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Obama Legacy Unraveling – Worse than Watergate
Richard Nixon had to resign over the famous scandal of the June 17, 1972 failed break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building. After the five perpetrators were arrested, the press and the U.S. Justice Department connected the cash found on them at the time to the Nixon re-election campaign committee. Several major revelations came about with presidential action to try to cover up what took place. It was discovered that Nixon recorded meetings in the Oval Office. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Nixon must release the Oval Office tapes to government investigators. The tapes revealed that Nixon had conspired to cover up activities that took place after the break-in and had attempted to use federal officials to deflect the investigation. Nixon, however, never ordered the break-in.
The Obama Legacy is coming undone. It is looking more and more that President Obama was actually directing U.S. intelligence agencies to spy on Trump. Clearly, like Nixon, Obama at the very least knew what was going on. The likelihood that Vice President Biden also knew everything also remains very high.
Several Republican senators released the names of top Obama administration officials who had put in “unmasking” requests and might have gotten the identity of Michael Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser who was captured on tape talking to Russia’s former ambassador before Mr. Trump was sworn in. The list of officials provided by Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell included Mr. Biden, former FBI Director James B. Comey, and ex-intelligence chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper. These are the men who have been most vocal against Trump – it appears that they have been taking that position knowing what they did was illegal to try to deflect blame if they became criminally indicted.
A federal judge is the Flynn case that appears to be acting more like a prosecutor. He has yet to accept the Justice Department dropping the case. The Judge himself in an unprecedented position suggested he might pursue contempt or perjury charges against Flynn. This is showing deep bias in a political case regarding this judge.
Newly declassified House transcripts show that Hillary Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta met with a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide to join forces regarding the dossier with Fusion GPS for the post-election phase of trying to dig up dirt on President Trump. This is the same Fusion GPS that Mueller never mentions in his report and pretended that it was not part of his investigation.
The ex-aide is Daniel Jones, who in 2017 formed the secretive nonprofit The Democracy Integrity Project. For the project, Mr. Jones hired Fusion GPS, the Clinton campaign’s opposition research firm. During the election, Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson took money from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party and retained Christopher Steele in June 2016. A former British intelligence officer, Mr. Steele went on to compile a dossier filled with felony allegations against Mr. Trump and aides that turned out to be bogus. Mr. Jones also hired Mr. Steele.
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Vierk gnome gets to use some of his favorite terms.
From time to time, I peruse the various sections here on this great CS site. In looking at the good CS advice to avoid scammers, I noticed mention of CS's (old, and possibly inconsistent) exclusion of certain parts of God's world. The reasoning has logic behind it, as many of these places do have their share of scammers. But is any of this racist, or xenophobic? And some do get through, variously, in any case. Ah, what a great feeling to use these words a bit more appropriately than they are often tossed about.
William Barr's highly inappropriate behavior
From The Independent;
(continued in my first comment below)
In response to:
By dropping Michael Flynn’s case, Barr has stripped centuries of credibility from the department of justice
The attorney general has done the worst harm that could be done to the republic: politicizing prosecution, so that friends of the Dear Leader get off
Eric Lewis
11 hours ago
Let’s play Mad Libs. Fill in the blanks:
What would attorney general William Barr have done if [name of prominent Trump enemy] had lied to the FBI about [contact with representative of hostile foreign power] in which they discussed [giving benefit to hostile foreign power] and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
Let’s try: What if Michael Cohen lied to the FBI about talking to the North Korean ambassador about allowing nuclear testing and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
or
What if Adam Schiff lied to the FBI about talking to the Iranian Ambassador about getting Congress to lift economic sanctions and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
or
What if George Conway lied to the FBI about talking to Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, about invasion plans he saw on Kelly Anne Conway’s laptop and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
Lying to the FBI is a crime. There is a materiality requirement; if you tell the FBI that you had cornflakes for breakfast when you had raisin bran, they can’t indict you. But as a lawyer who has argued materiality in a number of cases, I can tell you that beyond what kind of cereal you have, there is very little that is not material. A lie is material not only if it is relevant to the investigation but if the FBI says the lie caused the FBI to affect the course or focus of its investigation or fail to pursue certain lines of inquiry.
So let’s return to our Mad Libs response. Plainly, the crime of lying to the FBI about contact with a hostile foreign power is potentially serious. The lie could be interposed to hide an improper relationship with the foreign power, i.e., espionage or, as the US president would call it with respect to his own FBI, treason. That is not to say that Michael Flynn committed treason, but when someone lies about contact with the Russian Ambassador, that would certainly create in the reasonably curious investigator a thought that there could be national security implications here. As Judge Emmet
Sullivan said, “Arguably, you sold your country out.”
Barr asserted that the government already had the transcript of the conversation so there was no reason to interview him. They knew he had talked to the Russian Ambassador and what was said — basically, don’t worry about responding to Obama’s throwing out of Russian diplomats (or spies undercover) because when we come into office, we’ll fix it all up.
But the FBI had been investigating Russian interference in the Trump campaign. And here is the incoming National Security Advisor telling the Russian Ambassador that good times are gonna roll for Russia when the Trump team arrives. On whose behalf was Flynn offering the goodies? Was he acting on his own? Unlikely. Was he instructed by President-elect Trump to let the Russian ambassador know? And if so, why? Was there, to use a phrase, a quid pro quo? Pretty good questions.
For Barr to claim there was no need to ask whether there was contact because the government already knew, is to limit the purpose of the interview to a single question. Not only does the FBI ask questions it knows the answer to all the time, such a question would be a logical entry point to the questions of why this was occurring when there was still a president in the Oval Office whose policies were entitled not to be undermined by the incoming administration.
By dropping Michael Flynn’s case, Barr has stripped centuries of credibility from the department of justice
The attorney general has done the worst harm that could be done to the republic: politicizing prosecution, so that friends of the Dear Leader get off
Eric Lewis
11 hours ago
Let’s play Mad Libs. Fill in the blanks:
What would attorney general William Barr have done if [name of prominent Trump enemy] had lied to the FBI about [contact with representative of hostile foreign power] in which they discussed [giving benefit to hostile foreign power] and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
Let’s try: What if Michael Cohen lied to the FBI about talking to the North Korean ambassador about allowing nuclear testing and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
or
What if Adam Schiff lied to the FBI about talking to the Iranian Ambassador about getting Congress to lift economic sanctions and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
or
What if George Conway lied to the FBI about talking to Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan president, about invasion plans he saw on Kelly Anne Conway’s laptop and then got caught and pleaded guilty, twice?
Lying to the FBI is a crime. There is a materiality requirement; if you tell the FBI that you had cornflakes for breakfast when you had raisin bran, they can’t indict you. But as a lawyer who has argued materiality in a number of cases, I can tell you that beyond what kind of cereal you have, there is very little that is not material. A lie is material not only if it is relevant to the investigation but if the FBI says the lie caused the FBI to affect the course or focus of its investigation or fail to pursue certain lines of inquiry.
So let’s return to our Mad Libs response. Plainly, the crime of lying to the FBI about contact with a hostile foreign power is potentially serious. The lie could be interposed to hide an improper relationship with the foreign power, i.e., espionage or, as the US president would call it with respect to his own FBI, treason. That is not to say that Michael Flynn committed treason, but when someone lies about contact with the Russian Ambassador, that would certainly create in the reasonably curious investigator a thought that there could be national security implications here. As Judge Emmet
Sullivan said, “Arguably, you sold your country out.”
Barr asserted that the government already had the transcript of the conversation so there was no reason to interview him. They knew he had talked to the Russian Ambassador and what was said — basically, don’t worry about responding to Obama’s throwing out of Russian diplomats (or spies undercover) because when we come into office, we’ll fix it all up.
But the FBI had been investigating Russian interference in the Trump campaign. And here is the incoming National Security Advisor telling the Russian Ambassador that good times are gonna roll for Russia when the Trump team arrives. On whose behalf was Flynn offering the goodies? Was he acting on his own? Unlikely. Was he instructed by President-elect Trump to let the Russian ambassador know? And if so, why? Was there, to use a phrase, a quid pro quo? Pretty good questions.
For Barr to claim there was no need to ask whether there was contact because the government already knew, is to limit the purpose of the interview to a single question. Not only does the FBI ask questions it knows the answer to all the time, such a question would be a logical entry point to the questions of why this was occurring when there was still a president in the Oval Office whose policies were entitled not to be undermined by the incoming administration.
(continued in my first comment below)
Durham moving ‘full-throttle’ on Russia probe review, top federal prosecutors involved: sources
U.S. Attorney for Connecticut John Durham is going “full throttle” with his review into the origins of the investigation into suspected Russia-Trump coordination in the 2016 election, with additional top prosecutors involved in looking at different components of the original probe, sources told Fox News.
Two sources told Fox News that Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the Justice Department in February to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is continuing to help with Durham’s investigation even after the DOJ’s move last week to drop the case against Flynn.
The sources told Fox News that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea is also assisting with components of the investigation.
“They farmed the investigation out because it is too much for Durham and he didn’t want to be distracted,” one of the sources told Fox News.
“He’s going full throttle, and they’re looking at everything,” the source told Fox News.
Two sources told Fox News that Jeff Jensen, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri who was tapped by the Justice Department in February to review the case of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, is continuing to help with Durham’s investigation even after the DOJ’s move last week to drop the case against Flynn.
The sources told Fox News that interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Timothy Shea is also assisting with components of the investigation.
“They farmed the investigation out because it is too much for Durham and he didn’t want to be distracted,” one of the sources told Fox News.
“He’s going full throttle, and they’re looking at everything,” the source told Fox News.
Why ?
Why can you go to Walmart but not Penny's? Why the Dollar store open and not a mom and pop shop? Why can't you have an elective surgery but you can have an abortion which is elective? Why should you stay inside but yet heat and sunlight kills the virus? What makes a person essential and another not? Why have most other death rates dropped during the virus? Why did world leaders meet in China in October 2019, why are the common people being controlled by the governments and no one is controlling the government? What happened to 5G? Why are hospitals paid more for Covid 19 deaths? Why does Sweden have some of the lowest cases but yet never locked down? Why did Obama give the Wuhan lab $334 million dollars? What does a computer geek have to do with a pandemic? Why is there agenda 21 and 2030? Why do they blame Trump for a world problem? Why isn't there ever anything on the news but Trump or the virus? Why did the CDC have a job posting for pandemic relief workers in November 2019? Why did Gates and Obama put out the documentary on Netflix called Pandemic right before the pandemic? Why have they been trying to erase history about Nazi Germany? Why are they infringing on Christians religious freedoms but yet Minneapolis MN is allowing Muslims to install speakers in neighborhoods to do the call to prayer?I don't care if your Republican or Democrat if your not asking these questions you should.
By Jim Binion
By Jim Binion
God
Do you believe in such an Entity? One worded answers please, a simple 'yes' or 'no' will more than suffice.
49 plane flyover
The Chiefs were playing the Raiders. AND President Obama had PREVIOUSLY eliminated patriotic military flyovers at large events. A group of guys in Kansas City who do some formation flying in their own planes, decided they'd volunteer to SAVE this tradition and pick up the slack.
They invited a couple of other groups to join them and before they knew it, they had 48 guys with their own airplanes signing up to join in. If they had more time, they probably would have gotten an even larger group as people kept joining and a 49th was added near the event.
Be sure your speakers are turned up. Best if you watch at 'full screen'.... pretty impressive and it makes you proud to be an American.
They invited a couple of other groups to join them and before they knew it, they had 48 guys with their own airplanes signing up to join in. If they had more time, they probably would have gotten an even larger group as people kept joining and a 49th was added near the event.
Be sure your speakers are turned up. Best if you watch at 'full screen'.... pretty impressive and it makes you proud to be an American.
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