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angrybell · 2 years ago

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So here’s some of the article:

The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump’s handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation of the bureau’s alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump.

The FBI’s nine-hour, 30-agent raid of the former president’s Florida estate is part of a counterintelligence case run out of Washington—not Miami, as has been widely reported—according to FBI case documents and sources with knowledge of the matter. The bureau’s counterintelligence division led the 2016–2017 Russia “collusion” investigation of Trump, codenamed “Crossfire Hurricane.”

Although the former head of Crossfire Hurricane, Peter Strzok, was fired after the disclosure of his vitriolic anti-Trump tweets, several members of his team remain working in the counterintelligence unit, the sources say, even though they are under active investigation by both Durham and the bureau’s disciplinary arm, the Office of Professional Responsibility. The FBI declined to respond to questions about any role they may be taking in the Mar-a-Lago case.

In addition, a key member of the Crossfire team—Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten—has continued to be involved in politically sensitive investigations, including the ongoing federal probe of potentially incriminating content found on the abandoned laptop of President Biden’s son Hunter Biden, according to recent correspondence between the Senate Judiciary Committee and FBI Director Christopher Wray. FBI whistleblowers have alleged that Auten tried to falsely discredit derogatory evidence against Hunter Biden during the 2020 campaign by labeling it Russian “disinformation,” an assessment that caused investigative activity to cease.

Auten has been allowed to work on sensitive cases even though he has been under internal investigation since 2019, when Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz referred him for disciplinary review for his role in vetting a Hillary Clinton campaign-funded dossier used by the FBI to obtain a series of wiretap warrants to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Horowitz singled out Auten for cutting a number of corners in the verification process and even allowing information he knew to be incorrect slip into warrant affidavits and mislead the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court.

Amazing how this basically the same group that pushed the Russia Hoax in collusion with the media.

This is just another exhibit why the FBI needs to be disbanded.

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beardedmrbean · 3 years ago

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A writer for Slate submitted the draft of a story in 2016 about Donald Trump and Russia to members of Fusion GPS, the research firm hired by the Hillary Clinton campaign to investigate her Republican rival, asking them for edits, according to a publicly filed exhibit in the U.S. case against Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann.

Franklin Foer sent the story, labeled "Manchuriancandidate.foer" in an attachment, to Fusion's Peter Fritsch and Jake Berkowitz, according to one of the emails that was inadvertently publicly filed by Special Counsel John Durham as an exhibit to a motion this week. The exhibit containing some of the Fusion GPS emails to reporters was unredacted for a time before being sealed again by Tuesday, according to the Washington Examiner.

According to an email on June 28, 2016, Foer wrote, "I handed in a draft of the piece--here's a copy. It's not all edited, so forgive all the rawness. I have no idea what my editor will say. But can you guys scan it for omissions and errors? And obviously keep it to yourselves. (Also promise me that you won't use it as a prod to the competition, whoever they are now.) Thank you for all your help."

Shortly after, Fritsch replied, "your editor should say it's great…jake and i will read more closely and make some suggestions."

ABC'S JONATHAN KARL: THE MEDIA ‘UNFORTUNATELY’ PLAYED RIGHT INTO CLAIMS IT WAS THE ‘OPPOSITION PARTY’ TO TRUMP

It's not clear which story Foer submitted, although the next one published on Slate after he sent the message was a July 4, 2016 piece headlined "Putin’s Puppet," with the subheading, "If the Russian president could design a candidate to undermine American interests—and advance his own—he’d look a lot like Donald Trump." A separate Foer piece published July 27 was headlined, "Donald Trump Isn’t a Manchurian Candidate," arguing Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were using one another.

The law firm Perkins Coie had hired Fusion GPS on behalf of Clinton attorney Marc Elias. That eventually led to the commissioning of the infamous Christopher Steele dossier containing salacious, uncorroborated accusations of collusion between Trump and Russia. Sussmann was indicted last year by Durham for allegedly hiding his Clinton campaign affiliation from the FBI while pushing for an investigation into Trump's ties to Russia.

The Durham probe has exposed sources and funders of Steele's dossier revealed to be partisan Democrats, and members of the Democratic-backed Fusion GPS urging reporters to publish the collusion rumors. A separate indictment last year by Durham of Steele sub-source Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst at the Brookings Institution, for allegedly lying to the FBI revealed one of his sources of information on Trump and Russia was longtime Democratic spin doctor Charles Dolan.

Foer didn't reply to a request for comment, nor did Julia Turner, who was editor-in-chief of Slate at that point before later joining the Los Angeles Times.

DURHAM SAYS CIA FOUND DATA ALLEGING TRUMP-RUSSIA CONNECTION NOT ‘TECHNICALLY PLAUSIBLE,’ WAS ‘USER CREATED’

"What I want to make very clear is the very basic journalistic best practice and principle of not sharing drafts of stories with the people and institutions we cover is a standard we ascribe to," Slate spokesperson Katie Rayford, who wasn't with the outlet in 2016, told Fox News Digital.

Foer came under bipartisan criticism from journalists after the email came to light, with Noah Shachtman and Mollie Hemingway, respectively the editors of Rolling Stone and The Federalist, offering their opinions on Twitter.

"That is ... not at all how this is supposed to work, particularly on sensitive stories. Just plain wrong," Shachtman wrote.

"Grave, grave journalistic no-no," Hemingway tweeted. "But for a propagandist participating in a hoax, probably standard operating procedure. And it's not the only time he's been caught doing it with Fusion on a Russia collusion hoax story."

Hemingway appeared to be referring to when Foer, a former editor of The New Republic, sent Fusion a portion of a separate story before publication in 2016.

Last year, he admitted to the Washington Post he was the unnamed journalist, in a federal grand jury indictment of Sussmann, who submitted part of a piece to Fusion GPS the day before it was published on Oct. 31, 2016. The article was published a week before the election, about unproven allegations that a Kremlin-linked bank was in secret communication with a Trump Organization server, headlined, "Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?"

The June 2016 email, highlighted in The Reactionary Substack from Techno Fog, is part of a legal filing on Monday from Durham, who has been investigating the roots of the sprawling Russia investigation. Responding to efforts by Hillary for America [HFA] and Fusion GPS to withhold some communications under the claim of attorney-client privilege, he argued that Fusion GPS's blatant sharing of raw, uncorroborated material with reporters around the media belied the idea put forward by Elias that Fusion GPS was acting as a confidential legal adviser. Durham cited having "hundreds" of emails between Fusion GPS and journalists to prove his point.

"…these parties are advancing a highly novel, and seemingly broad, theory of attorney-client privilege, namely, that Fusion GPS’s political opposition research – which triggered a sizeable [sic] outflow of unverified derogatory information into the media, the government, and the public – was, in reality, confidential expert work intended to support legal advice regarding libel and defamation," the filing stated.

NEW YORK TIMES PODCAST: STEELE DOSSIER ‘PROFOUNDLY FLAWED,' SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAD IMPACT IT DID

"As an initial matter, if Fusion GPS’s work product was, in fact, intended primarily to support ‘legal advice’ about how to avoid liability for 'defamation, libel, and similar laws,' one would expect contemporaneous emails and documents to reflect that Fusion GPS and/or its clients exercised some degree of caution and care before publicizing unverified or potentially inflammatory materials," it went on. "Moreover, if rendering such advice was truly the intended purpose of Fusion GPS’s retention, one would also expect the investigative firm to seek permission and/or guidance from HFA or its counsel before sharing such derogatory materials with the media or otherwise placing them into the public domain."

The Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign agreed last month to pay the Federal Election Commission fines over complaints they violated federal law in improperly describing expenditures to Perkins Coie. As part of the agreements, the DNC agreed to pay a civil penalty of $105,000, and the Clinton campaign agreed to pay $8,000.

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jerseydeanne · 3 years ago

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Oh help us God

AP: “US expects Russia to invade Ukraine next week” ———Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha (deep breath) ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. … Putin took Crimea when? RIGHT, in 2014. Who was in the office back then? Right, Obama/Biden. Putin was supposed to be in charge on the WH between 2016 and 2020. (I’m old enough to remember Russian collusion, Russian collusion! According to the main liberal idiot and fake news promoter Racheal Maddow, Putin had a devastating dossier on Trump LOL) And yet, he decided to wait until the demented old moron, who was supposed to be an adult in the room and knew how the handle “dictators”, takes the office. Now the same “adults in the room” are screaming out laud “Russian invasion!! Russian invasion!!” Do you know the difference between Obama and the demented perv.? Obama was not never smarter than Putin. Putin did take Crimea (which used to be the Russian territory, by the way) under Obama’s watch, but Obama was right when he said “We have no vital interest in Ukraine. We won’t be fighting there …” We were lucky then because Biden was just VP. Now on the top of his incompetency and stupidity, he is a senile old fool that hardly knows which planet he’s on.

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americanmysticom · 4 years ago

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[PRESIDENTIAL ALERT!] NATIONS IN ACTION

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[NEW AFFIDAVIT OF VERIFIED ELECTION FRAUD VIA LEONARDO SpA GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR CYBER UPLOAD BY FOREIGN POWERS] America, Can We Talk? for January 6th, 2021

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06 JAN ITALIAN INTRIGUE IN THE STOLEN ELECTION OF 2020

Since Election Night, the 64 trillion dollar, still-unanswered question is: how did it happen that five swing states stopped vote counting at the same time? It is the sine qua non of the stolen election—the most egregious criminal act in American and maybe world history—and it is utterly unbelievable as a mere coincidence. Two key questions are who orchestrated it, and how.

A story has begun emerging on the internet which has a ring of truth to it. It is one explanation that plausibly lays out a central coordinating/execution role that could have engineered the technical shutdown of vote-counting and subsequent adjustment of tabulation algorithms sufficient to deliver the ‘victory’ to Joe Biden.

The pieces involve Obama-friendly Italian leftists, Dominion Voting Systems, and satellite communications capabilities within the Italian military-industrial complex.

The story is so potentially explosive, it might even pave the way to compel the US House and Senate to set aside even a January 6th rubber stamp of the Electoral College vote for Biden. (At this writing, the January 6th action of the House and Senate is not yet known).

The history of Barack Obama’s outreach to politically sympatico Italian leaders is not a secret; Obama’s last state dinner as President hosted the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, and about four months after Trump took office, Obama visited Italy to meet with then former Prime Minister Renzi.

There have been more detailed rumblings during the past four years ago of Italian involvement in the creation and sustaining of the Russia collusion hoax against Trump. Remember the name Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese ‘professor’ long ‘disappeared’ in Italy during the Mueller investigation, who was central to the apparent framing of George Papadopoulos as the ‘source’ for Trump’s supposed efforts to get Hillary’s emails from the Russians? Remember the firing of four top Italian intelligence officials after a conversation between President Trump and a successor to Renzi—Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte?

The story now emerging in Italian media and social media is that there may be some significant overlap in the Italian cast of characters in Coup #1 (the Russia collusion hoax) and the election fraud coup. The name of the Italian defense contractor Leonardo has surfaced with reference to its military satellite communications capability.

Is there proof of unusual satellite communication activity on November 3rd that involve Italian satellites and Frankfurt servers and US voting machines? What is the nature of that proof? Where does it reside? Who controls it? Can it be produced in evidentiary form? Those are the questions.

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The fact that not even President Trump has been talking about this is a point that skeptics would immediately and fairly make to discredit the story.

But a refusal or obstruction by CIA Director Gina Haspel (protégé of John Brennan and Brennan’s CIA station chief in London during the setup of the Russia collusion hoax) to share with President Trump what the CIA knows is both believable and consistent with the still-delayed DNI report to the President that was due December 18, 2020, and could also be the reason why President Trump has held off talking about it publicly.

The extraordinarily dangerous reality for America is that very likely President Trump doesn’t know which individuals and which if any of the alphabet agencies he can trust. The FBI and DOJ have been indefensibly invisible in the investigation of the election fraud and suspiciously slow to act on the John Durham investigation of the Deep State’s actions during the Russia collusion hoax.

The Catch 22 of this so-far apparently private investigation and inquiry is the inability to access the legal authority to impound equipment, interrogate witnesses and make arrests in order to get past theories into evidence and proof, while critics and skeptics condemn and scoff at theories because of their relative absence of evidence and proof.

We don’t claim to know, and have no way of finding out, answers to any of the key questions, and do not intend to make or imply a specific accusation of election fraud or any other election-related wrongdoing on the part of anyone, Italian or otherwise.

But the truth as to the simultaneous five swing state vote-counting shutdown is very likely the linchpin to understanding and exposing the full scope of the multi-headed, foreign and domestic globalist monster that orchestrated the massive election fraud of 2020. Because of the extremely high importance of discovering and exposing that linchpin, the bar for launching an investigation of any reasonable explanation of it ought to be low. In our view, the Italian story clears that low bar.

Maybe there is no explanation of the five-state shutdown beyond the one-in-a-billion-or-so chance of it being a random occurrence. But there is a clear groundwork of reasonable suspicion in this Italian story.

It would be great if the American people still believed the USA has intelligence and law enforcement services that can be trusted to pursue reasonable investigative leads and be truthful about reporting their findings…because of their sworn duty to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But faith in those agencies has been gravely wounded during the last four years, and this ‘Italian Job’ story offers them an opportunity to robustly investigate and restore trust, or not.

Let’s see what happens.

Eric Georgatos blogs at America Can We Talk?

https://acwtsite.wpengine.com/italian-intrigue-in-the-stolen-election-of-2020/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aVDmIahSeM&t=200s&ab_channel=AmericaCanWeTalk%3F

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phroyd · 6 years ago

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Trump Moves To Create and Sustain an Imperial Presidency. There are no longer three Branches of Government. - Phroyd

William Barr, the attorney general, came face to face this week with Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, at the Capitol in Washington. Shaking her hand, Barr was said to have joked:“Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?”

The remark, at a ceremony honouring fallen law enforcement officers, was a riposte to Pelosi’s quip a week earlier that if all members of the Trump administration were arrested, the jail in the Capitol basement would be overcrowded. (There is in fact no such jail.)

But it was also indicative of how Barr, and his paymaster in the White House, are perceived to be laughing in the face of congressional oversight and the rule of law. Indeed, following the sporting maxim that attack is the best form of defence, Trump had adopted the language of a tinpot dictator, denouncing the Russia investigation as a failed “coup”, branding his pursuers as traitors and threatening to lock them up.

“My Campaign for President was conclusively spied on,” he tweeted at 7.11am on Friday. “Nothing like this has ever happened in American Politics. A really bad situation. TREASON means long jail sentences, and this was TREASON!”

He’s attempting to create a counter-narrative based on conspiracy theories in which the FBI is cast as the villain

The intention, critics argue, is to turn the tables and delegitimise the case laid out against him in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference, or at least crank up a giant fog machine that leaves the electorate weary and confused. But one side-effect could be a slide into an imperial presidency.

“Investigate the investigators!” has been the battle cry of Trump, Republicans and media allies ever since Barr produced a four-page summary of Mueller’s report that misleadingly implied Trump had been completely cleared of collusion and obstruction of justice. In fact the report documented numerous contacts between Trump’s campaign and Russian officials and identified 11 instances in which Trump or his campaign attempted to illegally impede the investigation.

On 25 March, the day after Barr’s letter was released, the Fox News host Sean Hannity bristled with self-righteous indignation and thirsted for vengeance.

“This must be a day of reckoning for the media, for the deep state, for people who abuse power, and they did it so blatantly in this country,” he told viewers in a furious 25-minute monologue. “If we do not get this right, if we do not hold these people accountable, I promise you, with all the love I can muster for this country and our future for our kids and grandkids, we will lose the greatest country God has ever given man. We will lose it.”

That set the template for Trump, a regular viewer. Having spent two years trying to discredit Mueller’s work as a witch-hunt and hoax, he stepped up demands for an investigation into its origins and pushed the claim that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign.

Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, said: “He’s attempting to create a counter-narrative based on conspiracy theories in which the FBI chiefly is cast as the villain of the deep state. It’s what is known as chaff. It’s to throw people off of the actual object itself and distract them from his well-documented crimes of obstruction of justice in the Mueller report.”

Trump is backed by Republicans, eager to grab ammunition that comes to hand. They have falsely claimed the investigation was triggered by a dossierfrom the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, which included reference to a so-called “pee tape” in Moscow, and cited anti-Trump text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to allege inherent bias.

But it is Barr who has emerged as the president’s most indispensable ally, his improbable Darth Vader. Testifying on Capitol Hill earlier this month, the attorney general used the incendiary word “spying” to describe FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign, a term later rejected by the FBI director, Christopher Wray.

Barr has asked John Durham, the US attorney in Connecticut, to examine whether the FBI erred in seeking a special federal court warrant to conduct surveillance on the former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. An investigation into the legality of the warrant is already under way, led by the justice department inspector general, Michael Horowitz, who is due to release his findings in coming weeks.

Barr is also working with Wray, the CIA director, Gina Haspel, and the director of national intelligence, Dan Coats, to review intelligence-gathering techniques used to investigate the Trump campaign. In the meantime, ever loyal to Trump, Barr continues to defy Congress’s demands for the release of the unredacted Mueller report and underlying materials.

Democrats sense a crude ploy by Trump to deflect and distract, parry and prevaricate. Congressman Jared Huffman of California said: “It’s a smokescreen, obviously an attempt to change the subject like everything else he does. I almost don’t want to dignify it because it’s so preposterous that any time someone investigates Donald Trump or disagrees with Donald Trump they are being treasonous or they need to be locked up.

“This is a slippery slope to a banana republic if this is where we’re heading. And I think most Americans get that. You just don’t call for your political enemies to be investigated and jailed in the United States.”

Huffman called for an impeachment process and hearings.

“If [Richard] Nixon was the imperial presidency, this is the imperial presidency on steroids without any sideboards or adult supervision of any kind,” he said. “It’s a real crisis. I still believe we’re going to get through it because I think the institutions and the fabric of this country are still rooted in the rule of law and democracy and checks and balances, but we’re being tested like never before and I would be lying if I said I didn’t worry about it.”

‘Trumpification of the DoJ’

One of the rich ironies of Republican claims of bias in the FBI is that during the election the agency kept its Trump investigation secret but talked openly about its scrutiny of his opponent, Hillary Clinton. The then director, James Comey, held an extraordinary press conference in which he branded Clinton’s handling of emails as secretary of state as “extremely careless”. Eleven days before the election, Comey announced the FBI was reviewing more Clinton messages. Many Democrats have still not forgiven him.

Barr says Trump’s campaign was ‘spied’ upon. Trump claims treason. Both are incendiary. Neither is true

Adam Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee, tweeted on Friday: “Barr says Trump’s campaign was ‘spied’ upon. Trump claims treason. Both are incendiary. Neither is true. Barr suggests a finger was put on the scale to affect the election. But the Trump probe was kept secret; the Clinton one wasn’t. It’s the Trumpification of the DoJ.”

Matthew Miller, former director of the office of public affairs for the justice department, said: “There are a few galling things. First, it would have been crazy for the FBI not to investigate [Trump’s] campaign given what Mueller found. Second, it would have been very easy for the FBI to stop Trump becoming president if that was their intention by leaking what they found. Third, the FBI publicly criticised his opponent: the FBI did have an impact but it was to hurt Hillary Clinton, not Donald Trump!”

Miller, now a partner at Vianovo and justice and security analyst for MSNBC, added: “It’s a brazenly cynical strategy by the president and his allies. He hasn’t had a great explanation for what he did so what he’s done for two years is attack the investigation.

“The notion has existed since Watergate that there should be a separation between the White House and Department of Justice. It’s been erased. It’s just gone. It will probably come back when there’s a Democratic president, because they tend to be more sensitive to elite opinion, but the next Republican president will [not] see any reason to restore it.”

Just as the justice department is succumbing to Trump, so Congress is also struggling to maintain its status as a co-equal branch of government. The White House continues to stonewall House subpoenas for documents and hearings, not only regarding the Mueller report but Trump’s tax returns and other matters. The Democratic-led House judiciary committee has voted to hold Barr in contempt of Congress but the party is divided over whether to impeach his boss.

Max Bergmann, a former state department official, said: “We’re seeing an effort by the president to neutralise this as an issue for the 2020 election. He sees a gap because the Democrats have shown reticence in their willingness to prosecute the case against him. We have a situation where there is a vacuum and Trump sees an opportunity to attack the investigation, partly because Democrats aren’t using the results of it to attack him.

“The problem with not using the levers of congressional power is that it lends credence to the arguments Trump has been making. In the public’s mind, it might seem that because Trump is not being impeached, maybe he was exonerated. What is amazing about the Republican side is the ability to manufacture outrage over nothing; they eat, sleep and breathe scandal politics. Democrats are terrified of it and and run from it, even when it’s the biggest political scandal in American history. The inaction over the last four weeks has been unconscionable.”

‘We’ve crossed a Rubicon’

It was perhaps no coincidence that Trump hosted Viktor Orbán, strongman leader of Hungary, at the White House this week.

Bergmann, now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress think-tank in Washington, and director of the Moscow Project, charting Trump’s involvement in Russian attacks on US democracy, said: “We’ve crossed a Rubicon. For the past two years, Trump has not been able to use the justice department to seek revenge against his opponents and as a political tool.

“Now he and his team have learned, and Trump has appointed someone in Barr who is a Washington insider, knows the justice department and is able to operate as the president’s hatchet man. For the past two years, we’ve said the institutions have held. Now we’re at a critical pivot where Trump has learned how to use the institutions to his advantage.

“It’s a dark turn. With the decline of our institutions, the decline of our moral authority, Trump is trying to turn the the moniker of an ‘imperial presidency’ into an autocratic presidency along the lines of Viktor Orbán or Vladimir Putin.

“The stakes couldn’t be higher for the future of American democracy in 2020.”

Phroyd

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