quote:BREAKING: Spy Court Admits FISA Warrants Against Carter Page Were ‘Not Valid’
Authority granted to the federal government to secretly wiretap and spy on former Trump affiliate Carter Page was “not valid,” the nation’s top spy court noted in a secret ruling penned earlier this month. The order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which was created and authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), was initially signed and issued on January 7, 2020, but was not declassified and released until Thursday afternoon.
Judge James Boasberg, the current federal judge presiding over the FISA court, wrote in his order that at least two of the four FISA applications against Carter Page were unlawfully authorized. Additionally, according his order, the Department of Justice similarly concluded following the release of a sprawling investigate report on the matter by the agency’s inspector general that the government did not have probable cause that Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power. The FISA law states that American citizens cannot be secretly spied on by the U.S. government absent probable cause, based on valid evidence, that an American is unlawfully acting as a foreign agent.
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quote:DOJ Concedes That Two Of Its Carter Page FISA Orders Were ‘Not Valid’
The Justice Department recently conceded that two of the four orders to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page were “not valid,” Judge James Boasberg said in a court order unsealed Thursday.
The Justice Department made the surprising concession in response to an inspector general’s (IG) report that found “significant” errors and omissions in four applications submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to surveil Page.
While the IG report was highly critical of the FBI and Justice Department, it did not weigh in on the validity of the four surveillance applications, which were granted under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
But Boasberg, who presides over the FISC, said in an order on Jan. 7 that the Justice Department concluded that the second and third renewals of the Page surveillance warrants “were not valid.”
Boasberg said that the government did not take a position on the validity of the initial application, granted on Oct. 21, 2016, and the first renewal, granted on Jan. 12, 2017.
Boasberg also said that the Justice Department informed the FISC that prior to applying for the final two warrants, “there was insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that [Carter] Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.”
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De regering verzoekt meer tijd om de informatie die verband houdt of geproduceerd is met de Carter Page FISA-bevelschrift in kaart te brengen en te verwerken.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op zaterdag 25-01-2020 om 16:11:17 #FISA UNDER THE RADAR: Government makes “oral request additional time” to explain “handling and disposition” records associated with/generated by Carter Page surveillance. Two warrants already deemed defective, remaining two under review. New deadline February 5 #MyHighlighter https://t.co/adRRwFzMBO reageer retweet
Dat zal vast mooi in de boekenkast staan naast die van James Comey, Andy McCabe, James Clapper, John Brennan en Michael Avenatti.quote:Op maandag 27 januari 2020 19:20 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Omdat je er zo diep in zit, heb ik een boekentip voor je!
https://www.amazon.com/dp(...)49169&s=books&sr=1-3
https://www.washingtonexa(...)interference-in-2016quote:Durham scrutinizing John Brennan’s handling of Russian interference in 2016
U.S. Attorney John Durham is reportedly reviewing John Brennan’s analysis of Russian election interference, including scrutiny of the former Obama CIA director’s handling of a secret source said to be close to the Kremlin.
Durham, who was selected by Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the government’s response to Moscow’s meddling, is investigating whether Brennan’s CIA was attempting to keep other agencies in the dark as he pushed for a specific, preconceived analytic assessment about Russia’s true intentions in 2016, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The top Connecticut prosecutor’s team reviewed emails from the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency analysts who came together to assess Russia’s interference, the new report revealed, and Durham’s investigators pressed for answers about why some agencies at least temporarily denied other agencies access to secretive intelligence about the Kremlin’s active-measures campaign.
Durham interviewed agents and analysts from all three agencies, and the report said he was scrutinizing whether the clash over intelligence-sharing was the typical sort of bureaucratic turf battle over jealously guarded secrets or an effort to cover something up.
Much of this revolves around how the United States government eventually reached its January 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian meddling and whether Brennan was pushing for a biased result.
One major battle was about the identity and credibility of a CIA source allegedly close to the Kremlin. The NSA wanted more details about him, which the CIA resisted before providing them. The NSA then disagreed with the CIA and FBI about how much confidence to place in the source.
At least some intelligence officials were disturbed by a law enforcement officer such as Durham inquiring into the assessments made by intelligence agencies, though Durham played a similar role in his Obama-era investigation into the CIA's destruction of tapes showing the harsh interrogation of detainees.
Durham hasn’t yet interviewed Brennan, though the report said his emails and other records have been requested from the CIA by the U.S. attorney. Retired Adm. Mike Rogers, who was head of the NSA at the time, was interviewed by Durham last summer and fall.
The January 2017 intelligence community assessment in question concluded with "high confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” and that Russia worked to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency” and “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump’s election chances and harm those of Clinton by contrasting her unfavorably.
“I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy, I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations, and, in the end, I made that call,” Rogers told the Senate in May 2017. “It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”
It was Brennan’s still-classified “wake-up call” intelligence that prompted the Obama administration to reconsider how it viewed Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed last week. The specifics of the intelligence that jolted Barack Obama's national security team into action is detailed in a blacked-out section, titled “[Redacted] Intelligence Was The ‘Wake Up’ Call.”
Within an hour or two of being briefed on the intelligence, then-national security adviser Susan Rice said Obama needed to know.
Rice said “the president's reaction was of grave concern,” which “prompted her to call the first of a series of restricted small-group Principals Committee meetings on the topic.”
“During the meeting with the President, Director Brennan also advised the President of a plan to brief key individuals, including congressional leadership, but not to disseminate the intelligence via routine reporting channels,” the Senate report stated.
The committee noted “the receipt of the sensitive intelligence prompted the National Security Council to begin a series of restricted Principals Committee meetings to craft the administration's response” and said the discussions “were atypically restricted” and “excluded” key officials who were normally clued in.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said that “the extraordinarily restricted nature of the meetings and departure from routine methods of disseminating intelligence were reminiscent” of how they handled preparations for the Osama bin Laden raid. Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates called it “very cloak-and-dagger.”
The list even initially excluded the secretary of state, the defense secretary, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Treasury secretary.
“Several NSC officials who would normally be included in discussions of importance, such as the NSC Senior Director for Russia, the Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, and the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, were neither included in the discussions nor exposed to the sensitive intelligence until after the election,” the report said.
The Brennan-relayed intelligence was likely detailed in a June 2017 Washington Post article, which stated that in early August 2016, the CIA sent an “eyes only” envelope addressed to Obama that contained an “intelligence bombshell … from sourcing deep inside the Russian government” that detailed Putin’s “specific instructions” to help Trump and hurt Clinton in 2016. The material was said to be so sensitive it was kept out of the President’s Daily Brief.
U.S. Attorney John Durham is reportedly reviewing John Brennan’s analysis of Russian election interference, including scrutiny of the former Obama CIA director’s handling of a secret source said to be close to the Kremlin.
Durham, who was selected by Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the government’s response to Moscow’s meddling, is investigating whether Brennan’s CIA was attempting to keep other agencies in the dark as he pushed for a specific, preconceived analytic assessment about Russia’s true intentions in 2016, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The top Connecticut prosecutor’s team reviewed emails from the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency analysts who came together to assess Russia’s interference, the new report revealed, and Durham’s investigators pressed for answers about why some agencies at least temporarily denied other agencies access to secretive intelligence about the Kremlin’s active-measures campaign.
Durham interviewed agents and analysts from all three agencies, and the report said he was scrutinizing whether the clash over intelligence-sharing was the typical sort of bureaucratic turf battle over jealously guarded secrets or an effort to cover something up.
Much of this revolves around how the United States government eventually reached its January 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian meddling and whether Brennan was pushing for a biased result.
One major battle was about the identity and credibility of a CIA source allegedly close to the Kremlin. The NSA wanted more details about him, which the CIA resisted before providing them. The NSA then disagreed with the CIA and FBI about how much confidence to place in the source.
At least some intelligence officials were disturbed by a law enforcement officer such as Durham inquiring into the assessments made by intelligence agencies, though Durham played a similar role in his Obama-era investigation into the CIA's destruction of tapes showing the harsh interrogation of detainees.
Durham hasn’t yet interviewed Brennan, though the report said his emails and other records have been requested from the CIA by the U.S. attorney. Retired Adm. Mike Rogers, who was head of the NSA at the time, was interviewed by Durham last summer and fall.
The January 2017 intelligence community assessment in question concluded with "high confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” and that Russia worked to “undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process, denigrate former Secretary of State [Hillary] Clinton, and harm her electability and potential presidency” and “developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.” The NSA diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump’s election chances and harm those of Clinton by contrasting her unfavorably.
“I wouldn’t call it a discrepancy, I’d call it an honest difference of opinion between three different organizations, and, in the end, I made that call,” Rogers told the Senate in May 2017. “It didn’t have the same level of sourcing and the same level of multiple sources.”
It was Brennan’s still-classified “wake-up call” intelligence that prompted the Obama administration to reconsider how it viewed Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee revealed last week. The specifics of the intelligence that jolted Barack Obama's national security team into action is detailed in a blacked-out section, titled “[Redacted] Intelligence Was The ‘Wake Up’ Call.”
Within an hour or two of being briefed on the intelligence, then-national security adviser Susan Rice said Obama needed to know.
Rice said “the president's reaction was of grave concern,” which “prompted her to call the first of a series of restricted small-group Principals Committee meetings on the topic.”
“During the meeting with the President, Director Brennan also advised the President of a plan to brief key individuals, including congressional leadership, but not to disseminate the intelligence via routine reporting channels,” the Senate report stated.
The committee noted “the receipt of the sensitive intelligence prompted the National Security Council to begin a series of restricted Principals Committee meetings to craft the administration's response” and said the discussions “were atypically restricted” and “excluded” key officials who were normally clued in.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said that “the extraordinarily restricted nature of the meetings and departure from routine methods of disseminating intelligence were reminiscent” of how they handled preparations for the Osama bin Laden raid. Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates called it “very cloak-and-dagger.”
The list even initially excluded the secretary of state, the defense secretary, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and the Treasury secretary.
“Several NSC officials who would normally be included in discussions of importance, such as the NSC Senior Director for Russia, the Senior Director for Intelligence Programs, and the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, were neither included in the discussions nor exposed to the sensitive intelligence until after the election,” the report said.
The Brennan-relayed intelligence was likely detailed in a June 2017 Washington Post article, which stated that in early August 2016, the CIA sent an “eyes only” envelope addressed to Obama that contained an “intelligence bombshell … from sourcing deep inside the Russian government” that detailed Putin’s “specific instructions” to help Trump and hurt Clinton in 2016. The material was said to be so sensitive it was kept out of the President’s Daily Brief.
One day after Trump gave Barr “full and complete” declassification authority to examine the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation in May 2019, the New York Times published a piece on this source “long-nurtured by the CIA” whom the outlet hinted was now in danger of being exposed in Russia — but he had already left the country. The source’s initial resistance to being pulled out reportedly led some to question whether he might be a double agent.
Hotly disputed reporting by CNN and others in September 2019 about the reasons for the alleged source’s apparent 2017 exfiltration from Russia eventually exposed his identity and revealed he was living in the D.C. area. He’s since been moved, and it is not known whether Durham has questioned him.
Voorzitter van de Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham heeft het ministerie van Justitie gevraagd om getuigen vrij te maken die betrokken waren bij het FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Hurricane, inclusief de aanvragen en verlengingen van de FISA-dagvaarding tegen Carter Page.quote:Op zondag 9 februari 2020 16:33 schreef dellipder het volgende:
De voorzitter van de Senate Judiciary Committee heeft getuigenverhoren aangekondigd van Rod Rosenstein, Sally Yates, James Comey en Andrew McCabe en de rest die betrokken waren bij het FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Hurricane.
En hij zegt ook dat hij wil weten wat president Obama precies wist over het onderzoek.
Het verhoor van Rod Rosenstein wordt interessant, omdat dan bevestigd wordt dat niet het lekken van memo's door James Comey het instellen van de special counsel Robert Mueller in gang bracht, maar de beslissing van toen acting attorney general Rosenstein het obstruction of justice-onderzoek dat Andrew McCabe had gestart tegen president Trump, vanwege zijn beslissing James Comey te ontslaan, bij hem en de FBI weg te halen en het onder de auspiciën van het ministerie van Justitie te laten vallen.
Enkele berichten die ik hier heb ingebracht zijn in dit verband nog eens de moeite waard door te nemen.
BNW / The Cabal; the Weaponization of Government - deel V
BNW / The Cabal; the Weaponization of Government - deel VI
De volgende aflevering in de Russia-conspiracy en the usual suspects duiken op; de inlichtingendiensten, DNC, Adam Schiff, WaPo, NYT.quote:'Rusland wil opnieuw Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen beïnvloeden'
Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten waarschuwen dat Rusland opnieuw probeert om de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen te beïnvloeden. De Russen willen dat Trump wordt herkozen als president, was de boodschap aan de commissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden die zich richt op de inlichtingendiensten.
Onder meer The New York Times schrijft over de bijeenkomst van vorige week. De inlichtingendiensten zeiden dat Rusland zowel de voorverkiezingen als de algemene verkiezingen van november wil beïnvloeden. Volgens de The New York Times reageerde Trump woedend. Hij zou bang zijn dat de Democraten het tegen hem gaan gebruiken.
Inlichtingenbaas
Woensdag verving Trump Joseph Maguire als de hoogste baas van de inlichtingendiensten door Richard Grenell, de ambassadeur in Duitsland en een vertrouweling van de president. Trump gaf geen reden voor de vervanging. Wel bedankte hij Maguire voor "zijn fantastische werk". Op Twitter schreef hij ook dat hij ernaar uitkijkt om met hem te blijven werken in een mogelijke andere functie.
De aanstelling van Grennell leidde tot kritiek van Democraten. Volgens senator Mark Warner heeft Trump iemand zonder enige ervaring op inlichtingengebied aangesteld als hoogste inlichtingenbaas.
Ook The Washington Post en persbureau AP schrijven over de bijeenkomst in de commissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden op 13 februari. Republikeinen reageerden kritisch op de waarschuwing en wezen erop dat Trump Rusland de afgelopen jaren hard heeft aangepakt, onder meer door sancties.
Democratische afgevaardigden noemen de waarschuwing "een belangrijk bericht over de integriteit van de aanstaande verkiezingen". Volgens Adam Schiff, die de afzettingsprocedure tegen Trump leidde, lijkt het erop dat Trump "opnieuw onze pogingen ondermijnt om buitenlandse inmenging te stoppen".
Inmenging 2016
Bij de presidentsverkiezingen van 2016 heeft Rusland geprobeerd de Amerikaanse kiezers te beïnvloeden, concludeerde speciaal aanklager Robert Mueller vorig jaar. Met een hackoperatie en via sociale media werd Trumps tegenstander Hillary Clinton zwartgemaakt. Maar volgens Mueller was er geen bewijs van samenzwering tussen Trump en Rusland.
Trump heeft altijd ontkend dat hij met Rusland heeft samengewerkt en hij noemde het onderzoek daarnaar een hoax, een nepverhaal.
Verder is het lezen van dit artikel ook een tijdverspilling, omdat geen enkel bewijs wordt geleverd die de claims kunnen onderbouwen dat Rusland probeert Donald Trump te helpen, er wordt toegegeven dat er geen nieuw bewijs en er wordt toegegeven dat er geen bewijs was die de oude claims staafden.twitter:RepAdamSchiff twitterde op vrijdag 21-02-2020 om 01:51:21 We count on the intelligence community to inform Congress of any threat of foreign interference in our elections.If reports are true and the President is interfering with that, he is again jeopardizing our efforts to stop foreign meddling.Exactly as we warned he would do. https://t.co/viSBlnA1nb reageer retweet
Maguire haalde het in zijn hoofd de Ruslandbullshit weer op te warmen en daarmee dus direct Trump aan te vallen. Terecht dat hij eruit geknikkerd wordt. Hoog tijd dat opnieuw de bezem door de top van de veiligheidsdiensten wordt gehaald, er blijken immers nog zat mollen actief die de president en diens regering tegenwerken. De MSM probeert de burger nu wijs te maken dat dit allemaal heel dom is, aangezien Grenell helemaal geen ervaring binnen de 'Intelligence Community' heeft, terwijl mensen van buiten juist de boel prima kunnen opruimen, net zoals Trump van origine geen politicus is.quote:Most alarming, however, is the reported back story about just how Grenell came to be pitched at the last moment into this job for which he is all but utterly unqualified. The New York Times reported Thursday afternoon that Trump exploded at Joseph Maguire, a veteran intelligence operative who was the current acting DNI after it became known that one tell-it-like-it-is Maguire deputy told a bipartisan congressional committee, including Trump's archnemesis, Adam Schiff, that Russia is back at it again -- pushing Trump's re-election. A source familiar with internal discussions said White House officials saw Grenell as a stopgap -- Maguire's time in the job as an acting DNI was limited, and Trump was dissatisfied with Maguire because of this intelligence briefing.
Richard Grenell is trouwens openlijk homoseksueel en anti-oorlog. Hier een stukje uit een gesprek met Dave Rubin van enkele dagen geleden:quote:NSC aide who worked to discredit Russia probe moves to senior ODNI post
Kash Patel, a former top National Security Council official who also played a key role as a Hill staffer in helping Republicans discredit the Russia probe, is now a senior adviser for new acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Nee.quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 11:40 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Ik zag dat Trump nu Richard Grenell als tijdelijk Director of National Intelligence heeft benoemd na Joseph Maguire ontslagen te hebben.
twitter:kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 21-02-2020 om 02:02:35 NEWS: KASH PATEL, former Nunes aide, is now a senior adviser to the DNI, @dlippman reports.https://t.co/V03HKbB1V4 reageer retweet
quote:Op dinsdag 10 december 2019 13:21 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Het rapport is een overwinning voor Devin Nunes die als eerste aan de bel trok over FISA--misbruik.
Het rapport bevestigt de Nunes-memo waarin stond dat het dossier een "essentieel" onderdeel was in het aanvragen van de FISA-dagvaarding en dat de FBI-informatie onthield aan de FISC.
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The Men Behind the Nunes Memo
The House Intelligence Committee’s chair wasn’t alone in drafting the classified memo that it just voted to release
Heb nog even verder gekeken en zoals het nu blijkt, moest Maguire sowieso wettelijk stoppen in deze tijdelijke functie, Grenell neemt de tijdelijke functie over en vervolgens moet er nog een vaste DNI worden gezocht, waarvoor Doug Collins' naam nu genoemd wordt?quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 12:03 schreef dellipder het volgende:
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Het betekent dat Joseph Maguire niet is ontslagen, maar volgens het gebruikelijke proces, dat wettelijk is vastgelegd, zijn tijdelijke functie na 210 dagen moet verlaten.quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 12:37 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Heb nog even verder gekeken en zoals het nu blijkt, moest Maguire sowieso wettelijk stoppen in deze tijdelijke functie, Grenell neemt de tijdelijke functie over en vervolgens moet er nog een vaste DNI worden gezocht, waarvoor Doug Collins' naam nu genoemd wordt?
Ik vermoed juist dat de kans dan niet heel erg groot is dat Collins deze rol gaat vervullen. Niet gebaseerd op inside infomatie.
Maguire is dus eerder gewieberd dan gepland ten faveure van Grenell, totdat er een vaste invulling voor de functie is?
Maar dat Maguire eerder dan gepland zijn tijdelijke functie moet opgeven, zou dus inderdaad te maken kunnen hebben met de opnieuw opgewarmde Rusland-BS vanuit de intelligence commitee.quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 13:02 schreef dellipder het volgende:
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Het betekent dat Joseph Maguire niet is ontslagen, maar volgens het gebruikelijke proces, dat wettelijk is vastgelegd, zijn tijdelijke functie na 210 dagen moet verlaten.
Er steekt in deze kwestie geen masterplan of duistere complot achter, maar is simpelweg de uitvoering van de Vacancies Act.
En het klopt dat Doug Collins in deze wordt genoemd. bron
Alleen ook hier de nuance dat hij wordt benoemd als een van degenen die worden overwogen als directeur van de nationale inlichtingendiensten.
Joseph Maguire kan wettelijk niet na 11 maart acting DNI zijn, dus hij verdwijnt volgende maand. Niet eerder dan gepland, niets te maken met allerlei narratieven, geen complotten of vanwege delusional gespin van de #fakenewsmedia.quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 13:11 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Maar dat Maguire eerder dan gepland zijn tijdelijke functie moet opgeven, zou dus inderdaad te maken kunnen hebben met de opnieuw opgewarmde Rusland-BS vanuit de intelligence commitee.
Wat ik dus gisteren al stelde.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op vrijdag 21-02-2020 om 18:05:24 Source familiar w /house briefing @CBSNews says briefers pressed for evidence to back up claims Russia “trying to help POTUS in 2020.” Asked if there was signals intelligence - such as phone intercepts or “SIGINT” - to back up claims, source said briefers had none to offer #DNI reageer retweet
Morgen natuurlijk overal grootschalige rectificaties in de MSM.quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 20:28 schreef dellipder het volgende:
En het Failing New York Times narratief is weer een hoax gebleken.Wat ik dus gisteren al stelde.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op vrijdag 21-02-2020 om 18:05:24 Source familiar w /house briefing @:CBSNews says briefers pressed for evidence to back up claims Russia “trying to help POTUS in 2020.” Asked if there was signals intelligence - such as phone intercepts or “SIGINT” - to back up claims, source said briefers had none to offer #DNI reageer retweet
Mwah ze betrekken nu ook Bernie erbij.quote:Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 20:46 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Morgen natuurlijk overal grootschalige rectificaties in de MSM.
O nee, toch niet
It ain't going away...quote:
Hillary Clinton Can Be Deposed About Email Server, Judge Orders
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District Court Judge Royce Lamberth granted a request to conservative watchdog organization Judicial Watch, authorizing the group to question Clinton and others about whether she carried out State Department business on a private email server. The organization for years has been seeking emails related to the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya.
“Any further discovery should focus on whether she used a private server to evade [the Freedom of Information Act] and, as a corollary to that, what she understood about State’s records management obligations,” Lamberth wrote in his order .
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Het belangrijkste dat Graham probeert te vinden is wie de case-agents hebben verteld over de primary sub-source die in januari 2017 het Steele dossier volledig ontkrachtte.quote:Graham starts closed-door depositions in FISA probe
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Tuesday that he has started closed-door interviews as part of his deep dive into the surveillance courts and the FBI’s Russia probe.
Graham confirmed to reporters that he has started the depositions, then escaped into a Senate elevator.
Graham is using his gavel to probe the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) surveillance warrants involving Trump campaign associate Carter Page and the FBI’s handling of the investigation into Russia's election meddling and the Trump campaign.
He’s requested testimony from more than 20 current Justice Department and FBI officials.
He also wants to call former officials including former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates before his committee.
The deep dive comes amid growing concerns about the potential for abuse of the FISC after Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz found 17 “significant inaccuracies and omissions” in the Page warrant application.
Some of President Trump’s biggest allies want to use a debate over soon-to-expire provisions of the USA Freedom Act to make broader changes to the surveillance court.
Trump is convening a meeting on Tuesday afternoon with lawmakers on both sides of the debate to try to break the stalemate.
Congress has until March 15 to extend three provisions of the USA Freedom Act.
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op woensdag 04-03-2020 om 16:53:08 DEVELOPING: New IG report “...we found at least six attacks committed in the United States by individuals who the FBI had previously assessed or investigated...” including 2009 Fort Hood, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, 2016 Pulse Nightclub READ: https://t.co/0zNzEHTZSm @CBSNews https://t.co/msBeTbZxEp reageer retweet
Waarom zouden ze niet gewoon onder ede liegen?quote:Op dinsdag 3 maart 2020 18:21 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Het nieuws hier betreft een gerechtelijk bevel dat Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills en twee medewerkers van Buitenlandse Zaken binnen 75 dagen dwingt onder ede een verklaring af te leggen over e-mails en documenten over de aanval op het Amerikaanse consulaat in Benghazi, Libië.
Omdat daar potentieel zware straffen voor geëist kunnen worden, als bewezen kan worden dat je gelogen hebt.quote:Op zaterdag 7 maart 2020 03:02 schreef illusions het volgende:
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Waarom zouden ze niet gewoon onder ede liegen?
Voor hetgeen ze terecht staan ook, dus boeiend.quote:Op zaterdag 7 maart 2020 09:21 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Omdat daar potentieel zware straffen voor geëist kunnen worden, als bewezen kan worden dat je gelogen hebt.
Maar ze kunnen dus de bak in draaien wegens liegen, zelfs als de werkelijke misdrijven niet bewezen kunnen wordenquote:Op zaterdag 7 maart 2020 14:38 schreef illusions het volgende:
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Voor hetgeen ze terecht staan ook, dus boeiend.
En dat is in de geschiedenis van de mensheid ooit een belemmering geweest?quote:Op zaterdag 7 maart 2020 15:26 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Maar ze kunnen dus de bak in draaien wegens liegen, zelfs als de werkelijke misdrijven niet bewezen kunnen worden
En moet je ook eens nagaan hoe fake het nieuws over de Russia collusion delusion is geweest en nog steeds is, want deze documenten zijn vrijgegeven via een FOIA-rechtszaak die nota bene Buzzfeed en CNN hadden aangespannen. bronquote:Op vrijdag 6 maart 2020 22:20 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
De russian collusion hoax brokkelt verder af. Er was geen collusion of conspiracy in de 'Trump tower meeting'. Hillary of de verkiezingen kwamen niet eens ter sprake. 4 dagen na de bombshell in de NYT over de meeting heeft de FBI de vertaler in die meeting geïnterviewd. De notes van dat interview zijn vrijgegeven en die halen de collusion hoax volledig onderuit.
Part 4 bladzijde 50-57
https://vault.fbi.gov/spe(...)nvestigation-records
quote:Michael J. Glennon: "I had noticed for years that U.S. national security changed little from one administration to the next, but the continuity was so striking mid-way into the Obama administration that I thought it was time to address the question directly.
Never waste a good crisis! De aanslagen op 9/11 kwamen natuurlijk als een godsgeschenk voor de deep state. Onder het mom van bescherming van het land en diens burgers, werd het veiligheidsapparaat nog verdere bevoegdheden gegeven.quote:Glennon draws from the theories of British writer Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), who discussed the structure of British government in his book The English Constitution (1867). He argues that Bagehot's thesis of a "double government" in nineteenth century Britain also applies to the U.S. today. Glennon posits that there are two institutions in control: the "Madisonian" public institutions of the congress, presidency and the courts, which maintain the necessary public illusion that they are in charge and in control of policy, while a secretive "Trumanite" network of unelected, unaccountable national security bureaucrats actually make and set policy that the Madisonians appear to implement as their own. Glennon warns that control by the Trumanite network weakens constitutional restraints upon government, such as checks and balances and oversight, and results in less democracy, and a greater risk of despotism.
De claim van de staat is inderdaad niet geloofwaardig, want de FBI archiveert alle informatie en documentatie in sentinel.twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-03-2020 om 18:29:03 So now it is reported that, after destroying his life & the life of his wonderful family (and many others also), the FBI, working in conjunction with the Justice Department, has “lost” the records of General Michael Flynn. How convenient. I am strongly considering a Full Pardon! reageer retweet
quote:Op donderdag 30 mei 2019 09:40 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Even een reminder:
[…] but I will say that when we met with him Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and I met with him along with Edward O'Callahan who is the principal associate deputy on March 5th we specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking the position that he would have found a crime but for the existence of the OLC opinion and he made it very clear several times that that was not his position.
Wat in deze clip verteld wordt over de OLC eventjes daargelaten kan hieruit onttrokken en benadrukt worden dat het frame dat procureur-generaal William Barr een solistische exercitie heeft uitgevoerd niet berust op de werkelijkheid.
Edward O'Callahan en Rod Rosenstein maakten deel uit van het proces dat leidde naar de beslissing over de “obstruction of justice”-aspect van het sco-onderzoek.
Nadat Sally Yates op 30 januari 2017 als procureur-generaal werd ontslagen vanwege haar verzet tegen haar superieur, de president van de Verenigde Staten, en Jeff Sessions op 2 maart 2017 zichzelf verschoonde van de lopende Rusland-onderzoek werd Rosenstein hierover waarnemend procureur-generaal.
In deze hoedanigheid stelde hij 17 mei 2017 de special counsel in en was hij eindverantwoordelijke en toezichthouder over dit onderzoek.
Waarom nam Rosenstein dit besluit?
Waarom nam Rosenstein het besluit dat feitelijk ervoor zorgde dat het FBI-onderzoek van de auspiciën van de FBI werd weggehaald en onder de autoriteit van het ministerie van Justitie werd gebracht?
Dit had in elk geval niets te maken met de memo's van James Comey die hij via Daniel Richman naar The New York Times lekte ergens tussen 15 en 16 mei 2017.
Dit had alles te maken met Andrew McCabe (en zijn team met onder andere Peter Strzok en Lisa Page) die na het ontslag van James Comey op 9 mei 2017 een strafrechtelijk onderzoek instelde tegen de Amerikaanse president naar spionage en het belemmeren van de rechtsgang.
Het was McCabe die de “obstruction of justice”-zaak had geopend.
Dit is de achtergrond waartegen de commotie over de OLC moet worden afgezet.
Een gezamenlijk verklaring van de special counsel en de procureur-generaal is hierover uitgevaardigd:
Met andere woorden Robert Mueller zegt dat William Barr niet heeft gelogen en William Barr zegt dat Robert Mueller niet heeft gelogen.
Er zit en zat sowieso geen licht tussen wat Mueller en Barr hebben verklaard.
In essentie vertelde Mueller aan Barr dat als de feiten van deze zaak zo voor de hand liggend zouden zijn, zou hij de OLC buiten beschouwing laten, maar dat was niet in dit geval, dus koos hij ervoor om geen precedent te creëren in lang bestaand beleid.
In the future the facts of a case against a President might be such that a special counsel would recommend abandoning the OLC opinion, but this not such a case.
Eigenlijk, in de context waarin Barr de beslissing omschrijft om het aloude OLC-beleid niet te doorbreken, is de vraag waarom McCabe überhaupt een onderzoek naar het belemmeren van de rechtsgang opende zonder eerst het ministerie van Justitie te raadplegen.
In Jip en Janneke-taal; Robert Mueller koos om de OLC-richtlijnen te hanteren, omdat de feiten van de zaak het verlaten daarvan niet rechtvaardigden.
Mueller kon geen beslissing nemen over het gedeelte van het onderzoek betreffende het belemmeren van de rechtsgang, omdat de feiten daarover bij het openen daarvan al heel erg gebrekkig waren.
De special counsel zegt feitelijk, dat ze niet weten waarover McCabe het heeft en vervolgens hebben William Barr en Rod Rosenstein hun conclusie getrokken.
Resumé; Robert Mueller werd aangesteld, omdat Rosenstein vond dat McCabe losgeslagen en irrationeel was.
In feite is dit wat ook Mueller concludeerde, maar zijn bewoordingen maken het niet heel eenvoudig dit te ontwaren.
quote:Hopefully the Durham investigation will reveal the true extent of the spying operation, and how many innocent Americans had their rights violated and their privacy compromised. Another important question yet to be resolved is when Spygate started. For example, George Papadopoulos was being targeted by foreign intelligence services like Australia, perhaps at Brennan’s behest, months before Donald Trump was the Republican nominee. This raises the question, were members of other then-still active Republican campaigns being targeted in this time frame as well? Was this part of a general push to begin weaving the Russian collusion story against any potential GOP 2016 nominee, and not just Trump? If the answer to that question is yes, then it will be clear that the entire enterprise was not an intelligence operation at all but a criminal political conspiracy of unprecedented scope and impact. It would indeed make Watergate look like a third-rate burglary.
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FBI Lawyer Referred for Criminal Prosecution by Horowitz Was Primary FBI Attorney on Trump–Russia Case
Kevin Clinesmith sent multiple text messages showing strong anti-Trump bias, including 'Viva le resistance'
A former FBI attorney reportedly referred for criminal prosecution by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz—for allegedly altering an email connected to the surveillance warrant on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page—was assigned in early 2017 as “the primary FBI attorney assigned” to the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into alleged Russian election interference.
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In relatie tot het FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Hurricane twee opmerkingen. Het onderzoek van de inspecteur-generaal Micheal Horowitz heeft geconcludeerd dat hierin op zijn minst 17 belangrijke fouten en weglatingen zijn gemaakt. Daarom is het hele FBI-team onderwerp van onderzoek via het ministerie van Justitie en de FBI (het onderzoek van openbaar aanklager John Durham en via OPR; dat is de afdeling Interne Zaken van Justitie).quote:Op dinsdag 31 maart 2020 22:54 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Zal Clinesmith de schuld op zich nemen en alleen gaan brommen, of zal hij belastende verklaringen tegen anderen afleggen? Hopelijk krijgt die rat dezelfde behandeling als de slachtoffers van de corrupte justitiekliek, waaronder generaal Flynn en Roger Stone, die ze financieel kapotgeprocedeerd hebben.
Prima, toch?quote:Op donderdag 2 april 2020 15:09 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Schiff en zijn handlangers gaan weer een commissie optuigen voor een nieuwe poging Trump een oor aan te naaien:
https://thehill.com/homen(...)commission-to-review
https://www.washingtonpos(...)8136c1a6d_story.html
quote:Investigation Into Origins of Trump-Russia Probe Continues Despite Coronavirus
Connecticut U.S. attorney leading investigation began CIA and other interviews earlier this year
Investigators examining the beginnings of the 2016 probe of possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian election interference are pushing to complete their inquiry despite the coronavirus pandemic.
The former U.K. Ambassador to Russia, Sir Andrew Wood, who in 2016 alerted the late Republican Sen. John McCain about related allegations, said he had been contacted in connection with the probe. “My answer to an enquiry by email from a member of the team about 2016 some weeks ago was that I had nothing to add to what was already on the public record,” Mr. Wood said in an email on Thursday, declining further comment.
The investigators, led by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, were refused by British authorities earlier this year when they requested an interview—outside formal, more time-consuming channels—with former British spy Christopher Steele, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Steele had compiled the related allegations, some of which were salacious and have since been dismissed, in a dossier.
Mr. Durham was tapped last year by Attorney General William Barr to conduct the review. The probe, according to people familiar with it, is proceeding on multiple fronts, examining the initial surfacing of the allegations in 2016 as well as a separate 2017 U.S. intelligence report that concluded Moscow interfered in the presidential election in part to help then-candidate Donald Trump.
Mr. Durham’s team began interviews earlier this year at the Central Intelligence Agency, according to people familiar with the process. It has focused on people who are or were working at the National Intelligence Council, a unit of the Director of National Intelligence’s office that coordinated the U.S. intelligence community’s assessment of Russia’s 2016 election interference, as well as on individuals at other agencies whose work fed into that assessment, one official said.
Increasingly, investigators are focused on former CIA Director John Brennan, examining whether he pushed for a blunter assessment about Russia’s motivations than others in the intelligence community felt was warranted, people familiar with the matter said.
A spokesman for Mr. Brennan declined to comment, as did a spokesman for Mr. Durham. In an interview last month Mr. Barr said only that Mr. Durham and his team were “making good progress on a lot of fronts.”
That focus has heightened tensions between investigators and U.S. intelligence officials. “There was no political interference” by Mr. Brennan or anyone else, said a former senior intelligence official involved in preparing the report. A 2004 intelligence overhaul that added new procedures to “tease out and highlight” analysts’ differences—meant to address failures that occurred in assessing Iraq’s weapons-of-mass-destruction programs in the early 2000s—“worked perfectly,” the official said. A U.S. official familiar with the Durham review and with the compilation of the report, made public in January 2017, agreed, stressing that its conclusions have held up under scrutiny from lawmakers and intelligence agencies’ own internal reviews in the more than three years since it was published.
At least one former CIA official has been seeking to hire a lawyer in recent weeks in connection with the inquiry, some of the people said.
Mr. Trump has long feuded with Mr. Brennan, who has been highly critical of the president since leaving office in January 2017. In 2018, the president said he was revoking the former CIA chief’s security clearance.
Interviews of National Intelligence Council personnel and others have been aboveboard and “not adversarial,” focusing on how the assessment was put together and the differing viewpoints, according to the official who spoke about them.
The additional outreach for interviews on various fronts represents an acceleration in Mr. Durham’s nearly yearlong inquiry. Mr. Barr has said he would like to reach conclusions by the summer.
Mr. Durham drove to Washington last month from his home in Connecticut to keep the probe going full-bore when flights became scarce because of the coronavirus.
Intelligence agencies agreed in 2016 that Russia’s interference in the presidential election was aimed at hurting Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and boosting President Trump’s election chances. The CIA and Federal Bureau of Investigation expressed high confidence in that assessment, while the National Security Agency had moderate confidence. Those disagreements have long been publicly known, and the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee said in 2018 that the conflict “appropriately represents analytic differences” between the agencies. The committee’s report also concluded the Russian efforts were meant to help Mr. Trump.
Part of the disagreement was over whether a source the CIA relied on in the intelligence assessment, who was close to the Kremlin, had specific knowledge that Mr. Putin wanted to help Mr. Trump, one person said. Mr. Durham’s team appears to be pressing people involved in that report on whether Mr. Brennan sought to steer the intelligence community agencies to sign on to a “high confidence” assessment, people familiar with the matter said.
It couldn’t be determined whether Mr. Durham has obtained evidence beyond that accessed by Senate investigators.
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s 2019 report said there were repeated contacts between Russia-linked entities and Trump campaign officials, but investigators didn’t establish that anyone affiliated with the GOP presidential campaign knowingly conspired with Russian interference efforts.
Adam Schiff verbergt nog steeds de getuigenverklaring van inspecteur-generaal Micheal Atkinson.quote:Op zaterdag 4 april 2020 17:37 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
https://www.google.com/am(...)hone-call-report.amp
Another one bites the dust
quote:For years, we civil libertarians were told that our concerns about the secret court that oversees the FBI’s applications to monitor U.S. citizens were overblown. So what if the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved more than 99% of all applications. The bureau and Justice Department must follow an onerous process, we were assured, that protects innocent citizens from being snooped on by their government.
Those assurances, as it turns out, were not very reliable. On Tuesday, the Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz issued a new report that found systematic errors of fact in the FBI’s applications for warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The memo does not speak to the materiality or significance of those errors — but they are startling nonetheless.
Analyse laat ook zien dat de media grotendeels het beleid van de regering bepaald.quote:Op dinsdag 10 maart 2020 12:56 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Interessant youtube filmpje van Millennial Millie.
Michael Glennon heeft hier een boek over geschreven. Hij vroeg zich af hoe het kwam dat bij het komen en gaan van verschillende presidenten een kern van het beleid steeds ongewijzigd bleef. Buitenlandse oorlogen, regime change, de steeds verder groeiende macht van de veiligheidsdiensten en de 'surveillance' van de eigen burger en die in andere landen.
Je bedoelt dus dat ze in die positie zullen blijven? Steeds meer mensen worden wakker en beginnen de media door te krijgen, ik merk dat duidelijk om mij heen.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 09:34 schreef borealist het volgende:
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Analyse laat ook zien dat de media grotendeels het beleid van de regering bepaald.
Bij Trump kreeg de media haar zin niet.. en dat hebben ze laten merken. De media blijft de ware machthebber.
De media is oppermachtig, verzet is zinloos. De pen is machtiger dan het zwaard, en wie leeft bij het zwaard zal sterven door het zwaard. Je moet je dus gaan afvragen wat machtiger is dan de pen.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 10:59 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
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Je bedoelt dus dat ze in die positie zullen blijven? Steeds meer mensen worden wakker en beginnen de media door te krijgen, ik merk dat duidelijk om mij heen.
Altijd wel interessant om te zien, Google trends.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 12:48 schreef borealist het volgende:
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De media is oppermachtig, verzet is zinloos. De pen is machtiger dan het zwaard, en wie leeft bij het zwaard zal sterven door het zwaard. Je moet je dus gaan afvragen wat machtiger is dan de pen.
De Google search resultaten zijn al gemanipuleerd zo te zien door de deep state troll army.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 12:49 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
Altijd wel interessant om te zien, Google trends.
Heerlijk dit.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 12:57 schreef borealist het volgende:
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De Google search resultaten zijn al gemanipuleerd zo te zien door de deep state troll army.
He he, eindelijk begint jouw omgeving de media door te krijgen. Op school wordt het je al uitgelegd, maar misschien waren ze er op dat moment niet.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 10:59 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
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Je bedoelt dus dat ze in die positie zullen blijven? Steeds meer mensen worden wakker en beginnen de media door te krijgen, ik merk dat duidelijk om mij heen.
Haha, ik las paar dagen geleden weer een sterke van je: "Heb je zeker gelezen op facebook?".quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 13:27 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
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He he, eindelijk begint jouw omgeving de media door te krijgen. Op school wordt het je al uitgelegd, maar misschien waren ze er op dat moment niet.
Fijn dat je eindelijk begrijpt wat de taak van de media is.
Deep State Troll Army, aka Antifa. 1% van de tijd rellen in de echte wereld, 99% van de tijd rellen online. Onduidelijk hoeveel geld ze krijgen. Ze zitten ook op fok.quote:
Journalisten zijn gestopt zichzelf te beschouwen als personen die neutrale feiten vertellen. En dit komt door Ron Fournier die in 2008 het concept van accountability journalism introduceerde. In 2007-2008 heeft hij in de rol als hoofdredacteur van Associated Press (AP) in Washington richtlijnen ingevoerd dat verslaggevers vertelde om beide kanten van een belangrijk onderwerp te negeren en hun persoonlijke mening erbij te zetten in de verhalen die ze schreven.quote:Op zondag 5 april 2020 12:48 schreef borealist het volgende:
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De media is oppermachtig, verzet is zinloos. De pen is machtiger dan het zwaard, en wie leeft bij het zwaard zal sterven door het zwaard. Je moet je dus gaan afvragen wat machtiger is dan de pen.
Loltwitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op zondag 05-04-2020 om 23:53:28 #Ukraine Asked how many of the 29 FISAs reviewed by IG Horowitz, as part of the audit released last Tuesday, as well as the @carterwpage FISA warrants fell under the DOJ/NSD tenure of Michael Atkinson, OIG spox declined to comment beyond the publicly available reports. @CBSNews reageer retweet
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op donderdag 09-04-2020 om 04:38:15 SCOOP: #FISA CBS News has reviewed transcript of conversation between George Papadopoulos and a confidential source working for the FBI less than two weeks before 2016 presidential election, and has published key excerpts below. @CBSNews https://t.co/Bs628ah2iF reageer retweet
De waarheid dat de informatie mogelijk Russische desinformatie was lekte wonderbaarlijk toevallig juist weer niet. Volgens oud FBI-directeur James Comey is de informatie dat de PSS het dossier in januari 2017 volledig ontkrachtte en andere voorbeelden van ontlastend bewijs op de een of andere manier nooit bij hem terechtgekomen. Dit betekent dat of de agenten van dit dossier bewust doorgingen met een neponderzoek en Comey te onwetend was om erachter te komen of hij wist dat er geen zaak was en hij vertelde de agenten dat ze verder moesten onderzoeken. Ik vermoed dat John Durham hierover uitsluitsel gaat geven.twitter:ChuckRossDC twitterde op zaterdag 11-04-2020 om 18:30:05 CNN created a feedback loop based on spin from gov't sources who insisted that the FBI wouldn't have used the Steele dossier for FISA without first validating it. That faulty logic guided most Steele dossier analysis for the next 2 years. https://t.co/yhh9wpbXP5 https://t.co/3aTRhrdopI reageer retweet
twitter:PolishPatriotTM twitterde op maandag 20-04-2020 om 01:57:10 President @realDonaldTrump: The top of the FBI is scum https://t.co/fIQPKlI7kP reageer retweet
quote:7 Devastating Revelations About Crossfire Hurricane In New Releases
Late last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham announced a webpage dedicated to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s probe into the Crossfire Hurricane illicit investigation into the Donald Trump campaign. Graham’s staff uploaded the four Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) applications, which were recently further declassified.
1. The FBI Always Intended to Spy on the Trump Campaign
When news first broke that the Obama administration had obtained a FISA order to surveil Page, Democrats and the left-leaning press argued the FBI’s surveillance of the former Trump foreign policy advisor didn’t constitute spying on the Trump campaign because the court-ordered surveillance didn’t begin until after Page had left the campaign.
“Conservatives tried to correct the record, noting that a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) order gave the government access to Page’s past emails and other electronic communications with members of the Trump campaign, but the mainstream media ignored this reality.”
However, Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on FISA abuse later confirmed that, yes, “the FBI gathered substantial evidence of Page’s past electronic communications,” including multiple “emails between Page and members of the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign concerning campaign related matters.”
The recent declassifications of the FISA applications now expose a further reality: The FBI didn’t just seek access to past electronic communications with campaign members, the FBI believed Page would continue to communicate with the Trump campaign and sought the FISA court order to intercept those conversations.
While Page had announced he was “taking a leave of absence from his work with the campaign,” the first FISA application read, “because Page was one of the first identified foreign policy advisors for [Trump’s] campaign, the FBI believes that Page likely established close relationships with other members of [Trump’s campaign.]”
Accordingly, the FBI maintained in its initial FISA application that it “believes that Page likely established close relationships with other members of [Trump’s] campaign and likely would have continued to have access to members of [Trump’s] campaign, which he could exploit to attempt to exert influence on foreign policy matters, regardless of whatever formal role he played in the campaign.”
2. FBI Failed to Brief Trump About Its Page Suspicions
This newly declassified information highlights another huge impropriety in the FBI’s handling of Crossfire Hurricane: The FBI failed to provide the Trump campaign a defensive briefing about Page!
Here, it is helpful to remember what Counterintelligence Division Assistant Director E.W. “Bill” Priestap told the IG about why he opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation instead of providing the Trump campaign a defensive briefing:
we provide defensive briefings when we obtain information indicating a foreign adversary is trying or will try to influence a specific U.S. person, and when there is no indication that the specific U.S. person could be working with the adversary. In regard to the information the [Friendly Foreign Government] provided us, we had no indication as to which person in the Trump campaign allegedly received the offer from the Russians. There was no specific U.S. person identified. We also had no indication, whatsoever, that the person affiliated with the Trump campaign had rejected the alleged offer from the Russians.
In fact, the information we received indicated that Papadopoulos told the [Friendly Foreign Government] he felt confident Mr. Trump would win the election, and Papadopoulos commented that the Clintons had a lot of baggage and that the Trump team had plenty of material to use in its campaign. While Papadopoulos didn’t say where the Trump team had received the ‘material,’ one could reasonably infer that some of the material might have come from the Russians.
Had we provided a defensive briefing to someone on the Trump campaign, we would have alerted the campaign to what we were looking into, and, if someone on the campaign was engaged with the Russians, he/she would very likely change his/her tactics and/or otherwise seek to cover-up his/her activities, thereby preventing us from finding the truth. On the other hand, if no one on the Trump campaign was working with the Russians, an investigation could prove that.
Andrew McCabe, President Obama’s former deputy director of the FBI, likewise told the IG “that he did not consider a defensive briefing as an alternative to opening a counterintelligence case” because, “based on the [Friendly Foreign Government] information, the FBI did not know if any member of the campaign was coordinating with Russia and that the FBI did not brief people who ‘could potentially be the subjects that you are investigating or looking for.’”
McCabe added that, “in a sensitive counterintelligence matter, it was essential to have a better understanding of what was occurring before taking an overt step such as providing a defensive briefing.” There are plenty of problems with Priestap and McCabe’s rationale, as well as the entire predicate for Crossfire Hurricane, but let’s take them at their word, and apply the same reasoning to Page.
More than three months had passed since the FBI received word from a “Friendly Foreign Government” that former Trump advisor George Papadopoulos had learned that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary. Since then, the FBI believed it had discovered the identity of the man engaging with the Russians—Page.
So convinced was the FBI that they had their man that agents swore out four FISA applications attesting that the FBI “believes that Russia’s efforts to influence U.S. policy were likely being coordinated between the [Russian Intelligence Service] and Page, and possible others.” The FBI further swore to the court that Page “was identified by source reporting as an intermediary with Russian leadership in ‘a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation’ to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.”
So why didn’t the FBI provide the Trump campaign a defensive briefing about Page? Why didn’t the FBI warn Trump that it had evidence that Page was acting as an agent for Russia and that the campaign should be aware of that fact in communications with Page?
3. The FBI Spied on the Trump Administration
The FBI also failed to provide the Trump administration a defensive briefing concerning its belief that Russia sought to use Page’s connections with administration officials to influence America’s foreign policy. Instead, as the newly declassified information reveals, following Trump’s inauguration, the FBI sought to, and apparently succeeded in, intercepting communications between Page and members of the Trump administration.
In each renewal application, the FBI stated that “although the election has concluded, . . . the FBI believes the Russian Government will continue attempting to use U.S. based individuals, such as Page, to covertly influence U.S. foreign policy.” Then, after noting that “although Page no longer appears to be an advisor to the now President-elect” (and later “to the now President”), the FISA applications included several blacked-out sentences identified as FISA-acquired information.
The language and placement of these redactions suggest that the FISA surveillance captured communications between Page and members of the Trump transition team and administration.
Significantly, both the April 7, 2017 and the June 28, 2017, FISA renewal applications, after redacting “FISA-Acquired Information,” noted that “the FBI assesses that Page continues to have access to senior U.S. Government officials. Moreover, the FBI further assesses that Page is attempting to downplay his contacts with the Russian Government and to dispel the controversy surrounding him, so as to make him more viable as a foreign policy expert who will be in a position, due to his continued contacts with senior U.S. Government officials, to influence U.S. foreign policy towards Russia.”
These assertions raise significant questions and concerns. Who were these “senior U.S. Government officials”? Did the FBI intercept Page’s communications with Trump administration officials? And why would the FBI not provide President Trump a defensive briefing about Page and his supposed role as a Russian agent?
4. Rep. Adam Schiff Is a Rotten, No-Good, Two-Faced Liar
The latest declassifications also expose—yet again—that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) lied about everything in his “response memo” to Rep. Devin Nunes’s (R-Calif.) memo on FISA abuse. The lawyer who tweets anonymously as Undercover Huber detailed the evidence in a must-read thread on Friday.
“DOJ cited multiple sources to support the case for surveilling Page—but made only narrow use of information from Steele’s sources about Page’s specific activities in 2016, chiefly his suspected July 2016 meeting in Moscow with Russian officials,” Schiff had claimed.
Not so, as “Undercover Huber” detailed. Rather, the FISA applications stated that “[Carter] Page…has been identified by source reporting as an intermediary with Russian leadership” in “a well-developed conspiracy of co-operation” to influence the 2016 election. And that language was lifted directly from the Steele dossier.
Schiff knew this. He also knew that with dueling memorandums, the press would 100 percent back the Democrat, and put Republican Nunes’s memorandum on FISA abuse down to politics.
Schiff was right. He just didn’t expect Trump to survive long enough for proof of his duplicity to come out. But luckily for Schiff, the press backs lying Democrats at the same rate.
5. FBI Relied Solely on Fake News to Support Portions of the FISA Applications
The additional FISA application declassifications reveal another disconcerting fact: The FBI relied completely on media reports that ended up being inaccurate to “assesses that, following Page’s meetings in Russia, Page helped influence [the Republican Party] and Trump’s campaign to alter their platforms to be more sympathetic to Russia.”
In the FISA applications, the FBI supported this “assessment” with summaries of the reporting by two “identified news organizations,” one a July 2016 article and the second an August 2016 article. While the FISA applications did not identify the articles, “one was apparently Josh Rogin’s Washington Post opinion article, which reported claims that Trump campaign members ‘worked behind the scenes to make sure [the GOP]’s platform would not call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces.’”
The second article was likely Michael Crowley’s Politico piece that “opined that while the reason for [Trump’s] shift [in Russian policy] was not clear, [Trump]’s more conciliatory words, which contradict [the GOP]’s official platform, follow [Trump]’s recent association with several people sympathetic to Russian influence in Ukraine, including foreign policy advisor Carter Page.”
With the additional declassifications, we now know that those news reports were the only “evidence” supporting the FBI’s assessment that Page influenced the Republican Party to “soften” the platform’s position on Russia. And the reporting was wrong—which is exactly why the FBI should never rely on a news report in a FISA application, much less rely solely on such reporting.
6. The Special Counsel Pushed Pathetic Intel Too
In May of 2017, Robert Mueller assumed leadership of the Russia collusion investigation, but nothing changed: The FBI continued to push nonsense to the FISA court. However, instead of presenting media reports as proof, the special counsel’s team pushed rumors.
Specifically, as the newly declassified FISA application dated June 28, 2017 reveals, the FBI informed the FISA court that it “believes it has obtained additional information consistent with the above-described reporting from Sub-Source that Page met with Sechin while Page was in Moscow in July 2016.”
The FBI then noted that in June 2017, agents had interviewed an individual whose name remains redacted. That individual told the FBI that he “recalled an instance where Page was picked-up in a chauffeured car and that it was rumored at that time that Page had met with Igor Sechin.” Yes, that’s right—rumor.
7. Oh, the Sweet Irony
The final take-away from the newly declassified portion of the FISA applications reveals just how tone-deaf and oblivious the FBI agents involved in Crossfire Hurricane were. In the final application, the FBI “notes that Pages continues to be active in meeting with media outlets . . . to refute claims of his involvement with Russian Government efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.”
“This approach is important,” the FBI posits, “because, from the Russian Government’s point-of-view, it continues to keep the controversy of the election in front of the American and world media, which has the effect of undermining the integrity of the U.S. electoral process and weakening the effectiveness of the current U.S. Administration” (emphasis added).
As the kids would say, “I can’t even.”
twitter:jimsciutto twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 15:42:12 New: Justice Department spokesperson says Rosenstein denies McCabe’s account of a discussion of invoking the 25th amendment as “inaccurate and factually incorrect.” Via @LauraAJarrett https://t.co/1B4qjbfX4A reageer retweet
quote:How Adam Schiff secretly thwarted efforts to bring transparency in Russia probe
Democrat demanded DNI keep evidence from Trump, holds transcripts that were supposed to be made public.
In late September 2018 with a mid-year election approaching, the often bitterly divided House Intelligence Committee forged a rare bipartisan moment: Its Republican and Democratic members voted to make public the transcripts of 53 witnesses in the Russia collusion investigation.
But what was hailed as an act of transparency has not been fulfilled 19 months later, even though U.S intelligence has declassified and cleared the transcripts for release.
The answer why lies in the backroom dealings of Adam Schiff, the committee’s top Democrat and its current chairman, according to interviews and memos obtained by Just the News.
Shortly after Schiff took over from Republican Rep. Devin Nunes as chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in 2019, he sent a letter to the office of then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
The letter obtained by Just the News specifically ordered that the witness transcripts — some of which contained exculpatory evidence for President Trump’s team — not be shared with Trump or White House lawyers even if the declassification process required such sharing.
“Under no circumstances shall ODNI, or any other element of the Intelligence Community (IC), share any HPSCI transcripts with the White House, President Trump or any persons associated with the White House or the President,” Schiff wrote in a March 26, 2019 letter to then-Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.
“Such transcripts remain the sole property of HPSCI, and were transmitted to ODNI for the limited purpose of enabling a classification review by IC elements and the Department of Justice,” Schiff added.
https://justthenews.com/s(...)fLetter3-26-2019.pdf
U.S. intelligence officials said Schiff’s request made it impossible for them to declassify 10 of the transcripts, mostly of current and former White House and National Security Council witnesses, because White House lawyers would have had to review them for what is known as “White House equities" and presidential privileges.
But 43 of the transcripts were declassified and cleared for public release and given to Schiff's team, but they have never been made public despite the committee’s vote to do so, officials said.
One senior official said the 43 transcripts were provided to Schiff’s team some time ago, and the 10 remain in limbo. Asked how long House Intelligence Democrats have had the declassified transcripts, the official said: “You’ll have to ask Mr. Schiff.”
A spokesman for Schiff and House Intelligence Committee Democrats did not return an email Monday seeking comment.
If Schiff possesses the declassified transcripts, he does not appear to have told Republicans on his committee. Several GOP lawmakers and staff on the committee told Just the News they have never been alerted that ODNI finished its review.
Schiff’s letter provides some detail on what prompted his demand to keep the transcripts from Trump or his lawyer. It came just as Special Counsel Robert Mueller was releasing his final report, which declared there wasn’t evidence to prove the core allegation lodged against Trump by Democrats — that Trump had colluded with Russia to hijack the 2016 election.
Schiff’s letter to Coats states that his staff was briefed earlier in March 2019 about how ODNI planned to handle the declassification, including the need for White House lawyers to review certain transcripts for information that could be covered by executive privilege.
It was that process that set off the alarm bells for Schiff’s team, the letter shows.
Republicans had hoped the witnesses’ testimonies would be released before the 2018 election so Americans could see some of the problems with the Russia probe and the false narrative of collusion that had been foisted on the public. That never happened, and the declassification efforts dragged into 2019, when Democrats took control of the House.
GOP lawmakers have emphasized they specifically would like to see the testimonies of key figures like former Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe and Michael Sussmann, a private lawyer for the Democratic Party, be made public for context and new revelations.
While that hasn’t happened yet, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has released bombshell information, including that the FBI submitted false and unverified evidence to secure surveillance warrants targeting the Trump campaign in the Russia probe.
Newly declassified footnotes from the Horowitz report released last week show the FBI's key informant in the case, the former British spy Christopher Steele, may have been the victim of Russian disinformation. More declassified evidence from that probe is expected to be released later this week.
In the meantime, Republicans who led the House Intelligence Committee probe in 2018 when the witnesses were interviewed are trying to learn what came of the transcripts.
Schiff’s letter to Coats suggests that at the time the new Democratic chairman was still interested in releasing the transcripts.
“I hope our staff can reach agreement soon on a schedule for returning the transcripts to the Committee for ultimate public release,” he wrote.
Nearly 13 months since the letter, that release has not happened.
RELEASE THE TRANSCRIPTS !!1!1!1!quote:
Die vieze Democraat van een Richard Burr ook weer. Beetje Trump beschuldigenquote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 13:06 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Over nutteloos gesproken. De meest corrupte en nutteloze comité van het Congres, de Senate Intelligence Committee heeft een rapport uitgebracht over niets nieuws waarin ze Russische desinformatie gebruikten om president Trump te beschuldigen van samenspannen/coördineren met Rusland. Ironisch genoeg precies dat wat ze deden zijn hun aantijgingen.
Bipartisan Senate Intel report backs intelligence assessment of 2016 Russian interference
Het argument is niet dat de Obama-regering de kandidaatschap en het presidentschap van Donald Trump ondermijnde, omdat ze de Russische inmenging in de 2016 verkiezingen onderzocht. Het argument is dat de Obama-regering Trump ondermijnde door te claimen dat Trump en zijn campagne medeplichtig waren in de Russische inmenging in de 2016 verkiezingen. En juist op dit belangrijke aspect zegt dit nutteloze, corrupte comité niets.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 13:06 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Over nutteloos gesproken. De meest corrupte en nutteloze comité van het Congres, de Senate Intelligence Committee heeft een rapport uitgebracht over niets nieuws waarin ze Russische desinformatie gebruikten om president Trump te beschuldigen van samenspannen/coördineren met Rusland. Ironisch genoeg precies dat wat ze deden zijn hun aantijgingen.
Bipartisan Senate Intel report backs intelligence assessment of 2016 Russian interference
Heb je al eens gekeken naar de denktank The Atlantic Council? Globalistenclub en NAVO-verlengstuk. Ze hebben heel veel openbaar staan op hun website zoals wie hun contributors zijn. Alle deepstate bellen gaan af; State Department ten tijde van Obama, BURISMA, Open Society (Soros), Perkins Coie, zelfs Sean Misko.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 13:18 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Met nutteloos en corruptie over de Senate Intelligence Committee refereer ik aan de insider trading issue en dat voor het onderzoek het comité middelen voor de totstandkoming van dit laatste rapport heeft gebruikt die gelinkt kunnen worden aan Fusion GPS. Ook zaken van het verleden dat Mark Warner via Oleg Deripaska in contact wilde komen met Christopher Steele in de periode dat het comité onderzoek verrichtte naar Russische verkiezingsinmenging. Warner vertelde tegen Deripaska hierbij ook dat alles off the record moest want hij wilde geen paper trail. Zo fout, allemaal.
Consortium Linked To Steele Dossier Firms Paid $485K To Tech Company That Contributed To Senate Intel Report
Ja. Uiteraard. Ik zit al een paar jaar in deze rabbit hole. De hoeveelheid informatie die ik lees en bespreek, de connecties die tijdens onderzoek opduiken tussen de verschillende actoren en hoe al die verschillende deelonderwerpen zijn uitwerking hebben op het wereldtoneel (politiek, militair, strategisch, maatschappelijk, et cetera) is mind boggling.quote:Op donderdag 23 april 2020 14:30 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Heb je al eens gekeken naar de denktank The Atlantic Council? Globalistenclub en NAVO-verlengstuk. Ze hebben heel veel openbaar staan op hun website zoals wie hun contributors zijn. Alle deepstate bellen gaan af; State Department ten tijde van Obama, BURISMA, Open Society (Soros), Perkins Coie, zelfs Sean Misko.
quote:John Durham expands investigative team amid coronavirus outbreak
U.S. Attorney John Durham has expanded his team as his review of the Trump-Russia investigators ramps up during the coronavirus pandemic, which has gripped the country and swept the globe.
The top federal prosecutor for Connecticut selected additional team members for his investigative effort in recent weeks, adding agents from the FBI, as well as the chief of the violent crimes and narcotics trafficking section for the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C., Anthony Scarpelli, according to sources cited by CNN. Durham, who has been running the operation out of Connecticut and D.C., drove down to Washington a few weeks ago to keep the investigation moving even as the COVID-19 virus hampered many law enforcement efforts nationwide.
The CNN report said Durham requested witness information in March and April.
Attorney General William Barr said in an interview this week that Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane operation and into the conduct of associated law enforcement officers and intelligence officials is proceeding full speed ahead, and the timing of a report or possible criminal charges will not be based upon the 2020 election calendar. But, he stressed, an announcement or possible indictments are not imminent.
Scarpelli has spent the last two years leading the office in charge of the fight against murder and the drug trade in D.C. Before that, he was the deputy chief of that office, according to his LinkedIn profile. Scarpelli also spent a year as an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Virgin Islands, 14 years as an assistant U.S. attorney in D.C., and eight years as an assistant prosecutor for Middlesex County in New Jersey.
Little else is publicly known about the composition of Durham's team, although it is known he selected Sarah Karwan, who has been with the Connecticut federal office since 2007, to serve as the chief of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Criminal Division back in January.
Prior to nationwide coronavirus lockdown orders, CNN reported Durham had been spending multiple days each week inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility reviewing classified documents related to the federal government’s investigations into Russian interference and Trump’s campaign. The report said Durham is also taking a close look at the FBI’s deeply flawed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act targeting onetime Trump campaign associate Carter Page.
It is almost certain that one of the topics being reviewed by Durham’s team is intelligence reports on Russian disinformation efforts revealed in recently declassified footnotes from Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the FBI's Russia investigation. Newly public information from the watchdog report showed the bureau had been aware of warnings that Russian intelligence efforts may have compromised British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s dossier, which was relied upon to obtain FISA warrants to surveil Page.
Horowitz’s lengthy December report criticized the Justice Department and the FBI for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” related to the FISA warrants against Page in 2016 and 2017 and for the bureau's reliance on Steele’s unverified dossier. Steele put his research together at the behest of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was funded by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm.
CNN also cited half a dozen sources confirming that Durham is scrutinizing former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, with a special focus on the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment of the Kremlin meddling in 2016’s presidential election.
Durham is reportedly looking into numerous highly sensitive issues, including whether Brennan took politicized actions to pressure the rest of the intelligence community to match his conclusions about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s motivations during the 2016 presidential election.
The 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment concluded with "high confidence" that Putin “ordered an influence campaign in 2016” and that Russia worked to “undermine public faith" in U.S. democracy, "denigrate" Clinton and "harm her electability and potential presidency,” and “developed a clear preference" for Trump. The National Security Agency diverged on one aspect, expressing only “moderate confidence” that Putin actively tried to help Trump win and Clinton lose.
A Senate Intelligence Committee report, released Tuesday, found the 2017 spy assessment “presents a coherent and well-constructed intelligence basis for the case of unprecedented Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” The Senate investigators did not find evidence of undue political pressure by Brennan or anyone else.
But the Senate investigation did shine new light on the effort by FBI leadership, including FBI Director James Comey, to include allegations from Steele’s salacious dossier in the 2017 spy assessment. The bureau is pointing to a directive by President Barack Obama to explain their failed effort to include the dossier in the main text of the 2017 report. It was instead relegated to a still-classified appendix.
Na bijna 3 jaar stilte.twitter:GenFlynn twitterde op zaterdag 25-04-2020 om 04:08:48 Flynn Declaration @sidneypowell1
@molmccann
@BarbaraRedgate
@JosephJFlynn1
@flynn_neill
@GoJackFlynn
@76LibertyWatch
@lofly727
@FieldofFight https://t.co/lZYjp6NIov reageer retweet
twitter:MariaBartiromo twitterde op zondag 26-04-2020 om 23:12:45 Breaking News: sources tell me @GenFlynn will be completely exonerated this week. It was a total fraud. A Set up. More tomorrow @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness @FoxNews @SundayFutures reageer retweet
De verklaring van Sullivan dat verwijst naar het artikel van Slate, met deze verklaring van de Clinton-campagne, in combinatie met Mother Jones-artikel zorgt ervoor dat verhaal van de Alfa Bank trending wordt. De beslissing van Sussman om Baker te kiezen als zijn contactpersoon blijkt zeer effectief te zijn.twitter:HillaryClinton twitterde op dinsdag 01-11-2016 om 01:36:26 Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. https://t.co/8f8n9xMzUU reageer retweet
twitter:ProfMJCleveland twitterde op dinsdag 28-04-2020 om 21:57:48 BREAKING: @SidneyPowell1 confirms that following redactions, DOJ and Powell will enter a consent order for the unsealing of Exhibit 3 which is the recently discovered (by outside U.S Attorney) and turned over FBI material related to @GenFlynn. reageer retweet
Eerder was door het ministerie van Justitie bevestigd dat openbaar aanklager Jeffrey Jensen die door procureur-generaal William Barr was aangesteld om toezicht te houden op de Flynn zaak zich gaat voegen bij de verdediging om de ontlastende documenten te verzoeken.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op donderdag 30-04-2020 om 00:49:43 #FLYNN docs just unsealed, including handwritten notes 1/24/2017 day of Flynn FBI interview. Transcript: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Read transcript notes, copy original just filed. @CBSNews https://t.co/8oqUok8i7m reageer retweet
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 21:48:15 #FLYNN DOJ official confirms @CBSNews US attorney will join Flynn Attorney @SidneyPowell1 calling for new records to be unsealed. AG Barr directed US attorney Jeffrey Jensen to scrutinize Flynn case. First batch docs small, including handwritten notes. But review delivering more reageer retweet
Dat denk ik ook. Als Trump simpelweg Flynn een pardon zou geven, wordt deze beerput niet verder geopend en zal het smerige gedrag van de betrokken lieden van Justitie/FBI in de vergetelheid raken. Flynn moet officieel worden vrijgesproken, de verantwoordelijken voor deze naaistreek moeten vervolgd worden en daarna zal Flynn in een civiele zaak de overheid (en misschien ook wel zijn foute advocaten) aansprakelijk moeten stellen en vele miljoenen eisen voor het onrecht wat hem is aangedaan.quote:Op woensdag 29 april 2020 18:43 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Addendum
Het is natuurlijk dat het ministerie van Justitie vervolgt. Niet de FBI. En een belangrijke opmerking; niet alleen het lekken, maar ook de illegale surveillance van de telefoongesprekken is een misdrijf. Verder heeft de vorige verdediging van Covington & Burling zich schuldig gemaakt aan onjuiste advisering. Hieronder een voorbeeld uit een dialoog met de rechter waar het heel sterk lijkt dat de advocaten van Flynn met het team van special counsel Robert Mueller samenwerken, dus helemaal niet in het belang van hun cliënt opereren. In de perceptie werkt ook niet in hun voordeel ook dat een partner van dit advocatenkantoor oud procureur-generaal Eric Holder is.
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Het ministerie van Justitie is in de zaak Micheal Flynn bezig met oneerlijke vervolging. Een integere Justitie zou Flynn alleen hebben ondervraagd over het lekken en niet over de inhoud daarvan.
Tot slot denk ik niet, omdat er al een plea deal is overeengekomen dat het tot vrijspraak zal komen. Ik denk eerder aan een conclusie zonder veroordeling. En het is ook goed dat president Trump geen pardon heeft uitgevaardigd, want dan zou al dit wangedrag onbestraft blijven.
Nog steeds probeert men bij DoJ, FBI en andere overheidsorganen de boel te saboteren door het achterhouden van belangrijke informatie, het op een belachelijke manier redacten van correspondentie en verklaringen. Hoog tijd dat er van hogerhand uitgezocht wordt welke officials de onderzoeken op deze manier (zoals ook in de zaak van Judicial Watch tegen Hillary Clinton de overheid nog steeds overal sabotage toepast) constant in de wielen proberen te rijden en de doofpotten gesloten proberen te houden. En hoeveel belastende informatie is op deze manier misschien al wel vernietigd?quote:Op donderdag 30 april 2020 01:06 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Er zijn weer nieuwe documenten vrijgegeven. Op een ander moment zal ik deze ontcijferen.Eerder was door het ministerie van Justitie bevestigd dat openbaar aanklager Jeffrey Jensen die door procureur-generaal William Barr was aangesteld om toezicht te houden op de Flynn zaak zich gaat voegen bij de verdediging om de ontlastende documenten te verzoeken.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op donderdag 30-04-2020 om 00:49:43 #FLYNN docs just unsealed, including handwritten notes 1/24/2017 day of Flynn FBI interview. Transcript: “What is our goal? Truth/Admission or to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired?” Read transcript notes, copy original just filed. @:CBSNews https://t.co/8oqUok8i7m reageer retweettwitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 21:48:15 #FLYNN DOJ official confirms @:CBSNews US attorney will join Flynn Attorney @:SidneyPowell1 calling for new records to be unsealed. AG Barr directed US attorney Jeffrey Jensen to scrutinize Flynn case. First batch docs small, including handwritten notes. But review delivering more reageer retweet
Geeft niet, ik heb de documenten dus later volgt een bericht.quote:Op donderdag 30 april 2020 20:54 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Even geen tijd voor intensief copy/pasten/quoten maar hier interessant leesvoer
https://justthenews.com/a(...)idence-flynn-planned
En
https://justthenews.com/a(...)ch-flynn-lie-get-him
Flynn werd bewust genaaid
quote:BARR: Michael Flynn’s Legal Tormentors Should Be Prosecuted
Much has been reported in recent days about the manner in which the FBI “trapped” President Trump’s former National Security Adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, into lying in an early 2017 interview. Under federal law, it is strikingly easy for unethical federal officials to successfully play a game of legal “gotcha” with individuals they decide to target. This is precisely why we must insist on maintaining the highest ethical standards for federal investigators and prosecutors, which tragically did not happen in Flynn’s case.
What the FBI — then under the leadership of the since-discredited James Comey – did to Gen. Flynn constitutes a blatant violation of the most basic ethical principles which federal investigators and prosecutors are sworn to uphold. The fundamental ethical foundation according to which these men and women, including Comey and former Special Counsel Robert Mueller — whose office prosecuted Flynn — is best captured in a speech delivered by then-Attorney General Robert Jackson in early 1940.
Jackson’s remarks, delivered at the Justice Department to the assembled United States Attorneys, concluded with this eloquent statement supposed to undergird the duties of these powerful officials:
“The qualities of a good prosecutor are as elusive and as impossible to define as those which mark a gentleman. And those who need to be told would not understand it anyway. A sensitiveness to fair play and sportsmanship is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen’s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.”
Revelations in just the past week illustrate how completely government agents strayed from Jackson’s admonition in their case against Flynn: targeting him for partisan political reasons when there was no evidence of any underlying violation of any U.S. law, cleverly lulling him into a sense of confidence that he was discussing matters of mutual interest with fellow employees of the same administration and finally springing the trap shut by threatening the one thing the agents knew would be more important to the him than even his own career – that of his son.
The first vehicle by which the federal agents targeted Flynn was something known as the Logan Act, a centuries old but never used federal law prohibiting civilians from engaging in diplomacy with foreign governments. Not only was there no evidence to justify an investigation of Flynn beyond even a preliminary inquiry into whether this law had been violated, but it would not even apply to an official in his position.
Ultimately, the noose Mueller’s band of partisan prosecutors hung around Flynn’s neck is a law that often is used by federal attorneys – 18 U.S.C. §1001. This is the single count to which Flynn plead guilty in late 2017 (and for which he still awaits sentencing). It is this non-descript law that is in many respects a “prosecutor’s best friend” because of its broad scope.
Make no mistake, this section of the federal criminal code is legitimate and serves a valuable public purpose if properly utilized. In essence, the provision makes it a felony to “knowingly and willfully” lie to a federal agent. Unlike a number of other, similar federal and state crimes such as perjury, however, a person can be convicted of violating “Section 1001” (as the section is commonly known) without having been first placed under oath; hence its broad reach.
This “1001” language also can be found in the small print on almost every federal form that individuals sign, including most banking forms, federal assistance paperwork and so forth. It truly is a trap for the unwary and the dishonest. Its use in the Flynn case, however, demonstrates that a legitimate and well-intended law, when placed in the hands of overly zealous investigators and prosecutors, becomes a cudgel by which federal agents can punish those with whom they disagree.
Hopefully, Bill Barr, the current Attorney General of the United States, will heed his predecessor’s 1940 admonition, and bring to justice those who so blatantly abused their positions of trust in targeting Gen. Flynn.
Valt weinig aan toe te voegen.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op donderdag 07-05-2020 om 20:44:55 #FLYNN Court Docs “The United States of America hereby moves to dismiss with prejudice the criminal information filed against Michael T Flynn pursuant to federal rule of criminal procedure 48(a)...” @CBSNews @ClareHymes22 reageer retweet
twitter:KerriKupecDOJ twitterde op donderdag 07-05-2020 om 21:19:02 STATEMENT: USA Jeff Jensen who reviewed Flynn case.
“Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case. I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed.” reageer retweet
quote:Obama Defense Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Having Evidence Of Collusion
Former Obama administration defense official Evelyn Farkas testified under oath that she lied during an MSNBC interview when she claimed to have evidence of alleged collusion, a newly declassified congressional transcript of her testimony shows. Farkas testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on June 26, 2017, as part of the committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election between Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Lawmakers keyed in on an appearance Farkas made on MSNBC on March 2, 2017, in which she urged intelligence community bureaucrats to disseminate within the government and potentially even leak to media any incriminating information they had about Trump or his aides.
“I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior [Obama administration] people who left…[that] it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy,” Farkas said.
Farkas, who served in the Obama administration as the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 2012 through 2015, also claimed that administration officials appointed by Trump might even destroy evidence of alleged collusion if they “found out how we knew what we knew about the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians.”
They might “try to compromise those sources and methods,” Farkas alleged in the MSNBC interview. “And we would no longer have access to that intelligence.”
“Not enough was coming out into the open and I knew there was more,” Farkas claimed.
But Farkas sang a different tone under oath when questioned by lawmakers about what she actually “knew” about collusion.
“Why don’t we go back to that sentence that I just asked you about. It says ‘the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their staff dealing with Russians,” Gowdy said. “Well, how would you know what the U.S. government knew at that point? You didn’t work for it, did you?”
“I didn’t,” said Farkas, a former mid-level Russia analyst who left the federal government in 2015.
“Then how did you know?” Gowdy responded.
“I didn’t know anything,” Farkas said.
“Did you have information connecting the Trump campaign to the hack of the DNC?” Gowdy asked.
“No,” Farkas admitted.
“So when you say, ‘We knew,’ the reality is you knew nothing,” Gowdy asked later during the deposition.
“Correct,” Farkas responded.
Gowdy didn’t stop there.
“So when you say ‘knew,’ what you really meant was felt?” he asked.
“Correct,” Farkas answered.
“You didn’t know anything?” Gowdy continued.
“That’s correct,” Farkas responded.
Farkas, a Democrat, is currently running for Congress in New York’s 17th district.
quote:MOBILE, Ala. – Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions released the following statement early Friday afternoon, in response to recent comments by President Trump:
“I have enormous appreciation for President Trump and all that he has done for our country. I will be voting for him this fall, and working hard to pass his agenda when I return to the Senate next year.
“The specific law for the Department of Justice required that I recuse myself from the Russian collusion investigation. To not recuse myself from that investigation, of which I was a target as a senior campaign official and a witness, would have been breaking the law. I do not and will not break the law. On this matter, I agree with the late Tom Petty’s famous lyric – ‘you can stand me up to the gates of hell, but I won’t back down.’
“I did the right thing for the country and for President Trump. If I, as a target of the investigation, had broken the law by not recusing myself, it would have been a catastrophe for the rule of law and for the President. The Democrats in Congress and the politically motivated bureaucrats all over Washington would have had a field day, alleging a Nixonian cover-up, and the President would not have been fully exonerated.
“Let’s not forget, the notion that we on the Trump campaign colluded with Russia has been proven to be a complete hoax, and the President has been exonerated.
“Finally, I never begged for the job of Attorney General, not 4 times, not 1 time, not ever. The President offered me the job, I took it, I stood up for the truth and performed at the highest levels. Doing the right thing is not weakness, it is strength. My foundation is built on rock, not sand.”
Ik begin te twijfelen over Adam Schiff, eerlijk gezegd. In elk geval is dit schandaal geen Democrat versus Republican. The Washington Free Beacon en Paul Singer hebben initieel Fusion GPS ingehuurd. Die huurde voor deze opdracht Nellie Ohr in. The Billy Bush tape is het werk van never-Trumpers. En er zijn voldoende Democrats die hun partij terug willen hebben en voldoende Republicans die verantwoordelijkheid delen in dit schandaal.quote:
quote:Barack Obama on Michael Flynn
The lawyer President misstates the crime and the real threat to justice.
Barack Obama is a lawyer, so it was stunning to read that he ventured into the Michael Flynn case in a way that misstated the supposed crime and ignored the history of his own Administration in targeting Mr. Flynn. Since the former President chose to offer his legal views when he didn’t need to, we wonder what he’s really worried about.
“There is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free,” Mr. Obama said in the Friday call to about 3,000 members of the Obama Alumni Association. The comments were leaked to Yahoo News and confirmed by Mr. Obama’s spokeswoman to the Washington Post and other outlets. Mr. Obama added: “That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic—not just institutional norms—but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.”
ven discounting for Mr. Obama’s partisan audience, this gets the case willfully wrong. Mr. Flynn was never charged with perjury, which is lying under oath in a legal proceeding. Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty to a single count of lying to the FBI in a meeting at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017 that he was led to believe was a friendly chat among colleagues.
As for “scot-free,” that better applies to former President Bill Clinton who lied under oath in a civil case and was impeached for perjury but was acquitted by the Senate. We understand why Mr. Obama wouldn’t bring that up.
We doubt Mr. Obama has even read Thursday’s Justice Department motion to drop the Flynn prosecution. If he does ever read it, he’ll find disconcerting facts that certainly do raise doubts about whether “our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk,” though not for the reasons he claims.
Start with prosecutorial violation of the Brady rule, which Mr. Obama knows is a legal obligation that the prosecution must turn over potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense. Yet prosecutors led by special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t disclose that the interviewing FBI agents at the time didn’t think that Mr. Flynn had lied about a phone call with the Russian ambassador.
Worst of all, as a legal matter, is that they never told Mr. Flynn that there was no investigative evidentiary basis to justify the interview. The FBI had already concluded there was no evidence that Mr. Flynn had colluded with Russia in the 2016 election and had moved to close the case. James Comey’s FBI cronies used the news of Mr. Flynn’s phone call with the Russian ambassador as an excuse to interview the then national security adviser and perhaps trap him into a lie.
All of this was moved along politically by leaks to the media about Mr. Flynn’s phone call with the Russian. The U.S. eavesdrops on foreign officials as a routine, but names of innocent Americans on those calls are supposed to be shielded from review to protect their privacy. Yet senior Obama officials have had to acknowledge that they “unmasked” Mr. Flynn’s name and others in their last months in power. Then, what a surprise, news of Mr. Flynn’s call and its contents pop up in the Washington Post. Did someone say “institutional norms”?
All of this raises questions about the role the Obama Justice Department and White House played in targeting Mr. Flynn. We already know the FBI had opened up a counterintelligence probe into Mr. Flynn and other Trump campaign officials, yet it had come up with no evidence of collusion.
Donald Trump’s victory increased the chances that this unprecedented spying on a political opponent would be uncovered, which would have been politically embarrassing at the very least. Targeting Mr. Flynn—and flogging the discredited Steele dossier—kept the Russia collusion pot boiling and evolved into the two-year Mueller investigation that turned up no evidence of collusion.
This among other things is what U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating at the request of Attorney General William Barr. Maybe that’s why Mr. Obama is so eager to distort the truth of the Flynn prosecution.
Geen idee waarover je het hebt en met alle respect vermoed ik dat het onderwerp dat je nu aansnijdt beter en eerder in deze topic thuishoort.quote:Op maandag 11 mei 2020 13:01 schreef ManianMan het volgende:
Hebben jullie ook The family tak bekeken. Deze zouden ervoor gezorgd hebben dat vluchtelingen gingen vluchten naar andere landen. Zeer interessant om ook door te spitten zij zouden diverse wereldleiders aansporen om hun plan uit te voeren. Soort bilderberggroep.
Nee, ik ken dit document niet. Ik heb het vermoeden dat het nep is, omdat naar Christopher Steele wordt verwezen als MI-5, terwijl hij een MI-6 verleden heeft. Het gevaar met zulke aanwijzingen en "juweeltjes" is dat ze vaak gedeeltelijke een kern van waarheid bevatten, maar in zijn geheel fake zijn waardoor hoon en spot belangrijke aanwijzingen begraven. Ik hoop dat ik het een beetje duidelijk laat overkomen wat ik probeer te zeggen.quote:Op dinsdag 12 mei 2020 11:01 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Is het echt?
Project Fulsome zou 'surveiilance' door de Britse geheime diensten van Trump Tower in opdracht van de regerng Obama zijn? Deze operatie zou gestart zijn september 2016, dus nog voor de verkiezingen en is in ieder geval verlengd op 17 november 2016, toen Trump dus al de verkiezingen had gewonnen.
Ik had er ook mijn bedenkingen bij, omdat er duidelijk aan 'The President', Loretta Lynch en Michael Steele wordt gerefereerd en de brief ook nog eens gestuurd is aan Boris Johnson, toen hij nog MP was.quote:Op dinsdag 12 mei 2020 14:47 schreef dellipder het volgende:
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Nee, ik ken dit document niet. Ik heb het vermoeden dat het nep is, omdat naar Christopher Steele wordt verwezen als MI-5, terwijl hij een MI-6 verleden heeft. Het gevaar met zulke aanwijzingen en "juweeltjes" is dat ze vaak gedeeltelijke een kern van waarheid bevatten, maar in zijn geheel fake zijn waardoor hoon en spot belangrijke aanwijzingen begraven. Ik hoop dat ik het een beetje duidelijk laat overkomen wat ik probeer te zeggen.
quote:Grenell releases list of officials who sought to 'unmask' Flynn: Biden, Comey, Obama intel chiefs among them
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has released a list of names of Obama administration officials who purportedly requested to "unmask" the identity of Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period.
The list features top figures including then-Vice President Joe Biden, then-FBI Director James Comey and intelligence chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper. It also included Obama's then-chief of staff.
"I declassified the enclosed document, which I am providing to you for your situational awareness," Grenell wrote to GOP senators in sending along the list.
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 20:51:03 NEW: the list reveals that: @SamanthaJPower
made #unmasking requests for Flynn 7 times between Nov. 30, 2016 and Jan. 11, 2017.
#JamesClapper made 3 requests from Dec. 2, 2016 through Jan. 7, 2017; @JohnBrennan
made 2 requests, one on Dec. 14 and one on Dec. 15, 2016. reageer retweet
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 20:52:00 the list also reveals that @Comey #Comey made a request on Dec. 15, 2016.
On Jan. 5, 2017, then-President Obama's chief of staff Denis McDonough made one request.
On Jan. 12, 2017, then-Vice President @JoeBiden made one request.
#Unmasking #MichaelFlynn reageer retweet
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 20:16:31 SCOOP @CBSNews obtains @RichardGrenell notification to congress declassified "unmasking list" Flynn between late 2016 and January 2017 https://t.co/axc8MHvYYd reageer retweet
Net voldoende informatie vrijgegeven voor een spervuur. Aka wie gaat wie onder de bus gooien?quote:Johnson, Grassley Release Information About Unmasking of Americans
May 13, 2020
“Today we received a list of individuals who requested the unmasking of Lt. General Michael Flynn and others who received access to that information. The officials listed should confirm whether they reviewed this information, why they asked for it and what they did with it, and answer many other questions that have been raised by recent revelations. We are making this public because the American people have a right to know what happened. We commend Acting DNI Grenell and Attorney General Barr for their transparency and responsiveness. Our investigation of these matters has been ongoing for years, and as information finally comes to light, our focus on these issues is even more important now. The records are one step forward in an important effort to get to the bottom of what the Obama administration did during the Russia investigation and to Lt. General Flynn. We will continue to review this information and push for additional relevant disclosures until we are satisfied that the American people know the full truth.”
The information identifies Dennis McDonough, Samantha Power, James Comey, John Brennan, and Joseph R. Biden, among others, as individuals who were potentially involved in the unmasking of Michael Flynn.
twitter:RandPaul twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 20:52:17 Yesterday I wrote to DNI @RichardGrenell requesting the names of those who were involved in Gen Flynn’s unmasking. Today I received the shocking reply that @JoeBiden and many others knew! What did President Obama know? I am inviting DNI Grenell to testify next week in the Senate https://t.co/IHpGjeVWwM reageer retweet
twitter:AKA_RealDirty twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 21:17:58 .@RandPaul calls for an investigation. He says almost everyone in the Obama administration asked to listen to the phone call between @GenFlynn and Kislyak. @SidneyPowell1 https://t.co/XY6T4YQjYq reageer retweet
twitter:AKA_RealDirty twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 21:27:11 .@RandPaul says every reporter and America needs to come out of hibernation and ask @JoeBiden what kind of person ease drop on their political opponent. https://t.co/q468fzA8QH reageer retweet
twitter:AKA_RealDirty twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 22:15:20 .@RandPaul We need to find out if it was nefarious and they use the Russian ambassador to get to @GenFlynn or if they just heard The conversation and thought wow that's juicy news. https://t.co/S2VTdpTTR5 reageer retweet
twitter:AKA_RealDirty twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 22:19:30 .@RandPaul says The document show @JoeBiden did access and unmask @GenFlynn. https://t.co/Lpj7xd9a8x reageer retweet
twitter:AKA_RealDirty twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 22:27:05 .@RandPaul We need to find out what is it @JoeBiden leading the effort or was it @BarackObama. https://t.co/BwMdNiW4kx reageer retweet
"Vice President Biden is guilty of using government to go after a political opponent."twitter:AKA_RealDirty twitterde op woensdag 13-05-2020 om 22:32:05 .@RandPaul is giving @RichardGrenell an open invitation to come before the committee to testify. https://t.co/hSfCKES3SW reageer retweet
quote:Op zondag 22 december 2019 19:35 schreef dellipder het volgende:
De Intercept bericht dat admiraal Micheal Rogers, oud-directeur van de National Security Agency
(NSA), zijn medewerking verleent aan het onderzoek van het ministerie van Justitie naar de oorsprong van het contra-inlichtingenonderzoek van vermeende banden van de Trump-campagne met Rusland.
Rogers is geen onbekende in de controverse rond de verkiezingen van 2016 en zijn kennis over de oorsprong van bijna alles dat gerelateerd is aan de FBI data-surveillance in 2015 en 2016 is raakt hart van Spygate. In deel I van deze reeks heb ik het onderwerp admiraal Micheal Rogers aangeraakt.
Rogers is vooral bekend door zijn solo-actie elf dagen nadat Trump het presidentschap won. Rogers reisde naar Trump Tower in New York, waar hij de toenmalige president-elect een briefing gaf zonder daarvan zijn toenmalige directe baas, de Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, hierover in te lichten. FBI-, CIA kopstukken en andere officials uit de inlichtingengemeenschap waren hierover uiterst verbolgen.
Over de briefing tussen Rogers en de president-elect is alleen naar verluidt gemeld dat de NSA-directeur waarschuwde dat Trump Tower mogelijk onderwerp was van elektronische surveillance en dat Rogers bij Donald Trump smeekte om zijn baan te houden.
Hoe dan ook is het in elk geval een feit dat op 18 november 2016 Donald Trump zijn transitieteam naar Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey verhuist.
Eerder, in het begin van het jaar 2016 ontdekte Rogers voortdurende en opzettelijke schendingen van de Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), Section 702(17) . Specifiek #17 dat de zogenaamde upstream collection (dat is het onderscheppen van telefoon- en internetverkeer van de internet back-bone -d.w.z. grote nationale en internationale internetkabels en -schakelaars- door de NSA) van Amerikanen omvat door het gebruik van de zoekterm “About” vragen, dat gebaseerd is op elk willekeurig onderwerp dat als zoekopdracht kan worden ingevoerd.
Tussen november 2015 en april 2016 gebruiken de national security divisions (NSD) van de FBI en DoJ particuliere aannemers voor toegang tot de NSA-database en FISA-informatie door het gebruik van “To” and “From” FISA-702(16) & “About” FISA-702(17) vragen.
Als gevolg van de ontdekking van Rogers en daaruit zijn vermoeden dat surveillance-activiteiten op e-mails en telefoongesprekken om onwettige redenen worden gebruikt gelast hij in april 2016 een volledige audit. Op de 18e, dezelfde maand, sluit hij de toegang tot het zoeksysteem van de NSA-database volledig voor particuliere aannemers.
In onderstaande clip van het verhoor voor de Senate Intelligence Committee inzake de Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the Section 702 surveillance program en het FBI-onderzoek over Russische inmenging in de 2016 presidentsverkiezingen van 7 juni 2017 legt Rogers uit waarom de 702 aanvragen zijn stopgezet en hij een volledige beoordeling heeft verzocht om de beveiligingsmaatregelen te herstellen (vanaf minuut 0:40).
In plaats van afzonderlijke gerechtelijke bevelschriften, vereist sectie 702 dat de procureur-generaal en de DNI de FISC voorziet van jaarlijkse certificeringen dat verschillende categorieën buitenlandse inlichtingen in kaart brengt dat de overheid mag verzamelen op grond van deze sectie 702.
Zij moeten daarnaast certificeren dat de inlichtingengemeenschap richt- en minimalisatieprocedures zullen volgen die door de FISC zijn goedgekeurd.
Op 26 september 2016 dient hoofd van de National Security Division van de DoJ John Carlin de door de regering voorgestelde 2016 sectie 702 certificeringen in, maar hij laat achterwege de schendingen die eerder door Rogers waren ontdekt.
De certificeringen voor het jaar 2016 zijn gepland voor goedkeuring door de FISC op 26 oktober.
Op 27 september 2016 kondigt Carlin zijn vertrek bij de DoJ aan dat effectief wordt op 15 oktober.
Medio oktober doet DNI James Clapper de aanbeveling bij het Witte Huis om directeur Rogers uit de NSA te verwijderen. De poging van Clapper faalt echter.
Op 20 oktober 2016 wordt Rogers ingelicht over de bevindingen van de volledige audit.
Op 21 oktober 2016 sluit de toegang van de “About” vragen in de 702 sectie permanent, rapporteert de bevindingen aan de DoJ en bereidt zich voor om de FISC over de audit-bevindingen in te lichten.
Op 21 oktober 2016 proberen de DoJ en FBI een Title I FISA probable cause bevelschrift voor elektronische surveillance te verkrijgen van de FISC tegen Carter Page. De FISC is op dit moment niet op de hoogte van de sectie 702-misbruik.
Op 24 oktober 2016 informeert Rogers in persoon de FISC over de bevindingen van de volledige audit en twee dagen later op 26 oktober doet hij dit formeel op schrift.
Op 26 oktober 2016 weigert de FISC de 2016 Section 702-certificeringen te formaliseren. Een volledige revisie van sectie 702-processen volgt.
De bovenstaande extract betekent dat de metadata voor specifieke personen of entiteiten werden gehaald uit de NSA-database, herhaaldelijk, op verschillende tijdstippen en gedurende het tijdsbestek van de NSA-audit (15 november tot 1 mei 16).
En over deze toegang zegt de FISC het volgende:
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Belangrijk in dit bestek van de tijdlijn is dat de plaatsvervangend advocaat van de DoJ en in de hiërarchie van de DoJ de vierde man Bruce Ohr een demotie kreeg in de zomer van 2017 nadat de inspecteur-generaal Micheal Horowitz niet-gemelde contacten ontdekte tussen Ohr en de auteur van het Rusland-dossier Christopher Steele, evenals contacten met Fusion GPS-oprichter Glenn Simpson. Deze contacten vonden plaats in oktober 2016.
Wat betreft de 702 schendingen is het belangrijk uit de herinnering te halen dat in 2015 Sally Yates alle toezicht op de National Security Division van de DoJ voor de inspecteur-generaal blokkeerde. bron
De DoJ OIG kon op alle onderdelen van het ministerie van Justitie onderwerp maken van toezicht, behalve de NSD.
Uit de ingebrachte informatie kan geconcludeerd worden dat de DoJ NSD de FISA 702(17) “About” queries gebruikte om e-mails en telefoongesprekken te onderscheppen van Amerikaanse personen (aka de Trump-campagne).
Dit is ook wat uit het rapport van FISC-rechter James Boasberg naar voren komt.
Wanneer de toenmalige voorzitter van de House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes in maart 2017 zijn zorgen uitte over wat hij had gezien in een review van de in 2016 verzamelde inlichtingen, het rapporteren van inlichtingen en daaropvolgend unmasking was het niet helemaal duidelijk wat de implicaties waren van wat hij had ontdekt.
Nu, ruim twee jaar later, en met veel meer informatie voorhanden kan er met een ander perspectief naar zijn zorgen worden gekeken.
”On numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition.”
“Details about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration; details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.”
“Third, I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition members were unmasked.”
“Fourth and finally, I want to be clear; none of this surveillance was related to Russia, or the investigation of Russian activities.
“The House Intelligence Committee will thoroughly investigate surveillance and its subsequent dissemination, to determine a few things here that I want to read off:”
• “Who was aware of it?”
• “Why it was not disclosed to congress?”
• “Who requested and authorized the additional unmasking?”
• “Whether anyone directed the intelligence community to focus on Trump associates?”
• “And whether any laws, regulations or procedures were violated?”
“I have asked the Directors of the FBI, NSA and CIA to expeditiously comply with my March 15th (2017) letter -that you all received a couple of weeks ago- and to provide a full account of these surveillance activities.”
In samenvatting Spygate; het grootste politiek schandaal in de geschiednis van de Staten.
En dan ook nog eens in deze beschouwing niet meegerekend de activiteiten van onder andere State Department, GCHQ en ander FVEY-bondgenoten.
Heel interessant dat er tussen deze hele reeks bobo's ook nog enkele namen redacted zijn. Als Biden, Clapper, Brennan en Comey er zelfs gewoon op staan, wie zouden er dan nog beschermd worden door hun naam te redacten? Obama? Clinton? McCain?quote:Op woensdag 13 mei 2020 21:31 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
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https://www.nbcnews.com/n(...)lection-hack-n696146quote:U.S. intelligence officials now believe with "a high level of confidence" that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved in the covert Russian campaign to interfere in the U.S. presidential election, senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News.
Two senior officials with direct access to the information say new intelligence shows that Putin personally directed how hacked material from Democrats was leaked and otherwise used. The intelligence came from diplomatic sources and spies working for U.S. allies, the officials said.
quote:I am reliably informed that the NSA or its partners intercepted at least some of the communications between Mr. Rich and Wikileaks. Before elaborating on that, however, I should first note the extent to which the “deep state” has already tried to cover up information about Mr. Rich. In an October 9, 2018 affidavit submitted in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, FBI section chief David M. Hardy testified that (1) the FBI did not investigate any matters pertaining to Mr. Rich, and (2) the FBI was unable to locate any records about Mr. Rich. Both claims were unequivocally false.
https://www.washingtonexa(...)ing-for-mueller-teamquote:Devin Nunes: Criminal referrals coming for Mueller team
The top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said criminal referrals are coming for members of former special counsel Robert Mueller's team who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.
“We're looking at doing criminal referrals on the Mueller team, the Mueller dossier team, the Mueller witch hunt, whatever you want to call it. That's where we are now in our investigation,” Rep. Devin Nunes told Fox Nation’s Witch Hunt.
"We're doing a large criminal referral on the Mueller dossier team that put together a fraudulent report — that knew there was no collusion the day that Mueller walked in the door," the California Republican added. "They set an obstruction of justice trap. There's no doubt in my mind that we will make a conspiracy referral there."
Mueller released his 448-page report last April. The investigation found “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign" but "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” Mueller did not draw a conclusion about whether President Trump obstructed justice, but did lay out 10 instances of possible obstruction in his report.
Nunes has long maintained that Mueller knew from the day he became special counsel in May 2017 that there was no coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. He says the House Intelligence Committee, which conducted its own Russian interference investigation when he was chairman, determined there was no collusion by early 2018. Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee argued that the investigation was wrapped up prematurely, and the current chairman of the panel, Rep. Adam Schiff, has repeatedly insisted there was collusion.
Last year, Nunes made eight criminal referrals alleging several “potential violations” of the law throughout the investigation into Russian interference and said this year there would be follow-ups based on revelations about British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier.
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz determined late last year the FBI properly opened its counterintelligence investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, into potential ties between the Kremlin and Trump campaign in the summer of 2016. After FBI Director James Comey was fired by Trump in May 2017, Mueller was appointed to be the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation.
The watchdog also determined that the bureau made "at least 17 significant errors or omissions" in the applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants spanning from October 2016 to the summer of 2017 that targeted former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The FBI used Steele's dossier to obtain those warrants.
The Justice Department filed on Thursday to dismiss charges against Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who cooperated with Mueller investigators after pleading guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a Russian diplomat.
In moving to drop the charges last week, the Justice Department said that after reviewing newly disclosed materials, it agreed with Flynn’s attorneys that his interview with the FBI should never have taken place because his conversations with the Russian ambassador were “entirely appropriate.”
Nunes called for the lead Justice Department lawyer in the Flynn case to be investigated.
"That attorney had to know those documents existed, had to know they were working with a falsified 302 — that's a very simple criminal referral," he said, in reference to alleged suppression of exculpatory evidence.
The congressman also said he will ask the Justice Department to investigate possible obstruction of justice of the congressional inquiry into the Russia investigation.
"I want to see all of them held accountable for this,” he added.
quote:Impeachment Boomerang: Contacts exposed between US embassy, Hunter Biden-connected Ukraine firm
Ambassador’s impeachment testimony omitted mention of Burisma meetings, letters.
During President Trump’s impeachment, former U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch testified to Congress that she knew little beyond an initial briefing and “press reports” about Burisma Holdings, the Ukrainian natural gas firm that had hired Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter and was dogged by a corruption investigation.
“It just wasn’t a big deal,” she declared under oath on Oct. 11, 2019.
But newly unearthed State Department memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show Yovanovitch’s embassy in Kiev, including the ambassador herself, was engaged in several discussions and meetings about Burisma as the gas firm scrambled during the 2016 election and transition to settle a long-running corruption investigation and polish its image before President Trump took office.
Yovanovitch, for instance, was specifically warned in an email by her top deputy in September 2016 — three years before her testimony — that Burisma had hired an American firm with deep Democratic connections called Blue Star Strategies to “rehabilitate the reputation” of the Ukrainian gas firm and that it had placed “Hunter Biden on its board,” the memos show.
She also met directly with a representative for Burisma in her embassy office, less than 45 days before Trump took office, a contact she did not mention during her impeachment deposition.
The discussions about Burisma inside Yovanovitch’s embassy were so extensive, in fact, that they filled more than 160 pages of emails, memos and correspondence in fall 2016 alone, according to the State Department records obtained under FOIA by the conservative group Citizens United.
The contacts included a detailed private letter hand-delivered to Yovanovitch by one of Burisma’s lawyers in September 2016, a briefing later that month from her staff on Burisma’s issues, and a meeting scheduled between the ambassador and a Burisma representative shortly before Christmas 2016 as the Obama administration was preparing to leave office.
Yovanovitch, who recently retired from State, did not respond Tuesday to a message sent to her private email seeking comment. Her lawyer during the impeachment proceedings, Lawrence S. Robbins, also did not respond to an emailed request for comment.
State officials declined comment.
David Bossie, a former congressional investigator and current outside adviser to Trump who runs Citizen United, said the documents his group obtained raise questions about Yovanovitch’s testimony last fall and what else Congress may not know about the embassy’s involvement with the Hunter Biden-connected Burisma firm.
"These new records clearly don't support Ambassador Yovanovitch's testimony under oath during [Rep. Adam] Schiff's sham impeachment. Her sworn testimony must be investigated and scrutinized just like in the case of General [Michael] Flynn,” he said. “You can't have two sets of rules."
The impeachment hearings last fall, which focused on efforts by Trump and his lawyer Rudy Guiliani to find evidence inside Ukraine on the Bidens and Burisma and to remove Yovanovitch from her job as U.S. ambassador, included testimony from Yovanovitch herself.
During that deposition in October 2019 she made no mention of direct contact with Burisma representatives and instead suggested her knowledge about the company and its legal travails was limited mostly to a briefing she received in preparation for Senate confirmation as ambassador in summer 2016 and subsequent news media reports.
Hunter Biden’s work for one of Ukraine’s largest energy companies, which generated more than $3 million in payments to his American firm over two years, stirred controversy in both Ukraine and the United States because his father oversaw U.S. policy for Ukraine while Burisma was long a focus of a criminal corruption probe in Ukraine. State Department officials have said they believed the relationship created the appearance of a conflict of interest.
“What do you know about the investigation of Burisma?” Yovanovitch was asked at one point during her October testimony.
“Not very much. And, again, that happened before I arrived,” she testified. “… Burisma wasn’t a big issue in the fall of 2018 — 2016 when I arrived.”
“Were you aware at that time of Hunter Biden’s role with Burisma?” she was asked at another point.
“Yes. As I mentioned, I became aware during the Q&A in the prep for my testimony,” she answered.
Yovanovitch said she believed she learned from press reports that Burisma’s criminal case had been dormant by the time she arrived in Kiev in late summer 2016.
“I’m trying to understand your testimony, because earlier in the day you said that, based on press reports, your understanding was that it was dormant. You may have had additional information it was dormant, or you don’t know?” Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., inquired at one point.
“Yes. And all I can tell you is it was a long time ago and it just wasn’t a big issue,” she said.
“So I just want to understand your position. Obviously, you knew that Burisma was dormant, based on press reports. That was what you stated earlier,” Zeldin pressed.
“Uh-huh,” she answered.
“But you’re saying that you may have had other information, but you don’t recall that now?” the lawmaker followed.
“I may have had other information, but I don’t recall how I had that impression …” she answered.
During a nationally televised impeachment hearing a month later in the House, Yovanovitch doubled down on her testimony that Burisma and Hunter Biden weren't on her radar when she took over as ambassador. "It was not a focus of what I was doing in that six-month period," she testified anew.
But the memos show Yovanovitch was informed that the criminal cases were actively being settled in fall 2016 and that Burisma and its founder Mykola Zlochevsky were trying to repair the company’s reputation with the U.S. Embassy.
For instance, a briefing memo prepared for Yovanovitch’s 30-minute meeting Dec. 8, 2016 inside the U.S. Embassy with Burisma representative Karen Tramontano noted that Tramantano worked for the lobbying and strategy firm Blue Star Strategies.
“An Atlantic Council member and Washington veteran, Tramontano informally represents Mykola Zlochevsky, the Burisma CEO, who has long been the target of law enforcement proceedings in Ukraine,” the memo stated.
The memo added that “his [Zlochevsky’s] official US representatives sent a letter in September (attached) asking that the embassy reconsider its position on him.”
Read the memos by clicking on the "Dig In" button above.
The new memos aren't the first to raise questions about Yovanovitch's testimony. Last November, Fox News challenged another portion of her testimony denying she had contact with a Democratic House staffer after the network said it obtained emails showing Yovanovitch did in fact have the contact on her private email, and not her official State email.
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has been trying to subpoena documents about Blue Star Strategies and its work for Burisma for weeks but has been blocked by opposition from Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, whose friend serves on the Burisma board. Johnson and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are now seeking to interview witnesses who previously served at the embassy.
The memos show that both Blue Star Strategies and the Atlantic Council, a nonprofit policy organization, played a role in fall 2016 pressing the U.S. embassy in Kiev to change its position on Burisma and Zlochevsky, whom the embassy viewed as corrupt. Zlochevsky has long denied any wrongdoing.
For instance, after the U.S. Agency for International Development, the State Department foreign funding arm, was told by the embassy’s Deputy Chief of Mission George Kent not to accept a $7,500 donation for Burisma for a clean energy event in Ukraine in late summer 2016, a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine named John Herbst working for the Atlantic Council reached out.
Herbst asked to meet with Yovanovitch in September 2016 and secured a private dinner date instead with Kent in Ukraine, the memos show. “I will factor into our conversation the Zlochevsky Affair,” Herbst wrote to Kent as he prepared for their dinner.
Kent, long a critic of Burisma, is one of the witnesses Johnson and Grassley are seeking to interview. He went out of his way to mention the Burisma-Hunter Biden connection during one of his pre-dinner email exchanges with Herbst in which he decried alleged “payoffs” to Ukrainian officials “to do nothing” about the Burisma investigation.
“I have no doubt such arrangements were made, apart from Mr. Zlochevsky (who also put Hunter Biden on the board of his Burisma Energy company),” Kent wrote.
One of the maneuvers Blue Star planned was to take the new Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko, who held the fate of Burisma in his hands, to the United States for an event with the Atlantic Council, a move that would have created positive press for Lutsenko in both countries, the memos state.
Kent discouraged doing so and eventually sent a memo to Yovanovitch alerting her that “Lutsenko now likely not to go to DC with Blue Star.”
She followed up with a request to be briefed. “Thanks George. At some point appreciate discussing in more detail some of the folks referenced,” the ambassador wrote in a Sept. 4, 2016 email.
Within a few days, Yovanovitch received a direct letter from one of Burisma’s American lawyers, John Buretta of the Cravath, Swaine and Moore law firm in New York, alerting her that Lutsenko’s office was dropping a long-running corruption investigation of Burisma without filing charges based on a Ukrainian court ruling favorable to Zlochevsky.
Buretta’s letter to Yovanovitch said the allegations against Zlochevsky were “baseless,” and the lawyer asked the U.S. embassy to drop its long-running narrative that Burisma was somehow corrupt.
“We respectfully request that Your Excellency take into consideration these objective facts when considering the narrative promoted by some, and no doubt to be repeated again, in disregard of the facts and the law and the decisions by courts,” Buretta wrote the ambassador.
Yovanovitch immediately forwarded the letter to Kent. “What is this about?” she emailed.
Kent, the memos show, then arranged a special briefing for Yovanovitch later in September to get up to speed. The planned subject of the briefing, the memos show, was “Zlochevsky, Burisma, Cravath and image rehab campaigns.”
One of the topics for the briefing, Kent wrote colleagues on Sept. 16, 2016, was “Zlochevsky/Burisma – asset recovery and past crimes of the Yanu regime as they intersect U.S. corporate/individual interest,” an apparent reference to Hunter Biden’s role with the company.
In a separate email to Yovanovitch, Kent was more explicit about the Biden connection. “This is further to the Blue Star effort to rehabilitate the reputation of their non-client in the US, former ministry of ecologies Zlochevsky, who clearly has retained the services of a blue chip law firm (Cravath) and his energy company Burisma, which in turn has Hunter Biden on its board,” Kent emailed the ambassador.
By November 2016, with Trump now the president-elect, Burisma’s American emissaries were in full motion to get a second corruption case against Burisma — this one involving tax evasion — settled in Ukraine. They succeeded by early January, just days before Trump took office.
The American legal team for Burisma also wanted to improve relations between the gas firm, where Hunter Biden worked, and the U.S. embassy and USAID, the foreign aid arm, the memos show.
The Dec. 8, 2016 briefing memo prepared for Yovanovitch detailed the lobbying efforts by Blue Star.
“USAID spoke to Blue Star Strategies representative Sally Painter by phone and indicated that we would be open to discussing other forms of cooperation between USAID and Burisma, and agreed to meet with Burisma Government and Public Affairs representative Vadim Pozharskyi,” the memo to Yovanovitch explained. “In the November meeting, Pozharskyi briefed USAID on Burisma and the gas sector more broadly but did not propose specific ideas for cooperation.”
U.S. officials directly familiar with the Dec. 8, 2016 meeting confirmed it took place and that Yovanovich attended, but did not know whether the ambassador read the briefing memo beforehand.
After Yovanovitch met with Blue Star’s Tramantano, word surfaced in Ukraine that Zlochevsky had settled the second case against Burisma with a fine, and the Ukrainian news media was up in arms, critical that the owner and his company with Hunter Biden on its board had escaped more serious penalty.
One headline forwarded by email to the ambassador read, “Activists cry foul as courts, prosecutors clear Zlochevsky.”
“Lots of accusations/innuendo,” a State official wrote Yovanovitch and Kent on Dec. 29, 2016, forwarding another news article that alleged Burisma may have dumped natural gas into the market as a political payoff for getting off in the criminal case.
“Mentions Biden’s son and Kwasniewski are on board of Burisma, which allegedly had a subsidiary dump natural gas recently as a way to pay bribes” to Ukrainian officials, the State official wrote Yovanovitch.
A few hours later on that same day, the embassy’s deputy economic counselor followed up with Yovanovitch about the payoff allegations. “The dumping part is true,” the official wrote.
By early January 2017, as Vice President Joe Biden prepared to make a final visit to Ukraine before leaving office, officials around Yovanovitch worried the Burisma scandal might taint the visit. They forwarded news articles to the ambassador, some which were critical of the Bidens.
A Jan. 7, 2017 email from a State official to Yovanovitch, for instance, provided a summary of recent news reports about the impending Biden visit. “Ukrainian political scientists speculate on the purpose of the visit,” the email told Yovanovitch.
One of the speculations quoted in the memo was that Biden “has a business interest” in Ukraine because his son worked for Burisma. “Perhaps the behind the scenes part of the visit can be attributed to the fact that the Ukranian authorities guaranteed some business positions to the former Vice President and his family,” the memo quoted one Ukrainian figure as saying.
Kent had long feared the Bidens had created the appearance of a conflict of interest with the Burisma relationship and testified during impeachment he tried to warn the vice president about his concerns in 2015 but got rebuffed. As the media speculation about Biden’s last visit got more intense and nasty, Kent lamented to colleagues in a Jan. 17, 2017 email that copied Yovanovitch: “Burisma – gift that keeps on giving.”
For the Atlantic Council and Herbst, Kent’s line was prophetically, and literally, true.
On Jan. 13, 2017, Herbst emailed Kent that the Atlantic Council had just accepted a donation from Burisma.
“I wanted you to know before it becomes public that the Atlantic Council decided to accept support for its program from Burisma,” Herbst wrote. “We looked at the matter closely and weighed it over for a month. Information provided by the Cravath lawyer for Burisma in the London case was an important factor, although some uneasiness remains.”
quote:Russian Ambassador Invited Trump Administration to Syria Peace Talks as US Issued Sanctions
Russia's ambassador to the U.S. invited the Trump administration to Syrian peace talks during a phone call in December -- on the same day the Obama administration announced sanctions against Russia in retaliation for its hacking during the U.S. election -- a Trump representative said Friday.
Incoming White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak extended the invitation to the talks, which are scheduled for later this month, during a phone call with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Dec. 29, the day the U.S. issued sanctions and expelled 35 Russian diplomats from the country.
The Obama administration was unsuccessful in securing a seat in Syria peace negotiations during talks with Russia and other regional powers and has been excluded from the most recent rounds. The next talks about Syria are scheduled for Jan. 23 in Astana, Kazakhstan, three days after Trump takes office.
Wat werd er in Idlib gevonden?quote:
“Russia was used as a pretext for 3 years to cover what was a massive spying operation against the transition team & the presidency”twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 07-10-2019 om 13:40:33 The United States was supposed to be in Syria for 30 days, that was many years ago. We stayed and got deeper and deeper into battle with no aim in sight. When I arrived in Washington, ISIS was running rampant in the area. We quickly defeated 100% of the ISIS Caliphate,..... reageer retweet
quote:Op dinsdag 12 mei 2020 14:47 schreef dellipder het volgende:
En Spygate, om het zomaar even te noemen, is slechts een onderdeel van het grotere schandaal waar bijvoorbeeld Oekraïne-gate deel van uitmaakt. De keerzijde van de kwestie Oekraïne is dat USAID in zakken van corrupte mensen terecht kwam. Niet voor niets dat er een onderzoek naar het verdwijnen van Amerikaanse belastinggelden werd verricht (onder andere door Rudy Giuliani). De impeachment was een reactie (cover-up) van deze kwestie. Er zijn uiteraard nog meer thema's, zoals Fast & Furious (ook weer terug in het nieuws), Operation Cassandra, Benghazi, je kent ze allemaal wel en in feite is Spygate de cover-up daarvoor geweest. Alleen Hillary heeft niet gewonnen, dus daarom zijn we waar we nu zijn.
quote:Op dinsdag 19 mei 2020 10:51 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Artikel over een klokkenluider die in maart 2017 een klacht bij de inspecteur-generaal van de Belastingdienst indiende, nadat ze erachter kwam dat de financiële gegevens en transacties van generaal Micheal Flynn in de periode december 2015 tot ver in 2017 regelmatig werden ingezien.
Dit doet me denken aan de IRS controversy.
Overigens opvallend dat de klacht van de klokkenluider niet in behandeling is genomen. Dit sterkt de opvatting dat veel inspecteur-generaals vooral partijdig zijn.
EXCLUSIVE: The Treasury Department Spied on Flynn, Manafort, and the Trump Family, Says Whistleblower
Je verwacht het nietquote:Conlon accessed the Flynn file Dec. 14, 2016.
There must have been some kind of meeting that day. These are all of the other Treasury Department officials looking at Flynn that day: Secretary Jacob Lew, Acting Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis A. Daniel “Danny” McGlynn, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Michael Neufeld, Deputy Secretary Sarah Raskin, Under Secretary Nathan Sheets and Acting Under Secretary Adam Szubin.
Lew is the only one who made the list again, this time Jan. 12, 2017 – and if his deputy’s name sounds familiar, Raskin is the wife of Rep. Jamin B. “Jamie” Raskin (D.-Md.), one of the House Prosecutors, who argued for the removal of Trump after his impeachment. The congressman’s wife was also an Obama-appointed Federal Reserve governor.
De deal speelde Iran rechtstreeks in de kaart en leverde haar miljarden dollars op dat werd ingezet om diverse terreurgroepen in heel het Midden-Oosten te financieren. Door zijn achtergrond in de militaire inlichtingendienst had Flynn een goed begrip over de dreiging van Iran op de regio. Hij was dan ook een tegenstander van lobbyisten en voorvechters. In het bijzonder leden van de belangrijkste lobbygroep van Iran, de National Iranian American Council (NIAC), opgericht door Trita Parsi, die eigenlijk als mondstuk voor het mullah regime optrad. Voor Flynn was het onacceptabel dat Teheran zoveel invloed kon uitoefenen op de regering. Vermoedelijk werd Flynn doelwit van de Obama-regering nadat hij in juni 2015, een maand voordat de Iran-deal in Wenen werd getekend, getuigde tegen de Iran-deal.twitter:GenFlynn twitterde op woensdag 15-07-2015 om 04:26:40 North Korea & Iran...watch this short comparison of two very dangerous countries. Goes round, comes round... http://t.co/1nRQcj3vep reageer retweet
Het advies wordt opgevolgd.quote:Op woensdag 27 mei 2020 20:27 schreef dellipder het volgende:
FISA nieuws:
Het ministerie van Justitie heeft een verklaring uitgegeven dat zegt dat zij een presidentieel veto aanbeveelt voor het wetsvoorstel dat door de Senaat met 80-16 is aangenomen en het Huis van Afgevaardigden later in overweging neemt. Veranderingen in het wetsvoorstel aangebracht door de Senaat is de reden dat Justitie niet nader verklaarde "belangrijke problemen" ziet die "ons vermogen om terroristen en spionnen na te jagen" zouden schaden.
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twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 28-05-2020 om 00:16:31 If the FISA Bill is passed tonight on the House floor, I will quickly VETO it. Our Country has just suffered through the greatest political crime in its history. The massive abuse of FISA was a big part of it! reageer retweet
Volledig antwoord hier.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op dinsdag 02-06-2020 om 00:24:18 #FLYNN DOJ Filing: Executive branch decides who is tried not federal judges. “The Constitution vests in the Executive Branch the power to decide when—and when not—to prosecute potential crimes. Exercising that Article II power here, the Executive filed a motion to dismiss... reageer retweet
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op donderdag 04-06-2020 om 17:04:34 NEW: Senate Homeland Security Committee authorized, on an 8-6 vote, @SenRonJohnson to send subpoenas to @FBI, @StateDept, @ODNIgov for #Russia probe docs, #Steele #Dossier & testimony from @Comey @JohnBrennan @SamanthaJPower @AmbassadorRice Sidney Blumenthal, James Clapper &more reageer retweet
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op donderdag 04-06-2020 om 17:09:24 NEW: subpoenas to the @FBI for the production of all records related to the #crossfireHurricane investigation & "all records provided or made available to @TheJusticeDept inspector general for its #FISA review reageer retweet
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op donderdag 04-06-2020 om 17:10:42 NEW: subpoenas to the @StateDept for all records related to meetings or communications between State Dept. officials or employees #ChristopherSteele #Dossier reageer retweet
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op donderdag 04-06-2020 om 17:11:23 NEW: subpoenas to @ODNIgov for records related to the #unmasking "of U.S. persons or entities affiliated, formally or informally, with the Trump campaign, #Trump transition, or Trump administration from June 2015 through January 2017." @realDonaldTrump reageer retweet
twitter:BrookeSingman twitterde op donderdag 04-06-2020 om 17:13:20 NEW: subpoenas for records, deposition, testimony from: @Comey @JohnBrennan @SamanthaJPower @AmbassadorRice former Obama chief of staff Dennis McDonough,former DNI James Clapper, Sidney Blumenthal, @NatSecLisa, former FBI officials Peter Strzok, Bill Priestap,Joe Pientka, & more reageer retweet
Het klopt inderdaad dat er een verschil is tussen de talking points en de informatie dat beschikbaar is wat de realiteit weerspiegelt.quote:Op woensdag 3 juni 2020 20:20 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Ik heb tot nu toe een aardig stukje gezien en het valt me op dat door beide kanten steeds weer de bullshit wordt herhaald dat de Russen probeerden op grote schaal de 2016 verkiezingen te beinvloeden. Iedereen die iets verder kijkt dan CNN, zal constateren dat de Russische bemoeienissen minimaal waren en de rapporten waar men dat op baseert, onbewezen verhaaltjes zijn van 3rd pary bedrijven als New Knowlegde en Crowdstrike.
Beide partijen hebben belang bij het optuigen van de Russische boeman, terwijl het werkelijke gevaar China is.
Hirono is een sekreet. Net als Al Green (niet de zanger) en Eric Swallwell een van de handlangers van de opperleugenaar Adam Schiif.quote:Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 16:25 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Uit het verhoor van voormalig adjunct procureur-generaal Rod Rosenstein voor de Senate Judiciary Committee het volgende segment tussen senator Mazie Hirono en Rosenstein. Hirono bracht media-artikelen naar voren waarin werd gesuggereerd dat Rosenstein had gesproken over het dragen van opnameapparatuur om gesprekken met de Amerikaanse president af te luisteren of dat hij gesproken had om met behulp van het 25ste Amendment Donald Trump uit zijn ambt te verwijderen.
Rosenstein: “You packed that question. I hope you will allow me to answer. The idea that I was involved in some conspiracy with the president; it is ridiculous.“
Dit idee was afkomstig was van Andrew McCabe en werd onderbouwd door Lisa Page.
McCabe werd bij de FBI ontslagen vanwege liegen. Dit is bekend uit het rapport van de inspecteur-generaal Micheal Horowitz over de acties van de FBI en het ministerie van Justitie die betrekking hadden op het onderzoek naar Hillary Clinton's gebruik van een privé e-mailserver. McCabe loog tegen zijn baas de voormalige FBI-directeur James Comey, hij loog tegen de Office of Professional Responsibility (Interne Zaken) en twee keer onder ede tegen de inspecteur-generaal. Daarnaast beschuldigde de inspecteur-generaal McCabe ook van het lekken van vertrouwelijke informatie naar de Wall Street Journal. Het achtergrondverhaal hiervan heb ik eerder in twee berichten behandeld, hier en hier. FBI-advocaat Lisa Page is bekend geworden van haar affaire met FBI-agent Peter Strzok en de sms-berichten tussen beiden. Ze nam op 5 mei 2018 ontslag bij de FBI.
Hirono vervolgt haar ondervraging en wil weten van Rosenstein of hij gesuggereerd heeft of een toespeling gemaakt heeft in het geheim gesprekken met de president op te nemen.
Rosenstein: “I did not secretly hint at recording president Trump.”
Hirono: “Have you ever discusses yhe possibility to remove the president from office?”
Rosenstein: “In have never suggest that in any way to remove the president from office.”
Hirono: “We all know that attorney general Barr used certain characterizations of the Mueller report which I would say are not accurate, but he did say in a letter he wrote to Congress...he said, deputy attorney general and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the investigation is not sufficient to establish that the president commited an obstruction of justice offense. Did the attorney general accurately present your view regarding the obstruction of justice offense?
Rosenstein: “Senator, I do not believe the evidence collected by the special counsel warrants prosecution of the president. That is correct.”
Hirono: “That was not my question.It has nothing to do with collusion. We also know that president Trump did not coorperate fully with Mueller's investigation on that part. No, hid did note a number of obstruction of justice actions by the president. Did you agree with Barr's letter there was no obstruction of justice involved?
Rosenstein: “That is what I was tried to answer the first time. The answer is yes, I do not believe the president committed a crime that warrants prosecution. And that's the issue that we review as prosecuters.
Hirono: “No, excuse me. The Mueller report says that they did not find enough evidence to go after the president for collusion. And we all know that the office of legal counsel said that a sitting president cannot be indicted, but they raised a number of obstruction of justions actions by the president and they left open the issue of whether or not that would be indictable. But we all know that the office of legal counsel said you cannot indict a sitting president. And by the way, more than 1000 former federal prosecuters that served under both republican and democratic administrations disagree with you regarding the obstruction of justice issue. They wrote they believe the president'sTrump conduct as described in the Mueller report “results in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice”. They emphasized that these are not matters of professionel judgement. They further noted that to look at these facts and say that prosecuters could not sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice runs counter to logic and experience. Can you explain why are you right and more than 1000 former DoJ prosecuters are wrong on the issue of obstruction of justice by this president?
Rosenstein; “Senator we have a lot more than 1000 former DoJ prosecuters and I don't know whether all of those people read the entire report or are familiar with the evidence, but I was and I believe as attorney general Barr already explained his conclusion. I think it's important to know that when we complete investigations we reach conclusions. And the department either determines the merit of the prosecution or it does not. We determined that the case does not merit prosecution. Now people are free to express contrary opinions. And because...”
Hirono: “I think I have to repeat myself. I read the Mueller report. They did not say that there was not enough evidence with regard to the obstruction of justice. I disagree with Mueller. I don't know why he did not come to the conclusion. There was actually enough evidence on the obstruction of justice issue, but they couls not indict the prsident. That part is really clear.”
Chairman Graham; “Thank you.”
Rosenstein: If I may, chairman. I think that is unfair, senator. Becuase the investigation was concluded. It was appopriately reviewed. No one recommended prosecution. The attorney general and I concluded the prosecution was not warranted.”
Chairman Graham: “I think that question has been asked and answered. Thank you very much.”
Nu de bewegende beelden:
Resumé.
Rosenstein zei dat er geen geheime opnames bestaan over president Trump, dat hij niet in het geheim opnameapparatuur heeft gedragen, dat hij geen deel uitmaakte van een samenzwering om Trump te verwijderen en dat hij nooit en op geen enkele manier heeft gesuggereerd dat de president uit het ambt kon worden ontheven via de 25th Amendment.
Rosenstein zei verder dat hij het eens is met de conclusie dat er geen bewijs was voor belemmering van de rechtsgang en hij stelde ondubbelzinnig dat hij het eens is met de conclusie dat er geen bewijs was van een misdrijf gepleegd door Donald Trump. Over het argument dat 1000 aanklagers het oneens zijn met de conclusie van William Barr en Rod Rosenstein zei Rosenstein dat er veel meer dan 1000 voormalige aanklagers zijn. Zij kennen niet het volledig dossier, hij wel. En tot slot benadrukt Rosenstein dat niemand voorstander was van vervolging.
Eigenlijk is het onvoorstelbaar dat het lijkt alsof de senator het niet kan verwerken wat de antwoorden van de voormalige adjunct-procureur generaal betekenen. Ze heeft een bepaalde mindset en daarvan wil ze niet afwijken. Zelfs als Rosenstein opmerkt dat het mensen vrij staat opinies te hebben over de beslissingen van Justitie, maar dat dit wat anders is dan besluiten die worden genomen na een onderzoek. Dan is het karakteristiek dat zo'n collusion believer als Hirono prompt daarop zegt dat ze het oneens is. Hirono staat hierin niet op zichzelf. Zij is als het ware representatief voor een groep die dachten (en misschien nog steeds) dat president Trump een marionet is van Vladimir Putin. Deze mensen (beyond repair) weten zeker dat er ergens nog bewijs is verborgen van een Trump-Russische samenwerking.
In elk geval heeft dit narratief geen relatie tot de realiteit. Andermaal bevestigd door de getuigenis van Rosenstein.
Alleen is dit verder irrelevant voor wat haar vragen aan Rod Rosenstein opleverde.quote:Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 16:32 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Hirono is een sekreet. Net als Al Green (niet de zanger) en Eric Swallwell een van de handlangers van de opperleugenaar Adam Schiif.
En jij gelooft dat allemaal? Rosenstein zegt dat hij nu eenmaal tig FISA's tekent en er dan vanuit gaat dat de FBI-agenten de zaak goed hebben onderzocht en naar eer en geweten hebben gehandeld, maar zoals die senator zei; het gaat hier niet om zomaar een zaakje, het gaat hier om aantijgingen dat de (toekomstige) president en diens mensen Russische handlangers zouden zijn. Dit zou het schandaal van de eeuw zijn! En Rosenstein zou dan zomaar zonder alles te hebben gelezen en bestudeerd te hebben, zijn krabbel hebben gezet onder het verzoek Amerikaanse burgers te bespioneren onder FISA dekmantel? Alsof het allemaal niks is?quote:Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 22:34 schreef dellipder het volgende:
De voorzitter van de Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsay Graham vraagt aan de voormalig adjunct procureur-generaal Rod Rosenstein dat met de wetenschap van de conclusies uit het inspecteur-generaal rapport van Micheal Horowitz (OIG) van 9 december 2019 hij de applicatie voor elektronische surveillance tegen Carter Page om te presenteren voor de FISC-rechtbank zou ondertekenen.
Het antwoord van Rosenstein hierop is een ondubbelzinnige nee.
Een ander antwoord zou niet mogelijk zijn geweest, omdat OIG Horowitz in zijn onderzoek op zijn minst 17 belangrijke fouten en weglatingen in de Carter Page FISA-applicaties en meerdere extra fouten in de Woods-procedure heeft vastgesteld. In het Congresverhoor verklaarde OIG Horowitz hierover dat het hier gaat over significante, serieuze tekortkomingen met betrekking tot de operatie van FISA-surveillance. En of dit gedrag dat leidde naar deze fouten en weglatingen puur grove incompetentie dat de oorzaak is of opzettelijk wangedrag dat mogelijk de drijfveer is, kon OIG Horowitz niet vaststellen. Deze kwestie heeft hij verwezen naar het ministerie van Justitie en de FBI voor nader (crimineel) onderzoek, maar hij wist in het verhoor wel te vertellen dat hij het gedragsgebied onverklaarbaar vindt. En de antwoorden die werden gegeven als verklaring voor de fouten en weglatingen waren niet bevredigend, zodat het onderzoeksteam van OIG Horowitz vaststond op de vraag hoe het kon dat er zoveel fouten werden gemaakt in een periode van 9 maanden, onder drie geselecteerde teams, bij de belangrijkste high-profile zaak van de FBI, waarbij de top van de FBI betrokken was tijdens de campagneperiode voor de 2016 presidentiële verkiezingen.
Senator Josh Hawley, in zijn vragenblok aan Rosenstein, legt de kwestie dat aan de orde (en in bijna 10 delen hier besproken wordt) in onderstaande filmpje haarfijn uit.
Helaas valt Hawley voor de gemakkelijke talking points en vergeet hij de conclusies van OIG Horowitz met name over de drie geselecteerde teams en de betrokkenheid van de top van de FBI. Alhoewel zijn intro erg sterk is, is het vooral belangrijk op de beantwoording van Rosenstein te letten.
Een belangrijke opmerking die Rosenstein maakt, is dat OIG Horowitz in zijn rapport de schuld niet bij hem of zijn voorgangers legt. En dit klopt. Rosenstein is verantwoordelijk voor het ondertekenen van de FISA-applicatie. Zijn functie is te handelen op de informatie dat hem wordt gegeven. Zijn functie is niet het onafhankelijk onderzoeken van de beschuldigingen die onder ede zijn verklaard. Het ministerie van Justitie is een organisatie dat ruim 100.000 werknemers heeft. De adjunct procureur-generaal, die tweede man in de hiërarchie van deze instantie, houdt zich niet bezig met onderzoek in het veld. Zo werkt zo'n grote organisatie niet. Op het moment dat de applicatie op zijn bureau verschijnt voor zijn handtekening om dit te mogen presenteren voor de FISC-rechtbank is er een heel proces aan vooraf gegaan. Bovendien wordt onder ede verklaard dat alle informatie in de applicatie waar is.
Het is daarom belangrijk de geselecteerde onderzoeksteams te ondervragen. Het betreft hier het team van Mid Year Exam, het FBI-onderzoek over het gebruik van een privé e-mailserver door Hillary Clinton dat vervolgens Crossfire Hurricane opende en leidde en weer later ook deel uitmaakte van het special counsel onderzoek van Robert Mueller.
Een belangrijke speler van deze teams was Andrew McCabe, die reageerde op de getuigenis van Rosenstein zoals te zien is in onderstaande segment.
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Er was gelogen tegen Rod Rosenstein. Hem is nooit verteld dat FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Razor, het onderzoek naar generaal Micheal Flynn op 4 januari 2017 gesloten zou worden, omdat er niets was gevonden dat hem verdacht zou kunnen maken van het hebben van Russische connecties. Er was niet tegen hem verteld dat Christopher Steele een onbetrouwbaar bron was en er was niet tegen hem verteld dat de Primary Sub Source alle beschuldigingen uit het dossier ontkracht had. Alles van het FBI-onderzoek dat naar Rosenstein werd gebracht was geframed naar het Russia collusion narratief.
Hij zette zijn handtekening onder de FISA-applicatie, omdat hij niet op de hoogte werd gebracht van cuciale informatie dat normaliter het onderzoek meteen had stopgezet en de verantwoordelijken onderwerp van onderzoek zou maken. De informatie dat Rosenstein kreeg was zo in elkaar gezet dat er geen reden was om het onderzoek stop te zetten. Volgens het OIG-rapport was er bewijs achtergehouden, gefabriceerd en vervalst. Rosenstein maakte van al deze activiteiten en inspanningen geen deel uit. Het FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Hurricane werd officieel geopend op 31 juli 2016 en Rod Rosenstein werd op 25 april 2017 bevestigd in zijn ambt.
Met de wetenschap van nu had Rosenstein de FISA-applicatie niet ondertekend, had hij het onderzoek stopgezet en had een die jaar lange Russia collusion marteling simpelweg niet plaatsgevonden.
Ik weet wat ik uiteen zet. Als jij het er niet mee eens bent is het misschien handig om in plaats van mijn woorden te herhalen en te vragen of ik bepaalde zaken geloof (?), jouw argumenten tegen aan te dragen.quote:Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 23:05 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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En jij gelooft dat allemaal? Rosenstein zegt dat hij nu eenmaal tig FISA's tekent en er dan vanuit gaat dat de FBI-agenten de zaak goed hebben onderzocht en naar eer en geweten hebben gehandeld, maar zoals die senator zei; het gaat hier niet om zomaar een zaakje, het gaat hier om aantijgingen dat de (toekomstige) president en diens mensen Russische handlangers zouden zijn. Dit zou het schandaal van de eeuw zijn! En Rosenstein zou dan zomaar zonder alles te hebben gelezen en bestudeerd te hebben, zijn krabbel hebben gezet onder het verzoek Amerikaanse burgers te bespioneren onder FISA dekmantel? Alsof het allemaal niks is?
twitter:Breaking911 twitterde op vrijdag 05-06-2020 om 22:58:34 Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page has been hired as an NBC News & MSNBC National Security & Legal Analyst.
https://t.co/K4PN4P6GrO reageer retweet
Vond die uitwisseling tussen Mazie Hirono en Rod Rosenstein ook wel grappig.quote:Op vrijdag 5 juni 2020 22:34 schreef dellipder het volgende:
De voorzitter van de Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsay Graham vraagt aan de voormalig adjunct procureur-generaal Rod Rosenstein dat met de wetenschap van de conclusies uit het inspecteur-generaal rapport van Micheal Horowitz (OIG) van 9 december 2019 hij de applicatie voor elektronische surveillance tegen Carter Page om te presenteren voor de FISC-rechtbank zou ondertekenen.
Het antwoord van Rosenstein hierop is een ondubbelzinnige nee.
Een ander antwoord zou niet mogelijk zijn geweest, omdat OIG Horowitz in zijn onderzoek op zijn minst 17 belangrijke fouten en weglatingen in de Carter Page FISA-applicaties en meerdere extra fouten in de Woods-procedure heeft vastgesteld. In het Congresverhoor verklaarde OIG Horowitz hierover dat het hier gaat over significante, serieuze tekortkomingen met betrekking tot de operatie van FISA-surveillance. En of dit gedrag dat leidde naar deze fouten en weglatingen puur grove incompetentie dat de oorzaak is of opzettelijk wangedrag dat mogelijk de drijfveer is, kon OIG Horowitz niet vaststellen. Deze kwestie heeft hij verwezen naar het ministerie van Justitie en de FBI voor nader (crimineel) onderzoek, maar hij wist in het verhoor wel te vertellen dat hij het gedragsgebied onverklaarbaar vindt. En de antwoorden die werden gegeven als verklaring voor de fouten en weglatingen waren niet bevredigend, zodat het onderzoeksteam van OIG Horowitz vaststond op de vraag hoe het kon dat er zoveel fouten werden gemaakt in een periode van 9 maanden, onder drie geselecteerde teams, bij de belangrijkste high-profile zaak van de FBI, waarbij de top van de FBI betrokken was tijdens de campagneperiode voor de 2016 presidentiële verkiezingen.
Senator Josh Hawley, in zijn vragenblok aan Rosenstein, legt de kwestie dat aan de orde (en in bijna 10 delen hier besproken wordt) in onderstaande filmpje haarfijn uit.
Helaas valt Hawley voor de gemakkelijke talking points en vergeet hij de conclusies van OIG Horowitz met name over de drie geselecteerde teams en de betrokkenheid van de top van de FBI. Alhoewel zijn intro erg sterk is, is het vooral belangrijk op de beantwoording van Rosenstein te letten.
Een belangrijke opmerking die Rosenstein maakt, is dat OIG Horowitz in zijn rapport de schuld niet bij hem of zijn voorgangers legt. En dit klopt. Rosenstein is verantwoordelijk voor het ondertekenen van de FISA-applicatie. Zijn functie is te handelen op de informatie dat hem wordt gegeven. Zijn functie is niet het onafhankelijk onderzoeken van de beschuldigingen die onder ede zijn verklaard. Het ministerie van Justitie is een organisatie dat ruim 100.000 werknemers heeft. De adjunct procureur-generaal, die tweede man in de hiërarchie van deze instantie, houdt zich niet bezig met onderzoek in het veld. Zo werkt zo'n grote organisatie niet. Op het moment dat de applicatie op zijn bureau verschijnt voor zijn handtekening om dit te mogen presenteren voor de FISC-rechtbank is er een heel proces aan vooraf gegaan. Bovendien wordt onder ede verklaard dat alle informatie in de applicatie waar is.
Het is daarom belangrijk de geselecteerde onderzoeksteams te ondervragen. Het betreft hier het team van Mid Year Exam, het FBI-onderzoek over het gebruik van een privé e-mailserver door Hillary Clinton dat vervolgens Crossfire Hurricane opende en leidde en weer later ook deel uitmaakte van het special counsel onderzoek van Robert Mueller.
Een belangrijke speler van deze teams was Andrew McCabe, die reageerde op de getuigenis van Rosenstein zoals te zien is in onderstaande segment.
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Er was gelogen tegen Rod Rosenstein. Hem is nooit verteld dat FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Razor, het onderzoek naar generaal Micheal Flynn op 4 januari 2017 gesloten zou worden, omdat er niets was gevonden dat hem verdacht zou kunnen maken van het hebben van Russische connecties. Er was niet tegen hem verteld dat Christopher Steele een onbetrouwbaar bron was en er was niet tegen hem verteld dat de Primary Sub Source alle beschuldigingen uit het dossier ontkracht had. Alles van het FBI-onderzoek dat naar Rosenstein werd gebracht was geframed naar het Russia collusion narratief.
Hij zette zijn handtekening onder de FISA-applicatie, omdat hij niet op de hoogte werd gebracht van cuciale informatie dat normaliter het onderzoek meteen had stopgezet en de verantwoordelijken onderwerp van onderzoek zou maken. De informatie dat Rosenstein kreeg was zo in elkaar gezet dat er geen reden was om het onderzoek stop te zetten. Volgens het OIG-rapport was er bewijs achtergehouden, gefabriceerd en vervalst. Rosenstein maakte van al deze activiteiten en inspanningen geen deel uit. Het FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Hurricane werd officieel geopend op 31 juli 2016 en Rod Rosenstein werd op 25 april 2017 bevestigd in zijn ambt.
Met de wetenschap van nu had Rosenstein de FISA-applicatie niet ondertekend, had hij het onderzoek stopgezet en had een die jaar lange Russia collusion marteling simpelweg niet plaatsgevonden.
Ja, ik ook. Dit is ook de reden dat ik hierover een bericht heb gemaakt.quote:Op zaterdag 6 juni 2020 21:00 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
Vond die uitwisseling tussen Mazie Hirono en Rod Rosenstein ook wel grappig.
quote:Feds press criminal case against Flynn partner
The move occurs even amid ongoing efforts to drop charges against Michael Flynn
The Justice Department is pressing forward with its criminal case against a former business partner of Michael Flynn, despite Attorney General William Barr’s controversial decision to seek to abandon the prosecution of the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump.
Prosecutors seeking to revive the convictions of Flynn’s former colleague, Bijan Rafiekian, filed a brief with a federal appeals court Sunday.
The filing makes several mentions of Flynn’s integral role in the work that led to the two foreign-agent-related felony charges against Rafiekian and maintains the government’s position that Flynn was a co-conspirator in his business partner’s crimes — a curious stance as the government seeks to drop the criminal case it brought against Flynn more than two years ago.
The 53-page brief filed with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond makes no mention of the Justice Department’s extraordinary decision to jettison the case special counsel Robert Mueller’s office brought in December 2017 as part of a plea deal with the former Defense Intelligence Agency chief and key foreign policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 presidential bid.
While that case focused on Flynn’s statements to the FBI in January 2017 about his dealings with the Russian ambassador, it also included an admission by Flynn that he signed off on inaccurate Foreign Agent Registration Act filings about the project that led to Rafiekian’s prosecution: a $600,000 contract Flynn signed for his Flynn Intel Group at the height of the presidential campaign in 2016 to lobby on behalf of a Dutch firm, Inovo BV.
Prosecutors contend that Inovo was actually a front for the Turkish government and that the lobbying and messaging campaign Flynn and Rafiekian had no real business element, but was aimed at a prominent opponent of the Turkish government, cleric Fetullah Gulen.
When the Justice Department submitted its unusual request last month to dismiss the case against Flynn, it was entirely silent on his Turkey-related admissions. Another federal appeals court, the D.C. Circuit, is set to hear arguments Friday on whether Flynn is entitled to have the case dismissed immediately or a judge can entertain arguments that Flynn’s guilty plea in the case should not be disturbed.
Flynn’s lead attorney, Sidney Powell, blasted the government’s decision to keep prosecuting Rafiekian, a former Trump transition team adviser. Asked by POLITICO about the move, she replied by email: “Wrongful and wasteful use of scarce taxpayer resources.”
One prominent Virginia defense attorney, Edward MacMahon, said Sunday that Rafiekian appears to be the victim of a double standard.
“There is a different kind of justice that is offered to people like Gen. Flynn than is offered to this guy. So, Flynn is the darling of Fox News and this guy is discardable?” MacMahon said.
A lawyer for Rafiekian, Robert Trout, declined to comment on the new filing against his client. However, about two weeks ago, Rafiekian’s defense wrote to the U.S. Attorney that Barr appointed to review the Flynn case, Jeff Jensen, to ask that Rafiekian’s case get a similar review.
“The prosecution of Rafiekian is a direct consequence of the government misconduct uncovered in your review of Flynn’s guilty plea,” Rafiekian’s lawyers wrote in a May 22 letter first reported by the New York Times. “Rafiekian does not have the same recognition nor enjoy the same public support of the President of the United States as Flynn. But political notoriety and the affection of the President must not influence — much less play the dispositive role in — how the Department of Justice makes decisions.”
Spokespeople for the Justice Department and for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Alexandria, which handled much of the case against Rafiekian, declined repeated requests for comment on the case and on whether Jensen’s review examined the Turkey-related allegations against Rafiekian and Flynn. A Justice Department spokeswoman would only say that Jensen’s work is ongoing.
Rafiekian’s case is in an unusual posture. While the defense is almost always the side appealing in a criminal case, prosecutors find themselves seeking the appeals court’s intervention after the district court judge who handled Rafiekian’s trial ordered his acquittal despite the jury finding him guilty on both counts after a few hours of deliberations last July.
Judge Anthony Trenga said the guilty verdicts went against the overwhelming weight of the evidence in the case. During the trial, he repeatedly indicated that he thought the government’s evidence was very weak when it came to showing actual Turkish government control of the lobbying and public relations project Flynn and Rafiekian undertook.
Flynn was originally expected to be the star witness at Rafiekian’s trial and to testify that he and his former partner were well aware that the project was operating at the direction of the Turkish government.
However, weeks before the trial, Flynn dropped his D.C. lawyers and picked up a new, more combative crew led by Powell. She soon found herself in a heated discussion with ex-Mueller prosecutor Brandon Van Grack, who accused Flynn of backing away from his earlier testimony and his admissions in the 2017 deal.
Prosecutors then abandoned their plans to have Flynn take the stand and instead declared him to be a co-conspirator, prompting both the judge and Rafiekian’s defense to express irritation at the last-minute shift.
The 4th Circuit has not yet scheduled arguments in Rafiekian’s case. Officially, the developments in Flynn’s case are not part of the record of the appeal, but the intense media attention to the Justice Department’s reversal means the judges are likely to bring the issue up anyway if prosecutors don’t act on it by then, lawyers following the case said.
“In my experience, the court of appeals takes notice of these things,” MacMahon said. “There’s zero chance that does not come up — because it should come up.”
quote:Op donderdag 4 juni 2020 17:47 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Lindsay Graham van de Senate Judiciary Committee gaat ook dagvaardingen bekendmaken (mits de stemming daartoe valt). Graham gaat zijn onderzoek richten op het ontstaan van het FBI-onderzoek Crossfire Hurricane en het instellen van special counsel Robert Mueller.
quote:Senate Judiciary gives Graham sweeping subpoena powers in review of Russia probe
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines Thursday to allow its chair, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), to subpoena former Obama administration officials as part of the GOP-led probe into the origins of the 2016 Russia investigation.
Why it matters: Graham now has sweeping authority to subpoena documents and more than 50 individuals related to the Russia investigation, including former FBI director James Comey, former CIA director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Gisteren heeft rechter Emmet Sullivan de aanhouding teruggetrokken en de kalender en de hoorzittingen beëindigd. Er is een heel kleine kans dat de door Democrats gekozen rechters op de D.C. Court een verzoek tot een en banc verhoor vragen, maar rechter Wilkins werd vanwege zijn afwijkende mening in de 2-1 beslissing nogal genadeloos aangepakt, vermoed ik dat deze zaak technisch over is en dat generaal Micheal Flynn een vrij man is.quote:Op donderdag 25 juni 2020 06:46 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Rechter Emmet Sullivan heeft alle deadlines en de zittingsdatum van 16 juli 2020 in de generaal Micheal Flynn zaak aangehouden. Op dit moment is er dus geen mogelijkheid voor John Gleeson zijn amicus reply brief in te brengen.
Nu is het afwachten of de D.C. Appeals Court en banc verhoor gelast.
Gerechtigheid zal er pas zijn als Flynn wordt gerehabiliteerd en de mensen die hebben meegewerkt aan het hem in de cel krijgen op politieke gronden (terwijl ze wisten dat hij onschuldig was), gestraft worden.quote:
Open er eentje danquote:Op woensdag 1 juli 2020 11:38 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
Ik mis in NWS een topic over de meest recente Russiahoax; de Russen zouden de Taliban geld betalen voor iedere gedode Amerikaanse militair en Trump zou dit al maanden weten maar er niks aan doen omdat hij uiteraard de marionet van Poetin is.
Meer iets voor jou. Of Vis1980 of die Tacostamper ofzo.quote:
quote:Flynn's prosecution: The more we learn, the worse it seems
Two recent events, tangentially related, likely were lost in the news cycle of the spike in COVID-19 cases and continued civil unrest in American cities. The first development was the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ordering Judge Emmet Sullivan to dispose of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s case, followed by the disclosure of additional FBI notes related to the matter.
Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, petitioned the court to order Sullivan to dismiss the appeals court case. Since both the prosecution and defense agree that the case should be dismissed, it had been in judicial limbo while the judge was deciding if he wanted to dismiss it or move forward with sentencing. This is the second federal court in less than a year to rebuke the FBI, with Judge Neomi Rao’s opinion noting the agency’s handling of cases related to the failed Russia collusion narrative. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court also did so in December.
The second, and perhaps more significant, news was the revelation that additional evidence in the FBI’s possession was not previously turned over to Flynn or his attorneys. In a landmark case that is rapidly becoming known to many Americans, the Supreme Court held in Brady v. Maryland in 1963 that prosecutors must disclose the existence of exculpatory evidence to a defendant, regardless of how they obtained it or if it relates to their theory of prosecution. And therein lies a two-part problem with the recent disclosure of a handwritten note by fired deputy assistant FBI director Peter Strzok.
The first problem is that such nondisclosure would even occur — especially in the courtroom of Judge Sullivan, who was burned by prosecutors’ violations of the Brady rule, including the 2008 prosecution of former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska). Sullivan starts his trials with a strict admonition about Brady and stresses the continuing obligation on the part of the government. The second concern is that Strzok’s notes appear to document that then-President Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden were driving a criminal investigation of a senior official of an incoming administration from the Oval Office.
As we learned from the events surrounding former FBI Director Jim Comey’s “send a couple of guys over” scenario, wherein he dispatched agents to interview Flynn at the White House on Jan. 24, 2017, there is traditionally a firewall between the FBI and the White House. The latter does not direct criminal investigations, and the former does not report results directly to the latter. It is what many found troubling about President Trump’s one-on-one “I need your loyalty” speech with Comey before he was fired. The firewall is the Department of Justice and the White House counsel who negotiate on sensitive matters such as interviews and investigations.
The Strzok notes reportedly are from a Jan. 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting later documented in former national security adviser Susan Rice’s infamous email to herself on Trump’s inauguration day. The timing is important because this was the day after the FBI closed “Crossfire Razor,” the Flynn investigation, Jan. 4, 2017. The Justice Department confirmed the notes were from between Jan. 3 and Jan. 5, 2017, and Attorney General William Barr and Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, both have said Strzok was not a participant in the Jan. 5 Oval Office meeting. Interestingly, although he is willing to comment that the notes have been taken out of context and are being weaponized by the White House for political purposes, Goelman did not say where Strzok heard the details that he documented.
There are reports of interviews and testimony of other participants from the Oval Office meeting after the fact, which focus on the appropriateness of the FBI interview of Flynn and potential concerns about counterintelligence. Biden has said he knew nothing about the Flynn investigation. But these denials come after the fact and before the appropriateness of the Flynn interview came into question — and certainly before the evidence emerged of an internal FBI debate about interviewing him. Thus, any notes taken by Strzok on or about Jan. 5, 2017, even if they are from a briefing after the fact, seem particularly relevant.
So what is in the Strzok notes that might be problematic? First, Comey apparently advised the group that Flynn’s phone call with Russia’s former ambassador Sergey Kislyak “appears legit.” This is significant because it provides evidence that when Comey dispatched agents, including Strzok, 19 days later to interview Flynn, there apparently was not really a counterintelligence concern, which now appears to be the after-the-fact justification for the interview. Notes by former FBI Assistant Director Bill Priestap, disclosed earlier, appear to validate this as well.
A second important notation by Strzok reads “VP: Logan Act,” suggesting that Biden raised the idea of using the Logan Act, which forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with a foreign government. Since we know from recently released emails that former Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary McCord, Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page all researched the Logan Act, it’s unlikely that Biden pulled this out of thin air, if indeed he mentioned it. In other words, it likely was discussed before the Jan. 5, 2017, meeting.
The most problematic of Strzok’s notations is from “P” — widely assumed to refer to Obama — reportedly saying, “Make sure you look at things + have the right people on it.” Can there be any doubt that, if the president gave such direction, Comey likely felt completely emboldened to then “send a couple of guys over” to interview Flynn?
While it is true we have a unitary executive, with the president saying grace over all of the executive branch, it also is true that, especially since Watergate, there has been an acknowledgement from administrations of both parties that the White House should not direct criminal investigations against American citizens. This should be especially obvious when the target is a member of a new administration of the opposing party after a contentious election.
twitter:Isikoff twitterde op zondag 05-07-2020 om 17:23:30 Rice-- who ordered WH aides to "stand down" from preparing tough responses to Putin's attack on the 2016 election-- may not be the best messenger on this issue. https://t.co/6PPjE8YPAX https://t.co/ee96ERnVn1 reageer retweet
Dat is allemaal vast vanavond een Bombshell!!!!!!11!!!!!1! item op CNN en MSNBC vanavond!quote:
Ik denk dat er weinig ruimte is na de uitspraak van vandaag.quote:Op donderdag 9 juli 2020 17:45 schreef EdvandeBerg het volgende:
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Dat is allemaal vast vanavond een Bombshell!!!!!!11!!!!!1! item op CNN en MSNBC vanavond!
O nee, toch niet.
Er is geen uitspraak gedaan. Er is door rechter Emmet Sullivan een verzoekschrift ingediend voor een en banc verhoor, het afstand nemen van de opinie van Neomi Rao en het afwijzen van de writ of mandamus van generaal Micheal Flynn.quote:Op donderdag 9 juli 2020 21:22 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
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Ik denk dat er weinig ruimte is na de uitspraak van vandaag.
Er zijn geen nieuwe argumenten ingebracht, maar de projectie in de brief is opvallend.quote:Op donderdag 9 juli 2020 23:29 schreef dellipder het volgende:
De inbreng van Beth Wilkinson zal ik binnenkort nader toelichten.
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op zaterdag 11-07-2020 om 21:00:48 NEW #FLYNN Attributable to FBI: "The materials recently produced to Michael Flynn’s counsel include two pages of handwritten notes taken by Peter Strzok in early 2017, prior to his termination from the FBI in August 2018. The FBI previously made Mr. Strzok’s notes available to.. reageer retweet
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op zaterdag 11-07-2020 om 21:00:49 US Attorneys John Durham and Jeff Jensen, as well as to DOJ’s Office of Inspector General during its review of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation. The documents recently produced to Mr. Flynn’s counsel also include certain other handwritten notes made by senior DOJ officials.. reageer retweet
twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op zaterdag 11-07-2020 om 21:00:49 during the time of the Flynn investigation. The FBI has been, and will continue to be, fully cooperative and transparent with U.S. Attorneys Durham and Jensen. The decision whether to turn over documents to defense counsel as part of discovery in a pending criminal... reageer retweet
De FBI zegt hier dus heel duidelijk dat de beslissing om aan de verdediging niet alle ontlastende bewijsmateriaal te geven die openbaar aanklager Jeff Jensen gevonden had en aan de verdediging heeft overgedragen niet bij de FBI, maar bij de aanklagers van het special counsel team lag.twitter:CBS_Herridge twitterde op zaterdag 11-07-2020 om 21:00:49 case typically belongs to the prosecutors handling the case, not the FBI." @CBSNews reageer retweet
Zo ziet corruptie er uit dus. Jammer ook dat hij de tekst niet zelf opgesteld heeft, zal wel te moeilijk geweest zijn.quote:Op maandag 13 juli 2020 22:44 schreef dellipder het volgende:
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