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Did the spygate investigation expand to include John Brennan and James Clapper?

October 23, 2019

  Quietly, behind the scenes, and with no media coverage there is an investigation going on in Washington. Of course I am not talking about the impeachment investigation because you cannot avoid this even if you try, but rather I am talking about the investigation into the beginning of the Russia investigation and the alleged FISA abuses otherwise known as Spygate.

  We learned the other day that this investigation was expanding because “something substantial” was uncovered but we did not know what it was or who the investigation was focusing on. We still do not know much but we are learning, according to this story, that there was new evidence uncovered in Rome and John Durham was “very interested” in interviewing James Clapper and John Brennan in the wake of these revelations. Here is more:

U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the FBI’s 2016 Russia probe has expanded based on new evidence uncovered during a recent trip to Rome with Attorney General Bill Barr, sources told Fox News on Tuesday.

The sources said Durham was “very interested” to question former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, an anti-Trump critic who recently dismissed the idea.

The two Obama administration officials were at the helm when the unverified and largely discredited Steele dossier, written by British ex-spy Christopher Steele and funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, was used to justify a secret surveillance warrant against former Trump adviser Carter Page.

In Italy, Barr reportedly told embassy officials he “needed a conference room to meet high-level Italian security agents where he could be sure no one was listening in.”

A source in the Italian Ministry of Justice told The Daily Beast earlier this month that Barr and Durham were played a taped deposition made by Joseph Mifsud, the professor who allegedly told ex-Trump aide George Papadopoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. Mifsud reportedly was explaining to authorities in the deposition why people would want to harm him, and why he needed police protection.

Papadopoulos has suggested he was connected with Mifsud as part of a setup orchestrated by intelligence agencies.

  That is pretty interesting right there. William Barr went to Italy as part of the investigation and has come up with something which would appear to provide some evidence of an orchestrated effort by the intelligence agencies to take down Donald Trump and now he wants to talk to two high officials in the Obama administration.

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William Barr expands spygate investigation after finding ‘something significant’

October 21, 2019

  If you get your news from the mainstream media you might not know it but the Department of Justice is supposedly investigating the origins of the Russia investigation amid the allegations of FISA abuses.

  We heard last week that this investigation was expanding and now it appears as if this is true and that the investigation has turned up “something significant.” Here is more:

A review launched by Attorney General William Barr into the origins of the Russia investigation has expanded significantly amid concerns about whether the probe has any legal or factual basis, multiple current and former officials told NBC News.

The prosecutor conducting the review, Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, has expressed his intent to interview a number of current and former intelligence officials involved in examining Russia’s effort to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former director of national intelligence James Clapper, Brennan told NBC News.

Durham has also requested to talk to CIA analysts involved in the intelligence assessment of Russia’s activities, prompting some of them to hire lawyers, according to three former CIA officials familiar with the matter.

With Barr’s approval, Durham has expanded his staff and the time frame under scrutiny, according to a law enforcement official directly familiar with the matter. And he is now looking into conduct past Donald Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, a Trump administration official said.

Justice Department officials have said that Durham has found something significant, and that critics should be careful.

  We have no idea what this “significant” finding was, or if this report is even true, but we do know that people are lawyering up so it sure looks like something might be happening. Unfortunately because this is an investigation into the Obama administration the deep state leaks are not nearly as forthcoming as they would be if this were an investigation into Donald Trump, in fact they are nonexistent, so we will just have to wait and see if anything comes from this. 

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Sunday, October 20th open thread: ‘Rainbow in the Dark’

October 20, 2019

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)

  open-threadHere is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.

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  Here is Dio performing “Rainbow in the Dark” live in 1983:

Is the Tulsi Gabbard/Hillary Clinton spat a setup?

October 19, 2019

  I found it odd yesterday, albeit quiet enjoyable, when a little spat broke out out of the blue between Hillary Clinton  and Tulsi Gabbard. First Hillary Clinton called Tulsi Gabbard a Russian asset who was going to work with the communist country to help get Donald Trump reelected, and then Tulsi Gabbard fired back and called the failed Presidential candidate “the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long.” She went on to say that since she started running for President somebody has been trying to ruin her reputation and now she believes it is Hillary Clinton.

  As I wrote above, this is completely enjoyable yet odd. Does anybody else find it strange that suddenly this spat broke out out of nowhere between these two people. It makes me wonder why. It has been said that nothing happens in politics without a reason or that is not intentional so what is behind this?

   I have written many times about how the Democrats have lost their collective minds in the aftermath of the 2016 election and we have seen every Democratic Presidential hopeful try to out-crazy each other. With the exception of one candidate the Democrats have been in a sprint to the left. That one exception has been Tulsi Gabbard who, although being a leftist herself, has failed to lose all common sense on some issues. She is the one Democrat who sounds reasonable here and there while the others jump off the deep end.

  Could it be that the puppet masters in the upper echelons of the Democratic party are fearful the party is lunging too far left too quickly in an over-correction of the results from the 2016 election and are looking to right the ship a little bit?

  Suddenly this woman who was getting no traction has burst onto the scene in a very public spat with the royal family of the Democratic party and I have to believe this was orchestrated for some reason. It could be an attempt to either get the voters behind somebody who is not totally radicalized or it could be an attempt to drag the other candidates kicking and screaming back toward the center, or it could be one other option. Is it possibly Hillary Clinton is preparing to make a very public entry into the 2020 race? Tulsi Gabbard all but dared her to so so yesterday.

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Hillary Clinton claims Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset

October 18, 2019

  I can see Russians from my office! The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming! I have gotten quite a kick out of the fact that the very same people who ridiculed Mitt Romney for calling Russia America’s number one geopolitical threat are now the authors of the new red scare. The Democrats have turned into neo-McCarthyites who see Russians behind every blade of grass.

  Of course we know from listening to the Democrats for the past three years Donald Trump is Vladimir Putin’s puppet and everybody in his administration, and all the Republicans for that matter, are Russian assets, but now we are learning from Hillary Clinton that there is a Russian asset in an unlikely spot. 

  The failed Presidential candidate is now claiming that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset who could possibly run as a third party candidate to help Russia reelect Donald Trump, here is what she had to say:

Hillary Clinton said that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection.

The former secretary of state pushed the theory on Campaign HQ podcast hosted by David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008.

“They are also going to do third party again,” Clinton, 71, said. “I’m not making any predictions, but I think they’ve got their eye on somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary and are grooming her to be the third-party candidate,” Clinton said, referring to Gabbard, without mentioning the Hawaii representative by name.

“She is a favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far. That’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she is also a Russian asset.

  I am not sure what provoked Hillary Clinton to make such an outrageous claim against a fellow Democrat. This type of vitriol is usually saved for the Republican party but Tulsi Gabbard is the one Democrat who uses a little bit of common sense on some issues and is not as far to the left as the others. Plus she is a military person and we know how the left feels about the military, so perhaps they see her as a bit of a threat to their radical agenda.
  I find it hard to believe anybody really believes Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset who will work with Russia to help Donald Trump but who knows, they really have lost their minds since the 2016 election and they are no longer thinking clearly.
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Inspector General report on FISA abuses delayed again

October 15, 2019

  Let me show you my shocked face. The Inspector General report on the alleged FISA abuses which led to the Russia investigation, which was supposed to come out in May before being delayed until September and beyond, was finally due to be released at the end of this week but, alas, it has been delayed again.

  And according to this story the delay has to do with some infighting over what is going to be redacted. There is always an excuse and this is just the latest one. The only question I have at this point is, what is going to be the excuse the deep state uses at the end of the month when we learn about another delay?

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ABC caught pretending gun range video was Syria bombing the Kurds

October 14, 2019

  It has been interesting to watch the anti-war Democrats of the Obama era morph into war-mongers since Donald Trump became the President in 2016. The latest example of this came in the wake of the President’s announcement he was pulling a few dozen troops out of Syria. 

  In an effort to show how wrong Donald Trump was in pulling out of Syria, ABC ran a piece about how Syria was attacking the Kurds because the United States had abandoned them. The story was completed by a video in the background showing the devastating bombing. Or at least that was what ABC wanted its viewers to believe because it turns out that video was not from Syria at all, in fact the video turned out to be two years old and it was taken at a gun range in Kentucky. ABC has removed the video and apologized, here is more:

ABC News on Monday removed a video which the network presented as Turkish military forces attacking Kurdish fighters in northern Syria — amid reports that the footage may, in fact, be from a U.S. gun demonstration.

The footage, which ABC News purported was of an attack on the border town of Tal Abyad, was aired Sunday on World NewsTonight and Good Morning America on Monday morning. However, a comparison by Gizmodo shows the video was captured at Knob Creek Gun Range in West Point, Kentucky back in 2017.

“[I]t’s clear that the videos are the same,” said the website.

[W]e’ve taken down video that aired on World News Tonight Sunday and Good Morning America this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy. ABC News regrets the error,” a press representative for the network said.

  First of all, this was not an “error” and in the second place it did not “appear to be from Syria.” The truth is that this was done on purpose and the network wanted it to appear as if this was from Syria. This video is two years old and ABC had it hanging around their studios, they had to have known it was not new video and it was not being fed from Syria but they used it anyway because they had propaganda to present to the American people.

  This shows you how low the left will go to promote its agenda, they have no scruples and this is a prime example of why so many people no longer trust the mainstream media.

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Sunday, October 13th open thread: ‘The Sentinel’

October 13, 2019

“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)

  open-threadHere is this week’s open thread. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.

 You can subscribe to America’s Watchtower to receive email updates and you can also follow America’s Watchtower on Facebook and Twitter by clicking the links on the right. 

  Here is Judas Priest performing “The Sentinel” from 1984.

Hunter Biden’s company paid Joe Biden $900,000 in lobbying fees

October 10, 2019

  Well, well well…it seems as if good ole Uncle Joe was not being entirely truthful when he said he never talked business with his son before he used his influence to have a Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

  According to this story Hunter Biden’s company paid Joe Biden $900,000 in lobbying fees for CONSULTANT SERVICES, here is more:

Derkach publicized the documents at a press conference at the Interfax-Ukraine agency Wednesday as he said the records, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.”

“This was the transfer of Burisma Group’s funds for lobbying activities, as investigators believe, personally to Joe Biden through a lobbying company. Funds in the amount of $900,000 were transferred to the U.S.-based company Rosemont Seneca Partners, which according to open sources, in particular, the New York Times, is affiliated with Biden. The payment reference was payment for consultative services,” Derkach said.

“Using political and economic levelers of influencing Ukrainian authorities and manipulating the issue of providing financial aid to Ukraine, Joe Biden actively assisted closing criminal cases into the activity of former Ukrainian Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky, who is the founder and owner of Burisma Group,” he said.

“Biden’s fifth visit to Kyiv on December 7-8, 2015 was devoted to making a decision on the resignation of [then Ukrainian Prosecutor General] Viktor Shokin over the case of Zlochevsky and Burisma. Loan guarantees worth $1 billion that the United States was to give to Ukraine was the point of pressure. Biden himself admitted exerting pressure in his speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in January 2018, calling Shokin ‘son of a bitch who was fired’,” Derkach said.

   Once again it looks as if a Joe Biden Presidential bid will go down in scandal and would think that the Democrats would have checked with himbefore opening an impeachment inquiry to make sure nothing like this was going on. But then again they probably already knew and were willing to throw the former Vice-President under the bus if it meant the possibility of taking down Donald Trump and I am not so sure the Democratic establishment wanted him as the nominee anyway.

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The investigation into origins of the Russia investigation expands

October 9, 2019

  When Robert Mueller’s Russia collusion investigation failed to yield the results the Democrats had so longed for they moved on to another scandal, this one between the President and Ukraine and it again supposedly involves Donald Trump colluding with a foreign government to help him win an election. 

  Washington is now in the grips of impeachment frenzy and all the while there is still an ongoing  investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation and the abuse of the alleged FISA warrants which is getting little attention. And now it is being reported that investigation is expanding.

  Here is more: 

 John Durham, the U.S. attorney reviewing the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign, is probing a wider timeline than previously known, according to multiple senior administration officials.

Fox News previously reported that Durham would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through the inauguration.

However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.

  That is a very interesting turn of events because we learned yesterday that  Robert Mueller lied to the Congress about why he was in Washington in 2017. According to the report he was interested in becoming director of the FBI after James Comey was fired but he told the Congress under oath he was not there looking for a job. And then after he did not get the job he ends up as Special Counsel investigating the President. Things that make you go hmm… 

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