Interesting report from The Hill today quoting an interview with Representative Mark Meadows. According to the report U.S. Attorney John Huber is expected to testify to the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Reform about an investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
(Via The Hill) Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said Tuesday that House Republicans plan to hear testimony on Dec. 5 from the prosecutor appointed by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to probe alleged wrongdoing by the Clinton Foundation.
Meadows, who is chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Government Operations, told Hill.TV’s “Rising” that it’s time to “circle back” to U.S. Attorney General John Huber’s investigation with the Justice Department into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged any improper activities.
“Mr. [John] Huber with the Department of Justice and the FBI has been having an investigation – at least part of his task was to look at the Clinton Foundation and what may or may not have happened as it relates to improper activity with that charitable foundation, so we’ve set a hearing date for December the 5th,” he told Hill.TV during an interview on Wednesday.
Meadow’s said the committee plans to delve into a number of Republicans concerns surrounding the foundation, including whether any tax-exempt proceeds for personal gain and whether the Foundation complied with IRS laws.
Sessions appointed Huber last year to work in tandem with the Justice Department to look into conservative claims of misconduct at the FBI and review several issues surrounding the Clintons. This includes Hillary Clinton’s ties to a Russian nuclear agency and concerns about the Clinton Foundation. (read more)
Little is known of the original instructions by former AG Jeff Sessions to U.S. Attorney John Huber. Prior to May 2018, many people -including myself- hoped he was brought in to review the unlawful conduct within the DOJ and FBI that was surfacing as an outcome of congressional oversight and IG reviewed evidence. Unfortunately, as the IG report(s) were released in April and June 2018, those hopes were diminished.
Interestingly, the framework of the article today that outlines his upcoming appearance is written around the politics of the investigation of the Clinton review and not the legal aspects therein. This could be a troubling indication because: (a) Huber wouldn’t be able to testify about an ongoing criminal investigation; and (b) this framework would infer DOJ officials (above Huber) have made a determination -or agreed with his determination- that no legal liability is possible within the matters Huber reviewed.
Of course, that’s just my initial take on the way this is all positioned – and not intended to deflate anyone who was hoping John Huber would generate some prosecutorial angle within a multitude of investigations he was possibly reviewing.
From the way the outline of Huber’s appearance is structured, it appears the extent of his investigative responsibility was limited to a review of matters related to Hillary Clinton that surfaced as an outcome of other inquiry – including matters reviewed by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz as they related to Hillary Clinton.
Common sense and basic DOJ practice would then indicate: if Huber is testifying to congress he is not likely holding any indictments for material related to discussion within his testimony.
It looks like Huber testifies on December 5th, then quietly exits the overall picture.
It does not look like Mr. Huber was reviewing anything within “spygate” or the FISA abuse; and also did not likely have any involvement in the Andrew McCabe DOJ legal review and DC-based grand jury matters relating to Andrew McCabe.
Of course, I could be entirely mistaken in my analysis.
{insert hope here}
Whether the evil ones are held to account in this life or not …
Our eyes are open.
Is that not worth anything to the commenters complaining here?
The left has spent millions and millions to distort reality and manipulate our thinking, while averting and perverting the law.
And yet here we are embracing the truth over the lies.
What is the value of knowing the truth? What is the value of this newfound currency?
They want to shut down the truth and erect in place more lies.
Our hearts and minds must be pretty important to the evil ones’ plans.
And yet here we are, refusing to swallow the lies.
Is that not worth anything to the commenters complaining here?
Maybe we don’t know the value of what we possess?
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That is an excellent thought, Logger…
Especially here at the site which pioneered the idea of sunlight as disinfectant on its own.
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Well said, Logger.
I do believe that they will get their day in court and justice will be done, though. If nothing else, it would be political suicide if they gave them a pass.
Hey, Hillary…here’s a song for you:
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I never thought Huber was anything but window dressing, a head fake, a false trail. (Shrugs). I really don’t think he probably has anything to testify about at this juncture. That is, if we are really dealing with a genius as POTUS.
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It’s not good enough that WE know the truth because WE always did! The idea is for the rest of those that think Hillary is not a criminal and there was collusion between Trump and Russia.
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Are the hearings on December 5 public?
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Undercover Huber was prolly invented to deceive “POTUS”
Who ever on Trumps “team” convinced Trump to not release his own report on the CrowdStrike allegations long ago deserves big buck rewards from the CrowdStrike and like industries. Trump was bamboozled big on that one. Also endangered American security by not highlighting how these “Cozy Bear” -like finding teams are money scams. The self-interest of the private intel industry in pursuing Russia or whoever is left unimagined.
Trump really blew it.
Not that everyone really on his side wasn’t telling him that all along. But remember when he sided early with Paul Ryan? Says it all.
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Your premise (all of it) relies on the “big baby man, clueless buffoon Trump model”. Which the opposition fake news ran with for the early months of Trump’s Presidency. Until he pulled the North Korea diplomacy rabbit from hat, which immediately showed that narrative always was just a pathetic joke.
In this regard then, your too are pushing a silly, child-like narrative already proven to be a poor propaganda/’smear campaign. In fact I will go so far as to say I think you’re a pretty obvious troll/bot clown. who lurks here and at times inserts your brand of propaganda poison.
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Huber has been at it now for about a year with over 400 investigators available to him. He will have something to report. We’ll find out December 5.
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Brace yourselves, Treepers, we are about to play the role of Charley Brown again. Hope springs eternal but this is probably another fake reveal, with the deep state lifting the prize (football) away so that the investigation becomes another nothingburger.
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Not me. I’m going for 2.
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Sadly I have to agree. I did have hope in John Huber – coming from outside the Beltway and from Utah – a state whom I usually have held in high regards relating to the support of the Constitution, Rule of Law. However – it appears we just have another “seasoned obedient dark state” emissary. I don’t think any of these corrupt, seditious people will ever serve any time for their hellacious acts – but I believe there is a high authority – who they won’t be able to sluff-off what they have done to the greatest nation on earth. Then, I wouldn’t want to be in their shoes.
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I used to think that way about wholesome country folk going into federal government, until I found out that those places are quite often seeded with carpetbaggers, usually with ivy league law degrees..
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If Team Hillary starts saying “Ivanka did it too!” it could be a sign they know indictments are coming down for Hillary.
OTOH the Ivanka story could just be the New York Times brushing off old stories for filler.
The biggest threat truth faces is not Hillary but the private intelligence industry and their hamster wheel reports and work like that of CrowdStrike. One big reason Mueller was put in, to protect the chummy and lucrative arrangement threatened by CrowdStrike worse than usual work product. Even the DNC later fired CrowdStrike.
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I think the Ivanka story is related to the fight over Whitaker. They want him recused so Rosey is still in charge. They want this badly. Otherwise Whitaker might demand Mueller finish up and the Dems can’t have that. They’re planning to use Mueller for another 2 years. So the message to PDJT is that they will go after Ivanka if Whitaker doesn’t recuse.
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The Ivanka Trump story is a year old smoke screen they used before without success. It will not succeed this time either. It is merely another distraction by people scared to death throwing anything they can out there to take attention away from their coming demise.
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Yes.
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They are so stupid, if they believe that!
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too large a swamp, too small a drain, too little time
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+100!
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Right. I agree with you. If Trump needs our help, we need him ask. If he does, like you, I’m all in.
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We are waiting and praying for justice while the Rinos and Dems are planning for the next election……and retribution. I wonder who is smarter.
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Perhaps the Rinos and Dems aren’t the only schemers in the game. I believe President is the strategist par excellence that will bring down the house. The fake news spreads doubt and fear to put us in doubt. Too bad they’re wasting their time with me and other patriots who discovered their game and decided to play a game of our own. We strongly believe in winning at all costs. I believe our desire is stronger than the machinations of traitors.
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I like how you think C R Lord!
After listening to D Bongino’s podcast today, I suspect the truth is near-
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Nothing to do with being smart, instead ask who is more devious.
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I have come to the conclusion that prayer does NOTHING. God will do what what He wants, whether it decimates us and our great nation or not. Capricious as hell.
What a mindscrew… Gave us Trump, and allnthe hopenthat goes with that, just to allow the criminals to prevail. I have stopped praying. Does no good.
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If POTUS and team fail to make D 5 avalanche style move before Dec 29th , then my firm conclusion is that THE DEEP STATE has prevailed and we are all conservative FEMA CAMP bed dwellers.
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The hammer is about to drop. I don’t agree that the can will be kicked down the road as the above illustration implies. Mr. Huber possesses more than any of us realize and what he has could easily lead to criminal prosecution. After all, calling in a prosecutor and telling him not to prosecute is a silly idea in my estimation. I am hoping for the worst – for the traitors that is.
The old adage “Crime doesn’t pay” still holds. Criminals will be called before judges on earth and those who die in their sins will face the judge of all judges. The Biblical law of reaping and sowing also applies here. I believe the time has come for traitors to reap what they have sown as well as their co-conspirators across the globe. Justice may be slow, but it is inevitable.
I have to believe that all patriots attending the CTH are ready to see some action that will be strong enough to bring down our enemies and enable the President to fulfill his promises to do what he needs to do to make America great again. President Trump did promise us a nice Christmas gift.
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Thank you C R.
Dan Bongino’s podcast today was 180 degrees from this doom and gloom. Highly recommend listening to it.
I am a huge fan of both sundance and Bongino. Today I am hoping that Bongino’s take turns out to be the right one. In fact even sundance said he had a hope he himself might be wrong. We will all see in December.
Have wonderful a Thanksgiving, all treepers! And the rest of you, chew those thistles well, you really don’t want to choke, we’d miss you. 😆
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If President Trump had no other reason to bring prosecution, the one thing he knows full well is that it would be political suicide to let it all slide. Don’t worry…there will be prosecutions.
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I am certain there will be. Thanks.
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As an observation, I can’t be the only one reviewing this thread and wondering at all the commentators with names we have not read before?
I may be waiting in vain, and perhaps I have misplaced my faith, but I continue to believe, based upon abundant evidence of multiple extremely serious crimes, that PDJT is not going to let the
conspiring seditionists escape justice.
Those of us here who believe in our republic and the rule of law are not going to abide a conscious decision to ignore the facts and the law. Based upon my measure of this President as a man, I can not imagine he is not going to employ his executive authority to achieve justice.
If I am wrong, a whole lot of people who believe they have power had best be extremely careful.
One way or another, justice is coming. I continue to expect the provider of that justice will be President Donald J. Trump.
If I am incorrect, those of us who have relied on our law and system of governance to redress grievance will be unbound.
Our supposed betters ought to carefully contemplate what could be the consequence if people decide that justice will be achieved via another means.
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Huber is worthless. Don’t even need to hear the party line.
Worthless
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Your opinion might be uprooted before long. I wouldn’t be too hasty to toss Huber off like you did. Things are not always what they seem to be.
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I suspect appointing Huber was nothing more than a PR stunt by Session to buy time for the deep corrupt state, it doesn’t appear Huber has done one iota of work investigating anyone since Session’s announcement.
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I agree. Just fluff from an AG that didn’t know what he was doing. I hope I am wrong!
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I decided to read the last page first because I don’t need to read all the Eeyors. I truly believe in hope and equal justice under our Constitutional Republic.
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Wow, if pans out as Sundance thinks, we’re out of bullets. Last question is what are all these sealed indictments around the country for? With House turn8ng over in Jan (thanks electorate for not being there to help YOURSELVES, a-holes), little hope anything will get done on these treasonous priks. Deep State survives again.
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It will all happen in the Senate and Judiciary branch, with some military tribunals for the ones charged with treason. We do not need the House to bring hearings and prosecutions.
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Bongino had a hopeful take on this today, which posits that the story simultaneously floated in the MSM about “Trump ordering inquiries into Clinton and Comey” was hugely preemptive in nature, to the effect that stuff is coming, that this Huber-Congressional interview is not random or a nothing burger. That to me made sense, since I could not understand the “why” of this story, which does not have much if any substance, suddenly showing up on CNN et al. Add to that the sudden attack on Ivanaka for doing absolutely nothing wrong with her personal emails (unlike HRC, no classified information) and it adds up to a coordinated campaign by the Dems and their MSM cohorts to “poison the well” in advance of these revelations. So I’ll keep the home fires burning for now.
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Listening to Bongino now…. the Clintons are treasonous bastards. How the Bush family can continue to associate with them boggles the mind. Disgusting.
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I believe you just answered your own question….birds of a feather…
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Agree. Judge them by those they call friends. Bushes and Clintons are buddies. I think the Bushes have proved to be the better players of the Big Game.
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There are some EOs by President Trump that involve all this too, including seizure of property of those guilty of corruption and military tribunals, etc. HE certainly is ready for it to happen.
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Sell that property and use the proceeds to pay for the wall!
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If you want to know what things Horowitz/Huber has been investigating/impaneling grand juries for, here’s some reading. (IG Horowitz and staff of 470 are doing the investigating, US Attorney Huber and his staff are impaneling grand juries and seeking indictments.)
14 Items Horowitz is investigating/Huber seeking (sealed) indictments for:
https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/072717_HJC-Letter-to-AG-DAG.pdf
31 Questions House Republicans want answers for:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-03-15%20CEG%20LG%20JC%20TT%20to%20AG%20DAG%20(Special%20Counsel).pdf
Sessions letter to inform Gowdy, Goodlatte, and Grassley what Huber was doing:
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2018/images/03/29/ag.letter.re.ig.and.huber.reviews.pdf
BTW, witnesses and testimony can be sealed in cases that result in sealed indictments so just because we have not heard of key figures giving testimony to Huber doesn’t mean they haven’t.
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How can Huber say anything to Congress other than “no comment” about any pending criminal investigation? Although hearing him say just that would be satisfying in and of itself.
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He said, in a tryptophan induced fog. . .
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I want to know who the He77 IS going to look into the CF. This is an ongoing, sadistic joke on believers in equal justice.
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