John R. Houk
© December 24, 2017
President Barack Hussein Obama was the most corrupt President
the USA has ever had. And there have been some past corrupt Presidents. Here is
a brief list of historically considered bad Presidents stretching from the 19th
century to the 20th century. Avoiding 21st century
considerations, some Presidents considered bad by the great divide of the
political spectrum are not listed (from least worst to worst):
10. Martin Van Buren
9. Chester A. Arthur
8. Herbert Clark Hoover
7. Millard Fillmore
6. William Henry Harrison
5. John Tyler
4. Warren G. Harding
3. Franklin Pierce
2. Andrew Johnson
1. James Buchanan
(This list compilation has
summaries of reasoning behind their bad marks: The
10 Worst Presidents In The History Of The United States; By C.L.
Illsley; WorldAtlas.com; 6/15/17)
If you’ve been listening to popularity stats lately,
President BHO has remarkably high favorability with a majority of polled
Americans. Since these high marks seem a bit delusional to me, either the polls
are very warped (Pollsters picked Crooked Hillary
to easily beat President Trump. That did not happen!) or
the Leftist Mainstream (MSM) has successfully brainwashed Americans with disinformation
propaganda.
The entirety of Obama’s two-term eight-year stint as
President was racked with scandals that Obama and the MSM pooh-poohed by lack
of reporting, disinformation or just downright lying. To examine those scandals
would no-doubt fill a decent sized book.
So, I’m going to look at some more recent Obama/Crooked Hillary wrong doings
that the Trump DOJ should examine. There should be renewed calls for “Lock her
up” and add “Lock him up”.
JRH 12/24/17
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Clinton campaign propaganda appears to have triggered
Obama administration spying on Trump’s campaign.
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
December 23, 2017 4:00 AM
National Review
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
December 23, 2017 4:00 AM
National Review
The
FBI’s deputy director Andrew McCabe testified Tuesday at a marathon seven-hour
closed-door hearing of the House Intelligence Committee. According to the
now-infamous text message sent by FBI agent Peter Strzok to his paramour, FBI
lawyer Lisa Page, it was in McCabe’s office that top FBI counterintelligence
officials discussed what they saw as the frightening possibility of a Trump
presidency.
That was during the stretch run of the 2016 campaign, no
more than a couple of weeks after they started receiving the Steele dossier —
the Clinton campaign’s opposition-research reports, written by former British
spy Christopher Steele, about Trump’s purportedly conspiratorial relationship
with Vladimir Putin’s regime in Russia.
Was it the Steele dossier that so frightened the FBI? I
think so.
There is a great deal of information to follow. But let’s
cut to the chase: The Obama-era FBI and Justice Department had great faith in
Steele because he had previously collaborated with the bureau on a big case.
Plus, Steele was working on the Trump-Russia project with the wife of a top
Obama Justice Department official, who was personally briefed by Steele. The
upper ranks of the FBI and DOJ strongly preferred Trump’s opponent, Hillary
Clinton, to the point of overlooking significant evidence of her felony
misconduct, even as they turned up the heat on Trump. In sum, the FBI and DOJ
were predisposed to believe the allegations in Steele’s dossier. Because of
their confidence in Steele, because they were predisposed to believe his
scandalous claims about Donald Trump, they made grossly inadequate efforts to
verify his claims. Contrary to what I hoped would be the case, I’ve come to
believe Steele’s claims were used to obtain FISA surveillance authority for an
investigation of Trump.
There were layers of insulation between the Clinton campaign
and Steele — the campaign and the Democratic party retained a law firm, which
contracted with Fusion GPS, which in turn hired the former spy. At some point,
though, perhaps early on, the FBI and DOJ learned that the dossier was actually
a partisan opposition-research product. By then, they were dug in. No one,
after all, would be any the wiser: Hillary would coast to victory, so Democrats
would continue running the government; FISA materials are highly classified, so
they’d be kept under wraps. Just as it had been with the Obama-era’s Fast and
Furious and IRS scandals, any malfeasance would remain hidden.
The best laid schemes . . . gang aft
agley. [Blog Editor: Not being well read in the poetry realm, I had to
look-up “gang aft agley”. It comes from a quite famous Robert Burns poem
that you’ll probably recognize it when you read it:
A line of the poem "To A
Mouse" is often quoted: "The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men"
to mean that well-planned plans can go wrong.
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,
Gang aft agley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy!
-- "To A Mouse" by Robert Burns
'Gang aft agley' is Scottish
and means 'Often go wrong'.
More directly translated:
·
gang = 'to go'
·
aft = 'oft' (or
often)
·
agley = 'askew, awry'
(i.e. wrong, badly. 'Gley' is 'squint', so more literally would be 'off
squint')
'Aft' in this context has no
relation to the nautical meaning of 'aft', but is a Scottish form of 'oft'. (Of Mice and Men; wiki.c2.com; Last edit 10/3/12)]
Why It Matters
Strzok’s text about the meeting in McCabe’s office is dated
August 16, 2016. As we’ll see, the date is important. According to Agent
Strzok, with Election Day less than three months away, Page, the bureau lawyer,
weighed in on Trump’s bid: “There’s no way he gets elected.” Strzok, however,
believed that even if a Trump victory was the longest of long shots, the FBI
“can’t take that risk.” He insisted that the bureau had no choice but to
proceed with a plan to undermine Trump’s candidacy: “It’s like an insurance
policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”
…
But what were these “allegations of collusion between Donald
Trump’s campaign and Russia” that the FBI decided to “aggressively
investigate”? … As
I explained in the column, the question is critical for three reasons:
(1) The Steele dossier was a
Clinton campaign product. If it was used by the FBI and the Obama Justice
Department to obtain a FISA warrant, that would mean law-enforcement agencies
controlled by a Democratic president fed the FISA court political campaign
material produced by the Democratic candidate whom the president had endorsed
to succeed him. Partisan claims of egregious scheming with an adversarial
foreign power would have been presented to the court with the FBI’s imprimatur,
as if they were drawn from refined U.S. intelligence reporting. The objective
would have been to spy on the opposition Republican campaign.
(2) In June of this year, former
FBI director James Comey testified that the dossier was “salacious and unverified.”
While still director, Comey had described the dossier the same way when he
briefed President-elect Trump on it in January 2017. If the dossier was
still unverified as late as mid 2017, its allegations could not possibly have
been verified months earlier, in the late summer or early autumn of 2016, when
it appears that the FBI and DOJ used them in an application to the FISA court.
(3) The dossier appears to contain
misinformation. Knowing he was a spy-for-hire trusted by Americans, Steele’s
Russian-regime sources had reason to believe that misinformation could be
passed into the stream of U.S. intelligence and that it would be acted on — and
leaked — as if it were true, to America’s detriment. This would sow discord in
our political system. If the FBI and DOJ relied on the dossier, it likely means
they were played by the Putin regime.
…
At the time, Bruce Ohr was the Obama Justice Department’s
point man for “Transnational Organized Crime and
International Affairs,” having been DOJ’s long-serving chief of the
Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. He also wore a second, top-echelon
DOJ hat: associate deputy attorney general. That made him a key adviser to the
deputy attorney general, Sally Yates (who later, as acting attorney general,
was fired for insubordinately refusing to enforce
President Trump’s so-called travel ban). In the chain of command, the FBI
reports to the DAG’s office.
To do the Trump-Russia research, Steele had been retained by
the research firm Fusion GPS (which, to repeat, had been hired by lawyers for
the Clinton campaign and the DNC). Fusion GPS was run by its founder, former Wall
Street Journal investigative journalist Glenn Simpson. Bruce Ohr’s wife,
Nellie, a Russia scholar, worked for Simpson at Fusion. The Ohrs and Simpson
appear to be longtime acquaintances, dating back to when Simpson was a senior
fellow at the International Assessment and Strategy Center. In 2010, all three
participated in a two-day conference on international organized crime,
sponsored by the National Institute of Justice (see conference schedule and participant list, pp. 27–30). In
connection with the Clinton campaign’s Trump-Russia project, Fusion’s Nellie
Ohr collaborated with Steele and Simpson, and DOJ’s Bruce Ohr met personally
with Steele and Simpson.
But that is just the beginning of the bias story.
At a high level, the DOJ and FBI were in the tank for
Hillary Clinton. In July 2016, shortly before Steele’s reports started floating
in, the FBI and DOJ announced that no charges would be brought against Mrs.
Clinton despite damning evidence that she mishandled classified information,
destroyed government files, obstructed congressional investigations, and lied
to investigators. The irregularities in the Clinton-emails investigation are
legion: President Obama making it clear in public statements that he did not
want Clinton charged; the FBI, shortly afterwards, drafting an exoneration of
Clinton months before the investigation ended and central witnesses, including
Clinton herself, were interviewed; investigators failing to use the grand jury
to compel the production of key evidence; the DOJ restricting FBI agents in
their lines of inquiry and examination of evidence; the granting of immunity to
suspects who in any other case would be pressured to plead guilty and cooperate
against more-culpable suspects; the distorting of criminal statutes to avoid
applying them to Clinton; the sulfurous tarmac meeting between Attorney General
Lynch and former President Clinton shortly before Mrs. Clinton was given a
peremptory interview — right before then–FBI director Comey announced that she
would not be charged.
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Inside Judicial Watch: The Obama/Hezbollah/Iran Deal
Scandal
December 22, 2017
In this special edition of Inside Judicial Watch,
host Jerry Dunleavy joins JW Director of Investigations and Research Chris
Farrell to discuss Project Cassandra, an effort by the DEA to combat the
terrorist group Hezbollah and their criminal enterprise. In a Politico story,
it was revealed that the Obama administration apparently eased off the terror
group to help facilitate the controversial Iran nuclear deal.
Posted by Judicial
Watch
Published on Dec 22, 2017
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Report: How Fusion GPS and the Obama Administration Weaponized
the Trump Dossier
22 Dec 2017
Did the Obama administration launch an investigation into
the Trump campaign based solely off of unverified political opposition
research? And was that “research” dressed up and given more credibility than it
should have? It appears that way based on an investigation of open-source information by Tablet.
The outlet’s investigation begins with a June 24, 2017,
Facebook post by Mary Jacoby, the wife of Glenn Simpson, the former Wall
Street Journal reporter who started Fusion GPS, the firm behind the
dossier.
Jacoby, a former Wall Street Journal reporter
who once shared bylines with Simpson, bragged how her husband was not getting
the credit he deserved for the dossier.
…
Until this day, the dossier is often referred to as the
“Steele dossier,” named after the former British spy Christopher Steele who is
believed to have authored the document.
Steele’s background has been used by collusion-believers to
argue that the document is credible. But Jacoby’s post suggests that
Steele might not have played as big of a role in the dossier as he is
given credit.
Indeed, Fusion GPS hiring of Nellie Ohr — the wife of senior
Justice Department official Bruce Ohr — also shows that Steele’s role in
producing the dossier may be exaggerated. Ohr is a Stanford Ph.D. whose
expertise is Russia and she appears to be fluent in Russian. She may have
conducted interviews or written parts of the dossier.
The dossier, however, only has Steele’s name on it — helping
to credential the research as an “intelligence product.”
Tablet also took a look at Simpson and Jacoby’s work for
the WSJ. …
…
Tablet explains how their reporting may have been the
origins of the Trump dossier:
So when the Trump campaign named
Paul Manafort as its campaign convention manager on March 28, 2016, you can bet
that Simpson and Jacoby’s eyes lit up. And as it happened, at the exact same
time that Trump hired Manafort, Fusion GPS was in negotiations with Perkins
Coie, the law firm representing the Clinton campaign and the DNC, to see if
there was interest in the firm continuing the opposition research on the Trump
campaign they had started for the Washington Free Beacon. In addition to
whatever sales pitch Simpson might have offered about Manafort, the Clinton
campaign had independent reason to believe that research into Manafort’s
connections might pay some real political dividends: A Democratic consultant
and Ukrainian-American activist named Alexandra Chalupa, told the Clinton
campaign about Manafort’s work for Yanukovich. “I flagged for the DNC the
significance of his hire,” Chalupa told CNN in July of this year.
Tablet notes that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would later
find corruption by Manafort related to money laundering (before he joined the
Trump campaign). It also points out that Tony Podesta — Hillary Clinton
campaign manager John Podesta’s brother — worked for Manafort at the time he
represented Yanukovich. (The Podesta Group disbanded this year after those
connections were made public, and the special counsel is reportedly
investigating Podesta too.)
Tablet notes that while Simpson had begun working on the
dossier on Trump collusion with Russia, he was also working for a Russian
lawyer to undermine an American law called the Magnitsky Act and that
Steele may have been hired to disguise that contradiction.
Steele — it notes — had not lived or worked in Russia for
nearly 25 years, but his name “at a minimum” would be useful in marketing
whatever his firm pulled together. Plus, Steele had a good relationship with
the FBI and could “spill secrets” to journalists.
…
Jacoby would post that story in her June 24 Facebook post,
slamming the FBI and accusing it of “ineptitude,” while the CIA “hopped to and
immediately worked to verify” the dossier.
She said by August 2016, the CIA had “verified the key
finding of the dossier” to the point that it was having “eyes only” top secret
meetings with President Obama about it.
Thus, while the document could not be verified and was not
used in any intelligence assessment because of its inability to be verified, it
was now the topic of meetings with the president.
CIA Director John Brennan had also briefed top lawmakers on
Russian efforts to help Trump last summer and had said the CIA had limited
legal ability to investigate Russian connections to Trump, prompting Sen. Harry
Reid (D-NV) to write a public letter to the FBI — which collects domestic
intelligence — about the threat of Russian interference.
…
That “information” Reid was referring to was the dossier,
according to Tablet:
According to David Corn’s Oct. 31,
2016, article in Mother Jones, the Nevada lawmaker was referencing
the findings of “a former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who
specialized in Russian counterintelligence.”
Corn now explains that the “former
Western intelligence officer—who spent almost two decades on Russian
intelligence matters and who now works with a U.S. firm that gathers
information on Russia for corporate clients” is Christopher Steele. According
to Corn, Steele said that “in recent months he provided the bureau with memos,
based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian
government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trump.”
It appears that Brennan was
briefing Reid on the Steele dossier.
Brennan apparently sent the dossier to the White House,
prompting the “eyes only” meetings.
“An envelope with extraordinary handling restrictions
arrived at the White House. Sent by courier from the CIA, it carried ‘eyes
only’ instructions that its contents be shown to just four people: President
Barack Obama and three senior aides,” the Washington Post reported on June 23, 2017.
“So was the Steele dossier in the envelope?” Tablet asks.
…
The Post also writes that the “material was
so sensitive that CIA Director John O. Brennan kept it out of the president’s
daily brief, concerned that even that restricted report’s distribution was too
broad.”
But as Tablet asks, “if the material was so sensitive that
it had to be kept out of the PDB and withheld from the Senate majority leader,
why was someone telling The Washington Post about it?”
Tablet writes:
Sources and methods are the crown
jewels of the American intelligence community. And yet someone has just told a
major American newspaper about a “report drawn from sourcing deep inside the
Russian government …
that captured Putin’s
specific instructions.”
If the CIA had a human intelligence source that close to Putin, publication of
the Post article
could have exposed that source—doing incalculable damage to American national
security. He and many of his loved ones would then have presumably died
horrible deaths.
Or, as Mary Jacoby surmised, it was
her husband’s handiwork that landed on the president’s desk.
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Posted by MLordandGod
Published on Dec 22, 2017
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BOMBSHELL: Obama Calls His Lawyers In Panic As Trump
Uncovers ‘The Woman He Tried To Hide’
December 22, 2017
Barack Obama was sure that he had covered his trail as he
took every precaution to hide his relationship with one woman. Poor Obama
didn’t hide her well enough, and right before President Donald Trump left for
his Christmas vacation, he secretly made sure that this woman’s shocking criminal
relationship to the former president was exposed. Obama felt sheer panic,
calling his team of attorneys, and his head is not the only one going to roll.
The president just gave the American people the best
Christmas gifts ever; a huge new tax reform law and now the evidence proving
Barack Hussien [sic] Obama knew and sanctioned the illegal scheme to try to
ensure the GOP candidate for president, Donald Trump, would never see inside
the White House. It’s all part of the same scheme that is behind the coup
attempt to impeach Trump once he won, and the key is a woman named Mary
Jacoby.
Who’s Mary Jacoby? Well, sit back my fellow Americans and
pop some popcorn, as you learn of the one woman who is playing a prominent role
in bringing down the Obama regime and the Clinton crime cartel for good. On
April 10, 2016, Mary Jacoby showed up on White House visitor logs, meeting with
President Obama and his top officials, and she doesn’t leave for 14 hours.
That same month, April 2016, the Clinton Campaign and
DNC hired Fusion-GPS to organize the Russia research, which later became known
as the bogus “Russian dossier.” Mary Jacoby is the wife of Fusion-GPS
head Glenn Simpson. But, there’s more.
Copy of White House logs from April
10, 2016,
showing Mary Jacoby was meeting with Obama officials for 14 hours.
…
So, not only is Jacoby the wife of the guy who is behind
compiling the Russian dossier, a totally fabricated document, we now know that
Russian dossier was submitted as the only evidence by the FBI
cabal, including former Director James Comey and his Deputy Director Andy
McCabe, to obtain wiretaps on the then-candidate Donald Trump and
his campaign.
Jacoby even boasted about it in a Facebook post. “In a
Facebook post from June 24, 2017, that Tablet has seen in
screenshots, Jacoby claimed that her husband deserves the lion’s share of
credit for Russiagate. (She has not replied to repeated requests for comment.)
‘It’s come to my attention that some people still don’t realize what Glenn’s
role was in exposing Putin’s control of Donald Trump,’ Jacoby wrote. ‘Let’s
be clear. Glenn conducted the investigation. Glenn hired Chris Steele. Chris
Steele worked for Glenn,'” reported Tablet
Magazine.
… Her
husband Glenn Simpson assigned the actual writing of the Russian dossier to his
Russia expert at Fusion-GPS, a woman named Nellie Ohr.
This is where the DOJ’s former associate deputy attorney
general Bruce Ohr comes in — he is married to Nellie Ohr. He also has
admitted to meeting with Glenn Simpson to obtain the fake Russian dossier for
the DOJ before anyone knew who his wife was.
…
There’s one more thing. All of these snakes communicated
without being detected by the good guys left in the intelligence community, but
how? Records prove Nellie
Ohr got a license for a HAM radio in May 2016. These rats
knew the NSA does not monitor traffic by HAM radios. They really thought
they had covered their tracks.
Obama never fathomed this illegal scheme wouldn’t work. He
counted on ensuring Hillary Clinton would win the election. After she lost, he
tried to hide all trails that would lead back to him as the FBI and DOJ cabal
started phase two, the “Trump-Russia” Robert Mueller investigation, which they
thought would eventually make Trump resign or be impeached. Except, he forgot
about the White House visitors logs, which are now in the custody of President
Donald Trump. …
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The anthology of excerpts edited by John R. Houk
© JRH
