab world, the Arab uprisings, and Israeli-Palestinian peace."
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.
[Washington Examiner] U.S. Attorney John Durham interviewed former CIA Director John Brennan for eight hours on Friday as he wraps up his inquiry into the Russia investigation, according to a statement on behalf of the Obama administration intelligence chief.
Apparently clear of legal jeopardy, Brennan took aim at the premise of the inquiry.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
The true message of the DNC convention, spoken and unspoken, is that it represents a cultural class that is entitled to absolute political power, because it is morally superior to everyone else. The facade of religion and of fake former Republicans was as real as the "democratic" process leading to a rigged nomination and a fake convention of videos recorded weeks if not months ago. Behind that facade is a small class of wealthy coastal donors pulling all the strings.
