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Saturday, April 14, 2018

DOJ IG releases explosive report that led to firing of ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe




This was how CNN broke the story:

Report cites lack of candor by Andrew McCabe

Liberalese for liar.

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DOJ inspector general says former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe misled multiple investigators over his role in a news media disclosure; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington.

Andrew McCabe, onetime acting FBI director, leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to his boss and federal investigators, prompting a stunning fall from grace that ended in his firing last month, says a bombshell report released Friday by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz, appointed by President Barack Obama, had been reviewing FBI and DOJ actions leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

The report, handed over to Congress on Friday and obtained by Fox News, looked at a leak to The Wall Street Journal about an FBI probe of the Clinton Foundation.

The report says that McCabe authorized the leak and then misled investigators about it, leaking in a way that did not fall under a "public interest" exception.

"[W]e concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the CF investigation through an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception," the report says.

McCabe was fired from his role as FBI deputy director last month by Attorney General Jeff Sessions just days before he would have been eligible for a lifetime pension after it was determined that he misled investigators reviewing the bureau’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server.

Sessions said that McCabe “made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.”

President Trump reacted to the report Friday in a highly charged tweet saying McCabe "LIED! LIED! LIED!" Trump also used the social media platform to describe allegations of collusion between his campaign and Moscow as "all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!"


The report faults McCabe for leaking information of an August 2016 call to Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett for an Oct. 30, 2016, story titled “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.” The story -- written just days before the presidential election – focused on the FBI announcing the reopening of the Clinton investigation after finding thousands of her emails on a laptop belonging to former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

The Journal's account of the call says a senior Justice Department official expressed displeasure to McCabe that FBI agents were still looking into the Clinton Foundation, and that McCabe had defended agent's authority to pursue the issue.

"Among the purposes of the disclosure was to rebut a narrative that had been developing following a story in The WSJ on Oct. 23, 2016, that questioned McCabe’s impartiality in overseeing FBI investigations involving [Clinton], and claimed that McCabe had ordered the termination of the [FBI's Clinton Foundation investigation] due to Department of Justice pressure," the report says.

That leak confirmed the existence of the probe, which then-FBI Director James Comey had up to that point refused to do. The report says that McCabe "lacked candor" in a conversation with Comey when he said that he had not authorized the disclosure and didn't know who had done so.

The IG also found that he also lacked candor when questioned by FBI agents on multiple occasions since that conversation, where he told agents that he did authorize the disclosure and did not know who was responsible. 

McCabe has denied doing anything wrong. "This attack on my credibility is one part of a larger effort not just to slander me personally, but to taint the FBI, law enforcement and intelligence professionals more generally," McCabe said in a statement after his firing last month.

In a letter submitted by McCabe’s counsel after reviewing a draft of the report, McCabe argues that “the OIG should credit Mr. McCabe’s account over Director Comey’s” and complains that the report “paints Director Comey as a white knight carefully guarding FBI information, while overlooking that Mr. McCabe’s account is more credible for at least three key reasons ...”

McCabe's counsel, Michael Bromwich, in a statement to Fox News, slammed the OIG report. "The core weakness of the OIG report is the lack of any understandable motive for his alleged wrongdoing. It is undisputed that Mr. McCabe was one of three senior FBI officials authorized to share information with the media, including on sensitive investigative matters," he said.

"He chose to exercise that authority in October 2016, during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the bureau, with the knowledge of Director Comey and other senior members of FBI management. His purpose was to protect the institutional reputation of the FBI against false claims, including that a sensitive investigation was being shut down for political reasons."

McCabe and Bromwich seemingly sought to diminish the credibility of Comey, blasting his "recollection" as "not at all clear."

"Mr. McCabe’s recollection of discussions he had with Director Comey about this issue is extremely clear; Director Comey’s recollection is, by his own acknowledgment, not at all clear. And yet two of the lack of candor allegations are based on Director Comey’s admittedly vague and uncertain recollection of those discussions. "

Later on Friday, Bromwich had another statement on McCabe's behalf, raising the specter of further legal action: “We have for some time been actively considering filing civil lawsuits against the president and senior members of the administration that would allege wrongful termination, defamation, constitutional violations and more. The distinguished Boies Schiller law firm has recently joined us in this project. This is just the beginning."

And, retweeting Trump's Twitter barrage, Bromwich had this to say: "Thank you for providing even more material for the defamation suit we are actively considering filing against you and your colleagues. Stay tuned."


Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said that the report showed that the decision to fire McCabe "was the correct one."

"According to the inspector general report, Mr. McCabe repeatedly lied under oath about the disclosure of information to a reporter. In doing so, he not only violated FBI policy, but he may have committed a federal crime," he said in a statement.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said that while she can't disregard McCabe's actions, "I'm disappointed the context wasn't given more weight."

“The rush to fire McCabe late on a Friday night, just hours before he was to retire, casts a tremendous shadow over the integrity of this process," she said in a statement. "There’s really no way to look at McCabe’s firing other than overtly political."

McCabe has been in the news since his firing, particularly over a GoFundMe campaign which raised more than $500,000 for a legal defense fund.

McCabe also wrote a dramatic op-ed for The Washington Post in which he again denied lying to or misleading investigators, and talked of the humiliation he had undergone over the probe and the way in which he was fired.

“Not in my worst nightmares did I ever dream my FBI career would end this way,” he wrote.








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President Trump announces strikes on Syria



Depending on what report you read the death toll in Syria is hovering around 400,000. As we all know Bashar al-Assad is killing his own people. He's the reason millions of Muslims have left Syria and have overwhelmed Europe. Why one man is allowed to commit this mass carnage and is still living is beyond me.

One aspect stands out about the slaughter is the world's reaction towards the method of their demise. If they're blown to bits it's taken in stride. But by God you better not gas anybody!!! We learned that from our previous fearless leader...'redline in the sand' Barry. 

My point is this. I don't have the facts to back this up but I would say probably less than 2% of the 400,000 have died from a gas attack. Why the emphasis on these attacks? Shouldn't the focus be on the total devastation? If one is blown to bits or gassed aren't they just as dead? 

My final thought is how much longer can this continue? If Trump doesn't kill Assad the whole armada sent to Syria was a waste of time and money. More bads news... Assad has probably taken his military weapons planes, etc and is storing them on a nearby Russian airbase. 

Let's pray Trump gets Assad.

PS:

The bitch Assad calls a wife is just as no good as he is. 


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U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement about Syria at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas


(Reuters) - The following are highlights from U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on Friday announcing military strikes targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons capabilities after a poison gas attack that killed at least 60 people last week.

- "A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. A combined operation with the armed forces of France and the United Kingdom is now underway. We thank them both."

- "The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the United States."

- "The combined American, British and French response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power: military, economy and diplomatic. We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents."

- "Last Saturday, the Assad regime again deployed chemical weapons to slaughter innocent civilians, this time in the town of Douma near the Syrian capital of Damascus. This massacre was a significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use by that very terrible regime."

- "These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead."

- "To Iran and to Russia, I ask, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?"

- "Russia must decide if it will continue down this dark path or if it will join with civilized nations as a force for stability and peace."

- "America does not seek an indefinite presence in Syria, under no circumstances."

- "We cannot purge the world of evil or act everywhere where there is tyranny." - "The United States will be a partner and a friend but the fate of the region lies in the hands of its own people."





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Friday, April 13, 2018

California could vote on separating into 3 states in November






A venture capitalist billionaire said he received enough signatures to get a measure on California's November ballot that asks voters if they want to split California into three states.


 
 A 4 state solution would be better.




Of course, North and South California would have to build a wall. South California 2.



Tim Draper, the chairman of Cal 3, the organization pushing the measure, said they've obtained more than 600,000 signatures -- nearly twice the number needed to get on a state ballot -- and will present them to the California Secretary of State for verification.

"This is an unprecedented show of support on behalf of every corner of California to create three state governments that emphasize representation, responsiveness, reliability and regional identity," Draper said in a statement.

The measure would separate the Golden State into California, which will be the coastal area between Los Angeles and Monterey; Northern California, which will include everything north of Merced, including San Jose and San Francisco; and Southern California, which will include the area west of the new California and south of Los Angeles.

"The separate states are based on existing counties; statehood promotes a sense of community among residents and builds culture," Cal 3 says on its website. " Areas like Sacramento are currently run by powerful special interests like the Teachers' Union. Partitioning the state will help put the power back into the hands of the constituents. If the new state's elected officials aren't meeting the needs of the state's citizens, it will be easier to vote them out of power in the next election."

This isn't the first time Draper, an early investor in Tesla and Skype, has tried to divide California.

Back in 2014, he spearheaded a measure that would have asked voters to divide California into six states but failed to win enough signatures.

Steven Maviglio, a longtime Democratic Party political consultant who helped lead the effort against Draper's 2014 measure, told the Marin Independent Journal that there's no official opposition group working against Cal 3, but said he and others have discussed it.

Maviglio criticized CAL 3 as a "a colossal waste of time."

"It's completely unworkable and ridiculous," Maviglio said. "It's kind of a shame with so many important issues facing the state that this wacky idea might appear on the ballot."

If voters were to approve Draper's ballot, it would still need to be approved by the state legislature and the U.S. Congress.






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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Comey's new book tour... It Takes A Deep State Village






The James Comey media (softball) blitz has officially begun and when the rag is wrung his true colors show. Anyone surprised???



Stephanopoulos got the interview. The tease was…”Is Trump a mob boss?” No way in hell was he going to be interviewed by Hannity or Carlson which tells you where his true loyalty lies. 

PS: You ever wonder why you have to take a drug test to get a job? But these bastards, in the highest positions in government FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, etc... never have to take a polygraph test!








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NRA accepted donations from 20 Russian-linked contributors





The NRA conspired with the Russians to get Trump elected with the whopping sum of $2500??? 

 Looks like the NRA is the new punching bag replacing Confederate statues. 


They’re trying to make a big deal out of this?



(The donations/member fees of $2500 which may include Americans living in Russian.) 

Meanwhile, Amber heard just gave the radical terrorist group known as the ACLU $3.5 million to help them enforce any display of the dreaded TEN COMMANDMENTS.

http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/09/amber-heard-johnny-depp-divorce-settlement-donation-promise/

Looking back... if you were Putin wouldn't you rather have the former lying SOS for president? Right now she would be busy tearing down the border wall too busy to concentrate on Putin.

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The National Rifle Association (NRA) disclosed in a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) this week that it received contributions from 23 individuals with links to Russia since 2015.

The letter, dated Tuesday and made public on Wednesday, stated that the gun rights group received just over $2,500 from those individuals and that most of the money was from "routine payments," like membership fees. Some of the payments may have come from Americans living in Russia, the NRA noted.

Roughly $525 came from "two individuals who made contributions to the NRA," NRA general counsel John Frazer wrote in the letter, which was first reported Wednesday by NPR.

The NRA's acknowledgment that it received payments from 23 individuals signals a sharp increase from the group's previous disclosures. An outside counsel for the NRA told ABC News in an interview last month that the group received just one contribution from a Russian individual between 2012 and 2018.

Frazer in this week's letter also addressed payments to the NRA made by Alexander Torshin, a Russian politician and the deputy of the country's central bank. He said Torshin has been a life member of the group since 2012, and has paid membership dues, but has not made any additional contributions.

Torshin is among the Russian officials named in new U.S. sanctions imposed last week. Frazer said the NRA is now "reviewing our responsibilities with respect to him."

McClatchy D.C. reported in January that the FBI was investigating whether Torshin sought to funnel money to the NRA to help President Trump win the 2016 election.

Wyden has questioned the NRA for months about possible connections to Russia. Frazer said in the letter to the senator that the organization would stop providing information on the matter.

"Given the extraordinarily time-consuming and burdensome nature of your requests, we must respectfully decline to engage in this beyond the clear answers we have already provided," he wrote.





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