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Simply put, Barr’s next move and comments will speak volumns. No doubt about it. I trust he realizes this. Will he choose, wisely?
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The 4th Amendment is a dead letter also, while the 1st and 2nd are likely only protected by PT45 at this point.
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This is the Memorandum from the President to AG Barr that was issued May 23rd, showing up in today’s, Mat 29th, Federal Register.
After reading this, again, it reminds me why Mueller pulled his stunt today. Distraction and create new talking points.
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2019/05/29/2019-11369/agency-cooperation-with-attorney-generals-review-of-intelligence-activities-relating-to-the-2016
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That’s good. Sadly, it will be ignored by the propaganda media.
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FYI everyone, there’s an update from PHC in the Open Topic thread.
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I had a feeling this was coming about now. Went to the Open Thread.
I hope PHC can still post to CTH if he’s able.
God be with him.
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Where is the open thread? I thought this was/is the open thread?
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Bigly, this is the Presidential Politics thread.
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Thanks—went there. Very hard news,
I hope PHC can still post while he’s able.
God be with him.
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Sorry about the double post. Slow computer tonight.
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Thank you, Andy.
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Whoa!
Excerpt:
Multiple witnesses have told Congress that, a week before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, Britain’s top national security official sent a private communique to the incoming administration, addressing his country’s participation in the counterintelligence probe into the now-debunked Trump-Russia election collusion.
Most significantly, then-British national security adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant claimed in the memo, hand-delivered to incoming U.S. national security adviser Mike Flynn’s team, that the British government lacked confidence in the credibility of former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s Russia collusion evidence, according to congressional investigators who interviewed witnesses familiar with the memo.
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If true Rosenstein should face prosecution also whether he read that FISA renewal or not unless he truly wasn’t told about this. I love the Brits trying to cover their butts once they saw Trump actually won the election.
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Grant is in the private sector now. He wrote a story for Forbes last month. There was a passage that reminded me of Brennan’s , maybe we got bad info comment. Plus it makes reference of intel to protect citizens and it’s country’s economic interests. I bet UK would have been 10X better off with H , at least with the $$$ side of things.
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“Tensions between competing world powers are again on the increase. So-called Hybrid Warfare (including use of weapons such as cyber, drones and trade sanctions) has blurred the traditional line between war and peace. Misinformation campaigns and so-called “Fake news” have blurred the lines between truth and falsehood. Terrorist groups, deniable cyber warriors and mercenaries have blurred the lines between state and non-state actors.
It is therefore not surprising that, in this more ambiguous, grey environment, good intelligence is of even greater value now than it was in the time of Moses. Governments in particular rely heavily on their intelligence services, not only to fulfil their primary duty to protect their citizens but also to ensure the economic prosperity of their country.
I saw this at first hand when I was National Security Adviser to British Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May and had oversight of the UK’s three main Intelligence agencies – MI5, MI6 and GCHQ. The combined intelligence collection and analytical capabilities in the UK are amongst the most skilled in the world. Whether the weekly National Security Council was scheduled to discuss updating the counter-terrorism strategy, cyber threats, airport security, money laundering, the conflict in Syria or the UK’s relationship with China or Russia, an assessment of relevant intelligence would be prepared in advance by the Joint Intelligence Committee and presented at the meeting. This intelligence assessment constituted a critical input to enable Ministers to take policy decisions based on the best possible information.
Unfortunately, history is littered with examples where decisions have been taken on the basis of insufficient or inaccurate intelligence (e.g. the 2003 Iraq war) or not taken as a result of the lack of actionable intelligence (e.g. Pearl Harbor or the 9/11 attacks). Both can have disastrous consequences. That is why being able to access, and evaluate, relevant intelligence is so important. ”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marklyallgrant/2019/04/08/good-intelligence-equally-important-for-governments-and-businesses/#51a48c9e6e2d
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The Uranium One Scandal Explained
How President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton aided Russia’s quest for global nuclear dominance
BY JASPER FAKKERT AND JOSHUA PHILIPP
February 9, 2018 Updated: May 9, 2019
https://www.theepochtimes.com/infographic-the-uranium-one-scandal_2436825.html
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POTUS just tweeted to watch Hannity tonight at 9 PM.
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Obama Brennan and Clapper created a police state in America worthy of Stalin, Hitler and Mandela:
HAMMERTIME: BAKER BURIED WHISTLEBLOWER MONTGOMERY’S TRUMP SURVEILLANCE EVIDENCE THEN SUDDENLY “REMEMBERED” FBI HAD IT – The American Report
https://theamericanreport.org/2019/05/29/hammertime-baker-buried-whistleblower-montgomerys-trump-surveillance-evidence-then-suddenly-remembered-fbi-had-it/
https://bit.ly/2XgO6Eu
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Only in the Swamp could one DOJ official (Comey) spend 20 minutes reading a list of Hillary’s crimes, then tell you there is nothing to prosecute – then the other DOJ official (Mueller) lists no Trump crimes at all, but tries to convince you he’s guilty of something.
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Hahaha! Perfect.
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gregg-jarrett-robert-mueller-trump-russia-investigation-report Yet, this is what Mueller did. He improvised a new standard that applies only to Trump –presumption of guilt. Under this novel “guilty until proven innocent” paradigm, it is up to the president to prove the allegations are false.
Attorney General Barr recognized that Mueller had mangled the legal process, describing his statement as “actually a very strange statement.”
Barr told Congress that he was forced to correct Mueller’s mistake. “I used the proper standard,” said Barr. “We are not in the business of proving someone did not violate the law –I found that whole passage very bizarre,” he added.
Our system of justice in America is designed to protect the innocent. This is why there are laws that prevent disclosure of grand jury testimony and even more expansive rules at the Justice Department that prohibit prosecutors from disclosing derogatory information about uncharged individuals. It is, in a word, unfair to smear people who have not been charged with anything.
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It is unfair to smear people who have not been charged with anything – even Mueller’s dossier says so, but then Mueller goes ahead and does so anyway. He, Rosenstein, Comey, Strzok are first tier perps.
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BREAKING NEWS – JOHN SOLOMON, THE HILL
“Congressional investigators have interviewed two U.S. officials who handled the memo, confirmed with the British government that a communique was sent, and alerted the Department of Justice (DOJ) to the information. One witness confirmed to Congress that he was interviewed by special counsel Robert Mueller about the memo.”
“Now the race is on to locate the document in U.S. intelligence archives, to see if the witnesses’ recollections are correct. And Trump is headed to Britain this weekend, where he might just get a chance to ask his own questions.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446050-did-brits-warn-about-steeles-credibility-before-muellers-probe-congress
British CYA?
Solomon and Hannity also mentioned something about the memo being locked is a special safe?
ANOTHER EXCULPATORY DOCUMENT BURIED!!??!!
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The Brits apparently sent a memo to us a week before Trump’s inauguration questioning Syeele’s reliability (the dossier).
A shorter warning was sent earlier. Multiple people read it, and its been buried. For over 2 years.
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Techno Fog is exploring how the FBI didn’t prosecute FARA cases because they hoped to use Section 951 (foreign agent) to wire tap political enemies through FISA warrants. It’s like they made it into a wiretap factory just continually using that Section 951 to spy on US citizens. How didn’t the FISC catch on earlier? This is outrageous.
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THIS is so important, second only to THIS “INVESTIGATION” SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN INITIATED.
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This should be fun.
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“Arrests of people caught providing shelter or helping illegal immigrants have sharply increased since the beginning of the Trump administration.
There were 4,532 people federally charged with harboring and bringing in immigrants in fiscal year 2018, according to a study by Syracuse University and reported by NPR. The numbers were an uptick from the 3,902 charged the previous year and an over 30% jump from 2015.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/29/trump-crackdown-immigrant-help/
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Today is one of those days where you either continue to stand with POTUS or you take advantage of the Mueller hit job for personal reasons.
According to short clips, Brett Baier and Shepherd Smith happily claimed that Mueller has given the Dems 2 good reasons to Impeach Trump, Chris Christie believes Mueller’s comments contradict A/G Barr’s conclusions and several others like Republican turncoat Amash continue their anti Trump tirades.
But it’s gratifying to see that most of Trump’s most effective and principled supporters have not abandoned him in any way. I suspect Mueller’s reputation destroying, unethical, unjust and biased words will haunt him for the rest of his life.
I’m a nobody but I still support P Trump 100%.
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SD posted three articles today that should make clear to even the most optimistic patriot that the deep state swamp, as a collective criminal enterprise, has Houdini like powers of deception and escape. Numerous co-conspirators have been identified, undeniably proven to be guilty of sedition, and yet they and their confederates walk freely among us, continuing their unrelenting assault on the President and our nation.
SD:
“Senator Lindsey Graham should immediately subpoena Mueller him to testify and expose the scheme and fraud for all to see. But he won’t. He won’t because Graham is an allied member of the beltway team.”
The beat goes on, with the resistance appearing to be the Roadrunner and anyone demanding justice looking like Wiley Coyote. The resistance owns the Washington establishment, political parties notwithstanding. Every day, SD focuses the picture more clearly.
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