When the Carter Page FISA application was originally assembled by the FBI and DOJ, there was initial hesitancy from within the DOJ National Security Division (DOJ-NSD) about submitting the application, because it did not have enough citations in evidence (the infamous ‘Woods File’). That’s why the Steele Dossier ultimately became important. It was the Steele Dossier that provided the push, the legal cover needed for the DOJ-NSD to submit the application for a Title-1 surveillance warrant against the campaign of Donald J. Trump.
When the application was finally assembled for submission to the FISA court, the head of the DOJ-NSD was John Carlin. Carlin quit working for the DOJ-NSD in late September 2016 just before the final application was submitted (October 21,2016). John Carlin was replaced by Deputy Asst. Attorney General, Mary McCord.
♦ When the FISA application was finally submitted (approved by Sally Yates and James Comey), it was Mary McCord who did the actual process of filing the application and gaining the Title-1 surveillance warrant.
A few months later, February 2017, with Donald Trump now in office as President, it was Mary McCord who went with Deputy AG Sally Yates to the White House to confront White House legal counsel Don McGahn over the Michael Flynn interview with FBI agents. The surveillance of Flynn’s calls was presumably done under the auspices and legal authority of the FISA application Mary McCord previously was in charge of submitting.
♦ At the time the Carter Page application was filed (October 21, 2016), Mary McCord’s chief legal counsel inside the office was a DOJ-NSD lawyer named Michael Atkinson. In his role as the legal counsel for the DOJ-NSD, it was Atkinson’s job to review and audit all FISA applications submitted from inside the DOJ. Essentially, Atkinson was the DOJ internal compliance officer in charge of making sure all FISA applications were correctly assembled and documented.
♦ When the anonymous CIA whistleblower complaint was filed against President Trump for the issues of the Ukraine call with President Zelensky, the Intelligence Community Inspector General had to change the rules for the complaint to allow an anonymous submission. Prior to this change, all intelligence whistleblowers had to put their name on the complaint. It was this 2019 IGIC who changed the rules. Who was the Intelligence Community Inspector General? Michael Atkinson.
When ICIG Michael Atkinson turned over the newly authorized anonymous whistleblower complaint to the joint House Intelligence and Judiciary Committee (Schiff and Nadler chairs), who did Michael Atkinson give the complaint to? Mary McCord.
Yes, after she left main justice, Mary McCord took the job of working for Chairman Jerry Nadler and Chairman Adam Schiff as the chief legal advisor inside the investigation that led to the construction of articles of impeachment. As a consequence, Mary McCord received the newly permitted anonymous whistleblower complaint from her old office colleague Michael Atkinson.
♦ During his investigation of the Carter Page application, Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered an intentional lie inside the Carter Page FISA application (directly related to the ‘Woods File’) which his team eventually tracked to FBI counterintelligence division lawyer, Kevin Clinesmith. Eventually Clinesmith was criminally charged with fabricating evidence (changed wording on an email) in order to intentionally falsify the underlying evidence in the FISA submission.
When John Durham took the Clinesmith indictment to court, the judge in the case was James Boasberg.
♦ In addition to being a DC criminal judge, James Boasberg is also a FISA court judge who signed-off on one of the renewals for the FISA application that was submitted using fraudulent evidence fabricated by Kevin Clinesmith. In essence, now the presiding judge over the FISA court, Boasberg was the FISC judge who was tricked by Clinesmith and now the criminal court judge in charge of determining Clinesmith’s legal outcome. Judge Boasberg eventually sentenced Clinesmith to 6 months probation.
As an outcome of continued FISA application fraud and wrongdoing by the FBI in their exploitation of searches of the NSA database, Presiding FISC Judge James Boasberg appointed an amici curiae advisor to the court who would monitor the DOJ-NSD submissions and ongoing FBI activities.
Who did James Boasberg select as a FISA court amicus? Mary McCord.
♦ SUMMARY: Mary McCord submitted the original false FISA application to the court using the demonstrably false Dossier. Mary McCord participated in the framing of Michael Flynn. Mary McCord worked with ICIG Michael Atkinson to create a fraudulent whistleblower complaint against President Trump; and Mary McCord used that manipulated complaint to assemble articles of impeachment on behalf of the joint House Intel and Judiciary Committee. Mary McCord then took up a defensive position inside the FISA court to protect the DOJ and FBI from sunlight upon all the aforementioned corrupt activity.
You can clearly see how Mary McCord would be a person of interest if anyone was going to start digging into corruption internally within the FBI, DOJ or DOJ-NSD.
Now the latest….
YESTERDAY – In Washington DC – “Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and the House Jan. 6 Select Committee has tapped Mary McCord, who once ran the Justice Department’s National Security Division, for representation in its fight to obtain former President Donald Trump’s White House records. (read more)
Does that sound like the action of a DC system, a Fourth Branch of government per se’, who are in the least bit worried about John Durham?
FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann, Steele source Igor Danchenko are all external participants to the corrupt endeavors undertaken by the top levels of the White House, DOJ and FBI during their purposeful targeting of candidate Donald Trump and President Donald Trump.
Lisa Monaco is now the Deputy Attorney General. John Carlin is back inside the DOJ-NSD, and now Mary McCord is back inside a House investigative committee put together to purposefully target Donald J Trump… AGAIN!
John “Sweep it all under the Rug” Durham, hard at work – and he’s got the broom for it…
Durham is not sending Danchenko and Sussman to the DC Gulag. He’s just slapping a few more wrists for lying while he carves out a cadre of fourth branch unindicted co-conspirators. Meanwhile General Flynn, Paul Manafort and other Trump acolytes suffered.
Scope ‘Man’ (Rod Rosenstein) and other big fish were pretty much carved out of the greater conspiracy by We Give You Guns For A Reason ‘Man’(Lindsey Graham).
“No I would not have” signed the FISA application if I knew what I know now, Rosenstein told Graham in his June 2020 testimony to Congress….And with that admission (or lie) that he did not read the document…Scope ‘Man’ was scolded and slinked away.
The FBI memo of Danchenko’s interrogation, written by FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten made no mention of Danchenko’s criminal record. Danchenko was prosecuted by Scope ‘Man’ Rosenstein for public intoxication in 2006.
When they didn’t have a good enough riot or Insurrection on January 6th, they pushed it along into the Capitol via informants and undercover provocateurs who then became the new carved out unindicted co-conspirators, while Patriot Trump supporters were sent to the DC Gulag.
IMHO, there are a few really major stains on this nation in the last 50 or so years…’Nam as mia culpa’d by McNamara, Biden’s Afghan exit and 13 dead marines and others. The worst by all measures OTHER THAN DEATHS is probably the destruction of one of this nations best; LtGen Flynn.
Every other time we have placed our faith in the DOJ being able to police itself, we have been disappointed.
However, that does not mean that it can’t happen this time, in spite of the continued tough odds it faces!
Incidentally, such bulletproof cases as regards Sussman, and Danchenko, do make it even harder for higher ups to maneuver. They also, in my opinion, make it inevitable that the SP’s sights will be moving up the ladder to those responsible for the actions and decisions of these two defendants. If not, people like McCord could potentially be witnesses for the defense. I don’t think Durham would be so careless as to let that happen. The higher-ups are obviously implicated in the wrongdoing and must be charged (no matter how slightly!) as well, otherwise the prosecution will crumble at trial.
When we get Donald Trump re-elected (for REAL) in 2024, and he takes office, the first and very most important thing he needs to do is to purge the DoJ from top to bottom. Many other federal departments and agencies need cleaned out as well. Trump needs to return to form by telling so many fed employees “You’re FIRED!!!”
They don’t care about you.
They don’t represent you.
They most assuredly don’t fear you. How can you expect those who are profiting from the corruption to stop the corruption. They are all profiting from the corruption. Nothing will be fixed until the American people fix it. That will not happen in our life time.
Durham should … be investigated … as soon a the Republicans SWEEP back into full control over the ROTTED Deep State.
John Durham is obviously a ‘limited hangout’ operation, whose purpose is to protect the high-level criminal conspirators, while using deception to trick the public into thinking the system can reform itself.
The system has completely rotted from within, over a period of decades, with vast secrecy and trillions to defense contractors for the blackest programs we could hardly imagine.
Voting on rigged machines and relying on disingenuous glow-in-the-dark spooks like Durham will not get us out of this mess.
We need to be organizing general strikes and methodically taking over control of our local and state political apparatuses. If we cannot do this, then our options will become very limited.
We are already in a fight for our survival. If the government can force you to take experimental drugs and prevent you from feeding your family, you are in a deadly serious situation that needs your full attention and commitment.
What a web of insurrectionists that make the Jan. 6th incident look like a cake walk. These people are treasonous and you know what the sentence is for treason. Just ask the Rosenbergs who are pushing up daisies.
The woman has long and powerful tentacles in the DEM Agenda
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/22/the-law-should-treat-domestic-terror-as-the-equivalent-of-international-terror/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/22/the-law-should-treat-domestic-terror-as-the-equivalent-of-international-terror/
This was a really excellent article by the CTH. The corruption of Wash DC is beyond words.
Something about Mary and it ain’t good.
Every time the music stops we realize there are more chairs and none of the deep state ever leaves the game.
Interesting read.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/2021/10/01/a-company-family-the-untold-history-of-obama-and-the-cia/
Thanks for that link.
“Obama in his writings omits the fact that his work as a community organizer was for the Gamaliel Foundation, a satellite of his mother’s old employer the Ford Foundation, whose underlying aim was to prevent class solidarity and the revival of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s inter-racial poor people’s movement”
Tells you all you need to know about obama.
His family’s working for the CIA was not too much of a surprise and it was most likely the CIA that sponsored him thru third-party lockouts.
Reading this reminded me of when Hillary Rodham was fired by a DC law firm for destroying evidence from the national archives. As she was carrying her box of personal possessions out the door she hollered over her shoulder: “I’ll be back! I just met a man in Arkansas and he is going to be president.”
How did she know? Hillary was not only the daughter of one of the two gangsters who took over the Chicago Mob when Al Capone went to prison, but Bill Clinton was CIA.
The lesson is that the CIA has been running our government for at least half of the 70 years of my life, and most likely since they murdered JFK.
The CIA is most likely a sponsor of Dominion and Smartmatic. They are banned from interfering with USA domestic policy but do so covertly thru people like obama, the Clintons, the Donilon family, and Soros.
Its is pretty easy to see right here by SD, that the real domestic terrorist is not you, me or the parent next door, but a cabal of DC swamp rats that keep poking their heads up with each layer of corrupt ass covering. Domestic Terrorism is alive and well in the US – and these are the culprits – great job SD. Mary McCord needs to be awarded for her fine work in this ordeal, perhaps an invitation from John Durham to appear before a Grand Jury would be my nomination!
God Bless America, what’s left of it.
Typical secular progressive leftist liberal guilt projection…….nothing new……whatever they label you or blame you of is exactly what they’re doing.
Lesko Brandon FJB
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LOCK HER UP! ALL OF THEM GUILTY!
So far, Durham is conducting classical communist party purge of those deemed enemies of the REGIME (not the State).
The real President Trump, was an outsider who came to an immeasurably corrupt Washington. The never ending obstruction of his agenda to make this country number one, was very telling. The voter fraud that occurred last November, has enabled democrats to show their true colors. They are no longer hiding their intent. What is happening at this point in time is quite remarkable. Democrats as a whole are exposing their destructive ideology and people are seeing it. The criminal element of the democrat party is in full display. And they’re not even trying to hide it.
Add in the complicit Republicans and there are truly only a handful of patriots in office
Whew, typical “circular flustercluck” of gov-agent scum-sucking/grifting “D[e]C[eit] Turd-Pond Sludge Slugs/Dregs”. Best way to serve them w/ some life-long retribution w/OUT having to FUND their imprisonment is . . . freeze ALL their financial accounts and seize/return to the Treasury ALL their “ill-gotten gain”/assets to date. Revoke their BAR-fly licenses and BAN such parasites from any further gov-agency activity for the remainder of their pathetic, CRIMINAL “existences”.
I know one thing for sure. If there is a full blown insurrection, at the end there can not and will not be a reconciliation like there was at the end of the Civil War. At the bare minimum they all will have to be shown the door
Communist China will be glad to take their fellow commies
Not really, they know they can’t be trusted.
Every Republican running for office needs to target Mary McCord. Make it a household name. Do that for all the key players. That is how the tables get turned. Names, key events, show the fraud. And pile on the Covid insanity. People will accept the truth about the corruption now that they have started playing self defense for themselves and their families.
The American people are the target. Trump was just in the way.
Durham might be playing a game, not sure, but probably. Barr was playing a game. This is all a game to these people. They are not interested in Justice. It’s how to do we F&*K the next guy while we are still in office.
THAT IS a problem. The last two wannabe presidents Obama & Clinton turned the system against the will of the people. They tried to commit a coupe de ta, I would say they did. They limited the ability of the POTUS to do his job, meanwhile, we have a freaking moron pretending to run the country.
Yet the people have no standing in the courts? It looks to me as if the system as taken over and We the People have not control. It is written in our founding documents that once this happens it is time to shed the government and begin anew.
IT IS TIME.
“When in the course of human events…”?
What matters to me first and foremost at this point is the discovery of truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Anything else that Durham accomplishes in a courtroom is a bonus.
I do not care if everyone walks free, provided they truthfully tell their roles and provide evidence that prove truth.
The history matters to provide the roadmap of misconduct and where checks and balances failed to stop or timely discover the fraud perpetrated on the citizenry.
Durham might only be able to provide information due to being surrounded by corruption and if he attempts too much Biden’s handlers will have Garland shut him down. There’s speculation that’s why his indictment was so lengthy for the charges being outlined. I agree with “Anything else that Durham accomplishes in a courtroom is a bonus”. I’m as frustrated as anyone that justice will not be accomplished which means the demise of our nation.
It is always the same corrupt people that are recycled in & out of various gubmint agencies again & again.
It would be the very definition of insanity to expect different results with the Durham investigation.
In addition to McCord, now that Danchenko has been formally charged, other names that keep going around in my head are Hill, McMaster, and John Kerry. They all had to have known and have been part of this considering when it all started. This was an intelligence (a.k.a. 4th branch) operation that ran through various Departments and Agencies including DOJ and DOState. Many actors in the State Dept. had to be fully in on this as well.
Durham is just trying to make it look like he is doing something. I have no faith at all in Durham.
Why wouldn’t he just retire ? He’s past retirement age.
This timing can’t be a coincidence, but someone help me connect the dots:
Washington, DC—September 17, 2021—The Atlantic Council announced today that Mary McCord, Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, will serve as a nonresident senior fellow. McCord previously served as Acting US Assistant Attorney General for National Security from 2016 to 2017 and as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security from 2014 to 2016. She will play a leading role in advancing the Atlantic Council’s work on countering domestic violent extremism, terrorism, national security, and litigation.
“Mary McCord has unparalleled experience in national security law and practice, and she will make an immediate impact advancing the Atlantic Council’s leading work on counterterrorism at home and abroad,” said Thomas Warrick, Atlantic Council nonresident senior fellow and director of the Council’s Future of DHS Project. “The Atlantic Council’s growing body of work on this issue sharply examines the role of partnerships between governments and within the United States, including with all levels of government and the private sector—each of which plays vital roles in addressing today’s terrorism threats.”
“It’s an honor to join the bipartisan team of national security and foreign policy experts at the Atlantic Council,” said McCord. “The deep experience at the Council is well suited to address the ever-evolving threats to our security and our democracy, and I look forward to contributing to its mission.”
The Atlantic Council’s Future of Counterterrorism work seeks to overhaul the United States’ efforts against today’s and tomorrow’s terrorist threats. Much has changed since September 11, 2001. The United States needs urgently to re-set many of its fundamental assumptions and to refresh its laws, priorities, and approaches.
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/press-releases/mary-mccord-former-acting-assistant-attorney-general-for-national-security-joins-the-atlantic-council-as-nonresident-senior-fellow/
McCord is also Executive Director at ICAP, a Lawfare aligned political activist operation run by ex-Obama DOJ attorneys, working to advance the Obama/Holder DOJ agenda.
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-team/
“At the heart of the Institute is its litigation work. The courts remain a critical venue in which constitutional claims can be vindicated, and the Institute uses that venue by bringing its own constitutional challenges, working with partners to do so, filing amicus briefs, and supporting others’ efforts to litigate on behalf of constitutional rights and values. In an era when constitutional discourse, including in the context of litigation, tends to be politically polarized, the Institute offers vital understandings of the Constitution and its protections that draw on scholarship and a wide range of practical experience, including extensive service in the Federal Government.”
https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/our-team/
Busy girl!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheldon-snook-a4750513
Chief Judge at Federal Judiciary
Okay, but what does anyone expect to come of this? If Durham was even getting close to indicting any of the involved Obama Administration appointees he would either be immediately shut down or would just die in a timely way. We will have to beat these people at the polls and that means our entire focus has to be on how to get fair elections. I am not seeing this happening, either. FUBAR
Laura Ingraham is close friends with Mary McCord. I believe Georgetown classmates. Sunlight on her has blockers.
Maybe…Don’t seem to have a lot in common from my observations…lot of my classmates I can’t stand…
I don’t see how any of this even matters now. The PTB already knew the Russian collusion charge was all a lie from the very beginning. The mission was to get rid of Trump and this was part of it. Mission accomplished. Now they will throw a few lower level people under the bus but nothing will ever happen to Hillary, who is ultimately the one responsible for the entire fiasco. And if Trump runs again, they will make up something else to attack him with 24/7, including the old favorites like blaming every single China virus death on him again. Lather, rinse, repeat. This will not end in my lifetime.
They are so petrified of our Lion…everyday there is a negative article coming out of NY/DC about him…
He is a total mind…F of the libs…still. Ha…in their face…
Sort of. But he is trying to mess with them from a position of being exiled. As long as PDJT is out of office, they don’t need to panic about what he says. They just panic because all Communists are paranoid about losing the power struggle and ending up back in the shadows, where they belong.
“Government Lawyers” like Carlin and Mchord and their accomplices in Washington, DC SUCCESSFULLY DESTROYED President Trump.
We the People paid these double-crossing Government lawyers; but, We the People also pay Durham.
Checks and Balances are necessary under our Constitution and snakes like these goverment-losers must face the music that Durham composes…and would that it be his Magnum Opus.
This post is an absolutely devastating indictment of Mary McCord and her co-conspirators. Very concise and easy to understand. Durham isn’t stupid. He knows even an independent counsel can be destroyed by these deep state creeps. No way is Durham going that high up the food chain . All they have to do is implant kiddie porn on his computer/phone, whatever and then raid his home or office with the usual blitzkrieg. They could even say he’s a Russian agent and the Presstitutes would run with that, they are that brazen.
The approach seems to be to put a firewall around the Government’s illegal actions, and focus on the people who ultimately perpetrated the fraud: Hillary Clinton’s campaign and her surrogates.
The fun part is that in the IG reports, it is made clear that Clinton knew about Steele and what he was doing.
The sad part is the FBI appears to be set up as the patsy: “We would NEVER have done this had those mean old Clinton people told us the truth about who they were working for!” No sane person believes that, but these are not sane times.
The thing working against McCord is that IIRC she was a FusionGPS contractor, not a government employee, when a lot of the fraud was initiated. That’s in Nunes’ book…that she was the caretaker of what he called “the protodossier”.
Working in her favor? She seems to have wormed her way into the orbits of powerful people who need her to keep quiet.
Correction, that was Nellie Ohr, not McCord. Senior moment.
The Washington bureaucracy has no fear of the voters and their criminality is of little concern for perpetrators. Perhaps better said it is little more than an annoyance and righteousness has no bearing on the outcome.
Why should MAGA at this point put any trust in Barr/Durham at all? Unless it was part of the Secret Plan that they – for unfathomable reasons – were not to indict anyone while President Trump was in office…???
If the Ringleaders go free (and Miss Deplorable Basket, Lightbringer, and their Fourth Branch masters most absolutely certainly will go free) then catching a small fry or two has no meaning at all.
Hang them ALL. Every single one of these subversives. Every single one of the co-conspirators.
David Herold
Lewis Powell
Mary Suratt
George Atzerodt
These are the co-conspirators who were hung … in addition to the slaying of John Wilkes Booth.
We have done this before for a Presidential assassination … and make no mistake … Hillary and HER co-conspirators effectively attempted the assassination of PDJT. Only because of PDJT’s personal strength and push-back did he accomplish as much as he did. But he could have and would have done so much more.
Wow!
You can count the people I trust in D.C. on one hand. None of them work for FBI or DOJ or other Deep State acronyms.
Justice Clarence Thomas is one name that comes to mind as one of the VERY few that can be trusted.
Durham’s not going to look anywhere in the DOJ. He wants to stay alive.
her husband works for Chief of Federal Judiciary
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheldon-snook-a4750513
For me to believe that Durham is not just as utterly corrupt as all the other DC dwellers would down right stupid of me.
I expect nothing from this clown show, a distraction at best.
Like Father, like Daughter…
Nothing will happen…wasted my time reading this article!
I saw an interesting point made on another website. Durham now has three people by the short hairs with interesting perspectives to share:
Inside the FBI/Strzok: Clinesmith
Inside the Clinton Campaign/Perkins Coie: Sussman
Inside Fusion/GPS/Steele: Danchenko
I thought that was a good insight.
Not sure where to put this, cuz I haven’t been following this very closely, but…. maybe related?
Think
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does Mary McCord’s husband work for Federal Chief of Judiciary
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheldon-snook-a4750513
Sorry for all who have not yet figured out that the entire government is a cover for a massive crime spree by pedophiles and satanists, hell-bent, on taking everything you thought you ever owned.
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Egads.
Nothing will come of any of this. Just another waste of DC time because the left wing fool we have for an AG will never pursue any of this.
If you want a better America with less corruption never vote for a socialist democrat. Their policies are failures.