Russia infiltrated FBI communications during the Obama era
Russia. Russia. Russia. The left is very worried about Russia nowadays. Jerry Nadler is still trying to impeach the President because he is so worried about what Russia was up to in the 2016 election even though the Mueller report exonerated him.
But the left was not always worried about Russia, I remember during the 2012 election when Mitt Romney claimed Russia was America’s number one geo-political threat and was ridiculed for being stuck in the 1980’s. I remember that debate clearly when Barack Obama thought he was being funny when he quipped “the ’80’s called and they want their foreign policy back.”
Now it turns out that either the Obama administration and the Democrats should have been worried about Russia, or they knew Russia was a threat and were trying to hide the fact that Russia had infiltrated FBI communications during Barack Obama’s time in office.
Here is more:
A report published by Yahoo News on Monday described a “brazen Russian counterintelligence operation that stretched from the Bay Area to the heart of the nation’s capital” during the presidency of Barack Obama. The operation penetrated FBI communications to a “stunning” degree, according to officials quoted in the story, but was misunderstood and downplayed by the intelligence community and the Obama administration, which was ostentatiously attempting to “reset” relations with Russia when the operation began.
To make a very long story short, the Russians took advantage of the Obama administration’s much-ballyhooed “reset” in relations to set up an aggressive network of electronic monitoring devices in the United States, the effort gaining further momentum after Russian President Vladimir Putin became convinced the U.S. was manipulating protests in Russia to delegitimize elections with allegations of vote fraud.
There is much much detail in the above-linked article, I would suggest you all check it out, but did you catch that last paragraph? Russia was convinced the United States was meddling in their elections, and we know Barack Obama meddled in Israel’s election so I would be willing to bet Vladimir Putin was right, so he began a spying operation on the United States which our President “misunderstood and downplayed” because he wanted to reset relations with Russia even though he was meddling in their election. Methinks he was a little too coy for his own good.
Despite how quickly the left was willing to jump on Brett Kavanaugh over the weekend on a fake news report by the New York Times they are strangely silent on the news that Barack Obama allowed Russia to infiltrate FBI communications because he wanted a better relationship with Russia…
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Sunday, September 15th open thread: ‘New Jack Hustler’
“This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” (Psalm 118:24 KJV)
Here 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 Ice-T performing “New Jack Hustler” on Soul Train back in 1991. It looks like the video will not play here, if you want to watch it you will have to click on the link where the video is supposed to be. Apologies.
Beto O’Rourke: ‘hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15’
Despite assurances from Democrats and their voters for years that “nobody wants to take your guns” and despite the fact these same people have been calling gun activists paranoid and brainwashed by the NRA for wanting to protect their Second Amendment right, more and more candidates have been coming out and admitting that they do indeed intend to confiscate weapons.
Beto O’Rourke became the first politician to have the guts to come out and say as much, although he called it a “mandatory buyback program”, and others were soon to follow. But just in case you still are not sure where the Democrats really stand on the Second Amendment Beto O’Rourke decided to clarify it just a bit during the Democratic debate the other night.
“Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15” was what he said, there is no ambiguity there, that is a clear statement of where he stands on the Second Amendment. And notice he said we’re not I? Democrats will likely say he was referring to his administration and not the Democratic party in general but I am afraid he let the cat out of the bag, this is exactly what we have been saying about the Democrats for years and you can rest assured they all feel the same way.
As for the Democratic voters who have been calling us paranoid all these years, did you hear how they cheered when Beto O’Rourke made this bold statement about gun confiscation? They left no doubt where they stand on this issue and just like everything else the government does this program, if implemented, will only grow over time and more weapons will be added to the banned list.
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US Attorney recommends prosecution for Andrew McCabe
It looks like the first shoe is about to drop in the Russia investigation, and I not talking about any collusion between Russia and Donald Trump but rather the collusion between the deep state agencies and the Democratic party.
It is being reported here that Andrew McCabe lost his appeal to avoid prosecution and he may be headed to trial for perjury and leaking information. Here is more:
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against Andrew McCabe, Fox News has learned, as the Justice Department rejects a last-ditch appeal from the former top FBI official and current CNN contributor.
The potential charges relate to DOJ inspector general findings against him regarding misleading statements concerning a Hillary Clinton-related investigation.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March 2018 after the inspector general found he had repeatedly misstated his involvement in a leak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
The IG report faulted McCabe for leaking information to then-Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett for an Oct. 30, 2016 story titled “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.” The story — written just days before the presidential election – focused on the FBI announcing the reopening of the Clinton investigation after finding thousands of her emails on a laptop belonging to former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The last couple of days have not been good for the Russia investigation; besides this news on Andrew McCabe we also learned yesterday that the Department of Justice cleared Michael Flynn of any wrongdoing but never informed him. The investigation was allowed to drag on until Michael Flynn had to cop a plea to avoid bankruptcy.
Hopefully this is just the beginning and justice will be served eventually.
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Michael Flynn was exonerated by the DOJ before his plea bargain but this information was withheld from him
You may remember during the Russia investigation Michael Flynn was almost drained of all of his money while defending himself, so he eventually was forced to a plea bargain because he could no longer afford to fight for his freedom. Well, now it turns out, if this story is true, the Department of Justice had exonerated him before he made his plea bargain but this information was kept from Michael Flynn. Here is more:
A bombshell revelation was barely noticed at National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s hearing Tuesday, when his counsel revealed in court the existence of a Justice Department memo from Jan. 30, 2017 exonerating Flynn of any collusion with Russia. The memo, which has still not been made available to Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell, is part of a litany of Brady material she is demanding from prosecutors. The memo is currently under protective order and Powell is working with prosecutors to get it disclosed, SaraACarter.com has learned.
Powell will likely seek to have case dismissed for ‘egregious’ prosecutorial misconduct and withholding of exculpatory material.
“Judge Sullivan is obviously taking the Brady issues very seriously and clearly told the prosecutors that his Brady order stands regardless of the plea agreement or the plea,” Powell told SaraACarter.com. “If the prosecutors here were seeking justice instead of a conviction, General Flynn would not have been prosecuted. They have been hiding evidence that he was exonerated in early 2017.”
Powell noted the extraordinary misconduct of the government during the hearing. She also said that Flynn would have never pleaded guilty if the government had disclosed the Brady materials before the original trial that she is now demanding. There would not have been a plea if the prosecutors had met their Brady obligations, Powell argued before the court.
If this is true it is shocking to say the least! And as shocking as it is it even more disturbing because it shows how far the Democrats will go to destroy a political enemy and strip him of his freedom.
If this is true they knew he was innocent and they did not care because in their eyes somebody had to pay because they lost an election they never should have lost. I cannot get over how shocking and disturbing I find this and I am at a poverty of words to describe it, sorry for repeating myself.
So I think we finally have the answer to why Michael Flynn’s sentencing keeps getting delayed and it looks like it will be delayed again. And if there is any justice this case will end up being dismissed.
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Supreme Court allows Donald Trump’s new asylum rule to go into effect
It has been a bumpy road for Donald Trump’s new asylum rule which requires asylum seekers to apply for asylum in the first country they enter after fleeing their country before they can apply for asylum in the United States. (I always thought this was how asylum worked in the first place.)
First a California judge, Jon Tigar, overstepped his bounds and blocked the rule nationwide and then the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in and narrowed the decision to where the judge actually had jurisdiction. However this same California judge turned around and re-implemented the ban nationwide despite the 9th Circuit Court’s ruling that Jon Tigar did not have the jurisdiction to do so.
The on-again off-again rule is back on again because the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Trump administration and against this rogue California judge. Here is more:
The Supreme Court is allowing nationwide enforcement of a new Trump administration rule that prevents most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the United States.
The justices’ order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ruling that had blocked the new asylum policy in some states along the southern border.
The Supreme Court decision apparently comes on the heels of the 9th Circuit once again narrowing the nationwide ban, so this decision goes even further than the 9th Circuit decision allowed. It looks like only Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented so that means John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh held true this time.
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Federal Judge blocks Donald Trump’s new asylum rule for the second time
Back in July the Trump administration issued a new asylum rule which stated that a person seeking asylum must apply for asylum in the first country that person enters after leaving his or her country before being eligible for asylum in the United States.
That rule was quickly blocked nationwide by a judge in California but then the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in and narrowed the decision, ruling the judge did not have the authority to block the ban in New Mexico and Texas.
It is now being reported here that the same California judge, Jon Tigar, has re-implemented his nationwide ban on the new asylum rule. Here is more:
A California federal judge reissued a nationwide injunction on Monday, blocking the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who have not first applied for refuge in a “third country” they’ve traveled through.
Last month, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed federal Judge Jon Tigar’s first preliminary injunction to apply only to the 9th circuit. The move allowed the Trump administration to enforce the policy — which would all but deny asylum to Central American migrants — in Texas and New Mexico. The policy will now be blocked nationwide once again.
That sure is interesting, isn’t it? I have no idea how a judge can overrule being overruled on his own without this making its way upward through the court system but he did it. Now can the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals turn around and re-overrule the judge’s self-overrule?
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We all remember the 2016 Democratic primary season and the way it was rigged to give Hillary Clinton the victory when Bernie Sanders seemed to have all the momentum. The Democrats used super delegates which were party insiders who did not vote for the candidate who won their particular state but rather the candidate whom they personally supported. And of course being party insiders they supported Hillary Clinton.
Now as we prepare for the 2020 primary season the Republican party is acting more like the 2016 Democratic party, only they are canceling the primaries in several states to protect Donald Trump and to ensure he does not have a legitimate challenger.
The rumors started a couple of days ago with a report that the Republican party in four states were considering canceling their primaries and now according to this story it looks as if three states have done so, and this could just be the beginning.
The Republican parties in South Carolina and Nevada announced Saturday that they would not be holding their presidential nominating contests in 2020, and all Republican delegates will be committed to President Trump.
They join the Kansas Republican Party, which confirmed on Friday that it will not hold its caucuses in 2020.
States have until October to submit their delegate selection rules to the Republican National Committee, and several more state Republican parties could vote to cancel their nominating contests before the deadline.
Obviously the Republican party wants to avoid a long, drawn out, bitter primary season where the outcome is not really in doubt. The Republican party could be afraid of the embarrassment of not having a unanimous decision in favor of the current President, however I think it is likely that they do not want to give the Democrats any ammo to use against Donald Trump and they know the opposition party would jump on the primary race to sew doubts in the voters’ minds. Personally I find it cowardly.
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Pete Buttigieg caught drinking from a plastic straw!
Apparently this guy named Pete Buttigieg is running for President and like all candidates on the Democratic side of the aisle he is a global warming fear-monger. He has jumped on board with the whole strange attack on plastic straws and recently said that if you eat hamburgers or use plastic straws you are part of the problem.
But when you are part of the ruling elite the same rules do not apply to you–all animals are equal but some are more equal than others…
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