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‘The Fix Was In': Gowdy Slams Newly Revealed Texts Between FBI Officials [VIDEO]
[Daily Caller] Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy appeared on Fox News’ "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday to discuss newly revealed text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that dealt with Hillary Clinton.

In one text released to the public, Page, in reference to Clinton, wrote to Strzok, "One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. You think she’s going to remember or care that it was more doj than fbi?"

Related: Also at the Daily Caller - Grassley Releases Strzok-Page Texts Showing FBI Was ‘Pulling Punches’ In Clinton Probe

Related: Zero - FBI Mulled Special Counsel For Hillary Email Probe But Feared Her Wrath, New Texts Reveal

Related: Washington Insider - Chuck Grassley: Newly revealed Strzok/Page texts 'raise serious concerns' about impartiality of senior DOJ, FBI leadership
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 06:32 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


How Obama Made Sure Hillary Would Avoid Criminal Charges in Email Scandal
[Political Insider] A stunning report from former assistant U.S. attorney Andrew McCarthy details exactly how former President Barack Obama made sure that Hillary Clinton would never face an indictment for her criminal use of a private email server.

Published in National Review, McCarthy notes that Obama exchanged about 20 emails using a pseudonym with Hillary on the email server while she served as secretary of state. One of those emails is from Hillary while she was in Russia. The FBI concluded it was very likely that "hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account" during this secretive exchange.

Obama and his administration didn’t want anyone to know of his involvement in the email scandal, which is why he once claimed he first learned of the email scandal by watching the news.

Now, we’re learning extra details that show those exchanges contained classified information. This means that if Clinton illegally mishandled this information, it was also mishandled on the other end by Obama. Without an indictment, Obama assumed those exchanges would never surface.

These points made by McCarthy are reinforced by newly released text messages from anti-Trump FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. Now we know the rest of the story. Obama was cleaning up the mess:
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama was cleaning up the mess covering his own a$$, or trying to.
Posted by: PBMcL || 01/26/2018 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  You wait and see how bad this is.

There is a QA problem in hiring because democrats get through - obviously they have no loyalty to anything but the leftists kooks. And they run your government.
Posted by: newc || 01/26/2018 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Companies too.
HR?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/26/2018 1:11 Comments || Top||

#4  True that 3dc
Posted by: newc || 01/26/2018 2:16 Comments || Top||

#5  So Baraq doesn't care if the Russians find out about it but he doesn't want the American people to know.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/26/2018 10:45 Comments || Top||


Washington State Gov. orders state officials not to assist ICE (video)
From The Hill:

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Thursday signed an executive order blocking state law enforcement agencies from detaining undocumented immigrants at the request of federal officials, days after the Trump administration began ramping up immigration enforcement actions.

Inslee’s order prevents state agencies from discriminating against or refusing service to those in living the country illegally. It also blocks those agencies from spending state resources to create or enforce a registry of citizens on the basis of religious affiliation.

The order blocks the Washington State Patrol and the state Department of Corrections from detaining anyone solely on the basis of immigration status.

"This executive order makes clear that Washington will not be a willing participant in promoting or carrying out mean-spirited policies that break up families and compromise our national security and, importantly, our community safety," Inslee said at a press conference Thursday.

One provision of the Trump administration’s new immigration guidelines, issued Tuesday, directs the Department of Homeland Security and immigration enforcement agencies to enlist local law enforcement agencies in efforts to enforce federal immigration law. There is no federal law requiring local agencies to adhere to those guidelines.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You know that thing from last week where Trump's administration is considering arresting / prosecuting people for this sort of thing? Start with this guy.
Posted by: Raj || 01/26/2018 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  And then there is the Democrat held legislature (both houses) the state senate just passed a bill giving illegals free tuition.

But some Pubs also voted for it....
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/26/2018 6:28 Comments || Top||

#3  A house divided against itself will not stand.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/26/2018 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  I guess Washington can expect in federal drug charges and money seizure as MJ is still very much illegal under federal laws.
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 01/26/2018 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  There is no federal law requiring local agencies to adhere to those guidelines. There's always the IRS. Even the US Postal Service...
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/26/2018 12:57 Comments || Top||


Devin Nunes' Anti-FBI Memo Names James Comey, Rod Rosenstein, and Andrew McCabe
[Daily Beast] A controversial Republican memo alleging surveillance abuse specifically names FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein along with former FBI Director James Comey.

Capitol Hill sources on both sides of the aisle say the memo’s release is only a matter of time. And when it comes out, these current and former officials ‐ all GOP bêtes noires ‐ are likely to face even more criticism from the right over their involvement in FBI counterintelligence work.

Republicans, including Trump himself, have spent months attacking McCabe and Comey while special counsel Robert Mueller has been investigating Team Trump’s connections to the Kremlin. Rosenstein put that probe in place‐a move Trump has derided as a witch hunt.

A groundswell is building to release the memo‐written by Devin Nunes, the California Republican and key Trump ally who chairs the House intelligence committee‐which former FBI agents fear will damage public trust in the bureau. While Democrats say the memo deliberately misrepresents the procedures for obtaining a foreign-intelligence surveillance warrant, The Daily Beast has learned that Hill Republicans are gearing up to use an obscure parliamentary rule to release it.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department has expressed serious concerns about the memo’s potential release. In a letter sent to Nunes on Jan. 24, Stephen Boyd, the department’s top congressional liaison, wrote that "it would be extraordinarily reckless for the Committee to disclose such information publicly without giving the Department and the FBI the opportunity to review the memorandum and to advise the HPSCI [the House intelligence committee] of the risk of harm to national security and to ongoing investigations that could come from public release."

DOJ warning letter to Congressman Nunes

Top Senate Democrat: The House Intel Memo Is Sloppy And Baseless. Also, I’ve Not Read It

[THEFEDERALIST] 'I have not seen the memo, but I think it is sloppy, careless, and again, I think has no grounding in fact.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I read recently that Schumer (spit) has successfully conned McConnell out of confirming many of Trump's DOJ appointments, at least so far. More likely McConnell has allowed himself to be conned. So Zero's DOJ is still up, running, and gleefully throwing monkey wrenches after a full year.
Posted by: PBMcL || 01/26/2018 0:42 Comments || Top||


#3  Nothing like being a party to your own firing squad with this bunch at the FBI. Strzok even said in one of his emails that "there's no there there" in regards to the Mueller investigation witch hunt. Strzok, however, wanted to be a part of the take down of Trump. If they want a real witch, look into Hillary. This bunch at the FBI should have been fired and prosecuted long ago. Letting this go on, however, has revealed a great deal about the Swamp.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/26/2018 10:35 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Soetoro Photo That Never Saw The Light of Day
[TPM] A journalist announced last week that he will publish a photograph of then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D) and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that he took in 2005 at a Congressional Black Caucus meeting, but did not make public because he believed it would have "made a difference" to Obama’s political future.

The photographer, Askia Muhammad, told the Trice Edney News Wire that he "gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy."

"But after the nomination was secured and all the way up until the inauguration; then for eight years after he was President, it was kept under cover," Muhammad said.

Asked whether he thought the photo’s release would have affected Obama’s presidential campaign, Muhammad said, "I insist. It absolutely would have made a difference."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 01:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully soon followed by the Passport.... 'That Never Saw The Light of Day.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 8:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I want the Rashid Khalidi tape, too.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/26/2018 10:29 Comments || Top||

#3  I want the Rashid Khalidi tape, too.

That and the hot mic clip of Obama saying to Medvedev, "After my election, I have more flexibility".
Posted by: SteveS || 01/26/2018 11:29 Comments || Top||

#4  As I have said elsewhere obozo has always been a POS. A doper not worth the time of day. An people couldnt see through the smoke. STUPIDITY advances.
Posted by: ranture || 01/26/2018 11:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Never understood why GWB's DUI was such a deal breaker to the press when Zero's blatant and admitted drug use, photos and comments in "his" books, was given a free pass.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/26/2018 12:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Never understood why... etc. Thinking is mostly about what you pay attention to and what you avert your gaze from. Oh, look, a cute cat!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/26/2018 12:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Proof positive of the mainstream press dereliction of duty to inform the public. We no longer have a free press. We have one that picked up the chains and blinders and put them on willingly.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 01/26/2018 15:53 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Women who identify as men not offered routine NHS breast cancer screening
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK]
Posted by: Fred || 01/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bravo! There ought to be consequences.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/26/2018 2:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Give em the prostate finger exam.
Posted by: Frank G || 01/26/2018 7:28 Comments || Top||

#3  the Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again!
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/26/2018 11:13 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 Give em the prostate finger exam.

I don't think that's what they meant by "invisible hand" in
The concept of unintended consequences is one of the building blocks of economics. Adam Smith’s “invisible hand,...”
Posted by: SteveS || 01/26/2018 11:18 Comments || Top||


California firearms manufacturer moving to Wyoming
[SANLUISOBISPO] Firearms manufacturer Weatherby Inc. is relocating its manufacturing operations and corporate headquarters from Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, to Wyoming, marking another catch by Wyoming of a company abandoning a state that isn't as gun friendly.

Weatherby's move to Sheridan is expected to create 70 to 90 jobs and more than $5 million in annual payroll over the next five years.

Company and state officials, including Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead, announced the move Tuesday at a gun industry trade show in Las Vegas.

"We wanted a place where we could retain a great workforce, and where our employees could live an outdoor lifestyle," Adam Weatherby, chief executive officer of the company, said in a statement. "We wanted to move to a state where we can grow into our brand. Wyoming means new opportunities. We are not interested in maintaining; we are growing."
Posted by: Fred || 01/26/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Additional bonus - no Wyoming income tax - win-win!
Posted by: Raj || 01/26/2018 0:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Yep, Raj. I suspect Cali's threat to confiscate their Federal tax cut savings was the last straw final incentive.
Posted by: PBMcL || 01/26/2018 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  How long before Sacramento votes to disarm all cali cops and the National Guard?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/26/2018 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  ..ah, to be in the hands of the cartel they've invited in.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/26/2018 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Good move.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/26/2018 12:09 Comments || Top||

#6  Companies will vote with their feet. Companies do not appreciate getting a corporate tax cut, then have it negated by some socialist parasite paradise state.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/26/2018 17:54 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Looming scandal will hammer the Democrats
h/t Instapundit
The fix was in. The 2016 election was rigged ‐ and Donald Trump won anyway.

All hell is breaking loose in D.C. The next few weeks will be the most shocking in America’s history. The revelations about to be made public will shake this nation to its core.

Liberals who watch only CNN and MSNBC probably haven’t a clue what’s about to hit them. Trust me, that light at the end of the tunnel is a train headed straight for the Democrat Party.

We all know ‐ thanks to former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile ‐ that Hillary rigged the Democrat presidential primary against Bernie Sanders. That was a precursor of what was to come.

Does it shock anyone that someone brazen enough to rig a presidential primary would also try to rig the general election?

Don’t look now, but Donald J. Trump may be the first person in world history to win an election rigged against him. Hillary ‐ with the backing of Barack Obama and the leadership of the FBI and Department of Justice ‐ fixed the general election so Trump couldn’t win. And Trump ‐ this relentless bull in a china shop ‐ won anyway.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/26/2018 12:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The democrats are hopelessly out of touch. How does throwing money and entitlements at illegal aliens that want to steal jobs and livelihood from working Americans going to resonate with the average American enough to win an election?

With a huge economic boom in progress?

The only thing they have is this "coup d'état". If they don't get Trump out of the way in this "investigation" they are cooked.

BTW, after watching "13 Hours" for the zillionth time, I believe that what happened was a Clinton Foundation "hit" on Ambassador Stevens. He and the local CIA found a lot of US and Soviet high tech weaponry on the open market and were trying to keep it from getting to Asaad and the Syrian rebels. Hillary on the other hand stood to make a lot of money, and gratitude from the Russians, et al., by allowing the Manpads and other nasty gizmos to get to the ME.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/26/2018 12:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Jones provides some rather unique insights SPOD.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/26/2018 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Found here
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/26/2018 14:03 Comments || Top||

#4  It's interesting that we are seeing no reportage of how this little show is playing with that beloved (most of the time) by journos and pollsters cohort known as "independents." I can only intuit from the silence that the numbers there are not good.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/26/2018 15:28 Comments || Top||

#5  The press is not reporting on independents, because the press is too busy trying to keep this buried, or preemptively attempting to discredit or muddy the waters. They know when it all comes out, they will be found as willing accomplices to the corruption. RICO the times and Post and the big TV news operations.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 01/26/2018 15:57 Comments || Top||


Controversial FBI Officials Linked To Wall Street Journal and Washington Post Leaks…
[ConservativeTreehouse] There has been a great deal of speculation about FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Attorney Lisa Page leaking to media in their efforts to shape stories conducive to their pro-Clinton/anti-Trump efforts. Prior reporting showed the strong possibility Page and Strzok were leaking to the Wall Street Journal.

"Article is out, but hidden behind paywall so can’t read it," Page texted Strzok on Oct. 24, 2016.

"Wsj? Boy that was fast," Strzok texted back, using the initials of the famed financial newspaper. "Should I ’find’ it and tell the team?"

Some new information today, and some additional research, and we can not only confirm the prior suspicions outlined by John Solomon (The Hill) ‐ but we also discover the actual Wall Street Journal reporter they were leaking to.

Yesterday Senator Chuck Grassley released a series of text messages between Page and Strzok (full pdf here). Within the release there is a portion of messaging where Lisa Page is identified on the phone with "Devlin" (see page #5 ‐ screen grab below):
Is it possible the end narrative will implicate 2 "rogue agents" and "Move along, nothing else to see here."?
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 01/26/2018 09:34 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Grassley released a series of text messages

The .pdf reads interesting except for the 'name-scrubbed' and 'date-gapped' items. Immediately suggests an agenda rather than transparency.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/26/2018 14:15 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2018-01-26
  Mosul clean up continues: 21 turbans permanently unwound, 9 more jugged
Thu 2018-01-25
  Double car bombing kills 33 in Benghazi
Wed 2018-01-24
  Two suicide attackers, Islamic State member killed as troops repel attack in Baghdad
Tue 2018-01-23
  1.5K al-Nusra troops surrounded in Idlib
Mon 2018-01-22
  Tunisian forces kill top aide of Al Qaeda leader in Maghreb
Sun 2018-01-21
  Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Sun 2018-01-21
  Seven Niger troops killed in Boko Haram attack
Sat 2018-01-20
  Lebanon foils ISIS plans to attack places of worship, government buildings
Fri 2018-01-19
  Deso Dogg -- Dead Again
Thu 2018-01-18
  US drone strike leaves 6 militants dead, wounded in East of Afghanistan
Wed 2018-01-17
  Wanted terrorist Abdullah Al-Qalaf killed in eastern Saudi Arabia
Tue 2018-01-16
  Deadly clashes in Libyan capital force airport to close
Mon 2018-01-15
  Israel Says It Destroys Hamas Tunnel Under Key Gaza Crossing
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