Category: Russiagate

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FBI Texts Show Agents Discussed Recruiting White House Sources To Spy For Bureau

“The course of our oversight work we have reviewed certain text messages that may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump’s transition team,” the letter states. “In text messages exchanged between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, the two discussed the possibility of developing “potential relationships” at a November 2016 FBI briefing for presidential transition team staff. Specifically, it appears they discussed sending “the CI guy” to assess an unnamed person ‘demeanor’ but were concerned because it might be unusual for him to attend.”
 
The Senators are investigating if any “of these communications, and the precise purpose of any attempts to ‘develop relationships’ with Trump or VP Mike Pence transition team staff are not immediately clear.”

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Nixon, Marini, and the Russia Hoax

In a recent essay reflecting on John Marini’s excellent new book, Unmasking the Administrative State, Ken Masugi wrote that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report amounted to a rerun from the Nixon era. It is certainly a repeat performance of sorts, but it looks like it will not conclude in the same satisfying way for the Left. Now, the tables are being turned on them. For the first time since the 1970s, we have a president and an attorney general, William Barr, who will not cave to injustice.
 
Barr has made clear he will look at spying regardless of party affiliation. The Democrats naturally are howling at the prospect, for it well may wrap up their grand ruse that is a political scandal bigger than anything Nixon could ever have imagined.
 
What we have witnessed the last two plus years with the Russia hoax, is a variation of the Watergate scandal playbook replayed by the same Democrat party that once sacrificed the political health of the country in order to protect their self-interested pursuit of power. Marini and Masugi’s work has made this clear to me in ways that it was not until now.
 
Let’s begin with a little background.

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From David S., in the comments;

Excellent Byron York podcasts with former Trump attorney John Dowd. York is correct to refer to these conversations as “oral history”. Lengthy but HIGHLY informative.
 
Mandatory listening on Russia collusion hoax and DOJ/FBI attempted coup d’état:
 
Part One – The Man Who Defended Trump
 
Part Two.
 
Stunning revelations. Also, York’s synopsis.

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AP;

The Justice Department said Mueller delivered his final report to Attorney General William Barr and officially concluded his probe of Russian election interference and possible coordination with Trump associates. The report will now be reviewed by Barr, who has said he will write his own account communicating Mueller’s findings to Congress and the American public.
 
Barr said he could release his account to Congress as soon as this weekend.

There is no joy in Swampville today;

A senior Justice Department official has told CBS News that Mueller is not recommending any further indictments. The Justice Department also confirmed that the “principal conclusions” of the report will be made public.

Mighty Comey has struck out.

Update: (Thread)

Savour the tears: Conspiracy Theorist Rachel Maddow CRIES ON AIR Over Mueller Report

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Old habits die hard.

The Chicago police union’s president alleges that the county’s top prosecutor interfered with the investigation of “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett before recusing herself and wants the Justice Department to determine if she broke any laws.
 
WLS-TV in Chicago reports that Fraternal Order of Police President Kevin Graham wrote the Justice Department following reports that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx asked Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson to let the FBI investigate Smollett’s allegations that he was attacked by two masked men after the former chief of staff to former first lady Michelle Obama informed Foxx that Smollett’s family had concerns about the probe.

Had Hillary won the election, Jussie Smollet would be a free man.

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More here. The damning proof of innocence that FBI likely withheld in Russian probe

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Conrad Black;

The most immense and dangerous public scandal in American history is finally cracking open like a ripe pomegranate. The broad swath of the Trump-hating media that has participated in what has amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the government are reduced to reporting the events and revelations of the scandal in which they have been complicit, in a po-faced ho-hum manner to impart to the misinformed public that this is as routine as stock market fluctuations or the burning of an American flag in Tehran.

h/t MP

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Using Page to Get Trump;

According to intelligence officials, the fact that Page was relatively unknown made him an attractive target.
 
“It can be tougher to make a FISA case on a prominent, government-connected figure,” said former Army intelligence officer Chris Farrell, now director of investigations at Judicial Watch. “But you can spin a tale about a guy who is on the margins. You can make sweeping generalizations, you don’t have to be too detailed. And they’d use the lack of information on Page to explain that’s precisely why they need the warrant—to learn more about him.”

Intelligence sources told The Federalist that Page was likely targeted as a means of accessing the Trump team’s communications.

But there’s lots more there.

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Former Donald Trump lawyer Michael Cohen issued new denials on Thursday that he was in Prague, in the Czech Republic, during a period of time in 2016 when an anti-Trump intellignce dossier’s author wrote that he met there with Russian agents about how to interfere with the presidential election.
 
‘I hear #Prague #CzechRepublic is beautiful in the summertime. I wouldn’t know as I have never been. #Mueller knows everything!’ Cohen tweeted.
 
His flat rejection came after McClatchy reported that a cell phone belonging to him was detected near Prague during the late summer months before Trump beat Hllary Clinton. The story was based on four separate sources with independent contacts in unnamed intelligence circles.
 
[…]
 
McClatchy didn’t explore in print the possibility that a Cohen adversary might have obtained the unique digital ID of his phone and put it on another one, a simple task for the technically inclined.

 
What sort of adversary would do such a thing?

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