The Mueller witch hunt has ended with no indictments or recommendation
for indictments based on the fiction President Trump and his campaign colluded
with the Russian government to win the 2016 election (summarized by Attorney General William Barr).
So, now what?
If the Left Stream Media and Dem comments are any indication,
the Leftist Deep State intends to continue the attempt to frame President Trump
with any manufactured crime that can be invented.
If you are a Conservative as I am (I no longer claim
allegiance to the GOP due to the obstruction and apparent power of
Establishment Republicans) it has to be time for, as my Grandma used to say, A TIT-FOR-TAT on the Left. INVESTIGATE
THESE CORRUPTERS OF THE CONSTITUTION WITH A ATTEMPTED COUP!
I am not surprised with the theories the whole
Trump-take-down schemes were manufactured because of the Leftist-Dems disbelief
the majority of States’ (Electoral Collegewisdom) voters understood nominee Hillary Clinton was
crooked.
The narrative that eventually spawned the Mueller
investigation was concocted in a gloomy room littered with discarded Shake
Shack containers in November 2016. Even though Hillary Clinton had
delivered a concession speech the day before, Clinton and her team were not
ready to give up yet, and so they needed a strategy to de-legitimize the
election results. They eventually decided on a plan to “blame Russia” for
Hillary’s loss, and that included really pushing a narrative that the Trump
campaign had colluded with the Russians to defeat Clinton. As this plan
was rolled out, this narrative was eagerly embraced by pro-Clinton members of
federal law enforcement agencies, and it ultimately resulted in the 675 day
Mueller investigation. Robert Mueller issued nearly 2,800 subpoenas and
conducted 500 witness interviews, and in the end he found that there was no
collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians…
“The investigation did not
establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the
Russian government in its election interference activities,” Mueller
wrote in the report, according to Barr’s letter, which he sent to the chairmen
and ranking members of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
Barr also said that the special
counsel, which consisted of 19 lawyers, found no evidence “that any U.S. person
or Trump campaign official or associate” conspired or “knowingly coordinated”
with Russian efforts to use social media platforms to spread disinformation
during the 2016 campaign. Nor did Trump associates conspire with Russians in
the efforts to hack Democrats’ emails and disseminate them online.
Of course there wasn’t any collusion, because it was just a
made up story by the Clinton campaign team that snowballed out of control.
Needless to say, President Trump is absolutely thrilled by
the outcome of the investigation, and now he is calling on law enforcement to “look
at the other side”…
“It’s a shame that our country
had to go through this. To be honest it’s a shame that your president had to go
through this for – before I even got elected, it began. And it began
illegally. And hopefully somebody is gonna look at the other side. This was an
illegal takedown that failed, and hopefully somebody is going to be looking at
the other side.”
In an interview with
Fox News, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani went even further. He
called for “a full and complete investigation” to figure out where the charges
that sparked the Mueller investigation originally came from in the first place…
“There has to be a full and
complete investigation, with at least as much enthusiasm as this one, to figure
out where did this charge emanate, who started it, who paid for it.”
But we don’t need an investigation to figure this out.
That strategy had been set within
twenty-four hours of her concession speech. Mook and Podesta assembled her
communications team at the Brooklyn headquarters to engineer the case
that the election wasn’t entirely on the up-and-up. For a couple of hours,
with Shake Shack containers littering the room, they went over the
script they would pitch to the press and the public. Already, Russian hacking
was the centerpiece of the argument.
Obviously they were looking for a way to steal the election
from Trump, but that didn’t work.
But the mainstream media and federal law enforcement
officials that were sympathetic to Clinton latched on to this narrative really
hard, and it ultimately sparked the 675 day Mueller investigation.
This investigation has been an albatross around the neck of
the Trump administration from the very beginning, and things probably could
have gone very differently over the past two years if the focus had not
constantly been on Robert Mueller.
And the damage that has been done to our relationship with
Russia will probably never be repaired. Sadly, it will be a gift that
will keep on giving for a long time to come.
Fortunately, some members of Congress are now calling on the
operatives that initiated these charges against Trump to be held
accountable. For example, check out what U.S. Representative Devin
Nunes is
saying…
“This is the unravelling of the
biggest political scandal in American history…remember, this dates back to late
2015, early 2016 & this began as nothing more/nothing less than a
Clinton/Obama operation with a bunch of dirty cops at the FBI & career DOJ
officials.” –@DevinNunes
BREAKING: Rep. Devin Nunes says
House Intel has evidence Clinton operatives & hi-level FBI & DOJ
officials started Trump-Russia investigation in “late 2015/early 2016” &
that House GOP will be making criminal referrals to AG Barr for
officials who “perpetuated this hoax” for 3+ yrs
It will be extremely interesting to see where all of this
goes.
Meanwhile, all over the nation those on the left that had
been pinning their hopes on the Mueller investigation are now melting down in
unison. I really like how Susan Duclos made this point in her most recent article…
The media meltdown stems from
just one thing…. they helped create a narrative on behalf of Democrats after
President Trump won the 2016 presidential election. They hammered that
narrative, without proof, letting pundits, including a number of former Obama
intelligence officials-turned-television talking heads, push conspiracy
theories and outright libelous and slanderous allegations against the
president, his family and associates, and then they began to believe their own
narrative. When Mueller then ended his operation without indicting anyone close
to the President for any type of collusion, they were caught flatfooted, and
the meltdowns began.
And here is just a sampling of some of the quotes that we
are getting from top Democrats…
I found some interesting thoughts from MLMcCarren relating
Robert Mueller’s so-called Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
MLM goes through the known facts indicating not one
indictment has been handed down pertaining Trump-Collusion. The indictments
that have been handed down are about potential crimes by individuals BEFORE the
November 2016 election and two indictments for gotcha-lying moments possibly
attained by illegal FISA Warrants. The lies had nothing to do with Trump-Russia
collusion (BECAUSE IT DIDN’T HAPPEN), but rather with a couple of guys
covering their butts or mis-recollecting (an excuse Crooked Hillary is fond
of) events as they took place.
Who knows? Maybe the FISA Memo will become public revealing
tons more corruption by FBI and (Obama) DOJ leadership?
I am unsure how much of MLMcCarren’s G+ post is his (I guess
it could be “hers”) or how much is quoted material; nevertheless the sentiment
should alert every red-blooded American.
As per usual, the Progressives, in their desperation to find
something relevant to disparage Trump over, are now making "Much Ado About
Nothing" which stems from the following article ⤵⤵⤵⤵
Trump has “nothing to hide” regarding the Russia investigation
By Michael S. Schmidt and Maggie Haberman
Jan. 25, 2018
Of course the article stated⤵ "They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not
want to be identified discussing a continuing investigation."
...which may be a felony!? What is at the epicenter of the Left attempting to make political hay over
the allegations of Trump trying to dismiss Mueller, is the fact that Trump had
at one time raised the issue about three conflicts of interest that may have disqualified
Mueller from overseeing the investigation:
✔Finally, the president said, Mr. Mueller had
been interviewed to return as the F.B.I. director the day before he was
appointed special counsel in May.
Maybe Donald Trump wanted to fire the special counsel,
Robert Mueller for conflict, maybe he didn't, but does he not have a right to
raise those questions?
The president dismissed the revelations on Friday, when asked about them by
reporters as he arrived at the Congress Center in Davos, Switzerland, for
meetings with world political and business leaders.
But nonetheless, the quickest way to clear the cloud of suspicion is to
cooperate with Mr. Mueller, not to fight him. And there is every indication
that is exactly what president Trump has been doing. The White House has denied
nearly a dozen times since June that Mr. Trump was considering firing Mr.
Mueller.
⭐White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc
Short
said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I’m not aware of the president ever intimating he wanted to fire” special
counsel Robert Mueller.
⭐Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) noted on CNN’s
“State of the Union” that Trump cannot directly fire Mueller. He would have
to pressure deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein to do so.
She said that at a Senate hearing last year, she questioned Rosenstein “at
length on this issue, and he was adamant that he would never give in to any
White House pressure to remove” Mueller.
US taxpayers have spent millions and millions of dollars on investigations
that have not proven any collusion thus far between Russia and Trump’s
presidential campaign. Through it all the White House continues to cooperate in
every manner providing any document the special counsel has asked for. They
have continued to comply fully, which is a far cry from the Obama
administration's conduct!!!
Admittedly Trump is agitated by the unwillingness of the House Intelligence
Committee to release a four-page classified memo that reportedly suggests FBI
officials may have used politically motivated sourcing to justify a request for
a secret surveillance warrant in the Russia probe’s early stages.
I believe the president is more inclined for transparency in this investigation
than being given credit for.
Interestingly enough, Tom Brokaw is a voice of reason in all of this: 🔽Tom Brokaw comments on the alleged
reports that President Trump considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller
last summer.
TOM BROKAW: "They thought that was the right thing to do. That
their base would support them and that the president had a legal grounds for
doing what he did. In this case, in the climate in which we now live, people
move on in a hurry. He didn't fire him. He didn't get close to firing him
because the White House was pushing back and he knew what the response would be
on the Hill. So I think for the country... it's kind of a non-issue now that he
was thinking about firing him six months ago but he did not. I think that they
moved on. I honestly think in the next year there are going to be three big
factors. One is the economy. If it continues to go roar along the way that it
is a lot of people are going to put aside these other concerns that they have
and say, "Enjoy the prosperity." The other one is what does Mueller
find? Do we hear from them this year? And then just down from that, of course,
is what happens with immigration. I think those are the three big factors that
are in play out there for the country. And that's what they're paying attention
to." https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/01/28/tom_brokaw_non-issue_that_trump_considered_firing_mueller_he_didnt_fire_him.html
💡LET'S LOOK AT SOME HISTORY AND FACTS TO SET
THE RECORD STRAIGHT
The appointment came after a growing cry – mostly from Democrats – mounted
for someone outside the Justice Department to handle the probe. Attorney
General Jeff Sessions had already recused himself from the investigation. 💡Has anyone been charged?
👉The Podesta Group was a lobbying and
public affairs firm based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1988 by
brothers John Podesta and Tony Podesta.
John David Podesta Jr. (born January 8, 1949) is an American political consultant
who served as✔White House Chief of Staff
to President Bill Clinton from October 20, 1998 until January 20, 2001 and as✔Counselor to President Barack Obama from January
1, 2014 until February 13, 2015. Before that he served as the ✔White
House Staff Secretary and White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations for
the Clinton Administration between January 20, 1993 until October 20, 1998.
So we see implications tying associates of Hillary Clinton into the
investigation, just like we did with Uranium One
At long last, the Senate Judiciary Committee is probing this. The GOP Congress
finally may hold a hearing on Uranium One. According to Judiciary Committee
chairman Charles Grassley (R., Iowa),▶ “very serious questions remain about the basis for
the finding that this transaction did not threaten to impair US national
security.”
✔The Trump administration heavily criticized
Mueller’s
investigation as several of his attorneys on staff donated to Democratic
campaigns, including to Trump’s 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton.
✔Additionally, two FBI officials – Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page – are under
fire for the anti-Trump text messages they exchanged during the election. Strzok
was part of Mueller’s team but was removed from the probe after the text
messages were revealed.
💡What has Trump said about Mueller’s
investigation?
Trump has oftentimes dismissed the allegations that he colluded with Russia
during his presidential election. He said he is “looking forward” to being
questioned eventually under oath by Mueller.
He’s said the allegations are a “fake story that is demeaning to all of us
and most of all demeaning to our country and demeaning to our Constitution.”
This has turned into a last ditch effort by the Left to undermine the will of
the American people who voted to put Trump in charge of our country!
The fact that the alleged desire of President Trump to dismiss Mueller occurred
six months ago.
Surely if there were any evidence pointing to misconduct on the part of
president Trump, there is every reason to expect it would have been uncovered
by now.
It's time to end this circus sideshow, & for the Democrats to put on their big
boy pants, stop their incessant whining, and accept the fact that Trump is
president and likely will be through 2024!!!
MLMcCarren
______________
Edited by John R. Houk. II used a bit of the old spellcheck tool.
I am stunned that the Leftist MSM has ignored the OBVIOUS discrepancies
in the reports of the D.C. Police (officially the Metropolitan
Police Department or MPD) and FBI on the murder of DNC staffer
Seth Rich! The police are officially calling Rich’s murder a robbery gone wrong.
AND YET Rich’s wad of cash, expensive watch, wallet and credit cards were ALL
found on him. Oh yeah, has anyone mention that even though it is reported Rich
was shot twice in the back he did not die on the scene. Rather Rich was rushed to
the hospital by ambulance quite alive with quite survivable gunshot wounds. AND
YET Seth Rich died mysteriously in the hospital.
WND has the details below which incorporates the reporting
of One
America News Network (OANN). (I find it suspicious that my browser
cannot access ANYTHING to do with OANN. I don’t know if the website is down or
if my Chrome browser is blocking access or if my Internet Provider (Cox
Communications) is blocking access. The only reason I could think of for Cox
blocking access is OANN actually has a news channel on Cox’s competitor Direct
TV. Or is it something even more nefarious? Could Obama-Friendly Government
Intelligent services be involved in blocking OANN? I don’t know, the could be
as simple as the website is down. I simply have a huge mistrust with anything
to do with the American Left and truthfulness these days.)
WASHINGTON – A budding independent TV news company is
jumping into the Seth Rich murder case with both feet today – boosting the
reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slain
Democratic National Committee employee’s killer or killers by an additional
$100,000 and issuing a step-by-step report on why the mysterious death is more
than a “conspiracy theory.”
With the additional reward money, the total amount from
various sources has reached $245,000.
“We want to stress that our only agenda is finding the truth
and that everything we report here is revealing the facts that we’ve uncovered
in our investigation,” said Pearson Sharp in a new One America
News broadcast on the case. OANN is on DirectTV and carried by many
cable providers across the nation.
“Facts,” he emphasized, “and not opinions. And from an
objective standpoint they simply don’t add up.”
Watch the OANN report on the Seth Rich murder case:
[Blog Editor: I can’t find the embed from WND of their
version of the OANN report. I am choosing to not figure out how to find the WND
embed. BUT I have found the exact same video on Youtube courtesy of the Yankee Apocalypse Channel. Rather than posting the video at this
article location as WND, I am posting it at the end of the WND cross post in
order to place the entirety of the description comment from Yankee
Apocalypse.]
One of the first responding
police officers the morning Rich was shot was Robert Wingate Robinson.
OANN reports he was a student at Georgetown University when John Podesta,
Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, was a professor there. His sister, Nandy,
the network reports, worked for the Clinton campaign as a research assistant in
2016. Since then she’s worked for the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee as a researcher.
The network reminds viewers
that Rich was alive and talking to police and EMTs before being hospitalized,
raising questions about what he may have been able to tell them. If he told
them it was a botched robbery, that evidence has certainly not been made
public.
The report also cites an
anonymous Internet post by a person claiming to be a fourth-year resident at
the hospital who confirmed Rich was not only alive when he arrived, but that
his injuries were not life-threatening. Though the anonymous report cannot be
confirmed, the resident said he was ordered not to visit Rich on his rounds
because he was surrounded by law-enforcement officers and would only be seen by
his attending physician.
That physician, OANN reports,
was Dr. Jack Sava, a donor to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, who visited the White
House six times before the day of Seth Rich’s murder. His wife reportedly
visited the White House 23 times during that same time period. They both
reportedly visited the East Wing, reserved for then-first lady Michelle Obama
and her staff.
In addition, the network
reports, the manager of Lou’s City Bar [Blog Editor: Interesting info on the manager identity],
the establishment Rich left early the morning he was shot, had also visited the
White House July 6 – days before Rich was killed.
What about political
connections at the police department that have been alleged?
OANN cites Heather Podesta’s
seat on the board of the Washington Police Foundation where she served with
former Washington Police Chief Kathy Lanier.
OANN’s report stated no
evidence has been produced to date suggesting the WikiLeaks emails of Podesta
and Hillary Clinton were the results of a Russian hack. The Democrat National
Committee did not ask the FBI to investigate the source of the leaks. Instead,
as WND has reported, the investigation was conducted by the DNC’s chosen
private firm, CrowdStrike, which, interestingly, was founded by the Moscow-born
Dmitri Alperovitch, a nonresident senior fellow at the globalist Atlantic
Council, which has ties to Hillary Clinton.
“I’m glad to see another
independent news organization jumping into the investigation of Seth Rich’s
death,” said Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WND.com. “We welcome the help.
And we certainly welcome impartial official investigations with full subpoena
power – something journalists don’t have.”
+++ UPDATE 7/16/17: I just discovered Youtube or YankeeApocalypseremoved the video "OAN Report on the murder of Seth Rich". I suspect the former more than the latter. As an update I am posting another OAN video from Youtube about Rich's murder, but I am leaving the Yankee Apocalypse description in place below the OAN replacement video just because it bothers me when videos are removed. VIDEO:TheMysterious Death of Seth Rich Posted by One America News Network Published on May 19, 2017 The death of DNC staffer Seth Rich is stirring up national controversy as conflicting reports continue pouring in.
He was murdered last July--yet so far police have made no arrests in the case, and have no leads as to a suspect.
One America News believes solving this case---and bringing Rich's murderer to justice---is essential to exposing the truth for the American people.
We are offering a $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of a suspect in the case.
If you have any information, please write into our station.
Now to get to the bottom of the case, One America's Pearson Sharp takes a closer look---and reveals why the facts just aren't adding up. +++
(Zero Hedge) May 26, 2017 -
Via Disobedient Media - The San Diego based One American News Network has
released a new report highlighting key elements of the mystery surrounding the
murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. OANN cites a number of inconsistencies and
lingering questions in the case, while also noting that Rich's murder occurred
in close proximity to the similarly strange death of UN official John Ashe.
Ashe was found dead just days before he was set to testify against Clinton in
relation to matters pertaining to a corruption case where Chinese billionaire
Charlie Trie helped launder $1.2 million dollars as part of Chinese government
efforts to influence Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential election. Ashe's death
was originally reported as a heart attack, but the story changed after it
emerged that the cause was in fact a crushed windpipe in what was labeled a
"workout accident." The full report can be viewed here:
On May 25th, one day before OANN's report, a representative of the media
company made a post on the online messageboard 4chan appealing for help
locating information regarding the doctor who treated Seth Rich for gunshot
injuries he sustained during the incident. Within minutes of the post, OANN's
website was taken offline in a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack.
The findings of the report offer fresh insights what is appearing to be a story
of complex political corruption and Democratic National Committee (DNC)
attempts to downplay the scandal. Disobedient Media has previously reported on
the extensive ties that key players in the Seth Rich case have to the DNC, the
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the Rose Law Firm, the law
firm which was at the center of the 1990's Whitewater Controversy.
(Gateway Pundit) May, 28, 2017 - On July 8, 2016, 27 year-old Democratic
staffer Seth Conrad Rich was murdered in Washington DC. The killer or killers
took nothing from their victim, leaving behind his wallet, watch and phone.
Shortly after the killing, Redditors and social media users were pursuing a
“lead” saying that Rich was en route to the FBI the morning of his murder,
apparently intending to speak to special agents about an “ongoing court case”
possibly involving the Clinton family.
Seth Rich’s father Joel told reporters, “If it was a robbery — it failed
because he still has his watch, he still has his money — he still has his
credit cards, still had his phone so it was a wasted effort except we lost a
life.”
In August Wikileaks offered a $20,000 reward for information on the murder of
DNC staffer Seth rich. Julian Assange also suggested in August that Seth Rich
was a Wikileaks informant.
On Friday American businessman Martin Shkreli offered $100,000 reward for
information on Seth Rich’s murder.
Now this. OAN offered $100,000 reward for information on Seth Rich’s murder
(This report says OAN offered $250,000 but it cannot be verified).
That brings the total up to at $245,000 in cash reward for information on Seth
Rich’s murder.
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I saw on Fox News that Senator John McCain is
publicly telling President Trump to put-up or apologize to the treasonous
President Obama pertaining to the accusation of wiretapping during the
2016-election cycle. I don’t have the Fox News clip but here’s the CNN
clip that Fox was referring to:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that
President Trump should provide evidence for his unsubstantiated claim that
former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower or retract the accusation.
My God! McCain might as well stop being a RINO and out right
join the Deep State Democratic Party and become an overt Obama minion. No
wonder McCain lost to the Marxist oriented Obama in 2008.
McCain is making all kinds of noise that more news will come
out connecting President Trump yet keeping silent (copying MSM) on mounting
evidence of Russian links to Crooked Hillary and family marking political
favors for God only knows what nefarious purposes.
While the liberals are trying their
hardest to set up the Republicans in questionable ties with Russia, it seems as
though it is being used as a distraction to hide the Democrats’ own connection
with Russia.
Hillary Clinton’s election
campaign manager, John Podesta, was on the board of a small energy company,
Joule Unlimited, when it was given $35 million from a Russian government fund
which has ties to Putin. (via Breitbart)
This information was discovered in
a 56-page report titled, “From Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian
Reset, and Cronyism.” Podesta did not disclose this, although he is required to
do so by law.
This was written by a non-partisan
government watchdog group, the Government Accountability Institute (GAI).
Stephen Bannon, the Executive Chairman of Breitbart and the
Chief Strategist in the Trump Administration, is also the Executive Chairman of
GAI.
During the “Russian reset,” then
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the flag bearer of U.S. involvement in
Russia’s technology initiative, called Skolkovo, which is intended to be
the Slavic version of Silicon Valley.
This “innovation city” was to be
located outside of Moscow and employ 30,000 people. Their technologically
advanced facilities would be under the strict control of the Russian
government. In 2013, the building was described, by Slate, as
reminiscent of the Soviet “utopia” building projects.
The GAI report revealed that the
Department of State, under Hillary Clinton, recruited companies like Intel,
Cisco, and Google to participate in Russia’s project. Of the 28 companies that
participated in Skolkovo, 17 were donors to the Clinton Foundation or
had paid Bill Clinton to speak.
As Clinton’s involvement increased
in the project, so did the chance that this technological investment was
actually a way to spy on American military technology. In 2014, the FBI gave
out an “extraordinary warning” to the companies participating in Skolkovo.
Podesta failed to mention that he
had memberships to the board of this company, even while knowing that Russian
investment in it may have been an attempt to steal our military technology. It
all seems a bit suspicious. Why was Clinton, the U.S. State Department, and
John Podesta tied up in this affair?
I can understand the Leftist MSM not picking up connections
between Crooked Hillary and the Russians, but what Senator McCain goes after
Trump for proof NOW when even the MSM has suggested improper violations of
Obama Administration of wiretapping is just nuts. McCain would
serve American Patriotism and the GOP better if he called out Obama to prove
President Trump is incorrect.
Here are some news tidbits that implicate Obama wiretapping
much more than President Trump angrily tweeting villainous Obama wiretapped the
Trump campaign in a moment of emotional display.
A quick look at Obama’s
history reveals he has always had the inclination, motivation, and opportunity
to snoop on and disseminate information about his political opponents. It’s how
he made his political career: getting his opponents'private
divorce records unsealed and leaked with the help of the
Chicago Tribune.
He and his administration
continued this pattern and practice of skirting laws throughout his eight years
in office, As Matthew Vadum reminds readers:
“Obama
used the IRS to target conservative and Tea Party nonprofits, along with
Catholic, Jewish, and pro-Israel organizations. He brazenly lied about it, too.
His Justice Department surreptitiously obtained telephone records for more than
100 reporters."
Wikileaks revealed that under
Obama, the NSA intercepted conversations of numerous foreign officials,
including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, Angela Merkel, Benjamin Netanyahu,
Silvio Berlusconi, and Nicolas Sarkozy.
So it is rather astonishing
that so many disregard Trump’s claim that Obama and his aides spied upon
him and his staff. There were several means at his disposal for him to do so,
and it is increasingly likely that they did so. He apparently sought
-- twice -- to get the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court
to approve tapping Trump communications, and was turned down once, in June of
last year -- a rare occurrence as in 10,000 applications in a six-year period
only two were rejected. Reportedly the Obama administration tried again, using
a slightly modified request and received permission. Heat Street reported this on
November 7.
"What
we don't know is who was connected to that FISA," Carter said on Sean
Hannity's show Wednesday night. "What was that FISA looking at? That is
very highly classified. Nobody wants to talk about that particular FISA, right
now. They said it did have to do with the Russian hacking on a very broad
level, but it didn't hone in directly on Trump is what I was told," she
said.
In
addition to the FISA warrant in October, the FBI obtained a separate warrant
that same month to look into a computer server tied to then-candidate Donald
Trump's businesses in Trump Towers (but not located in Trump Towers). According
to the report, the feds used traditional investigative techniques
to examine allegations of computer activity tied to two Russian banks
and there had been no intercepts of Trump’s phone or emails.
The
FBI quickly concluded, "the computer activity in question involved no
nefarious contacts, bank transactions or encrypted communications with the
Russians."
The
months-long FBI counterintelligence investigation into Russian efforts to
influence the 2016 presidential campaign briefly investigated a computer server
tied to Donald Trump's businesses near the end of the election but has not
gathered evidence of election tampering to date that would warrant criminal
charges against any of the president’s associates, Circa has learned.
But a FISA warrant is not the
only way to surveil communications. Under Chapter 36 of Title 50 of the US
Code, and pursuant to Executive Order 12333, the president can authorize electronic
surveillance without a court order, and we don’t know if Obama utilized one of
these means as well. Nor can we ascertain who’s leaking, as on his way out of
office –-17 days before his term was up -- Obama allowed the National Security
Agency to circulate such intercepted messages among 16 other intelligence
agencies without following longstanding protocols designed to insure privacy of
those involved in the communications, in effect inviting selective leaking by
partisans in those agencies.
This week former NSA official
Bill Binney confirmed
the veracityof Trump’s claim that his conversations had been
tapped and monitored and claimed it was done outside the courts.
Binney
told Fox the laws that fall under the FISA court's jurisdiction are
"simply out there for show" and "trying to show that the
government is following the law, and being looked at and overseen by the Senate
and House intelligence committees and the courts."
"That's
not the main collection program for NSA," Binney said.
In any event, both the former
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and the head of the FBI James
Comey have stated without equivocation that there was no evidence found of
coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
On the other hand, there is
increasing evidence of Russian ties to Hillary Clinton and those closely
connected to her.
Jerome Corsi connects a Russian billionaire to
Putin with close ties. He provides documentary “evidence of the
circuitous path the Russian government has been using since Hillary Clinton was
secretary of state to make large financial payments to John Podesta and to the
Clinton Foundation.”
These transfers were made at
the same time Hillary Clinton was transferring “U.S. advanced technology to
Russia.”
John Podesta is not the only
family member enriched by the Russians. His brother Tony also rode the Russian gravy train.
Russia's
largest bank, Sberbank, has confirmed that it hired the consultancy of Tony
Podesta, the elder brother of John Podesta who chaired Hillary Clinton's
presidential campaign, for lobbying its interests in the United States and
proactively seeking the removal of various Obama-era sanctions, the press
service of the Russian institution told TASS on Thursday.
[snip]
Previously,
The Daily Caller reported that Tony Podesta was proactively lobbying for
cancellation of a range of anti-Russian sanctions against the banking sector.
In particular, he represented interests of Sberbank and was paid $170,000 for
his efforts over a six-month period last year to seek to end one of the Obama
administration’s economic sanctions against that country. Podesta, founder
and chairman of the Podesta Group, is listed as a key lobbyist on behalf of
Sberbank, according to Senate lobbying disclosure forms. His firm received more
than $24 million in fees in 2016, much of it coming from foreign governments,
according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Former
President Barack Obama imposed the Russian sanctions following the break out in
violence in east Ukraine in 2014.
Podesta’s
efforts were a key part of under-the-radar lobbying during the 2016 U.S.
presidential campaign led mainly by veteran Democratic strategists to remove
sanctions against Sberbank and VTB Capital, Russia’s second largest bank.
[snip]
The
lobbying campaign targeted Congress and the executive branch, with Podesta and
other lobbyists arranging at least two meetings between Sberbank officers and
Department of State officials, according to Elena Teplitskaya, Sberbank’s board
chairman, who spoke to House aides in August.
[snip]
The
Podesta Group represented Sberbank and its subsidiaries, Troika Dialog Group in
the Cayman Islands, SBGB Cyprus Ltd in Nicosia, Cyprus, and SB International in
Luxembourg. Troika Dialog also was related to Klein, Ltd., a Cayman Island
organization that once funneled tens of millions of dollars to environmental
groups to oppose low-cost fracking in the U.S., which was hurting the Russian
oil industry.
[snip]
Sberbank
was the lead financial institution in the Russian deal to purchase Uranium One,
owned by one of Bill Clinton’s closest friends, Frank Giustra. Giustra and Bill
Clinton lead the Clinton-Giustra Enterprise Partnership, an integral part of
the Clinton Foundation. Giustra has additionally donated $25 million to the
Clinton Foundation.
Giustra
sought to sell his stake in uranium reserves that included ore deposits in the
Western United States, and Hillary Clinton, who as secretary of state, approved
the sale. And in one felled swoop, 20 percent of America’s uranium ore was sold
to the Russian state atomic agency.
During
the pending sale, the Podesta Group represented Giustra’s company and tried to
advance the transaction.
So there probably was
surveillance on Trump and his associates, although no connection with
Russia was established with them. Instead, all the connections to Russia were
with Clinton and her closest associates.
What we also know was that,
like Hillary Clinton, the Congressional Democrats repeatedly demonstrate a
shocking disregard for national security. The Daily Caller has
documented what the mainstream media is largely ignoring: the fact that dozens
of Democratic congressmen, including the former head of the DNC, engaged three
brothers from Pakistan and two of their wives at salaries multiple times over
those similarly situated (over $4 million), gave them passwords, and allowed
them access to sensitive computer files, even though it is impossible to fathom
how people with their record of financial troubles got security clearances.
These brothers are presently under criminal investigation accused of stealing
House computer equipment and transferring information from Congressional files
to a personal server. They owe $100,000 to an Iraqi businessman believed to
have with ties to Hezb’allah who is a fugitive from U.S. authorities.
This week, to cap it off, the brothers are under investigation for kidnapping
and holding prisoner their
stepmotherto prevent her from seeing her dying husband in
Pakistan.
Politicoreports that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former
head of the DNC, refuses to fire one of the brothers even though he is banned
from the House network. She’s keeping him on as an “adviser.”
Really, it’s impossible to
parody Democrats these days. It would be too unbelievable.
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Shares bizarre details
about hacked computer as she investigated scandals
“It
was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about
when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” –
George Orwell, “1984”
WASHINGTON – The woman who is
perhaps the nation’s top investigative journalist is fighting back against Big
Brother.
Sharyl Attkisson shared with
WND a detailed and harrowing description of what it was like to experience a
reality straight out of Orwell: The reporter claims she was spied on by the
Obama administration while investigating its scandals.
What tipped her off?
Imagine what it must be like
to watch your computer turn itself on and off.
“That’s one visible sign I
noticed over many months,” Attkisson told WND in an email interview.
“At the time, I suspected it
was some sort of phishing program seeking my passwords and contacts, and was
confident my computer had sufficient protections. I never suspected it was
connected to an intrusion of my systems until sources and forensics told me
that it was.”
She also watched a different
computer that she used delete files by itself.
After Attkisson released a
video showing that as it was happening, Vox’s Max Fisher claimed it was more
likely that she had a stuck backspace key.
WND asked, as an Emmy-award
winning investigative journalist and now the anchor of her own Sunday morning
national TV news program, “Full Measure,” did she find
Fisher’s claim that she was confused by a keyboard plausible?
“It was just a silly attempt
by a noted propagandist blog that had no firsthand information to deflect from
the surveillance,” she replied dismissively.
“The ‘expert’ didn’t even
know enough to understand there is no ‘backspace’ key on the computer shown,
and — in any event — that holding down such a key cannot duplicate the super
fast deletions demonstrated at the beginning of that particular video clip.”
The five-time Emmy Award
winner and recipient of the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting
announced in January she is suing the Justice Department and seeking $35
million in damages for illegally hacking her computers and monitoring her work
between 2011 and 2013.
Three separate computer
forensic exams of her computers revealed what appears to be stunning evidence
pointing straight to the Obama administration.
“The most important and
irrefutable finding is: forensic evidence of a government-owned I.P. (internet
protocol) address accessing my computer,” Attkisson told WND.
She said she was told that
was “better evidence than the U.S. had when it accused China of various acts of
hacking into our government, which the government accepts as proven.”
Her computers were examined
by three independent forensics examiners including: a confidential source, an
examiner hired by CBS News, and an examiner hired by her attorney.
What they found is just
stunning.
Attkisson provided an
itemized overview of some of their findings, and described what
a confidential source and examiner hired by her attorney found:
§“A government-owned I.P. address
was used to access my computer.”
§“We are able to see
instances of exact date and time that the intruders entered my computers, and
the methods they used to do so.”
§“They used commercial,
non-attributable software proprietary to the CIA, FBI, NSA or DIA.”
§“The malware was constantly
running on my computers. It included a feature that logged my keystrokes,
accessed all my emails and collected my passwords.”
§“Skype was surreptitiously
used to listen in on audio.”
§“My smartphone was also
infected.”
§“Three classified documents
had been put on my computer.”
§“Once sources notified me
that I was likely being surveilled, and I discussed this in emails, the
intruders took steps to erase evidence of their presence. However, the
deletions themselves create a record of evidence.”
§“Attkisson’s computer was
accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions in
late 2012.”
§“Evidence suggests this
party performed all access remotely using Attkisson’s accounts.”
§“An intruder had executed
commands that appeared to involve search and exfiltration of data.”
§“This party also used
sophisticated methods to remove all possible indications of unauthorized
activity, and alter system times to cause further confusion.”
§“[Attkisson’s] systems were
indeed subject to non-standard interactions between June 2012 and January
2013.”
§“Definitive evidence that
shows commands were run from Sharyl’s user account that she did not personally
authorize.”
§“This history has been
deliberately removed from Sharyl’s hard drive.”
§The intruders conducted an
inordinate number of internal computer clock “time stamp” changes, likely to
try to confuse any forensics that might be conducted.
Why her?
WND asked the former CBS Washington bureau investigative
correspondent, did she think the administration considered her a foe? And acted
to stop her out of purely political concerns?
“I have no idea, the perpetrators would have to answer that
question and they certainly aren’t stepping forward,” she replied.
“But,” she continued, “my computer intrusions occurred in
context of the Obama administration’s crackdown on whistleblowers and a lot of
my work deals with whistleblowers.”
“Additionally, we know the administration was aggressively
trying to control the narrative on a number of stories it saw as damaging,
especially as the re-election year of 2012 shaped up.”
Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, records previously
obtained by the government watchdog group Judicial Watch indicate
Attkisson was targeted by the Obama administration because of critical
reporting.
In 2014, Judicial Watch said it “obtained an October 4,
2011, email to White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz, Attorney
General Eric Holder’s top press aide, (in which) Tracy Schmaler, described
Attkisson as ‘out of control.’
“Schmaler added ominously, ‘I’m also calling Sharryl’s [sic]
editor and reaching out to Scheiffer’ (an apparent reference to CBS’ Chief
Washington Correspondent and Face the Nation moderator Bob Scheiffer). Schultz
responded, ‘Good. Her piece was really bad for the AG’ (attorney general.)”
Given that Obama’s Justice Department had labeled her as
“out of control” and tried to get the reporter’s employer to rein her in, WND
asked Attkisson: What did she make of an administration that seeks to
control reporters?
“I expect it,” was the sober response. “But it’s our job to
resist it and we aren’t doing a very good job of that as an industry.”
“Yes. I was informed about my case prior to us knowing about
any of the other cases, just before the Snowden revelations, and prior to
former DNI (Director of National Intelligence James) Clapper falsely telling
Congress that the government was not collecting data of millions of Americans…but all of these events
occurred in the same general time frame.”
So, was it the administration that was “out of control?”
“You decide!” she replied, echoing a famous news slogan.
Investigating the truth about her own story, the
award-winning reporter has faced what she called a Catch-22 dilemma.
“To find out who accessed my computer, we need the
government’s cooperation, but the government isn’t cooperating.”
“In my lawsuit, we seek to learn who had access to the I.P.
address that was used to infiltrate my computer,” she continued. “To date, the
Department of Justice has taken multiple steps to block us from finding this answer.”
However, her persistence has revealed some compelling
results.
“Finally, at my request, the DOJ (Department of Justice)
Inspector General’s office sent investigators to look at a separate computer,
my personal home computer.”
Attkisson said that although the Justice Department’s
inspector general’s office will not release their notes and records, “and have
improperly failed to respond to my Freedom of Information Act request for the
information,” their forensics investigators reported to her that they found the
following on her personal computer:
§“Evidence of suspicious
deletions of files that could not have been done by me.
§“Use of my computer in
‘advanced mode’ (which was not done by me).”
§“‘Someone’ installed
software onto my desktop and executed it and overwrote some important logs
effectively covering their tracks and erasing much evidence of their actions.”
§“As with my CBS computer,
they found a lot of unusual time and date setting changes on my personal
computer as well (15 times in four days).”
§“They executed data
recovery, recovering previously deleted logs.”
Attkisson said the forensics examiners working for the
Justice Department’s inspector general “told me they believed the intruder(s)
were actually working in my house at the computer conducting these acts, rather
than conducting them remotely, but, in fact, the acts were conducted remotely,
as with the work computers referenced above.”
“Furthermore,” she continued, “the examiners indicated that
prior to their supervisors signing off on their findings, ‘somebody’ narrowed
their mission to only reporting on any ‘remote’ intrusions (i.e. not addressing
the suspicious forensics they found by someone they believed was actually in my
house working at the computer.)”
And that’s when the investigation hit a wall.
“At this point, as their report was sent to higher-ups for
approval, they dialed back their communications with me and would not deliver
the promised final report or the notes that went with it.”
Attkisson said she filed a FOIA to obtain them but it was
ignored. Many months went by.
“When Congress pressed the issue, the DOJ IG issued only a
summary and emphasized there was no evidence of ‘remote’ intrusion in that
computer and left out the suspicious forensics they discovered,” explained the
investigative super-sleuth. “To this day, the DOJ IG has failed to properly
respond to my FOIA requests seeking the full information and report.”
As a result, “Many in the media misreported that this DOJ IG
report was somehow conclusive evidence that my computers had not been
infiltrated.”
“In fact,” she clarified, “the DOJ IG didn’t even examine
the primary computers in question — referenced in the other exams above—
because CBS would not allow them to look at the computers.”
Did she think the problem was specific to the previous
administration, or was it due the growth of the surveillance community, its
powers and lack of oversight?
“I think this is an outgrowth of technology that makes such
surveillance possible, politicians and corporate interests who are willing to
use it for improper purposes, and a weak and conflicted news media that has
done little to stop it.”
Finally, WND said it would be remiss if it did not ask the
ace reporter if her experience had given her any insight into President Trump’s
accusations that his campaign had been spied on by the Obama administration.
However, Attkisson said she has not looked at, or reported,
on those allegations.
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