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#7185693 at 2019-07-25 19:01:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9193: Moar Disney on the rocks! Edition

Everyone forgets about the Kebley fellow who was added at the last minute. Did you hear Mueller's description of him? He said "He performed the day-to-day oversight of the investigation."

Mueller wasn't acting. He knew very little of the details in the report. If you didn't notice, go back and watch the hearings and watch Mueller's aides and the binder he was using. Rarely, if ever, did they actually turn the pages. Mueller actually read from the report maybe twice all day. He would have the questioner read from the report.

I think Mueller was there because he was pressured (blackmailed) into being there by the swampers. He knew that legally, he could not give any answers different than what was in the report. He tried to help the Democrats when he could, but he valued his reputation more than their approval. So, he resorted to deflection and "Not within my purview."

For Mueller, this was his last day with this mess. The Dems will not let him get within 3 miles of a microphone after this.

In my opinion, what yesterday told me is that when William Barr became AG, he told Mueller that the open ended witch-hunt is over, to wrap it up NOW and close up shop. It also told me that Andrew Weissman basically ran the Special Counsel Office.

#7184924 at 2019-07-25 18:20:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9192: Anons trending Disney MK ultra Wonderland! Muh Fairytales !Editio

Attorney General Barr Orders Execution Of Child Rapists, Murderers As U.S. Resumes Death Penalty

Attorney General William Barr on Thursday ordered the federal government to resume the death penalty and directed the Bureau of Prisons "to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates convicted of murdering, and in some cases torturing and raping, the most vulnerable in our society-children and the elderly."

"Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President," Attorney General Barr said in a statement. "Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law-and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."

The last federal execution in the United States occurred in 2003.


According to Barr's statement, these five inmates will be executed, beginning on Dec. 9:

Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group, murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl. After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, Lee covered their heads with plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct tape, weighed down each victim with rocks, and threw the family of three into the Illinois bayou. On May 4, 1999, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas found Lee guilty of numerous offenses, including three counts of murder in aid of racketeering, and he was sentenced to death. Lee's execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 9, 2019.
Lezmond Mitchell stabbed to death a 63-year-old grandmother and forced her nine-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her lifeless body for a 30 to 40-mile drive. Mitchell then slit the girl's throat twice, crushed her head with 20-pound rocks, and severed and buried both victims' heads and hands. On May 8, 2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona found Mitchell guilty of numerous offenses, including first degree murder, felony murder, and carjacking resulting in murder, and he was sentenced to death. Mitchell's execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 11, 2019.
Wesley Ira Purkey violently raped and murdered a 16-year-old girl, and then dismembered, burned, and dumped the young girl's body in a septic pond. He also was convicted in state court for using a claw hammer to bludgeon to death an 80-year-old woman who suffered from polio and walked with a cane. On Nov. 5, 2003, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri found Purkey guilty of kidnapping a child resulting in the child's death, and he was sentenced to death. Purkey's execution is scheduled to occur on Dec. 13, 2019.
Alfred Bourgeois physically and emotionally tortured, sexually molested, and then beat to death his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. On March 16, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found Bourgeois guilty of multiple offenses, including murder, and he was sentenced to death. Bourgeois' execution is scheduled to occur on Jan. 13, 2020.
Dustin Lee Honken shot and killed five people-two men who planned to testify against him and a single, working mother and her ten-year-old and six-year-old daughters. On Oct. 14, 2004, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa found Honken guilty of numerous offenses, including five counts of murder during the course of a continuing criminal enterprise, and he was sentenced to death. Honken's execution is scheduled to occur on Jan. 15, 2020.

Barr's statement also said the Federal Execution Protocol Addendum will replace the three-drug procedure previously used in federal executions with a single drug-pentobarbital. "Since 2010, 14 states have used pentobarbital in over 200 executions, and federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have repeatedly upheld the use of pentobarbital in executions as consistent with the Eighth Amendment," the statement said.

A majority of Americans still support the death penalty, according to Gallup polls. In an October 2018 survey, 56% supported the death penalty while 41% opposed.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/attorney-general-Barr-orders-execution-of-child-rapists-murderers-as-u-s-resumes-death-penalty/

#7184773 at 2019-07-25 18:12:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9192: Anons trending Disney MK ultra Wonderland! Muh Fairytales !Editio

>>7184499
Getting ready for future events??? Hmmm.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/doj-to-resume-capital-punishment-after-nearly-two-decade-hiatus/ar-AAEQSVq?li=BBnb7Kz
The federal government once again plans to carry out lethal injections after a nearly two-decade hiatus on capital punishment, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
Attorney General William Barr said that DOJ will switch from a "three-drug protocol" caught up in legal challenges to using a single drug to execute inmates by lethal injection, clearing the way and ordering the Bureau of Prisons to schedule executions for five of the nearly 60 inmates on federal death row.
"Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President," Barr said in a statement.

#7184744 at 2019-07-25 18:10:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9192: Anons trending Disney MK ultra Wonderland! Muh Fairytales !Editio

>>7184361
>>7184499

Breaking: The U.S. federal government is to resume carrying out the death penalty after 20 years, U.S. Attorney General William Barr says

PAIN INCOMING!

#7183641 at 2019-07-25 17:10:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9191: McAfee arrested in DR! Where is his 30+gigs of blackmail????? Edition

We bitched about the locked bread baking, but now all we got are shills baking.

Death penalty reinstated. Baker doesn't care.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/William-Barr-orders-federal-government-to-revive-death-penalty/

#7183474 at 2019-07-25 16:59:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9190: From Mach 2 posting to Suicide Watch! The Ride Never Ends! Edition

>>7183380
Death Penalty has been reinstated by Bill Barr.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/25/William-Barr-orders-federal-government-to-revive-death-penalty/

Huzzah!

#7182379 at 2019-07-25 15:42:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9189: Today's Feature Film: Capital Punishment Edition

The decision to seek capital punishment against Nicholas Tartaglione was made by U.S. Attorney General William Barr.

#7181994 at 2019-07-25 15:07:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9189: Today's Feature Film: Capital Punishment Edition

Federal Government to Reinstate the Death Penalty After Nearly Two Decades

Attorney General William Barr on Thursday issued a directive paving the way for the federal government to resume the use of the death penalty for the first time in nearly two decades, the Department of Justice announced.
According to the agency, Barr ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) to adopt a proposed addendum to the Federal Execution Protocol to allow for capital punishment to resume.

"Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. "Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding. The Justice Department upholds the rule of law-and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/25/federal-government-to-reinstate-the-death-penalty-after-nearly-two-decades/

#7181955 at 2019-07-25 15:04:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9189: Today's Feature Film: Capital Punishment Edition

Yuge:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-25/federal-executions-resume-first-time-almost-2-decades


Federal Government Brings Back Executions, Starting With 5 Child Murderers
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On Thursday the Department of Justice announced that for the first time in nearly two decades it will resume capital punishment, with Attorney General William Barr the process for the execution of five death-row in mates is set to move forward. It will mark the first federal executions since 2003.

"Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President," Barr said in a written statement released by the DOJ.

The first among the five new executions announced is Daniel Lewis Lee, convicted in 1999 of murdering family of three in Arkansas, including children. Notably all five death-row inmates now scheduled to face execution are child murderers.

"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law-and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," Barr said further in his statement.

The DOJ release indicated the Federal Bureau of Prisons will use a single drug, pentobarbital, for all federal executions, currently used by a number of states for lethal injections.

"Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding," Barr's statement continued.

The five inmates are scheduled for executions to take place at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, reportedly in December and early January.

Prior to stopping federal execution cases in 2003, perhaps the more notorious criminal to be put to death was Timothy McVeigh in 2001, for killing 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, and further recent death row cases awaiting execution include Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in 2015 for the Boston Marathon bombing, and white supremacist Dylann Roof in 2017 for the Charleston church shooting.


Stop killing false flag peeps and stick with the pedo rapists who have been sauced by anons

#7181855 at 2019-07-25 14:55:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9188: Dead Man Walk'n Edition

Trump Justice Department to resume federal executions

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454700-justice-department-to-resume-federal-executions-for-first-time-in-16

Well, well, well - What have we here?

"The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it will resume capital punishment for the first time in nearly two decades.

Attorney General William Barr has directed that executions for five death-row inmates be scheduled. If carried out, they will be the first federal executions since 2003."

#7181681 at 2019-07-25 14:41:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9188: Dead Man Walk'n Edition

>>7181643
>https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/William-Barr-orders-first-federal-executions-in-nearly-two-decades.html

#7181643 at 2019-07-25 14:38:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9188: Dead Man Walk'n Edition

Attorney General William Barr orders first federal executions in nearly two decades

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/William-Barr-orders-first-federal-executions-in-nearly-two-decades.html

#7180473 at 2019-07-25 12:24:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9187: The Next Baker is a Faggot Edition.

Biggest hearing takeaway_:
Mueller Report = 'Weissmann Report'

Andy McCarthy's biggest takeaway from Mueller hearing: "Inconceivable' he ran the investigation." ?@AndrewCMcCarthy? Sir, Should we rename it the 'Weissmann Report?'

Andy McCarthy's biggest takeaway from Mueller hearing: 'Inconceivable' he ran the investigation

Fox News contributor and former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy said Thursday on "Fox & Friends" that his biggest takeaway from the Mueller hearing was the "staff-driven" nature of the Russia probe.

"It's inconceivable that Robert Mueller ran this investigation. One thing that was evident in seven hours of testimony is that he only has a remote familiarity with his own report and with the investigation. He was actually staff-driven and that's what the president has been saying all along," he said.

Host Steve Doocy noted that the president's critics have long chastised him for claiming "13 angry Democrats" were fueling the probe, often countering that Robert Mueller was ensuring the fairness of the proceedings.

McCarthy said he would have liked to see Republicans also ask some open-ended questions since Mueller didn't seem "up to" giving sufficient answers.

"I would have asked him, ya know, why don't you tell us three or four of the questions you would have asked President Trump," he said.

Mueller delivered his long-awaited testimonies in front of two House committees Wednesday regarding his summary report of the nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters.

In his opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee, Mueller warned Democratic and Republican lawmakers that his "testimony will necessarily be limited," and thus he would not discuss details of the FBI's Russia investigation, the Steele Dossier or the actions of Attorney General William Barr.

On numerous occasions, Mueller either directed committee members to the report or said "I'm not going to discuss that," "I can't answer that," "I'm not certain I would adopt that characterization," or "That's out of my purview." He also refused to read from the report himself and gave one-word answers to a number of questions or attempts at clarification, saying "yes," "no," "true," or "correct" throughout his testimony.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/andy-mccarthy-biggest-takeaway-from-mueller-hearing-inconceivable-he-ran-the-investigation

BAKER NOTABLE AF

#7176329 at 2019-07-25 04:04:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9181 Q droppin Suicide and Signals Intelligence Docs! Edition

ANONS, HOVER OVER RED LINE IN THE DOC:
>1/6/17
Remember what happened on that date?:

The other Trump Tower meeting: Barr looking into leaks after Comey briefed Trump on dossier

The phrase "the Trump Tower meeting" has become synonymous with the controversial June 9, 2016 meeting between senior members of the Trump campaign and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others, but Attorney General William Barr says he is looking into another Trump Tower gathering - when then-FBI Director James Comey briefed President-elect Trump on some of the most salacious allegations in the so-called Steele dossier in January 2017 in New York City.

In an interview with Fox News that aired Friday, Barr said "one of the things we want to look into" is "the handling of the meeting on Jan. 6, 2017 between the intelligence chiefs and the president and the leaking of information subsequent to that meeting."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/the-other-trump-tower-meeting-Barr-looking-into-leaks-after-comey-briefed-trump-on-dossier

#7173962 at 2019-07-25 02:20:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9178: Lights on, Nightshift Edition

>>7173895

Who cares if he answered appropriately?
He is a TRAITOR to our country!
He and the rest of his minions should be treated as such.

"A nation can survive its fools,
and even the ambitious. But it
cannot survive treason from
within. An enemy at the gates is
less formidable, for he is known
and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst
those within the gate freely, his
sly whispers rustling through all
the alleys, heard in the very halls
of government itself. For the
traitor appears not a traitor; he
speaks in accents familiar to his
victims, and he wears their face
and their arguments, he appeals
to the baseness that lies deep in
the hearts of all men. He rots the
soul of a nation, he works secretly
and unknown in the night to
undermine the pillars of the city,
he infects the body politic so that
it can no longer resist. A murderer
is less to fear. The traitor is the
plague."
-Marcus Tullius Cicero

Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum

None Dare Call It Treason: President Trump Must Fight Fire With Fire And Hold The 'Coup D'Etat' Leaders Responsible For Their Crimes Against America

- With Others Watching, Justice Against The Coup Plotters Is Absolutely Necessary For Reasons Of National Security.

"Attorney General William Barr should aggressively investigate, indict, and imprison leaders of the attempted coup d'etat who served and are serving in the FBI, DOJ, Intelligence Community, and Democratic Party."

"Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, if treason doth prosper. None dare call it treason." -Sir John Harrington (1561-1612)

"Conservatives should not be applauding the Mueller Report for finding no collusion with Russia by President Trump during his election campaign or after. The Mueller investigation itself was never legitimate. It was part of a conspiracy by the Obama administration, the Democratic Party, and their minions in the FBI and Justice Department against Mr. Trump, his allies, voters, and the Constitution. Any intelligent person, not wholly blinded by fanatical anti-Trump partisanship, should have understood all along that the Mueller investigation, a stacked deck, staffed with highly partisan activist Democratic lawyers, was biased and bogus."

"Any intelligent person, not rendered insane by anti-Trump hatred, should have understood all along that vociferous accusations by Democrats and the liberal mainstream media that President Trump colluded with Russia to win election - that President Trump is a traitor - was and is utter nonsense. Indeed, these false accusations against President Trump, that seek to delegitimize his administration and cancel the ballots cast by Trump voters, is the real act of treason."

http://allnewspipeline.com/None_Dare_Call_It_Treason_Dr_Pry.php

(INTELLIHUB) - President Donald Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity that whoever was involved in the fabrication of the Russian collusion hoax should stand trial for treason and said that precedence needs to be set for future offenders.
The 72-year-old commander-in-chief made clear on a telephone interview that former FBI agent Peter Strzok and Lisa Page had wanted an "insurance policy" months before the Robert Mueller investigation began "just in case Hillary Clinton lost."
"...what we were playing out until just recently was the insurance policy," Trump said. "They wanted to do a subversion - it was treason."

https://www.intellihub.com/donald-trump-considers-charging-fabricators-of-russian-collusion-hoax-with-treason/

"The facts of what really happened via the dark Deep State underbelly of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax are (finally) leaking out a bit these days as more and more voters come to realize that what really happened was a shocking attempted coup of a duly elected President of the United States by deeply entrenched powers from within the U.S. government."

Via PJ Media:

"Trump Was Not Just Spied Upon But Entrapped
It's bad enough, as has been evident for some time, that Donald Trump and his campaign were being spied upon by our own government, but it's highly likely they were also subject to literal entrapment-at least a serious attempt was made.
I don't mean the entrapment of promulgating the salacious Steele dossier both to the public and the FISA court as if it were the truth. That was more of a smear to justify a phony investigation. I mean something more subtle and LeCarré-like coming from the depths of our intelligence communities. It raises once more the question of the power of such agencies in a free society, a conundrum with no easy answers but of great significance to our lives."

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/report-president-trump-was-not-just-spied-on-but-entrapped-attempted-coup/#PqKwTBfBVpWcCBpE.99

#7172421 at 2019-07-25 00:19:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9176: President Trump King of Womp! Edition

Turkey Lobbying Case Reveals Avenue to FISA Spying Abuse

On July 23, Bijan Rafiekian was convicted of acting as an unregistered agent of Turkey. The courtroom was half-empty. No cameras waited outside.

Media took notice, it appears, only because the lobbying job at the core of the case was done by the now-defunct Flynn Intel Group (FIG), which Rafiekian ran with retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former national security adviser to President Donald Trump.

The case, however, was notable for another reason. It demonstrated how far the U.S. government has stretched the law to label Rafiekian an "agent of a foreign government"-a label that appears to open the doors for the FBI and the Justice Department to target American citizens, such as Rafiekian or Flynn, for extremely intrusive surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

Many Republicans in Congress have alleged that Trump's opponents in various branches of the government have abused the Act to spy on his aides. Attorney General William Barr set out to explore the issue, while the Justice Department's Inspector General (IG) is expected to soon release a report addressing the matter.

The Rafiekian case adds another dimension to the issue.
Section 951

Rafiekian was charged under Section 951, which stipulates that "an individual who agrees to operate within the United States subject to the direction or control of a foreign government or official" will face up to 10 years in prison unless he or she first informs the Attorney General in writing who he is, what he's about to do, and for whom.

On its face, the statute is extremely broad. If a foreign minister gives someone $5 to buy him a slice of New York pizza, does one have to tell the Attorney General first? That's why the law has several exceptions, such as excluding "any person engaged in a legal commercial transaction."

The enforcement of the statute is managed by the Justice Department's National Security Division, which called Section 951 "espionage lite," saying that it "generally involves espionage-like or clandestine behavior or an otherwise provable connection to an intelligence service, or information gathering or procurement-type activity on behalf of a foreign government," according to a 2016 IG report (pdf).

But Rafiekian wasn't alleged to have engaged in any such activity.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mueller-teams-turkey-lobbying-case-reveals-avenue-to-fisa-spying-abuse_3015661.html

#7162492 at 2019-07-24 15:33:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9163: Patriots In Control Edition

>>7162449

This stammering and stuttering fool testifying in congress right now is no cool and collected William Barr.

#7157722 at 2019-07-24 07:18:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9157: PapaD bout to be vindicated! Buy muh book! Enough is Enough! Edition

Yeah, I've given anons sht for posting Sucha Fails crap too but this is good shit here.

July 23, 2019

Military Operation To Evacuate Trump Begins After Mueller Bombshell Explodes In Austrian Court

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A fascinating new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today noting the prescient coming clean of President Putin in his response to the "meddling" in the 2016 US Presidential Election confirming that it is "perfectly clear Ukrainian oligarchs gave money to Trump's opponents", states this entire sordid American affair took a much more ominous turn last week after everything that Special Counsel Robert Mueller tried to do against Trump "exploded like a bombshell" in an Austrian courtroom-a courtroom where the extradition of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash to the US was put on hold after it was shockingly revealed that the Obama Regime Justice Department had fabricated the charges against him-charges Mueller deputy Andrew Weissmann offered to drop in their entirety if Firtash would lie under oath saying Trump was being financed by Russia-an illegal coup plot Firtash and his American attorneys outright told Weissmann they would in no way be a part of-and as this vast coup plot continues unraveling, putting numerous high-level American elites in grave danger of being charged with treason-now sees the United States Army moving quickly to protect President Trump in what is being described as an "emerging classified flight mission"-the full dimensions of which were displayed yesterday when at least 10 UH-60 Black Hawk heavily armed combat helicopters flooded the skies in and around Washington, D.C.-and whose obvious mission would be to evacuate Trump from the White House if his enemies launch an attack against him. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]





US Army floods skies over Washington D.C. on 22 July 2019 with heavily armed combat helicopters in show of force to protect President Donald Trump



According to this report, MoFA intelligence analysts became concerned about what was occurring in the United States when the Ministry of Defense (MoD), on 4 February 2019, issued an alert bulletin stating that dozens of US Army heavily armed Black Hawk helicopters had suddenly descended upon Los Angeles to begin mock raids and evacuation of high-level targets-and upon the completion of this domestic war game exercise, then saw the US Army repositioning these combat helicopters, along with their pilots and elite commandos, to Joint Base Andrews located outside of Washington D.C. in Prince George's County-Maryland-but whose true mission is secret enough to require a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility" (SCIF) to be built at Davison Army Airfield at Fort Belvoir- Virginia-20-miles from Washington D.C.-with SCIFs being the ultra-secure facilities that allow their occupants to handle classified material without concern for electronic eavesdropping or other interception.





US Army assembles elite secretive commando force at Davison Army Airfield (above) in Fort Belvoir-Virginia to rescue President Donald Trump if needed



As to why the US Army is preparing to protect President Trump, this report explains, is due to their fears of how Trump's enemies will react once they fully comprehend that their coup plot against him has not only failed, US Attorney General William Barr is going to capture them all and prosecute them for their treasonous crimes-and as confirmed by Trump himself who vowed: "This should never happen to another president again".

1/2

#7157551 at 2019-07-24 06:39:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9157: PapaD bout to be vindicated! Buy muh book! Enough is Enough! Edition

>>7157483
Sen. Cruz: Open an Investigation Into Antifa, a Left-Wing Anarchist Terrorist Organization
Calls for investigation into Antifa and Portland Mayor Wheeler in letter to A.G. Barr, Deputy A.G. Rosen, and FBI Director Wray
July 23, 2019
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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, today penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and FBI Director Christopher Wray calling for an investigation into Antifa and Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

"I write to urge you to open an organized crime investigation into Antifa, a left-wing anarchist terrorist organization that routinely relies on violence to intimidate and punish its political opponents," Sen. Cruz wrote. "Our Republic depends on free and open participation in the political process. These acts of brazen political violence and intimidation strike at the heart of that process. Given your commitment to the rule of law, I hope you will respond to Antifa's organized criminal activity, and Mayor Ted Wheeler's refusal to protect Portland's citizens from that activity, with all speed and vigilance."

The full letter may be viewed here and below:

July 23, 2019
The Honorable William Barr
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20530-0001

The Honorable Jeffrey A. Rosen
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20530-0001

The Honorable Christopher Wray
Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20535-0001

Dear Attorney General Barr, Deputy Attorney General Rosen, and Director Wray:

I write to urge you to open an organized crime investigation into Antifa, a left-wing anarchist terrorist organization that routinely relies on violence to intimidate and punish its political opponents.

Antifa's violence is widespread and well-known. Earlier this month, the "Rose City" chapter of the domestic terrorist organization "Antifa" rampaged through Portland, Oregon, stealing and destroying property, disrupting traffic, and assaulting civilians. One journalist, Andy Ngo, was attacked so severely that he was hospitalized for a brain hemorrhage. This weekend, Willem Van Sprosen, an Antifa terrorist, attacked a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Tacoma, Washington, igniting a vehicle and attempting to ignite a propane tank. This mayhem follows previous armed attacks and rioting by Antifa in Portland, as well as the arsons, destruction of property, batteries, and related crimes by Antifa following President Trump's inauguration. These are not unconnected lawless incidents; they instead appear to be a pattern of racketeering activity. And they occur principally because Antifa's members rely on masks to conceal which particular member committed any given crime.

As you are well aware, federal law has provided the Nation's law enforcement with powerful tools to prosecute criminal organizations, such as Antifa, the Ku Klux Klan, and the mafia, that rely on group anonymity. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., prohibits employment or association with any enterprise to conduct that enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity. 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c). RICO enables law enforcement to prosecute individual members of these groups for participating in the criminal enterprise-even when the government cannot establish which particular individual in a corrupt organization committed a given crime.

RICO further gives law-abiding citizens in jurisdictions like Portland some recourse in support of their constitutional rights. You are surely aware that Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has staunchly refused to deploy and support local law enforcement to restore order and prevent Antifa robberies and armed assaults. It is no mystery why: Antifa's violence is aimed to silence dissent from authoritarian left-wing views. Mayor Wheeler apparently agrees with those views. But the First Amendment guarantees Portland's moderates and conservatives alike the right to speak, and the Equal Protection Clause prohibits Portland's mayor and police force from refusing to prosecute assaults designed to suppress this First Amendment right-from, quite literally, denying to dissenting Portlanders the equal protection of Oregon's laws against assault and robbery. Federal intervention is required to guarantee these citizens' constitutional rights.

Continued…

https://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=4603

#7155544 at 2019-07-24 03:18:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9154:Magicians of Omission running the world! Edition

FBI director lavishes praise on DOJ inspector general

FBI Director Christopher Wray had nothing but praise Tuesday for Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz as the DOJ's watchdog wraps up his investigation into the bureau's involvement in alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act related to the Steele dossier. Wray, who was testifying in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was exceedingly complimentary toward Horowitz, telling Chairman Lindsey Graham that he is "hard-hitting," "independent," "objective," "fair," "professional," and "thorough." "I have no reason to doubt the integrity or the quality of the investigation he has underway," Wray added.

The 412 pages of redacted FISA documents released in 2018 show that the Justice Department and the FBI relied heavily on Steele's dossier, which made a series of salacious and unverified allegations regarding Trump and Russia. Steele put his research together in 2016 at the behest of Fusion GPS, which had been hired by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm. The FISA Court did not reveal that Steele received funding from a Democratic presidential campaign. Horowitz launched his inquiry in March of last year, interviewed Steele in June, and will reportedly be releasing his report in late summer or early fall.

Additionally, President Trump granted Attorney General William Barr broad declassification authority to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Barr selected U.S. Attorney John Durham to be his right-hand man in this effort. Wray indicated that he was willing to cooperate in all of these investigations of the investigators. "When it comes to the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign, is anybody providing kind of a deep-dive on what happened there? Is that part of Mr. Horowitz's charter?" Graham asked Wray on Tuesday. "Well, I think I would let Inspector General Horowitz speak for himself about the scope of his investigation. But, as you know, the attorney general is doing a review, or has commissioned some people to do a review, and I think that's part of his job," Wray answered. "And it's part of mine to get some of those questions answered."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-director-lavishes-praise-on-doj-inspector-general

#7152784 at 2019-07-24 00:05:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9151: One Squad Under God Edition

>>7152657
The Hill story talks about Mifsud.


While most of the political world focused its attention elsewhere, special prosecutor John Durham's team quietly reached out this summer to a lawyer representing European academic Joseph Mifsud, one of the earliest and most mysterious figures in the now closed Russia-collusion case.

An investigator told Swiss attorney Stephan Roh that Durham's team wanted to interview Mifsud, or at the very least review a recorded deposition the professor gave in summer 2018 about his role in the drama involving Donald Trump, Russia and the 2016 election.

The contact, confirmed by multiple sources and contemporaneous email, sent an unmistakable message: Durham, the U.S. attorney handpicked by Attorney General William Barr to determine whether the FBI committed abuses during the Russia investigation, is taking a second look at one of the noteworthy figures and the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report.
The evidence I reviewed suggests Mueller's handiwork may be exposed for glaring omissions that, when brought to public light, leave key questions unanswered, especially about how the FBI's unprecedented probe of the Trump campaign started.

Durham is focused on determining whether any government or private figures who came in contact with the Trump campaign in 2016 "were engaged in improper surveillance," a U.S. official told me when asked about the Mifsud overture.

For those who don't remember, Mifsud is a Maltese-born academic with a VIP Rolodex who frequented Rome and London for years and engaged at the highest levels of Western diplomatic and intelligence circles.

Mueller's team alleges that Mifsud is the person who fed a story in spring 2016 to Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos about Moscow possessing purloined emails from Hillary Clinton. It was the earliest known contact in the now-debunked collusion narrative and the seminal event that the FBI says prompted it on July 31, 2016, to open its probe into the Trump campaign.
Mueller concluded that Mifsud was a person with extensive Russia ties who planted the story about the Clinton emails in Moscow and then lied about his dealings with Papadopoulos when interviewed by the FBI in 2017. Papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Mifsud.

But unlike others accused of misleading Mueller - including Papadopoulos, former Trump adviser Mike Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort - Mifsud was not charged with a crime.

Conservative defenders of President Trump, including former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), have raised recent concerns that Mueller's portrayal of the Mifsud-Papadopoulos contacts doesn't add up.

Roh told me the information he is preparing to share with Durham's team from his client will accentuate those concerns.
Mifsud was a "longtime cooperator of western intel" who was asked specifically by his contacts at Link University in Rome and the London Center of International Law Practice (LCILP) - two academic groups with ties to western diplomacy and intelligence - to meet with Papadopoulos at a dinner in Rome in mid-March 2016, Roh told me.

A May 2019 letter from Nunes to U.S. intelligence officials corroborates some of Roh's account, revealing photos showing that the FBI conducted training at Link in fall 2016 and that Mifsud and other Link officials met regularly with world leaders, including Boris Johnson, elected today as Britain's new prime minister.

A few days after the March dinner, Roh added, Mifsud received instructions from Link superiors to "put Papadopoulos in contact with Russians," including a think tank figure named Ivan Timofeev and a woman he was instructed to identify to Papadopoulos as Vladimir Putin's niece.

Mifsud knew the woman was not the Russian president's niece but, rather, a student who was involved with both the Link and LCILP campuses, and the professor believed there was an effort under way to determine whether Papadopoulos was an "agent provocateur" seeking foreign contacts, Roh said.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/454409-robert-mueller-soon-may-be-exposed-as-the-magician-of-omission-on-russia

#7152318 at 2019-07-23 23:34:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9150: THE SPIDER-WEB Edition

>>7152298
>>7152284
Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the 'magician of omission' on Russia

While most of the political world focused its attention elsewhere, special prosecutor John Durham's team quietly reached out this summer to a lawyer representing European academic Joseph Mifsud, one of the earliest and most mysterious figures in the now closed Russia-collusion case.

An investigator told Swiss attorney Stephan Roh that Durham's team wanted to interview Mifsud, or at the very least review a recorded deposition the professor gave in summer 2018 about his role in the drama involving Donald Trump, Russia and the 2016 election.

The contact, confirmed by multiple sources and contemporaneous email, sent an unmistakable message: Durham, the U.S. attorney handpicked by Attorney General William Barr to determine whether the FBI committed abuses during the Russia investigation, is taking a second look at one of the noteworthy figures and the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report.

The evidence I reviewed suggests Mueller's handiwork may be exposed for glaring omissions that, when brought to public light, leave key questions unanswered, especially about how the FBI's unprecedented probe of the Trump campaign started.

Durham is focused on determining whether any government or private figures who came in contact with the Trump campaign in 2016 "were engaged in improper surveillance," a U.S. official told me when asked about the Mifsud overture.

For those who don't remember, Mifsud is a Maltese-born academic with a VIP Rolodex who frequented Rome and London for years and engaged at the highest levels of Western diplomatic and intelligence circles.

Mueller's team alleges that Mifsud is the person who fed a story in spring 2016 to Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos about Moscow possessing purloined emails from Hillary Clinton. It was the earliest known contact in the now-debunked collusion narrative and the seminal event that the FBI says prompted it on July 31, 2016, to open its probe into the Trump campaign.

much moar here:
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/454409-robert-mueller-soon-may-be-exposed-as-the-magician-of-omission-on-russia

#7151294 at 2019-07-23 22:38:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9149: [CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN] Edition

>>7151215
Today I penned a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, and FBI Director Christopher Wray calling for an investigation into Antifa under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).

#7148589 at 2019-07-23 19:17:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9146: Eyes of Providence and Omar diggz! Domes Everywhere! Edition

US attorney general says encryption creates security risk

NEW YORK (AP) - Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.

Barr's comments at a cybersecurity conference mark a continuing effort by the Justice Department to push tech companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted devices and applications during investigations.

"There have been enough dogmatic pronouncements that lawful access simply cannot be done," Barr said. "It can be, and it must be."

The attorney general said law enforcement is increasingly unable to access information on devices, and between devices, even with a warrant supporting probable cause of criminal activity.

Barr said terrorists and cartels switch mid-communication to encrypted applications to plan deadly operations. He described a transnational drug cartel's use of WhatsApp group chat to specifically coordinate murders of Mexico-based police officials.

Gail Kent, Facebook's global public policy lead on security, recently said that allowing the government's ability to gain access to encrypted communications would jeopardize cybersecurity for millions of law-abiding people who rely on it. WhatsApp is owned by Facebook.

https: //apnews.com/7423e1ef65a144e6a47e4da63683b3c1

#7148042 at 2019-07-23 18:30:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9145: Shills playin in the dough! Butthurt! ANONS say MAKE IT RAIN KEK! Edition

Congressional Republicans and staffers who are on this board. Make sure that at least one congressman spends their entire 5 minutes asking this question

AG William Barr asserted that instructions from the DOJ to Mueller for his upcoming congressional testimony came at Mueller's request

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/23/Barr-mueller-testimony-guidance-1428015

#7137229 at 2019-07-22 21:47:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9131: The Hunters Become the Hunted Edition

Jim Jordan on the DOJ IG report: 'What's got Schiff worried?'

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said today that Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California must be "worried" about the upcoming results of the investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Abuse conducted by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The GOP's ranking member on the House Oversight Committee was responding to comments made by the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee at the Aspen Security Forum this weekend, where Schiff suggested that Horowitz's prior investigation of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was put on a "fast track" by the Justice Department in order to please President Trump and that its results were therefore "tainted" by politics.

"Inspector General Horowitz is a professional. He's conducting a crucial investigation into FBI and DOJ misconduct. But @RepAdamSchiff said his investigation is 'tainted.' What's got Schiff worried?" Jordan tweeted. Horowitz concluded in February 2018 that McCabe had improperly disclosed information about an investigation to the media and then had "lacked candor" when speaking with former FBI Director James Comey and with investigators from the FBI and the inspector general's office. Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March 2018 just before McCabe was scheduled to retire.

Schiff also said this weekend that the "investigation of the investigators" related to the origins of the Trump-Russia probe being carried out by Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham was similarly "tainted." Schiff's comments came after Horowitz interviewed British ex-spy Christopher Steele, whose unverified dossier was relied upon in four FISA applications and renewals, and as the inspector general's highly-anticipated report is reportedly set to be released in the coming weeks.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jim-jordan-on-the-doj-ig-report-whats-got-schiff-worried

#7136538 at 2019-07-22 21:01:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9130: Special Ops over DC! Watch the Q! Edition

>>7136128
probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy.

To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct committed by a House member in American history.

Consider the disturbingly inadequate evidence used to obtain FISA warrants on members of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Consider that Democratic representatives have demanded that Attorney General William Barr release grand jury testimony - itself an illegal act.

Yet here we have:

Verifiable UK and U.S. marriage records
Verifiable address records
Time-stamped, traceable, archived online communications (Convictions and settlements based upon social media evidence are commonplace, Anthony Weiner being a notable example)
Background check confirmations of SSNs and birthdates
Archived court documents signed under penalty of perjury
Photos which can be examined to rule out digital manipulation
The 2019 Minnesota Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board investigation, which found Omar filed illegal joint tax returns with a man who was not her husband in at least 2014 and 2015
Three years' of evidence published across many articles - none of which has been shown to be incorrect, or have even been challenged with contradictory evidence from Rep. Omar or any other source
Perjury evidence that stands on its own - regardless of whom she married:
Long after June 2011, she was clearly in contact with the only man in either the U.S. or the UK with the same name and birthdate as the man she married. She was clearly in contact with several people who were in contact with him.
Further, Preya Samsundar did contact him, published how she managed to contact him, and published his email admitting to being photographed with Omar in London in 2015. To be clear: Omar was legally married to an "Ahmed Nur Said Elmi" at the time she was photographed next to a man who admits his name is Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, and that he is in the photo.
Samsundar published all of this information on how to contact Ahmed Nur Said Elmi a few months before Omar swore to that nine-question court document.
Rep. Omar has refused all inquiries from her constituents, elected officials, and media outlets to provide any specific evidence contradicting even a single allegation suggested by three years of now-public information.
In fact, Omar has responded by making information less available:
In August 2016, after Scott Johnson and Preya Samsundar posted the allegations, Omar's verified social media accounts were taken offline.
Ahmed Nur Said Elmi's social media accounts were also taken offline.
When the accounts returned, a large amount of potentially incriminating evidence had verifiably been deleted.
I found and published at least ten additional "before and after" instances of evidence still being deleted in 2018.
Omar has released carefully worded, Clintonian statements that denigrate those seeking answers from her as racists. Yet she has repeatedly refused to answer questions or issue anything other than public relations statements.
I have a large amount of information that we have not published for reasons including the protection of sources.
Sources have expressed fear regarding published video and photo evidence confirming threats from Omar's campaign team. These sources have shared other evidence of threats. I have contacted the federal authorities to share this and other unpublished information. Providing knowingly false information to the DOJ is a serious crime.
I believe Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and me, with our three years of articles, columns and posts, have provided more than enough evidence to give law enforcement authorities probable cause to open an investigation. Now would be the chance for law enforcement, and especially for Rep. Ilhan Omar's House colleagues, to make a sincere stand against corruption and for the uniform application of the law.


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/stunning-report-david-steinberg-describes-ilhan-omars-8-instances-of-perjury-could-face-40-years-in-prison-or-deportation/

#7135304 at 2019-07-22 19:29:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9129: Watnick the bridge? Sessions back? Watch the Q! Edition

Federal judge sides with Russian company, rebukes Mueller, Barr

A federal judge has chastised former special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William P. Barr for stating that the Russian government was behind election year social media trolling when there is no evidence presented by prosecutors.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich culminated a secret legal battle between the Justice Department and the Russian firm Concord Management and Consulting LLC.

The judge this month began unsealing legal briefs and transcripts, which reveal that the release of Mr. Mueller's 448-page report and Mr. Barr's public statements triggered Concord attorney Eric A. Dubelier to seek contempt proceedings against both.

Mr. Dubelier said Mr. Mueller prejudiced a potential jury by stating that the Kremlin ran the social media campaign, which the federal government says Concord funded. That connection isn't contained in the special counsel's February 2018 indictment against Concord.

"That's not alleged in the indictment primarily because there is no evidence to support that it was. There is none," Mr. Dubelier told the judge at a closed May 28 hearing for which a transcript was just unsealed.

The conclusion at this stage means Russian President Vladimir Putin backed one major election intervention: his military intelligence hacking of Democratic Party computers and sending stolen materials to WikiLeaks for release.

But he might not have been involved in the parallel social media trolling, though U.S. media reported that it was part of a larger Kremlin conspiracy.

Judge Friedrich concurred that there was a lack of evidence.

Court observers say Mr. Mueller might have withheld evidence from his public report and from the court case for security reasons.

His report cleared President Trump of allegations of conspiring with Moscow.

Mr. Dubelier told the judge that Mr. Mueller and Mr. Barr violated a Justice Department criminal rule by stating before trial that Concord committed an offense.

"The court has discretion to impose sanctions on AG Barr and SC Mueller," he said. "Specifically,

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/21/robert-mueller-William-Barr-rebuked-judge-case-rus/

#7122913 at 2019-07-21 20:11:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9113: Might as well Jump! Learn to bake! Edition

Barr probe sets up showdown between Obama intelligence chiefs, dissenters
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times - Thursday, July 18, 2019
Attorney General William P. Barr's review of the Obama-era conclusion that Russia interfered in the election to help Donald Trump sets up a struggle between the nation's top spies and Mr. Trump's skeptical Republican allies.

But there are dissenters, and they are close to the White House.

Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, issued a report last year that found no Russian-Trump conspiracy. Special counsel Robert Mueller confirmed the finding in March.

Mr. Nunes made a less noticed finding. He said intelligence chiefs violated good tradecraft by writing the assessment section on Mr. Putin's intentions. What's more, Fred Fleitz, who served inside the White House as National Security Adviser John R. Bolton's chief of staff, has written a series of columns casting doubt on the section about Mr. Putin's role in the election.

Mr. Fleitz is being considered as a possible replacement for Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats, whose job is in jeopardy because of testimony this year on North Korea, a White House adviser told The Washington Times.

Former intelligence officials told The Times that Mr. Barr wants to determine whether there was any political influence to skew the conclusions of the intelligence community assessment.

Mr. Coats seemed to confirm that Mr. Barr is conducting a wide-ranging investigation of intelligence agency activities. After Mr. Trumpannounced in May that he had granted Mr. Barrwide powers to collect information and declassify material, Mr. Coats issued his own statement in response.

Casting a wide net

Mr. Barr's search for material on "intelligence activities related to Russian interference" indicates that he is casting a wide net.
Mr. Nunes has said he found great fault in how the Obama appointees wrote the intelligence community assessment on Mr. Putin's intentions.

"While the committee found that most ICA analysis held up to scrutiny, the investigation also identified significant intelligence tradecraft failings that undermine confidence in the ICA judgments regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin's strategic objectives for disrupting the U.S. election," his 2018 report said.

"CIA analysts and their draft was subjected to an unusually constrained review and coordination process, which deviated from established practice."

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/18/William-Barr-probe-pits-obama-intelligence-chiefs-/

#7120864 at 2019-07-21 16:06:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9111: Q Bakers Get The Trips! Join The Kitchen Edition

Mueller report shows evidence Trump committed crimes, House Judiciary chairman says

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee said Sunday he believes there is "substantial evidence" that President Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanours, and he plans to ask former Special Counsel Robert Mueller to present those facts at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.


"The report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crime and misdemeanours, and we have to let Mueller present those facts to the American people and then see where we go from there," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said on "Fox News Sunday."

"The administration must be held accountable, and no president can be above the law."

Nadler's comments are significant because evidence of such crimes would be required if Democrats pursue impeachment proceedings against the president.
In two nationally televised back-to-back hearings on Wednesday before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, Democrats are expected to try and get Mueller to focus his testimony on specific examples of Trump's misconduct.
By having Mueller lay bare the unflattering details of how Trump tried to stymie the investigation into his campaign, Democrats hope they can build support for their ongoing investigations into the president and potentially, impeachment proceedings.

Some Democrats in Congress support impeaching Trump, but they have not managed to win traction from House Democratic leadership including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has preferred a more cautious approach that entails conducting congressional fact-finding investigations into Trump's conduct.
Last week, the House voted 332-95 to table an impeachment resolution.
Mueller completed his nearly two-year long probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election in March, and the Justice Department released a redacted copy of his report in April.

The report laid out numerous contacts between Russian officials and Trump's campaign, but found no evidence of a criminal conspiracy.
It also gave examples of 10 incidents in which Trump sought to hinder the investigation, but it did not draw any conclusions on whether Trump obstructed justice.
Attorney General William Barr later concluded he did not see enough evidence to bring obstruction charges.

Whether Democrats will get Mueller to discuss Trump's conduct in detail remains to be seen.
Mueller has made it clear he has no desire to appear before Congress, saying the report is his testimony, and he is also notorious for being tight-lipped and for giving one-word answers in hearings.
Nadler said Democrats plan to ask very specific questions about Trump's obstructive conduct and ask Mueller to read passages from the report aloud.

"We hope it won't end up being a dud," he said of the hearing.
Meanwhile, Nadler said Sunday he plans to go to court "within a couple of days" after the Mueller hearings to enforce a subpoena, after the White House ordered former White House Counsel Don McGahn not to testify about incidents he witnessed which many say show Trump tried to obstruct justice.

https://www.euronews.com/2019/07/21/mueller-report-shows-evidence-trump-committed-crimes-house-judiciary-chairman-says

#7103460 at 2019-07-19 23:46:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9089: Substation Conflagration Edition

GOP investigators seek Nellie Ohr's research for Fusion GPS on Trump family

Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, is under scrutiny again. GOP lawmakers seek Ohr's opposition research on members of the Trump family, according to Fox News. In testimony to lawmakers late last year, Ohr said she gathered information during the 2016 campaign about President Trump, his wife Melania Trump, and his children for Fusion GPS, the same opposition research firm that was paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign for British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier. Ohr testified in December that she was tasked with researching the Trump family "broadly in connection with any - any Russian connections." She said she investigated family members' foreign travel, but claimed her research lacked "depth," and claimed her goal was to "see whether they were involved in dealings and transactions with people who had suspicious pasts, or suspicious types of dealings." At the time, Ohr said she was still in possession of her research and indicated she might be willing to share it with the committee. Fox News reached out to her lawyer with questions about the records. A response has not yet been published.

Ohr's husband Bruce is believed to have acted as an unofficial back channel between the FBI and Steele. He was demoted when it was revealed he met with Steele and Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS. Steele's dossier, which contained unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, has been a subject of concern for GOP lawmakers, particularly for how it was used by the FBI in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Both Ohrs testified last year to a joint task force of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees that were investigating decisions made by the Justice Department and FBI surrounding the 2016 election. In his congressional testimony, Bruce Ohr also told lawmakers his wife shared a thumb drive with him to hand over to the FBI. Nellie Ohr also testified that she met with Steele the day before the FBI launched its Trump-Russia investigation at a hotel in Washington, D.C.

Rep. Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina, sent a criminal referral addressed to Attorney General William Barr earlier this year, citing concerns that Nellie Ohr "knowingly provided false testimony" to lawmakers. Barr is overseeing a review, led by U.S. Attorney John Durham, of the origins of the Russia investigation.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-investigators-seek-nellie-ohrs-research-for-fusion-gps-on-trump-family

#7103006 at 2019-07-19 23:14:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9088: 2020 Ballot Box Edition

>>7102266
HUBER NEVER STARTED HIS INVESTIGATION, IT WAS REASSIGNED TO DURHAM
During an exclusive interview with CBS News broadcast on Friday, current Attorney General William Barr said that Huber's probe never got off the ground and as such it was reassigned to Connecticut-based U.S. Attorney (and corruption specialist) John Durham.
>https://clinton.news/2019-05-31-john-huber-investigate-hillary-clinton-never-started-his-probe.html

#7092925 at 2019-07-19 04:11:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9075: Jihad Sqaud Needs Taken Down! Educate the Girls! Muh History! Edition

https://www.justice.gov/opa/blog/us-attorney-general-William-Barr-and-egyptian-prosecutor-general-nabil-sadek-sign-us-egypt

#7092712 at 2019-07-19 03:53:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9075: Jihad Sqaud Needs Taken Down! Educate the Girls! Muh History! Edition

William Barr over Jeff Sessions shoulder

#7088529 at 2019-07-18 23:11:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9070: How do you 'shape' a story? Edition

This feels like a BOOM to me.
"Barr DROPS BOMB ON FBI, CONGRESS; FEDS WILL PROBE COMEY & DEMS FOR SPYING ON TRUMP"
>Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection efforts targeting the Trump campaign were "lawful and appropriate," a person familiar with the situation told Fox News on Monday evening.
>John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, will conduct the inquiry, the source said. The move comes as the Trump administration has pushed for answers on why federal authorities conducted the surveillance - as well as whether Democrats were the ones who improperly colluded with foreign actors.
https://truepundit.com/Barr-drops-bomb-on-fbi-congress-feds-will-probe-comey-dems-for-spying-on-trump/

#7072558 at 2019-07-17 23:47:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9049: BOOM Edition

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/17/house-votes-to-hold-William-Barr-wilbur-ross-in-criminal-contempt-of-congress-1418900

#7061085 at 2019-07-16 19:22:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9035: A defense mechanism Narcissists use that involves condeming others

Trump Admin Tackles Rising Anti-Semitism

Day-long confab brings senior admin officials, experts together to combat Jew hatred

The Trump administration is working on multiple fronts to investigate and combat a rising tide of anti-Semitism in America that top officials warned is spreading across the country via a network of far left, anti-Israel activists, who seek to mainstream hatred against Jews at the nation's college campuses and elsewhere.

During a daylong conference, the first of its kind for this administration, senior administration officials from across the government gathered with legal experts and scholars to address the growing threat of anti-Semitism, which has resurged in America and across the globe in recent years.

The forum comes amid disclosures by the FBI that hate crimes in the U.S. have risen steadily since 2014, with anti-Jewish hate crimes consistently comprising more than half of totals for each year.

Organized by the Justice Department, senior Trump administration officials from the Education, Treasury, and State Departments joined together to discuss a range of actions the government is taking to prevent federal dollars from being spent on college programs that seek to mainstream anti-Israel ideologies.

The Education Department has already launched a formal investigation into how nearly $250,000 in federal grant dollars were awarded to Duke and the University of North Carolina for a series of events that featured speakers and organizations tied to not just anti-Semites, but also known terror organizations.

Officials provided disturbing information about the uptick in anti-Jewish violence across the U.S.

"Far too often, Jews and Jewish communities in America suffer outside the spotlight," Attorney General William Barr said as he kicked off the event. "New York City, this past year, has seen a sharp uptick in attacks on Orthodox Jews, particularly in the Crown Heights neighborhood. People are attacking Jews in the streets and vandalizing synagogues. In Massachusetts in March, vandals desecrated 59 gravestones in a Jewish cemetery, knocking over headstones and scrawling swastikas and hateful graffiti."

"I ask you, who are your targets?" Lewin asked rhetorically. "Pro-Israel Zionists."

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-admin-tackles-rising-anti-semitism/

MAKE ISRAEL FREE FROM ACCOUNTABILITY FOR TRYING TO WIPE US ALL OUT, SATANIC SUPREMACY CULT

#7055292 at 2019-07-16 03:06:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9027: Who screeches louder, MediaMatters or Shareblue Edition

Trump officials headline conference focusing on the 'new antisemitism'

U.S. Attorney General William Barr called anti-Semitism a "cancer" at a Department of Justice summit on the topic.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Attorney General William Barr called anti-Semitism a "cancer" at a Department of Justice summit on the topic notable for its focus on anti-Israel activity and for speeches by the top leaders of the departments of Education, the Treasury and the FBI.
Monday's Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism, held at the DOJ headquarters here, featured panel discussions and an audience of about 150, mostly men representing various Jewish organizations and government agencies that deal with some aspect of hate crimes and civil rights.

The conference was bracketed by speeches by Barr and three other top officials of the Trump administration: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Elan Carr, the State Department's Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism, said the lineup was a sign of how seriously the administration is taking what he called a "time of striking growth in anti-Semitism around the globe." He said that growth extends from Europe to the United States, "where vandalism in New York and other cities, according to the Anti-Defamation League, occurs on a fairly regular basis, and campuses have become hostile places for Jewish and pro-Israel students."

Anti-Israel activity - at colleges and by the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel - was perhaps the major theme of the summit, with two of the four panels largely devoted to aspects of the topic: "Anti-Semitism on Campus" and "Combating Anti-Semitism While Respecting the First Amendment."

Carr noted at least three sources of present-day anti-Semitism: the "white supremacist far right," the "anti-Zionist far left" and "radical Islam."

But he drew particular attention to what he called "the new anti-Semitism," which he said "attempts to disguise its Jew hatred as hatred for the state of Israel and the anti-Zionist endeavor."

DeVos said that "BDS stands for anti-Semitism." She described her department's investigations into incidents of alleged discrimination aimed at pro-Israel students at Williams College in Massachusetts and at a pro-Palestinian event sponsored by departments at Duke University and University of North Carolina. She also invoked President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as did Mnuchin, as a sign of U.S. support for Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Trump-officials-headline-conference-focusing-on-the-new-antisemitism-595787

#7051443 at 2019-07-15 20:17:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9022: Anons know. Edition

>>7051365
>RATNER
The complaint also mentions an interesting development in my ongoing Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI. The feds claimed they had no information pertaining to Seth Rich, but they appear to be changing their tune. Shortly after Attorney General William Barr announced plans to declassify documents related to the Russian Collusion Hoax, the FBI's attorney informed me that new documents were being processed. I should receive them not later than July 22, 2019. The DNC's objections to our subpoenas for "Russian hacking' information are also due on July 22, 2019, and production is due on August 8, 2019.

The more I've reviewed the Seth Rich case, the more I'm convinced of its central role in the whole Russian Collusion Hoax. I believe DNC officials knew that the emails would become public as the result of an internal leak, and they knew that the emails would be very damaging, so they attempted to turn the tables by pointing fingers at Donald Trump and the Russians. Hopefully we will know more by next week.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/breaking-lawsuit-outs-reporter-ellen-ratner-as-source-for-seth-rich-information/

http://lawflog.com/?p=2210

#7049477 at 2019-07-15 17:01:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9020: Coming Into the LIGHT Edition

Trump immigration change would all but end asylum requests for Central American migrants

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration moved Monday to prevent most migrants from claiming political asylum in the United States, requiring them to make their claims in other countries first.
A new proposed rule will almost certainly be challenged in court. Previous administration attempts to restrict asylum claims have been struck down.
The current proposal "will decrease forum shopping by economic migrants and those who seek to exploit our asylum system to obtain entry to the United States," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-immigration-change-would-all-but-end-asylum-requests-for-central-american-migrants/

#7049258 at 2019-07-15 16:35:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9019: Think Size and Scope Edition

Trump immigration change would all but end asylum requests for Central American migrants

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration moved Monday to prevent most migrants from claiming political asylum in the United States, requiring them to make their claims in other countries first.
A new proposed rule will almost certainly be challenged in court. Previous administration attempts to restrict asylum claims have been struck down.
The current proposal "will decrease forum shopping by economic migrants and those who seek to exploit our asylum system to obtain entry to the United States," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-immigration-change-would-all-but-end-asylum-requests-for-central-american-migrants/

#7048178 at 2019-07-15 14:14:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9018: OLD GUARD Threatened Edition!

Stricter Asylum Rules: Immigrants Must Apply In First Safe Country They Enter
By Sara Carter -July 15, 2019

The Department of Justice announced a new immigration rule Monday that will restrict illegal immigrants from countries, other than those bordering the United States, for applying for asylum first in the U.S. if they have attempted "to enter the United States across the southern border after failing to apply for protection in a third country." For example, the rule would not allegedly apply to Mexicans, whose first safe country is America.

Attorney General William Barr authorized the change in the rules under the Department of Homeland Security, as an effort to curtail the humanitarian crisis at the border and deter those abusing the current law from the dangerous trek to the United States.

The new rule has very limited exceptions and will go into effect 30 days from Monday. It will not apply to those potential immigrants who've already applied for asylum, the rule states.

https://saraacarter.com/stricter-asylum-rules-immigrants-must-apply-in-first-safe-country-they-enter/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

#7046555 at 2019-07-15 07:03:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9016: We love our Flag Edition

The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump
BY TODD NEIKIRK May 4 2019

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr's father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan's Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York's prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-William-Barr-donald-trump-34107

OCT. 28, 2002
Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery
By Landon Thomas Jr.

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/

#7041594 at 2019-07-14 21:59:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9010: Attacks Only Validate Edition

>>7041352
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Correctional_Center,_New_York
>is a United States federal administrative detention facility in Manhattan, New York which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,
>Federal Bureau
>Federal Bureau
>Federal Bureau

Federal Bureau of Prisons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Prisons
>Currently, the Bureau of Prisons is headed by Hugh Hurwitz, who is the current acting director.[7] Mark S. Inch held the post from September 2017 until May 2018

Hugh Hurwitz
https://www.bop.gov/about/agency/bio_dir.jsp
https://www.mysuncoast.com/2019/07/13/around-federal-inmates-be-released-under-reform-law/
Around 2,200 federal inmates to be released under reform law'
>Attorney General William Barr took a firsthand look at some of the programs in place, from computer skills to cooking, auto mechanic training and factory work. He met with prison staff and a handful of inmates, including some who will be released early under the First Step Act.
As he walked through Edgefield, Barr told Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons, they needed to make sure there were enough programs available to a wide swath of inmates



>also
Notable inmates:
>Abu Anas al-Libi
>Khalid al-Fawwaz
High-ranking Al-Qaeda operatives

>Sayfullo Habibullaevich Saipov
charged with Providing material support for a terrorist organization

>Patrick Ho
violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and money laundering

#7024370 at 2019-07-13 08:56:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8987: Notable Bun Shaker! Dust Settles on Infinite and Notables Win! Edition

>>7024345

How Jeffrey Epstein Made His Money: Four Wild Theories

'''Billionaire Pedophile is a word that's often thrown around when discussing Jeffrey Epstein, but unlike some of his other common modifiers - convicted sex offender, pedophile - there's scant proof as to his financial bona fides. The bulk of Epstein's wealth is believed to come from his money-management firm for ten-figure investors, although his only known client is Victoria's Secret founder Les Wexner, who reportedly ditched Epstein over a decade ago.

After sex-trafficking charges were handed down on Monday, executive-suite financiers discussed how absent Epstein was from the field: "He's supposed to run an enormous FX [foreign-exchange] trading firm," said Enrique Diaz-Alvarez, chief risk officer at Ebury. "But I never once heard of him or his firm or anyone who worked or traded with him." And as Forbes wrote in a 2010 blog post with a very direct title - "Sex Offender Jeffrey Epstein Is Not a Billionaire" - his money-management firm based in the U.S. Virgin Islands "generates no public records, nor has his client list ever been released."

As we wait for more information to emerge in the investigation's coming months, speculation is pouring out on how Epstein made his wealth. To make up for the lack of public information on his revenue stream, people are turning to unverified theories on how Epstein maintained such a sterling financial reputation in addition to his millions. But first we'll start with the knowns.

According to a 2002 profile in New York - the one with the Trump quote - Epstein dropped out of Cooper Union and NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences before finding a job teaching calculus and physics at the Dalton School in the mid-1970s. Epstein was hired at the prestigious Manhattan college-prep institution by the father of Attorney General William Barr, and his students included the son of Bear Stearns chairman Alan Greenberg. In 1976, Epstein joined Bear as a floor trader's assistant, making partner in a mere four years. By 1981, he was out, setting up the J. Epstein & Co. money-management business the next year. New York described his business strategy in 2002:

He would take total control of the billion dollars, charge a flat fee, and assume power of attorney to do whatever he thought was necessary to advance his client's financial cause. And he remained true to the $1 billion entry fee. According to people who know him, if you were worth $700 million and felt the need for the services of Epstein and Co., you would receive a not-so-polite no-thank-you from Epstein.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/07/how-did-jeffrey-epstein-make-his-fortune.html

#7024249 at 2019-07-13 08:25:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8987: Notable Bun Shaker! Dust Settles on Infinite and Notables Win! Edition

Is This Project Mayhem Or Project Epstein?

Only Donald Trump knows…

From the moment I heard Jeffrey Epstein had been arrested I knew none of us had anything close to the real story. And, by the time this is over, I don't think we'll have anything close to the real story either.

That shouldn't, however, keep us from picking through the bread crumbs and see where they lead us. I wrote previously that I thought this story would lead to Hillary Clinton. The MAGA crowd loved that.

Regardless of whether Hillary winds up being the target is irrelevant. What I wrote the other day I still feel is the most likely situation.

I was cautiously optimistic that Trump would turn the corner on his presidency now that Mueller, impeachment and the rest of it would lift from his shoulders. His foreign policy maneuvers didn't fill me with much, if any, confirmation of this hope.

But domestically signs were there that he had stabilized the battlefield.

Epstein's arrest tells me he's now out for blood.

That was, frankly, my gut instinct talking when I wrote that. It fit the sequence of events and the changes we've seen in D.C. over the past four months since Attorney General William Barr shut down the Mueller investigation.

What was done to Trump went far beyond egregious. It went far beyond even lawlessness. It was an operation that spanned multiple governments, showed complete contempt not only for procedure but the people themselves.

It was, in short, a supremely arrogant attempted coup that expected to get away with it all because they always had in the past. It was also amatuerish as hell.

The reason I've never believed any of the arguments that Trump is simply a bait and switch pitch man for the Deep State is because that description defies reality.

It doesn't pass Occam's Razor. The people Jeffrey Epstein represents hate Trump holding power because they have nothing of substance on him. Sure he's bribed building contractors or paid off unions to get his buildings finished. Whatever.

No one other than the squeakiest of wheels would get upset over that. Everyone accepts that to do business in a corrupt world like New York you swim with some of it because that's simply how things are done, like it or not.

But using fourteen-year-old girls as blackmail agents and prostitutes to run guns, drugs, topple governments and steal weapons research is another level of corruption. It's orders of magnitude worse. And to Trump's credit it seems like he's never dabbled in that particular thing.

Because if he had, he would never have become President and the Deep State would have never organized a coup attempt against him.

Occam's Razor, folks. They don't have anything of substance on him. At best they've got a few pictures of him at an Epstein party and then he's gone.

Watch a few minutes of this report by George Webb and tell me this doesn't sound exactly like what we've been presented as evidence that Trump is one of Epstein's perverts.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-12/project-mayhem-or-project-epstein

Meme fags please 'tits or GTFO' this trump pic it's perfect!

#7013212 at 2019-07-12 16:14:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8973: Nothing can stop what is coming Edition

Curiosities -

At age 20, Jeffrey Epstein was hired to teach maths & physics to teen-age girls & boys, at Manhattan's Dalton School for 1973-75 ... The headmaster who hired Epstein, was Donald Barr (1921-2004), father of Donald Trump's current Attorney General William Barr (born 1950) ... William Barr at that time working for the CIA, 1973-77, & gong to law school at night ... Barr later working for the Kirkland & Ellis law firm ... whose clients included Jeffrey Epstein

Prosecuting Epstein in New York, is US Assistant Attorney Maurene Comey, daughter of scandal-tainted former FBI Director and Hillary Clinton partisan James Comey, who had been fired by Donald Trump

In 1988 Epstein filed a financial statement giving his net worth as only US $20 million ... he is a billionaire now? How? His fortune is a black box ever since Epstein left Bear Stearns in 1981 to start his own firm

The Epstein money source seems to be Leslie H. 'Les' Wexner (born 1937), billionaire founder of retail chains including The Limited and the chief executive of the company that owns Victoria's Secret ... Wexner was named in the 1990s by the Wall Street Journal, as lead in a group of about 20 ultra-pro-Israel Jewish billionaires the 'Mega Group'

Wexner bought the Manhattan mansion in which Epstein now lives, which police raided the other day ... it was showing as still belonging to Wexner's trust even after Epstein said he bought it

Alex Acosta, now Trump's cabinet Labor Secretary & the US federal prosecutor who in 2008, granted Jeffrey Epstein his 'sweet deal' for a light sentence despite horrendous under-age sex trafficking charges - Claims he was ordered to go easy on Epstein to benefit 'intelligence' agencies, un-named

Epstein's longtime 'best friend' who allegedly helped him procure underage girls, is Ghislaine Maxwell ... daughter of 'Israeli super-spy' Robert Maxwell

People are speculating Les Wexner, financed & created 'Epstein the billionaire' and the whole 'underage girls' scheme, in order to 'honeypot blackmail' poiticians who were filmed by Epstein residence cameras

Daily Beast reports an early 1990s party with about '28 girls' and only two major rich guy attendees - Trump & Epstein

Seems Epstein's once-lawyer, Alan Dershowtiz, sabotaged him, Dersh going to court to demand unsealing Epstein files, Dersh said to 'exonerate himself' ... Dersh won that on 2 July, Epstein arrested 4 days later

The 'raid on Epstein's home' this week was weird ... police 'breaking down the door'? That 21,000 square foot palace has full-time, 24 / 7 live-in servants, who surely would have answered the door for the police when they rang the bell ... and then we saw 'police agents' in grubby civilian clothes taking out cheap black rubbish bags ... in the most high-profile 'crime case' in America?

Brabantian @ https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/nemesis-rising/

#7000732 at 2019-07-11 23:01:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8957: Thank you Donald Trump Edition

Pelosi urges Democrats: 'No drama' at Mueller hearings

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi cautioned Democrats to show "a level of calmness" at next week's highly anticipated appearance by former special counsel Robert Mueller, who will testify before two committees on July 17. "As we go into next week, I'd like to have a level of calmness, no drama, regarding the Mueller presentation," Pelosi told rank-and-file Democrats at a closed-door meeting Thursday. "The very fact that he is presenting is what we want, so many more people will be aware of the charges that are in the Mueller report."

Mueller is scheduled to testify before both the House Judiciary Committee and the House Intelligence Committee. Each panel is expected to have approximately two hours to grill Mueller about his 448-page report into whether the Trump 2016 presidential campaign colluded with the Russians. Democrats are unhappy with the time constraints, which have forced the committee leaders to limit who can ask questions and for how long. They also have a history of theatrics. At a recent hearing featuring no-show Attorney General William Barr, Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., positioned a bucket of fried chicken on the desk in front of the empty witness chair. Democrats recently held a hearing featuring an ex-convict from the Watergate scandal in an effort to link it to the Trump administration.

Pelosi told Democrats to avoid such a show. She said that Mueller's mere presence will provide more exposure to the public about the report, which was publicly released on April 18. "It is valuable" to have Mueller talk about the report in public, Pelosi said, "Because 3% of the public say they've read it, which means it's polling like .03% of the public. It is devastating, it is pointing out how the president has obstructed justice really so many times." Democrats are eager to question Mueller about Trump's efforts to obstruct his investigation, which Mueller references several times in part of the report. Republicans want to question Mueller about his handling of the investigation and when he determined that there is no substantive evidence Trump colluded with the Russians.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/pelosi-urges-democrats-no-drama-at-mueller-hearings

#6999216 at 2019-07-11 21:15:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8955: The Crap You Think Of Is Unbelievable Edition

Boeing's 737 Max Chief Retiring As AG Barr Recuses Himself From Boeing Probe

Another day, another fiasco at the biggest US airline carrier, and this time it is oddly reminiscent of the conditions surrounding the melting ice-cube that is Tesla.

With Boeing's workhorse and most popular airline - at least until recently when it was unveiled to be an occasional cost-cutting driven lead balloon - grounded indefinitely, moments after the close the company said that the head of its 737 program, Eric Lindblad, was unexpectedly retiring after just one year in the post, triggering a leadership shuffle for another high-profile project: a proposed midrange jetliner.

The 34-year Boeing executive took charge of the 737 program, and the manufacturing site in Renton, Washington, last year as the U.S. planemaker struggled with late deliveries of engines and other components. Previously, Lindblad overrsaw development of Boeing's new 777X widebody in Everett. His predecessor, Scott Campbell, vice president and general manager of the 737 program and Renton site leader, retired at the end of the year after three decades at Boeing Commercial Airplanes.

According to the company, Lidnblad's retirement isn't related to the crisis at Boeing after two of its Max models crashed in October and March, triggering a global grounding.

Lindblad, 57, "shared with me his desire to retire last year, and we will now begin to embark on a thoughtful and seamless transition plan," Kevin McAllister, who runs the planemaker's $60 billion commercial division said in a message to employees Thursday.

In other words, just another guy who wanted to spend more time with his family.

In his stead, Boeing's single-aisle program will be run by Mark Jenks, who previously headed all aspects of a proposed aircraft known within Boeing as NMA, for new midmarket airplane.

In separate news, Attorney General William Barr said he would recuse himself from the DOJ's investigation into Boeing Co BA.N after two 737 MAX airplane crashes killed 346 people, a spokeswoman for Barr said Thursday. Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Barr has recused himself because his former law firm is representing Boeing. Reuters and other outlets reported in March that federal prosecutors aided by the FBI were scrutinizing the development of the 737 MAX jetliners. Boeing did not immediately commen

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-11/boeings-737-max-chief-retiring-ag-Barr-recuses-himself-boeing-probe

#6998506 at 2019-07-11 20:23:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8954: POTUS Live Edition

Donald Barr,the father of Trump's AG William Barr, hired Epstein when he was a 20-year-old college dropout with no degree to teach physics and calculus at the swanky private . Epstein taught at Dalton from 1973 to 1975. Donald Barr quit as headmaster in 1974 in a dispute with the school's board of trustees.

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/20/archives/Barr-quits-dalton-school-post-charging-trustees-interference.html

Trump's Secretary of labor whose appointment was alarming, since he had no real experience for the new position, was the former U.S. attorney in Miami when deal made with Epstein to cover up his activities , as Acosta said "I Was Told Epstein 'Belonged to Intelligence' And to Leave It Alone"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epsteins-sick-story-played-out-for-years-in-plain-sight

Epstein's Madam who was reposnsible of grooming young girls is Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of British media moghul and Israel's Superspy

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/what-to-know-about-jeffrey-epsteins-alleged-madam-ghislaine-maxwell/

Epstein's lawyer is Alan Dershowitz is also accused by one of the girls of having sexual relation with her when she was 16. Trump is a fierce defender of Trump against impeachment.

He is also member of Chabad, just like
Trump's mega donor Sheldon Adelson, and his son in law Jared Kushner, and his former lawyers Michael Cohen and David Friedman, and his last partner Felix Sater.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/qv7qp7/everything-you-need-to-know-about-bullshitter-felix-sater
Epstein's only client was Les Wexner, one of the main one of the founder of mega group ( largest 20 donors to pro - Israel causes).

It should be noted that Wexner left Republican party in 2018.

#6997003 at 2019-07-11 18:46:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8952: Maybe 10 or 14 Edition

>>6996806
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Iraq_during_the_Iran-Iraq_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Barr

time to dig on who William Barr was going after in the 90s.
Iran bank affair?
Kuwait?

#6996025 at 2019-07-11 17:05:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8951: So Great Looking and Smart Edition

Committees set times for Mueller testimony

Special counsel Robert Mueller's anticipated testimony in front of two congressional committees is set. The House Judiciary Committee has formally noticed Mueller's testimony, which will begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Mueller will then appear before the House Intelligence Committee beginning at noon. Democratic Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York and Democratic Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of California announced in June that "pursuant to subpoenas issued by the House Judiciary and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence tonight, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has agreed to testify before both Committees on July 17 in open session."

Mueller agreeing to testify is a stark contrast with the position he took at his only public appearance since the end of his investigation. "I hope and expect this to be the only time I will speak to you in this manner," Mueller said in May. "I am making that decision myself. No one has told me whether I can or should testify or speak further about this matter."

Mueller's report concluded that Russia interfered in the 2016 election but did not establish that any members of the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians in these efforts. Mueller did not reach a conclusion on obstruction of justice, but Attorney General William Barr and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that obstruction did not occur.

Earlier this week, Barr seemed to offer Mueller a way out of testifying. "I don't think that serves any purpose, dragging Bob Mueller up, if he, in fact, is going to stick to the report. It seems to me the only reason for doing that is to create some kind of public spectacle. And if Bob decides that he doesn't want to be subject to that, then Department of Justice would certainly back him," Barr told reporters.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/committees-set-times-for-mueller-testimony

#6995752 at 2019-07-11 16:42:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8950: Dow hits 27,000 Edition

House to hold criminal contempt votes next week against William Barr, Wilbur Ross

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House will vote next week on criminal contempt citations against Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee advanced the contempt citations last month after Barr and Ross failed to comply with subpoenas requested by committee Chairman Elijah Cummings of Maryland.

Democrats and the Trump administration are feuding over Trump's desire to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The Supreme Court ruled the question cannot be included but Trump has pledged to take executive action to circumvent the high court. The Democratic-led House is likely to approve the contempt citations against the two men. The citations would be referred to the Justice Department where they are likely to be rejected.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/house-to-hold-criminal-contempt-votes-next-week-against-Barr-ross

#6986445 at 2019-07-10 22:33:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8938: Smoke & Mirrors Edition

https://news.yahoo.com/attorney-general-William-Barr-offers-225239034.html

If Mueller was a black hat, why would Barr say this? Hmmmm?

#6986361 at 2019-07-10 22:25:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8938: Smoke & Mirrors Edition

Jeffrey Epstein's Ties to Clinton, and His Questionable Source of Wealth

While media focus on Trump, larger questions remain about Epstein's finances and ties to Bill Clinton

Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 after landing at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey upon his return from a trip to France. Epstein was previously indicted in 2007 on charges he abused underage girls, but reached a controversial plea deal, in which he served only 13 months in a low-security facility that allowed him to work from his office each day.

Epstein now faces federal charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking that may lead to him spending the rest of his life in prison. DOJ officials have indicated that they expect the charges against Epstein to expand as they delve further into the case. Attorney General William Barr has said he will not recuse himself from the newly opened Epstein case, although he "will remain recused from any retrospective review" of Epstein's earlier case in Florida.

Questions surrounding Epstein have existed for a long time, including the source of his wealth and his relationship to former President Bill Clinton, who, according to flight logs, flew on Epstein's personal jet 26 times.
Trump's Plane Flight to New York City

Much of the mainstream media has chosen to focus on President Donald Trump's past social ties to Epstein. In 2002, Trump was quoted in an article from New York Magazine, which was one of the first publications to profile Epstein following a well-publicized trip he took to Africa with Clinton:

"'I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,' Trump booms from a speakerphone. 'He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.'"

This quote, along with a plane flight that Trump took on one of Epstein's planes, has been used to portray the president as being close to Epstein. But a closer examination highlights how this characterization is likely inaccurate.

In a Sept. 21, 2009, deposition of Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, the plane flight that involved Trump was specifically discussed. Mark Epstein was asked if he had ever met Donald Trump and allowed that he had one time-on a flight from Florida to New York aboard the smaller of Jeffrey Epstein's planes:

Mark Epstein: "We flew up on my brother's plane from Florida together. Donald was on the plane."

Q: "When?"

Mark Epstein: "Somewhere between 5 and 10 years ago."

Q: "Okay. So we are talking about -"

Mark Epstein: "It's either late '90's early 2000. Probably more like late '90's."

Q: "Was that the only time you've met Donald Trump?"

Mark Epstein: "Yes."

As mentioned, the flight took place on Jeffrey Epstein's smaller plane-not the larger 727 that has been dubbed the "Lolita Express":

Q: "Was this one of the big planes, the 727?"

Mark Epstein: "No. It wasn't that one, no."

Q: "Okay. How many people were on this airplane?"

Mark Epstein: "It was my brother, myself, Donald, the pilot the co-pilot."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/jeffrey-epsteins-ties-to-clinton-and-his-questionable-source-of-wealth_2997016.html

1/2

#6985495 at 2019-07-10 21:23:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8937: Reality Is Hard To Swallow Edition

Attorney General William Barr said Robert Mueller's congressional testimony will be a 'public spectacle'

"I'm not sure what purpose is served by dragging him up there and trying to grill him," Barr said. "I don't think Mueller should be treated that way or subject himself to that, if he doesn't want to."

https://www.businessinsider.com/Barr-robert-muellers-testimony-on-russia-probe-will-be-spectacle-2019-7

#6985142 at 2019-07-10 20:56:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8936: Defend Ben Edition

>>6984941
>>6985018

On William Barr's first full day as attorney general, President Donald Trump singled him out during remarks in the Rose Garden after signing a national emergency declaration aimed at building his long-promised border wall:

"I want to wish our attorney general great luck and speed, and enjoy your life. Bill, good luck," Trump told him at Friday's ceremony, drawing light laughter from others in attendance, who surely remembered the many ways the president tormented Barr's predecessor, Jeff Sessions.

…still find PDJT word choice "enjoy your life" ~ as odd .. ?!?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-trump-attorney-general-William-Barr-20190220-story.html

#6983222 at 2019-07-10 18:31:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8934: Challenge the DNC hack narrative! Edition

>>6983107
>www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/20/gop-senators-demand-doj-update-planned-parenthood-fetal-tissue-probe/

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding an update on the investigation into possible violations regarding the sale of aborted fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood and its partners in the biomedical research industry.
According to a press release, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Graham (SC) and his predecessor Grassley (IA), current chairman of the Committee on Finance, wrote to Barr and Wray Tuesday, seeking an update on the federal investigation that was supposedly launched in 2017.

"Preventing the illegal sale of human fetal tissue remains a priority for the Committee," the letter stated. "In furtherance of the Committee's ongoing oversight of this issue, the Committee asks that you answer the following questions no later than July 2, 2019."

#6983151 at 2019-07-10 18:28:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8934: Challenge the DNC hack narrative! Edition

>>6983107
Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley have sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray, demanding an update on the investigation into possible violations regarding the sale of aborted fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood and its partners in the biomedical research industry.

According to a press release, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Graham (SC) and his predecessor Grassley (IA), current chairman of the Committee on Finance, wrote to Barr and Wray Tuesday, seeking an update on the federal investigation that was supposedly launched in 2017.

"Preventing the illegal sale of human fetal tissue remains a priority for the Committee," the letter stated. "In furtherance of the Committee's ongoing oversight of this issue, the Committee asks that you answer the following questions no later than July 2, 2019."

Graham and Grassley requested answers to these questions:

Has the FBI taken any action on the criminal referrals submitted by then-Chairman Grassley?
If the FBI has taken action, please provide an update to the Committee.
If the FBI has not taken action, please explain the justification for not doing so.
Are there any other investigative updates related to this matter that the FBI can share with the Committee at this time?"
In December 2017, Stephen Boyd, Justice Department assistant attorney general for Legislative Affairs, formally requested unredacted documents from the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into allegations that Planned Parenthood and its partners in biomedical companies engaged in the sale of the body parts of aborted babies for profit.

Boyd wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News:

The Department of Justice appreciates the offer of assistance in obtaining these materials, and would like to request the Committee provide unredacted copies of records contained in the report, in order to further the Department's ability to conduct a thorough and comprehensive assessment of that report based on the full range of information available.

"At this point, the records are intended for investigative use only-we understand that a resolution from the Senate may be required if the Department were to use any of the unredacted materials in a formal legal proceeding, such as a grand jury," he added.

In September 2017, the FBI's assistant director of the Office of Congressional Affairs sent a letter to Grassley informing him the agency was in receipt of the Senate Judiciary Committee's criminal referrals of Planned Parenthood and its partners in the fetal tissue procurement industry.

"We can confirm the Criminal Investigative Division (CID) of FBI Headquarters received your referrals and sent them to the relevant FBI field offices for review and whatever action is deemed appropriate," the FBI's Gregory Brower also wrote to Grassley in June 2017.

In his correspondence, Brower apologized to Grassley "for the delay in responding to [his] inquiry" and indicated receipt of the chairman's letter, dated April 24, to both former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Jeff Sessions "concerning criminal referrals [he] made on December 13, 2016, to the FBI and Department of Justice."

Both the Senate Judiciary Committee and the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives conducted expansive investigations into Planned Parenthood and its partners in the biomedical procurement industry. The investigations concerned allegations of the sale of fetal body parts for profit that arose from an undercover video series exposé by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), led by journalist David Daleiden.

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#6981847 at 2019-07-10 16:44:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8932: Q Drops and Dungeons Edition

Follow the ATTORNEY
Follow the WIVES

Ben Sasse: "On this particular case, will you commit to making sure that there is a full and thorough investigation into the way that DOJ handled the Epstein case?" Sasse asked Barr before the Senate Judiciary Committee in January.

Barr "Senator, I have to recuse myself from Kirkland & Ellis matters, I am told," said Barr. "And I think Kirkland & Ellis was maybe involved in that case, so I need to sort out exactly what my role can be. I will say that if I'm confirmed I'll make sure your questions are answered on this case."

Kirkland & Ellis Attorneys:The legal team that represented Epstein in 2008 included Kirkland & Ellis's Jay Lefkowitz, former independent counsel Ken Starr, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, former U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis, as well as Roy Black and Gerald Lefcourt.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/07/09/why-William-Barr-recused-himself-from-jeffrey-epstein-case-772930

An anon posted a letter the other night from Atty Gerald Lefcourt.
Who was his wife? Illene Sackler Lefcourt
Her father was: Mortimer Sackler
Mortimer SACKLER is know for the creation of OXYCONTIN
COINCIDENCE?!!
http://archive.is/ttN8r

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12775932/sackler-family-oxycontin/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain

Also notable: A KOREA connection, Mortimer was an Army Psychiatrist during the Korean War. In the 1950's, he and his brothers, Raymond and Arthur, were involved in creating pharmaceuticals to replace shock therapy et al for "mental illness" .
–Valium—a start

OXYCONTIN–Internal emails exposed that they knew it was addictive. They were using "biggest pharmaceutical MARKETING campaign" a la Freud to target Family Practitioners, Dentists etc.to encourage usage. Whistleblower Sales Representative-Steven May (Purdue Pharma)

DIG MORE ON THE SACKLER FAMILY!! Richard Sackler

Connections: EPSTEIN>LEFCOURT (criminal attorney)>Wife (ILENE SACKLER)>father-in-law (Mortimer SACKLER)>OXYCONTIN>HEROIN>ART (laundering $)

#6979524 at 2019-07-10 11:52:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8929: Not Quite Ebake Edition

>>6979018
Thanks for digging on this subject. I was planning on researching "Alice In Wonderland Syndrome", also.

I saw the Epstein-Barr meme (showing JE and William Barr) and I'd like to mention another Barr who might be relevant in a different way.

A prominent homosexual doctor by the name of Eliav Barr was in charge of the highly scandalous Gardasil vaccine clinical trials. Gardasil maims and sterilizes many of the young people receiving it. I "coincidentally" discovered his name and role in the Gardasil debacle because I used to like to read the NYT wedding announcements. He married another man named Paul Keolegeorge (sp?) a few years ago. I was able to find that announcement again recently, but I imagine it should be archived off line.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/fashion/weddings/eliav-Barr-paul-koulogeorge.html

Interesting captcha

#6974671 at 2019-07-10 01:12:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8923: Who Posted The Picture Edition

DOJ inspector general reviewed more than 1 million records and conducted more than 100 interviews in FISA abuse investigation

A newly uncovered letter from the Justice Department's inspector general to Congress revealed the DOJ watchdog has "received and reviewed over one million records" and has "conducted over 100 interviews, including current and former DOJ and FBI personnel" during its inquiry into alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Michael Horowitz, the head of the DOJ's Office of Inspector General, sent the letter in late June to the chairman and ranking members of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Homeland Security committees, as well as to the chairman and ranking members of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees. The letter, first obtained by the Daily Caller, explained that his investigators "have made substantial progress towards completing the review."

Horowitz and his team have been looking into whether the FBI and the DOJ abused the FISA process when they filed four applications and renewals beginning in October 2016 to surveil Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The applications relied heavily on the unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by Fusion GPS. The opposition research firm was hired by Marc Elias of the Perkins Coie law firm at the behest of the Clinton presidential campaign. "The [Office of Inspector General] has been working diligently on this review since its initiation on March 28, 2018," Horowitz wrote. "As in all of our projects, my direction to our team has been to follow the evidence wherever it leads and to complete the review as quickly as possible."

Horowitz's letter also said that his team had been working to meet with "additional witnesses" to make sure that their effort was "thorough and complete." New reports from earlier on Tuesday indicated that the DOJ watchdog's attorneys had met with Steele in London earlier in June and had found at least some of Steele's information new and useful. The reports indicated that Horowitz may have extended the probe as a result of what it learned from Steele. Attorney General William Barr said earlier this year that he'd expected this inquiry to wrap up in May or June. "The review has been complicated by other factors, such as the current classification level of virtually all of the information we have obtained and the fact that many witnesses are no longer government employees," Horowitz continued in his letter. "Nevertheless, our investigative work is nearing completion, and we have been in the process of drafting our report for some time." Horowitz told the members of Congress that, when his draft report is done, he will follow the "usual process" to make sure the document is accurate, complete, and appropriately classified. And the DOJ watchdog said he planned on letting them know about the timeline for the release of the final report "in the coming weeks." Horowitz had reportedly been homing in on Steele for months, and sources close to Steele expressed his willingness to meet with Horowitz in June. Special counsel Robert Mueller's team reportedly met with Steele twice in September 2017, and Steele also provided a written statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee in August 2018.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-inspector-general-reviewed-more-than-1-million-records-and-conducted-more-than-100-interviews-in-fisa-abuse-investigation

Michael Horowitz letter to Congress, June 25
https://www.scribd.com/document/416347417/Michael-Horowitz-letter-to-Congress-June-25#from_embed

#6974068 at 2019-07-10 00:28:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8922: Not So funny Now Edition

Judge refuses to allow DOJ to change lawyers in census case

A federal judge in New York refused the Justice Department's effort to change its legal team in a fight over President Trump's push to add a question about citizenship status onto the 2020 census because they did not provide a sufficient explanation. "Defendants provide no reasons, let alone 'satisfactory reasons,' for the substitution of counsel," wrote U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, who is presiding over one of three lawsuits that aim to keep to the citizenship question off the census.

Furman said any future motions to withdraw would need to be supported by a signed and sworn affidavit. "Any new motions to withdraw shall be supported by a signed and sworn affidavit from each counsel seeking to withdraw (1) stating 'satisfactory reasons' for withdrawing at this stage of the litigation and (2) in light of Plaintiffs' forthcoming motion for sanctions … confirming that (a) he or she submits to the jurisdiction of this Court with respect to that motion and any future motions (or orders to show cause) regarding sanctions and (b) he or she will be available in the event that the Court requires his or her attendance at any future hearings regarding such motions or orders. In the event any new motion is filed, new counsel for Defendants shall also file an affidavit providing unequivocal assurances that the substitution of counsel will not delay further litigation of this case (or any future related case)," Furman wrote.

The decision comes one day after Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec announced the DOJ was switching up its legal team in the census legal fight. "As will be reflected in filings tomorrow in the census-related cases, the Department of Justice is shifting these matters to a new team of Civil Division lawyers going forward," Kupec said in a statement. "Since these cases began, the lawyers representing the United States in these cases have given countless hours to defending the Commerce Department and have consistently demonstrated the highest professionalism, integrity, and skill inside and outside the courtroom," Kupec said. "The Attorney General appreciates that service, thanks them for their work on these important matters, and is confident that the new team will carry on in the same exemplary fashion as the cases progress."

The attempt by the Justice and Commerce departments to add the question was struck down by a recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision. After the Supreme Court blocked what it called "contrived" efforts to add the citizenship question, it looked like the Trump administration had given up on it, with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the DOJ saying last week that the Census Bureau would print the forms without the question. But Trump tweeted that he'd asked the Commerce and Justice departments "to do whatever is necessary to bring this most vital of questions, and this very important case, to a successful conclusion."

Soon after the DOJ announced it was bringing in a new legal team, Attorney General William Barr boasted of a new legal strategy for adding a question about citizenship status onto the 2020 census. "I think over the next day or two you'll see what approach we're taking," Barr told reporters in South Carolina on Monday. "And I think it does provide a pathway for getting the question on the census."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/judge-refuses-to-allow-doj-to-change-lawyers-in-census-case

Order on Motion to withdraw
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6186320/7-9-19-Order-on-Motion-to-Withdraw-SDNY-Census.pdf

#6972383 at 2019-07-09 22:38:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8920: Hunters No More Edition

>>6972225
Honestly baker, I only find this about POTUS, still looking though:

Epstein pleaded the fifth amendment in 2010 when asked by a lawyer representing one of his victims about his relationship with Mr Trump, according to Vice News.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-trump-William-Barr-recusal-sex-trafficking-crimes-paedophile-trial-a8996696.html

We also know that Trump and Epstein socialized, that Trump's various phone numbers were written in Epstein's notorious little black book, and that Epstein was once asked whether he had ever been around Trump and underage girls - and he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/09/jeffrey-epstein-sings-like-a-bird-and-if-some-democrats-go-down-so-be-it

#6966846 at 2019-07-09 15:57:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8913: Remember, (((Vampires))) Hate The Light

Nancy Pelosi says Trump wants to 'make America white again' with citizenship question

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sharply criticized President Trump's repeated efforts to have a question about citizenship on the 2020 census. Pelosi claimed in a Monday press conference that Trump's insistence on adding the question was "disgraceful" and that he wants to "make America white again." The president has been outspoken in his advocacy of having the question on the upcoming census claiming that it would serve to protect minority voters, an idea that has been rejected by his opposition. Many congressional Democrats have fought to keep the question off as they feel it could discourage immigrants from participating in the census, therefore weakening the amount of money communities could be entitled to based on population.

Pelosi further accused the president and his administration of malicious intent saying, "They want to make sure that people, certain people, are counted … Just their people vote and not the general population … That's why they're fighting the census." Pelosi further claimed the question was "not what our founders had in mind.'

The Supreme Court blocked the administration's measure to have the question added last month, returning the decision to lower courts. In the decision, Chief Justice John Roberts cited a lack of evidence presented by the Commerce Department for adding the question but left open the possibility that the question could be added if the correct justification is made. Attorney General William Barr also indicated on Monday that there could be a new way for the Justice Department to add the question. The latest Economist/YouGov poll found that the majority of Americans, 53%, want the citizenship question on the census while only 32% opposed the idea.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nancy-pelosi-says-trump-want-to-make-america-white-again-with-citizenship-question

#6966421 at 2019-07-09 15:08:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8912: QR AM Bake 2 Edition

< Bruce Hrobak from Billy Bones Bait and Tackle of Port St. Lucie...Rudy Giuliani Talks 2020 Candidates, Robert Mueller, Epstein and Nancy Pelosi... ?
AG Barr Discusses New Census Approach and Support for Robert Mueller....
Posted on July 8, 2019 by sundance
Attorney General William Barr discusses the shift in DOJ approach to support President Trump's request to put the citizenship question on the 2020 census; also his support for Robert Mueller if the special counsel should change his mind and not testify on July 17th to the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/08/ag-Barr-discusses-new-census-approach-and-support-for-robert-mueller/#more-166002

#6965036 at 2019-07-09 11:47:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8911: QR AM Bake Edition

>>>Baker
>>6964814 (lb)
>Christopher Steele?
>Would consider this notable

SAUCE: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia/trump-dossier-author-grilled-by-justice-department-watchdogs-sources-idUSKCN1U410I

Trump 'dossier' author grilled by Justice Department watchdogs: sources

(Reuters) - Federal lawyers probing the origins of the investigation of ties between Russia and President Donald Trump's campaign have interviewed the author of a "dossier" that alleged misconduct between Trump and Moscow, prompting the lawyers to extend their inquiry.

Three attorneys from the Inspector General's office of the U.S. Department of Justice met in person in early June with dossier author Christopher Steele in Britain, said two sources with direct knowledge of the lawyers' travels.

The interview with Steele, a former top spy on Russia for Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6, took place while Trump was in London for a formal state visit with Queen Elizabeth and a meeting with UK Prime Minister Theresa May.

Steele's dossier, made public in 2017, alleged that Moscow attempted to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and that there was potential collusion between Russia and Trump's campaign, along with other unverified and salacious claims about the president.

The Justice Department's inspector general has been examining the earliest stages of an FBI investigation of Trump, his former 2016 presidential campaign rival Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Russia and former Trump adviser Carter Page.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz, whose office is an internal Justice Department watchdog, launched his probe in March 2018 amid allegations by Republican lawmakers that the FBI erred in seeking a warrant to monitor Page.

Trump has described the Steele dossier as "bogus" and Republicans have long sought to discredit the FBI's investigation, which was later taken over by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller. His final report on Russia and the Trump campaign was released in redacted form in mid-April.

In that same month, Attorney General William Barr, who now heads the Justice Department, told a congressional committee that the Horowitz probe would be completed by May or June.

One of the two sources said Horowitz's investigators appear to have found Steele's information sufficiently credible to have to extend the investigation. Its completion date is now unclear.

A key focus of the Horowitz probe is whether the FBI followed proper procedures when it applied for a warrant with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to secretly conduct surveillance on Page and his ties to Russia.

Declassified documents show that the FBI cited information in Steele's dossier when it asked the secretive FISA court in late 2016 for a warrant to eavesdrop electronically on Page, a U.S. businessman with interests in Russia.

Horowitz's office in Washington declined to comment.

A spokesman for Orbis Business Intelligence, Steele's London investigations firm, declined to comment.

UK government agencies declined to disclose whether they were in contact with Horowitz's team in London.

Moscow repeatedly rejected accusations of interfering in the election.

Mueller's report, released on April 18, said that Russia did meddle in the election in an attempt to boost Trump's candidacy. It said Trump campaign officials had multiple contacts with Russian officials. But it found insufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and Moscow.

The report also described numerous attempts by Trump to impede Mueller's inquiry, but it stopped short of declaring that he committed a crime. Mueller during his inquiry brought charges against 34 people, including Russian agents and ex-Trump aides.

Page, a foreign policy adviser during Trump's campaign, drew scrutiny from the FBI, which said in legal filings in 2016 that it believed he had been "collaborating and conspiring" with the Kremlin. But he was not charged.

Investigators working for Mueller in September 2017 twice interviewed Steele, who also gave written testimony to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in August 2018. That panel and other committees of Congress have taken up where Mueller left off after his investigation ended.

#6963513 at 2019-07-09 05:34:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8909: Youve Got [Black]Mail!! The Strings Cut Edition

Trey Gowdy dishes on 'Mueller's out' in public hearing

Former South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy warned people not to get their hopes up for special counsel Robert Mueller's open testimony next week. During an interview Monday evening, Gowdy discouraged hype on the Right for what might be uncovered related to the Russia investigation after discussing the July 17 hearing with Rep. John Ratcliffe, a leading GOP investigator on both the Judiciary and Intelligence committees, which are hosting the event.

"I think what he is going to say on that, and John Ratcliffe and I were discussing it over the weekend. I think what he's going to say, 'That is not what Rod Rosenstein asked me to do. I did what the acting DOJ [attorney general] he asked me to do, which is look at - go back to Rod's memo. What did Russia do in 2016? And then a specific reference to the Trump campaign,'" Gowdy said on Fox News, referring to scope memos that outline the breadth and limitations of the special counsel's mandate. "I think that is Mueller's out," he added. "His out on when did you know there was no collusion is going to be when we interviewed the last witness. So Mueller does not want to come. He does not want to come because he's not going to deviate from his report."

Mueller's report, released in April with redactions, shows his team was not able to establish criminal conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, but left open the question of possible obstruction of justice. The report laid out 10 instances in which Trump might have obstructed justice, but Mueller declined to make a determination on the matter, citing a Justice Department guideline that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. Although Trump and his allies say the case is closed, Democrats argue Mueller's refusal to clear Trump on obstruction provides them a road map to continue to investigate and possibly seek impeachment. Attorney General William Barr said he and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was not sufficient evidence to establish a crime had occurred.

Gowdy, who has been critical of the public setting of the hearing, also tamped down expectations for Democrats eager to ask "incendiary questions" about obstruction and impeachment. "You are not going to learn anything next Wednesday that you don't already know," he said on Hannity.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trey-gowdy-dishes-on-muellers-out-in-public-hearing

#6962646 at 2019-07-09 04:11:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8908: Tom Steyer is not sleeping well these days. The DRAIN THE SWAMP Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6810808 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup
>>6925557 Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8907 baker change
>>6962192 Another day down and looking forward to tomorrow. #USASOC
>>6962320, >>6962088, >>6962488 dig on Epstein atty Reid Weingarten
>>6962376, >>6962400 ICYMI California billionaire Tom Steyer poised to announce WH run
>>6962390, >>6962557 teaparty.org post on Steyer and Epstein
>>6962271 Epic digtis by Q+ post gets a nom
>>6962132 The Wexner Senior Leadership (WSL) Program
>>6962540 Steyer pharma/health care post
>>6962611 #8907

#8906
>>6961264 Anon on Chandler, AZ
>>6961350 Dig on Wexner's wife's connections to Maryhaven (Behavioral Health Hospital)
>>6961392 Rachel Chandler Business partner Walter Pearce (from Chappaqua, NY) is related to her?
>>6961480 Anon's mindmap of Wexner connections: KinderCare, VS, Epstein
>>6961525 Entergy Corp Execs sold $8.69m in shares July 3
>>6961528 Wikipedia censoring Epstein's Jewish heritage?
>>6961569 Anon points out $3.7m in cash found Sunday was near Epstein island (U.S. Virgin Islands)
>>6961600 State Department Announces New Council on Unalienable Rights
>>6961642 Amazon workers at Minnesota warehouse plan to strike on Prime Day: Report
>>6961746 Fire breaks out near NSA Data Center and Camp Williams in Bluffdale, UT
>>6961818 #8906

#8905 Baker Change
>>6960462 Former FBI Official: Expect DOZENS of More Charges Against Jeffrey Epstein
>>6960469 1988 Article on Vanderbilt's Son's "Suicide"
>>6960488 Anderson Cooper Will Inherit His Mother's $200 Million Fortune
>>6960524 Anon on placeholders foreshadowing upcoming events
>>6960554 Wexner dig - Medical Angle (cont)
>>6960557 Anon: Where on the island did Epstein's jet land?
>>6960602 Kindercare dig: Rec'd $1.4 Million 2008-2013 with majority going to operations in Virginia ($1.3 Million) via DoD contracts
>>6960617, >>6960705 More Wexner digs into properties, wife
>>6960508, >>6960719 Gloria Vanderbilt's 'Doll House'
>>6960670 Clinton statement forgot one trip: Morroco - NY 7/13/2002
>>6960542 Anon reposts model photo full of cabal symbolism/connections to Victoria Secret (no sauce)
>>6960755 Best Buy Founder and Ex-Chair sold $14.85m in shares July 3-5
>>6960830 Etymology of Epstein Surname
>>6961487 #8905

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244, >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum
>>6960338 #8904

#8903
>>6959498 Roy Raymond (original founder of VS) committed suicide jumping off Golden gate
>>6959404 Boatfag report
>>6959018 Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general
>>6958969, >>6959160 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959556 #8903

Previously Collected Notables
>>6957981 #8901, >>6958913 #8902
>>6955537 #8898, >>6956411 #8899, >>6957311 #8900
>>6953489 #8895, >>6954234 #8896, >>6954989 #8897
>>6951945 #8893, >>6952726 #8894, >>6953489 #8895
>>6949689 #8890, >>6950427 #8891, >>6951182 #8892

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6962005 at 2019-07-09 03:39:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8907: Sweet Dreams Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6810808 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup
>>6925557 Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8906
>>6961264 Anon on Chandler, AZ
>>6961350 Dig on Wexner's wife's connections to Maryhaven (Behavioral Health Hospital)
>>6961392 Rachel Chandler Business partner Walter Pearce (from Chappaqua, NY) is related to her?
>>6961480 Anon's mindmap of Wexner connections: KinderCare, VS, Epstein
>>6961525 Entergy Corp Execs sold $8.69m in shares July 3
>>6961528 Wikipedia censoring Epstein's Jewish heritage?
>>6961569 Anon points out $3.7m in cash found Sunday was near Epstein island (U.S. Virgin Islands)
>>6961600 State Department Announces New Council on Unalienable Rights
>>6961642 Amazon workers at Minnesota warehouse plan to strike on Prime Day: Report
>>6961746 Fire breaks out near NSA Data Center and Camp Williams in Bluffdale, UT
>>6961818 #8906

#8905 Baker Change
>>6960462 Former FBI Official: Expect DOZENS of More Charges Against Jeffrey Epstein
>>6960469 1988 Article on Vanderbilt's Son's "Suicide"
>>6960488 Anderson Cooper Will Inherit His Mother's $200 Million Fortune
>>6960524 Anon on placeholders foreshadowing upcoming events
>>6960554 Wexner dig - Medical Angle (cont)
>>6960557 Anon: Where on the island did Epstein's jet land?
>>6960602 Kindercare dig: Rec'd $1.4 Million 2008-2013 with majority going to operations in Virginia ($1.3 Million) via DoD contracts
>>6960617, >>6960705 More Wexner digs into properties, wife
>>6960508, >>6960719 Gloria Vanderbilt's 'Doll House'
>>6960670 Clinton statement forgot one trip: Morroco - NY 7/13/2002
>>6960542 Anon reposts model photo full of cabal symbolism/connections to Victoria Secret (no sauce)
>>6960755 Best Buy Founder and Ex-Chair sold $14.85m in shares July 3-5
>>6960830 Etymology of Epstein Surname
>>6961487 #8905

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244, >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum
>>6960338 #8904

#8903
>>6959498 Roy Raymond (original founder of VS) committed suicide jumping off Golden gate
>>6959404 Boatfag report
>>6959018 Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general
>>6958969, >>6959160 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959556 #8903

#8902
>>6958543 Rhino & Skyfall: 2 yachts that could transport people to Epstein Island?
baker change
>>6958313 MoveOn launches petition for 'wage gap' for Women's soccer.
>>6958279 Ukrainian Army hit with a rocket in June.
>>6958164, >>6958221, >>6958228, >>6958107, >>6958423, >>6958526, >>6958528 Cont'd Wexner dig.
>>6958187 FLOTUS Tweet.
>>6958170 NYC Victoria's Secret burglary suspect accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 of molesting her as teen.
>>6958155 Saavedra deleted his Bill Clinton statement Tweet.
>>6958132 Laybourne dig.
>>6958122, >>6958442 Epstein the mad hatter?
>>6958099 US Marines Tweet.
>>6958913 #8902

#8901
>>6957941 Names in Epstein's little black book.
>>6957774 Q crumb #923 and #924: Models.
>>6957638 KinderCare dig.
>>6957656 Planefag update.
>>6957362 Is Victoria's 'Secret' child labor in Africa?
>>6957364 Mad Hatter (Marty Torrey) dig.
>>6957970 Continued Wexner / Epstein dig.
>>6957343 Les Wexner's forest pool.
>>6957981 #8901

Previously Collected Notables
>>6955537 #8898, >>6956411 #8899, >>6957311 #8900
>>6953489 #8895, >>6954234 #8896, >>6954989 #8897
>>6951945 #8893, >>6952726 #8894, >>6953489 #8895
>>6949689 #8890, >>6950427 #8891, >>6951182 #8892
>>6947342 #8887, >>6948131 #8888, >>6949237 #8889
>>6945064 #8884, >>6945825 #8885, >>6946676 #8886

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6961837 at 2019-07-09 03:27:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8906: Follow the Family Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6810808 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup
>>6925557 Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8906
>>6961264 Anon on Chandler, AZ
>>6961350 Dig on Wexner's wife's connections to Maryhaven (Behavioral Health Hospital)
>>6961392 Rachel Chandler Business partner Walter Pearce (from Chappaqua, NY) is related to her?
>>6961480 Anon's mindmap of Wexner connections: KinderCare, VS, Epstein
>>6961525 Entergy Corp Execs sold $8.69m in shares July 3
>>6961528 Wikipedia censoring Epstein's Jewish heritage?
>>6961569 Anon points out $3.7m in cash found Sunday was near Epstein island (U.S. Virgin Islands)
>>6961600 State Department Announces New Council on Unalienable Rights
>>6961642 Amazon workers at Minnesota warehouse plan to strike on Prime Day: Report
>>6961746 Fire breaks out near NSA Data Center and Camp Williams in Bluffdale, UT
>>6961818 #8906

#8905 Baker Change
>>6960462 Former FBI Official: Expect DOZENS of More Charges Against Jeffrey Epstein
>>6960469 1988 Article on Vanderbilt's Son's "Suicide"
>>6960488 Anderson Cooper Will Inherit His Mother's $200 Million Fortune
>>6960524 Anon on placeholders foreshadowing upcoming events
>>6960554 Wexner dig - Medical Angle (cont)
>>6960557 Anon: Where on the island did Epstein's jet land?
>>6960602 Kindercare dig: Rec'd $1.4 Million 2008-2013 with majority going to operations in Virginia ($1.3 Million) via DoD contracts
>>6960617, >>6960705 More Wexner digs into properties, wife
>>6960508, >>6960719 Gloria Vanderbilt's 'Doll House'
>>6960670 Clinton statement forgot one trip: Morroco - NY 7/13/2002
>>6960542 Anon reposts model photo full of cabal symbolism/connections to Victoria Secret (no sauce)
>>6960755 Best Buy Founder and Ex-Chair sold $14.85m in shares July 3-5
>>6960830 Etymology of Epstein Surname
>>6961487 #8905

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244, >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum
>>6960338 #8904

#8903
>>6959498 Roy Raymond (original founder of VS) committed suicide jumping off Golden gate
>>6959404 Boatfag report
>>6959018 Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general
>>6958969, >>6959160 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959556 #8903

#8902
>>6958543 Rhino & Skyfall: 2 yachts that could transport people to Epstein Island?
baker change
>>6958313 MoveOn launches petition for 'wage gap' for Women's soccer.
>>6958279 Ukrainian Army hit with a rocket in June.
>>6958164, >>6958221, >>6958228, >>6958107, >>6958423, >>6958526, >>6958528 Cont'd Wexner dig.
>>6958187 FLOTUS Tweet.
>>6958170 NYC Victoria's Secret burglary suspect accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 of molesting her as teen.
>>6958155 Saavedra deleted his Bill Clinton statement Tweet.
>>6958132 Laybourne dig.
>>6958122, >>6958442 Epstein the mad hatter?
>>6958099 US Marines Tweet.
>>6958913 #8902

#8901
>>6957941 Names in Epstein's little black book.
>>6957774 Q crumb #923 and #924: Models.
>>6957638 KinderCare dig.
>>6957656 Planefag update.
>>6957362 Is Victoria's 'Secret' child labor in Africa?
>>6957364 Mad Hatter (Marty Torrey) dig.
>>6957970 Continued Wexner / Epstein dig.
>>6957343 Les Wexner's forest pool.
>>6957981 #8901

Previously Collected Notables
>>6955537 #8898, >>6956411 #8899, >>6957311 #8900
>>6953489 #8895, >>6954234 #8896, >>6954989 #8897
>>6951945 #8893, >>6952726 #8894, >>6953489 #8895
>>6949689 #8890, >>6950427 #8891, >>6951182 #8892
>>6947342 #8887, >>6948131 #8888, >>6949237 #8889
>>6945064 #8884, >>6945825 #8885, >>6946676 #8886

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6961170 at 2019-07-09 02:56:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8906: Follow the Family Edition

Barr RECUSES HIMSELF!!!!

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/8/William-Barr-ag-says-hes-recused-jeffrey-epstein-c/

Do you find it interesting that everything discussed in the past is somehow making news as of late?
Q

Don't pretend you or Trump had anything to do with the Epstein case. Cernovich got this done. The fact that he did get it done, a twitter blogger, while Trump has done nothing, just goes to show how utterly useless Trump's DOJ really is. The case is a whitewash, and is not going after anything Epstein did on the Island, and the indictment will include nothing on the Clintons, the Royals, or anyone else involved or blackmailed. It will be completely covered up because Trump is a faggot, just like his new AG, who is as big a coward as the old AG.

#6961118 at 2019-07-09 02:52:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8905: WINNING BIGLY Edition

Barr RECUSES HIMSELF!!!!

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/8/William-Barr-ag-says-hes-recused-jeffrey-epstein-c/

Do you find it interesting that everything discussed in the past is somehow making news as of late?
Q

Don't pretend you or Trump had anything to do with the Epstein case. Cernovich got this done. The fact that he did get it done, a twitter blogger, while Trump has done nothing, just goes to show how utterly useless Trump's DOJ really is. The case is a whitewash, and is not going after anything Epstein did on the Island, and the indictment will include nothing on the Clintons, the Royals, or anyone else involved or blackmailed. It will be completely covered up because Trump is a faggot, just like his new AG, who is as big a coward as the old AG.

And yes, I will be copypasta-ing this into the next thread, so suck my balls if you don't like it.

#6961073 at 2019-07-09 02:50:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8906: Follow the Family Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6810808 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup
>>6925557 Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8095
>>6960462 Former FBI Official: Expect DOZENS of More Charges Against Jeffrey Epstein
>>6960469 1988 Article on Vanderbilt's Son's "Suicide"
>>6960488 Anderson Cooper Will Inherit His Mother's $200 Million Fortune
>>6960524 Anon on placeholders foreshadowing upcoming events
>>6960554 Wexner dig - Medical Angle (cont)
>>6960557 Anon: Where on the island did Epstein's jet land?
>>6960602 Kindercare dig: Rec'd $1.4 Million 2008-2013 with majority going to operations in Virginia ($1.3 Million) via DoD contracts
>>6960617, >>6960705 More Wexner digs into properties, wife
>>6960508, >>6960719 Gloria Vanderbilt's 'Doll House'
>>6960670 Clinton statement forgot one trip: Morroco - NY 7/13/2002
>>6960542 Anon reposts model photo full of cabal symbolism/connections to Victoria Secret (no sauce)
>>6960755 Best Buy Founder and Ex-Chair sold $14.85m in shares July 3-5
>>6960830 Etymology of Epstein Surname
>>6961059 #8095

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244, >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum
>>6960338 #8904

#8903
>>6959498 Roy Raymond (original founder of VS) committed suicide jumping off Golden gate
>>6959404 Boatfag report
>>6959018 Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general
>>6958969, >>6959160 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959556 #8903

#8902
>>6958543 Rhino & Skyfall: 2 yachts that could transport people to Epstein Island?
baker change
>>6958313 MoveOn launches petition for 'wage gap' for Women's soccer.
>>6958279 Ukrainian Army hit with a rocket in June.
>>6958164, >>6958221, >>6958228, >>6958107, >>6958423, >>6958526, >>6958528 Cont'd Wexner dig.
>>6958187 FLOTUS Tweet.
>>6958170 NYC Victoria's Secret burglary suspect accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 of molesting her as teen.
>>6958155 Saavedra deleted his Bill Clinton statement Tweet.
>>6958132 Laybourne dig.
>>6958122, >>6958442 Epstein the mad hatter?
>>6958099 US Marines Tweet.
>>6958913 #8902

#8901
>>6957941 Names in Epstein's little black book.
>>6957774 Q crumb #923 and #924: Models.
>>6957638 KinderCare dig.
>>6957656 Planefag update.
>>6957362 Is Victoria's 'Secret' child labor in Africa?
>>6957364 Mad Hatter (Marty Torrey) dig.
>>6957970 Continued Wexner / Epstein dig.
>>6957343 Les Wexner's forest pool.
>>6957981 #8901

#8900
>>6957200 Jeffrey Epstein: Inside the decade of scandal entangling Prince Andrew
>>6957226 Epstein donated to Bill Clinton foundation.
>>6957133, >>6957242 FLOTUS & POTUS likely have inside information on Wexner.
>>6957091 Heavy article on Epstein's mansion.
>>6957031 Navy Trolling decode.
>>6956846, >>6956855, >>6956860, >>6956877, >>6957014, >>6957030,>>6957036, >>6957077, >>6957089, >>6957145, >>6957160, >>6957204 Les Wexner dig.
>>6956791 Schiff's Tweet on Barr re: Mueller's testimony.
>>6956660 Michelle Obama's inaugural gown is covered in spiders.
>>6956622 Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be 'scientifically meaningless'.
>>6956600 USDA suspends honeybee research despite rapid decline of bee populations.
>>6957311 #8900

Previously Collected Notables
>>6955537 #8898, >>6956411 #8899
>>6953489 #8895, >>6954234 #8896, >>6954989 #8897
>>6951945 #8893, >>6952726 #8894, >>6953489 #8895
>>6949689 #8890, >>6950427 #8891, >>6951182 #8892
>>6947342 #8887, >>6948131 #8888, >>6949237 #8889
>>6945064 #8884, >>6945825 #8885, >>6946676 #8886

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6960390 at 2019-07-09 02:14:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8905: WINNING BIGLY Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6810808 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup
>>6925557 Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244, >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum
>>6960338 #8904

#8903
>>6959498 Roy Raymond (original founder of VS) committed suicide jumping off Golden gate
>>6959404 Boatfag report
>>6959018 Reluctant witnesses in FISA abuse probe agree to talk to DOJ inspector general
>>6958969, >>6959160 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959556 #8903

#8902
>>6958543 Rhino & Skyfall: 2 yachts that could transport people to Epstein Island?
baker change
>>6958313 MoveOn launches petition for 'wage gap' for Women's soccer.
>>6958279 Ukrainian Army hit with a rocket in June.
>>6958164, >>6958221, >>6958228, >>6958107, >>6958423, >>6958526, >>6958528 Cont'd Wexner dig.
>>6958187 FLOTUS Tweet.
>>6958170 NYC Victoria's Secret burglary suspect accused billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 of molesting her as teen.
>>6958155 Saavedra deleted his Bill Clinton statement Tweet.
>>6958132 Laybourne dig.
>>6958122, >>6958442 Epstein the mad hatter?
>>6958099 US Marines Tweet.
>>6958913 #8902

#8901
>>6957941 Names in Epstein's little black book.
>>6957774 Q crumb #923 and #924: Models.
>>6957638 KinderCare dig.
>>6957656 Planefag update.
>>6957362 Is Victoria's 'Secret' child labor in Africa?
>>6957364 Mad Hatter (Marty Torrey) dig.
>>6957970 Continued Wexner / Epstein dig.
>>6957343 Les Wexner's forest pool.
>>6957981 #8901

#8900
>>6957200 Jeffrey Epstein: Inside the decade of scandal entangling Prince Andrew
>>6957226 Epstein donated to Bill Clinton foundation.
>>6957133, >>6957242 FLOTUS & POTUS likely have inside information on Wexner.
>>6957091 Heavy article on Epstein's mansion.
>>6957031 Navy Trolling decode.
>>6956846, >>6956855, >>6956860, >>6956877, >>6957014, >>6957030,>>6957036, >>6957077, >>6957089, >>6957145, >>6957160, >>6957204 Les Wexner dig.
>>6956791 Schiff's Tweet on Barr re: Mueller's testimony.
>>6956660 Michelle Obama's inaugural gown is covered in spiders.
>>6956622 Study finds psychiatric diagnosis to be 'scientifically meaningless'.
>>6956600 USDA suspends honeybee research despite rapid decline of bee populations.
>>6957311 #8900

#8899
>>6956207 Washington Time's article on BC's statement.
>>6956067 POTUS making marriages great again.
>>6956134 Follow the facts: Trump vs Clinton relationship w/ Epstein meme. (graphic)
>>6956120 Alex Salvi reporting on Clinton's flights.
>>6956093 DJT Tweet: "Spoke to @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy…" 1 min delta.
>>6956082 Anon: Q's picture titled 'ChatterHealthBC'.
>>6955919 Reminder on Q crumb #1275. Sessions playing 4D chess.
>>6955873 Don't forget about Doug Band.
>>6955857 Nike still pushing the social justice angle.
>>6955828 Bill Clinton releases a statement on Jeffrey Epstein.
>>6956411 #8899

Previously Collected Notables
>>6955537 #8898
>>6953489 #8895, >>6954234 #8896, >>6954989 #8897
>>6951945 #8893, >>6952726 #8894, >>6953489 #8895
>>6949689 #8890, >>6950427 #8891, >>6951182 #8892
>>6947342 #8887, >>6948131 #8888, >>6949237 #8889
>>6945064 #8884, >>6945825 #8885, >>6946676 #8886

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6960338 at 2019-07-09 02:12:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8904: Q on a Roll Edition

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244, >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum

#6960304 at 2019-07-09 02:11:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8904: Q on a Roll Edition

#8904
>>6960251, >>6960244 >>6960201, >>6960284 Moar Vanderbilt pics
>>6959981, >>6960176 Look at the pendant (white rabbit)
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum

#6960199 at 2019-07-09 02:06:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8904: Q on a Roll Edition

#8904
notes at @555
>>6959944 William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case
>>6959926 Prince Andrew may have been secretly filmed with underage girl he is alleged to have abused (from 2015)
>>6959854 All Q+ crumbs in one graphic
>>6959897 Planefag report
>>6959723 Q Post 3330 on recruiting WH spies & Gen. Flynn
>>6959787 Iran Threatens To Surpass 20% Uranium Enrichment After IAEA Confirms 4.5%
>>6959765, >>6959828, >>6959982 Boatfag reports
>>6959745 MSM distraction: Trump "associate" Sater to testify before House panel Tues
>>6959401 (lb) Occult Symbolism at Wexner's New Albany, OH mansion
>>6959717, >>6960088 Wexner digg, con't.
>>6959703, >>6959711 US Approves Sale Of $2.2 Billion In Weapons To Taiwan
>>6959701 Anon on "Pelosi attempted block"
>>6959689 Tommy Robinson Begs Trump for Political Asylum

#6959944 at 2019-07-09 01:57:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8904: Q on a Roll Edition

William Barr recused himself from Jeffrey Epstein case

Attorney General William Barr revealed Monday he recused himself from the Justice Department's prosecution of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested over the weekend and formally charged that morning.

"I'm recused from that matter because one of the law firms that represented Epstein long ago was a firm that I subsequently joined for a period of time," Barr told reporters in Southern Carolina.
The new deputy attorney general, Jeffrey Rosen, also previously worked at Kirkland & Ellis, and it's unclear whether he will have to recuse himself from the case as well. Normally, when the attorney general recuses himself, the deputy attorney general would take over the specific matter. The Washington Examiner reached out to the DOJ to see if Rosen would also be recusing himself and, if so, who at the Justice Department would ultimately be overseeing the Epstein case.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bill-Barr-recused-himself-from-jeffrey-epstein-case

#6959018 at 2019-07-09 01:22:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8903: Breads & Anons Flying Edition

WITNESS OUTSIDE OF FBI/DOJ COMES FORWARD AFTER Barr ORDERED SEPARATE INVESTIGATION

ALL PLANNED

Key witnesses sought for questioning by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz early in his investigation into alleged government surveillance abuse have come forward at the 11th hour, Fox News has learned.

Sources familiar with the matter said at least one witness outside the Justice Department and FBI started cooperating – a breakthrough that came after Attorney General William Barr ordered U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of the bureau's 2016 Russia case that laid the
foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/reluctant-witnesses-in-fisa-abuse-probe-agree-to-talk-to-doj-inspector-general

#6958391 at 2019-07-09 00:56:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8902: Tarmac Meetings_END Edition

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/William-Barr-reveals-has-recused-himself-from-jeffrey-esptein-case-heres-the-reason-he-gave/

William Barr Reveals He Recused Himself from Jeffrey Esptein Case. Here's the Reason He Gave.

by Matt Naham | 6:46 pm, July 8th, 2019

#6958213 at 2019-07-09 00:43:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8902: Tarmac Meetings_END Edition

Fellow Anons,

I tried to use my logical thinking from which I don't know if it works. I will try to lay it out here in the best of my ability. Please keep in mind as a Dutch anon, English isn't my first language but I'll try my best.
I do not have sauce for everything as some parts of this come from my memory from what I have read the last days.

Ready?

Let's go.

>Argument 1.
- Epstein allegedely worked as informant for Mueller…?
- "We have it all" as stated by Q
- Trump + Mueller + RR + Barr + Giuliani vs The Big Five (https://quodverum.com/2019/03/75/endgame-potus-trump-s-vindication-nears.html)

>Argument 2
Unconfirmed: http://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/8/William-Barr-ag-says-hes-recused-jeffrey-epstein-c/

"Barr worked for a law firm that represented Epstein "long ago", the report said"
Didn't Q tell us "it's harder to hit a moving target"? Is it Sessions all over?

>Argument 3
Mueller went to Trump to ask for the job of Director of FBI despite term limit. Why?

Hillary said - unconfirmed - "if he hangs we'll all hang from nooses. fix this shit"

If Mueller was truely a black hat he would have known Trump would never give him the job and he would expose himself as corrupt and would ignore "Drain The Swamp" comments from Trump: how stupid would he be? That's just as plausible as Trump cancelling an attack on Iran minutes before it happend because 'he suddenly thought of the innocent people who would die'. Makes no sense to me.

>Argument 4
Firewall - blockade
Mueller - if still in team Trump - dodged the bullets (false flags, false narratives from Dems and Fake News). Explains the crappy report he delivered.

>Argument 5:
Does this look like a farewell ceremony for somebody who knows he committed treason and is going to be screwed big time? (image 1 and 2)
youtu.be/OHTMARon-qk

>Argument 6 (not fully sure how it fits but gut feeling it does):
youtu.be/oZxJO0T79v4?t=77 ... (1:17….)
(plus image 3 and 4)

"I frequently speak about the inspiration I draw from the three aspects of the main justice building."

"The art it contains" (symbolism will be their downfall)
"The people it employs"
"The principles it represent"

>Argument 7:
Fits perfectly, right? (Also 13th letter of the alphabet is M…)
suntzusaid.com/book/13
(image 5 and 6)

>Argument 8:
You need to trust the people who you are sending to the Swamp as asset/sting op/undercover op/spy.
Imagine the amound of trust needed that your asset is not going to flip sides? Are you going to hire somebody or do you send people you worked with before and have proven their loyalty?

>Final argument:
Think mirror

#6953871 at 2019-07-08 20:55:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8896: Making The Census Great Again Edition

Ben Sasse and William Barr confirmation hearings regarding Jeffry Epstein

#6953834 at 2019-07-08 20:50:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8896: Making The Census Great Again Edition

>>6953609
>>6953595
>>6953574
>>6953816


Barr Quits Dalton School Post, Charging Trustees' Interference

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/20/archives/Barr-quits-dalton-school-post-charging-trustees-interference.html


Barr sr.
William Barr father

#6953296 at 2019-07-08 19:45:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8895: Spirit Cooking The Epstein Goose Edition

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he sees a legal path to adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, despite a Supreme Court ruling that blocked its inclusion, at least temporarily.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Barr said the Trump administration will take action in the coming days that he believes will allow the government to ask the controversial question. Barr would not detail the administration's plans, though a senior official said President Donald Trump is expected to issue a presidential memorandum to the Commerce Department instructing it to include the question.

Barr said he has been in regular contact with Trump over the issue.

"I agree with him that the Supreme Court decision was wrong," said Barr. He said he believes there is "an opportunity potentially to cure the lack of clarity that was the problem and we might as well take a shot at doing that."

https://apnews.com/d3455cd57e744af08c5690fe1f0517ae?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

#6952285 at 2019-07-08 17:50:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8894:Epstein's Goose continues to cook! Edition

>>6952255 Like William Barr?

#6951773 at 2019-07-08 16:52:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8893:Epstein's Goose cooked, is his noodle baked? Edition

The U.S. Attorney's Office was honored to host United States Attorney General William Barr in Columbia this morning. Attorney General Barr attended a breakfast with federal, state, and local law enforcement at @UofSCLaw
Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney Sherri Lydon meet with law enforcement officials

https://twitter.com/USAO_SC/status/1148254359647637504
8:35 AM - 8 Jul 2019

AG William Barr in Columbia this morning

#6949454 at 2019-07-08 12:21:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8890: Beyond the Infinite E-Bake Edition

>>6949428
Barr hired Epstein....this troll goes DEEP..should be fun to see how bait is grabbed and how it is flipped...
#mastertroll

"Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, "he was something of a Robin Williams-in-Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs." Epstein's mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns' chairman, Alan "Ace" Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune."

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-William-Barr-donald-trump-34107

#6946027 at 2019-07-08 01:26:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8886: Sunday Nighshift Begins Edition

William Barr RECUSES FROM EPSTEIN CASE

SDNY IS ATTEMPTING A TRUMP COUP

THEY WILL COERCE EPSTEIN TO SAY THAT TRUMP HAD UNDERAGE SEX

I TOLD YOU FIRST

#6945587 at 2019-07-08 00:34:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8885: The Public/Non_Public The [OnReady] Edition

>>6943739 (pb)

So when Q writes, "Alice in Wonderland," one meaning is Alice in Wonderland syndrome, which is caused by the Epstein-Barr virus?

Jeffrey Epstein
William Barr

"Learn our comms."
"You have more than you know."

#6945248 at 2019-07-07 23:53:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8885: The Public/Non_Public The [OnReady] Edition

'Severe, Serious Abuses' By FBI, CIA Are 'Going To Come Out': Rep. Peter King

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says that he's "confident" that the American people will learn of "severe, serious abuses" carried out by the FBI and CIA against President Trump and his campaign during the 2016 US election. Speaking with New York radio host an billionaire John Catsimatidis, King said "There was no legal basis at all for them to begin the investigation of his campaign," when asked about the ongoing probe by Attorney General William Barr, referring to the FBI's application for a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. "Just from evidence I've seen over the last several years being on the Intelligence Committee, being a member of Congress," said King, "there's no doubt to me there were severe serious abuses that were carried out in the FBI, and I believe the top levels of the CIA."



While Democrats dispute that anything untoward took place against Trump or his campaign, Republicans have called out the FBI for relying on an unverified dossier compiled, and possibly fabricated, by a former UK spy on behalf of the Clinton campaign.

Republicans, including California Rep. Devin Nunes, claimed that federal authorities did not fully disclose their reliance on an unverified dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, which was part of opposition research for Hillary Clinton's campaign. Democrats dispute the notion that anything improper took place. They claim the dossier did not play a major role, and point to a footnote in the warrant application that acknowledged that some of the information came from research on Trump that was likely meant to hurt his campaign, even if it did not spell out exactly who paid for it. Republicans are now waiting on a report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, following an investigation of possible FBI abuses of the FISA system. Fox News has learned that key witnesses have come forward, after previously holding out. -Fox News.

Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Mueller is set to appear on July 17 before the House Intelligence Committee, where he will face questions about his investigation into the events surrounding the 2016 US election.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-07/severe-serious-abuses-fbi-cia-are-going-come-out-rep-peter-king

#6944741 at 2019-07-07 22:47:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8884: Shekels wont save you this time Mr. (((Epstein)))

'Severe, Serious Abuses' By FBI, CIA Are 'Going To Come Out': Rep. Peter King

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) says that he's "confident" that the American people will learn of "severe, serious abuses" carried out by the FBI and CIA against President Trump and his campaign during the 2016 US election.

Speaking with New York radio host an billionaire John Catsimatidis, King said "There was no legal basis at all for them to begin the investigation of his campaign," when asked about the ongoing probe by Attorney General William Barr, referring to the FBI's application for a FISA warrant to spy on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

"Just from evidence I've seen over the last several years being on the Intelligence Committee, being a member of Congress," said King, "there's no doubt to me there were severe serious abuses that were carried out in the FBI, and I believe the top levels of the CIA."

While Democrats dispute that anything untoward took place against Trump or his campaign, Republicans have called out the FBI for relying on an unverified dossier compiled, and possibly fabricated, by a former UK spy on behalf of the Clinton campaign.

Republicans, including California Rep. Devin Nunes, claimed that federal authorities did not fully disclose their reliance on an unverified dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, which was part of opposition research for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Democrats dispute the notion that anything improper took place. They claim the dossier did not play a major role, and point to a footnote in the warrant application that acknowledged that some of the information came from research on Trump that was likely meant to hurt his campaign, even if it did not spell out exactly who paid for it.

Republicans are now waiting on a report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, following an investigation of possible FBI abuses of the FISA system. Fox News has learned that key witnesses have come forward, after previously holding out. -Fox News

Meanwhile, special counsel Robert Mueller is set to appear on July 17 before the House Intelligence Committee, where he will face questions about his investigation into the events surrounding the 2016 US election.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-07/severe-serious-abuses-fbi-cia-are-going-come-out-rep-peter-king

#6943335 at 2019-07-07 19:44:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8882:(((they))) want to win, (((they)) got to fight our war! Edition

Rep. Peter King: 'Severe, serious abuses' by FBI, CIA in Russia probe 'going to come out'

Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said he is "confident" that when Attorney General Bill Barr concludes his investigation of the origins of the investigation of President Trump's 2016 campaign, the American people will learn that the FBI and CIA under the Obama administration engaged in foul play.

President Trump and his supporters have questioned how the investigation started in the first place, accusing the FBI of carrying it out under false pretenses. King is among those leveling such allegations.

"There was no legal basis at all for them to begin the investigation of his campaign," King said in a Friday interview with New York radio host John Catsimatidis, "and the way they carried it forward and the way information was leaked, the improper applications they filed in the FISA court to get surveillance, all of this is going to come out."

King was referring to the FBI's application for a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Republicans, including California Rep. Devin Nunes, claimed that federal authorities did not fully disclose their reliance on an unverified dossier compiled by Christopher Steele, which was part of opposition research for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Democrats dispute the notion that anything improper took place. They claim the dossier did not play a major role, and point to a footnote in the warrant application that acknowledged that some of the information came from research on Trump that was likely meant to hurt his campaign, even if it did not spell out exactly who paid for it.

Republicans are now waiting on a report from Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, following an investigation of possible FBI abuses of the FISA system. Fox News has learned that key witnesses have come forward, after previously holding out.

Sources familiar with the matter said at least one witness outside the Justice Department and FBI started cooperating – a breakthrough that came after Attorney General William Barr ordered U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of the bureau's 2016 Russia case that laid the foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-peter-king-severe-serious-abuses-by-fbi-cia-in-russia-probe-is-going-to-come-out

#6930084 at 2019-07-06 04:52:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8865: Moar Cali EQ Swarms! Edition

Report: New Horowitz Witness, Likely Kathleen Kavalec, Agrees to Talk to IG Investigators...
Posted by sundance
In a new report Fox News journalist Catherine Herridge outlines a "reluctant witness" who has recently agreed to cooperate with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his review of potential FISA abuse by the Obama DOJ and FBI.



Fox News - Key witnesses sought for questioning by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz early in his investigation into alleged government surveillance abuse have come forward at the 11th hour, Fox News has learned.

Sources familiar with the matter said at least one witness outside the Justice Department and FBI started cooperating - a breakthrough that came after Attorney General William Barr ordered U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of the bureau's 2016 Russia case that laid the foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

[...] Late-breaking information is known to delay such investigations. Horowitz's office similarly encountered new evidence late in the process of the IG review into law enforcement decisions during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation.

In this case, additional FISA information came to light late in the process - including October 2016 contact (first reported by The Hill and confirmed by Fox News) between a senior State Department official and a former British spy Christopher Steele, who authored the infamous and salacious anti-Trump dossier. (read more)

While the "reluctant witness" is not specifically identified by Herridge in her reporting, as you can see above there is enough background material to identify it is likely former State Department official Kathleen Kavalec.

Kathleen Kavalec was the Deputy Assistant Secretary - Department of State, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, serving under Victoria Nuland and covered Russia as part of her State Dept. duties. Kavalec was contacted by Christopher Steele prior to the FISA application on Carter Page being sought by the FBI and DOJ. Kavalic wrote a series of notes and emails to the FBI undercutting the dossier central claims made by Steele.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/07/05/report-new-horowitz-witness-likely-kathleen-kavalec-agrees-to-talk-to-ig-investigators/

#6929200 at 2019-07-06 03:08:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8864: Moar FBI vault drop convos! Edition

Report on Russia probe origins delayed as new evidence prompts deeper review
Sources tell Fox News that Justice Department inspector general is examining a senior State Department official's contact with Christopher Steele, author of the anti-Trump dossier; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.

Key witnesses sought for questioning by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz early in his investigation into alleged government surveillance abuse have come forward at the 11th hour, Fox News has learned.

Sources familiar with the matter said at least one witness outside the Justice Department and FBI started cooperating – a breakthrough that came after Attorney General William Barr ordered U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of the bureau's 2016 Russia case that laid the foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

While the investigative phase of the inspector general's long-running probe is said to be complete, the sources said recent developments required some witnesses to be reinterviewed. And while Barr testified that he expected the report into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse to be ready in May or last month, multiple sources said the timeline has slipped.

"The wheels of inspector general investigations move very, very slowly," former senior DOJ official Tom Dupree told Fox News.

Dupree, who served as deputy assistant attorney general from 2007 to 2009, does not have firsthand knowledge of the current IG case but is familiar with the process. He added, "Like any investigation, you talk to one person, something that person tells you sends you back ... to the first person, so it can be a very extensive, exhaustive process, because you are constantly picking up leads, interviewing former sources and navigating complex questions of classified information."

Late-breaking information is known to delay such investigations. Horowitz's office similarly encountered new evidence late in the process of the IG review into law enforcement decisions during the 2016 Hillary Clinton email investigation. In this case, additional FISA information came to light late in the process - including October 2016 contact (first reported by The Hill and confirmed by Fox News) between a senior State Department official and a former British spy Christopher Steele, who authored the infamous and salacious anti-Trump dossier.

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The State Department contact with Steele was relayed to a senior FBI official. The timeline matters because about two weeks later, the FBI and DOJ used Steele's unverified research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign, to secure a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. At the very least, it's been argued, Steele's contact with another government agency should have been a red flag for the FBI because it may have violated his confidential human source agreement.

Steele was later fired by the FBI over his media contacts before the 2016 presidential election. The Page surveillance warrant is the central issue of the DOJ IG's review.

With the timeline for Horowitz's report not public, one of the wild cards is the final review by the FBI and DOJ, which includes classification issues and could take weeks.

A spokesman for Horowitz would not comment on the report's status. But during largely unrelated testimony in November, Horowitz offered some guidance for the timeline of the FISA abuse probe in response to questions from GOP Rep. Jim Jordan.

"What I can say is given the volume of documents we've had and the number of witnesses it looks like we'll need to interview, we are likely to be in the same sort of general range of documents and witnesses as the last report," Horowitz said, referring to his team's review of the Clinton email case. "It wouldn't surprise me if we are in that million or so plus range of documents and a hundred-ish or so interviews. The last review, as you know, took us about ... 16 months or so."

If that same guidance holds, the window for completion would begin this month, though it remains unclear how much the DOJ/FBI review and the additional interviews could delay the process.

#6928021 at 2019-07-06 00:08:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8862: Happy Birthday Secret Service Edition

Reluctant Witnesses in FISA Abuse Investigation Agree to Talk to Inspector General Horowitz at the 11th Hour

Key witnesses sought by DOJ IG Horowitz early on in the investigation into FISA abuses have agreed to come forward at the 11th hour.

Horowitz's report on the FISA abuses by Obama's DOJ and FBI has been delayed and according to reports the delays are due to more witnesses coming forward since Barr appointed US Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of Spygate.


Fox News previously confirmed that John Durham is working directly with Inspector General Michael Horowitz on looking at the FISA abuses.

Fox News' Catherine Herridge reported Friday that according to sources, at least one witness outside of the DOJ and FBI has just begun cooperating.

Sources familiar with the matter said at least one witness outside the Justice Department and FBI started cooperating - a breakthrough that came after Attorney General William Barr ordered U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead a separate investigation into the origins of the bureau's 2016 Russia case that laid the foundation for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

While the investigative phase of the inspector general's long-running probe is said to be complete, the sources said recent developments required some witnesses to be reinterviewed. And while Barr testified that he expected the report into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuse to be ready in May or last month, multiple sources said the timeline has slipped.

"The wheels of inspector general investigations move very, very slowly," former senior DOJ official Tom Dupree told Fox News.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz does not have the authority to impanel a grand jury so the real work will be done by Barr and Durham.

The media was stunned in May after it was revealed AG Bill Barr appointed top special prosecutor John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia probe.

It was revealed that Barr is working closely with CIA Director Gina Haspel, Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats and FBI Director Christopher Wray on surveillance issues related to Trump's 2016 campaign, suggesting a broader inter-agency effort is underway.

Obama's corrupt FBI/DOJ used Hillary's phony Russia dossier to obtain a FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

The first FISA warrant on Carter Page was granted in October of 2016, just weeks before Election Day and the 4th and final warrant was granted in June of 2017 - then-DAG Rosenstein and FBI Deputy McCabe both signed the June 2017 FISA warrant on Page, one month after Mueller was appointed as special counsel.

It is widely believed that there were also FISA warrants on General Mike Flynn, Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort and Trump camp foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos, however that has not been publicly confirmed.

According to Catherine Herridge, a spokeswoman for Horowitz would not comment on the report's status, however, it is believed his report should be done this month.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/07/developing-reluctant-witnesses-in-fisa-abuse-investigation-agree-to-talk-to-inspector-general-horowitz-at-the-11th-hour/

#6926935 at 2019-07-05 21:29:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8861: Fantastic Fren Friday Edition

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen not yet briefed on DOJ probe into origins of Russia probe

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said that he has yet to be briefed on the potentially volatile inquiry into possible surveillance abuses by federal authorities in the early days of the Russia investigation.

Rosen, in an interview with USA TODAY this week, said that he was unaware of the investigation's status and did not know whether it has since morphed into a criminal inquiry.

"I don't know the answer to that. I'd have to check and get back to you. I hear it described as an inquiry. I don't want to say something that won't be accurate. So let me defer on that one. "

The Justice Department later declined to elaborate. But Rosen's deference on such a high-profile matter underscored the extreme close-hold on an inquiry launched by Attorney General William Barr and now managed by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham.

It also highlights how Rosen, more than a month following his confirmation, has so far assumed a role largely out of the public eye in a stark departure from his predecessor, Rod Rosenstein, whose rocky two-year tenure was defined by his management of the Russia investigation and former Justice special counsel Robert Mueller.

John Durham: Attorney general taps top Connecticut federal prosecutor for review of Trump-Russia inquiry

"It (the surveillance inquiry) started before I arrived," Rosen said, adding that he was "not currently" being briefed on it. "I had some generalized awareness, but I'm not meeting regularly with Mr. Durham."

In April, Barr startled some lawmakers when he disclosed that he was reviewing the FBI's use of surveillance involving associates of President Donald Trump during the presidential campaign as authorities sought to understand Russia's interference efforts. At the time, Barr said he did not know whether officials had done anything wrong, though the review's disclosure was instantly cheered by some Republicans and Trump who has long disparaged Mueller's work as a "witch hunt."

"Spying on a campaign is a big deal," Barr told a Senate panel then. "I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated."

In May, the attorney general injected new urgency into that review when he tapped Durham, a long-time federal prosecutor, to review the "genesis and the conduct" of the FBI's investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Durham's appointment came just three days before Rosen's confirmation as second-in-command at Justice.

Rosen: Jeffrey Rosen, Transportation official, nominated as Justice Department's second-in-command to replace Rod Rosenstein

The inquiry is proceeding, as Justice's inspector general is conducting its own review of how federal authorities obtained a warrant in 2016 to monitor former Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page and his possible links to Russia. The results of that investigation are expected to be disclosed soon.

While not briefed on the Barr-Durham inquiry, Rosen nevertheless characterized it as "serious."

"I'm not sealed out," the deputy attorney general said, explaining that the attorney general had already taken on the coordinating role with Durham.

https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/05/deputy-ag-jeffrey-rosen-not-yet-briefed-doj-surveillance-probe/1655150001/

#6925879 at 2019-07-05 19:01:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8859: Watch Turkey and Russia Edition

Good thing potus told William Barr to delcass
Now its Barrs fault if it doesnt happen
Hmm
Anyone notice a pattern
?
I will not sign another omnibus bill
Signs it anyways
Says hell do a national emergency
Knows congress and the courts will block it
Border patrol now has to mass let in illegals

#6925673 at 2019-07-05 18:25:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8859: Watch Turkey and Russia Edition

Federal judge rules against Trump administration, says asylum-seekers must have the option of being released on bond


A federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration on immigration.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman in Washington state ruled that asylum-seekers who demonstrate a "credible fear of persecution" were constitutionally obligated to a bond hearing while their claim was being processed, invalidating an order given in April by Attorney General William Barr.

What's the background?

In 2005, the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that asylum-seekers who could prove that they might be in danger if forced to leave the U.S. were able to be released on bond.

In April, Barr issued an order stating that even if an asylum-seeker could establish "credible fear of persecution or torture" they could be "detained until [their] normal proceedings conclude, unless [they are] given parole" if they had been "transferred to full removal proceedings" while their asylum claim was being processed.

This order from Barr was blocked by a preliminary injunction from Pechman soon after it was issued.
What did the judge say?

Pechman argued Tuesday, "Plaintiffs have established a constitutionally-protected interest in their liberty, a right to due process which includes a hearing before a neutral decisionmaker to assess the necessity of their detention, and a likelihood of success on the merits of that issue."

She also said that Barr's order could cause "irreparable harm."
In her ruling, Pechman ordered that bond hearings be held for asylum-seekers "within seven days" of being requested.

It also places "the burden of proof on Defendant Department of Homeland Security in those bond hearings to demonstrate why the class member should not be released on bond, parole, or other conditions," instead of having the asylum-seekers have to prove their innocence before they could be released.

All bond hearings will also have to be transcribed or recorded, and reasons for denial or approval will have to be given in writing. This modified injunction takes effect in 14 days.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2019/07/federal-judge-rules-against-trump.html

#6903861 at 2019-07-03 08:28:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8831: Happy B'day JA! Edition

Rep. Ratcliffe: DoJ IG Horowitz has completed his probe into alleged FISA abuses

In an appearance on Fox News Monday evening, Rep. John Ratcliffe said he met last week with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz who said his office's probe into alleged abuses of the FISA court by the Obama-era DoJ and FBI is complete.

In addition, Ratcliffe said, the IG's office is currently drafting its report, though it's not clear when it will actually be presented to Attorney General William Barr.

"I did have the opportunity to meet with Inspector General Horowitz last week," Ratcliffe, a former federal prosecutor, said during an appearance with former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.).

"We talked about his report, the timing of his report, not the content, and he related that his team's investigative work is complete," Ratcliffe continued. "They are now in the process of drafting that report."

He added that he expects the report to "be completed in short order."

"I will tell you though," he continued, "I don't expect that any of us will see [the report] real soon. [Horowitz] did relate that as much as 20 percent of the report is probably going to include classified information."

As such, that portion of the report will have to undergo a review at DoJ and the FBI to be vetted and redacted. Ratcliffe added that it is possible the report will be available by Congress' August recess but it's not clear that will happen.

Meanwhile, Gowdy - who has seen the unredacted FISA applications - mocked fired FBI Director James Comey's comments this week that he 'did everything right' when it came to investigating the 2016 Trump campaign, despite his many contradictions between sworn testimony and available evidence.

"I don't know what Michael Horowitz is gonna find," Gowdy said. "I have a lot of confidence in him, he's a straight arrow. He's just looking at the FISA abuse."

Meanwhile, "United States Attorney John Durham is looking at what happened in the late winter and spring of 2016," Gowdy said. "So [Americans] have to have kind of a line of demarcation."

https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/07/02/rep-ratcliffe-doj-ig-horowitz-has-completed-his-probe-into-alleged-fisa-abuses-video/

#6901018 at 2019-07-02 23:39:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8827: Truth Wins Edition

>>6900998
>A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an order from Attorney General William Barr

who is her boss? Barr?

these people are fucking retarded

#6900998 at 2019-07-02 23:36:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8827: Truth Wins Edition

>>6900960
> http://hill.cm/IWVW6KM
A federal judge on Tuesday blocked an order from Attorney General William Barr that stated certain asylum seekers can be detained indefinitely.

Judge Marsha Pechman in federal court in Washington state issued a preliminary injunction earlier this year that required asylum seekers who are given a hearing in their proceedings to be released within seven days after that hearing is granted. The Trump administration had asked her to dismiss that ruling, after Barr issued his new asylum order.

Pechman rejected that request in her order on Tuesday, finding that the policy implemented by Barr's order was "unconstitutional."

"It is the finding of this Court that it is unconstitutional to deny these class members a bond hearing while they await a final determination of their asylum request," Pechman, a Clinton appointee, wrote in her ruling.

The attorney general had written in the order, issued in April, that asylum seekers who are able to demonstrate a "credible fear" and are sent to full deportation proceedings cannot be released on bond.

That directive overturned a ruling by the Board of Immigration Appeals in 2005 that found asylum-seekers could be released on bond if they are able to exhibit they have credible fear of persecution or danger if they leave the U.S.

"I conclude that such aliens remain ineligible for bond, whether they are arriving at the border or are apprehended in the United States," Barr wrote at the time, invoking a statute included in the Immigration and Nationality Act

Pechman wrote that she was adjusting her previous preliminary injunction requiring the release of those impacted asylum seekers to also address Barr's order, and that the new injunctions will go into effect within 14 days of it being issued.

The judge cited a previous Supreme Court ruling that "definitively established the immigrant detainees' constitutionally-protected interest in freedom from unnecessary incarceration."

And she wrote that the immigrants are "are entitled to due process protections," including a "longstanding prohibition against indefinite civil detention with no opportunity to test its necessity."

"The Court finds that Plaintiffs have established a constitutionally-protected interest in their liberty, a right to due process which includes a hearing before a neutral decisionmaker to assess the necessity of their detention, and a likelihood of success on the merits of that issue," Pechman wrote.

And the judge again ruled that the asylum seekers are likely to face "irreparable harm" under the policy.

"All the harms attendant upon their prolonged detention cited in the original ruling on Plaintiffs' request for injunctive relief remain applicable here - substandard physical conditions, low standards of medical care, lack of access to attorneys and evidence as Plaintiffs prepare their cases, separation from their families, and re-traumatization of a population already found to have legitimate circumstances of victimization," the ruling states.

Pechman also pushed back against the administration's argument that the potential harm was "speculative," saying that those claims "lack substance."

However, she said she didn't believe that the asylum seekers would win by alleging that Barr violated federal administrative law with his order.

The Hill has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.

#6900833 at 2019-07-02 23:11:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8827: Truth Wins Edition

Judge Marsha Pechman of Seattle ruled against Trump keeping 'Asylum Seekers' locked up

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-07-02/judge-blocks-trump-policy-keeping-asylum-seekers-locked-up

By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) - A federal judge in Seattle has blocked a Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum seekers locked up while they pursue their cases.
U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman ruled Tuesday that people who are detained after entering the country to seek protection are entitled to bond hearings. Attorney General William Barr announced in April that the government would no longer offer such hearings, but instead keep them in custody. It was part of the administration's efforts to deter a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Immigrant rights advocates including the American Civil Liberties Union and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project sued to block the policy, which was due to take effect July 15.

Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

#6896104 at 2019-07-02 14:30:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8820: QR AM Bake Edition

Lawmakers reject 'Mueller rule' ahead of testimony: 'There's no limitation'

Robert Mueller says his 448-page report is his testimony, but that's not stopping lawmakers from signaling they will try to coax the former special counsel to break the "Mueller rule" when he arrives July 17 on Capitol Hill. In just one example, Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, wants details on how the FBI probe into the Donald Trump campaign got started, Jack Langer, his spokesman, told The Washington Times.

"Republicans will focus on the many shortcomings, biases and false insinuations in the Mueller report and try to find out why Mueller refused to investigate the numerous abuses in how the Russia investigation was initiated and conducted," Mr. Langer said. Mr. Nunes is the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. After 22 months with the aid of 40 FBI agents, Mr. Mueller failed to find a Trump-Russia election meddling conspiracy as alleged by Democrats, Obama loyalists and media.

But some Democrats have not given up and want more information on Moscow-Trump ties. Hope Hicks, President Trump's former communications director, found herself answering the same questions on Russian contacts when she appeared June 19 before the House Judiciary Committee. Some Democrats are looking to impeach Mr. Trump based on facts in the Mueller report's Volume II section on possible obstruction of justice.

Rep. Adam B. Schiff, California Democrat and Congress' most enthusiastic promoter of the Democratic Party-financed dossier, rejected the '"Mueller rule" outright. "There's no limitation on confining his testimony to the four corners of the report," Mr. Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee, told CNN. "That may be his desire, but Congress has questions that go beyond the report."' Mr. Mueller never spoke during his tenure until May 29, his last day as special counsel, when he issued a terse statement and vowed not to speak again. Under Democratic subpoena, he reluctantly agreed last week to testify before the intelligence and Judiciary committees. Mr. Schiff says the precedent was set by Attorney General William Barr, who has testified on his concerns about how the Obama administration opened the investigation in July 2016.

He appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, to set up shop in Washington to inquire how the FBI spied on Trump associates, relied on the opposition research dossier and obtained wiretap warrants. Mr. Mueller's report effectively demolished the dossier, which alleged a sweeping Trump-Russia conspiracy that the FBI didn't find. Mr. Schiff appears to want to counter the Barr effort by opening his own counterintelligence inquiry. He said he plans to summon not just Mr. Mueller, but also his staff of prosecutors for closed-door questions.

How Mr. Mueller assembled that team is sure to be a topic for Republicans. Mr. Trump referred to them as "18 angry Democrats." Most prosecutors had Democratic ties, some as donors. Andrew Weissmann, who handled the Paul Manafort investigation, donated to Democrats and attended what was supposed to be Hillary Clinton's presidential victory party in New York. Jeannie Rhee represented Mrs. Clinton in two cases. Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican and another Judiciary Committee member, tweeted, "I've got a lot of questions about how Bob Mueller spent $35 million in taxpayer money to find there was no collusion." Republicans also want to know details about Mr. Mueller's firing of two senior FBI employees - Assistant Director Peter Strzok and his lover, FBI counsel Lisa Page. The two exchanged loaded text messages filled with venom for candidate Trump, with Mr. Strzok pledging to "stop" him.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jul/1/robert-mueller-pressed-break-mueller-rule-july-17-/

"We have legitimate questions about how all these people ended up on the Mueller team that had a history of donating financially to Democrats. There did not seem to be sufficient balance," said Rep. Matt Gaetz, Florida Republican and a Judiciary Committee member.

#6895540 at 2019-07-02 11:56:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8820: QR AM Bake Edition

>>6895509
Sessions had also asked Huber in 2017 to look into issues related to the sale of Uranium One and allegations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been improperly involved in the process, as well as broader claims of corruption at the Clinton Foundation. Barr seemed to suggest that what evidence Huber found, if any, may soon be revealed.

"The other issues [Huber has] been working on relate to Hillary Clinton" are "winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition," Barr said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

#6895088 at 2019-07-02 08:43:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8819: We Stand Ready To Deploy, Engage, & Destroy The Enemies Edition

>>6895066

Will be glorious!

Trump Finally Has the Wind at his Back

"…The anchor was the Russian collusion narrative, now debunked, and quite easily, as it never existed in the first place. The FISA warrants, FBI informants inserted into the Trump campaign, attempted entrapment, were all a giant smokescreen with a flimsy veneer of legality, covering up highly illegal spying and weaponization of the justice and intelligence agencies of President Obama going back as far as 2012, as Joe DiGenova recently explained in a radio interview.

The irony is that Mitt Romney, with his high-browed finger-wagging over Trump's style, was likely surveilled in 2012, along with his family and campaign, perhaps costing him the election. He might as well be wearing a "kick me" sign on the back of his Brooks Brothers blazer.
Yet Trump knew all of this and more, probably before he was elected, and certainly after Admiral Mike Rogers paid him an unexpected visit at Trump Tower during the transition. The deep state plan, however, was already in play, with now legal spying, at least per the FISC warrant approvals, with a special counsel waiting in the wings to tie Trump's hands behind his back in terms of exposing any of this.
They were building an obstruction case, under the public cover of Russian collusion, hoping that Trump would declassify something or fire someone, which Mueller could claim was obstructing his investigation, paving the way for the House filing articles of impeachment.
But Trump had the patience of a tortoise running a marathon, moving his agenda upstream and upwind, biding his
time until the winds shifted for the better. That time is now. His new Attorney General William Barr jumped on board Trump's boat, the USS Covfefe, and has weighed anchor by compelling Mueller to end his witch hunt, to fish or cut bait, finishing his report, confirming what Trump has been saying all along, although to many deaf ears.
The media wind is still blowing but with far less effect. CNN and MSNBC ratings have dropped even further after Mueller released his report, making their broadcasts relevant only in Georgetown coffee shops and airport terminals.
The tide is receding with Congress now rid of some, but unfortunately not all, NeverTrumpers. Others like Lindsey Graham are energized and eager to use their committees to uncover, not bury, previous government malfeasance. NeverTrump pundits have been relegated to low ratings cable news networks, whining to like-minded news anchors while the rest of the country views them as jilted teenage mean girls.
House Democrats can't make up their minds about impeachment, torn between political practicality and their rabid base, which they spent years whipping into a frenzy, pouring blood into a school of sharks.
Democrat presidential candidates are lined up like climbers on Mount Everest last week, waiting for their chance at a selfie on the summit. They are happy to trample over the carcasses of their fellow candidates if they can move further up the line. Trump couldn't have choreographed this any better."

Continued:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/trump_finally_has_the_wind_at_his_back.html

#6894721 at 2019-07-02 06:25:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8819: We Stand Ready To Deploy, Engage, & Destroy The Enemies Edition

Kamala Harris campaign lawyer hired Fusion GPS for Hillary Clinton

The former top lawyer for Hillary Clinton's failed presidential campaign who hired Fusion GPS to carry out controversial opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016 is now working for a top 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful. Marc Elias, who heads Perkins Coie's political law group, became general counsel for California Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential bid this year. Elias, who held the same position in Clinton's campaign, is named in two pending Federal Election Commission complaints and in a recent federal lawsuit alleging that the Clinton campaign broke campaign finance laws when it used Perkins Coie to hire Fusion GPS.

Fusion GPS went on to hire British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who compiled an unverified dossier allegedly based on sources close to the Kremlin which was disseminated to the media and used by the FBI to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants targeting former Trump campaign associate Carter Page. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is reviewing alleged FISA abuse related to the dossier and Attorney General William Barr launched his "investigation of the investigators" earlier this year. Clinton's former presidential campaign manager Robby Mook said in 2017 that he authorized Elias to hire an outside firm to dig up dirt on Trump's connections with Russia. "I asked our lawyer and I gave him a budget allocation to investigate this, particularly the international aspect," he said. Mook said Elias was receiving information from Fusion GPS or directly from Steele himself about the research into Trump and Russia in 2016, and that Elias then periodically briefed the Clinton campaign about the findings. "We were getting briefings that were put together by the law firm with information," Mook said. "I'm proud that we were able to assemble some of the research that has brought this to light." "I'm just glad that it's coming out now and I'm glad that there was research there," Mook said.

Watchdog groups allege that Hillary for America purposely concealed the hiring of Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele by reporting all the payments that it made to Perkins Coie as "legal services" without mentioning opposition research. Perkins Coie was paid over $12 million between 2016 and 2017 for its work representing Clinton and the DNC. According to its co-founder Glenn Simpson, Fusion GPS was in turn paid $50,000 per month from Perkins Coie, and Christopher Steele was paid roughly $168,000 by Fusion GPS for his work. Perkins Coie admitted in an October 2017 letter that it had hired Fusion GPS, claiming that "Fusion GPS approached Perkins Coie" in March 2016 with the knowledge that Perkins Coie was representing Clinton and the DNC, and that Perkins Coie then "engaged" Fusion GPS from April of that year until just prior to the November election "to perform a variety of research services during the 2016 election cycle."

Elias himself personally "retained Fusion GPS ... to conduct the research" and did so "on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC," according to a report from the Washington Post. Brian Fallon, the former national press secretary for the Clinton campaign, previously defended Elias. "Marc is known as one of the most skilled professionals in Democratic politics, in addition to being the party's top election lawyer," Fallon said in 2017. "I am damn glad he pursued this on behalf of our campaign and only regret more of this material was not verified in time for the voters to learn it before the election."

Elias is a fixture in Democratic politics. Aside from working for Harris, Clinton, and the DNC, Elias has said that he and his colleagues at Perkins Coie have represented the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Democratic Governors Association, various Democratic PACs, the pro-abortion EMILY's List, dozens of Democratic senators, and more than a hundred Democratic members of the House. Neither the Harris campaign nor Elias responded to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kamala-harris-campaign-lawyer-hired-fusion-gps-for-hillary-clinton

#6890642 at 2019-07-01 20:03:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8813: Fake Klan March Edition

Gohmert calls Mueller an 'anal opening' ahead of testimony

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) called former special counsel Robert Mueller an "anal opening" ahead of the former FBI chief's public testimony before Congress. "He's done some irreparable damage to some things and he's got to answer for them," Gohmert, one of 25 Republicans on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees who get to grill Mueller during the back-to-back hearings scheduled later this month, told Politico. The Texas lawmaker added that his reading of the former special counsel's report did little to temper his animosity toward Mueller: "It reinforced the anal opening that I believe Mueller to be."

Lawmakers from both parties will have the opportunity to question Mueller for hours during back-to-back House hearings on July 17 about the findings of his 22-month investigation into Russia's election interference in 2016 and potential obstruction by President Trump. Democrats want to amplify the contents of Mueller's 448-page report, which details efforts from Trump to gain control of and thwart the probe into his campaign's contacts with Russia. The report did not find evidence to charge Trump campaign members or associates with conspiring with the Kremlin to meddle in the election.

Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice in the probe, saying he was precluded from doing so by a Justice Department opinion that says a sitting president cannot be indicted. Attorney General William Barr ultimately determined the evidence in Mueller's report to be insufficient to accuse Trump of criminal wrongdoing.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/451209-gohmert-calls-mueller-an-anal-opening-ahead-of-testimony

#6883964 at 2019-06-30 21:55:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8805: Success STAY READY Edition

William Barr IS CABAL

PROVE ME WRONG, LIST ARRESTS, HANGINGS

#6881546 at 2019-06-30 14:46:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8802 QR AM Bake Edition

Devin Nunes says there's something 'off' about plan to have Mueller team testify

Rep. Devin Nunes said Robert Mueller could "throw a monkey wrench" into matters related to the Russia investigation with his testimony next month. In an interview Saturday evening on Fox News, the California Republican also expressed concern about what one of Mueller's top prosecutors might say in a closed setting as part of the deal to speak to lawmakers.

"There are two trains of thought out there. One is that he's just not going to say anything, which is very possible. But it's also very possible too that he could throw a monkey wrench in things," the House Intelligence Committee ranking member told host Jeanine Pirro. "Now what's off about this is - supposedly he's only agreed to testify for four hours. Four hours with the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee is not enough time to get everyone's questions in," Nunes added. "In addition, people should know he's not willing to testify as of now behind closed doors and he's supposedly going to send in Andrew Weissmann and his team of geniuses that came up with these conspiracy theories. And that's not even going to be translated. So stay tuned."

Mueller, who made clear in a public statement late last month he did not want to testify about his now-complete investigation, agreed to public testimony before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees on July 17 in response to a pair of subpoenas. In an interview with CNN last week, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said he did not believe the special counsel's office considered what it received to be a "friendly subpoena" and that Mueller was "deeply reluctant" to comply with it. As part of the plan, Schiff said that there will also be an "executive session" with members of Mueller's staff. There has been some speculation about what this closed-door discussion might entail.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe told MSNBC that Mueller's senior staffers will likely "go much deeper" into the details of the Russia investigation. Joe DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, predicted on Fox Business last week that Weissmann, not Mueller, could do real "damage" to President Trump. Weissmann, who recently scored a book deal, was known as Mueller's "pitbull." According to Michael Wolff's book Siege, Weissmann led the initiative to draft a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Trump, which Mueller's spokesman denied existed. Mueller's report, released in April with redactions, shows his team was not able to establish criminal conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, but left open the question of possible obstruction of justice. The report laid out 10 instances in which Trump might have obstructed justice, but Mueller declined to make a determination on the matter, citing a Justice Department guideline that sitting presidents cannot be indicted.

Although Trump and his allies say the case is closed, Democrats argue Mueller's refusal to clear Trump on obstruction provides them a road map to continue to investigate and possibly seek impeachment. Attorney General William Barr said he and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was not sufficient evidence to establish a crime had occurred. Despite Mueller being out of the job and his reluctance to testify, Nunes complained of the former special counsel's continual presence. "He's like a bad penny, he just won't go away," Nunes said of Mueller. Nunes said a question he wants to ask Mueller is how far the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign goes, even as the FBI asserts it started in July 2016. "That is a total lie. They've been lying to Congress. They've been misleading the American people, and I'm going to ask that question or at least me or somebody on my committee is going to ask that question of Bob Mueller when the investigation actually began spying on the Trump campaign," Nunes said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-says-theres-something-off-about-plan-to-have-mueller-team-testify

#6874633 at 2019-06-29 18:24:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8793: Love Shot Edition

Flashback: Trump may have to invoke 'Insurrection Act' to protect the country after another Obama judge blocks his border wall construction

(NationalSentinel) On Friday, a federal judge appointed by Barack Obama issued a permanent injunction against the administration, blocking President Trump from using Defense Department funds for border wall construction.

In May during a speech, Attorney General William Barr said such nationwide injunctions are not only improper but also "undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration."

A New York University Law Review paper in October 2017 listed many practical problems with such injunctions, and its key point was that they violate constitutional principles, undermining "the structural design of the federal courts by allowing a single lower court to make nationwide law."

It may be time for the president - and we don't say this lightly - to supersede these rogue federal judges and simply exercise the authority the Constitution grants him, and let the chips fall where they may.

Under the Insurrection Act of 1807, the president has the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat "unlawful obstruction or rebellion" within U.S. borders. The act was last invoked in 1992 by George H.W. Bush to quell the Los Angeles riots, and was also used by Eisenhower in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in the south.

https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/06/29/flashback-trump-may-have-to-invoke-insurrection-act-to-protect-the-country-after-another-obama-judge-blocks-his-border-wall-construction/

#6866642 at 2019-06-28 17:59:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8782 QR AM Bake Edition

meanwhile, in shit that matters:

'Lives depend on it.' AG William Barr declares public safety 'emergency' in Alaska

As part of the directive, the attorney general also ordered the FBI and other Justice Department components to submit plans within the next 30 days to further support the federal effort.

"Lives depend on it, and we are committed to seeing a change in this unacceptable, daily reality for Alaska native people," the attorney general said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/28/justice-department-declares-public-safety-emergency-alaska-10-million-aid/1595429001/

#6866236 at 2019-06-28 16:58:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8782 QR AM Bake Edition

Groups claim Clinton campaign broke campaign laws over Fusion GPS and Steele funding
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Two watchdog groups filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission alleging the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee broke campaign laws by filing reports meant to conceal their hiring of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele. And one has now filed a lawsuit in federal court.

The Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit, filed its complaint with the FEC in 2017, alleging that Clinton and the DNC "failed to accurately disclose the purpose and recipient of payments for the dossier of research alleging connections between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russia, effectively hiding these payments from public scrutiny, contrary to the requirements of federal law." The Coolidge Reagan Foundation, a conservative nonprofit, filed its complaint with the FEC a year later against Clinton, the DNC, Steele, and the Perkins Coie law firm, which represented Clinton and the DNC in 2016 and was paid $12 million in 2016-2017. Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS, which then hired Steele.

The foundation alleged the Clinton campaign "conspired" with foreign nationals by hiring Steele, who says he gathered information from sources close to the Kremlin. The FBI used Steele's unverified dossier in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications to surveil Trump campaign associate Carter Page. The foundation filed its lawsuit in D.C. District Court in May, hoping a judge will force the FEC to rule on its complaint.

Dan Backer, one of the group's founders and a "pro-Trump guy" who runs two pro-Trump political action committees, told the Washington Examiner that the goal of their lawsuit was to get the FEC to act, and, if not, to give the group the ability to investigate. The foundation accuses the Clinton campaign of paying Perkins Coie for legal services to hide its opposition research efforts from the public. "They should've reported a payment to Fusion GPS. They could've called it opposition research. They could've just called it research. But it definitely wasn't just 'legal services,'" Backer told the Washington Examiner.

Following remarks from Trump earlier in June that he'd be open to accepting foreign information, FEC Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub released a viral statement on Twitter, saying, "Anyone who solicits or accepts foreign assistance risks being on the wrong end of a federal investigation." Brendan Fischer, an FEC expert for the center, told the Washington Examiner that the "payments by the DNC and Clinton campaign for opposition research were legal, but hiding those payments was not." Fischer also said although it was doubtful that Steele's hiring broke the law, "whether Steele's subsequent engagement with Russian sources might run afoul of the law would really depend on the facts." The foundation, however, alleged that while Democratic officials have accused the Trump administration of collusion, "it was the Clinton-backed Democratic machine that conspired with foreigners in violation of both federal campaign finance law and basic decency to manipulate the election."

Backer contended Steele attempted to influence the election by spreading his dossier to members of the media and the government. An FEC spokesman told the Washington Examiner the organization could not comment because FEC actions must be kept confidential until the case is resolved. When asked whether the association with Steele or with Russian sources might constitute foreign interference, an FEC spokesman pointed the Washington Examiner to the the FEC website's section on foreign nationals. Fischer, who said that center is still waiting for the FEC to make a ruling, said that while most campaign finance violations only involve a fine, "if the violation is committed knowingly and willfully there could be criminal penalties."

Perkins Coie, Elias, the DNC, and the former Clinton campaign treasurer did not respond to requests seeking comment. A lawyer for Fusion GPS told the Washington Examiner that the firm has complied with the law. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is reviewing alleged FISA abuse, and Attorney General William Barr launched his "investigation of the investigators" earlier this year.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/groups-claim-hillary-clinton-campaign-broke-campaign-laws-over-fusion-gps-and-steele-funding

Coolidge Reagan Foundation v FEC
https://www.scribd.com/document/414636850/Coolidge-Reagan-Foundation-v-FEC#from_embed

#6865234 at 2019-06-28 14:17:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8780: Shills Got No Game Edition

>>6865192

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/16/William-Barr-in-2017-doj-abdicating-its-responsibility-by-ignoring-clinton-uranium-deal-in-favor-of-russia-collusion/📁
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#6858065 at 2019-06-27 21:34:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8771: Be Ready Edition

Will US Elites Give Détente With Russia A Chance?

he Trump-Putin meeting in Japan is crucial for both leaders… and for the world…

Despite determined attempts in Washington to sabotage such a "summit," as I reported previously, President Trump and Russian President Putin are still scheduled to meet at the G-20 gathering in Japan this week. Iran will be at the top of their agenda. The Trump administration seems determined to wage cold, possibly even hot, war against the Islamic Republic, while for Moscow, as emphasized by the Kremlin's national security adviser, Nikolai Patrushev, on June 25, "Iran has been and will be an ally and partner of ours."

Indeed, the importance of Iran (along with China) to Russia can hardly be overstated. Among other reasons, as the West's military alliance encroaches ever more along Russia's western borders, Iran is a large, vital non-NATO neighbor. Still more, Teheran has done nothing to incite Russia's own millions of Muslim citizens against Moscow. Well before Trump, powerful forces in Washington have long sought to project Iran as America's primary enemy in the Middle East, but for Moscow it is a necessary "ally and partner."

In normal political circumstances, Trump and Putin could probably diminish any potential US-Russian conflict over Iran-and the one still brewing in Syria as well. But both leaders come to the summit with related political problems at home. For Trump, they are the unproven but persistent allegations of "Russiagate." For Putin, they are economic.

As I have also previously explained, while there was fairly traditional "meddling," there was no "Russian attack" on the 2016 American presidential election. But for many mainstream American commentators, including the editorial page editor of The Washington Post, it is an "obvious truth" and likely to happen again in 2020, adding ominously that Trump is still "cozying up to the chief perpetrator, Russian President Vladimir Putin." A New York Times columnist goes further, insisting that Russia "helped to throw the election" to Trump. Again, there is no evidence whatsoever for these allegations. Also consider the ongoing assault on Attorney General William Barr, whose current investigation into the origins of "Russiagate" threatens to conclude that the scandal originated not with Russia but with US intelligence agencies under President Obama, in particular with the CIA under John Brennan.

We should therefore not be surprised, despite possible positive national security results of the Trump-Putin summit in Japan, if the US president is again widely accused of "treason," as he so shamefully was following his meeting with Putin in Helsinki in July 2018, and as I protested at that time. Even the Times' once-dignified columnist pages thundered, "Trump, Treasonous Traitor" and "Putin's Lackey," while senior US senators, Democrat and Republican alike, did much the same.

Putin's domestic problem, on the other hand, is economic and social. Russia's annual growth rate is barely 2 percent, real wages are declining, popular protests against officialdom's historically endemic corruption are on the rise, and Putin's approval rating, while still high, is declining. A public dispute between two of Putin's advisers has broken out over what to do. On the one side is Alexei Kudrin, the leading monetarist who has long warned against using billions of dollars in Russia's "rainy day" funds to spur investment and economic growth. On the other is Sergei Glaziev, a kind of Keynesian, FDR New Dealer who has no less persistently urged investing these funds in new domestic infrastructure that would, he argues, result in rapid economic growth.

During his nearly 20 years as Kremlin leader, Putin has generally sided with the "rainy day" monetarists. But on June 20, during his annual television call-in event, he suddenly, and elliptically, remarked that even Kudrin "has been drifting towards" Glaziev. Not surprisingly, many Russian commentators think this means that Putin himself is now "leaning toward Glaziev." If so, it is another reason why Putin has no interest in waging cold war with the United States-why he wants instead, indeed even needs, a historic, long-term détente.

It seems unlikely that President Trump or any of the advisers currently around him understand this important struggle-and it is a struggle-unfolding in the Russian policy elite. But if Trump wants a major détente (or "cooperation," as he has termed it) with Russia, anyone who cares about international security and about the well-being of the Russian people should support him in this pursuit. Especially at this moment, when we are told by the director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research that "the risks of the use of nuclear weapons...are higher now than at any time since World War Two."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-27/will-us-elites-give-detente-russia-chance

#6850186 at 2019-06-27 01:00:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8761: Off To Save The Free World! Edition

Ex-top FBI lawyer blasts Trump for accusing Mueller of committing a crime

The former top lawyer at the FBI admonished President Trump for accusing former special counsel Robert Mueller of committing a crime without evidence on Wednesday. James Baker, who was FBI general counsel during the Russia investigation, said the president should simply inform Attorney General William Barr instead of blaring out his suspicions. "Accusing Americans of crimes without a factual basis and having him just pronounce this is just unacceptable," Baker said on CNN, where he is a legal analyst. "If the president thinks that Robert Mueller committed a crime, then he should direct the attorney general to conduct an investigation and then not talk about it."

Less than 24 hours after Mueller agreed to testify before Congress next month, in response to subpoenas from two House committees, Trump lashed out at him. "Mueller terminated them illegally. He terminated all of the emails," Trump said in an interview with Fox Business. "Robert Mueller terminated their text messages together. He terminated them. They're gone. And that's illegal. That's a crime." He was referring to the anti-Trump text messages exchanged between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page while they were involved in the Hillary Clinton emails and Russia investigations. Baker, who has suggested Mueller's public testimony can be key to impeaching Trump, said the president's accusations were a "breach" of his duties under the Constitution.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-top-fbi-lawyer-blasts-trump-for-accusing-mueller-of-committing-a-crime

#6848010 at 2019-06-26 20:11:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8758: Think MirrorEdition

>>6847965
>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stoic-attorney-general-William-Barr-wows-doj-crowd-with-bagpipe-playing/

Among others, Jessie Liu and Huber are sitting in the front row here

#6847965 at 2019-06-26 20:05:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8758: Think MirrorEdition

>>6847952
Barr re-emerged onstage and tucked a bagpipe under his arm as the crowd of government attorneys laughed and applauded. A low drum beat sounded and the traditional bagpipe march
"Scotland the Brave"
began with Barr joining in. The crowd gave him a standing ovation at the end of the performance.

Barr takes the bagpipe very seriously – he's been playing since before his legal career began. Barr was a member of the now defunct U.S.-based Grade 2 Denny & Dunipace Pipe Band - which later evolved into the Scottish & Irish Imports and City of Washington - from the early-1980s until the early-1990s. Barr played with the band in a number of competitions, including the World Championships.

Soon afterward, Barr joined the Bush administration to serve his first stint as attorney general, effectively putting his competitive piping career on hold.

Barr later went on to serve as a board member of the U.S. Piping Foundation, an organization that supports competitions for bagpipers, from January 2017 to December 2018.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stoic-attorney-general-William-Barr-wows-doj-crowd-with-bagpipe-playing/

#6847887 at 2019-06-26 19:53:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8758: Think MirrorEdition

William Barr is the Pied Piper

#6847240 at 2019-06-26 18:33:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8757: So it begins! You are never alone! Edition

AG William Barr gave a surprise bagpiping performance before speaking at the U.S. Attorneys' Conference

AG Barr whips out the bagpipes - News

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1143928157386485764

10:05 AM - 26 Jun 2019

Highlander on the set
beautiful vid

#6845730 at 2019-06-26 14:27:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8755: I Like to Dunk Public Hearings in My Covfefe Edition

omg go to 6:45

Attorney General William Barr speaks to a gathering of U.S. attorneys at the Justice Department.

#6845670 at 2019-06-26 14:14:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8755: I Like to Dunk Public Hearings in My Covfefe Edition

William Barr disappears at mark 6:45 and comes back and plays his bagpipes..unbelievable..then he goes on and is being a comic for a bit after the pipe blowing..must watch!!!

https://www.c-span.org/video/?462117-1/attorney-general-Barr-speaks-us-attorneys

#6844239 at 2019-06-26 05:54:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8753: "Presidential Harassment!" Edition

Meadows: Subpoenas sent to Mueller may be invalid

Rep. Mark Meadows said the subpoenas compelling former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify next month may be invalid. Reacting to news that Mueller agreed to testify about the Russia investigation, Meadows called the whole thing a "sham" orchestrated by Democrats to "harass" President Trump. "I just find it just unbelievable that here in Congress tonight, we find out about this on the House floor. They don't even go through normal protocol to let the minority know," the North Carolina Republican said Tuesday evening on Fox News. "They broke House rules. I'm not sure the subpoena is valid because you can't issue the same subpoena from two different committees of jurisdiction."

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff announced Mueller's agreement to testify July 17 before an open joint session of their committees. The Democrats shared the letter they sent accompanying the subpoenas they each issued to Mueller. The Justice Department released Mueller's 448-page report with redactions in April, which showed his team did not establish any criminal conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. Mueller also outlined 10 scenarios of possible obstruction in his report, but declined to make a determination about whether the president obstructed justice.

Although Trump and his allies say the case is closed, Democrats argue Mueller's refusal to clear Trump on obstruction provides them a road map to continue to investigate and possibly seek impeachment. Attorney General William Barr said he and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was not sufficient evidence to establish a crime had occurred. In his only public appearance since being appointed special counsel, Mueller indicated he would not say anything that is not already evident in his 448-page report. "We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself and the report is my testimony. I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress," he said. Meadows said Mueller can expect to be "cross-examined for the first time, and the American people will start to see the flaws in his report."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-subpoenas-sent-to-mueller-may-be-invalid

Letter to Mueller
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/Letter%20to%20Special%20Counsel%20Mueller%20%286.25.19%29.pdf
Mueller Subpoena
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/Mueller%20Subpoena%20%286.25.19%29.pdf

#6841840 at 2019-06-25 23:50:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8750: Adm Rogers has brass balls! Savior of the world! Edition

Third Mueller scope memo proof Rosenstein was 'scared to death' of McCabe, Joe DiGenova says

The revelation of a possible third scope memo for special counsel Robert Mueller showed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was "scared to death" of top FBI brass, said attorney Joe DiGenova. Last week, the Washington Examiner's Byron York revealed the existence of a third scope memo, which remains shrouded in secrecy but indicates the instructions Rosenstein gave to Mueller for his Russia investigation were more extensive than previously known.

Reacting to the report on Fox Business, DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said it contributes to the notion that the Russia investigation was set up on "illegitimate" grounds and stems back to Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel. "When history of this scandal is written, one person will be blamed and should be blamed for the entire wasting of two years of President Trump's presidency. Rod Rosenstein was a coward," DiGenova told host Lou Dobbs. DiGenova claimed 'Rosenstein was frightened of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who from May to early August 2017 led the bureau after President Trump fired Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia inquiry.'

"He didn't know how to tell McCabe and those people to stop fooling around and messing around with Trump," DiGenova said. "He came in, he found out about the Hillary Clinton investigation. He saw how rabidly anti-Trump they were, and he, Rosenstein, caved and gave up the power of the attorney general and the deputy attorney general to a bunch of corrupt FBI officials. And that third scope memo is proof that he was scared to death of McCabe." DiGenova served as an independent counsel in the 1990s for a case on President Bill Clinton's passport before he was elected. Last year, it was announced DiGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing were joining Trump's legal team for the federal Russia investigation, but that plan was nixed within days. He has been highly critical of Mueller's Russia investigation, claiming that Trump had been "framed" by the Justice Department and the FBI.

Rosenstein left the DOJ last month after Mueller completed his 22-month-long investigation. McCabe was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018, after the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General determined he misled investigators about the role he had in leaking information to the Wall Street Journal in October 2016 about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe, who acknowledged he ordered the obstruction of justice investigation into Trump, argued that his firing was an attempt to discredit the FBI and Mueller's investigation. He has since called for House Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. Trump's allies have applauded Attorney General William Barr for his efforts to investigate the origins of the Russia investigation, but although Rosenstein, McCabe, Comey, and other officials they often accused of harboring bias against the president are out of government, some conflict remains. FBI Director Christopher Wray took heat after he disagreed with Trump over whether there was improper spying on his 2016 campaign. In an interview with the Hill on Monday, Trump declined to say if he had confidence in Wray. However, on Tuesday he appeared to walk that back by telling reporters that "yes" he is confident in Wray's performance.

Mueller's report was released with redactions in April, but fascination over the unseen aspects of his work remain intense. Republicans have called the case closed while Democrats argue Mueller left it to them to take up the investigation due to the limitations of his mandate, including indicting or recommending charges for obstruction of justice. The first scope memorandum, which was immediately made public, was written by Rosenstein in May 2017 when Rosenstein first appointed Mueller as special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. Rosenstein said Mueller would look at any links or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Trump, any matters that arose directly from the investigation, and anything else within the scope of the DOJ's special counsel regulations.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/third-mueller-scope-memo-proof-rod-rosenstein-was-scared-to-death-of-andrew-mccabe-joe-digenova-says

#6841664 at 2019-06-25 23:28:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8750: Adm Rogers has brass balls! Savior of the world! Edition

Mark Meadows: DOJ exploring 'unbelievably unusual activity' in final months of Obama administration

Rep. Mark Meadows said the Justice Department is examining irregularities in the intelligence community as part of its review of the origins of the Russia investigation. Reacting to newly released documents on changes in U.S. procedures for sharing raw intelligence, Meadows said there was "unbelievably unusual activity" in the final months of the Obama administration. "I can tell you that [U.S. Attorney] John Durham and Attorney General [William] Barr are going to get to the bottom of it," the North Carolina Republican said Monday evening on Fox News. "They are including in part of their surveillance - really looking at the intelligence community to make sure that justice is brought."

On Sean Hannity's show, before Meadows was brought on to speak along with colleague Rep. Jim Jordan, attorney Jay Sekulow discussed the latest findings by his conservative watchdog group, the American Center for Law and Justice. The records obtained by the ACLJ showed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under James Clapper pushing to increase access to raw signal intelligence before President Trump took office. The New York Times first reported the expanded access to intercepted communications in January 2017. Although Hannity and Sekulow played up the newly released records, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, as suspiciously timed and "rushed," the Times noted the discussions for such changes to remove bureaucratic Barriers stretched back years dating back to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Still, Jordan said he suspects there was evidence of nefarious intent, tying the changes to an interview Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did in January 2017 in which the New York Democrat warned then-incoming President Trump that intelligence officials "have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you." "So this is one of those six ways," Jordan said, adding that the other "ways" include British ex-spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier the CIA's use of informants to make contact with members of the Trump campaign.

Barr tasked Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, with leading the inquiry focused on the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign, which the FBI began in the summer of 2016. The DOJ review of the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation is not a criminal inquiry, but should Durham find criminal activity he can take prosecutorial action. Jordan noted how first Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to wrap up his investigation into Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse and that could influence Durham's efforts. "The attorney general of the United States and U.S. Attorney John Durham are doing an investigation. And they have told us this is broader than just the FBI - they're going to look at all of this," Jordan said. "First, Horowitz is going to come out. His report a year ago was very good," the Ohio Republican said. "Then we will see where Mr. Durham and Mr. Barr where their investigation and what they come back with."

The Justice Department's examination of the early stages of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign has been cheered by Republicans and criticized by Democrats. After Trump granted Barr sweeping powers to declassify secret information and instructed a handful of agencies to cooperate with his investigation, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff panned the effort as a "disturbing" scheme to politicize intelligence. A DOJ letter written to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler outlining the scope of its investigation said the review is "broad in scope and multifaceted" and includes a look at actions both by the U.S. government and by foreigners.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-doj-exploring-unbelievably-unusual-activity-in-final-months-of-obama-administration

#6840714 at 2019-06-25 21:19:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8749: Cruz Challenges Google Edition

Tracing the Origins of Congressional Democrats' 'Obstruction' Strategy

Efforts by members of Congress to advance the narrative that President Donald Trump "obstructed justice" have now replaced the disproven claims of Trump-Russia collusion.

The public narrative of obstruction, however, originated prior to the conclusion of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and his resulting report.

Less than six months after Mueller's appointment-on Oct. 10, 2017-the Brookings Institution published the first of two reports titled "Presidential Obstruction of Justice: The Case of Donald J. Trump," which outlined, among other things, a scenario whereby Mueller would refer his obstruction findings to Congress, which would then take up the matter and continue investigating. The report also discussed ways in which Congress could impeach the president, mentioning the word "impeachment" a total of 90 times.

Norman Eisen and Barry Berke, two of the authors of the Brookings report, were later retained by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on a consulting basis as special oversight counsels to the Democrat majority staff.

As Nadler noted in an announcement, the two men would have a particular focus on reviewing Mueller's investigation and would be advising the committee. It also appears Nadler intended for the two lawyers to question Attorney General William Barr.
Special Counsel's Focus on Obstruction of Justice

It was initially believed that the primary focus of Mueller's investigation centered around allegations of collusion, however, the release of Mueller's report makes clear that substantial resources were dedicated to investigating potential obstruction charges-including the question whether the president obstructed justice by firing James Comey as FBI director.

Although the Mueller report was released as a single document, it contains two separate volumes, the first part focusing on collusion and the second section dedicated solely to looking into obstruction.

The Mueller report stated that in regards to obstruction, several statutes could apply including Section 1503 and 1505 but the special counsel chose to focus primarily on Section 1512, which as the report states, "is an omnibus obstruction-of-justice provision that covers a range of obstructive acts directed at pending or contemplated official proceedings."

More
https://www.theepochtimes.com/tracing-the-origins-of-congressional-democrats-obstruction-strategy_2976309.html

#6831353 at 2019-06-24 17:07:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8737: When the sky is your office Edition

William Barr IS CONTROLLED OP

PROVE ME WRONG

LIST ARRESTS, INDICTMENTS, OR GRAND JURIES

#6830588 at 2019-06-24 15:02:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8736: [GOOGLE] Edition

>>6830503 lb

Roseanne Barr
Jerome Hershel Barr - Helen Davis

William Barr
Donald Barr - Mary Margaret

#6830490 at 2019-06-24 14:38:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8735: Monday Forecast Shilly Start with Justice Incoming Edition

>>6830437
My Post
Agreed Fake & Gay - Here was the sauce.

https://babylonfile.com/roseanne-Barr-100-behind-her-cousin-William-Barr/

Here is the super interesting part…
It quotes her on the Sean Hannity Show on Feb 19th 2019

You know what was discussed on Hannity on 2/19/19?

Red Line - RR Wiretap - #2 Lack of Candor - Jim Jordan on migrant caravans and the walls

I'm listening now to validate.
https://hannity.com/media-room/show/sean-hannity-radio-recap-feb-19/

#6830437 at 2019-06-24 14:27:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8735: Monday Forecast Shilly Start with Justice Incoming Edition

mmkay…
Roseanne and William Barr are not related, folks…FAKE AND GAY AF

First, how the sirname if HER Daddy and HIS Mommy are siblings? Barr just happened to be married names years later? BS!!!!

#6830353 at 2019-06-24 14:12:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8735: Monday Forecast Shilly Start with Justice Incoming Edition

I may be late to this party but did ya'll know…

Roseanne & AG Barr are cousins?

https://babylonfile.com/roseanne-Barr-100-behind-her-cousin-William-Barr/

I didn't. and my mind is blown.

#6823439 at 2019-06-23 16:23:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8726: It's all about the BREAK Edition

Nunes threatens ninth criminal referral, says Trump-Russia conspiracy peddlers are 'possessed'

Rep. Devin Nunes threatened to send a ninth criminal referral regarding the Trump-Russia investigation to the Justice Department if he does not receive information he requested about British ex-spy Christopher Steele, and accused those who still push the Russian collusion conspiracy of being "possessed." The California Republican sent letters Friday to FBI Director Christopher Wray and U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is conducting a review of the origins of the Russia inquiry. He asked about records the Bureau received in October 2016 that show a top official at the State Department undermining Steele's credibility. Steele authored a dossier, filled with salacious and unverified claims about President Trump's ties to Russia, that was used by the FBI to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or FISA warrants to wiretap onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

In a Fox News interview on Sunday, Nunes said someone at the FBI appears to have been "determined to hide" then-Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec's notes from both the FISA court and Congress. In the last session, when Nunes was chairman, the House Intelligence Committee conducted its own investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. "So they have until Friday to get it to us, and if they don't, we will make our ninth criminal referral," Nunes told host Maria Bartiromo. "Basically, we won't know exactly who at the FBI obstructed justice, but - Durham or the Department of Justice should be able to figure it out because there's e-mails that went around, and somebody decided not to give it to the Congress."

Nunes sent a notification in April to the Justice Department about eight criminal referrals targeting individuals tied to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, including some that had to do with leaks. On May 1, Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department has opened "multiple criminal leak investigations" related to the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation. A week later, notes taken by Kavalec, obtained and released by conservative group Citizens United through open-records litigation, revealed that she had a meeting with Steele on Oct. 11, 2016 - 10 days before the first Carter Page warrant application was submitted. Kavalec's notes said Steele admitted he was encouraged by his client, the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, to get his research out before the 2016 election. The notes, which were sent to the FBI, show Kavalec believed at least some of Steele's allegations to be false.

GOP lawmakers have demanded answers about the FBI's knowledge about Steele's "political motivations," including Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham sending letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz requesting documents. Nunes said Kavalec's notes should have been a "big red flag." He also lamented how many Americans appear to have become numb to the controversy because there have been so many of them. "I think a lot of times Americans are just becoming tone deaf to this because it's just like one grenade after another. It's, like, how many times do we have to see this Russia hoax, how bad it was and how really what you see – I think the only way to define this, Maria, is we have people that are possessed in this country, that continue to perpetuate this Russia hoax," he said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nunes-threatens-ninth-criminal-referral-says-trump-russia-conspiracy-peddlers-are-possessed

#6820745 at 2019-06-23 03:57:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8723: PAIN Edition

>>6820718
Parody Account - Not The AG

Attorney General William Barr (parody)
@agWilliamBarr Followers: 3.5K justice.gov
Not the 85th Attorney General of the USA 🇺🇸

#6820718 at 2019-06-23 03:54:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8723: PAIN Edition

AG William Barr tweats justice distribution ~ Julian Assange shown FREE?
EoS indicated JA would be showing up in June too ~ time for reveals?
WWG1WGA!!!

#6819330 at 2019-06-23 00:35:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8721: Ghostrider gunships, tankers, and EMARSS Oh My! Edition

Kek, I'd be perturbed too, if I was a spook, and Brennan was my agency head

Ex-top CIA official perturbed by John Durham's review of intelligence analysts
by Daniel Chaitin
| June 22, 2019 04:14 PM

A former top CIA official warned of dire consequences from the Justice Department's review of the origins of the Russia investigation.

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As part of the "investigation into the investigators," U.S. Attorney John Durham's team reportedly wants to talk to at least one senior CIA counterintelligence official and a senior CIA analyst who examined Russia's role in meddling in the 2016 election.

The review is not a criminal inquiry, but should Durham find criminal activity he can take prosecutorial action. Top CIA officials are said to be anxious over the federal prosecutor's efforts.

Michael Morell, who was deputy director of the CIA during the Obama administration, said Durham's interest in speaking to a CIA analyst concerns him.

"I see no problem with a DOJ review of whether the CIA and other intelligence community agencies lived up to their legal and regulatory responsibilities related to how they handled any information related to U.S. persons - U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals," Morell told CBS News, where he is now a senior national security contributor.

"Having said that, I see a DOJ review of whether or not the intelligence analysts made the right call as wholly inappropriate. I cannot ever remember a DOJ review of analysis," Morrell added.

"[Durham] and his team have no experience with, or knowledge of, the process of intelligence analysis," Morell said. "He and his team could well impose a law enforcement standard in coming to a conclusion - a much higher bar than exists in the intelligence community for analytic judgments."

American officials say Attorney General William Barr, who is overseeing Durham's efforts and earlier this year riled Democrats when he said "spying did occur" against the Trump 2016 campaign, wants to understand how the CIA coordinated with the FBI and how the agency came to its conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to sow discord in the election to help Trump and undermine his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

That effort culminated in the January 2017 release of a intelligence community assessment, commissioned by former President Barack Obama. In that report, the CIA and FBI expressed "high confidence" that Russia sought to boost Trump while the National Security Agency had "moderate confidence."

The Senate and House intelligence committees both reviewed the assessment, revealing a partisan divide. While the Senate panel, known for being largely bipartisan, called it a "sound intelligence product," the House Intelligence Committee was more critical. In 2018, the then-GOP led House panel said most of the assessment's analysis "held up to scrutiny," but noted the judgment about Putin "failed to meet most of the analytic standards set forth in the primary guiding document for [intelligence community] analysis." Democrats on the committee disagreed with that assessment.

Democrats argue Barr's effort is part of a plan to stonewall the public from learning about President Trump' potential obstruction of justice. Upon the conclusion of his Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller laid out 10 instances of possible obstruction but declined to make a determination about whether he should be accused of a crime….

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-top-cia-official-perturbed-by-john-durhams-review-of-intelligence-analysts

#6818143 at 2019-06-22 21:06:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8719: Sunday ICE Raids Edition

Ex-top CIA official perturbed by John Durham's review of intelligence analysts

A former top CIA official warned of dire consequences from the Justice Department's review of the origins of the Russia investigation. As part of the "investigation into the investigators," U.S. Attorney John Durham's team reportedly wants to talk to at least one senior CIA counterintelligence official and a senior CIA analyst who examined Russia's role in meddling in the 2016 election. The review is not a criminal inquiry, but should Durham find criminal activity he can take prosecutorial action. Top CIA officials are said to be anxious over the federal prosecutor's efforts.

Michael Morell, who was deputy director of the CIA during the Obama administration, said Durham's interest in speaking to a CIA analyst concerns him. "I see no problem with a DOJ review of whether the CIA and other intelligence community agencies lived up to their legal and regulatory responsibilities related to how they handled any information related to U.S. persons - U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals," Morell told CBS News, where he is now a senior national security contributor. "Having said that, I see a DOJ review of whether or not the intelligence analysts made the right call as wholly inappropriate. I cannot ever remember a DOJ review of analysis," Morrell added. "[Durham] and his team have no experience with, or knowledge of, the process of intelligence analysis," Morell said. "He and his team could well impose a law enforcement standard in coming to a conclusion - a much higher bar than exists in the intelligence community for analytic judgments."

American officials say Attorney General William Barr, who is overseeing Durham's efforts and earlier this year riled Democrats when he said "spying did occur" against the Trump 2016 campaign, wants to understand how the CIA coordinated with the FBI and how the agency came to its conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to sow discord in the election to help Trump and undermine his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. That effort culminated in the January 2017 release of a intelligence community assessment, commissioned by former President Barack Obama. In that report, the CIA and FBI expressed "high confidence" that Russia sought to boost Trump while the National Security Agency had "moderate confidence."

The Senate and House intelligence committees both reviewed the assessment, revealing a partisan divide. While the Senate panel, known for being largely bipartisan, called it a "sound intelligence product," the House Intelligence Committee was more critical. In 2018, the then-GOP led House panel said most of the assessment's analysis "held up to scrutiny," but noted the judgment about Putin "failed to meet most of the analytic standards set forth in the primary guiding document for [intelligence community] analysis." Democrats on the committee disagreed with that assessment.

Democrats argue Barr's effort is part of a plan to stonewall the public from learning about President Trump' potential obstruction of justice. Upon the conclusion of his Russia investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller laid out 10 instances of possible obstruction but declined to make a determination about whether he should be accused of a crime. "Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies. The coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a tweet after the president gave Barr sweeping powers to declassify documents in the investigation.

Siding with Democrats, Morrell said he feels "strongly" the Justice Department has "NO business" doing a follow-up review of the intelligence community analysis. "It does not have the knowledge & expertise necessary to get the right answers and it could well have a chilling effect across the analytic community," he said in a tweet.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-top-cia-official-perturbed-by-john-durhams-review-of-intelligence-analysts

#6810050 at 2019-06-21 21:49:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8711: Governor Sarah Sanders Edition

BASED - RON PAUL - ON how the iraq war got started by the DS - this stunning info never made the news - ever
[Congressional Record: January 26, 2011 (House)]
[Page H503]
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, how did the 20-year war get started? It had
been long assumed that the United States Government, shortly before
Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, gave Saddam Hussein a green
light to attack. A State Department cable recently published by
WikiLeaks confirmed that U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie did indeed have
a conversation with Saddam Hussein one week prior to Iraq's August 1,
1990, invasion of Kuwait. Amazingly, the released cable was entitled,
``Saddam's Message of Friendship to President Bush.'' In it, Ambassador
Glaspie affirmed to Saddam that ``the President had instructed her to
broaden and deepen our relations with Iraq.'' As Saddam Hussein
outlined Iraq's ongoing border dispute with Kuwait, Ambassador Glaspie
was quite clear that, ``we took no position on these Arab affairs.''
There would have been no reason for Saddam Hussein not to take this
assurance at face value. The U.S. was quite supportive of his invasion
and war of aggression against Iran in the 1980s. With this approval
from the U.S. Government, it wasn't surprising that the invasion
occurred. The shock and surprise was how quickly the tables were turned
and our friend, Saddam Hussein, all of a sudden became Hitler
personified.
The document was classified, supposedly to protect national security,
yet this information in no way jeopardized our security. Instead, it
served to keep the truth from the American people about an event
leading up to our initial military involvement in Iraq and the region
that continues to today.

DS then took further action vs Bush loyalists Weinberger et al with Special Counsel appt. and prosecution - actions which assured that BC beat GHWB in the next election - then GUESS WHO freed them from the witch hunt? YUP - US Attorney General William Barr who told Bush to pardon them all-and after which Barr shut down Walsh's fake investigation entirely.

#6806814 at 2019-06-21 15:11:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8706: Army Bringing the HEAT Edition

Kansas:
21 June 2019
US Attorney General recommends Romania to give up planned justice laws amendments

Upon completing his visit in Bucharest on June 20, US Attorney General William Barr said he hoped that Romania would reconsider the amendments that "have the potential of undermining the fight against corruption". He also showed confidence that Romania would take action toward an efficient, transparent and impartial justice, local News.ro reported.

Barr said that he took advantage of his visit to Bucharest to reaffirm that the rule of law is a solid principle and that all people, institutions, and entities should be governed and held accountable based on fair laws.

The US Attorney General also spoke about his meeting with Romanian justice minister Ana Birchall. "We are grateful for minister Ana Birchall supporting these principles. We hope that under her leadership and that of other Romanian officials, Romania will revert the recent amendments that risk undermining judiciary system's capacity to fight corruption; we are confident that Romania will take steps to ensure an efficient, transparent and impartial judiciary. I am anxious to improve our partnership and continue our close collaboration on law enforcement with this key ally," he said.

The EU-US meeting at ministerial level in the fields of justice and home affairs took place in Bucharest on June 19, and a joint statement was adopted in which the two sides show that the fight against terrorism is among their priorities.

The EU and US representatives also discussed security in the virtual space and the importance of cross-border access to electronic evidence.

https://www.romania-insider.com/us-attorney-general-romania-justice-changes

#6796882 at 2019-06-20 09:18:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8694: E-Bake Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6744237 Notable collecting notable.
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6755645 Please no JPEGs (with conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8693
Ghost Bake

#8692
>>6795396, >>6795443, >>6795709 Janus diggs
>>6795538 Twenty-One Drug Traffickers Associated With Nuestra Familia Arrested On Federal Charges In Kings And Tulare Counties
>>6795597 72 Philadelphia officers placed on administrative duty over social media posts
>>6795626 Pompeo & Ivanka to unveil 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report at 9:00AM
>>6795716, >>6795732 Statement by United States Attorney Richard P. Donoghue after the Conviction of Keith Raniere, outside the Brooklyn federal courthouse
>>6795720 NXIVM Victims Speak Out after Guilty Verdict vid
>>6795887 Emiliano Sala plane crash: Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
>>6795916, >>6795936 suspect is pinned and officer in critical condition in Sacramento shooting
>>6795916 Indian officials admit for first time Islamic State militants are present in Kashmir
>>6796091 #8692

#8691
>>6794601 Former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for hacking Senate computers
>>6794693 First Citizens Bank 10% owner and Chair/CEO bought $3.23m shares-June17
>>6794721 Chinese drugs pouring into America via southern border
>>6794728 Keystone keyword digg
>>6794777 China's leader, Xi Jinping, landed in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un.
>>6794790 boatfag report
>>6794802 Michael Dreeben, longtime Supreme Court lawyer who aided Mueller probe, leaving Justice Dept.
>>6794805, >>6794731, >>6794754, >>6795017 juneteenth
>>6794825 5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump
>>6794854, >>6794869 Untold story of the slavery of whites in America
>>6794883 @DeptofDefense Passing the lead decode
>>6794891, >>6794902, >>6794912 clone digg
>>6795008, >>6795009 Iran's IRGC force shoots down intruding US spy drone
>>6795166 planefag report
>>6794969, >>6795178 Covfefe act of 2017 Communication Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement
>>6795198 US Attorney General William Barr @TheJusticeDept and @Avramopoulos at the EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting today.
>>6795207 President Trump told Fox News"Hannity" exclusively on Wednesday that investigators are working to determine whether his personal phone calls were secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 campaign - a possibility he called "the ultimate."
>>6795259 #8691

Previously Collected Notables
>>6794498 #8690
>>6792196 #8687, >>6792944 #8688, >>6793738 #8689
>>6789857 #8684, >>6790652 #8685, >>6791415 #8686
>>6787470 #8681, >>6788306 #8682, >>6789096 #8683
>>6785117 #8678, >>6785974 #8679, >>6786710 #8680
>>6782879 #8675, >>6783693 #8676, >>6784230 #8677
>>6780614 #8672, >>6781368 #8673, >>6782341 #8674

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6796115 at 2019-06-20 05:43:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8693:Janus diggs Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6744237 Notable collecting notable.
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6755645 Please no JPEGs (with conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8692
>>6795396, >>6795443, >>6795709 Janus diggs
>>6795538 Twenty-One Drug Traffickers Associated With Nuestra Familia Arrested On Federal Charges In Kings And Tulare Counties
>>6795597 72 Philadelphia officers placed on administrative duty over social media posts
>>6795626 Pompeo & Ivanka to unveil 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report at 9:00AM
>>6795716, >>6795732 Statement by United States Attorney Richard P. Donoghue after the Conviction of Keith Raniere, outside the Brooklyn federal courthouse
>>6795720 NXIVM Victims Speak Out after Guilty Verdict vid
>>6795887 Emiliano Sala plane crash: Man arrested on suspicion of manslaughter
>>6795916, >>6795936 suspect is pinned and officer in critical condition in Sacramento shooting
>>6795916 Indian officials admit for first time Islamic State militants are present in Kashmir
>>6796091 #8692

#8691
>>6794601 Former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for hacking Senate computers
>>6794693 First Citizens Bank 10% owner and Chair/CEO bought $3.23m shares-June17
>>6794721 Chinese drugs pouring into America via southern border
>>6794728 Keystone keyword digg
>>6794777 China's leader, Xi Jinping, landed in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un.
>>6794790 boatfag report
>>6794802 Michael Dreeben, longtime Supreme Court lawyer who aided Mueller probe, leaving Justice Dept.
>>6794805, >>6794731, >>6794754, >>6795017 juneteenth
>>6794825 5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump
>>6794854, >>6794869 Untold story of the slavery of whites in America
>>6794883 @DeptofDefense Passing the lead decode
>>6794891, >>6794902, >>6794912 clone digg
>>6795008, >>6795009 Iran's IRGC force shoots down intruding US spy drone
>>6795166 planefag report
>>6794969, >>6795178 Covfefe act of 2017 Communication Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement
>>6795198 US Attorney General William Barr @TheJusticeDept and @Avramopoulos at the EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting today.
>>6795207 President Trump told Fox News"Hannity" exclusively on Wednesday that investigators are working to determine whether his personal phone calls were secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 campaign - a possibility he called "the ultimate."
>>6795259 #8691

Previously Collected Notables
>>6794498 #8690
>>6792196 #8687, >>6792944 #8688, >>6793738 #8689
>>6789857 #8684, >>6790652 #8685, >>6791415 #8686
>>6787470 #8681, >>6788306 #8682, >>6789096 #8683
>>6785117 #8678, >>6785974 #8679, >>6786710 #8680
>>6782879 #8675, >>6783693 #8676, >>6784230 #8677
>>6780614 #8672, >>6781368 #8673, >>6782341 #8674

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6795292 at 2019-06-20 04:01:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8692:Juneteenth Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6744237 Notable collecting notable.
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6755645 Please no JPEGs (with conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements
#8691
>>6794601 Former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for hacking Senate computers
>>6794693 First Citizens Bank 10% owner and Chair/CEO bought $3.23m shares-June17
>>6794721 Chinese drugs pouring into America via southern border
>>6794728 Keystone keyword digg
>>6794777 China's leader, Xi Jinping, landed in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un.
>>6794790 boatfag report
>>6794802 Michael Dreeben, longtime Supreme Court lawyer who aided Mueller probe, leaving Justice Dept.
>>6794805, >>6794731, >>6794754, >>6795017 juneteenth
>>6794825 5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump
>>6794854, >>6794869 Untold story of the slavery of whites in America
>>6794883 @DeptofDefense Passing the lead decode
>>6794891, >>6794902, >>6794912 clone digg
>>6795008, >>6795009 Iran's IRGC force shoots down intruding US spy drone
>>6795166 planefag report
>>6794969, >>6795178 Covfefe act of 2017 Communication Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement
>>6795198 US Attorney General William Barr @TheJusticeDept and @Avramopoulos at the EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting today.
>>6795207 President Trump told Fox News"Hannity" exclusively on Wednesday that investigators are working to determine whether his personal phone calls were secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 campaign - a possibility he called "the ultimate."
>>6795259 #8691

#8690
>>6793810, >>6793857 @USArmy This is why we fight
>>6793824 @USMarines Teamwork makes the dream
>>6793882 Gold price
>>6793942 suppressor ban may cause pro gun voters to abandon trump
>>6794073 3 States Have Passed 479 Pro-Life Laws in the Last 10 Years Protecting Babies From Abortion
>>6794088 Spain nets hashish worth £17.9m from Mediterranean ship
>>6794126 POTUS Schedule for Thursday, June 20, 2019
>>6794203 Global stocks rally, bond yields plunge, Gold Hits 6 year high after Fed hints at rate cuts
>>6794226 @TomFitton FBI official admits HRC emails found BO WH, 49K ib /weiner laptop
>>6793045, >>6791658, OPM layoff bun
>>6794498 #8690

Previously Collected Notables
>>6792196 #8687, >>6792944 #8688, >>6793738 #8689
>>6789857 #8684, >>6790652 #8685, >>6791415 #8686
>>6787470 #8681, >>6788306 #8682, >>6789096 #8683
>>6785117 #8678, >>6785974 #8679, >>6786710 #8680
>>6782879 #8675, >>6783693 #8676, >>6784230 #8677
>>6780614 #8672, >>6781368 #8673, >>6782341 #8674

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6795259 at 2019-06-20 03:58:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8691: This is why we fight! Edition

#8691
>>6794601 Former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday for hacking Senate computers
>>6794693 First Citizens Bank 10% owner and Chair/CEO bought $3.23m shares-June17
>>6794721 Chinese drugs pouring into America via southern border
>>6794728 Keystone keyword digg
>>6794777 China's leader, Xi Jinping, landed in North Korea to meet with Kim Jong-un.
>>6794790 boatfag report
>>6794802 Michael Dreeben, longtime Supreme Court lawyer who aided Mueller probe, leaving Justice Dept.
>>6794805, >>6794731, >>6794754, >>6795017 juneteenth
>>6794825 5.8 Million Individuals Drop Off Food Stamps Under Trump
>>6794854, >>6794869 Untold story of the slavery of whites in America
>>6794883 @DeptofDefense Passing the lead decode
>>6794891, >>6794902, >>6794912 clone digg
>>6795008, >>6795009 Iran's IRGC force shoots down intruding US spy drone
>>6795166 planefag report
>>6794969, >>6795178 Covfefe act of 2017 Communication Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement
>>6795198 US Attorney General William Barr @TheJusticeDept and @Avramopoulos at the EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting today.
>>6795207 President Trump told Fox News"Hannity" exclusively on Wednesday that investigators are working to determine whether his personal phone calls were secretly monitored by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 campaign - a possibility he called "the ultimate."

#6795198 at 2019-06-20 03:51:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8691: This is why we fight! Edition

Underlining the importance of the transatlantic security partnership and the excellent cooperation between Europol and US law enforcement with US Attorney General William Barr @TheJusticeDept and @Avramopoulos at the EU-US Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting today.

2:36 AM - 19 Jun 2019
https://twitter.com/Europol/status/1141278505503731712

>>6795136
>Europol

#6780682 at 2019-06-18 17:43:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8673: Rally Day Full Steam Ahead Edition

Want the truth? Put your money on Bill Barr, not Jerry Nadler

NEWS
By Kevin R. Brock 06/18/19 09:30 AM EDT

An anonymous, but wise, Wyoming rancher recently summarized special counsel Robert Mueller's report in clear middle-America language: "We know that old boy didn't actually steal any horses, but he's obviously guilty of trying to avoid being hanged for it."

The House Judiciary Committee, led by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), wants a hangin' no matter what. We know they're serious because they had former Nixon counselor John Dean testify, which had everyone in America under age 60 searching Google. […]

Let's face it, Congress seems little more than a parody now. The legislative branch of our constitutional government has withered to a thin twig, completely overshadowed by the executive and judicial branches that have far more impact on our lives.

Congress's popularity hovers just above that of human traffickers. Their job description is to pass important laws and a budget. They've done neither, consistently, for years. Immigration, cybersecurity, violent crime and drug trafficking, the environment ... basically, crickets. Their constitutional responsibilities to declare war and ratify treaties have been bypassed by the executive branch for decades. We essentially are down to 2.1 branches of government.

As a result, Congress has rolled over and abandoned America's right to sober, statesman-like, bipartisan lawmaking in exchange for political demagogue theater, which attracts the news media and gets the politicians on TV. This leads to notoriety, which leads to fabulous personal wealth - an all too familiar pattern now for those elected to Congress. […]

Frankly, most Americans hold Congress itself in contempt. We have a finely tuned desire and expectation for justice and fair play constitutionally baked into our DNA. Party politics and committee hearing circuses do not get to the truth or lead to justice; they just serve the power lust of their practitioners.

We would like the truth. A long, expensive investigation by former FBI Director James Comey and the special counsel that came up empty has led to legitimate questions about how all of this got started. […]

If true, that would be far from "fair play." That would be devastating abuse that should invite reforms to ensure it never recurs. Attorney General William Barr has signaled his intent to examine the origins of the government's intersections with the Trump campaign and the initiation of a formal FBI counterintelligence investigation by Comey and his hand-picked team.

Will this get us to the truth? […]

Barr, through his chief investigator John Durham, will want to zoom in on the following questions pertinent to the early stages of government activities against the Trump campaign:

Were members of the Trump campaign, as U.S. citizens, improperly targeted by confidential human sources of either the FBI or CIA prior to an official investigation initiation? Which agency "owned" these sources, or were they jointly operated? Early indicators of potential misuse are troubling.
Did the interaction of these sources with Trump campaign members actually help create the predication that Comey's team relied on to justify the initiation of its counterintelligence investigation? In other words, did the government enable its own investigation?

Was the Comey investigation conducted in accordance with the Attorney General's Guidelines that protect against law enforcement overreach into the lives of U.S. citizens? […]

Was the use of a government employee acting in an undercover role against a Trump campaign member (George Papadopoulos) within policy and properly approved? For which agency did this employee work? This is an intensively sensitive investigative technique that usually requires several layers of review and approval because of entrapment concerns.

The answers to these and other questions will go a long way toward determining the truth of the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation. That is why we are seeing the principals involved - Comey, McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper - clamoring ahead of time to set a diverting narrative focused on the "badness" of the president. Their nervousness is easy to spot. […]

Attorney General Barr probably will uncover the ultimate truth if he gets the cooperation that has been ordered. Put your money on him. The legislative twig, not so much.

Kevin R. Brock, former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI, was an FBI special agent for 24 years and principal deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center. He is a founder and principal of NewStreet Global Solutions, LLC.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/448999-want-the-truth-put-your-money-on-bill-Barr-not-jerry-nadler

#6777683 at 2019-06-18 05:32:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8669: Vanderbilt gone but never scrubbed Edition

PROJECTION 101
Kamala Harris: This AG Lacks ALL Credibility

After questioning William Barr Sen Kamala Harris: "This Attorney General lacks all credibility and has I think compromised the American public's ability to believe that he is a purveyor of justice," and he should resign.

#6776151 at 2019-06-18 02:05:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8667: Lame Duck Democrats Edition

Reminder:

AG Barr: Jail many asylum seekers indefinitely while cases wind through courts

April 17, 2019 / 6:38 AM / CBS/AP

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ag-Barr-jail-many-asylum-seekers-indefinitely-while-cases-wind-through-courts/

Phoenix – Detained asylum seekers who have shown they have a credible fear of returning to their country will no longer be able to ask a judge to grant them bond.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday that asylum seekers who clear a "credible fear" interview and are facing removal don't have the right to be released on bond by an immigration court judge while their cases are pending. The attorney general has the authority to overturn prior rulings made by immigration courts, which fall under the Justice Department.

It's Barr's first immigration-related decision since taking office.

Barr's ruling takes effect in 90 days and comes amid a frustrating time for the administration as the number of border crossers has skyrocketed. Most of them are families from Central America who are fleeing violence and poverty. Many seek asylum.



If I counted correctly, July 15th, would be 90 days.

#6773990 at 2019-06-17 21:42:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8664: QR PM Bake Edition

I suggest to anons that they read the DOJ's letter and review of Treasury's refusal to provide Congress with Trump's tax returns. This entire document is basically a shellacking of the committee requesting the tax returns. Surprisingly, lots of keks to be had.

They used a law of oversight over the IRS that allows them to view tax returns in the aide of drafting legislation about taxes.

Here's a couple of highlights:
>Points to the law Congress used to request Trump's tax returns is just a pretext.
>Basically asks, "if you wanted to find out about Presidential audits, then why do you need 6 years of Trump's returns prior to him becoming President.
>William Barr makes a cameo appearance in the from of a quote from 1986
>Document basically is a walking, talking example of "Don't interrupt your enemies while they are making a mistake"

And this fucking hilarious quote from Chairman Neal.
>"the public has reasonably come to expect that presiden-tial candidates and aspirants release those documents," but he cautioned that "[w]e need to approach this gingerly and make sure the rhetoric that is used does not become a footnote to the court case." FUCKING KEK.

There's a lot of good stuff in there, I couldn't put it all in for time and space.

It also firmly rebukes Congress and their committees and issues a not-so-gentle reminder that they only have investigative powers as long as they are in the commission of informing themselves in the act of legislation. I'm not a lawfag, but this could have huge implications.

Definitely recommend all anons read at least the excerpts I took (pics very much related)

Here's the full pdf from justice.gov
https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1173756/download

#6772291 at 2019-06-17 17:34:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8662: Free Hong Kong! Edition

>>6772272
Is Roseanne related to William Barr?

#6766473 at 2019-06-16 22:38:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8654: QR PM Bake Edition

https://www.justice.gov/olc/file/1173756/download

Has anyone read the DOJ's letter and review of Treasury's refusal of Congress' request for Trump's tax return? This thing is basically a shellacking of the committee requesting it. Lots of keks.

So basically, Congress asked for the returns so they can have oversight of the IRS procedures and tax policies, including but not limited to the Presidential returns, and how presidential audits are done. Their arguments are completely destroyed. It's basically a BTFO of their little committee.

Here's a couple of highlights:

>Points to the law Congress used to request Trump's returns were to be used more broadly.
>Basically asks, "If you wanted to find out about Presidential audits, why do you need 6 years of tax returns prior to Trump becoming President?"
>Asserts that they are invoking this oversight power simply as a pretext to release Trump's returns publicly
>William Barr makes a cameo in the form of a quote of his from 1986
>The document basically is an overall prime example of "Don't interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake"
>This fucking hilarious quote from Chairman Neal:
>After Representative Neal became Chairman, he confirmed that the Committee would pursue the public release of President Trump's tax returns, because "the public has reasonably come to expect that presiden-tial candidates and aspirants release those documents," but he cautioned that "[w]e need to approach this gingerly and make sure the rhetoric that is used does not become a footnote to the court case."

I made a highlights doc (pic related). There was so much good stuff in there, I couldn't put it all in for time and space. Not 100% sure this pic will upload because it's so big but here we go.

RECOMMENDED READING!!!

#6765830 at 2019-06-16 20:37:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8653:SloRise Father's Day Chillin

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5698305-William-Barr-Senate-Questionnaire-Attachment-12-D.html#search/p871/great%20awakening

#6765515 at 2019-06-16 19:40:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8653:SloRise Father's Day Chillin

Barr's 'investigation of investigators' sparks fears for efforts to thwart Russia

- (((John Sipher))), who served in the CIA's National Clandestine Services for 28 years with a stint leading its Russia operations, said: "Trump with Barr's help is trying to craft a narrative of a coup aimed at his campaign." Sipher added: "The attorney general has shown a willingness to play ball with Trump. Barr has been willing to back up Trump."

Sipher said Barr's review was "hunting for scapegoats".

Among the key figures Trump and allies have often attacked for their roles in the Russia investigation which they vilify as a "witch-hunt" are: former FBI director James Comey, ex-CIA director John Brennan, ex-FBI agent Peter Strzok and ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page. Some Trump aides and allies have called on these figures to be prosecuted.

- (((Mary McCord))), a former top DoJ prosecutor who led the department's national security division until spring 2017, said that launching a review into the genesis of the Russia investigation meant Barr was "allowing the president to have an open issue going into the 2020 elections that allows the whole witch-hunt" mantra to gain traction.

- (((Mark Warner))), the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee, said in a a statement he was worried Barr's inquiry could impede counterintelligence efforts to thwart more Kremlin interference, which the FBI expects again in the 2020 election.

Warner said Barr's review could have a "chilling effect on future counterintelligence investigations".

- Some DoJ veterans say concerns about Barr's decision to launch his new review are misplaced, noting his deep legal background in government, including a stint as attorney general under George HW Bush .

"There is no way to know now what Barr will find in his investigation or whether or how he will use this power," (((Jack Goldsmith))), a conservative ex-DoJ official and now a Harvard Law School professor, told the New York Times. "But Barr is not someone inclined to harm our national security bureaucracy."

- Other Barr testimony has raised fears he is taking political cues from Trump. At one Senate committee early last month, Barr was asked several times by Democratic senator (((Kamala Harris))) if Trump or anyone in the White House had suggested or pressured him to launch his broad review. Barr was evasive, but acknowledged there had been some "discussions" of the matter, adding that "they have not asked me to open an investigation".

- (((Ron Wyden))), a top Democrat on the Senate intelligence panel, is troubled by the direction that Barr's review seems to be taking and the powers Trump has handed him.

"Trump has been searching for years for someone to selectively declassify intelligence and throw dirt on the Russia investigation," Wyden said in a statement. Trump, he added, "wants any shred of misleading evidence that will validate his self-serving conspiracy theories. William Barr has embraced that role."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/16/William-Barr-meller-report-investigation-2020-election


So many concerned fellow citizens

#6755222 at 2019-06-15 05:05:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8640: Every Job Counts Edition

3 dayz ago

"Today the Department of Justice announced that nearly 1,700 child predators were arrested in the two month duration of operation "Broken Heart", resulting in 357 who were exploited being identified.

In total, the Internet Crimes Against Children "investigated more than 18,500 complaints of technology-facilitated crimes targeting children" between April and May, resulting in the nearly 1,700 arrests.

In the agency's press release, Attorney General William Barr said that "The sexual abuse of children is repugnant, and it victimizes the most innocent and vulnerable of all," and went on to say that "Over the span of just two months, our ICAC task forces investigated more than 18,000 complaints of internet-related abuse and helped arrest 1,700 alleged abusers.

"We must bring the full force of the law against sexual predators, and with the help of our Internet Crimes Against Children program, we will." Barr added, "We are committed to bringing the defendants in these cases to justice and protecting every American child."

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/big-nearly-1700-child-predators-behind-bars-in-massive-operation-by-trumps-doj/

#6755007 at 2019-06-15 04:29:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8639: Anon Oversight On The Oversight Committees Edition

jun 11 2019 - 3 dayz ago

"Today the Department of Justice announced that nearly 1,700 child predators were arrested in the two month duration of operation "Broken Heart", resulting in 357 who were exploited being identified.

In total, the Internet Crimes Against Children "investigated more than 18,500 complaints of technology-facilitated crimes targeting children" between April and May, resulting in the nearly 1,700 arrests.

In the agency's press release, Attorney General William Barr said that "The sexual abuse of children is repugnant, and it victimizes the most innocent and vulnerable of all," and went on to say that "Over the span of just two months, our ICAC task forces investigated more than 18,000 complaints of internet-related abuse and helped arrest 1,700 alleged abusers.

"We must bring the full force of the law against sexual predators, and with the help of our Internet Crimes Against Children program, we will." Barr added, "We are committed to bringing the defendants in these cases to justice and protecting every American child."

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/big-nearly-1700-child-predators-behind-bars-in-massive-operation-by-trumps-doj/

#6754479 at 2019-06-15 03:12:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8639: Anon Oversight On The Oversight Committees Edition

Barr compares his return to DOJ to D-Day
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/William-Barr-doj-return-d-day-shot.amp

MAGA
KAG
Happy B day POTUS

#6754342 at 2019-06-15 02:55:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8638: Happy Birthday President Trump! Edition

>>6754317
https://saraacarter.com/cummings-favors-executive-privilege-except-for-when-it-comes-to-trump/

Cummings Favored Executive Privilege Under Obama But Not For Trump
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) was once a big defender of executive privilege, that is until President Donald Trump was elected.

Cummings vote Wednesday to hold Justice Department Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress is a major turn around the lawmaker, who previously supported the use of executive privilege during the Obama Administration…

#6753467 at 2019-06-15 01:16:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8637: BOOMING BOOM Edition

Sean Hannity: Sources say DOJ inspector general resolved 'hang up' on first Carter Page FISA application

Fox News host Sean Hannity said the Justice Department inspector general's investigation into alleged surveillance abuses may have hit a snag examining the first Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. During his evening show on Thursday, Hannity explained how Inspector General Michael Horowitz worked around the issue, which was related to British ex-spy Christopher Steele and his dossier, and may have already submitted his report to the attorney general. "From my understanding, my sources, is inspector general Horowitz is probably likely done," Hannity said, adding, "I've had some people saying, suggesting strongly they believe that the attorney general already has the inspector general's report."

He was interviewing the Hill's John Solomon and credited memos obtained by conservative group Citizens United through open-records litigation and first reported by Solomon with aiding the watchdog investigation reach a breakthrough. The memos showed Steele met with Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016 and admitted he was encouraged by his client to get his research out before the 2016 election, signaling a possible political motivation. The timing of the meeting is notable, as it was 10 days before the FBI used Steele's unverified dossier to obtain the original warrant to wiretap Page.

"Now there was apparently, originally a hang up on only one of the FISA applications. Surprisingly that being the first," Hannity said. "But according to my sources, your reporting about Kathleen Kavalec's confirmation and warning and admonition to the FBI prior to the first FISA application put that to bed in light of also the closed-door testimony of Bruce Ohr that everybody was warned," he added, referring to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who acted as an unofficial back channel between the Steele and the FBI.

"Now there was apparently, originally a hang up on only one of the FISA applications. Surprisingly that being the first," Hannity said. "But according to my sources, your reporting about Kathleen Kavalec's confirmation and warning and admonition to the FBI prior to the first FISA application put that to bed in light of also the closed-door testimony of Bruce Ohr that everybody was warned," he added, referring to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, who acted as an unofficial back channel between the Steele and the FBI. Hannity's reporting follows former U.S. attorney District of Columbia Joe diGenova saying last month that Horowitz's team determined the three FISA warrant extensions against Page were illegally obtained.

Although Attorney General William Barr said he anticipated Horowitz's investigation to be complete by early June, Solomon said his own sources and Rep. Mark Meadows, have made it clear that the FISA investigation will take longer than expected to wrap up, particularly after Steele offered himself up for an interview with the inspector general. "Not a long time, a short while," Solomon said, adding that he thinks the American people will see the report sometime in the summer.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sean-hannity-sources-say-doj-inspector-general-resolved-hang-up-on-first-carter-page-fisa-application

https://www.scribd.com/document/409058964/KavelecSteeleMemoToFile10-11-16
Trump Intelligence Allegations
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3259984/Trump-Intelligence-Allegations.pdf

#6750350 at 2019-06-14 18:20:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8633: Godbless Our President and Godbless Q Edition

>>6750330

What do you think of this, sweetheart?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

#6750258 at 2019-06-14 18:07:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8633: Godbless Our President and Godbless Q Edition

>>6750237
Please send a picture of yourself weeping as you read this…

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

#6747172 at 2019-06-14 04:23:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8629: We Love And Will Miss You Sarah - The Trubute Edition

One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine Barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop.

Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust.

But these weren't your everyday perps.

All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. attorneys' offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules. And all managed to escape prosecution, despite their proven transgressions.

ADVERTISEMENT
Recent Justice Department disciplinary files tell an undeniable story.

Under the leadership of Inspector General (IG) Michael Horowitz, DOJ's internal watchdog is doing an outstanding job of policing bad conduct inside America's premier law enforcement agency.

And DOJ is doing a poor job of punishing its own.

In cases closed in the past month, more than a half-dozen FBI, DEA, U.S. attorney and U.S. marshal officials were allowed to retire, do volunteer work, or keep their jobs as they escaped criminal charges that everyday Americans probably would not.

In most instances, the decisions were made by federal prosecutors who work with the very figures impacted by or committing the bad conduct. In local law enforcement, that go-easy phenomenon is known as the "thin blue line."

Spokespersons for the Justice Department and FBI did not respond to a request for comment.

The troubling pattern of weak punishment emerges as DOJ heads into one of its most ambitious internal affairs probes in recent history. Attorney General William Barr, Horowitz and special U.S. Attorney John Durham are investigating whether the FBI and other intelligence agencies violated the law with the Trump-Russia investigation.

Even before the recent spate of closed inspector general investigations, questions surfaced about DOJ's willingness to punish its own. That's because fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was recommended for prosecution more than 15 months ago for lying about news leaks, and so far has faced no criminal charges.

To put that into perspective, it took special counsel Robert Mueller just a few months to bring charges against multiple figures associated with President Trump's campaign accused of lying or other process crimes.

It's still possible that McCabe could face prosecution. But the recent spate of fresh wrongdoing inside DOJ doesn't portray a compelling pattern of enforcement or punishment.

Take, for example, the DEA executive who just this week was found to have engaged in nepotism by routing hundreds of thousands of dollars to contractor jobs for his son and retired colleagues or friends.
Feds gone wild: DOJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors

Horowitz: "The senior DEA official wasted and misused hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funds and engaged in misconduct when he took actions to get his son and former colleagues contractor positions and that his actions constituted misconduct in violation of federal ethics regulations, the DEA Standards of Conduct, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation," he reported this week.

Despite the established wrongdoing, criminal prosecution "was declined" and "the senior DEA official retired from his position." In short, he kept his retirement benefits.
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One of the internal affairs cases that stunned members of Congress this month directly grew out of the interwoven Hillary Clinton email and Russia collusion investigations in 2016, during then-FBI Director James Comey's tenure.

The IG concluded that an FBI deputy assistant director engaged in multiple improper news media leaks while those investigations were ongoing, including one that violated a sealed court order, and accepted an improper gratuity from the news media. But prosecution was declined, yet again. FBI officials say they are considering discipline against the supervisor.

Records I reviewed indicate that more misconduct eerily similar to that already uncovered is being investigated. For example, the IG fraud unit opened a case in March and began interviewing whistleblowers about a new contract fraud matter inside the DEA, emails show.

It used to be that those who were entrusted to enforce the law were held to the highest standards.

Today, however, there is a troubling pattern of officers being held to a lower standard inside a department where critics fear there is a dual system of justice.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/448383-feds-gone-wild-dojs-stunning-inability-to-prosecute-its-own-bad

#6744630 at 2019-06-13 22:54:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8626: Iranian Boat Fags Edition

In CBS Interview:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/
Barr, philosopher:
"And as I say, that's antithetical to the way the department runs [to do things according to politics rather than facts and law] and any attorney general in this period is going to end up losing a lot of political capital and I realize that and that is one of the reasons that I ultimately was persuaded that I should take it on because I think at my stage in life it really doesn't make any difference."

#6744503 at 2019-06-13 22:35:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8626: Iranian Boat Fags Edition

Feds gone wild: DOJ's stunning inability to prosecute its own bad actors

John Solomon

One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine Barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop.

Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust.

But these weren't your everyday perps.

All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other criminals while working for the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and U.S. attorneys' offices. Instead, they broke the law or violated the rules. And all managed to escape prosecution, despite their proven transgressions.

Recent Justice Department disciplinary files tell an undeniable story.

Under the leadership of Inspector General Michael Horowitz, DOJ's internal watchdog is doing an outstanding job of policing bad conduct inside America's premier law enforcement agency.

And DOJ is doing a poor job of punishing its own.

In cases closed in the past month, more than a half-dozen FBI, DEA, U.S. attorney and U.S. marshal officials were allowed to retire, do volunteer work, or keep their jobs as they escaped criminal charges that everyday Americans probably would not.

In most instances, the decisions were made by federal prosecutors who work with the very figures impacted by or committing the bad conduct. In local law enforcement, that go-easy phenomenon is known as the "thin blue line."

Spokespersons for the Justice Department and FBI did not respond to a request for comment.

The troubling pattern of weak punishment emerges as DOJ heads into one of its most ambitious internal affairs probes in recent history. Attorney General William Barr, IG Horowitz and special U.S. Attorney John Durham are investigating whether the FBI and other intelligence agencies violated the law with the Trump-Russia investigation.

https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/448383-feds-gone-wild-dojs-stunning-inability-to-prosecute-its-own-bad

#6739113 at 2019-06-13 04:10:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8619: Sydney Powell, Set General Flynn Free! Edition

John Durham seeks interviews with two CIA officers over Russia investigation origins

The Justice Department intends to interview two CIA officers for its review of the origins of the Russia investigation. U.S. Attorney John Durham's team wants to talk to at least one senior counterintelligence official and a senior analyst who examined Russia's role in meddling in the 2016 election, according to the New York Times. Although formal requests have not yet been submitted, CIA Director Gina Haspel informed senior officials that her agency will cooperate, but will work to ensure that sources, methods, and intelligence provided by allies would be protected.

Attorney General William Barr tasked Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, with leading the inquiry focused on the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign, which the FBI began in the summer of 2016. American officials say Barr is interested in understanding how the CIA coordinated with the FBI and how the agency came to its conclusion that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to sow discord in the election to help Trump and undermine his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

The review is not a criminal inquiry, but should Durham find criminal activity he can take prosecutorial action. Top CIA officials are said to be anxious over the federal prosecutor's efforts. The Justice Department's examination of the early stages of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign has been cheered by Republicans and criticized by Democrats. After Trump granted Barr sweeping powers to declassify secret information and instructed a handful of agencies to cooperate with his investigation, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff panned the effort as a "disturbing" scheme to politicize intelligence. A DOJ letter written to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., outlining the scope of its investigation said the review is "broad in scope and multifaceted" and includes a look at actions both by the U.S. government and by foreigners.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-durham-seeks-interviews-with-two-cia-officers-over-russia-investigation-origins

DOJ Letter Durham Review June 10 2019
https://www.scribd.com/document/412973101/DOJ-Letter-Durham-Review-June-10-2019#from_embed

#6738673 at 2019-06-13 03:08:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8618: Night Shift Right Shift Edition

Barr wants DOJ to interview C_A

DOJ to interview C_A officers on Russian interference conclusions: Report

The Justice Department plans to interview senior CIA officers as part of its investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, according to The New York Times.

CIA Director Gina Haspel has told senior officials that while the CIA plans to cooperate, it will protect information that could place sources or collection methods at risk, the newspaper reported, citing current and former American officials.

The Department of Justice has not filed formal written requests to talk to the officers, but intelligence officials have been informed that Attorney General William Barr has assigned the United States attorney in Connecticut, John H. Durham, to seek the interviews, according to the Times.

Haspel does not plan to block the interviews and has told officers it will be possible to talk with Durham without risking agency secrets.

Barr is reportedly seeking further information on how the agency concluded Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian operatives to aid President Trump's 2016 campaign and damage that of Hillary Clinton, according to the Times, citing current and former officials.

Specifically, Barr wants more information about the CIA sources the agency relied on in analyzing Russian interference as well as the intelligence pathways between the CIA and the FBI in the summer of 2016, according to the newspaper.

One senior analyst Barr is seeking to question was involved in agency assessments of Russian activities in 2016, according to the Times, citing people familiar with the inquiry.

Durham's inquiry is not criminal in nature, but he will have the authority to investigate criminal wrongdoing if he finds any, according to the Times.

Durham has investigated the CIA and Haspel specifically before and has twice concluded probes by exonerating agency officials.

The FBI and CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/448286-doj-to-interview-cia-officers-on-russian-interference-conclusions

#6737925 at 2019-06-13 01:40:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8617: The World Doesn't Work That Way Edition

US Attorney Durham Is Interviewing CIA Operatives on Trump Spying... Better Lawyer Up John Brennan!

The Bill Barr Justice Department plans on interviewing senior CIA officials as part of its expanding investigation into the Obama Deep State spying on the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, according to a new report at The New York Times.
CIA Director Gina Haspel has told senior officials that while the CIA plans to cooperate, it will protect information that could place sources or collection methods at risk.

According to the Trump-hating NY Times, intel officials have been informed that Attorney General William Barr has assigned the United States attorney in Connecticut, John Durham, to seek the interviews.

Barr is also still trying to piece together why Obama administration believe Putin ordered Russian operatives to aid President Trump in 2016.

Sean Hannity added that the Department of Justice is also seeking cooperation from foreign intelligence agencies including Italy, the UK and Australia who were used by the Obama deep state to help spy on Trump campaign officials.

John Brennan may want to quit trolling on Twitter and get himself a good lawyer.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/boom-attorney-durham-is-interviewing-cia-operatives-on-trump-spying-better-lawyer-up-john-brennan/

#6733424 at 2019-06-12 14:44:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8611: QR AM Bake Edition

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is asserting executive privilege over documents related to the Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

The Justice Department notified the chairman of the House oversight committee of the decision in a letter Wednesday.

The committee is set to vote on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt for failing to turn over the subpoenaed documents.

Barr says the president has made a "protective assertion" of executive privilege so the administration can fully review all of the documents.

Democrats fear the question will reduce census participation in immigrant-heavy communities, harming representation and access to federal dollars.

Republicans have criticized the hearings as a waste of time and have called for Democrats to move on.

https://apnews.com/urn:publicid:ap.org:292e6a9a05f345ae83bff304efebf76b?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

#6727935 at 2019-06-11 21:35:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8604: QR PM Bake 2 Edition

Nearly 1,700 alleged child sex predators arrested

Nearly 1,700 suspected online child sex offenders were arrested in April and May, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The two-month operation, known as "Broken Heart," was led by Internet Crimes Against Children task forces.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nearly-1-700-alleged-child-sex-predators-arrested

Nearly 1,700 Suspected Child Sex Predators Arrested During Operation "Broken Heart"
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/nearly-1700-suspected-child-sex-predators-arrested-during-operation-broken-heart

"Over the span of just two months, our ICAC task forces investigated more than 18,000 complaints of internet-related abuse and helped arrest 1,700 alleged abusers," Attorney General William Barr said in a statement. The task forces targeted alleged predators who produced, distributed, received, or possessed child pornography, engaged in child sex trafficking or online enticement of children for sexual purposes, or traveled across state lines or abroad to sexually abuse children.

#6727513 at 2019-06-11 20:34:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8604: QR PM Bake 2 Edition

Breaking

BREAKING: The House has passed a civil contempt resolution against Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn. - NPR

https://twitter.com/raiderbrown1988/status/1138544670248701955?s=21

#6725559 at 2019-06-11 14:58:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8601: I like My Covfefe Declasifinated Edition

William Barr - "If those kinds of discussions were held, you know, when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that 'Oh he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam' or something like that. You know, some wild accusations like that, and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don't think we would be hearing a lot more about it?"

JAN CRAWFORD, CBS NEWS interview w ATTORNEY GENERAL William Barr

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/1/us-really-did-have-manchurian-candidate-white-hous/📁
Q 1662
America really did have a Manchurian Candidate in the White House

#6721665 at 2019-06-11 00:11:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8596: 50% Approval Edition

Anons the Democrats clearly know what's coming and are already trying to suppress AG Barr's work to declassify everything.

Schiff to intel community: Share info on Barr's attempts to declassify docs.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff demanded on Friday that the nation's intelligence community report to Congress any effort by Attorney General William Barr to declassify national security secrets over its objections.

Schiff made his demand in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, calling on Coats to brief his committee in person and to share any information that Barr has requested as part of a review of the origins of the FBI's investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Last month, Barr announced his intention to review the decisions that led to the Russia probe, which later was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Democrats have argued the effort is a politically driven attempt to appease Trump and feed his unsupported claims that the FBI was attempting to mount a "coup" against him.

Earlier this month, Trump granted Barr broad authority to declassify any material he needs to conduct that review, prompting outrage among Democrats who say such sweeping authority could damage national security.

"This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement," Schiff wrote.

Schiff's letter came a week after Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a similar letter to Coats, as well as the heads of the FBI, CIA and NSA. He urged the intelligence community leaders to inform the House and Senate Intelligence Committees if Barr's efforts threatened their agencies' morale, independence or capabilities.

Warner said he's particularly concerned that Barr's review could chill sources' willingness to work with U.S. intelligence or spook foreign intelligence agencies from cooperating with the United States.

In his letter, Schiff insisted his committee would conduct "rigorous oversight" of Barr's efforts and asked that Coats keep him apprised of what material Barr has requested or any other information the attorney general conveyed to intelligence agencies about his review. He also asked Coats to provide to Congress any documents shared with Barr and to notify lawmakers prior to any declassification decision.

Schiff also asked Coats to identify specific moves by Barr to declassify material over the objections of the intelligence community - and to inform Congress of what harm might come to national security as a result.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-William-Barr-declassify-documents-1349063

#6720599 at 2019-06-10 21:50:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8595: Melania Monday Edition

>>6720595

"Therefore, trying to remember such things before they happen, and assuming the crime comes last of all-I IMAGINE-NO-I DECREE-that each of you involved in this COUP, at the very least, be sentenced first: Imprisonment immediately, and fined to the maximum under the following title for not more than five years, or until such time as you are found innocent at trial on some future date!"(%)

"18 U.S.C. § 371 Conspiracy to Defraud the Government. In summary, those activities which courts have held defraud the United States affect the government in at least one of three ways:
[cited in JM 9-42.001]
1. They cheat the government out of money or property;
2. They interfere or obstruct legitimate Government activity; or
3. They make wrongful use of a governmental instrumentality."
-each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.(^)

(*) Nancy Pelosi quote at meeting with Jerrold Nadler
(#) Robert Mueller quote, press conference
(&) Actual dialogue between Alice and the White Queen, Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
(^) DOJ
(%) Aspirational dialogue
(@) William Barr quote, CBS interview with Jan Crawford
(%) Aspirational dialogue
(^) DOJ

Trump in Wonderland

#6719940 at 2019-06-10 20:31:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8594: Jim Jordan's Congressional Full Nelson Edition

DOJ Review Of Trump Surveillance Is 'Broad In Scope and Multifaceted'

DOJ's review of surveillance against the Trump campaign is "multifaceted" and "broad in scope," an official told Congress on Monday.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, DOJ official Stephen Boyd provided new details about the review of Trump surveillance.
Attorney General William Barr has said he is concerned by the "spying" carried out against Trump associates.

Attorney General William Barr's review of surveillance against the Trump campaign is "broad in scope and multifaceted," a Justice Department official told Congress on Monday.

In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, Justice Department official Stephen E. Boyd provided a summary of Barr's review. Nadler, a New York Democrat, had asked for details of the investigation, which is being led by John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut.

"It is now well established that, in 2016, the U.S. government and others undertook certain intelligence-gathering and investigative steps directed at persons associated with the Trump Campaign," Boyd wrote Nadler, adding that "there remain open questions relating to the origins of this counter-intelligence investigation and the U.S. and foreign intelligence activities that took place prior to and during that investigation."

"The Review is broad in scope and multifaceted, and is intended to illuminate open questions regarding the activities of U.S. and foreign intelligence services as well as non-governmental organizations and individuals," Boyd wrote.

He did not explain the references to foreign intelligence services or non-governmental organizations. It is known that the Australian and British governments were involved in some degree to the counterintelligence activities against Trump associates. Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, a former British spy, investigated President Donald Trump and his campaign associates on behalf of the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/10/doj-spygate-review-multifaceted/

#6719793 at 2019-06-10 20:06:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8594: Jim Jordan's Congressional Full Nelson Edition

BLINK: Nadler Backs Off Push To Hold Barr In Contempt Of Congress

Rep. Jerrold Nader talks a tough game, but as things have gotten tough, he got going.

Nadler, the New York Democrat who heads the House Judiciary Committee, had been pushing for a vote on holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress. On Monday, he backed off that call.

"I am pleased to announce that the Department of Justice has agreed to begin complying with our committee's subpoena by opening Robert Mueller's most important files to us, providing us with key evidence that the Special Counsel used to assess whether the President and others obstructed justice or were engaged in other misconduct," Nadler said in a statement. "These documents will allow us to perform our constitutional duties and decide how to respond to the allegations laid out against the President by the Special Counsel."


The files from Mueller's investigation that will be turned over concern whether President Trump obstructed justice, Fox News reported.

Nadler said both Democrats and Republicans will be allowed to view the files. In exchange, Nadler called off a contempt vote.

"Given our conversations with the Department, I will hold the criminal contempt process in abeyance for now," he said. "We have agreed to allow the Department time to demonstrate compliance with this agreement. If the Department proceeds in good faith and we are able to obtain everything we need, then there will be no need to take further steps."

Nadler said, though, that if "important information is held back," the committee would have "no choice but to enforce our subpoena in court and consider other remedies."

Last month, Nadler's committee voted to hold Barr in contempt. The Justice Department had refused to hand over an unredacted version of Mueller's report into alleged collusion between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia or the underlying documents, which total thousands of pages. Fox reported that the committee is still prepared "to move forward on a separate contempt-related resolution to enforce subpoenas for Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn. The measure is scheduled to be prepared late Monday in the House Rules Committee, for possible floor action on Tuesday."

The top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Doug Collins of Georgia, said Nadler is doing the right thing.

"Today's good faith provision from the administration further debunks claims that the White House is stonewalling Congress, which Chairman [Rep. Adam] Schiff's successful negotiations with the Justice Department already showed," Collins said, referring to a deal between the House Intelligence Committee and the Justice Department

Mueller testified last month that there was "not sufficient evidence to charge a conspiracy."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/blink-nadler-backs-off-push-to-hold-Barr-in-contempt-of-congress/

#6711114 at 2019-06-09 17:28:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8582: Consider the Vastness of Space Edition

Meadows predicts DOJ inspector general FISA abuse report will be late due to new developments

A top Republican on the House Oversight Committee predicted on Sunday that the highly anticipated Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse report from the Justice Department's inspector general will be released later than expected due to new developments. Rep. Mark Meadows told "Sunday Morning Futures" host Maria Bartiromo that he is "not as optimistic now" after Attorney General William Barr said he anticipated Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation to be complete by early June.

Horowitz and his team have been investigating alleged FISA abuse by the Justice Department and the FBI since March 2018. The inquiry includes a focus on the FBI's handling of the unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele and its extensive use in the FBI's FISA applications and renewals to target former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Barr said in April that Horowitz would be wrapped up "in probably May or June" but an end-of-the-month deadline looks increasingly unlikely. "Only Michael Horowitz knows the exact time frame of when it's coming out. Obviously the attorney general indicated that he hoped to see it in June. I'm not as optimistic now," Meadows said on Sunday. "One of the reasons for that is additional information has been given to the inspector general for them to investigate."

One significant piece of new potential information could be Steele's interest in being interviewed by Horowitz's team. Steele has conditions for an interview, including that the inspector general's team needs to come to London, where he lives and runs his private investigative firm Orbis Business Intelligence, they can only focus on his relationship with the FBI, for whom he was a confidential source, and the U.S. has to get permission from the U.K. government first. As recently as April it was reported that Steele declined to meet with Horowitz's team due to concerns about being undermined. Although he has apparently come around to speaking with Horowitz, Steele still appears dead set against meeting with officials connected to Barr's own investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.

Steele was hired by the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which was itself being paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee through the Perkins Coie law firm. The fact that the dossier had Democratic funding was not revealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Meadows stressed that his prediction about Horowitz's inquiry was just his own opinion based on the reports he has seen. "I can tell you Inspector Horowitz obviously hasn't communicated that to my knowledge to anybody on Capitol Hill," the North Carolina congressman said. "But based on what I'm seeing in terms of additional information being shared with him I think it'll be a while."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/meadows-predicts-doj-inspector-general-fisa-abuse-report-will-be-late-due-to-new-developments

#6706707 at 2019-06-09 01:41:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8577: Two Winners! Edition

OPEN LETTER TO AG Barr AND US DEPT OF INJUSTICE

To: Attorney General of the United States William Barr
United States Department of InJustice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

From: Timothy A. Clemmons

Subject: Corruption, Equal Justice Under The Law

I write this letter to express my frustration, disappointment and the frustration, disappointment of millions of other Americans regarding the tyranny of the Dual Justice System that continues to perpetuate itself within the halls of the Department of InJustice.

Whether you, or those within the InJustice Department want to admit it, the people of the United States are tired of the cronyism, political slight of hands, and prosecutorial slights for supposedly powerful people that are little more than politically connected mobsters. Attorney General Barr, the people are not stupid, we see it.

Here are just a few examples.

The Clinton Foundation

Operating as a charity, it is also a foundation, which by IRS regulation and the law cannot be done. It has broken banking laws, it has co-mingled funds, it has undeclared revenues, it has operated as a foreign agent, it has laundered money, it has committed every kind of fraud possible. Yet, in the twenty plus years of operation, it has never fallen under the scrutiny of the IRS or Treasury Department for audit. How can this occur? Cronyism.

The Targeting of Conservative Groups by The IRS/Treasury Department

Millions of American's civil liberties were violated by those within the IRS and Treasury Department. Those within the Tea Party, Right to Life, True the Vote, 2nd Amendment, Patriotism and other right leaning organizations were unduly targeted by the Federal Government for harassment and prosecution. When applying for 501.C3 status, some were even asked the content of their prayers. What kind of sick people do that?

How can this occur? It is the weaponization of government against large swathes of citizens without any accountability to the people.

The Running of the State Department on Private Email Systems ….


more at

https://americandigitalnews.com/index.php/2019/06/02/open-letter-to-ag-Barr-and-us-dept-of-injustice/

#6704034 at 2019-06-08 19:46:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8573: Ding Dong The Witch's Brothers Dead Edition

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/William-Barr-doj-return-d-day-shot.amp

#6703540 at 2019-06-08 18:56:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8573: Ding Dong The Witch's Brothers Dead Edition

Joe Biden's Spygate-Linked Top Aide Hoped for Resistance Within Trump's Cabinet, 'Purging' Nationalists

WASHINGTON - In social media remarks that got little attention, Colin Kahl, who served as Vice President Joe Biden's national security adviser, called for "purging or marginalizing the 'Axis of Ideologues' in the West Wing" in order to ensure what he described as "any hope of a sane foreign policy" during the Trump administration.

Kahl took to Twitter to make those little noticed remarks on March 11, 2017, two months after he departed the White House along with the rest of the Obama administration for the incoming Trump team.

He opined that the so-called "ideologues" have an agenda "on migration, 'radical Islam,' & trade appeal" that must be marginalized.

Kahl's call to arms against White House officials with whom he maintains policy differences gives a window into his mindset. It takes on renewed significance in light of a Breitbart News report from yesterday highlighting that the Biden senior White House adviser participated in the secretive and highly compartmentalized early principals' meetings that took place at the White House to discuss the controversial early stages of the Russia investigation, according to a book. Kahl attended the meetings to keep Biden informed of matters that transpired inside, the book related.

The matter is also newly relevant in light of renewed scrutiny over Biden's role during the Obama administration's initial operations related to the Russia probe.

Attorney General William Barr has over the past two weeks made a series of public comments that the U.S. administration's early handling of the Russia investigation may itself raise questions. He noted that it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group." Barr recently appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion claims.

Kahl served as Biden's national security adviser from October 2014 to January 2017.

Taking to Twitter in March 2017, Kahl unleashed a series of tweets explaining the need to "purge" officials who were inside the Trump administration at the time, singling out then-chief strategist Steve Bannon, senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller, then-senior national security official Michael Anton, then-deputy assistant to the president Sebastian Gorka and then-deputy national security adviser K. T. McFarland.

He called for foreign policy to be concentrated instead under "a working 'Axis of Adults'" led by then-National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, then-Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, then-Secretary of State Tillerson, Mike Pompeo, then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Mike Pence.

Cont. in link:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/08/joe-bidens-spygate-linked-top-aide-hoped-for-resistance-within-trumps-cabinet-purging-nationalists/

#6703235 at 2019-06-08 18:23:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8572:PM Bake Edition

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/William-Barr-doj-return-d-day-shot

#6702810 at 2019-06-08 17:32:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8572:PM Bake Edition

>>6702799
>William Barr compares his Justice Department return to D-Day invasion
This sounds like a plan that had been in the works for a very long time involving an absolutely massive and well coordinated attack. The only objective is to win. Failure is not an option.

#6702799 at 2019-06-08 17:31:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8572:PM Bake Edition

The Hill
Verified account @thehill

William Barr compares his Justice Department return to D-Day invasion http://hill.cm/Wi9yLXi
1:17 PM - 8 Jun 2019

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1137408211043139584

#6701959 at 2019-06-08 14:36:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8571: Elephant Talk Edition

The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

BY TODD NEIKIRK May 4, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr's confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse's (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.


Friend of Presidents, the ultra-rich and the elite of Wall Street's bankers Jeff Epstein remains an enigma to many in the world of finance despite handling portfolios estimated to be worth over $15 billion.He is seen here at left in conversation with Professor Alan Dershowitz one of America's best-known legal experts. (Photo by Rick Friedman/Corbis via Getty Images)
This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr's father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan's Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York's prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.


Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, "he was something of a Robin Williams-in-Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs." Epstein's mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns' chairman, Alan "Ace" Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

Donald Barr did not do as well at the Dalton School. According to a 1974 New York Times article, the "controversial" headmaster tendered his resignation after a fight with the board of trustees.

Epstein made new and high profile friends as his wealth grew. Among those friends was now president, Donald Trump. Trump said of Epstein in 2003, "He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life."


Trump, Barr and Epstein's worlds are now coming together with the renewed calls to investigate the billionaire's sentencing. Epstein is now free from prison and spends most of his time on a private residence in the Virgin Islands.

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-William-Barr-donald-trump-34107

WHY DID TRUMP HIRE William Barr?

#6696587 at 2019-06-07 21:30:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8564: Welcome Home POTUS & FLOTUS Edition

The investigation into the investigators is heating up.

U.S. Attorney John Durham of Connecticut has met repeatedly with Attorney General William Barr since he was tasked last month with leading a review of the origins of the Russia investigation and the Justice Department's and FBI's conduct.

Sources tell Fox News that Durham is "very dialed in" and "asking all the right questions."

#6696432 at 2019-06-07 21:13:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8563: POTUS Homeward Bound Edition

John Durham escalates review of Russia investigation origins

The investigation into the investigators is heating up. U.S. Attorney John Durham of Connecticut has met repeatedly with Attorney General William Barr since he was tasked last month with leading a review of the origins of the Russia investigation and the Justice Department's and FBI's conduct. Sources tell Fox News that Durham is "very dialed in" and "asking all the right questions."

One major focus of his review is potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse, which is the subject of a separate investigation by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz and is expected to conclude soon. British ex-spy Christopher Steele, whose unverified dossier was used in FISA applications to justify surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, has expressed a willingness to meet with Horowitz, but not with Durham. During the 2016 election, Steele was working for the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which received funding through the Perkins Coie law firm from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Steele's Democratic benefactors were not revealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Should Durham find criminal activity during the course of his investigation, sources said he would take charge of any prosecutions. Durham, a Trump nominee who hails from Connecticut, has a reputation as a dogged and unbiased investigator handling difficult and controversial cases, including the prosecution of mobsters.

Barr's examination of the early stages of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign has been cheered by Republicans and criticized by Democrats. After President Trump granted Barr sweeping powers to declassify secret information, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff panned the effort as a scheme to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller. Trump's order, which also instructed several agencies to cooperate with Barr, "represents a disturbing effort" to politicize intelligence and "raises grave concerns about inappropriate and misleading disclosures of classified information," the California Democrat wrote in letters to U.S. intelligence leaders. In a recent interview with CBS News, Barr said he chose Durham because he wanted "someone who is tenacious, who is used to looking at sensitive material involving government activities, who has a reputation for being fair and evenhanded."

He also revealed that U.S Attorney John Huber, who had been assigned by Barr's predecessor Jeff Sessions to look into issues related to FISA applications and the electronic surveillance, had "stood back" while Horowitz carried out his review. Sessions also asked Huber in 2017 to look into issues related to the sale of Uranium One and allegations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been improperly involved in the process, as well as broader claims of corruption at the Clinton Foundation. Barr suggested Huber might soon reveal findings from that inquiry. "The other issues [Huber has] been working on relate to Hillary Clinton" are "winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition," Barr said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-durham-escalates-review-of-russia-investigation-origins

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-durham-escalates-review-of-russia-investigation-origins

#6695916 at 2019-06-07 20:09:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8563: POTUS Homeward Bound Edition

Former FBI Counsel James Baker Is A Cooperating Witness With The DOJ IG And With Barr's Investigator

Now another sign of the coming apocalypse is that a man we know is a target of a federal investigation for leaking official information to the media, former FBI General Counsel James Baker, has said that he's pretty excited about meeting with both Horowitz and Durham.

Former top FBI lawyer James Baker said this week he is cooperating with the Justice Department inspector general's investigation.

"I have had a longstanding relationship with the inspector general's office, because I firmly believe in the appropriateness and the need for effective oversight of the FBI," Baker said in a CNN interview.
...
Baker took a lead role in reviewing those FISA applications before submitting them to the FISA court. He has said he took the information "seriously" but "not necessarily literally," and also that he is "nervous" about Horowitz.

Baker told CNN he is also open to helping Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham with their review of the origins of the Russia investigation. He stressed that it was a "small group" who led the FBI's counterintelligence inquiry into Trump's campaign, namely former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

He knows he's dead meat on the FISA warrant applications on Carter Page because the renewals of the FISA warrants on Page were obviously fraudulent and Baker's deputy, Trisha Anderson, testified to Congress that the original was handled outside usual channels. Even Baker, himself, told Congressional investigators that the Russia probe was handled in an "abnormal fashion" and was rife with "political bias." It appears that the FBI was very aware of the sketchiness of the Steele dossier and yet copied and pasted entire paragraphs directly into the Page warrant application and Baker was the key man in approving those warrants. But, because he's just a cog in the machine, Baker ideally placed to be able to make a deal of some sort by spilling his guts. Him making this announcement on television is the best way of telling everyone involved that he is talking and that they should do what they can to minimize their own liability because there is a big bus bearing down on them all, there is plenty of room under it, and that Baker doesn't intend to be there.

https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2019/06/07/former-fbi-counsel-james-baker-cooperating-witness-doj-ig-Barrs-investigator/


BOOM

#6694310 at 2019-06-07 17:02:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8561: Ode To The 10 Lost Breads and Other Huge Baker Fuckups Edition

Fuck this is bullshit

Baker's admission is another sign that despite what Attorney General William Barr said earlier this year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation may not be completed by early June.

A focus of Horowitz's investigation is the FBI's use of an unverified dossier on President Trump's ties to Russia, written by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, to obtain warrants to surveil onetime Trump campaign official Carter Page.

Although Fox News host Sean Hannity said this week that sources were telling him Barr may already have a copy of the inspector general's report on the FISA abuse investigation, a British newspaper reported Horowitz may soon be interviewing Steele, casting into further uncertainty the status of the inquiry.
Baker took a lead role in reviewing those FISA applications before submitting them to the FISA court. He has said he took the information "seriously" but "not necessarily literally," and also that he is "nervous" about Horowitz.

Baker told CNN he is also open to helping Attorney General William Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham with their review of the origins of the Russia investigation. He stressed that it was a "small group" who led the FBI's counterintelligence inquiry into Trump's campaign, namely former FBI Director James Comey and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Baker was appointed FBI general counsel in January 2014 and reassigned by FBI Director Christopher Wray in December 2017. Last year, it was reported that Baker was resigning, and since has written for the Lawfare blog and joined the conservative think tank R Street Institute.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-fbi-lawyer-james-baker-cooperating-with-doj-inspector-generals-fisa-abuse-investigation?_amp=true

#6693841 at 2019-06-07 15:49:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8560: QR AM Bread

This sounds more like it! It's a good read with much more info in it. He lays the whole thing out in a good way for red pilling.

Durham investigation: President Trump can't be indicted but Obama can be

Excerpts from article written by L.J. Keith:

***
WASHINGTON, DC: As British spy Christopher Steele finally agrees to be interviewed by US Attorney John Durham, the sordid truth about the Obama Clinton Russia Hoax begins to unravel. It is only a matter of time before the long-running campaign of illegal spying on Americans and the criminal use of NSA surveillance programs is revealed.
And laid at the feet of the Obama White House and Barack Obama himself.

***
The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Durham has been on the case since at least October 2018. His first actions being conducting a criminal leak investigation of DOJ official James Baker.

***
Crimes were committed at the highest levels of the government that could only have occurred with the knowledge and participation of the occupant of the Oval Office.

***
At the nexus of the whole affair is President Obama. It simply could not have happened without his knowledge and consent, if not his instructions. It is obvious that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did conspire with the CIA Director John Brennan, the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and the head of the FBI James Comey.

Together they set forth to frame Donald Trump with Kremlin disinformation in the form of the Steele dossier. Weaponizing the CIA, DNI, DOJ, and FBI to fraudulently launch a counterespionage investigation. Abusing the FISA court in the process. Their tools included leaking classified documents. Targeting the incoming President with the phony Steele dossier.

***
The FISA court rules Obama spied on Americans illegally
According to a ruling of the FISA Court presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer, The White House had been using NSA surveillance systems, including PRISM, to spy on American citizens illegally since at least 2012.

The ruling named James Comey as having granted illegal access to NSA systems under FISA 702 authority to three contractors working for John Brennan and James Clapper. Judge Collyer ruled that of 40000 queries submitted to the NSA system since 2012, 85% or over 32,000 were illegal and noncompliant.

***
Not to mention that the Mueller report is discredited starting on page one. Mueller falsely identifies Joseph Misfud as a Russian agent. Mueller knows Misfud is an American asset.
Furthermore, Mueller defames former White House lawyer John Dowd by redacting exculpatory comments. Selectively editing Michael Flynn wiretap transcripts to change their meaning to implicate instead of exonerating.
Mueller may be making himself a target of Durham's investigation.

***
John Durham has already empaneled a grand jury. The three masked contractors who Comey granted illegal NSA access to will most likely be spilling their guts to implicate those above them. Thereby avoiding long prison terms. It seems clear that Lisa Page and Bruce Ohr are already cooperating with Durham.
Christopher Steele at first refused to testify and now has reached a deal to talk to Durham's investigators. You can bet that he will have a lot to talk about.

***
In the White House, the targets are clearly Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett, Ben Rhodes, and Susan Rice, and Samantha Powers at the UN. John Kerry and Loretta Lynch are additional targets of Attorney John Durham's investigations. Sally Yates, James Baker, Andrew McCabe, and Peter Strzok better lawyer up.

***
Hillary Clinton's role in the Coup, as well as ongoing questions about the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, pay for play at the State Department, 33,000 deleted emails, and the smashing of devices under subpoena revive her imminent future as a criminal defendant.
Indictments are almost certainly coming for the whole lot of them.

***
When the indictments begin to come down and Obama's role in the spying and attempted coup d'etat is made explicitly clear, even he will not be able to escape accountability.
After the long national nightmare of years of illegal NSA spying and an attempted coup by a corrupt Obama administration, we must have confidence that the rule of law will be restored. Nonetheless, John Durham and William Barr will see that justice is done. Wherever it leads. Even if that is the indictment of former President Obama.

#6693118 at 2019-06-07 13:58:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8559: Just Like Riding A Bike, But With Captchas Edition

Why The IG Report On FISA Abuse Will Unleash Barr's Investigation Of Spygate

The forthcoming report from the Office of Inspector General on potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse will finally unleash Attorney General William Barr, and when it does, watch out.

For the last month, conservative pundits have predicted the ever-imminent dropping of Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report on his investigation into the circumstances surrounding FISA surveillance of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Horowitz's report will likely provide new and damaging details surrounding the FBI's use of the FISA court to spy on Page. More importantly, the conclusion of Horowitz's probe frees Barr to conduct a broader and more exacting investigation into all aspects of the Russia collusion hoax.

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/07/ig-report-fisa-abuse-will-unleash-Barrs-investigation-spygate/

#6687659 at 2019-06-06 20:29:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8552: Tiffany Thursday Edition

House Democrats move towards court action against Barr, McGahn

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives committee, seeking to advance probes of President Donald Trump, unveiled a measure on Thursday that would authorize court action to enforce congressional subpoenas of Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn over the Mueller report. The Rules Committee resolution was expected to go to a vote on the House floor on Tuesday, according to Democratic aides. If approved, the measure would put another aspect of the growing confrontation between Trump and House Democrats before the courts. The resolution also sets the terms for possible court action by other House committees investigating the president.

The measure follows through on House Democrats' plans to go to court in their quest for an unredacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, possible obstruction of that probe by Trump and top officials' testimony. Barr released a redacted version of the 448-page report on April 18. He later disregarded a House Judiciary Committee subpoena demanding release of the full report, along with the underlying evidence that Mueller relied on. House Judiciary voted on May 8 to recommend that the full House cite Barr for contempt of Congress.

The White House had asserted the seldom-used principle of executive privilege to try to keep the full Mueller report under wraps, even though Trump earlier allowed aides to speak with Mueller during his investigation. House Judiciary also subpoenaed McGahn, seeking his testimony, which he refused to provide in line with a pattern of stonewalling by Trump of Democrats' inquiries. "We will not allow this president and his administration to turn a blind eye to the rule of law," said Rules Committee Chairman James McGovern in a statement. "The Trump administration is waging an unprecedented campaign of stonewalling and obstruction … This resolution will allow Congress to hold the president accountable."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-congress/house-democrats-move-towards-court-action-against-Barr-mcgahn-idUSKCN1T72GE

#6687256 at 2019-06-06 19:27:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8552: Tiffany Thursday Edition

House Democrats officially introduce contempt resolution for Barr, McGahn

House Democrats have officially introduced a resolution to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with congressional subpoenas.

The contempt resolution allows Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) to go to court to seek civil enforcement of the subpoena for Barr to turn over special counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted report and underlying evidence, as well as for McGahn to provide documents and public testimony.

The resolution also gives any committee chair the rare power to go to federal court to seek civil enforcement of subpoenas, both current and future orders, so long as they are granted approval by the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Board.

The Rules Committee is expected to mark up the resolution to hold Barr and McGahn in contempt on Monday, according to a Democratic congressional aide, and the full House is slated to vote on the resolution Tuesday.

The measure, introduced by House Rules Chairman James McGovern (D-Mass.), comes as Democrats accuse the White House of unprecedented efforts to stonewall their legitimate investigations into President Trump and his administration. The White House has accused Democrats of trying to score political points against Trump ahead of the 2020 election.

Nadler subpoenaed Barr for the full Mueller report in April following its release. The Justice Department has so far refused to turn over the full report and underlying evidence, arguing that doing so would amount to Barr violating the law by releasing grand jury material and compromising ongoing investigations.

Instead, Barr has offered for a select group of lawmakers, including Nadler, to view a less-redacted version of the report provided they keep its contents confidential. Democrats have rejected this arrangement as too limited.

The fight reached a fever pitch last month, as the Judiciary panel voted along party lines to hold Barr in contempt and Trump asserted executive privilege over the subpoenaed materials on the attorney general's recommendation.

Separately, the committee had subpoenaed McGahn for documents and public testimony, but he has refused to comply on instructions from the White House.

McGahn didn't show up for a public hearing on May 21 after Trump told him not to testify, citing a Justice Department legal opinion that the former official is immune from compelled congressional testimony.

The plans to vote on the resolution mark a dramatic escalation in Democrats' battle with the Trump administration.

Democratic aides describe the resolution as a powerful expression to the courts about the White House refusing to comply with their "reasonable" requests and an effort to enforce subpoenas across the board. While it is also a move that reaffirms the current rules, rather than changing them, it comes as Congress has pivoted to holding Barr in criminal contempt of Congress.

The aides emphasized that the case could potentially unlock many doors for the investigation if a judge rules the White House cannot assert absolute immunity from its officials testifying. If the judge makes a ruling that McGahn must testify, the aides said, it could also unblock the testimony of other officials that the White House has sought to stop from testifying.

Though the measure deals with civil contempt, a Democratic aide also noted that if Democrats come across behavior that is "egregious enough," there may be additional criminal contempt proceedings.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/447318-dems-officially-introduce-contempt-resolution-for-Barr-mcgahn

#6683073 at 2019-06-06 04:12:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8546: The Kansas/Eisenhower Statue Edition

>>6683039
>>6683031

BILL Barr TRANSCRIPT
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6683072 at 2019-06-06 04:12:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8546: The Kansas/Eisenhower Statue Edition

>>6683012
I got transcript of Barr interview.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/
No as good as vid but takes less time and one can mull over the sentences without missing anything.

#6683068 at 2019-06-06 04:11:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8546: The Kansas/Eisenhower Statue Edition

>>6683039
o7
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/
>>6683042
>>6682978
>>6682817
With any luck, it's true kek.
>>6683054
Kek! o7 Couldn't find anything for Good Morning Britain on there though.

#6683015 at 2019-06-06 04:00:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8546: The Kansas/Eisenhower Statue Edition

Exclusive: AG William Barr on Special Counsel Mueller and the Russia Probe
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/cbs-radio-news/cbs-this-morning/e/61500238

Firefoxfags: if you want the mp3 of Barr's whole interview from last week, go to Tools > Page Info > Media tab. Save the audio file.

#6681292 at 2019-06-06 00:18:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8544: Shills Still Crazy After All These Years Edition

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/06/04/schiff-ag-Barr-is-the-second-most-dangerous-man-in-the-country

Schiff: AG Barr Is the 'Second Most Dangerous Man in the Country'


Tuesday while speaking at the Council of Foreign Relations, House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Attorney General William Barr is "the second most dangerous man in the country."

"So we find ourselves for the first time with an attorney general who really is the president's defense lawyer and spokesperson, and who's quite good at it and has the veneer of respectability to camouflage what he's doing," Schiff said during the event that aired on C-SPAN. "He is not the sophist that Giuliani is, he's much more dangerous. And I think he's the second most dangerous man in the country for that reason."

#6679801 at 2019-06-05 20:52:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8542 D-Day Incoming

CNN is reportedly suing the FBI to force the release of documents pertaining to the Mueller investigation.

The documents, referred to as 302 memos, recorded the answers that Mueller and his team received from about 500 witnesses during his two-year probe. The case was filed in a district court in Washington, D.C., to be handled by Judge Royce Lamberth.

The memos are also at issue in a subpoena from the House Judiciary Committee to Attorney General William Barr. A vote to hold Barr in contempt is to be held in the House on June 11th.

Source: CNN sues FBI to force release of Mueller investigation documents | TheHill

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1136367315145056256

#6678280 at 2019-06-05 17:22:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8540 PM Bake

Christopher Steele will talk to John Durham and prove FBI lied to Congress, Joe DiGenova says

Trump dossier author Christopher Steele will likely be interviewed by U.S. Attorney John Durham and will show the FBI lied to Congress, attorney Joe diGenova said on Tuesday. A Sunday Times report said the British ex-spy agreed to talk with U.S. officials, if certain preconditions were met, and strongly suggested it was a deal with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who is conducting an investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.

But diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, insisted that Durham, not Horowitz, would be the one to talk to Steele. "He's [Steele] obviously made a strategic decision because he's going to be interviewed by John Durham," diGenova said on Fox News. "It's not the inspector general from the Department of Justice who's going to talk to him because he doesn't have any reason to talk to Mr. Horowitz. He's going to talk to John Durham and his people. So there's obviously some sort of deal that has been worked out. This is great news." Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr to review the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation. The report from British media said Steele is only willing to talk about his relationship with the FBI, for whom he was a confidential source, and wants the United States to get permission from the United Kingdom government first. The report came out as President Trump was in the country for a state visit.

Despite his certainty that Durham struck the agreement with Steele, diGenova said, "I can't believe that Durham would agree to such limitations." "But this is what's important," diGenova continued. "He has to tell the truth to Durham because even though his testimony will be given overseas, he can be indicted in the United States if he lies to Durham. So I assume he's going to tell the truth because this is the big, this is the big casino now. And what he is going to prove is that the FBI lied in the FISA warrants and they lied to Congress and they lie to everybody about what they knew about Steele's behavior. … The walls are beginning to close in on the FBI fraudsters."

Steele's dossier, which was packed with unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, formed a key part of the FBI's Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications that were used to justify surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page - a key point of concern among GOP investigators. Steele was working for Fusion GPS, which received funding through the Perkins Coie law firm from the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Steele's Democratic benefactors were not revealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Former FBI top officials have defended their conduct, despite admitting there were unreliable claims in the anti-Trump research, and Steele himself has acknowledged having questionable sources.

DiGenova said Durham wants to talk to Steele because of "a criminal conspiracy" led by senior FBI officials. DiGenova served as an independent counsel in the 1990s for a case on former President Bill Clinton's passport before he was elected. Last year, it was announced diGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing were joining Trump's legal team for the federal Russia investigation, but that plan was nixed within days. He was highly critical of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, claiming that Trump had been "framed" by the Justice Department and the FBI, and recently said Horowitz determined that the three Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act extensions against Page were illegally obtained and was on the brink of finding the first Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was completely illegal.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/christopher-steele-will-talk-to-john-durham-and-prove-fbi-lied-to-congress-joe-digenova-says

#6678180 at 2019-06-05 17:12:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8540 PM Bake

House panel steps up contempt threat against Barr, Ross over Census documents

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House Oversight Committee said on Wednesday it will move forward with a vote to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress if they do not comply with a subpoena for documents related to the Trump administration's handling of the U.S. Census. The Oversight Committee issued subpoenas two months ago for unredacted documents related to the Trump administration's plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the panel said.

"We have been extremely patient in waiting for these documents, which were subpoenaed more than two months ago on a bipartisan basis," Representative Elijah Cummings, chairman of the committee, said in a statement. "If they are not produced by tomorrow, we will be forced to move forward with holding Attorney General Barr and Secretary Ross in contempt of Congress," Cummings said.

After arguments in April, the conservative-majority Supreme Court appeared likely to accept the administration's argument that the question would provide better data to enforce the Voting Rights Act, which protects eligible voters from discrimination. Critics say the question will lead to an undercount by some 4.2 million people, costing communities federal aid and political representation. Separately, after months, the Commerce Department agreed to permit three current and former department officials who were involved with the addition of the Census question to schedule interviews with the committee, the panel said. Barr also faces a contempt vote next week by the full House of Representatives on whether he failed to comply with a subpoena seeking the unredacted report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-census-contempt/house-panel-steps-up-contempt-threat-against-Barr-ross-over-census-documents-idUSKCN1T61ZR?il=0

#6677380 at 2019-06-05 15:16:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8539: Division Shills in the Wire. Something BIG This Way Comes Edition

Looks like Christopher Steele has cut a deal and will turn state's evidence on Russia Hoax prosecutions


I don't think it is a coincidence that just as President Trump is in the U.K., we suddenly learn that "dossier" author Christopher Steele has agreed to be questioned by U.S. authorities. Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller reports:

Former British spy Christopher Steele has agreed to meet in London with U.S. officials regarding the dossier, The Times of London is reporting.

A source close to Steele told the newspaper he plans to meet with American authorities within the next several weeks, but only about his interactions with the FBI and only with the approval of the British government.

Steele's decision is an apparent about-face from his reported refusal to meet with U.S. investigators regarding his infamous report.

Reuters reported in May that Steele was unwilling to meet with a federal prosecutor who Attorney General William Barr tapped to lead an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. And Politico reported on April 17 that Steele was refusing to meet with the Justice Department's office of the inspector general, which is looking into the FBI's use of the dossier to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser.


https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/looks_like_christopher_steele_has_cut_a_deal_and_will_turn_states_evidence_on_russia_hoax_prosecutions_.html

#6675356 at 2019-06-05 05:11:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8536: El Paso Needs The Wall Edition

Some excerpts from Sorcha Faal from Jan 2.
More at the link, with many hyperlinks to sauces.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index2885.htm

"A remarkable analysis contained in a new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appears to be the winner of the "Prison Lottery" discussions currently ongoing in the US Department of Justice as to which Obama Regime officials are to be criminally charged and put on trial-a fact supported by President Donald Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani who just revealed that 3 to 5 top Obama officials are going to be indicted-and US Attorney General William Barr further revealing that the criminal investigation into Clinton is near completion-with it being most important to understand that as the trade confrontation between America and China is quickly spiraling towards war, the Chinese are yet to be convinced that Trump is in full control of his nation and are therefore hesitant to make any deal with him-most particularly due to the "Obama Shadow Government" doing everything in its power to defeat Trump's foreign policy."

"Upon China blowing up this historic trade deal, this report continues, President Trump correctly assessed that they did so because of their belief they could reach a deal more favorable to them with his Democrat Party opponents who might soon defeat him-and was a message being spread to the Chinese by the "Obama Shadow Government" who had begun secretly negotiating with Iran, too-and is being led by former President Barack Obama who's been circling the globe these past weeks trashing Trump and America every chance he gets-the latest example being this past Friday when Obama trashed the United States during a speech in Brazil, and didn't even know the difference between the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence."

"With this current volatile situation heading towards war it's, perhaps, best summarized in the Los Angeles Times headline yesterday "For The U.S. and China, It's Not A Trade War Anymore - It's Something Worse", this report concludes, left to President Trump before everything spirals out of control is his displaying to the Chinese that he, and he alone, is in full control of his country, not the "Obama Shadow Government"-and whose fastest and most effective means to do so is his criminally charging top Obama Regime officials-the most likely of whom will be Hillary Clinton-not just because of the many crimes she's committed, but because she's universally loathed by all political factions in America, both left and right-the best evidence of which is being displayed in the just opened play on Broadway in New York City titled "Hillary and Clinton"-that sees famous American actor John Lithgow playing the part of Bill Clinton, while the famous American actress Laurie Metcalf plays Hillary-and in the exchange that got the loudest audience cheers, saw Bill explaining to his wife Hillary why she lost the presidency: "People don't like people who make them feel like shit"."

#6672091 at 2019-06-04 22:08:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8532: Steele On The Stand Edition

FLASHBACK: In 1998, Pelosi Wanted President to See Final Starr Report Before Congress

"Why would you not afford the President of the United States the same opportunity you were given…of having almost a week's advance notice to review the charges against you…"


(((Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blasted Attorney General William Barr for allowing President Trump's legal team to see an advanced copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final investigation. But in 1998, Pelosi suggested that then-President Bill Clinton had the right to review independent counsel Ken Starr's report on Clinton's sex scandal.)))

"AG Barr has confirmed the staggering partisan effort by the Trump Admin to spin public's view of the #MuellerReport - complete with acknowledgment that the Trump team received a sneak preview," Pelosi tweeted. "It's more urgent than ever that Special Counsel Mueller testify before Congress."


https://ntknetwork.com/flashback-in-1998-pelosi-wanted-president-to-see-final-starr-report-before-congress/

#6671621 at 2019-06-04 21:01:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8531: Planned Parenthood Prostitutes Edition

THE DECLASs. ( There are going to be several )
Apart from Spygate, a number of other cover ups are going to be exposed.
========================================
As many of us are aware, U.S. politics have been stuck in an endlessly repeating loop for two years, with hysterical Democrats using control of corporate media and every legal tool possible to remove Trump, while Trump endlessly tweets "witch hunt."
Basically, in 2016 the Clinton backing oligarchs asked their Rothschild counterparts in the UK to spy on Trump and concoct the Russiagate scandal to impeach him. Those involved in the UK who fought against the Trump campaign are now all being purged from the British military/intelligence/political power structure. This purge will be accompanied by a similar purge in the U.S.
"Trump giving [U.S. Attorney General William] Barr power to declassify gives him clean hands to terminate more Deep State actors when files are released about 9/11, 3/11 [Fukushima], and other military intelligence," A foretaste of the sorts of files that are about to be released came with a leak from Holland of video and photographs taken immediately after "Malaysian Air" Flight 370/17 was shot down over the Ukraine.
These videos indicate major discrepancies between the official story. The information contained on the flights' black boxes has "never been made public by the British, who received them," British MI6 sources say, "Both the current and former prime ministers colluded to pervert the course of Justice .
Benjamin Fulford.

#6670659 at 2019-06-04 18:32:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8530: The Truth is Spreading Edition

US House to Hold AG Barr, Ex-White House Counsel McGahn Contempt Vote June 11

The US House of Representatives will vote on June 11 over whether or not to hold Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn in contempt of Congress for his refusal to submit a subpoenaed, unredacted version of the Mueller report to the legislature, multiple Democratic Party sources told Politico Monday.

The move will aim to hold Barr in civil contempt, not criminal contempt, which Democratic Party leaders have noted would be useless since the attorney general would never face charges from his own Justice Department.

"The resolution will authorize the Judiciary Committee to pursue civil action to seek enforcement of its subpoenas in federal court," reads a Monday statement by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD). "It also authorizes House Committees that have issued subpoenas as part of their oversight and investigation responsibilities to seek civil enforcement of those subpoenas when they are ignored."

"This Administration's systematic refusal to provide Congress with answers and cooperate with Congressional subpoenas is the biggest cover-up in American history, and Congress has a responsibility to provide oversight on behalf of the American people," Hoyer wrote.

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the DOJ for an unredacted version of former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russiagate report last month, along with Mueller's underlying evidence. Barr released a redacted version in April, but declined House requests for the unredacted report, which a department spokesperson called "premature and unnecessary," Sputnik reported, and then declined to testify before Congress on the report.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201906041075594719-US-House-Vote-AG-Barr-McGahn-Contempt-Vote-Mueller-Report/

#6670528 at 2019-06-04 18:12:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8530: The Truth is Spreading Edition

25 Progressive Orgs Petition Nancy Pelosi to Begin Impeachment

Over 25 progressive groups have signed a letter once again demanding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.

"As Speaker of the House, you have the power to ensure Congress exercises its constitutional obligation to hold this president accountable, but instead of using your power, you are giving us political excuses for why you shouldn't," the letter reads from far-left groups such as the Justice Democrats and the Women's March. "Instead of leading, you and your colleagues have asked us to wait - wait for the Mueller report, wait for the unredacted Mueller report, wait for Mueller's testimony about the Mueller report, wait for more investigations, wait for bipartisan consensus, wait for impeachment to poll better, or wait for the 2020 election," it continues.

The letter sent Tuesday comes as Pelosi continues to face immense pressure from dozens of Democrats on Capitol Hill to support impeachment. Over 50 congressional Democrats now say they support a measure to oust the president - as do several White House hopefuls, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ). The coalition of far-left organizations also cited the Trump administration's policies on immigration and LGBTQ rights in their plea for impeachment proceedings to begin.

The letter states: "Waiting is not a privilege available to the families separated by his deportation force or his Muslim ban, or the asylum seekers languishing in Mexico, or people threatened by his embrace of white supremacy, or the LGBTQ people whose rights he is taking away, or the women whose bodies he is trying to control or the communities threatened by his denial of the climate crisis." Special counsel Robert Mueller's statement last Wednesday ignited a flurry of calls for impeachment despite reiterating his report's key finding: Investigators determined the Trump campaign and Russia did not commit criminal conspiracy during the 2016 presidential election. Though the special counsel did note several episodes of potential obstruction of justice, Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that the president had not done so.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/04/25-progressive-orgs-petition-nancy-pelosi-to-begin-impeachment/

Letter:
https://act.credoaction.com/letter/pelosi-we-cant-wait/

#6670381 at 2019-06-04 17:50:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8530: The Truth is Spreading Edition

Christopher Steele Reportedly Planning To Meet With US Authorities

Former British spy Christopher Steele has agreed to meet in London with U.S. officials regarding the dossier, The Times of London is reporting. A source close to Steele told the newspaper he plans to meet with American authorities within the next several weeks, but only about his interactions with the FBI and only with the approval of the British government. Steele's decision is an apparent about-face from his reported refusal to meet with U.S. investigators regarding his infamous report.

Reuters reported in May that Steele was unwilling to meet with a federal prosecutor who Attorney General William Barr tapped to lead an investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. And Politico reported on April 17 that Steele was refusing to meet with the Justice Department's office of the inspector general, which is looking into the FBI's use of the dossier to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser. Steele alleged in the dossier that the Trump campaign was part of a "well-developed conspiracy of co-operation" with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. He also reported that the Kremlin was blackmailing President Donald Trump with video of him with prostitutes in Moscow in 2016. Those allegations have been all but debunked by the special counsel's investigation, which was unable to find a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Kremlin to influence the election.

Steele, who worked indirectly for the Clinton campaign and DNC, was interviewed by the special counsel twice in 2017, but has rebuffed congressional requests for in-person interviews. He has largely avoided public view since BuzzFeed published the dossier on Jan. 10, 2017. He backed out of appearing at a national security event that was to be held in Baltimore in early March. Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department inspector general, is reportedly investigating the FBI's use of Steele as a confidential informant. Steele first provided information to an FBI agent based in Rome on July 5, 2016. He met with FBI agents at other points before the election, as well as with members of the media, State Department and Justice Department officials. The FBI cut ties with Steele on Oct. 31, 2016, after an article appeared which quoted Steele anonymously as a source speaking about his investigation of Trump. But investigators re-established contact with Steele weeks after the election. They tapped Justice Department official Bruce Ohr to serve as a back channel of sorts between Steele and the FBI.

Barr, the attorney general, has also expressed interest in the provenance of the dossier. He testified that he is concerned that the document is Russian disinformation. Steele, who worked in Russia for MI6 until his retirement in 2009, reportedly relied on a network of sources inside Russia to compile the dossier. The report's apparent inaccuracies has led some intelligence experts to call for an investigation into whether Kremlin operatives planted false information with Steele in order to smear Trump. Steele's intelligence firm, Orbis Business Intelligence, did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/06/04/christopher-steele-agree-meet-dossier/

#6669722 at 2019-06-04 16:06:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8529: D-Day minus 2 Edition

Sara Carter
The FBI failed to document at least four interviews of witnesses in the bureau's investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private server to send classified emails, according to documents obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch also discovered among the 218 pages of emails between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his paramour former FBI Attorney Lisa Page that then FBI General Counsel James Baker had instructed "FBI officials to expedite the release of FBI investigative material to Hillary Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall in August 2016. Kendall and the FBI's top lawyer discussed specifically quickly obtaining the "302" report of the FBI/DOJ interview of Mrs. Clinton."

These findings are significant, as they come at a crucial time when the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr is investigating the bureau's handling of both the Clinton probe and the investigation into the origination of the bureau's investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign alleged - now debunked - ties to Russia.

"These incredible documents show the leadership of the FBI rushed to give Hillary Clinton her FBI interview report shortly before the election," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "And the documents also show the FBI failed to timely document interviews in the Clinton email 'matter' - further confirming the whole investigation was a joke. AG Barr can't reopen the Clinton email investigation soon enough."
https://saraacarter.com/fbi-failed-to-document-four-clinton-witnesses-Barr-should-reopen-clinton-probe/

#6668568 at 2019-06-04 12:09:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8527: UK Loves Trump Edition

https://www.worldtribune.com/Barr-spygate-investigation-is-focused-on-small-group-at-the-top-of-fbi-in-2016/

Barr: Spygate investigation is focused on 'small group at the top' of FBI in 2016

The Department of Justice's investigation into the origins of Trump-Russia "spygate" is focused on "a small group at the top" of the FBI at the time, Attorney General William Barr said.

"A lot of the people who were involved are no longer there," Barr said on May 31.

The anti-Trump dossier, funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee, was crucial in the FBI's launching of the Trump-Russia probe.

The dossier's impact inside FBI headquarters is a topic of investigation by John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut. Barr has assigned him the task of finding out how and why the FBI targeted the Trump campaign - which means a focus on the dossier.

Durham, the attorney general said, has the power to compel former officials to testify. The Justice Department inspector general does not.

"These counterintelligence activities that were directed at the Trump campaign were not done in the normal course and not through the normal procedures, as far as I can tell," Barr said.

The attorney general said he wants Durham to find out "what was the predicate for it," "was everyone operating in their proper lane" and "what was the evidence."

Barr "has made it clear he wants to know ... just how far did the discredited dossier take the FBI into the depths of a nearly three-year Trump investigation?" Washington Times correspondent Rowan Scarborough noted in a June 2 report.

Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, pitched his dossier to the FBI in these terms: Donald Trump was a Russia spy, co-conspirator and financier of computer hacking.

#6667860 at 2019-06-04 07:03:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8526: Justice is Coming Edition

>>6667823

Trump Finally Has the Wind at his Back

"…The anchor was the Russian collusion narrative, now debunked, and quite easily, as it never existed in the first place. The FISA warrants, FBI informants inserted into the Trump campaign, attempted entrapment, were all a giant smokescreen with a flimsy veneer of legality, covering up highly illegal spying and weaponization of the justice and intelligence agencies of President Obama going back as far as 2012, as Joe DiGenova recently explained in a radio interview.

The irony is that Mitt Romney, with his high-browed finger-wagging over Trump's style, was likely surveilled in 2012, along with his family and campaign, perhaps costing him the election. He might as well be wearing a "kick me" sign on the back of his Brooks Brothers blazer.
Yet Trump knew all of this and more, probably before he was elected, and certainly after Admiral Mike Rogers paid him an unexpected visit at Trump Tower during the transition. The deep state plan, however, was already in play, with now legal spying, at least per the FISC warrant approvals, with a special counsel waiting in the wings to tie Trump's hands behind his back in terms of exposing any of this.
They were building an obstruction case, under the public cover of Russian collusion, hoping that Trump would declassify something or fire someone, which Mueller could claim was obstructing his investigation, paving the way for the House filing articles of impeachment.
But Trump had the patience of a tortoise running a marathon, moving his agenda upstream and upwind, biding his
time until the winds shifted for the better. That time is now. His new Attorney General William Barr jumped on board Trump's boat, the USS Covfefe, and has weighed anchor by compelling Mueller to end his witch hunt, to fish or cut bait, finishing his report, confirming what Trump has been saying all along, although to many deaf ears.
The media wind is still blowing but with far less effect. CNN and MSNBC ratings have dropped even further after Mueller released his report, making their broadcasts relevant only in Georgetown coffee shops and airport terminals.
The tide is receding with Congress now rid of some, but unfortunately not all, NeverTrumpers. Others like Lindsey Graham are energized and eager to use their committees to uncover, not bury, previous government malfeasance. NeverTrump pundits have been relegated to low ratings cable news networks, whining to like-minded news anchors while the rest of the country views them as jilted teenage mean girls.
House Democrats can't make up their minds about impeachment, torn between political practicality and their rabid base, which they spent years whipping into a frenzy, pouring blood into a school of sharks.
Democrat presidential candidates are lined up like climbers on Mount Everest last week, waiting for their chance at a selfie on the summit. They are happy to trample over the carcasses of their fellow candidates if they can move further up the line. Trump couldn't have choreographed this any better."

Continued:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/trump_finally_has_the_wind_at_his_back.html

#6667810 at 2019-06-04 06:51:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8526: Justice is Coming Edition

Michael Wolff: 56-page Mueller memo on indicting Trump does exist

Author Michael Wolff defended the claim in his new book that special counsel Robert Mueller drafted a document outlining legal arguments for indicting President Trump. Although last week Mueller's spokesman denied that a draft indictment was drawn up, Wolff said a 56-page memorandum was put together that supposes Trump was indicted for obstruction of justice. "The document is a 56-page document. It assumes that the president has been indicted. It assumes that he in turn has come back and made a motion to dismiss that indictment on grounds that you can't indict a sitting president," Wolff said in an interview Monday evening on MSNBC. "Then this document is a response to that." Wolf said the document outlined what charges Trump would face and argued why a sitting president can and should be indicted. "So it's in a way I think that missing piece of the Mueller puzzle," Wolff said. Wolff cites sources close to the Mueller investigation in his book. When asked by MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell to divulge whether his sources were in the Mueller team, Wolff would only say that these were "gold standard" sources. The existence of a three-count obstruction of justice indictment was first reported in a preview of Wolff's new book, Siege: Trump Under Fire, by the Guardian, which also said it had viewed the documents.

In response, Mueller spokesman Peter Carr issued a rare statement that said "the documents that you've described do not exist."

Wolff's last book, Fire and Fury, was riddled with unsubstantiated allegations, several of which were denounced as false. His new book, which hits bookshelves Tuesday, is already facing accusations of falsehoods, and in an interview with the New York Times Wolff admitted he does not check his stories with his subjects.

In his report, Mueller wrote that his team determined there was insufficient evidence to show criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin during the 2016 election. The report also laid out 10 instances in which Trump might have obstructed justice, but Mueller declined to say whether he committed obstruction, citing a Justice Department guideline that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. Attorney General William Barr concluded Mueller's investigation did not find "sufficient" evidence to determine whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr defended the president's behavior during the investigation as Trump being "frustrated and angry" with a process he believed was politically motivated.

Mueller, who announced he was resigning last week, said charging Trump with a crime was "not an option we could consider," citing Justice Department policy. "If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so," Mueller said. "We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime." Barr contradicted the reasoning the special counsel gave about why he did not make a determination on obstruction. "I personally felt he could've reached a decision," Barr said during an interview with CBS on Thursday. Barr said Mueller "had his reasons for not doing it" but declined to explain. "I'm not going to, you know, argue about those reasons," he said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/michael-wolff-56-page-mueller-memo-on-indicting-trump-does-exist

#6664557 at 2019-06-03 23:05:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8522: Sign of Good Faith Edition

>>6664381
William Barr don't give a shit.

#6664501 at 2019-06-03 22:59:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8522: Sign of Good Faith Edition

William Barr, Wilbur Ross notified of contempt vote over Census citizenship question

House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings notified Attorney General Bill Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross that his committee is moving forward with a vote to hold them in contempt of Congress. In a pair of letters sent Monday, the Maryland Democrats said the vote will be scheduled due to their failure to comply with congressional subpoenas issued more than two months ago regarding a citizenship question was added the 2020 Census.

"Unfortunately, your actions are part of a pattern. The Trump Administration has been engaged in one of the most unprecedented cover-ups since Watergate, extending from the White House to multiple federal agencies and departments of the government and across numerous investigations," Cummings wrote to Barr and Ross.

On Thursday, the New York Times reported Republican consultant Thomas Hofeller conducted a study that concluded adding a citizenship question would help Republicans better gerrymander districts to thwart Democrats. Before his death, Hofeller pushed the Trump transition team to consider such a question and then wrote a portion of the Justice Department's draft letter that said it would help enforce the 1965 Voting Rights Act. "The tactics of this cover-up are now clear," Cummings said. "The Administration has been challenging Congress' core authority to conduct oversight under the Constitution, questioning the legislative bases for congressional inquiries, objecting to committee rules and precedents that have been in place for decades under both Republican and Democratic leadership, and making baseless legal arguments to avoid producing documents and testimony." The contempt votes could be postponed if Barr and Ross choose to comply with the subpoenas by June 6.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-wilbur-ross-notified-of-contempt-vote-over-census-citizenship-question

#6664381 at 2019-06-03 22:42:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8522: Sign of Good Faith Edition

MSNBC reporting: Full House of Reps will vote on holding AG William Barr in contempt.

#6663903 at 2019-06-03 21:30:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8521: Tremendous Crowds Edition

House Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearings About Special Counsel Report Without Mueller

The House Judiciary Committee is going to hold a series of hearings about special counsel Robert Mueller's report even though the special counsel will not be present for any of them.

The Democrat-led committee is searching for any wrongdoing by President Donald Trump after Mueller's report established no conspiracy or cooperation between Trump's campaign and Russia, ripping apart the method Democrats sought to remove the president from office.

Mueller also probed potential obstruction but ultimately did not charge or recommend charging Trump with obstruction.

Chairs of multiple House committees, including House Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), have since been trying to obtain information about Trump from as far back as 2011, hoping to gain something they can use to fuel an impeachment push that is now attracting tepid support from the party as a whole, portraying the probing as a continuation of Muellers years-long investigation despite the lack of explosive findings.

"Russia attacked our elections to help President Trump win, Trump and his campaign welcomed this help, and the President then tried to obstruct the investigation into the attack. Mueller confirmed these revelations and has now left Congress to pick up where he left off," Nadler said in a statement on June 3.

"No one is above the law. While the White House continues to cover up and stonewall, and to prevent the American people from knowing the truth, we will continue to move forward with our investigation. These hearings will allow us to examine the findings laid out in Mueller's report so that we can work to protect the rule of law and protect future elections through consideration of legislative and other remedies."

The first hearing will take place on June 10 and include former White House Counsel John Dean, in addition to former U.S. attorneys and legal experts, the committee said in a press release.

The committee previously tried to get Attorney General William Barr to appear and answer questions on May 2, but he declined, leading to the committee passing a resolution holding him in contempt. On May 20, former White House Counsel Don McGahn declined to appear before the committee.

The committee issued subpoenas for former White House communications director Hope Hicks and former chief of staff for McGahn, Annie Donaldson, on May 21. It wasn't clear whether either or both would appear during the new round of hearings.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-judiciary-committee-to-hold-hearings-about-special-counsel-report-without-mueller_2949314.html

#6663877 at 2019-06-03 21:27:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8521: Tremendous Crowds Edition

Panic

House Oversight to Vote on Holding Barr, Ross in Contempt Over Census Question

On Monday, House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) announced that a contempt vote will be held for Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross over the Trump administration's efforts to include a citizenship question in the 2020 census.

In letters addressed to Barr and Ross, Cummings stated that the House Oversight and Reform Committee will schedule a vote to hold the two officials in contempt for not complying with congressional subpoenas.

"Unfortunately, your actions are part of a pattern. The Trump Administration has been engaged in one of the most unprecedented cover-ups since Watergate, extending from the White House to multiple federal agencies and departments of the government and across numerous investigations," Cummings wrote.

"The tactics of this cover-up are now clear. The Administration has been challenging Congress' core authority to conduct oversight under the Constitution, questioning the legislative bases for congressional inquiries, objecting to committee rules and precedents that have been in place for decades under both Republican and Democratic leadership, and making baseless legal arguments to avoid producing documents and testimony," he added, also noting that the contempt votes, which have not yet been scheduled, may be postponed if Barr and Ross provide the requested documents by Thursday, Politico reported.

Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed in a court filing last week that the citizen question was added in an effort to re-draw congressional districts in such a way as to benefit Republicans.

"The new evidence reveals that Dr. Thomas Hofeller, the longtime Republican redistricting specialist, played a significant role in orchestrating the addition of the citizenship question to the 2020 Decennial Census in order to create a structural electoral advantage for, in his own words, 'Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,'" the court filing states.

https://sputniknews.com/us/201906041075593012-Barr-ross-contempt-census-question/

#6663684 at 2019-06-03 21:03:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8521: Tremendous Crowds Edition

>>6660669 op


>OldFags,
>WRAY and HASPEL.... white hats?

Who Ran Crossfire Hurricane?
Barr's investigators should focus on John Brennan and Gina Haspel.
by JED BABBIN
June 3, 2019, 12:05 AM
Gina Haspel's confirmation hearing (CSpan screenshot/Wikimedia Commons)
"Crossfire Hurricane" - the melodramatic code name for the FBI/CIA spy operation on candidate Trump and his early presidency - was run for the FBI by then-FBI Director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, Special Agent Peter Strzok, and a few others.

Then-CIA director John Brennan ran it for the CIA. Brennan had to have help, but who was it? A lot of evidence points to the CIA's then-chief of station in London in 2016-2017, and now the Director of Central Intelligence, Gina Haspel.

President Trump claimed that the FBI and CIA's spying on his campaign and early presidency was treason. Attorney General William Barr said that, legally, it wasn't.

Barr is correct. But note well that he didn't say that crimes other than treason weren't committed. On Friday, Barr said that since he became attorney general he had been asking why the counter-intelligence investigation was begun and hasn't yet gotten a satisfactory answer.


The criminal investigation being conducted for Barr by U.S. Attorney John Durham is aimed at the intelligence community. As I wrote last week Trump's recent executive order, which requires the intelligence agencies to cooperate with Barr and gives Barr the power to declassify anything he chooses, was probably necessitated by the stonewalling by the CIA and the NSA that Durham had already encountered.

There is every reason for the CIA to stonewall. Its current director, Gina Haspel, must have played a major role in conducting the CIA/FBI spy op on Trump.

One result of last week's column was that one of my intelligence sources - a longtime veteran of the U.S. intelligence community - reappeared after about a year of silence. This person reminded me that he/she tried - unsuccessfully - to warn the White House against Haspel's nomination to be DCI because of her longstanding close ties to Obama's CIA chief, John Brennan.

Many people who objected to Haspel's confirmation, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), based their objections on the fact that Haspel had run a CIA site in Thailand in which terrorist suspects were reportedly waterboarded. The waterboarding charge was sufficient to get the Senate - and apparently the White House - to overlook the real problem with her: the fact that, as Paul once implied in a tweet, Haspel is Brennan's acolyte and protégé.

Brennan was - and still is - a hyper-partisan anti-Trumper. He was a relentless promoter of the Steele dossier allegations against Trump. Either he or James Comey (the two are disputing which) insisted on including information from the Steele dossier in the Intelligence Community Assessment of January 2017, which said that the intelligence community had agreed that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to benefit Trump. We know that Brennan has lied to Congress on a host of topics, including events surrounding the spy op on Trump's campaign and presidency.

Haspel's longstanding loyalty to Brennan ranks her among the two or three worst personnel choices made by President Trump.

Her loyalty to Brennan is more than a little relevant to Durham's investigation because, as noted above, Haspel was the CIA's Chief of Station (COS) in London from 2014-2017. It was during the latter two years of her tenure there when all of the FBI/CIA spying operation on Trump and his campaign occurred.
https://spectator.org/who-ran-crossfire-hurricane/

#6663658 at 2019-06-03 21:01:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8521: Tremendous Crowds Edition

FBI Failed to Document Four Clinton Witness Interviews. Barr Should Reopen Clinton Probe.

The FBI failed to document at least four interviews of witnesses in the bureau's investigation into former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's use of a private server to send classified emails, according to documents obtained by the government watchdog Judicial Watch.

Judicial Watch also discovered among the 218 pages of emails between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and his paramour former FBI Attorney Lisa Page that then FBI General Counsel James Baker had instructed "FBI officials to expedite the release of FBI investigative material to Hillary Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall in August 2016. Kendall and the FBI's top lawyer discussed specifically quickly obtaining the "302" report of the FBI/DOJ interview of Mrs. Clinton."


These findings are significant, as they come at a crucial time when the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr is investigating the bureau's handling of both the Clinton probe and the investigation into the origination of the bureau's investigation into President Donald Trump's campaign alleged - now debunked - ties to Russia.

"These incredible documents show the leadership of the FBI rushed to give Hillary Clinton her FBI interview report shortly before the election," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "And the documents also show the FBI failed to timely document interviews in the Clinton email 'matter' - further confirming the whole investigation was a joke. AG Barr can't reopen the Clinton email investigation soon enough."

The information obtained by Judicial Watch coincides with documents obtained by Congressional investigations. For example, Rep. John Ratcliffe, a former federal prosecutor who sits on the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox New's Maria Bartiromo Sunday that Strzok's involvement in the Trump campaign's defensive briefing mired in conflict.

First, Ratcliffe noted that it was Strzok who opened the official investigation into Trump's campaign on July 31, 2016 dubbed "Crossfire Hurricane." Ratfcliffe warned that U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been appointed by Barr to investigate the bureau, was essentially acting as a 'special counsel' in the DOJ's investigation.


"It's interesting that 18 days later on August 17, of 2016 that the FBI and CIA conducted a counterintelligence briefing for the purpose of protecting and warning Donald Trump would put in charge for coordinating that briefing Peter Strzok - the same agent who was already investigating the Trump campaign," Ratcliffe told Bartiromo. "The same agent who eight days before that defensive briefing to protect and warn Donald Trump sent a text message saying he was going to 'stop him.' Then two days before that defensive briefing sent a text message saying 'we need an insurance policy' against the Trump presidency."

"So little wonder on that day of August 17, 2016 Donald Trump isn't warned about Russian interference in his campaign and he wasn't briefed about the Steele Dossier, wasn't briefed about Carter Page," Ratcliffe added.

Currently, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is putting together his report on the FBI's handling of the FBI's probe into the Trump campaign. According to numerous congressional sources the investigation is expected to include the FBI's defensive briefing to Trump and the lack of information provided to the Trump campaign. Strzok, who was vehemently anti-Trump in his text messages to Page, is also expected to be a significant part of the Horowitz investigation.

https://saraacarter.com/fbi-failed-to-document-four-clinton-witnesses-Barr-should-reopen-clinton-probe/

#6661284 at 2019-06-03 16:09:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8518: Flotus In Full Bloom Edition

Who Ran Crossfire Hurricane?
Barr's investigators should focus on John Brennan and Gina Haspel.

Crossfire Hurricane" - the melodramatic code name for the FBI/CIA spy operation on candidate Trump and his early presidency - was run for the FBI by then-FBI Director James Comey, his deputy Andrew McCabe, Special Agent Peter Strzok, and a few others.

Then-CIA director John Brennan ran it for the CIA. Brennan had to have help, but who was it? A lot of evidence points to the CIA's then-chief of station in London in 2016-2017, and now the Director of Central Intelligence, Gina Haspel.

President Trump claimed that the FBI and CIA's spying on his campaign and early presidency was treason. Attorney General William Barr said that, legally, it wasn't.

Barr is correct. But note well that he didn't say that crimes other than treason weren't committed. On Friday, Barr said that since he became attorney general he had been asking why the counter-intelligence investigation was begun and hasn't yet gotten a satisfactory answer.

The criminal investigation being conducted for Barr by U.S. Attorney John Durham is aimed at the intelligence community. As I wrote last week Trump's recent executive order, which requires the intelligence agencies to cooperate with Barr and gives Barr the power to declassify anything he chooses, was probably necessitated by the stonewalling by the CIA and the NSA that Durham had already encountered.

https://spectator.org/who-ran-crossfire-hurricane/

#6661139 at 2019-06-03 15:44:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8518: Flotus In Full Bloom Edition

William Barr Is Washington's Worst Nightmare
Nothing scares the denizens of D.C. more than an honest man.

If you are bewildered by the weird antipathy with which Democrats and the media regard Attorney General William Barr, consider a passage from the Nobel Prize acceptance speech delivered by Polish dissident Czes?aw Mi?osz in 1980: "In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot." Our government hasn't yet devolved into the kind of totalitarian regime under which Poland groaned at that time, but there is a conspiracy of silence surrounding the skullduggery that led to the Russia collusion fraud, and Barr fired that metaphorical pistol on April 10, 2019.

Barr used the word "spying" during testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee with regard to his plan to look into counterintelligence activities against the Trump campaign during the 2016 election cycle. When he first uttered that word, it clearly startled every Democrat on the committee. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) immediately inquired if he really believed spying had occurred. Barr said, "I think spying did occur, yes." That bullet continues to ricochet around the Beltway to this day. Indeed, his use of the "s" word was belabored at considerable length by Jan Crawford during the CBS interview with Barr that aired Friday:

https://spectator.org/William-Barr-is-washingtons-worst-nightmare/

#6660638 at 2019-06-03 14:22:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8517: Advancing Into The Week Edition

AG Barr blasts 'mainstream' media for enabling 'Spygate' scandal: 'They're supposed to be watchdogs'

If anyone currently working for and on behalf of the Trump administration has an expert's grasp of our Constitution, our founding, and what sort of country our founders bequeathed to their descendants, it's Attorney General William Barr.

During his multi-faceted interview last week with CBS News, the AG took the Left-wing "mainstream media" to task for failing to properly report on the "Spygate" scandal that, in fact, they helped to enable by serving as conduits for lies, fake news, and phony allegations against a president their friends in the deep state sought to depose.

More specifically, Barr was floored by the fact that the media was uninterested in the origins of the Russia probe - why it started, who started it, and what evidence or events actually initiated it.

"The fact that today people just seem to brush aside that it is okay, you know, to engage in these activities (spying) on a political campaign is stunning to me, especially when the media doesn't seem to think it's worth looking into.

"They're supposed to be, you know, the watchdogs of our civil liberties," he added.

https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/06/03/ag-Barr-blasts-mainstream-media-for-enabling-spygate-scandal-theyre-supposed-to-be-watchdogs/

#6659162 at 2019-06-03 07:47:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8515: The Graveyard Edition

>>6659150

Trump Finally Has the Wind at his Back

"…The anchor was the Russian collusion narrative, now debunked, and quite easily, as it never existed in the first place. The FISA warrants, FBI informants inserted into the Trump campaign, attempted entrapment, were all a giant smokescreen with a flimsy veneer of legality, covering up highly illegal spying and weaponization of the justice and intelligence agencies of President Obama going back as far as 2012, as Joe DiGenova recently explained in a radio interview.

The irony is that Mitt Romney, with his high-browed finger-wagging over Trump's style, was likely surveilled in 2012, along with his family and campaign, perhaps costing him the election. He might as well be wearing a "kick me" sign on the back of his Brooks Brothers blazer.
Yet Trump knew all of this and more, probably before he was elected, and certainly after Admiral Mike Rogers paid him an unexpected visit at Trump Tower during the transition. The deep state plan, however, was already in play, with now legal spying, at least per the FISC warrant approvals, with a special counsel waiting in the wings to tie Trump's hands behind his back in terms of exposing any of this.
They were building an obstruction case, under the public cover of Russian collusion, hoping that Trump would declassify something or fire someone, which Mueller could claim was obstructing his investigation, paving the way for the House filing articles of impeachment.
But Trump had the patience of a tortoise running a marathon, moving his agenda upstream and upwind, biding his
time until the winds shifted for the better. That time is now. His new Attorney General William Barr jumped on board Trump's boat, the USS Covfefe, and has weighed anchor by compelling Mueller to end his witch hunt, to fish or cut bait, finishing his report, confirming what Trump has been saying all along, although to many deaf ears.
The media wind is still blowing but with far less effect. CNN and MSNBC ratings have dropped even further after Mueller released his report, making their broadcasts relevant only in Georgetown coffee shops and airport terminals.
The tide is receding with Congress now rid of some, but unfortunately not all, NeverTrumpers. Others like Lindsey Graham are energized and eager to use their committees to uncover, not bury, previous government malfeasance. NeverTrump pundits have been relegated to low ratings cable news networks, whining to like-minded news anchors while the rest of the country views them as jilted teenage mean girls.
House Democrats can't make up their minds about impeachment, torn between political practicality and their rabid base, which they spent years whipping into a frenzy, pouring blood into a school of sharks.
Democrat presidential candidates are lined up like climbers on Mount Everest last week, waiting for their chance at a selfie on the summit. They are happy to trample over the carcasses of their fellow candidates if they can move further up the line. Trump couldn't have choreographed this any better."

Continued:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/05/trump_finally_has_the_wind_at_his_back.html

#6659097 at 2019-06-03 07:27:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8515: The Graveyard Edition

>>6659075

Trust Barr?

"The fact is, there is nothing to "respect" and everything to condemn about Barr's work as a key inner circle operative throughout George Herbert Walker Bush's rise to power, from CIA Director to Vice President to President. These aspects of Barr's resume remain whitewashed by mainstream coverage. They have been amply documented by whistleblowers and those who worked directly with Barr.
The issue at hand is not Barr's "legal mind", but the ruthless mind that he wielded with frightening authority and expertise as George H. W. Bush's treasonous hatchet man in the Justice Department. William Barr distorted and corrupted the law, as grossly as anyone in modern history.
Barr: CIA operative 
It is a sobering fact that American presidents (many of whom have been corrupt) have gone out of their way to hire fixers to be their attorney generals.
Consider recent history: Loretta Lynch (2015-2017), Eric Holder (2009-2015), Michael Mukasey (2007-2009), Alberto Gonzales (2005-2007), John Ashcroft (2001-2005),Janet Reno (1993-2001), Dick Thornburgh (1988-1991), Ed Meese (1985-1988), etc.
Barr, however, is a particularly spectacular and sordid case. As George H.W. Bush's most notorious insider, and as the AG from 1991 to 1993, Barr wreaked havoc, flaunted the rule of law, and proved himself to be one of the CIA/Deep State's greatest and most ruthless champions and protectors:
? Barr was a full-time CIA operative, recruited by Langley out of high school, starting in 1971. Barr's youth career goal was to head the CIA.
? CIA operative assigned to the China directorate, where he became close to powerful CIA operative George H.W. Bush, whose accomplishments already included the CIA/Cuba Bay of Pigs, Asia CIA operations (Vietnam War, Golden Triangle narcotics), Nixon foreign policy (Henry Kissinger), and the Watergate operation.
? When George H.W. Bush became CIA Director in 1976, Barr joined the CIA's "legal office" and Bush's inner circle, and worked alongside Bush's longtime CIA enforcers Theodore "Ted" Shackley, Felix Rodriguez, Thomas Clines, and others, several of whom were likely involved with the Bay of Pigs/John F. Kennedy assassination, and numerous southeast Asian operations, from the Phoenix Program to Golden Triangle narco-trafficking.
? Barr stonewalled and destroyed the Church Committee investigations into CIA abuses.
? Barr stonewalled and stopped inquiries in the CIA bombing assassination of Chilean opposition leader Orlando Letelier.
? Barr joined George H.W. Bush's legal/intelligence team during Bush's vice presidency (under President Ronald Reagan) Rose from assistant attorney general to Chief Legal Counsel to attorney general (1991) during the Bush 41 presidency.
? Barr was a key player in the Iran-Contra operation, if not the most important member of the apparatus, simultaneously managing the operation while also "fixing" the legal end, ensuring that all of the operatives could do their jobs without fear of exposure or arrest.
? In his attorney general confirmation, Barr vowed to "attack criminal organizations", drug smugglers and money launderers. It was all hot air: as AG, Barr would preserve, protect, cover up, and nurture the apparatus that he helped create, and use Justice Department power to escape punishment.
? Barr stonewalled and stopped investigations into all Bush/Clinton and CIA crimes, including BCCI and BNL CIA drug banking, the theft of Inslaw/PROMIS software, and all crimes of state committed by Bush
? Barr provided legal cover for Bush's illegal foreign policy and war crimes
? Barr left Washington, and went through the "rotating door" to the corporate world, where he took on numerous directorships and counsel positions for major companies. In 2007 and again from 2017, Barr was counsel for politically-connected international law firm Kirkland & Ellis. Among its other notable attorneys and alumni are Kenneth Starr, John Bolton, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and numerous Trump administration attorneys. K&E's clients include sex trafficker/pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Mitt Romney's Bain Capital.
A strong case can be made that William Barr was as powerful and important a figure in the Bush apparatus as any other, besides Poppy Bush himself."

http://stateofthenation2012.com/?p=117511

#6657751 at 2019-06-03 03:06:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8513: The "Comb Your Hair" Edition

Sen. Murkowski recaps U.S. Attorney General Barr visit to Bethel to discuss public safety crisis

Attorney General William Barr and Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski visited the town of Bethel today to discuss the state's issues with public safety. Earlier this week, the Attorney General participated in a round table discussion at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium in Anchorage. On Friday, the Attorney General and Senator Murkowski had a sit down with tribal leadership talking about the current public safety situation and some of the proposed solutions.

"He listened, he saw, and I think he really felt firsthand what it means to be in a community that is not connected by road and has no law enforcement presence outside of a tribal police officer," Murkowski said. "We met the TPO's. 19 years old. 20 years old. One had one month of training, one had two months of training. " The Attorney General and Senator Murkowski also took a boat to the small village of Napaskiak. "We went through the public safety office, which had the holding cells," Murkowski said. "In fairness, these are conditions that people in America would not tolerate. And this was a reality that he saw."
''
Murkowski said that she and the Attorney General had good conversations about what the Justice Department might be able to do to help the situations these communities are facing. One of the potential solutions discussed were grant opportunities that are in place, that aren't working as well as they should be. She mentioned specific set asides that would allow for more flexibility within these programs. "We're not asking for all of the bells and whistles out in these remote areas, we're asking for basic public safety needs to be met," said Murkowski.

Senator Murkowski added that the Attorney General said multiple times that he is very willing to explore new proposals and new ideas to fix the issues these communities are facing. When asked if she and the Attorney General had discussed any politics relating to the Mueller Report or the President, Murkowski said their sole focus was on finding solutions to the public safety concerns, and did not discuss other politics of Washington. "In terms of where we go with the Mueller report, what may or may not come out of the house with impeachment, I think that remains to be seen."

https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/US-Attorney-General-visits-Bethel-to-discuss-public-safety-problems-across-the-state-510700921.html

>>6651549 Photos of AG Barr during his trip to Alaska.

This post adds context to these pic's posted in the early morning hours.

#6656713 at 2019-06-03 01:13:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8512: God Bless the USA Edition

"JAN CRAWFORD: That perhaps, and he didn't say this, but the- the response was that you were too soft on the president, that actually the special counsel was a little sharper on obstruction."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

"LITTLE SHARPER ON OBSTRUCTION" ?!
Ya don't say. They created it "whole cloth"

#6653731 at 2019-06-02 17:57:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8508: Pray Edition

GOP Targets Comey And Brennan As Investigations Heat Up
Congressional Republicans have set their sights on former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan for their roles in the Trump-Russia 'witch hunt' that may have been conducted illegally using flimsy evidence.

In May, a dispute erupted over whether Comey or Brennan pushed to include the Steele Dossier in the US intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference. According to Fox News, an email chain exists indicating that Comey told his subordinates that Brennan insisted on the dossier's inclusion, while a former CIA official "put the blame squarely on Comey," according to the report.

According to former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), communications between Comey and Brennan are the key to unlocking the decisions behind the dossier.

"Whoever is investigating this, tell them to look for emails between Brennan and Comey in December of 2016," Gowdy told Fox News's Sean Hannity last month.

Republican lawmakers took Gowdy's cue.

"Comey and Brennan have made a lot of statements, some under oath, about the origins of the Trump Russia investigation, the timing and role of the Steele dossier and reasons for surveillance of Trump campaign officials. As I've been saying for awhile now, some of that is inconsistent with the contents of classified documents and the sworn testimony of other witnesses," Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a member of the Judiciary Committee, told The Hill.

"And more recently, some of what Brennan and Comey have been saying is now inconsistent with one another. As Attorney General Barr said this morning, it just doesn't jive. Someone isn't telling the truth," he continued.

Attorney General William Barr has placed Connecticut US attorney John Duham in charge of reviewing the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, while President Trump gave Barr complete power to declassify information linked to the investigation - leading Democrats to suggest that Trump would 'pursue a political agenda' while investigating the politicized 'witch hunt' against him.

"Selectively declassifying sources and methods in order to serve a political agenda will make it harder for the intelligence community to do their jobs protecting this country from those who wish to do us harm," said Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA).

Perhaps Congressional Republicans will focus next on Joseph Mifsud - the Maltese professor and Clinton ally who 'seeded' the rumor that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-02/gop-targets-comey-and-brennan-investigations-heat

#6651549 at 2019-06-02 10:16:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8505: Late Saturday Edition

Photos of AG Barr during his trip to Alaska.
Moar @: https://www.adn.com/visual/photos/2019/06/01/photos-us-attorney-general-William-Barr-and-sen-lisa-murkowski-visit-western-alaska/

#6649346 at 2019-06-02 01:57:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8502: Day of Prayer 6/2 @ 11:15 EST Edition

Anons the Democrats clearly know what's coming and are already trying to suppress AG Barr's work to declassify everything.

Schiff to intel community: Share info on Barr's attempts to declassify docs.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff demanded on Friday that the nation's intelligence community report to Congress any effort by Attorney General William Barr to declassify national security secrets over its objections.

Schiff made his demand in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, calling on Coats to brief his committee in person and to share any information that Barr has requested as part of a review of the origins of the FBI's investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Last month, Barr announced his intention to review the decisions that led to the Russia probe, which later was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Democrats have argued the effort is a politically driven attempt to appease Trump and feed his unsupported claims that the FBI was attempting to mount a "coup" against him.

Earlier this month, Trump granted Barr broad authority to declassify any material he needs to conduct that review, prompting outrage among Democrats who say such sweeping authority could damage national security.

"This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement," Schiff wrote.

Schiff's letter came a week after Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a similar letter to Coats, as well as the heads of the FBI, CIA and NSA. He urged the intelligence community leaders to inform the House and Senate Intelligence Committees if Barr's efforts threatened their agencies' morale, independence or capabilities.

Warner said he's particularly concerned that Barr's review could chill sources' willingness to work with U.S. intelligence or spook foreign intelligence agencies from cooperating with the United States.

In his letter, Schiff insisted his committee would conduct "rigorous oversight" of Barr's efforts and asked that Coats keep him apprised of what material Barr has requested or any other information the attorney general conveyed to intelligence agencies about his review. He also asked Coats to provide to Congress any documents shared with Barr and to notify lawmakers prior to any declassification decision.

Schiff also asked Coats to identify specific moves by Barr to declassify material over the objections of the intelligence community - and to inform Congress of what harm might come to national security as a result.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-William-Barr-declassify-documents-1349063

#6647843 at 2019-06-01 22:15:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8500: Everybody Dies Edition

Anons the Democrats clearly know what's coming and are already trying to suppress AG Barr's work to declassify everything.

Schiff to intel community: Share info on Barr's attempts to declassify docs.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff demanded on Friday that the nation's intelligence community report to Congress any effort by Attorney General William Barr to declassify national security secrets over its objections.

Schiff made his demand in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, calling on Coats to brief his committee in person and to share any information that Barr has requested as part of a review of the origins of the FBI's investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Last month, Barr announced his intention to review the decisions that led to the Russia probe, which later was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Democrats have argued the effort is a politically driven attempt to appease Trump and feed his unsupported claims that the FBI was attempting to mount a "coup" against him.

Earlier this month, Trump granted Barr broad authority to declassify any material he needs to conduct that review, prompting outrage among Democrats who say such sweeping authority could damage national security.

"This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement," Schiff wrote.

Schiff's letter came a week after Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a similar letter to Coats, as well as the heads of the FBI, CIA and NSA. He urged the intelligence community leaders to inform the House and Senate Intelligence Committees if Barr's efforts threatened their agencies' morale, independence or capabilities.

Warner said he's particularly concerned that Barr's review could chill sources' willingness to work with U.S. intelligence or spook foreign intelligence agencies from cooperating with the United States.

In his letter, Schiff insisted his committee would conduct "rigorous oversight" of Barr's efforts and asked that Coats keep him apprised of what material Barr has requested or any other information the attorney general conveyed to intelligence agencies about his review. He also asked Coats to provide to Congress any documents shared with Barr and to notify lawmakers prior to any declassification decision.

Schiff also asked Coats to identify specific moves by Barr to declassify material over the objections of the intelligence community - and to inform Congress of what harm might come to national security as a result.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-William-Barr-declassify-documents-1349063

#6645755 at 2019-06-01 17:01:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8498: JA and SR in June Edition

The News Friday on US Attorney Huber Proves Jeff Sessions Was Not Compromised But Was Part of the Coup

During his interview with CBS on Friday Attorney General William Barr disclosed that the Huber investigation was over.
Huber was assigned to look at FISA applications and the electronic surveillance during the 2016 election and actions by Hillary Clinton.
Huber did not even start his investigation.
He didn't do a damn thing!
AG Barr said this morning on CBS News that Huber did nothing and his work was taken over by the team he set up under US Attorney John Durham:
JAN CRAWFORD: Um, what's the status of Huber's investigation in Utah? I think the former Attorney General Sessions had asked him to look at this.

William Barr: Right, so Huber had originally been asked to take a look at the FISA applications and the electronic surveillance but then he stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review, which would've been normal for the department. And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally. So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role. The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

JAN CRAWFORD: So he won't be involved in this really at all then?

William Barr: No.

JAN CRAWFORD: This is his role, it's done?

William Barr: Right.

JAN CRAWFORD: And now Durham is going to pick up-

William Barr: Yes, right.

We reported this on Huber three days earlier from an interview of Joe diGenova and AG Barr has confirmed it.

This confirms what we long suspected.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/the-news-friday-on-us-attorney-huber-proves-jeff-sessions-was-not-compromised-but-was-part-of-the-coup/

#6645588 at 2019-06-01 16:37:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8498: JA and SR in June Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
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#8497 baker change
>>6644911 Virginia Beach victims names
>>6644966 mockingbird media beginnings...lots of fuckery in the 30's...how/when they decided to #mkultra us...
>>6644899 Journalist tweets DS keywords CONCRETE, DOGS, and CHERNOBYL all in one tweet.
>>6645064 Alaskan Mission Ops Center NSA wiki (re Barr in Alaska)
>>6644919 New DJT - spoke to Gov, Mayor, Vice Mayor of Virginia
>>6645287 last HRC before VA is a gun violence twat
>>6645566 #8497

#8496
>>6644739 Two people missing after blasts at Russian military plant, 22 injured
>>6644732 China's retaliatory tariffs on US$60 billion of US goods kick in
>>6644691 Obama travels to Brasil to campaign against new gun laws in Brasil
>>6644617 Child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church DOUBLED last year and it has paid out $300M in compensation to victims
>>6644614 Iran showcases MASSIVE underground bunker & launch of a missile in a new VIDEO
>>6644601 Large Russian airlifters arrive in Syria, likely transporting heavy weapons
>>6644598 Assange is suffering 'psychological torture' and should not be extradited to the US, the UN's torture expert said
>>6644583 CDC owns a patent for a strain of Ebola
>>6644553, >>6644570, >>6644664 Devin Nunes calls 'fraud,' citing difference between Mueller report, Dowd transcript
>>6644534, >>6644548, >>6644555 New Trump Banner on Twatter
>>6644454, >>6644465, >>6644607, >>6644660, >>6644728 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
>>6644086 Post for anons during ghost, or other times a baker may need help
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun
>>6644771 #8496

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>>6643211 #8494, >>6643998 #8495
>>6640981 #8491, >>6641717 #8492, >>6642459 #8493
>>6638623 #8488, >>6639407 #8489, >>6640179 #8490
>>6636323 #8485, >>6637108 #8486, >>6637886 #8487
>>6633984 #8482, >>6634736 #8483, >>6635537 #8484
>>6631617 #8479, >>6632430 #8480, >>6633172 #8481
>>6630063 #8476, >>6630056 #8477, >>6630844 #8478

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Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
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#6645435 at 2019-06-01 16:14:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8497: For the History Books Edition

William Barr: Right, so Huber had originally been asked to take a look at the FISA applications and the electronic surveillance but then he stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review, which would've been normal for the department.
And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally.

(DOES NOT STATE THAT NO REFERRALS HAPPENED, ALMOST CERTAINLY THERE HAS BEEN)

So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role.

RECENT MONTHS RECENT MONTHS RECENT MONTHS

(HOW LONG HAS HUBER BEEN EMPLOYED?)

The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

HRCHRCHRCHRCHRC

#6645220 at 2019-06-01 15:40:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8497: For the History Books Edition

BREAKING: Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work


BREAKING: Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work
Joe Hoft by Joe Hoft May 31, 2019 1302 Comments

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Today on CBS Attorney General William Barr disclosed that the Huber investigation is over.

Huber was assigned to look at FISA applications and the electronic surveillance during the 2016 election and actions by Hillary Clinton.
Huber did not even start his investigation.
He didn't do a damn thing!

AG Barr said this morning on CBS News that Huber did nothing and his work was taken over by the team he set up under US Attorney John Durham:

JAN CRAWFORD: Um, what's the status of Huber's investigation in Utah? I think the former Attorney General Sessions had asked him to look at this.

William Barr: Right, so Huber had originally been asked to take a look at the FISA applications and the electronic surveillance but then he stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review, which would've been normal for the department. And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally. So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role. The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

JAN CRAWFORD: So he won't be involved in this really at all then?

William Barr: No.

JAN CRAWFORD: This is his role, it's done?

William Barr: Right.

JAN CRAWFORD: And now Durham is going to pick up-

William Barr: Yes, right.

John Huber was the special prosecutor tapped by former AG Jeff Sessions to investigate FISA abuses by Obama's DOJ/FBI. Sessions nominated Huber to perform this investigation after numerous calls for a special investigation into the Clinton Foundation and the Deep State.

But months ago we reported that nothing was getting done.

Mark Meadows (R-NC), Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Doug Collins (R-GA) sent a letter to special prosecutor John Huber on January 8th demanding answers by a January 21st deadline.

"Your investigation has been ongoing for over nine months. During the course of our extensive investigation we have interviewed more than a dozen current and former DOJ and FBI personnel, and were surprised to hear none of these potentially informative witnesses testified to speaking with you," the GOP lawmakers wrote.

The Republican Congressmen then blasted Huber for being a no-show at the December hearing where Clinton Foundation whistleblowers Lawrence Doyle of DM Income Advisors and John Moynihan of JFM Associates testified.

The Clinton Foundation whistleblowers, Mr. Moynihan and Mr. Doyle told the committee they had to send their evidence to the Huber investigation THREE TIMES because they kept losing it.

In October, Congressman Meadows and Jim Jordan said they wanted to haul John Huber in before Congress to testify because they had not received any updates on Huber's investigation.
Now we know that it was all a farce. Huber did NOTHING!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/breaking-attorney-general-Barr-discloses-us-attorney-huber-never-even-started-his-investigation-us-attorney-john-durham-took-over-his-work/

#6644824 at 2019-06-01 14:27:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8497: For the History Books Edition

I posted the transcript of the Barr / Crawford interview last bread…..there a few things I found compelling:

1) The below exchange was edited out of the broadcast and only in the transcript (at least I can't find it).
2) I've been wondering how much of all this does Barr know? He keeps saying he asks questions and just has more questions. I think by giving the example below about Obama:
"Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that."

He's telling the deep state (and us) that he knows!


Anonymous (You) 06/01/19 (Sat) 06:49:45 029b1d (3) No.6644441>>6644499 >>6644564 >>6644632

>>6644422 (You)

Here's the sauce:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/




William Barr: Well it's hard to read some of the texts with and not feel that there was
gross bias at work and they're appalling. And if the shoe were on the other-

JAN CRAWFORD: Appalling.

William Barr: Those were appalling. And on their face they were very damning and
I think if the shoe was on the other foot we could be hearing a lot about it. If
those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office,
people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that "Oh that he might
be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that." You know some wild
accusations like that and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don't
think we would be hearing a lot more about it?

#6644789 at 2019-06-01 14:19:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8497: For the History Books Edition

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#8496
>>6644739 Two people missing after blasts at Russian military plant, 22 injured
>>6644732 China's retaliatory tariffs on US$60 billion of US goods kick in
>>6644691 Obama travels to Brasil to campaign against new gun laws in Brasil
>>6644617 Child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church DOUBLED last year and it has paid out $300M in compensation to victims
>>6644614 Iran showcases MASSIVE underground bunker & launch of a missile in a new VIDEO
>>6644601 Large Russian airlifters arrive in Syria, likely transporting heavy weapons
>>6644598 Assange is suffering 'psychological torture' and should not be extradited to the US, the UN's torture expert said
>>6644583 CDC owns a patent for a strain of Ebola
>>6644553, >>6644570, >>6644664 Devin Nunes calls 'fraud,' citing difference between Mueller report, Dowd transcript
>>6644534, >>6644548, >>6644555 New Trump Banner on Twatter
>>6644454, >>6644465, >>6644607, >>6644660, >>6644728 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
>>6644086 Post for anons during ghost, or other times a baker may need help
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun
>>6644771 #8496

#8495
>>6643256, >>6643694 CBS Barr INTERVIEW (Full audio stream + MP4 shortclip) TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
>>6643668 "Kamala Harris' first significant political role was an appointment to a landing spot for rank corruption.
>>6643717 Edward Snowden delivers message of cautious hope to packed house in Halifax
>>6643724 How Did George Papadopoulos End Up On The Trump Campaign?
>>6643725 Fox News Town Hall with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Dubuque Sunday June 2
>>6643729 Yahoo allegedly found child pornography in email accounts
>>6643776 What a shock. Crazy Bernie loves the socialist workers party
>>6643799 Abigail Spanberger: Teacher at 'Terror High' that Bred Terrorist Who Plotted to Murder President Bush
>>6643811 HRC's maid had access to the SCIF?
>>6643812, >>6643823, >>6643917, >>6643939 FIREEYES ←→ FIVEEYES shenanigans, and HRC.
>>6643841, >>6643911 Weren't there recent emergency drills / practice in London?
>>6643890 The White House is moving to eliminate the OPM. If it works, game on.
>>6643909 Current threat level means attack is highly likely in the UK
>>6643998 #8495

Previously Collected Notables
>>6643211 #8494,
>>6640981 #8491, >>6641717 #8492, >>6642459 #8493
>>6638623 #8488, >>6639407 #8489, >>6640179 #8490
>>6636323 #8485, >>6637108 #8486, >>6637886 #8487
>>6633984 #8482, >>6634736 #8483, >>6635537 #8484
>>6631617 #8479, >>6632430 #8480, >>6633172 #8481
>>6630063 #8476, >>6630056 #8477, >>6630844 #8478

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#6644771 at 2019-06-01 14:16:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Notables
#8496

>>6644739 Two people missing after blasts at Russian military plant, 22 injured
>>6644732 China's retaliatory tariffs on US$60 billion of US goods kick in
>>6644691 Obama travels to Brasil to campaign against new gun laws in Brasil
>>6644617 Child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church DOUBLED last year and it has paid out $300M in compensation to victims
>>6644614 Iran showcases MASSIVE underground bunker & launch of a missile in a new VIDEO
>>6644601 Large Russian airlifters arrive in Syria, likely transporting heavy weapons
>>6644598 Assange is suffering 'psychological torture' and should not be extradited to the US, the UN's torture expert said
>>6644583 CDC owns a patent for a strain of Ebola
>>6644553, >>6644570, >>6644664 Devin Nunes calls 'fraud,' citing difference between Mueller report, Dowd transcript
>>6644534, >>6644548, >>6644555 New Trump Banner on Twatter
>>6644454, >>6644465, >>6644607, >>6644660, >>6644728 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
>>6644086 Post for anons during ghost, or other times a baker may need help
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun

#6644745 at 2019-06-01 14:09:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/William-Barr-interview-cbs-mueller-coup-trump.html

Praetorian Guard mentality

>>6644625

#6644700 at 2019-06-01 13:58:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Notables
#8496

>>6644691 Obama travels to Brasil to campaign against ne gun laws in Brasil
>>6644617 Child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church DOUBLED last year and it has paid out $300M in compensation to victims
>>6644614 Iran showcases MASSIVE underground bunker & launch of a missile in a new VIDEO
>>6644601 Large Russian airlifters arrive in Syria, likely transporting heavy weapons
>>6644598 Assange is suffering 'psychological torture' and should not be extradited to the US, the UN's torture expert said
>>6644583 CDC owns a patent for a strain of Ebola
>>6644553, >>6644570, >>6644664 Devin Nunes calls 'fraud,' citing difference between Mueller report, Dowd transcript
>>6644534, >>6644548, >>6644555 New Trump Banner on Twatter
>>6644454, >>6644465, >>6644607, >>6644660 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
>>6644086 Post for anons during ghost, or other times a baker may need help
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun

Last Call

#6644632 at 2019-06-01 13:43:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Notables
#8496

>>6644617 Child sex abuse allegations in the Catholic Church DOUBLED last year and it has paid out $300M in compensation to victims
>>6644614 Iran showcases MASSIVE underground bunker & launch of a missile in a new VIDEO
>>6644601 Large Russian airlifters arrive in Syria, likely transporting heavy weapons
>>6644598 Assange is suffering 'psychological torture' and should not be extradited to the US, the UN's torture expert said
>>6644583 CDC owns a patent for a strain of Ebola
>>6644553, >>6644570 Devin Nunes calls 'fraud,' citing difference between Mueller report, Dowd transcript
>>6644534, >>6644548, >>6644555 New Trump Banner on Twatter
>>6644454, >>6644465, >>6644607 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
>>6644086 Post for anons during ghost, or other times a baker may need help
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun

#6644564 at 2019-06-01 13:23:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Notables
#8496

>>6644553 Devin Nunes calls 'fraud,' citing difference between Mueller report, Dowd transcript
>>6644534, >>6644548, >>6644560 New Trump Banner on Twatter
>>6644454, >>6644465 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
>>6644086 Post for anons during ghost, or other times a baker may need help
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun

#6644499 at 2019-06-01 13:01:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Notables
#8496

>>6644454, >>6644465 Digs on corruption in Virginia Beach (older articles)
>>6644441 Full transcript of the William Barr interview
>>6644403 University of Alabama could return $21.5 million, its biggest-ever donation, over abortion controversy
Baker change
>>6644186 Facebook fails to notify users if they are victims of revenge porn
>>6644167 NY wholesaler accused of selling counterfeit US military uniforms to DoD; made in China(!)
>>6644065, >>6644166, >>6644223, >>6644261 Current Planefag Updates
>>6644056 Planefag update - LB posts bun

#6644441 at 2019-06-01 12:49:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

>>6644422
Here's the sauce:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6644422 at 2019-06-01 12:45:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

I took this from the transcripts of the Barr / Crawford interview, thought it was interesting:

William Barr: Well it's hard to read some of the texts with and not feel that there was gross bias at work and they're appalling. And if the shoe were on the other–

JAN CRAWFORD: Appalling.

William Barr: Those were appalling. And on their face they were very damning and I think if the shoe was on the other foot we could be hearing a lot about it. If those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that "Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that." You know some wild accusations like that and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don't think we would be hearing a lot more about it?

#6644212 at 2019-06-01 11:33:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

>>6644208
Yes
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

Sessions had also asked Huber in 2017 to look into issues related to the sale of Uranium One and allegations that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been improperly involved in the process, as well as broader claims of corruption at the Clinton Foundation. Barr seemed to suggest that what evidence Huber found, if any, may soon be revealed.

"The other issues [Huber has] been working on relate to Hillary Clinton" are "winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition," Barr said.

#6644173 at 2019-06-01 11:14:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Barr signaling about Obama

William Barr: Those (texts) were appalling. And on their face they were very damning and I think if the shoe was on the other foot we could be hearing a lot about it. If those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that "Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that." You know some wild accusations like that and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don't think we would be hearing a lot more about it?

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaking/is-huber-about-to-nail-the-clinton-foundation/

#6644082 at 2019-06-01 10:29:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Anons the Democrats clearly know what's coming and are already trying to suppress AG Barr's work to declassify everything.

Schiff to intel community: Share info on Barr's attempts to declassify docs.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff demanded on Friday that the nation's intelligence community report to Congress any effort by Attorney General William Barr to declassify national security secrets over its objections.

Schiff made his demand in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, calling on Coats to brief his committee in person and to share any information that Barr has requested as part of a review of the origins of the FBI's investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Last month, Barr announced his intention to review the decisions that led to the Russia probe, which later was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Democrats have argued the effort is a politically driven attempt to appease Trump and feed his unsupported claims that the FBI was attempting to mount a "coup" against him.

Earlier this month, Trump granted Barr broad authority to declassify any material he needs to conduct that review, prompting outrage among Democrats who say such sweeping authority could damage national security.

"This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement," Schiff wrote.

Schiff's letter came a week after Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a similar letter to Coats, as well as the heads of the FBI, CIA and NSA. He urged the intelligence community leaders to inform the House and Senate Intelligence Committees if Barr's efforts threatened their agencies' morale, independence or capabilities.

Warner said he's particularly concerned that Barr's review could chill sources' willingness to work with U.S. intelligence or spook foreign intelligence agencies from cooperating with the United States.

In his letter, Schiff insisted his committee would conduct "rigorous oversight" of Barr's efforts and asked that Coats keep him apprised of what material Barr has requested or any other information the attorney general conveyed to intelligence agencies about his review. He also asked Coats to provide to Congress any documents shared with Barr and to notify lawmakers prior to any declassification decision.

Schiff also asked Coats to identify specific moves by Barr to declassify material over the objections of the intelligence community - and to inform Congress of what harm might come to national security as a result.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/31/adam-schiff-William-Barr-declassify-documents-1349063

#6644032 at 2019-06-01 10:09:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8495: Grand Juries are Grand Edition

Democrats are shitting their pants.


Schiff to intel community: Share info on Barr's attempts to declassify docs.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff demanded on Friday that the nation's intelligence community report to Congress any effort by Attorney General William Barr to declassify national security secrets over its objections.

Schiff made his demand in a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, calling on Coats to brief his committee in person and to share any information that Barr has requested as part of a review of the origins of the FBI's investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Last month, Barr announced his intention to review the decisions that led to the Russia probe, which later was taken over by special counsel Robert Mueller. But Democrats have argued the effort is a politically driven attempt to appease Trump and feed his unsupported claims that the FBI was attempting to mount a "coup" against him.

Earlier this month, Trump granted Barr broad authority to declassify any material he needs to conduct that review, prompting outrage among Democrats who say such sweeping authority could damage national security.

"This approach threatens national security by subverting longstanding rules and practices that obligate you and other heads of IC agencies to safeguard sources and methods and prevent the politicization of intelligence and law enforcement," Schiff wrote.

William Barr
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
Mueller remarks put Barr back into harsh spotlight
By ELIANA JOHNSON
Schiff's letter came a week after Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) sent a similar letter to Coats, as well as the heads of the FBI, CIA and NSA. He urged the intelligence community leaders to inform the House and Senate Intelligence Committees if Barr's efforts threatened their agencies' morale, independence or capabilities.

Warner said he's particularly concerned that Barr's review could chill sources' willingness to work with U.S. intelligence or spook foreign intelligence agencies from cooperating with the United States.

In his letter, Schiff insisted his committee would conduct "rigorous oversight" of Barr's efforts and asked that Coats keep him apprised of what material Barr has requested or any other information the attorney general conveyed to intelligence agencies about his review. He also asked Coats to provide to Congress any documents shared with Barr and to notify lawmakers prior to any declassification decision.

Schiff also asked Coats to identify specific moves by Barr to declassify material over the objections of the intelligence community - and to inform Congress of what harm might come to national security as a result.

#6644025 at 2019-06-01 10:04:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

The notes were too large for one mixing bowl last night. Soo extra buns dayshift has room :)

#8494
>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Dubya's Cheney's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582, >>6642773 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636, >>6642778 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?
>>6642752 CNN for proudly displaying sympathy from Pharell Williams TIM KAINE AND MARK WARNER.
>>6642730 Navy's Email Tracking Harmless in War Crimes Case Against SEAL: Military Prosecutor
>>6642731 China warns Canada of 'consequences' of helping US involving tech giant Huawei
>>6642733, >>6642956 Some night time clockfagging.
>>6642907 WHO naming video gaming as a mental illness addiction
>>6642911 the Cartel intimidating construction crews news keeps spreading
>>6642954 Inspector General Finds High-Ranking FBI Official Was Leaking Sensitive Info to Media
>>6642968 U.S. begins collecting higher tariffs on Chinese goods arriving by sea
>>6642993 doug collins suspects ex fbi leaker is peter strzok
>>6643000 Clintons to host fourth meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative
>>6643065 AG Barr: US Attorney Durham will convene Grand jury to compel the gang to testify under oath
>>6643111 This year's graduation speaker at NYU labeled POTUS a fascist and then called for muh boycott in his speech
>>6643129 Organizers of Rolling Thunder predicts bikers will descend on DC if Democrats try to impeach President Trump.
>>6643142 U.S. Coast Guard Retweeted: Shots Fired
>>6643146 Moar Va FF digs
>>6643170 Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Vetoes National Popular Vote Bill
>>6643172 HRC fishing for DJT tax returns from China?

#6644023 at 2019-06-01 10:03:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8496: Got popcoooooarn? Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
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Notables
are not endorsements

#8495
>>6643256, >>6643694 CBS Barr INTERVIEW (Full audio stream + MP4 shortclip) TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
>>6643668 "Kamala Harris' first significant political role was an appointment to a landing spot for rank corruption.
>>6643717 Edward Snowden delivers message of cautious hope to packed house in Halifax
>>6643724 How Did George Papadopoulos End Up On The Trump Campaign?
>>6643725 Fox News Town Hall with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Dubuque Sunday June 2
>>6643729 Yahoo allegedly found child pornography in email accounts
>>6643776 What a shock. Crazy Bernie loves the socialist workers party
>>6643799 Abigail Spanberger: Teacher at 'Terror High' that Bred Terrorist Who Plotted to Murder President Bush
>>6643811 HRC's maid had access to the SCIF?
>>6643812, >>6643823, >>6643917, >>6643939 FIREEYES ←→ FIVEEYES shenanigans, and HRC.
>>6643841, >>6643911 Weren't there recent emergency drills / practice in London?
>>6643890 The White House is moving to eliminate the OPM. If it works, game on.
>>6643909 Current threat level means attack is highly likely in the UK

Previously Collected Notables
>>6643211 #8494,
>>6640981 #8491, >>6641717 #8492, >>6642459 #8493
>>6638623 #8488, >>6639407 #8489, >>6640179 #8490
>>6636323 #8485, >>6637108 #8486, >>6637886 #8487
>>6633984 #8482, >>6634736 #8483, >>6635537 #8484
>>6631617 #8479, >>6632430 #8480, >>6633172 #8481
>>6630063 #8476, >>6630056 #8477, >>6630844 #8478

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Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6643998 at 2019-06-01 09:50:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8495: Grand Juries are Grand Edition

#8495 Notes

>>6643256, >>6643694 CBS Barr INTERVIEW (Full audio stream + MP4 shortclip) TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
>>6643668 "Kamala Harris' first significant political role was an appointment to a landing spot for rank corruption.
>>6643717 Edward Snowden delivers message of cautious hope to packed house in Halifax
>>6643724 How Did George Papadopoulos End Up On The Trump Campaign?
>>6643725 Fox News Town Hall with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Dubuque Sunday June 2
>>6643729 Yahoo allegedly found child pornography in email accounts
>>6643776 What a shock. Crazy Bernie loves the socialist workers party
>>6643799 Abigail Spanberger: Teacher at 'Terror High' that Bred Terrorist Who Plotted to Murder President Bush
>>6643811 HRC's maid had access to the SCIF?
>>6643812, >>6643823, >>6643917, >>6643939 FIREEYES ←→ FIVEEYES shenanigans, and HRC.
>>6643841, >>6643911 Weren't there recent emergency drills / practice in London?
>>6643890 The White House is moving to eliminate the OPM. If it works, game on.
>>6643909 Current threat level means attack is highly likely in the UK

Save the juicy stuff for next bread anons.

~fin~

#6643946 at 2019-06-01 09:12:13 (UTC+1)
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>>6643943

#8495 Notes so far

>>6643256, >>6643694 CBS Barr INTERVIEW (Full audio stream + MP4 shortclip) TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
>>6643668 "Kamala Harris' first significant political role was an appointment to a landing spot for rank corruption.
>>6643717 Edward Snowden delivers message of cautious hope to packed house in Halifax
>>6643724 How Did George Papadopoulos End Up On The Trump Campaign?
>>6643725 Fox News Town Hall with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Dubuque Sunday June 2
>>6643729 Yahoo allegedly found child pornography in email accounts
>>6643776 What a shock. Crazy Bernie loves the socialist workers party
>>6643799 Abigail Spanberger: Teacher at 'Terror High' that Bred Terrorist Who Plotted to Murder President Bush
>>6643811 HRC's maid had access to the SCIF?
>>6643812, >>6643823, >>6643917, >>6643939 FIREEYES ←→ FIVEEYES shenanigans, and HRC.
>>6643841 Weren't there recent emergency drills / practice in London?
>>6643890 The White House is moving to eliminate the OPM. If it works, game on.
>>6643909 Current threat level means attack is highly likely in the UK

#6643876 at 2019-06-01 08:26:35 (UTC+1)
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>>6643256, >>6643694 CBS Barr INTERVIEW (Full audio stream + MP4 shortclip) TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
>>6643668 "Kamala Harris' first significant political role was an appointment to a landing spot for rank corruption.
>>6643717 Edward Snowden delivers message of cautious hope to packed house in Halifax
>>6643724 How Did George Papadopoulos End Up On The Trump Campaign?
>>6643725 Fox News Town Hall with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Dubuque Sunday June 2
>>6643729 Yahoo allegedly found child pornography in email accounts
>>6643776 What a shock. Crazy Bernie loves the socialist workers party
>>6643792, >>6643807, >>6643813, >>6643782, >>6643831, >>6643825, >>6643839 More Spanberger et al CIA digs
>>6643799 Abigail Spanberger: Teacher at 'Terror High' that Bred Terrorist Who Plotted to Murder President Bush
>>6643811 HRC's maid had access to the SCIF?
>>6643812, >>6643823 FIREEYES ←→ FIVEEYES shenanigans and HRC.
>>6643841 Weren't there recent emergency drills / practice in London?

#6643804 at 2019-06-01 07:45:08 (UTC+1)
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AG Barr takes military transport plane with help of Alaska National Guard
Jun 01, 2019
Washington (USA) June 1: Attorney General William Barr appeared to mix up his usual travel methods when he took a military transport plane with help from the Alaska National Guard.
"Sometimes plans change and you have to take a military transport plane to your next round-table discussion. Thanks for the lift, @AKNationalGuard! #AdventuresWithAGBarr," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted on Thursday.
The tweet showed a brief video of Barr strapped into a seat while overlooking mountains and fields through the rear of the plane.
PUNDITS SAY MUELLER HANDED TRUMP CASE TO CONGRESS, BUT DID HE?
Barr, the DOJ tweeted, met with Alaskan officials to discuss public safety and law enforcement.
Kupec's video seemed to be a light-hearted moment that occurred against the backdrop of scrutiny surrounding Barr's handling of the Russia investigation. In an interview aired on Friday, Barr told CBS he didn't agree with legal analysis in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"We didn't agree with the legal analysis, a lot of the legal analysis in the report," he said. "It did not reflect the views of the department. It was the viewpoint of a particular lawyer or lawyers, so we applied what we saw was the right law."
Source: Fox News
https://www.worldnewsnetwork.net//news/ag-Barr-takes-military-transport-plane-with-help-of-alaska-national-guard201906011053580005//

#6643766 at 2019-06-01 07:24:59 (UTC+1)
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#8495 Notes so far

>>6643256, >>6643694 CBS Barr INTERVIEW (audio stream + Full MP4) TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
>>6643668 "Kamala Harris' first significant political role was an appointment to a landing spot for rank corruption.
>>6643717 Edward Snowden delivers message of cautious hope to packed house in Halifax
>>6643724 How Did George Papadopoulos End Up On The Trump Campaign?
>>6643725 Fox News Town Hall with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Dubuque Sunday June 2
>>6643729 Yahoo allegedly found child pornography in email accounts

#6643662 at 2019-06-01 06:52:16 (UTC+1)
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#8495 Notes so far

>>6643256 FULL AUDIO PODCAST OF Barr CBS INTERVIEW TODAY YESTERDAY
>>6643276 Obama's Illegal Spying on Americans Labeled "Operation Hammer" Will Soon Be Exposed
>>6643332, >>6643346 More Va FF digs
>>6643339 VA False Flag Mass Shooting Ordered by Deep State to Distract from SPYgate
>>6643382 prosecutors release flynn voicemail transcript that mueller examined
>>6643393 Privacy? What's that? Facebook lawyer argues users have none
>>6643446 Flynn Filing Shows Mueller Team Manipulated Transcript in Report
>>6643514 14 Democrats running for president walking straight into a party in crisis
>>6643517 Multiple military helicopters flying over London Bridge yesterday
>>6643571 "This is a slow week, I'm bored! Let's go meet with Iran behind the back of the President of the United States!"
>>6643578 Ten years on, questions remain over response to Air France 447
>>6643626 OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
>>6643641 The clockwork fish?
>>6643656 "Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis

WILL REQUEST HANDOFF NEXT BREAD @ the dough. Anons be advised.

#6643656 at 2019-06-01 06:50:49 (UTC+1)
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>>6643642
>>6643588
"Enough Is Enough": Native Leaders Ask William Barr to Help Fix Alaska's Law Enforcement Crisis
At a gathering in Anchorage, the U.S. attorney general said he would work to provide greater security in rural areas.

https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-law-enforcement-attorney-general-William-Barr


AG Barr takes military transport plane with help of Alaska National Guard
Attorney General William Barr appeared to mix up his usual travel methods when he took a military transport plane with help from the Alaska National Guard.

"Sometimes plans change and you have to take a military transport plane to your next round-table discussion. Thanks for the lift, @AKNationalGuard! #AdventuresWithAGBarr," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted on Thursday.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ag-Barr-takes-military-transport-plane-with-alaska-national-guard

#6643424 at 2019-06-01 06:02:36 (UTC+1)
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Game on.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/William-Barr-interview-cbs-mueller-coup-trump.html

#6643256 at 2019-06-01 05:38:46 (UTC+1)
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FULL AUDIO PODCAST OF Barr CBS INTERVIEW TODAY

https://soundcloud.com/cbsthismorning/exclusive-ag-William-Barr-on-special-counsel-mueller-and-the-russia-probe

CBS/Youtube took down the previously posted video of the full interview. You can still listen to the full audio of the interview here.

Definitely worth a listen for those anons who didn't catch it before Youtube took down the video.

#6643245 at 2019-06-01 05:36:59 (UTC+1)
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Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8494
>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Dubya's Cheney's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582, >>6642773 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636, >>6642778 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?
>>6642752 CNN for proudly displaying sympathy from Pharell Williams TIM KAINE AND MARK WARNER.
>>6642730 Navy's Email Tracking Harmless in War Crimes Case Against SEAL: Military Prosecutor
>>6642731 China warns Canada of 'consequences' of helping US involving tech giant Huawei
>>6642733, >>6642956 Some night time clockfagging.
>>6642907 WHO naming video gaming as a mental illness addiction
>>6642911 the Cartel intimidating construction crews news keeps spreading
>>6642954 Inspector General Finds High-Ranking FBI Official Was Leaking Sensitive Info to Media
>>6642968 U.S. begins collecting higher tariffs on Chinese goods arriving by sea
>>6642993 doug collins suspects ex fbi leaker is peter strzok
>>6643000 Clintons to host fourth meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative
>>6643065 AG Barr: US Attorney Durham will convene Grand jury to compel the gang to testify under oath
>>6643111 This year's graduation speaker at NYU labeled POTUS a fascist and then called for muh boycott in his speech
>>6643129 Organizers of Rolling Thunder predicts bikers will descend on DC if Democrats try to impeach President Trump.
>>6643142 U.S. Coast Guard Retweeted: Shots Fired
>>6643146 Moar Va FF digs
>>6643170 Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Vetoes National Popular Vote Bill
>>6643172 HRC fishing for DJT tax returns from China?
>>6643211 #8494

#8493
>>6641768 HRC will be featured keynote at #FireEyeSummit in October
>>6641786 Disgruntled city employee kills 12 in Virginia; suspect also killed
>>6641761, >>6641793, >>6641794, >>6641963, >>6641937, >>6641976, >>6642048 Moar on DeWayne Craddock
>>6641815 This woman destroys Justin Amash and I mean DESTROYS HIM
>>6641819, >>6642370 Virginia Beach active shooter drill scheduled for tomorrow (short vid)
>>6641834 Anons on Hannity's DS special getting pre-empted by shooting coverage
>>6641907 Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Mueller Upends Rule of Law (Sidney Powell; vid26min)
>>6641919 Sean Hannity Show (full) 5-31-19
>>6641958, >>6641967, >>6642001, Barr CBS interview transcript
>>6641904 pb, >>6642019 Maya Rockeymoore Cummings DIGG (including original post)
>>6641965 Comey photo: maybe the Lucky Strike IG post?
>>6642031 Shooter in custody after multiple people injured at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center
>>6642042 POTUS Schedule for June 1 and June 2, 2019
>>6642043 Attorney General Barr says 'very basics of public safety are lacking in the [Alaskan] villages'
>>6642070, >>6642254 Port Of Baltimore Continues To See Boom In Business Despite Trade Wars | WJZ (v short vid)
>>6642145, >>6642146, >>6642152 Resignations in the news
>>6642171, >>6642119 Anons on Hannity show getting interrupted by FF (Virginia Beach) coverage
>>6642170, >>6642360, >>6642165 Map of Virginia Beach Municipal Center (next door to Police Station)
>>6642204 After Eight Months, Intel Community Will Finish Classification Review Of Russia Transcripts 'Very Soon'
>>6642271 Barr: "FBI crossed a serious red line" & two Q posts on red lines
>>6642287 Guy listening on police scanner re Virginia Beach shooter
>>6642376 Nxivm Trial Witness: We Hacked Billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr.'s Email
>>6642123 Call for a DIGG on Virginia Beach event
>>6642459 #8493

Previously Collected Notables
>>6640981 #8491, >>6641717 #8492,
>>6638623 #8488, >>6639407 #8489, >>6640179 #8490
>>6636323 #8485, >>6637108 #8486, >>6637886 #8487
>>6633984 #8482, >>6634736 #8483, >>6635537 #8484
>>6631617 #8479, >>6632430 #8480, >>6633172 #8481
>>6630063 #8476, >>6630056 #8477, >>6630844 #8478

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6643211 at 2019-06-01 05:30:48 (UTC+1)
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#8494 Notes @700

>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Dubya's Cheney's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582, >>6642773 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636, >>6642778 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?
>>6642752 CNN for proudly displaying sympathy from Pharell Williams TIM KAINE AND MARK WARNER.
>>6642730 Navy's Email Tracking Harmless in War Crimes Case Against SEAL: Military Prosecutor
>>6642731 China warns Canada of 'consequences' of helping US involving tech giant Huawei
>>6642733, >>6642956 Some night time clockfagging.
>>6642907 WHO naming video gaming as a mental illness addiction
>>6642911 the Cartel intimidating construction crews news keeps spreading
>>6642954 Inspector General Finds High-Ranking FBI Official Was Leaking Sensitive Info to Media
>>6642968 U.S. begins collecting higher tariffs on Chinese goods arriving by sea
>>6642993 doug collins suspects ex fbi leaker is peter strzok
>>6643000 Clintons to host fourth meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative
>>6643065 AG Barr: US Attorney Durham will convene Grand jury to compel the gang to testify under oath
>>6643111 This year's graduation speaker at NYU labeled POTUS a fascist and then called for muh boycott in his speech
>>6643129 Organizers of Rolling Thunder predicts bikers will descend on DC if Democrats try to impeach President Trump.
>>6643142 U.S. Coast Guard Retweeted: Shots Fired
>>6643146 Moar Va FF digs
>>6643170 Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak Vetoes National Popular Vote Bill
>>6643172 HRC fishing for DJT tax returns from China?

Save the good stuff for next bred frens

#6643166 at 2019-06-01 05:22:42 (UTC+1)
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#8494 Notes @650

>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Dubya's Cheney's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582, >>6642773 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636, >>6642778 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?
>>6642752 CNN for proudly displaying sympathy from Pharell Williams TIM KAINE AND MARK WARNER.
>>6642730 Navy's Email Tracking Harmless in War Crimes Case Against SEAL: Military Prosecutor
>>6642731 China warns Canada of 'consequences' of helping US involving tech giant Huawei
>>6642733, >>6642956 Some night time clockfagging.
>>6642907 WHO naming video gaming as a mental illness addiction
>>6642911 the Cartel intimidating construction crews news keeps spreading
>>6642954 Inspector General Finds High-Ranking FBI Official Was Leaking Sensitive Info to Media
>>6642968 U.S. begins collecting higher tariffs on Chinese goods arriving by sea
>>6642993 doug collins suspects ex fbi leaker is peter strzok
>>6643000 Clintons to host fourth meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative
>>6643065 AG Barr: US Attorney Durham will convene Grand jury to compel the gang to testify under oath
>>6643111 This year's graduation speaker at NYU labeled POTUS a fascist and then called for muh boycott in his speech
>>6643129 Organizers of Rolling Thunder predicts bikers will descend on DC if Democrats try to impeach President Trump.
>>6643142 U.S. Coast Guard Retweeted: Shots Fired
>>6643146 Moar Va FF digs

I will be looking for a handoff next bread @ the dough. Anons, please take note.

#6643035 at 2019-06-01 04:59:55 (UTC+1)
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==Notes @ 500=
#8494 Notes

>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Dubya's Cheney's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582, >>6642773 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636, >>6642778 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?
>>6642752 CNN for proudly displaying sympathy from Pharell Williams TIM KAINE AND MARK WARNER.
>>6642730 Navy's Email Tracking Harmless in War Crimes Case Against SEAL: Military Prosecutor
>>6642731 China warns Canada of 'consequences' of helping US involving tech giant Huawei
>>6642733, >>6642956 Some night time clockfagging.
>>6642907 WHO naming video gaming as a mental illness addiction
>>6642911 the Cartel intimidating construction crews news keeps spreading
>>6642954 Inspector General Finds High-Ranking FBI Official Was Leaking Sensitive Info to Media
>>6642968 U.S. begins collecting higher tariffs on Chinese goods arriving by sea
>>6642993 doug collins suspects ex fbi leaker is peter strzok
>>6643000 Clintons to host fourth meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative

#6642892 at 2019-06-01 04:36:36 (UTC+1)
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Mid Bred Notes

#8494 Notes

>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Obama's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636, >>6642778 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?
>>6642752 CNN for proudly displaying sympathy from Pharell Williams TIM KAINE AND MARK WARNER.
>>6642730 Navy's Email Tracking Harmless in War Crimes Case Against SEAL: Military Prosecutor
>>6642731 China warns Canada of 'consequences' of helping US involving tech giant Huawei
>>6642733 Some night time clockfagging.

#6642761 at 2019-06-01 04:18:07 (UTC+1)
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>>6642729
>>6642722

#8494 Notes

>>6642522 Witch __MINUS_ Hunt
>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Obama's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564, >>6642582 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"
>>6642691 "official" launch of the investigation into Trump started in July 2016 with the "phone tip" from Downer?

#6642702 at 2019-06-01 04:10:16 (UTC+1)
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@200
#8494 Notes

>>6642524 Pope Francis donated $500,000 (£387,000) to migrantsin Mexico trying for the US border
>>6642538 Digital Oilfield Market is Anticipated to Reach US$ 28.50 Billion by 2024
>>6642562 Obama's NSA was circumventing some legal prohibitions with SIGINT in 2006
>>6642564 More Virginia Beach shooting participants reported?
>>6642632, >>6642636 Uranium One: whack-a-mole? or who's on first?
>>6642643 In Terrifying Interview, William Barr Goes Full MAGA
>>6642662 "Rubber Raiding Craft Training"

#6642643 at 2019-06-01 04:01:05 (UTC+1)
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Honey Badger Indeed

Barr portrays the Russia investigation as an effort to overturn Trump's election:

I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state. And you know, there is that tendency that they know better and that, you know, they're there to protect as guardians of the people. That can easily translate into essentially supervening the will of the majority and getting your way as a government official


http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/William-Barr-interview-cbs-mueller-coup-trump.html

#6642321 at 2019-06-01 03:19:59 (UTC+1)
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>>6641785
This link is audio only; 48 minutes

https://soundcloud.com/cbsthismorning/exclusive-ag-William-Barr-on-special-counsel-mueller-and-the-russia-probe

#6642318 at 2019-06-01 03:19:36 (UTC+1)
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Re: AG Barr's take on Treason

William Barr: "Well, I- as a lawyer I always interpret the word treason not colloquially but legally. And you know the very specific criteria for treason- so I don't think it's actually implicated in the situation that we have now. But I think what he–"

>situation that we have now
>now

I take that as, "my opinion could change if moar evidence shows up."

The fuckers tried to assassinate POTUS…is that not the worst kind of treason?

#6642317 at 2019-06-01 03:19:25 (UTC+1)
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>>6642271

Attorney General William Barr said, "The FBI crossed 'a serious red line' by investigating Trump's campaign."

A few more Q drops containing 'RED LINE'

#6642271 at 2019-06-01 03:13:49 (UTC+1)
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A Serious RED LINE

Attorney General William Barr said, "The FBI crossed 'a serious red line' by investigating Trump's campaign."

Multiple Q drops contain "Red Line"

Pain Coming

#6642043 at 2019-06-01 02:47:50 (UTC+1)
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Attorney General Barr says 'very basics of public safety are lacking in the villages'
http://archive.is/vO40T
https://www.alaskapublic.org/2019/05/31/u-s-attorney-general-Barr-says-very-basics-of-public-safety-are-lacking-in-the-villages/
By Krysti Shallenberger, Alaska's Energy Desk - Bethel - May 31, 2019
U.S. Attorney General William Barr is in Bethel and Napaskiak on Friday, May 31. The visit continues his Alaska tour, meeting with public officials and Alaska Native leaders to discuss public safety, the lack of law enforcement in rural communities and how the federal government can help.

"This is the first trip I've taken, because I feel that this is the most pressing need in the country: to provide the basics of safe communities here," Barr told KYUK.

In an interview with KYUK in Bethel, Attorney General Barr says there are a number of actions the Department of Justice can do to help, but Barr also sees that improvement at the federal level is needed as well.

Barr: We have sort of our traditional grant making programs, training programs, equipment programs, things like that that obviously can be brought to bear. But as I've been discussing with Senator Murkowski, I think what we have to do is be smarter about marshaling the resources we do have and and spending them in a way that really addresses the problems here, and not just dribbling in grant money every three years to this program or that program, but a comprehensive approach. And I feel too often what we do is we grant recipients or communities that are seeking help have to tailor their solutions to the structure of the grant programs, and I think it should be the other way around. I think we have to structure the support we give to the solutions that are tailored to the community by the community. And I think I can play a role with supporting Sen. Murkowski, Sen. Sullivan in Washington seeking an improved way of getting the help out here. It's necessary from the federal government.

KYUK: What we see today in rural communities is a result of generational trauma. Some of it is historical, and then it's passed family to family, and then you have isolated villages where you live with your perpetrators, and I know you heard some of those stories today. What role does the Justice Department have in breaking the cycle?

Barr: As Sen. Murkowski and I were discussing, most law enforcement problems really cannot be addressed solely by law enforcement. Ultimately it takes a more holistic approach. Law enforcement is sort of the indispensable part of that. But also you need prevention programs; you need victims' programs. You need a whole range of programs to address as you see these endemic problems.

Now the Justice Department has a number of grant programs and others that address victims, that address sexual violence and taking care of the victims of sexual violence. But I think probably the highest priority now has to be figuring out how to get public safety officers, first responders, into the villages.

KYUK: You say it takes "going back to basics." You said that at the Tundra Women's Coalition earlier this morning. What does that mean?

Barr: Well, I think what I was referring to is that much of the federal government's support goes to providing bells and whistles to law enforcement, state law enforcement, local law enforcement programs that are already relatively effective. What I was saying is here the very basics of public safety are lacking in the villages, and part of the basics are having first responders that can actually respond in a timely way. And that seems to me to be sort of an indispensable part of the solution.

KYUK: What do you keep in mind when you return to Washington?
Barr: I'll keep in mind that there's urgency here. You know, far too often we study problems as were sort of highlighted in this presentation today. You know, a lot of these problems have been discussed for a long time. And so I think there's a sense of urgency here, and I will feel that sense of urgency in Washington to help with the efforts to address it. And as I said, I take away a lot of admiration for this community. And you know, they want to frame the solution for themselves and they need help in doing that, and I'm going to do everything I can from the vantage point I have in government to support that.

#6642007 at 2019-06-01 02:43:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8493: Hannity Special Interrupted Edition

>>6641945
TRANSCRIPT -
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6641817 at 2019-06-01 02:25:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8493: Hannity Special Interrupted Edition

>>6641785
Full transcript https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6641643 at 2019-06-01 02:09:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8492: Act I Is Over. Act II Begins Edition

>>6641273
>>6641619
https://www.thedailybeast.com/William-Barr-i-can-conceive-of-situations-where-journalists-might-be-jailed-as-last-resort

#6641502 at 2019-06-01 01:57:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8492: Act I Is Over. Act II Begins Edition

>>6641456
>Anyone have the Barr interview audio? Youtube just deleted the last one posted!!!

Try here, anon …includes transcript …download / archive both offline.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31

#6640869 at 2019-06-01 00:59:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8491: Grab Some Popcorn Edition

>>6639892 (lb) from notables

>AG Barr full 45 min interview this morning with CBS (Audio)

Here is the full transcript of Barr interview w/ CBS (for those who like to read or copy pasta sauce)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

Anons - This is well worth your time, imo

#6640482 at 2019-06-01 00:06:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8491: Grab Some Popcorn Edition

i've just been reading the Barr interview transcript
they were discussing the Strzok-Page texts, then Bill Barr came out with this little doozy…

William Barr: Well it's hard to read some of the texts with and not feel that there was gross bias at work and they're appalling. And if the shoe were on the other–

JAN CRAWFORD: Appalling.

William Barr: Those were appalling. And on their face they were very damning and I think if the shoe was on the other foot we could be hearing a lot about it. If those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that "Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that." You know some wild accusations like that and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don't think we would be hearing a lot more about it?

#6640379 at 2019-05-31 23:51:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8491: Grab Some Popcorn Edition

>>6640353
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

Transcript

#6640366 at 2019-05-31 23:49:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8491: Grab Some Popcorn Edition

>>6640353
The one thing i dont get is that William Barr does not have evil eyes
Most of the people in the trump admindo
Particularly pence bolton
Kushner
And so on

#6640353 at 2019-05-31 23:47:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8491: Grab Some Popcorn Edition

>>663892 lb

Holy Cow. This anon just listened to the whole 48 minute video. Can see why CBS is making this hard to find. Jan Crawford got much more than she bargained for.

Thank God for sending us William Barr to be our AG at this time. When AG Barr was answering a question, saying he finds it wild that they are saying it is President Trump that is destroying our Constitution.

Mr. Barr said he has seen absolutely no evidence of that. In fact, it was the other-way-around, it was those who are accusing President Trump who are doing harm to the Republic. Ms. Crawford knew he was putting her into that group of [they].

#6640347 at 2019-05-31 23:47:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8491: Grab Some Popcorn Edition

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-calls-on-dan-coats-to-tell-him-if-William-Barr-declassifies-over-intelligence-community-objections

#6639852 at 2019-05-31 22:51:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8490: Enjoying The Show Edition

>>6639679
What can we infer from this? Both of these investigations involve HRC. Per Barr's interview, first bold section below, logic would dictate Huber was on stand-by in case of any referrals. Second bold section, Barr states Huber has been active with things regarding HRC. Did Horowitz make referrals to Huber?

William Barr: Right, so Huber had originally been asked to take a look at the FISA applications and the electronic surveillance but then he stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review, which would've been normal for the department. And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally. So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role. The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

#6639122 at 2019-05-31 21:19:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8489: "We are the News" Edition

Breaking with Trump, Barr doesn't think DOJ or FBI committed treason 'as a legal matter'

Attorney General William Barr says that he does not believe that the former top government officials involved in heading up the investigation into possible ties between Donald Trump and the Russian government were involved in treasonous activity, parting ways with comments made by President Trump in recent days. In an interview on CBS that aired on Thursday evening, Barr said that he did not think those members of the Justice Department and the FBI committed treason - at least "not as a legal matter." Barr's comments stand in contrast to controversial remarks made by Trump at the White House earlier in May. Referring to an alleged attempt to bring down his presidency, Trump named former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok as officials who had, in his view, "unsuccessfully tried to take down the wrong person." "And that's treason," Trump said. Treason as defined in Article III, Section 3 of the Constitution "shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." Barr did not agree with Trump that anyone's actions had crossed that line. When CBS chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford asked if he thinks "that they committed treason", Barr replied, "Not as a legal matter."

Crawford then followed up, asking, "But you have concerns about how they conducted the investigation?" "Yes, but, you know, sometimes people can convince themselves that what they're doing is in the higher interest and the better good," Barr answered. "They don't realize that what they're doing is really antithetical to the democratic system that we have."

Earlier this month, Trump gave Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The move was the strongest sign yet that Trump is taking serious action to "investigate the investigators" and has found a willing champion in Barr, who rankled Democrats last month when he said "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign. Last week, the White House issued a memorandum to the heads of several agencies instructing them to cooperate with Barr's inquiry, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Treasury Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the Energy Department. Earlier this week, Trump said that "I think in the end I will consider what's happening now to be one of my greatest achievements - exposing this corruption."

In his interview with CBS, Barr again defended his use of the word "spying" to refer to the government's use of informants and its electronic surveillance through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. "I guess it's become a dirty word somehow. It's never been for me. I think there's nothing wrong with spying," Barr said. "The question is always whether it's authorized by law and properly predicated. And if it is, it's an important tool that the United States has to protect the count."

Barr has selected U.S. Attorney John Durham as his right hand man to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the way that the DOJ and FBI conducted themselves during it. Beyond that, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been looking into potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse since early 2018 and is "homing in" on the potential misuse of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's unverified dossier by the DOJ and FBI. Steele's dossier, which was packed with unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, formed a key part of the FISA applications that were used to justify surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Steele was working for Fusion GPS, which received funding through the Perkins Coie law firm from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Steele's Democratic benefactors were not revealed to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Barr has said Horowitz's probe should be done by May or June.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/breaking-with-trump-Barr-doesnt-think-doj-or-fbi-committed-treason-as-a-legal-matter

#6638760 at 2019-05-31 20:26:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8489: "We are the News" Edition

William Barr interview: Read the full transcript

JAN CRAWFORD: What is the fundamental difference? Why…I mean, he said he couldn't exonerate the president. That he had looked at the evil there - these 11 instances of possible obstruction. He couldn't exonerate the president, if he could he would've stated so. You looked at that evidence and you did. I mean, what is the fundamental difference between your view and his?

William Barr: Well, I think Bob said that he was not going to engage in the analysis. He was, he was not going to make a determination one way or the other. And he also said that he could not say that the president was clearly did not violate the law, which of course is not the standard we use at the department. We have to determine whether there is clear violation of the law and so we applied the standards we would normally apply. We analyzed the law and the facts and a group of us spent a lot of time doing that and determined that both as a matter of law, many of the instances would not amount to obstruction.

JAN CRAWFORD: As a matter of law?

William Barr: As a matter of law. In other words, we didn't agree with the legal analysis- a lot of the legal analysis in the report. It did not reflect the views of the department. It was the views of a particular lawyer or lawyers and so we applied what we thought was the right law but then we didn't rely on that. We also looked at all the facts, tried to determine whether the government could establish all the elements and as to each of those episodes we felt that the evidence was deficient.

JAN CRAWFORD: Before you became attorney general you wrote a memo to the justice department looking at the – the question and the legal standards for obstruction and suggesting that the president has the authority to say back off of the Flynn investigation and could have fired James Comey under his executive authority, how much - I mean when you're talking about, can you explain that a little more. When you're talking about your judgment that no obstruction occurred based on the evidence that Mueller produced and your understanding of the law, can you explain a little more why wasn't that obstruction?

William Barr: Well let's take the firing of Comey for example I think we would have said as a matter of law, and I'm not relying on my - my legal memo that I wrote as a private citizen but really on the views within the department of the people who think about these things and are responsible for framing the views of the department, and I think we would have said that as a matter of law the obstruction statutes do not reach facially valid exercise of core presidential authority or official authority even, decisions by the attorney general in administering the executive branch or litigation. But we didn't rely on that, we then looked at that issue let's take the again the firing of Comey. One of the elements is that you have to show that the act objectively speaking will have the probable effect of obstructing a proceeding and we don't believe that the firing of an agency head could be established as having the probable effect, objectively speaking, of sabotaging a proceeding. There was also we would have to prove corrupt intent, the report itself points out that one of the likely motivations here was the president's frustration with Comey saying something publicly and saying a different thing privately and refusing to correct the record. So that would not have been a corrupt intent. So for each of these episodes we thought long and hard about it, we looked at the facts and we didn't feel the government could establish obstruction in these cases

JAN CRAWFORD: When you see some of the criticism and you've gotten quite a bit of it that you're protecting the president that you're enabling the president, what's your response to that?

Content too long to copy all
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6638724 at 2019-05-31 20:18:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8489: "We are the News" Edition

Peter Strzok Is the Serial FBI Leaker, Congressman Suspects

A Republican lawmaker suspects that former FBI official Peter Strzok is the serial leaker referred to in an investigative summary released on May 29 by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.

Rep. Doug Collins (R-Georgia) substantiated his suspicion in a letter (pdf) to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, whose office released a summary showing that someone with the same title as Strzok-Deputy Assistant Director (DAD)-leaked sealed court information in violation of federal law, maintained contacts with dozens of reporters, and accepted a gift from a reporter in violation of FBI policy and federal statutes.

"While the DAD is not named in the Summary, there are several indications the DAD in question is former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok," Collins wrote.

He points out that Horowitz's report on the Clinton-email investigation, dubbed the Midyear investigation by the FBI, shows that Strzok forwarded an email from his FBI account to his personal account about a proposed search warrant the Clinton-email investigators were seeking on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin. That email included information that was filed under seal with a federal court in the Southern District of New York, according to the report.

Collins also notes that "no other Deputy Assistant Director was in the chain of command of the Midyear investigation, the main subject of the 2018 report." The congressman then asks if the DAD referred to in the report is, in fact, Strzok, whether Strzok was referred for prosecution to the DOJ and why the DOJ declined the prosecution. Collins inquired if the relevant court has been notified that the DAD illegally disclosed sealed information and what action the court took in response.

Collins also asked Horowitz for an update on the investigation on alleged leaks by former FBI Director James Comey.

In a separate letter (pdf) to Attorney General William Barr, Collins requested an update into the leak investigations of former FBI General Counsel James Baker and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Collins also asked Barr to report how many leak investigations the bureau is currently undertaking.

According to text messages between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, on Oct. 24 to 28, 2016, Page was communicating with Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/peter-strzok-is-the-serial-fbi-leaker-congressman-suspects_2946168.html

#6638426 at 2019-05-31 19:34:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

>>6638321
learn to read and listen. Huber is wrapping up hitlery investigation. muh concerfaggin fag

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6638338 at 2019-05-31 19:23:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

>>6638321
>muh gateway pundit
Did you read anything else besides that shitty source?
Past bread notables:
>>6636943, >>6636971 William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating
https://wearethene.ws/notable/50451
"The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition."

#6638151 at 2019-05-31 18:53:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

This one goes out to the concernfags up in arms about Barr's CBS interview.

Huber was tasked with FISA and with Clinton and U1 investigations.

FISA was on hold until Horowitz finished his investigation into the Carter Page FISA warrant.

Meanwhile, the CF and U1 investigation is "winding down".

Here's the quote:

"The other issues [Huber has] been working on relate to Hillary Clinton" are "winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition," Barr said.

By coming to fruition he means indictments.

The plan is unfolding.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

#6638112 at 2019-05-31 18:46:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

Utah Prosecutor Close to Completing Investigation of Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Says

A special federal prosecutor in Utah is close to completing an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to Attorney General William Barr.

Barr told CBS News in an interview published on May 31 that U.S. Attorney John Huber investigation of Clinton is "winding down."

Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced in a letter (pdf) on March 29, 2018, that he had assigned Huber to investigate a list of potential crimes outlined by Republicans in Congress.

"The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition," Barr said.

While Barr did not specify the "issues" Huber is investigating, Sessions announced Huber's assignment last year in response to "recent letters" from three Republicans in Congress: Sen. Chuck Grassley, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, and Rep. Trey Gowdy.

Gowdy and Goodlatte penned one such letter (pdf) on March 6, 2018, calling on Sessions to appoint a second special counsel "to review decisions made and not made by the Department of Justice and the FBI in 2016 and 2017."

The lawmakers wrote that the second special counsel should review evidence of bias by federal government employees, how decisions to charge or not charge people with crimes were made, and whether the surveillance of the Trump campaign was "appropriate and devoid of extraneous influence."

Based on the content of that letter, Huber may be investigating one or more of the Clinton-related matters the FBI was pursuing in 2016 and 2017.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/utah-prosecutor-close-to-completing-investigation-of-hillary-clinton-attorney-general-says_2945996.html

#6637956 at 2019-05-31 18:27:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

Talk about panic…..
Rep. Schiff: Attorney General Barr Should Never Have Been Confirmed In First Place
Congressman Adam Schiff is doubling down on his calls for Attorney General William Barr to resign. While speaking at an event Thursday, the Democrat lawmaker said he believes Barr should never have been confirmed to the position in the first place.

The California representative then explained how Barr's previous statements on Robert Mueller and the obstruction investigation should have disqualified him from the role.

When it came to the question of starting impeachment proceedings against President Trump, however, Schiff was more hesitant.

"Before we embark on something of this seriousness, I think the question is - is this the right thing for the country?" he asked. "And I'm not there yet, although the president seems to be doing everything in his power to get me there."
Schiff cautioned Democrats against starting the impeachment process only for the purpose of gathering information about the administration. He warned that the process would be "a wrenching experience for the whole country," and it can not be taken lightly.
https://www.oann.com/rep-schiff-attorney-general-Barr-should-never-have-been-confirmed-in-first-place/

#6637920 at 2019-05-31 18:22:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8488: E-ish Bake Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8487
>>6637145, >>6637552
>>6637511 Meteorologists fear 5G will interfere w/weather satellites
>>6637577 Like a Boss - AG Barr flies by National Guard Transport while in Alaska
>>6637619 Translation of article re: Merkel's relationship to STASI
>>6637668 80% of US medications' ingredients come from China
baker change
>>6637486 US investigating Honduran president for cocaine smuggling and money laundering
>>6637412 In addition to bankster suppression of precious metals, HRC was hustling gold mining deals in Haiti.
>>6637398 Former Obama officials reveal they are still talking with the Iranian government
>>6637307 Trump administration to ask most US visa applicants for social media information
>>6637295 #Russia and #China connect two parts of cross-border bridge
>>6637257 Huber twat w/CAP: US Attorneys thoroughly enjoyed our time with AG Barr this week. He is a solid, proven leader with a clear vision for the @DOJ
>>6637246 President Trump's approval rating rises to 48% in the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, the highest of his presidency in this poll.
>>6637203, >>6637374 US Coalition Attacks Syrian Oil Transport Boats On Euphrates River
>>6637164 Nancy Pelosi Assures Jimmy Kimmel: We'll Be Ready to Impeach Donald Trump Before 2020
>>6637886 #8487

#8486
>>6637073 A U.S. Marine was attacked while working on the California-Mexico border by three unknown persons.
>>6637068 British model Chloe Ayling testifies against accused kidnapper: 'They said they had taken me for a sex trafficking gang'
>>6636987, >>6637080 Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work
>>6636967 Malaysian PM declares 'no evidence' Russia shot down MH17
>>6636958 15 armed cartel members with rifles dressed in camo approached our border wall last night intimidating construction crews.
>>6636943, >>6636971 William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating
>>6636930 New DJT Jr twat: He should really look into when Mueller knew that there was no collusion…
>>6636911, >>6636911 PapaD twat regarding PM Renzi and ties to Obama.
>>6636782 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct Shaken Fury 2019 involving a series of tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises
>>6636648 This Means WAR? Liberals Angry That NY Times Turned Down a Maddow Invite
>>6636598 CUMMINGS' WIFE'S REFUSAL TO TURN OVER RECORDS ON HER NONPROFIT IS 'ILLEGAL,' EXPERT SAYS
>>6636460 Pompeo to Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data
>>6636439, >>6636454 New DJT twat w/CAP: 90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border. …It's time (Q 1578).
>>6636432 Pakistan sentences two, including senior military officer, to death for espionage
>>6636369 In order not to pay Tariffs, if they start rising, companies will leave Mexico, which has taken 30% of our Auto Industry, and come back home to the USA…
>>6637108 #8486

Previously Collected Notables
>>6636323 #8485
>>6633984 #8482, >>6634736 #8483, >>6635537 #8484
>>6631617 #8479, >>6632430 #8480, >>6633172 #8481
>>6630063 #8476, >>6630056 #8477, >>6630844 #8478

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6637135 at 2019-05-31 16:36:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8487: It's Time Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV, BO creates a backup >>6560164
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)
Bakers, please don't add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode

Notables
are not endorsements

#8486
>>6637073 A U.S. Marine was attacked while working on the California-Mexico border by three unknown persons.
>>6637068 British model Chloe Ayling testifies against accused kidnapper: 'They said they had taken me for a sex trafficking gang'
>>6636987, >>6637080 Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work
>>6636967 Malaysian PM declares 'no evidence' Russia shot down MH17
>>6636958 15 armed cartel members with rifles dressed in camo approached our border wall last night intimidating construction crews.
>>6636943, >>6636971 William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating
>>6636930 New DJT Jr twat: He should really look into when Mueller knew that there was no collusion…
>>6636911, >>6636911 PapaD twat regarding PM Renzi and ties to Obama.
>>6636782 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct Shaken Fury 2019 involving a series of tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises
>>6636648 This Means WAR? Liberals Angry That NY Times Turned Down a Maddow Invite
>>6636598 CUMMINGS' WIFE'S REFUSAL TO TURN OVER RECORDS ON HER NONPROFIT IS 'ILLEGAL,' EXPERT SAYS
>>6636460 Pompeo to Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data
>>6636439, >>6636454 New DJT twat w/CAP: 90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border. …It's time (Q 1578).
>>6636432 Pakistan sentences two, including senior military officer, to death for espionage
>>6636369 In order not to pay Tariffs, if they start rising, companies will leave Mexico, which has taken 30% of our Auto Industry, and come back home to the USA…
>>6637108 #8486

#8485
>>6636237 Illinois National Guard members deployed amid flooding
>>6636218 CNN's New 90 Day Wait Period For Paychecks Has Freelance Producers Outraged. Trump broke CNN.
>>6636131 Wow! Female Trump Supporter DESTROYS RINO Justin Amash at Town Hall in Michigan (VIDEO)
>>6636099 New DJT twat w/CAP: Mexico has taken advantage of the United States for decades. Because of the Dems, our Immigration Laws are BAD…
>>6636049 NSA targeting system now deployed on Mexican border, leaked docs reveal
>>6636014 New DJT twat: Hard to believe that with the Crisis on the Border, the Dems won't do the quick and easy fix…
>>6635992 repost from night bread: Anon reviews Q drops on rogue nuclear states, cyber ops & Red October
>>6635987 Levee in Yell County fails overnight; flash flood warning issued - Arkansas River Alert
>>6635956 New DJT twat: Congratulations to the @AF_Academy Class of 2019!
>>6635939 Federal subpoena demands records on Andrew Gillum and his campaign for governor
>>6635876, >>6635877 DJT retwat w/CAP: "Mueller proved his entire operation was a political hit job. Still ZERO evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion, and no new evidence from Mueller."
>>6635839 Most Europeans believe the European Union will collapse in the coming decades
>>6635823 Bill Mitchell twat: I'm not saying Mueller was a good guy. I'm saying Mueller was a bad guy "wearing a wire"…
>>6635821 California Dems propose resolution linking Israeli government to massacre at Pittsburgh synagogue
>>6635808 Hundreds of Pages of Smollett: Paid For Pot, Cocaine, Ecstasy Via Venmo App
>>6635761, >>6635792 NorK Executtions innacurate? anons weigh in
>>6635732, >>6635780 AG Barr: "Sometimes people can convince themselves that what they're doing is in the higher interest, the better good." anon's cogent thought.
>>6635725 GAA Update "TGIF" Edition
>>6635698, Rep Doug Collins demands answers from AG Barr on declination to prosecute FBI DAD for leaks
>>6635626 Read this beautiful letter from Potus to a LEGAL immigrant that just received her citizenship.
>>6635607 EU elections = EU Facebook outages
>>6636323 #8485

Previously Collected Notables
>>6633984 #8482, >>6634736 #8483, >>6635537 #8484
>>6631617 #8479, >>6632430 #8480, >>6633172 #8481
>>6630063 #8476, >>6630056 #8477, >>6630844 #8478

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
Notables Aggregator: https://wearethene.ws

#6637108 at 2019-05-31 16:32:30 (UTC+1)
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included Barr observation late noteable


#8486
>>6637073 A U.S. Marine was attacked while working on the California-Mexico border by three unknown persons.
>>6637068 British model Chloe Ayling testifies against accused kidnapper: 'They said they had taken me for a sex trafficking gang'
>>6636987, >>6637080 Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work
>>6636967 Malaysian PM declares 'no evidence' Russia shot down MH17
>>6636958 15 armed cartel members with rifles dressed in camo approached our border wall last night intimidating construction crews.
>>6636943, >>6636971 William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating
>>6636930 New DJT Jr twat: He should really look into when Mueller knew that there was no collusion…
>>6636911, >>6636911 PapaD twat regarding PM Renzi and ties to Obama.
>>6636782 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct Shaken Fury 2019 involving a series of tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises
>>6636648 This Means WAR? Liberals Angry That NY Times Turned Down a Maddow Invite
>>6636598 CUMMINGS' WIFE'S REFUSAL TO TURN OVER RECORDS ON HER NONPROFIT IS 'ILLEGAL,' EXPERT SAYS
>>6636460 Pompeo to Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data
>>6636439, >>6636454 New DJT twat w/CAP: 90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border. …It's time (Q 1578).
>>6636432 Pakistan sentences two, including senior military officer, to death for espionage
>>6636369 In order not to pay Tariffs, if they start rising, companies will leave Mexico, which has taken 30% of our Auto Industry, and come back home to the USA…

#6637098 at 2019-05-31 16:30:56 (UTC+1)
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final bun for #8486

#8486
>>6637073 A U.S. Marine was attacked while working on the California-Mexico border by three unknown persons.
>>6637068 British model Chloe Ayling testifies against accused kidnapper: 'They said they had taken me for a sex trafficking gang'
>>6636987 Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work
>>6636967 Malaysian PM declares 'no evidence' Russia shot down MH17
>>6636958 15 armed cartel members with rifles dressed in camo approached our border wall last night intimidating construction crews.
>>6636943, >>6636971 William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating
>>6636930 New DJT Jr twat: He should really look into when Mueller knew that there was no collusion…
>>6636911, >>6636911 PapaD twat regarding PM Renzi and ties to Obama.
>>6636782 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct Shaken Fury 2019 involving a series of tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises
>>6636648 This Means WAR? Liberals Angry That NY Times Turned Down a Maddow Invite
>>6636598 CUMMINGS' WIFE'S REFUSAL TO TURN OVER RECORDS ON HER NONPROFIT IS 'ILLEGAL,' EXPERT SAYS
>>6636460 Pompeo to Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data
>>6636439, >>6636454 New DJT twat w/CAP: 90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border. …It's time (Q 1578).
>>6636432 Pakistan sentences two, including senior military officer, to death for espionage
>>6636369 In order not to pay Tariffs, if they start rising, companies will leave Mexico, which has taken 30% of our Auto Industry, and come back home to the USA…

#6637055 at 2019-05-31 16:25:45 (UTC+1)
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final call for notables @ 650

#8486
>>6636987 Attorney General Barr Discloses US Attorney Huber NEVER EVEN STARTED His Investigation - US Attorney John Durham Took Over His Work
>>6636967 Malaysian PM declares 'no evidence' Russia shot down MH17
>>6636958 15 armed cartel members with rifles dressed in camo approached our border wall last night intimidating construction crews.
>>6636943, >>6636971 William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating
>>6636930 New DJT Jr twat: He should really look into when Mueller knew that there was no collusion…
>>6636911, >>6636911 PapaD twat regarding PM Renzi and ties to Obama.
>>6636782 The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct Shaken Fury 2019 involving a series of tabletop, functional and full-scale exercises
>>6636648 This Means WAR? Liberals Angry That NY Times Turned Down a Maddow Invite
>>6636598 CUMMINGS' WIFE'S REFUSAL TO TURN OVER RECORDS ON HER NONPROFIT IS 'ILLEGAL,' EXPERT SAYS
>>6636460 Pompeo to Germany: Use Huawei and lose access to our data
>>6636439, >>6636454 New DJT twat w/CAP: 90% of the Drugs coming into the United States come through Mexico & our Southern Border. …It's time (Q 1578).
>>6636432 Pakistan sentences two, including senior military officer, to death for espionage
>>6636369 In order not to pay Tariffs, if they start rising, companies will leave Mexico, which has taken 30% of our Auto Industry, and come back home to the USA…

baking in a few

Baker needs to handoff at next dough

#6637034 at 2019-05-31 16:24:08 (UTC+1)
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>>6636987

What seems to be the problem here? Nothing is a problem here…

JAN CRAWFORD: Um, what's the status of Huber's investigation in Utah? I think the former Attorney General Sessions had asked him to look at this.

William Barr: Right, so Huber had originally been asked to take a look at the FISA applications and the electronic surveillance but then he stood back and put that on hold while the Office of Inspector General was conducting its review, which would've been normal for the department. And he was essentially on standby in case Mr. Horowitz referred a matter to him to be handled criminally. So he has not been active on this front in recent months and so Durham is taking over that role. The other issues he's been working on relate to Hillary Clinton. Those are winding down and hopefully we'll be in a position to bring those to fruition.

#6636971 at 2019-05-31 16:13:55 (UTC+1)
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Baker, Notable. Screencap added
>>6636943
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

#6636943 at 2019-05-31 16:09:18 (UTC+1)
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William Barr dishes on what Huber, Horowitz, and Durham are investigating

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-dishes-on-what-huber-horowitz-and-durham-are-investigating

#6636777 at 2019-05-31 15:38:56 (UTC+1)
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Imagine the cracks that are forming from this massive narrative shift in the media. These people who have been brainwashed to hate all that is good in America are now having to swallow a bitter pill. CNN is about to lose it's cameramen. CBS Interviewed the US Attorney General. And here, that magnificent bastard, Barr, is actually out working for the common man, in the middle of fucking nowhere addressing issues that have plagued man since the formation of societies. God Bless this whole Administration.

'Enough is enough': AG Barr hears from Alaska Native leaders about rural justice problems

https://www.ktoo.org/2019/05/29/enough-is-enough-ag-Barr-hears-from-alaska-native-leaders-about-rural-justice-problems/

U.S. Attorney General William Barr met with Alaska Native leaders from around the state today in Anchorage to discuss law enforcement challenges in rural Alaska.

Barr will spend four days traveling around Alaska, learning about the unique challenges rural areas, particularly villages, face.

"Because of its vast size, and because of the diverse communities, and because of the lack sometimes of easy transportation, it created a lot of serious law enforcement challenges," Barr said. "And it piqued my interest."

At a roundtable discussion at the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Barr heard from Native leaders about high rates of violence towards Native women and children, the lack of law enforcement in many communities and the limited funding for the resources that currently exist.

"Imagine picking up the phone and calling for help in an emergency, knowing that help is hours away and may be dependent on weather," said Northwest Arctic Borough mayor Lucy Nelson. She was one of the leaders who met with Barr.

"Enough is enough," said Victor Joseph of the Tanana Chiefs Conference during his testimony.

"We can't accept these problems as being normal for life in Alaska," Ralph Andersen of the Bristol Bay Native Association told Barr.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr, center, shakes hands with Richard Peterson, president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, in Anchorage on May 29, 2019. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is at right.U.S. Attorney General William Barr, center, shakes hands with Richard Peterson, president of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, in Anchorage on May 29, 2019. U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, is at right. (Photo by Joey Mendolia/Alaska's Energy Desk)
"I believe we are the solution. I believe the tribes are the solution," said Richard Peterson of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. "And I believe, if we're properly funded and we're able to build the infrastructure we need, we're the answer."

Many of the leaders noted that it's often hard to qualify for federal resources because of legal confusion between federal Indian Country laws and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Barr agrees.

"I understand exactly what you say, and I get frustrated, too, when all these little categories ... 'Well they don't qualify because of this,' and so forth," Barr said. "I'd like to try and marshal what we have and address the problem."

Barr described the Wednesday meeting as the first of several he'd like to hold in the state or in Washington, D.C., to help address problems in Native communities.

U.S. Justice Department officials wouldn't go into full detail about the attorney general's itinerary in Alaska, but a spokesman for Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said Barr will travel to Galena tomorrow and will visit the Yukon-Kuskokwim hub of Bethel and the village of Napaskiak on Friday.

Barr declined to answer a reporter question about statements White House Special Counsel Robert Mueller made today on whether or not President Donald Trump had broken the law and aided in Russian interference of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

#6636548 at 2019-05-31 15:00:48 (UTC+1)
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>>6636420
I read the Barr interview in full and recommend it. I love this man.
>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6636485 at 2019-05-31 14:51:01 (UTC+1)
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>>6636480
Barr transcript part 5 of 5

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6636420 at 2019-05-31 14:39:06 (UTC+1)
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If those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that "Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that."


I just want to say how much I love Bill Barr. My God, I laughed so damn hard after reading that


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6636417 at 2019-05-31 14:38:57 (UTC+1)
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>>6635826 lb pic related
About the treason quote from Barr in the CBS interview. Thanks to anon for posting the link to the transcript. It's a really good interview. Here is the whole treason conversation, so we can view it in complete context.
Link
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/
Copypasta from transcript below:

JAN CRAWFORD: You're working with the DNI, the head of CIA. I want to ask you about something- just declassification. But the president has tweeted and said publicly that some in the upper echelon, Comey, McCabe, etc., committed treason. I mean do you agree with that?

William Barr: Well, I- as a lawyer I always interpret the word treason not colloquially but legally. And you know the very specific criteria for treason- so I don't think it's actually implicated in the situation that we have now. But I think what he–

JAN CRAWFORD: Legally.

William Barr: Right.

JAN CRAWFORD: You don't think that they've committed treason?

William Barr: Not as a legal matter, no.

JAN CRAWFORD: But you have concerns about how they conducted the investigation?

William Barr: Yes but you know, when you're dealing with official government contact, intent is frequently a murky issue. I'm not suggesting that people did what they did necessarily because of conscious, nefarious motives. Sometimes people can convince themselves that what they're doing is in the higher interest, the better good. They don't realize that what they're doing is really antithetical to the democratic system that we have. They start viewing themselves as the guardians of the people that are more informed and insensitive than everybody else. They can- in their own mind, they can have those kinds of motives. And sometimes they can look at evidence and facts through a biased prism that they themselves don't realize.

William Barr: That something objectively as applied as a neutral principle across the board really you know, shouldn't be the standard used in the case but because they have a particular bias they don't see that. So that's why procedures and standards are important and review afterward is an important way of making sure that government power is being conscientiously and properly applied. It doesn't necessarily mean that there are people- you know, that people have crossed lines have done so with corrupt intent or anything like that.

JAN CRAWFORD: But it seems like you have a concern that there may have been a bias by top officials in the FBI as they looked at whether to launch and conduct this investigation?

William Barr: Well it's hard to read some of the texts with and not feel that there was gross bias at work and they're appalling. And if the shoe were on the other–

JAN CRAWFORD: Appalling.

William Barr: Those were appalling. And on their face they were very damning and I think if the shoe was on the other foot we could be hearing a lot about it. If those kinds of discussions were held you know when Obama first ran for office, people talking about Obama in those tones and suggesting that "Oh that he might be a Manchurian candidate for Islam or something like that." You know some wild accusations like that and you had that kind of discussion back and forth, you don't think we would be hearing a lot more about it?

JAN CRAWFORD: You- I guess when you said that there were things done that were not the typical run of business, ad hoc, small group, it's not how these counterintelligence operations normally work. I think that maybe Comey and others might say well this was such an extraordinary thing we had to keep it so closely held. So we had to do it differently what's your response to that? Is that legit?

William Barr: Well it might be legit under certain circumstances but a lot of that has to do with how good the evidence was at that point. And you know Mueller has spent two and half years and the fact is there is no evidence of a conspiracy. So it was bogus, this whole idea that the Trump was in cahoots with the Russians is bogus

#6636410 at 2019-05-31 14:37:57 (UTC+1)
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CBS NEWS May 31, 2019, 8:11 AM
CBS posted "full transcript" of William Barr interview.
Last Updated May 31, 2019 9:38 AM EDT

(from Link)
In an exclusive interview with "CBS This Morning," Attorney General William Barr said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice, regardless of long-standing Justice Department policy that prohibits the indictment of a sitting president.

During a nearly hour-long interview in Anchorage, Alaska, CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford pressed the attorney general on a number of issues from obstruction to his new review of the Russia investigation.

Below is the full transcript of the interview:

moar
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6636148 at 2019-05-31 13:45:13 (UTC+1)
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>>6636042
Moar from CBS interview with Barr…
Barr on Huber investigation

transcript link again
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6636070 at 2019-05-31 13:28:34 (UTC+1)
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>>6636055
C'mon, you know better than to listen to MSM propaganda. Read the transcript.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6635826 at 2019-05-31 12:37:57 (UTC+1)
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Full transcript and video clip.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-full-transcript-cbs-this-morning-jan-crawford-exclusive-2019-05-31/

#6635732 at 2019-05-31 12:17:16 (UTC+1)
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Sadly, Attorney General William Barr has just proven that he is a complete fraud.
He is deep state establishment scum.

Barr just said that Brennan, Clapper, Strzok, Comey, Hillary & Obama did NOT commit Treason because;

"Sometimes people can convince themselves that what they're doing is in the higher interest, the better good."

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/30/Barr-i-dont-think-people-who-oversaw-russia-probe-committed-treason/

#6635592 at 2019-05-31 11:23:44 (UTC+1)
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Barr: I Don't Think People Who Oversaw Russia Probe Committed Treason

During a portion of an interview set to air on Friday's "CBS This Morning," Attorney General William Barr said that he has concerns over the handling of the Russia investigation, but he doesn't think the officials who oversaw the investigation committed treason.

CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford asked, "You don't think that they've committed treason?"

Barr responded, "Not as a legal matter."

He added, "[S]ometimes people can convince themselves that what they're doing is in the higher interest, the better good. They don't realize that what they're doing is really antithetical to the democratic system we have."



https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/05/30/Barr-i-dont-think-people-who-oversaw-russia-probe-committed-treason/

#6634357 at 2019-05-31 04:43:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8483: #AdventuresWithAGBarr Edition

U.S. Attorney General William Barr met with Alaska Native leaders from around the state today in Anchorage to discuss law enforcement challenges in rural Alaska.

>>6634252

#6629468 at 2019-05-30 19:39:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8477: Ghosted E-Bake No Baker Edition

Barr says he felt Mueller 'could've reached a decision' on obstruction

Attorney General William Barr says he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump obstructed justice during the course of his 22-month investigation.

"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," Barr told CBS on Thursday.

Barr pointed to Justice Department guidance that says a sitting president cannot be indicted, adding that Mueller "could've reached a decision as to whether there was criminal activity."

Mueller said Wednesday in remarks from the Justice Department that the guidance prevented his team from charging Trump with a crime.

"It would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge," he said.

However, the special counsel also declined to exonerate Trump, leaving some Democrats to say that it was up to Congress to pursue impeachment.

"After that investigation, if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that," Mueller said.

During the clip released Thursday, Barr pushed back on the idea that Mueller was handing over to Congress the decision on whether to take action against Trump.

"I am not sure what he was suggesting, but you know the Department of Justice doesn't use our powers of investigating crimes as an adjunct to Congress," Barr said.

Some Democrats have seized on Mueller's remarks Wednesday -- his first public comments since he was appointed special counsel two years ago -- to push for the start of an impeachment inquiry against Trump.

During the surprise press conference at the Justice Department, Mueller signaled that he did not want to testify before Congress and that his sprawling 448-page report detailing his investigation's findings "speaks for itself."

Mueller did not directly mention impeachment in his remarks, but did note that the same DOJ guidance that prevented any potential indictment of Trump also states that "the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing."

The DOJ has also sought to bridge any potential gap between remarks given by Barr and Mueller on the role that department guidance played in Mueller's decision to not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446189-Barr-says-he-felt-mueller-couldve-reached-a-decision-on-obstruction

#6629428 at 2019-05-30 19:34:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8477: Ghosted E-Bake No Baker Edition

They said punt.

Attorney General William Barr split with Robert Mueller on Thursday over Mueller's decision to punt on whether Trump sought to obstruct his Russia investigation, saying the special counsel "could've reached a decision."

"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," he told CBS's Jan Crawford in an interview set to air Friday. "The opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office, but he could've reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity."

Barr said he wouldn't litigate Mueller's reasoning for declining to make a decision one way or the other, telling Crawford the special counsel "had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained, and I'm not going to argue about those reasons."

"But when he didn't make a decision, the deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I felt it was necessary for us as the heads of the department to reach that decision," Barr continued.

Democrats and even some Republicans have blasted Barr for at times fiercely defending Trump, accusing him of acting as the president's personal lawyer rather than the country's. Even Mueller reached out to the attorney general in the wake of his letter to Congress to express concern with how his findings had been portrayed.

Barr's antagonizers have pointed to a letter Barr wrote last year, before being nominated for attorney general, in which he outlined his opinions on executive authority as they pertained to the Russia investigation. Barr and Rosenstein's call on obstruction, combined with Barr's defenses of Trump, have prompted a slew of calls for Barr to resign or be impeached by Congress.

Sauce: https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019/05/30/William-Barr-mueller-report-decision-1348216

#6629397 at 2019-05-30 19:31:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8477: Ghosted E-Bake No Baker Edition

Barr says Mueller "could've reached a decision" on whether Trump obstructed justice

Attorney General William Barr said he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice, regardless of long-standing Justice Department policy that prohibits the indictment of a sitting president.

In his first network interview since being sworn in, Barr said the special counsel, who gave a rare public statement Wednesday reiterating some of the key findings in his more than 400-page report, could have concluded the president broke the law without actually charging him - or cleared him of wrongdoing.

"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," he told CBS News chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford during an exclusive interview in Anchorage, Alaska, on Thursday.

"The opinion says you cannot indict a president while he is in office, but he could've reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity," Barr added. "But he had his reasons for not doing it, which he explained and I am not going to, you know, argue about those reasons."

When he became aware that Mueller would not make a determination in his obstruction of justice probe - which investigated 11 instances in which Mr. Trump tried to derail the Russia investigation - Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "felt it was necessary" for them to make decision on the issue.

In a letter to Congress after Mueller submitted his report, Barr said he and Rosenstein concluded that the nearly two-year investigation did not contain sufficient evidence to establish Mr. Trump obstructed justice.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/William-Barr-interview-attorney-general-says-mueller-couldve-decided-whether-trump-obstructed-justice-exclusive/

#6627083 at 2019-05-30 14:33:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8474: No Crime No Collusion No Obstruction No NOTHING! Edition

>>6627079

"A whistleblower recently revealed the existence of a communique from our allies in Great Britain during the early days of the Russia collusion investigation," Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told me.

"Based on my conversations with that individual, and the credible timelines that are supported by other events, I made a referral to Attorney General William Barr and Inspector General Michael Horowitz for further investigation," he added. "There now is overwhelming evidence to suggest that on multiple occasions the FBI was warned that Christopher Steele and the dossier had severe credibility issues."

#6625510 at 2019-05-30 06:18:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8472: No Name Edition

>>6625479

Huber's office has maintained its total silence even as President Trump and other Republicans' demands for an investigation become more strident. They want to know how a discredited dossier was used to authorize spying on Trump campaign operative Carter Page in 2016 and whether the FBI and DOJ deliberately misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) courts, as well as why officials did not investigate millions in foreign Clinton Foundation donations, and why Hillary Clinton did not face criminal charges for mishandling of classified material. Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that he hoped Attorney General William Barr would 'look at the probability of criminal misbehavior... [and] DOJ corruption and political bias.'

But this would appear to be redundant, because Huber was appointed to look into this. Yet even though reports were promised last summer, they still haven't been produced

Deepening the mystery, the Justice Department just found the document authorizing Huber to look into how the department handled the Clinton Foundation and Uranium One, after claiming no such document existed. The Department testified in Federal court that 'when the Attorney General directed Mr Huber to evaluate these matters, no written guidance or directives were issued to Mr Huber in connection with this directive, either by the Attorney General, or by other senior leadership office staff.' But in response to a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request, a DOJ lawyer now says they found the document that started Huber's work.

https://spectator.us/waiting-huber-investigation-fbi-abuse/

#6623987 at 2019-05-30 02:53:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8470: Old Guard Losing It Edition

'It was a coup': Mueller critics demand 'deep state' investigation, Obama testimony
Alexander Nazaryan 6 hours ago

WASHINGTON - An hour before Robert Mueller prepared to give his one - and apparently only - public statement on the findings of his investigation into Russian electoral interference, calls for a very different sort of probe were taking place at an event organized by a conservative organization closely aligned with President Trump.

There were calls for President Obama to testify before Congress, as well as suspicions about FBI Director Christopher Wray. Trump, meanwhile, was a "crime victim," while alleged spying on the Trump campaign by law enforcement entities in the Obama administration was nothing short of "terrorism."

These were some of the assertions made during a panel hosted on Wednesday morning by Judicial Watch titled "Investigating the Investigators," an evident reference to Mueller, who was appointed by the Department of Justice to investigate allegations that the Trump presidential campaign may have worked with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.

"It is time to look into the politicization of the DOJ and the intelligence community in their effort to undermine the president," said a press release for the event, which took place at the studio of One America News, a conservative media outlet.

With the Mueller report now a public document - and a highly contentious one at that - the event was a window into how Trump's supporters plan to reframe the debate over the president's possible wrongdoing into an attack on the origins of the investigation. That approach appears to be directed by the White House, with Trump last week authorizing Attorney General William Barr to declassify documents related to potential surveillance on the Trump campaign. Barr has previously expressed concerns that the FBI may have conducted unauthorized "spying" during the 2016 election.

"Something very horrible went terribly wrong," said another of the panelists, Christopher J. Farrell, also of Judicial Watch. "A hoax has been perpetrated upon" the American people, Farrell said, speaking of the Mueller report.

"It was a coup," Farrell went on to say, albeit one without tanks in the streets. "It was an effort to unseat or destabilize the Trump administration."

He said that that effort - much of it overseen by Trump's own Department of Justice - was a worse abuse of power than Watergate or any other presidential scandal.

Carter Page
Carter Page, a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
Victoria Toensing, a conservative lawyer, meanwhile accused FBI Director Wray of "stonewalling." Wray was virtually the only Trump administration official to be criticized by the Judicial Watch panelists, who charged that he was more interested in protecting the FBI's credibility than he was in letting Barr conduct a full investigation into "spying" by the bureau into the Trump campaign.

#6623715 at 2019-05-30 02:26:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8469: Act 2 Edition

Carter Page: Spygate, FISA Warrants, Mueller Investigation, "Trump Movement," & Declassification
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When President Trump granted Attorney General William Barr broad powers to declassify documents related to government spying during the 2016 presidential election, what went through former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page's mind'''?

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#6623540 at 2019-05-30 02:06:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8469: Act 2 Edition

Did Special Counsel Mueller Lie To The Attorney General?

As the left piles the pressure on Speaker Pelosi to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump following Special Counsel Mueller's apparent 'greenlight' during his brief statement this morning, a rather large question looms over an apparent disagreement between Mueller and his boss, Attorney General William Barr.
During a Wednesday statement, Mueller said that his non-decision decision on whether the president obstructed justice was "informed" by "a long-standing opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Justice Department that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime…That is unconstitutional. Even if the charge is kept under seal and hidden from public view, that too is prohibited."
However, as Gregg Jarrett of Fox News reports, according to Barr, that's not what Mueller told multiple people during a meeting on March 5, 2017. Here's what Barr told Senators during his May 1st testimony:

"We were frankly surprised that they were not going to reach a decision on obstruction and we asked them a lot about the reasoning behind this. Mueller stated three times to us in that meeting, in response to our questioning, that he emphatically was not saying that but for the OLC opinion he would have found obstruction."
Barr said there were others in the meeting who heard Mueller say the same thing - that the OLC opinion played no role in the special counsel's decision-making or lack thereof. The attorney general repeated this in his news conference the day Mueller's report was released to the public:
"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking a 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 was not his position."
Yet, today, Mueller was telling a different tale.
So did Mueller lie (to the public today or to the AG in 2017)?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/did-special-counsel-mueller-lie-attorney-general

#6623221 at 2019-05-30 01:35:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8469: Act 2 Edition

Adam Schiff: 'We Look Forward to Mueller's Testimony Before Congress

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, seemingly ignored special counsel Robert Mueller's statement Wednesday ruling out any testimony before Congress, saying he and other congressional investigators nonetheless "look forward" to him testifying. "We look forward to Mueller's testimony before Congress," Schiff began in a statement. "While I understand his reluctance to answer hypotheticals or deviate from the carefully worded conclusions he drew on his charging decisions, there are, nevertheless, a great many questions he can answer that go beyond the report, including any counterintelligence issues and classified matters that were not addressed in his findings."

In his first public remarks about his two-year Russia investigation, Mueller said the probe has been closed and he is leaving his role and returning to civilian life. Speaking at the Justice Department, Mueller reiterated his report's findings - that there was no evidence to indicate collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign before the 2016 election, and there were several "episodes" in which President Donald Trump may have obstructed justice with attempts to disrupt the investigation. The report did not clear him on that issue, though Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined the president did not commit. obstruction of justice. Mueller stated he does not plan on speaking further about the investigation, precluding any testimony in Congress. "I hope and expect that this will be the only time I will speak to you about this matter," Mueller said. "The report is my testimony." "I would not provide information beyond that which is already public," he added.

According to Schiff, Mueller's statement was a "direct rebuke" of Barr's handling of the special counsel's report and left open the possibility that President Trump may have committed a crime. "Finally, in a direct rebuke of Attorney General William Barr-who deliberately and repeatedly misled the American people-Mueller today confirmed that he was unable to consider criminal charges of obstruction of justice against the President specifically because of Department of Justice policy prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president," the California Democrat said. "Mueller reiterated that 'if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.' Instead, he made clear that, because of the Department's own policy, it is left it to Congress-not the Attorney General-to evaluate and further investigate the president's misconduct."

Though Schiff is still adamant about Mueller's testifying, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) appears to have softened on the idea - even as he and the special counsel continue to negotiate about a possible testimony. When asked in a press conference Wednesday if he would issue a subpoena for Mueller to appear before his panel, Nadler replied: "Mr. Mueller told us a lot of what we needed to hear today." Earlier this month, talks between Nadler and Mueller fell through for the special counsel to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15th.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/29/adam-schiff-we-look-forward-to-muellers-testimony-before-congress/

#6622974 at 2019-05-30 01:11:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8468: Rough Seas Make Good Sailors Edition

Mueller Slipped Up: His Wednesday Statement Exposed the Lies He Told Attorney General Bill Barr in March

Dirty cop Robert Mueller delivered a final address to the nation on Wednesday on the Trump-Russia collusion special counsel investigation.

Mueller opened his statement by declaring this his final act before resigning as special counsel. He hopes like hell that Congress will not call him in to testify or the country may discover what a complete partisan and crooked cop he is.

During his statement Mueller said he based his decision on the fact that via the Office of legal Counsel" a President cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office. That is unconstitutional."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/muellers-wednesday-statement-exposes-his-lies-to-attorney-general-bill-Barr-in-march/But this was a lie.
Author and legal expert Gregg Jarrett later revealed that this is the exact opposite of what Mueller told Attorney General Bill Barr back in March.

According to reports Mueller told the Attorney General that the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) opinion played no role in the special counsel's decision-making or lack thereof.

Via FOX News:

In his final act before resigning his position, Mueller told the gathered media on Wednesday that his non-decision decision on whether the president obstructed justice was "informed" by a long-standing opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) at the Justice Department that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime. But according to William Barr, that's not what Mueller told the attorney general and others during a meeting on March 5, 2017. Here's what Barr told Senators during his May 1st testimony:

"We were frankly surprised that they were not going to reach a decision on obstruction and we asked them a lot about the reasoning behind this. Mueller stated three times to us in that meeting, in response to our questioning, that he emphatically was not saying that but for the OLC opinion he would have found obstruction."

Barr said there were others in the meeting who heard Mueller say the same thing - that the OLC opinion played no role in the special counsel's decision-making or lack thereof. The attorney general repeated this in his news conference the day Mueller's report was released to the public:

"We specifically asked him about the OLC opinion and whether or not he was taking a 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 was not his position."

#6621551 at 2019-05-29 22:52:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8466: Unity of Freedom Never Relies On Uniformity of Opinion Edition

'Putin has a Mueller pee tape!' Waiting for the most insane takes from Special Counsel's statement

After Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered a public statement standing by the findings of his final report, liberal commentators began reading between the lines. How long before Putin is accused of getting to Mueller?

Mueller delivered his public statement on Wednesday, and offered very few surprises. His final report, which cleared President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia in 2016 and found insufficient evidence to bring obstruction charges against the president, "speaks for itself," Mueller said. The Special Counsel also stated that Attorney General William Barr has already "made the report on our investigation largely public," and that he would not testify on anything beyond the publicly available information.

https://www.rt.com/usa/460582-maddow-mueller-pee-tape/

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#6621493 at 2019-05-29 22:42:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8466: Unity of Freedom Never Relies On Uniformity of Opinion Edition

The investigations into the Russia investigations, explained
What we know about Attorney General William Barr's inquiry and the other ongoing reviews.

By Jen Kirbyjen.kirby@vox.com May 29, 2019, 10:30am EDT

"INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS," President Donald Trump tweeted in April, days before the Justice Department released the Mueller report to the public.

Trump and his Republican allies in Congress have argued throughout the years-long investigation into the Trump campaign's possible ties to Russia that the entire probe began based on shoddy intelligence and that federal law enforcement illegally spied on members of the campaign.

But now that special counsel Robert Mueller's probe has concluded - and Trump has a particularly receptive attorney general running the Justice Department - the push to "investigate the investigators" has moved from rhetoric to reality.

There are several reviews of the Russia probe currently underway, both of which predate Barr. They include one by the Justice Department's internal watchdog, whose findings are expected in the coming weeks, and another inquiry overseen by Utah federal prosecutor John Huber, which was prompted by Republican complaints about the Russia probe and the handling of Hillary Clinton-related scandals.

Attorney General William Barr is also conducting his own inquiry. Barr tapped the US attorney for Connecticut to help examine the origins of the Russia probe.

But media reports suggest the AG is closely invested in this process. And last week, the president gave Barr's inquiry a substantial boost. At Barr's request, Trump signed a memo ordering US intelligence agencies to cooperate with Barr and giving the AG sweeping powers to declassify intelligence documents as part of his audit.

Barr, who took over both the Justice Department and oversight of the Mueller investigation in February, has given credence to allegations, nursed by Trump and some top Republicans on Capitol Hill, that law enforcement might have spied on Trump's campaign and that authorities overreached when they opened the investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016.

Barr told lawmakers in April that he had questions and concerns about "both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016." He reiterated his concerns about law enforcement's conduct during his Senate testimony in May….

https://www.vox.com/2019/5/29/18634410/russia-investigations-Barr-trump-explained

#6618864 at 2019-05-29 17:51:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8463: The Kingdom for a Baker Edition

John Brennan: Robert Mueller's public address amplifies 'cry for impeachment

Former CIA Director John Brennan said special counsel Robert Mueller's public message Wednesday will escalate calls for impeaching President Trump. "I think Bob Mueller's public statement today is going to give momentum to those who want to move forward with impeachment hearings," Brennan said on MSNBC. "I think there can be no doubt about Mr. Mueller's message that the obstruction of justice issue is not resolved, and that there needs to be follow-up action on it." "I do think it's going to give some additional momentum to them, whether or not they're going to decide to do it," the vocal Trump critic added. "This is not just a legal issue, it's a political issue and obviously there are political considerations. I think the cry for impeachment is going to increase, and it's going to be interesting to see how the White House and Mr. Trump reacts to a very clear, and I believe, very pointed statement by Bob Mueller."

In his first and only public address about his 22-month-long Russia investigation, Mueller refused to clear Trump of obstruction of justice even though he declined to make a determination on the matter. "As set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime we would have said so," he said. Citing longstanding Department of Justice policy, Mueller said charging a sitting president with a crime was not an option his team could consider and noted that charging Trump would be unconstitutional. Attorney General William Barr said he and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish a crime.

Some Democrats, including Sen. Kamala Harris, immediately seized on the speech by calling for impeachment. "What Robert Mueller basically did was return an impeachment referral. Now it is up to Congress to hold this president accountable. We need to start impeachment proceedings. It's our constitutional obligation," the 2020 candidate tweeted. Rank-and-file Democrats in the House have been pressuring a resistant leadership to pursue impeachment proceedings against Trump, emboldened by the release of Mueller's report, which laid out 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice that his team examined. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back on these calls, saying last week that Trump "wants to be impeached" so that a Republican-controlled Senate can vindicate him. Instead, leadership prefers to focus on a bevy of investigations looking into Trump, his finances, and his inner circle.

Trump reacted to Mueller's address by insisting he is in the clear. "Nothing changes from the Mueller Report. There was insufficient evidence and therefore, in our Country, a person is innocent. The case is closed! Thank you," he tweeted.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennan-robert-muellers-public-address-amplifies-cry-for-impeachment

#6616666 at 2019-05-29 14:16:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8460: Forecast Update: Wednesday Welcomes Winning Edition

Special counsel Robert Mueller is set to make his first public statement on the Russia investigation Wednesday, the Justice Department said.
Mueller will speak at the Justice Department at 11 a.m. and won't take any questions.
It was not clear what he intended to say, but the statement comes amid demands for Mueller to testify on Capitol Hill about his findings and tension with Attorney-General William Barr over the handling of his report.
Mueller's report into Russia meddling in the 2016 election did not find that Russia and the Trump campaign co-ordinated to sway the presidential election. It also did not reach a conclusion on whether Trump had obstructed justice, with Mueller saying he did not think it would be fair to publicly accuse the president of a crime if he could not charge him. A Justice Department legal opinion says sitting presidents cannot be indicted.
Barr has said he was surprised that Mueller did not reach a conclusion, and decided with Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein that the evidence did not support an obstruction of justice allegation.

#6614626 at 2019-05-29 04:24:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8457: Prove All Things And Hold Fast That Which Is Good Edition

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U.S. Attorney General William Barr in Alaska this week

U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr is in Alaska this week to speak to leaders around the state regarding public safety and justice issues.

He arrived late this afternoon at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson.

Barr will begin his speaking tour in Anchorage at the Alaska Native Justice Roundtable at Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium on Wednesday at 1:45 pm.

Barr is also expected to visit the Alaska State Crime Lab on Thursday.

Must Read Alaska has learned that Barr is expected to appear on the Fairbanks show "Problem Corner" show hosted by Dave Pruhs on KFAR 660 between 11-12 am on Friday. But his schedule has been a closely guarded secret.

Last month, Sen. Lisa Murkowski invited Barr to visit Alaska to witness the state of tribal justice on the Last Frontier. In response, Barr said he had already planned a trip to look into the problem of violence against Native women, a topic that Murkowski and Sen. Dan Sullivan have been highlighting lately.

The visit is being coordinated with Murkowski's and Sullivan's offices and Barr is expected to spend most of Wednesday with Sen. Sullivan. Must Read Alaska has not confirmed that Gov. Michael Dunleavy or Alaska Attorney General Kevin Clarkson will be meeting with Barr.

Dunleavy is speaking at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association annual meeting in Anchorage on Thursday, the same day Barr will also be in Anchorage.

http://mustreadalaska.com/attorney-general-William-Barr-in-alaska/

#6614032 at 2019-05-29 03:01:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8457: Prove All Things And Hold Fast That Which Is Good Edition

Attorney General William Barr is trying to figure out how the Trump-Russia collusion investigation got started. He may find a more complicated story than he suspects. It may well be that ill-willed FBI and CIA agents working against Trump evolved from a much narrower scheme that targeted Michael Flynn long before Donald Trump brought Flynn on to his team, first as a campaign adviser, and then as head of the national security council.

Life does not run in a straight line, and top officials in the intelligence community long had it in for Flynn, ever since he changed the way we did intelligence against al Qaeda in Iraq, and then against the Taliban and Iranian-supported terrorists in Afghanistan. The changes put both intelligence-gathering and anti-terrorist operations primarily under battlefield control, significantly diminishing the power of Washington-based intel officers. These high-ranking officials remained hostile thereafter, as Flynn moved to the headquarters of national intelligence, and then to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

He was essentially fired from the Defense Intelligence Agency by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who told him he should retire. This came on the heels of Flynn's sworn congressional testimony criticizing the Obama administration's failed Afghanistan policy. This showed, once again, that Flynn understood how badly we were doing, and would not collude with the intelligence community. Indeed, he intended to carry out an audit of covert funding since the creation of the Central Intelligence Agency (none has been done in all those years).
It was therefore not surprising that Flynn was targeted by top intel officials when he became an adviser to several Republican primary candidates in 2016. If Barr looks at the circumstances of Flynn's removal from the Defense Intelligence Agency, he will find many of the same people who went after both Flynn and Trump after the election. Indeed, the anti-Trump operation began with accusations from the intelligence community that Flynn was in cahoots with the Russians, and, as national security adviser Susan Rice warned the president-elect, might be in violation of the Logan Act.

Consider, for example, Stefan Halper, a longtime informant in the intelligence community. Halper claimed that Flynn was compromised by the Russians, and six months later Flynn was forced into retirement. Halper was later an informant for the FBI seeking information on the Trump campaign.

I think the operation against Flynn provided the template for much of the anti-Trump campaign, from the "unmasking" of people surveiled by FISA-approved intercepts to the close collaboration with British and Italian intelligence services. When the operation against Flynn succeeded, the operators must have realized that similar methods might bring down the president himself. All the pieces were in place. Their team was formed, their international working relations with foreign counterparts were intact, and when they saw that Trump would not fight for his chosen national security adviser, they reckoned he'd fall victim to the same methods.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-plot-against-trump-had-deep-roots-dating-back-to-michael-flynns-career

#6612630 at 2019-05-29 00:14:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8455: Military Comissions Convening Authority Edition

Sen. Mark Warner sounds alarm over William Barr's new declassification powers

WASHINGTON - The top Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee is sounding the alarm about the new powers that President Donald Trump has granted to Attorney General William Barr.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, in a letter obtained by The Associated Press, said he fears Trump is giving Barr "the right to selectively declassify certain information for purposes of political gain." He asked that the leaders of the nation's spy agencies contact lawmakers if Barr's investigation threatens their work.

Trump last week granted Barr the power to review and potentially release classified information as he analyzes the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation. Trump has said it is time to "investigate the investigators" now that special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his work, and he has directed the intelligence community to "quickly and fully cooperate" with Barr's review.



Warner's letter is dated Friday, the day after Trump's directive, and was addressed to the heads of the FBI, the CIA, the NSA and the director of national intelligence. It warned that "politically driven investigations such as Barr's" could endanger sources, damage relations with foreign intelligence agencies and drive career professionals from government service.

Barr's investigation threatens to aggravate long-standing tensions between the White House and the country's spy agencies. Trump has frequently claimed his campaign was the victim of "spying," though the intelligence community has insisted it acted lawfully in following leads in the Russia investigation and conducted surveillance under court order.



Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has pledged to provide Barr with all the information he needs, but warned that publicly releasing highly sensitive classified information "would put our national security at risk."

Warner has worked closely with Republican Sen. Richard Burr, the intelligence panel's chairman, on a bipartisan investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.


https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/28/mark-warner-letter-warns-against-William-Barr-decl/

#6611453 at 2019-05-28 22:02:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8453: We Are With You Edition

AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years.
By Sara Carter -May 28, 2019

President Donald Trump's orders to declassify secret documents pertaining to the FBI's investigation into his campaign in 2016, came after weeks of battles between Attorney General William Barr and senior officials within the bureau, CIA and other agencies, sources with knowledge told SaraACarter.com.

Despite the president's order giving Barr authority over the declassification of the documents related to the bureau's investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, it won't be met without a fight. And there's a reason why.
…
"The FISC has already found that there's been spying going on starting in 2012, not in 2016," he said, adding that senior officials within the FBI and CIA "fear" that a full scale disclosure of the violations will then limit their expansive powers.

Durham is extremely familiar with the CIA and has an extensive career investigating the intelligence community.

As for U.S. Attorney John Huber, he is no longer working on the FBI's probe into the Trump campaign. He will be focused on other matters.

"How much surveillance came directly from the NSA? How much of it was misused under the terrorism statute," said another former senior intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Because under 215 and 702 you can do things you can't do under a normal criminal investigation. These are the areas Barr needs to be looking at and this is exactly what they need to be questioning about."

https://saraacarter.com/ag-Barr-battles-intel-community-and-fbi-illegal-surveillance-had-been-going-on-for-years/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

#6610961 at 2019-05-28 20:54:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8453: We Are With You Edition

Mueller: Obstruction indictment against Trump mentioned in Michael Wolff book does not exist

Special counsel Robert Mueller's office pushed back against author Michael Wolff's claim that prosecutors drafted a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against President Trump. "The documents that you've described do not exist," Mueller spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

In his forthcoming book "Siege: Trump Under Fire," Wolff wrote that a draft indictment charged Trump with obstructing an investigation, tampering with a witness, and retaliating against a witness. He said his reporting was "based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel." The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of the book, said it had seen the documents. Wolff's last book on Trump, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, was released in 2018 and heavily scrutinized for its flippancy with facts.

Mueller was appointed in May 2017 to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. Nearly two years later, he submitted a 448-page report detailing the investigation's findings to the Justice Department. A redacted version of the report laid out 10 instances in which Trump might have obstructed justice, but Mueller declined to say whether he committed obstruction, citing a Justice Department guideline that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. "Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct," Mueller's report said.

Attorney General William Barr concluded Mueller's investigation did not find "sufficient" evidence to determine whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr defended the president's behavior during the investigation as Trump being "frustrated and angry" with a process he believed was politically motivated.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-obstruction-indictment-against-trump-mentioned-in-michael-wolff-book-does-not-exist

#6610718 at 2019-05-28 20:22:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8452: Barr About To Drop The Hammer Edition

British ex-spy [Steele] will not talk to U.S. prosecutor examining Trump probe origins
Mark Hosenball
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele's London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

Trump has given Barr broad authority to declassify intelligence materials related to the investigations. Last week Trump ordered the heads of U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Durham.

Steele, who had previously collaborated with the FBI on issues such as corruption in the global soccer organization FIFA, was hired in 2016 by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based private investigations firm working for lawyers representing the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

Steele produced for Fusion GPS a set of controversial and sometimes salacious reports describing alleged contacts Trump and his team had with Russians before the election.

Trump says Steele's "fake dossier" was a key factor behind the investigations and what he claims is a broader "witch hunt" against him. He also accuses senior intelligence officials of improperly "spying" on his campaign.

According to documents declassified by the Trump administration, the FBI cited Steele's reporting as partial justification for electronic surveillance targeting Carter Page, a one-time Trump campaign advisor with business dealings in Russia.

Democrats accuse Trump of trying to turn attention away from the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose report into Russian interference in the 2016 election described numerous links between the Trump campaign and Moscow, and said Trump had repeatedly tried to impede the investigation.

The source close to Steele's company said Steele would not cooperate with Durham's probe but might cooperate with a parallel inquiry by the Justice Department's Inspector General into how U.S. law enforcement agencies handled pre-election investigations into both Trump and Clinton.

Steele also cooperated with Mueller's investigative team, voluntarily submitting to two interviews in September 2017. He also gave written testimony to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in August 2018, the source said.

The Justice Department had no immediate comment, and a spokesman for Durham declined to comment.


https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-steele/british-ex-spy-will-not-talk-to-us-prosecutor-examining-trump-probe-origins-source-idUSKCN1SY20K

#6610669 at 2019-05-28 20:14:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8452: Barr About To Drop The Hammer Edition

Justin Amash sends tweet storm on Mueller report, Barr and Trump ahead of town hall

Hours before his first town hall with constituents since announcing he believes President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses, the Michigan Republican put out a series of 25 tweets expanding on his takeaways from special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.



"In truth, Mueller's report describes concerning contacts between members of Trump's campaign and people in or connected to the Russian government," Amash wrote on Tuesday.

The 39-year-old remains the only sitting Republican to openly say Trump engaged in impeachable conduct, though he has not signed onto any existing Democratic impeachment resolutions.
Amash singled out Attorney General William Barr for his handling of the report, arguing he misrepresented Mueller's findings, including in testimony before Congress.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/politics/justin-amash-town-hall-trump-impeachment/index.html?utm_source=twCNNp&utm_term=image&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-05-28T20%3A11%3A00

#6610548 at 2019-05-28 19:57:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8452: Barr About To Drop The Hammer Edition

Dossier Author Christopher Steele Refuses to Cooperate with US Attorney John Durham in His Investigation Into Origins of Spygate

Christopher Steele, the former British spy who was paid by Hillary Clinton and the DNC to compile a 35-page dossier smearing Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign is refusing to cooperate with US Attorney John Durham in his investigation into the origins of Spygate.

Reuters reported:


The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele's London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

Hillary Clinton hid her payments to Steele by paying him through Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC during the 2016 presidential election.

Steele worked as a CHS [Confidential Human Source] for the FBI while simultaneously working for oppo research firm Fusion GPS to compile a 35-page dossier full of lies against Donald Trump, using his Russian intel sources.

Even though the FBI terminated Christopher Steele, he continued to feed the US government information through DOJ official Bruce Ohr who was acting as a backchannel to the FBI.

The FBI ultimately used the phony, Hillary-funded dossier to obtain a FISA warrant and three subsequent renewals on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page in order to spy on Trump during the 2016 election.

Attorney General Bill Barr stunned the Deep State-Democrat media complex last month when he said he believes "spying did occur" during the 2016 election.

It was later announced Bill Barr appointed US Attorney in Connecticut John Durham to investigate the origins of Spygate.

According to Reuters, Steele is refusing to cooperate with John Durham, but he may cooperate with Inspector General Michael Horowitz's parallel investigation.

The difference between Horowitz and Durham? Horowitz has no teeth - he cannot impanel a grand jury and he can only criminally refer people to the DOJ.

In contrast, Durham's investigation spans across multiple intel agencies and he has the power to convene a grand jury.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/breaking-dossier-author-christopher-steele-refuses-to-cooperate-with-us-attorney-john-durham-in-his-investigation-into-origins-of-spygate/

#6610301 at 2019-05-28 19:20:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8452: Barr About To Drop The Hammer Edition

Sarah Sanders: Attorney general will decide if James Comey gets arrested for treason

The Trump administration may yet prosecute one of the president's chief critics: former FBI Director James Comey. During a broader discussion Sunday about the president's declassification order related to the Russia investigation, "Meet the Press" host asked White House press secretary Sarah Sanders what Trump expects will come out of it.

"Does he expect criminal charges? Does he expect - he's accused James Comey of treason. Does he expect Jim Comey to be arrested?" Todd asked. Sanders said the decision will be left to Attorney General William Barr. "Again, we're going to let the attorney general make that determination as he gets to the conclusion of this investigation," Sanders replied. "We certainly expect the people that were responsible and that were part of this unprecedented obstruction and corruption at the FBI, those people should certainly be held responsible and be held accountable, and the president expects that to take place," she added. The interview followed Trump's claim that certain leaders in the bureau, including Comey, committed "treason" by trying to "take down" his campaign.

At least three federal investigations into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse and other matters related to the way the FBI and the Justice Department conducted the Trump-Russia investigation and several top ex-officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan and Comey, are under increasing scrutiny. On Thursday, Trump gave Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Democrats railed against the decision. House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff said Trump and Barr are conspiring "to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies."

Trump rallied supporters for much of his 2016 campaign by calling for his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to be locked up due to her use of an unauthorized email server while serving as secretary of state

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sarah-sanders-attorney-general-will-decide-if-james-comey-gets-arrested-for-treason

#6609836 at 2019-05-28 18:12:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8451: Kitchen Collab Edition

British ex-spy will not talk to U.S. prosecutor examining Trump probe origins: source

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The former British spy who produced a dossier describing alleged links between Donald Trump and Russia will not cooperate with a prosecutor assigned by U.S. Attorney General William Barr to review how the investigations of Trump and his 2016 election campaign began, a source with knowledge of the situation said. Christopher Steele, a former Russia expert for the British spy agency MI6, will not answer questions from prosecutor John Durham, named by Barr to examine the origins of the investigations into Trump and his campaign team, said the source close to Steele's London-based private investigation firm, Orbis Business Intelligence.

Trump has given Barr broad authority to declassify intelligence materials related to the investigations. Last week Trump ordered the heads of U.S. spy and law enforcement agencies to cooperate with Durham. Steele, who had previously collaborated with the FBI on issues such as corruption in the global soccer organization FIFA, was hired in 2016 by Fusion GPS, a Washington-based private investigations firm working for lawyers representing the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. nton's presidential campaign. Steele produced for Fusion GPS a set of controversial and sometimes salacious reports describing alleged contacts Trump and his team had with Russians before the election.

Trump says Steele's "fake dossier" was a key factor behind the investigations and what he claims is a broader "witch hunt" against him. He also accuses senior intelligence officials of improperly "spying" on his campaign. According to documents declassified by the Trump administration, the FBI cited Steele's reporting as partial justification for electronic surveillance targeting Carter Page, a one-time Trump campaign advisor with business dealings in Russia.

Democrats accuse Trump of trying to turn attention away from the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose report into Russian interference in the 2016 election described numerous links between the Trump campaign and Moscow, and said Trump had repeatedly tried to impede the investigation. The source close to Steele's company said Steele would not cooperate with Durham's probe but might cooperate with a parallel inquiry by the Justice Department's Inspector General into how U.S. law enforcement agencies handled pre-election investigations into both Trump and Clinton. Steele also cooperated with Mueller's investigative team, voluntarily submitting to two interviews in September 2017. He also gave written testimony to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee in August 2018, the source said. The Justice Department had no immediate comment, and a spokesman for Durham declined to comment.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-steele/british-ex-spy-will-not-talk-to-u-s-prosecutor-examining-trump-probe-origins-source-idUSKCN1SY20K?il=0

#6606396 at 2019-05-28 05:10:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8447: Lights On, Nightshift Edition

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https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/William-Barr-investigation-australia-open-to-help-request-payne-says/news-story/84c9428c1bd9cde0e2aa09608d2e8b9f

#6605728 at 2019-05-28 03:20:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8446: POTUS Live from the USS Wasp Edition

Adam Schiff encourages intelligence leaders to consider 'the example of Secretary Mattis' and resign

House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff predicts two top officials will resist President Trump's move to declassify intelligence related to the Russia investigation. Should pressure from Trump become too great, Schiff suggested this pair of intelligence leaders - CIA Director Gina Haspel and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats - follow the example of former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and resign. "If it gets to a point they are asked to do things that are unlawful or jeopardize the men and women that work within the I.C., they should speak out," the California Democrat told the New York Times, "and, if necessary, follow the example of Secretary Mattis."

Mattis resigned late last year in protest of Trump's plan to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and Afghanistan. On Thursday, Trump gave Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin and instructed the heads of several agencies, including Haspel and Coats, to cooperate with the inquiry. Schiff railed against the decision. "While Trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies," he tweeted. "The coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase. This is un-American."

Although Haspel has yet to speak out about the order, Coats offered some reassurance about the limited scope of what can be made available to the public. "Much like we have with other investigations and reviews, the Intelligence Community will provide the Department of Justice all of the appropriate information for its review of intelligence activities related to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election," Coats said in a statement Friday. "As part of that process, I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the IC in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-encourages-intelligence-leaders-to-consider-the-example-of-secretary-mattis-and-resign

#6603100 at 2019-05-27 21:06:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8443: "Morning Sun Brings Heat" Edition

Latest from Ben Fulford

https://benjaminfulford.net/2019/05/27/as-theresa-may-loses-battle-of-britain-west-coast-oligarchs-sue-for-peace

As Theresa May loses battle of Britain, West Coast oligarchs sue for peace

The forced resignation of British Prime Minister (and Hitler daughter) Theresa May marked a decisive turning point in the battle for the planet Earth, multiple sources agree. Already, her resignation has forced high-tech oligarchs Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk to seek peace negotiations with the White Dragon Society (WDS), according to P2 Freemason sources.

Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump has spent the Memorial Day weekend in Japan, in part to avoid assassination as moves begin to end the long political deadlock in Washington, D.C., Pentagon and Japanese right-wing sources say.

As many of us are aware, U.S. politics has been stuck in an endlessly repeating loop for two years, with hysterical Democrats using control of corporate media and every legal tool possible to remove Trump, while Trump endlessly tweets "witch hunt."

To understand why the resignation of May is crucial to breaking the political deadlock, we need to take a quick look at the FISAgate scandal. Basically, in 2016 the Rockefeller/Clinton oligarchs asked their Rothschild counterparts in the UK to circumvent U.S. law in order to spy on Trump and concoct the Russiagate scandal to impeach him. May's resignation means the British Nazi (Zionist) -allied oligarchs who fought against Trump are now all being purged from the British military/intelligence/political power structure, according to British royal family sources. This purge will be accompanied by a similar purge in the U.S., according to Pentagon sources.

"Trump giving [U.S. Attorney General William] Barr power to declassify gives him clean hands to terminate Zionists when files are released about 9/11, 3/11 [Fukushima], and other military intelligence," Pentagon sources promise.

#6603052 at 2019-05-27 20:58:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8443: "Morning Sun Brings Heat" Edition

Judge Blocks Border Wall Funding

A San Francisco judge who has given heavily to Democrats issued an order May 24 temporarily preventing President Donald Trump from using military funds to pay for construction of a wall on the nation's porous border with Mexico.

The injunction, nationwide in effect, is part of a growing trend that Attorney General William Barr calls dangerous because it allows a single judge to veto presidential actions. According to the Justice Department, an average of 1.5 such national or universal injunctions were issued each year against the administrations of Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Under Barack Obama, the average rose to 2.5.

But 37 injunctions have been issued against the Trump administration since the president was inaugurated, Barr said.

The case, along with other legal challenges to the president's efforts to secure the border, are likely to end up in the Supreme Court eventually.

U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr., appointed by then-President Barack Obama in December 2014, blocked the Trump administration "from taking any action to construct a border Barrier" with reallocated U.S. Department of Defense monies in parts of Arizona and Texas known as Yuma Sector Project 1 and El Paso Sector Project 1.

Gilliam wrote in his 56-page preliminary injunction that "irreparable harm" would ensue if the administration moved forward while the lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club awaited a full hearing on the merits.

"Because the Court has found that Plaintiffs are likely to show that Defendants' actions exceeded their statutory authority, and that irreparable harm will result from those actions, a preliminary injunction must issue pending a resolution of the merits of the case," he wrote.

Gilliam also made a claim that legal experts say is highly questionable, falsely accusing President Trump of violating the separation of powers doctrine and infringing on Congress's power of the purse. "The position that when Congress declines the Executive's request to appropriate funds, the Executive nonetheless may simply find a way to spend those funds 'without Congress' does not square with fundamental separation of powers principles dating back to the earliest days of our Republic," he wrote.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/judge-blocks-border-wall-funding_2939924.html

#6601526 at 2019-05-27 16:21:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8441: A Day of Thanks and Rememberance Edition

Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense.

Attorney General William Barr has turned the attention of the Russia probe to its origin. Who started this and why? The answer, as in all the best crime dramas, is probably hiding in plain sight. On July 13, 2016, British academic Dr. Andrew Foxall penned an op-ed in the New York Times, "Why Putin Loves Brexit." He blamed Russia for the previous month's Brexit vote, adding in a little noted aside: The United States is so concerned over Moscow's determination to exploit European disunity that in January, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, began a review of Russia's clandestine funding of European parties. Bingo! The Obama administration was spying on conservative European political parties. Which means, almost necessarily under the Five Eyes Agreement, foreign agents were returning the favor and spying on the Trump campaign.

On August 11, 2018, I wrote: The British aristocracy has a condescending view of the hoi polloi who voted for Brexit, regarding them as easily manipulated Pygmalion-like by smarter people. They assumed Vladimir Putin was somehow playing Professor Henry Higgins to the flower girls who voted to reject the EU, because that's how they see the world. Among the Cambridge class, this simple prejudice renders Russian collusion a first principle with no need for supporting evidence.... Without supporting evidence to prove their fantastical worldview, the global elite set out to manufacture some.

First up was Christopher Steele, who hasn't set foot in Russia since 2009. He wears as a badge the claim that Putin hates him which, if true, means he has no real Russian sources. Maybe because of that, Steele's farcical dossier on Trump was not enough for the FBI to open an investigation, and these international men of mystery needed something more. They invited George Papadopoulos to London, used a Maltese asset disguised as a Russian agent - Joseph Mifsud - to feed him a whopper about Hillary Clinton's emails, then claimed he repeated the lie to Andrew Downer, an Australian diplomat with ties to the Clinton Foundation. That was the final straw that caused lovestruck counterintelligence specialist Peter Strzok to open an FBI investigation into the Trump campaign which he called "Crossfire Hurricane." Apropos, because when MI6 was joined on its flank by an FBI investigation, it was officially a crossfire: two rogue intelligence services raining fire upon Trump.

Conspiracies are mere abstractions unless they do something criminal. The Russian interference fantasy needed a crime. The DNC sold a doozy of an actus reus to the FBI after John Podesta's negligent disclosure of damaging Clinton campaign emails: Putin did it. Conveniently, the FBI delegated the inspection of the computer servers to CrowdStrike, an insider paid by the DNC. James Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee in January 2017 that CrowdStrike was "a highly respected private company." What he failed to mention was that a month before his testimony, CrowdStrike had been caught falsely blaming Russia for a hack into a Ukrainian artillery computer app. In other words, at the same time this "highly respected private company" was blaming the Russians for stealing the Clinton campaign's emails, it was fabricating a different Russian hack to serve Ukrainian misinformation.

Why all the fuss about Russia? Liberal elites - who tended to love the Soviet Union - hate present day Russia, which dares to assert nationality and culture against the pieties of the one-world-order crowd. The Patriarch of the Orthodox Church passes on all legislation in the country. Putin put the girl rock band Pussy Riot in prison for desecrating an altar, a crime that has not been punished since the 13th century. President Obama sent gay representatives to the Sochi Olympics on his behalf, in protest.

That explains the leftists, but how about Republican elites? Mitch McConnell recently took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to declare the "case closed" on collusion, urging republicans and democrats to unite against Putin's election interference. That's a problem. If Trump was a product of KGB-esque intrigue, then Hillary is a victim of meddling. Trump is merely an un-indicted hapless beneficiary. The deplorables are not only racist, stupid losers, they are also Putin's unwitting stooges. The same non-evidence cited to show collusion, though, undergirds the "but Russia interfered" stupidity. It is a three-legged stool that teetered for a while upon Christopher Steele, Joseph Mifsud, and CrowdStrike, and has now crashed to the ground.

https://humanevents.com/2019/05/24/global-elites-started-the-russia-nonsense/

#6600912 at 2019-05-27 14:37:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8440: Memorial Day 2019 Edition

Wrongly Imprisoned Former Rep. Steve Stockman Files Appeal

Former Republican Congressman Steve Stockman is fighting back against The Swamp. He was targeted by powerful Democrats and wrongly convicted of misusing nonprofit funds. Corrupt, left-leaning prosecutors in the Department of Justice went after him because he called for the arrest of the IRS's Lois Lerner, was the first to expose Obama's ransom payment for Bowe Bergdahl, and aggressively rooted out corruption under both Bill Clinton's and Barack Obama's presidencies. He made the Drudge Report during his most recent term in office more than any other House member. The reality is, Stockman complied with very complex, technical laws - but prosecutors chose to interpret those laws differently in order to confuse the jury. Now, Stockman is fighting back from prison, where he is serving a 10 year sentence. His attorneys filed an appeal with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals last week.

What happened was Stockman solicited funds for nonprofits with which he was affiliated with in order to set up a conservative youth political training program. One of the nonprofits put out a mailer explaining the differences in positions between himself and his opponent while running for U.S. Senate in Texas. Prosecutors claimed the mailer constituted "express advocacy" and so violated campaign finance law since it was put out by a nonprofit. But the mailer never said vote for Stockman. It merely laid out, educationally, the differences between the two candidates. The well-known 1976 campaign case Buckley v. Valeo states that express advocacy must contain words like "vote for," "elect," "support," "vote against," etc. The mailer contained none of those words.

The prosecution cleverly referred to Stockman's nonprofits as "sham nonprofits," in order to taint the jury. They didn't bother telling the jury that nonprofits could send out educational mailers. The IRS states about nonprofits, "Certain 'voter education' activities conducted in a non-partisan manner may not constitute prohibited political activity under section 501(c)(3) of the Code." The prosecution also said Stockman was guilty of "materially misrepresenting" what he was soliciting funds for. But they never identified any material misrepresentations. So there was no fraud. The donors knew what their money was going for. Unfortunately for Stockman, one of the two donors in question died before the trial started so he could not be questioned. The prosecution used that to their advantage. Prosecutors also threw in the vague counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering. Those are commonly alleged when prosecutors don't have a good case against someone and need to throw in some catchalls. They merely mean that someone used the mail or telephone/internet while they were committing a crime, and money transferred places while a crime was being committed. The problem with those counts is Stockman did not commit any crimes, so those counts are meaningless.

Prosecutors confused the jury by giving them incorrect jury instructions. They gave them the impression that any activity that could be considered "political" in nature was illegal. They also made it appear that any money spent by a nonprofit that benefited an individual was illegal. They tricked the jury. Stockman was also convicted of filing a false tax return. But similar to campaign finance filings, usually there is an opportunity for the filer to amend it; the government doesn't go into full prosecution mode. Stockman failed to report as income money given to his nonprofit for the youth education center. But he wasn't receiving any income. It certainly doesn't fit the definition of income, and he had no reason to think it was required to be included, so his actions weren't willful and consequently didn't fit the definition of filing a false tax return.

This comes down to the First Amendment. Stockman had a free speech right to raise and spend money for nonprofit organizations and political campaigns. Campaign finance and related laws were distorted and used against him to destroy his career and stop him. If corrupt DOJ prosecutors can get away with taking him down, who's next? There are plenty of conservative activist members of Congress. This can now happen to any of them if it's not corrected. Attorney General William Barr and President Donald Trump need to thoroughly clean out the DOJ from top to bottom. Hopefully the appeals court will see through this witch hunt, reverse the conviction and punish the prosecutors. Maybe if some prosecutors go to jail this kind of abuse will finally stop.

https://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2019/05/27/wrongly-imprisoned-former-rep-steve-stockman-files-appeal-n2546915

#6596963 at 2019-05-27 00:22:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8435: UNBELIEVABLE TEAM Edition

America's political Game of Thrones ignored by a disinterested MSM

WASHINGTON. The recently concluded television adaptation of George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" (GOT) wrapped up this lavishly-costumed eight-season morality play with a simple message. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Since the time this HBO extravaganza began to unfold on pay cable, the MSM has remained obsessed with the actors, the filming, the storyline - you name it. But throughout this maxi-series' long and successful run, the now clearly declining MSM has remained utterly uninterested in our own very real American Game of Thrones. This equally long-running series could now be moving into its own final season right here in Washington, D.C.

Game of Thrones, American style Here in the capital city of America, we will soon hear a tale unfold that's eerily similar to George R.R. Martin's. It will recount the Machiavellian lengths to which President Barack Obama used his executive power and the formidable resources of the US intelligence services to meddle in the selection of his successor. And worse, having failed with that hubristic strategy, to instigate a clandestine campaign to unseat the duly-elected Republican victor of 2016, Donald J. Trump. It's our own very real American Game of Thrones. But its final chapter has yet to be written. Curiously, now-President Donald Trump's recent endeavor to shine the bright sunlight of transparency on the dubious deeds of America's likely corrupted secret agencies is viewed as a troubling development. But only in the eyes of those who claim to represent "the public's right to know." America's rapidly declining MSM.

Our hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, badly declining MSM The declining Washington Post's Shane Harris purports to be shocked by President Donald Trump's latest executive order. It gives Attorney General William Barr broad power to release previously classified information regarding the origins of the Trump/Russia collusion investigation: "It appeared unprecedented to give an official who is not in charge of an intelligence agency the power to reveal its secrets. Current and former intelligence officials said they were concerned that Barr could selectively declassify information that paints the intelligence agencies and the FBI in a bad light without giving a complete picture of their efforts in 2016." Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt of the declining New York Times seconded Harris's concern over others' concerns for our nation's spies: "The directive is likely to irk the intelligence community, which has long prized its ability to determine what information about its operations can be released to the public."

Where have all the journalists gone? The paragraphs above denote a singular lack of curiosity on the part of so-called journalists - all part of this country's declining MSM. In years past, these alleged journalists were more than willing to publish classified information leaked to them by intelligence sources. Particularly when the GOP held the Oval Office. Neither reporter cited here wonders just what, exactly, these secretive Federal agencies find concerning or irksome. Other than having attention aimed back at their nefarious actions. Actions they never thought they'd have to answer for. After all, the infallible polls said Hillary Clinton was an overwhelming shoo-in to be elected as the nation's 45th president. But, as in HBO's GOT, in our American Game of Thrones, the best-laid plans often go awry.

Media engages in power games as the American Game of Thrones plays out Getting back to the spectacle of this country's declining MSM, do you remember the Pentagon Papers? It was a "top secret" history of the Vietnam War written by members of the RAND Corporation for the Pentagon's inner circle. US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned the report. Among its more startling revelations: The Kennedy Administration's ordered assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem;and The ineffectiveness of heavy US bombing in breaking the will of North Vietnamese leaders to continue the war. A US District judge issued a restraining order prohibiting the Washington Post and New York Times from printing articles, beyond the few they had, that used material from the classified history. But the government's demand for prior restraint was eventually settled in favor of the newspapers in a 6-3 vote by the United States Supreme Court.

https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/commentary/declining-msm-american-game-of-thrones-119371/

#6595574 at 2019-05-26 21:29:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8433: Red White and Q. May 27th in Japan Edition

Hope Hicks subpoena article in New York Times draws torrents of criticism

The New York Times is facing criticism from the left on social media for an article about former White House communications director Hope Hicks. The Times and reporter Maggie Haberman were the target of some on social media for an article that said Hicks is "facing an existential question" about whether to comply with a congressional subpoena. The article begins: "One of the best-known but least visible former members of President Trump's White House staff is facing an existential question: whether to comply with a congressional subpoena in the coming weeks."

Hicks, who was communications director from 2017 to 2018, was mentioned in 28 pages of special counsel Robert Mueller's report. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler of New York subpoenaed both Hicks and former White House counsel Don McGahn aide Annie Donaldson last week. Some left-wing social media figures and politicians weighed in on the piece, which also featured an image from a professional photoshoot of the 30-year-old Hicks.

Democratic Trump opponent Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York responded by comparing Hicks to the media's coverage of shootings. "Yup. Where's the 'no angel' take now? In the immediate aftermath of shootings, media routinely post menacing photos of people-of-color victims + dredge up any questionable thing they'd ever done. But when Hope Hicks considers not complying w a subpoena, it's glamour shot time," she tweeted. Yup. Where's the "no angel" take now?

In the immediate aftermath of shootings, media routinely post menacing photos of people-of-color victims + dredge up any questionable thing they'd ever done. Nadler also subpoenaed McGahn to testify, but the White House directed him not to participate, setting the stage for Nadler to hold him in contempt. Attorney General William Barr was also held in contempt by the committee after he refused requests to release an unredacted version of Mueller's report.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nytimes-hope-hicks-subpoena-article-draws-torrents-of-criticism

#6594616 at 2019-05-26 19:12:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8432: Japan knows Q Edition

Graham says intel officials concerned about exposure of 2016 misbehavior

Amid investigations into potential misbehavior by intelligence officials during the 2016 presidential campaign, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday, "It doesn't surprise me that the people we are looking at, they don't want transparency." The South Carolina Republican told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace he agreed with President Trump's decision to give Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority" to work with the intelligence community in declassifying documents related to the origins of the Russia investigation and the conduct of the Justice Department and the FBI. Barr's move has drawn strong criticism from former FBI Director James Comey, ex-CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Each has said the declassification process could lead agencies vulnerable to revelations about intelligence sources and methods.

But Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said it's the ex-intelligence and Justice Department officials who should be on the defensive about their conduct in the 2016 campaign and early into Trump's tenure. "The people who are worried about this are worried about being exposed for taking the law in their own hands," said Graham, 63, without identifying specific officials. Wallace pressed him on this, calling these government secrets "the crown jewels of the intelligence community" and saying that critics had raised questions about whether Barr can "be trusted with these secrets" and whether Barr can "be trusted not to cherry-pick the information to make a case for the president." Graham said that Barr can be trusted and insisted that "we're not compromising national security here. We're trying to create a system to make sure this never happens again by shedding light on what happened."

Republicans have long argued that the launch of the Trump-Russia investigation was politically motivated, that its use of a dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele was improper, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was abused. Democrats have defended the actions taken by the DOJ and FBI. Graham said that his support for this probe was a matter of consistency, since he'd publicly supported special counsel Mueller's investigation too. "I was one of the Republicans insisting that Mueller be allowed to do his job. I never thought it was a witch hunt. The Mueller report is in. No collusion. Mueller didn't do anything on obstruction," Graham said. "Now I'm insisting that we get to the bottom of this." "I want all the documents around the FISA warrant application released," Graham explained. "I want to find out exactly how the counterintelligence operation began. I think transparency is good for the American people." Graham also criticized Democrats for not wanting answers, saying, "Not one Democrat seems to care. I was the hero when I said, 'Let's support Mueller.' I wish some Democrat would come forward to find out if the FISA court was defrauded by the FBI and the Department of Justice."

Barr has been reviewing the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign for weeks now. Not only has he tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham with reviewing the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, but he has also enlisted the help of CIA Director Gina Haspel, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Although Trump said his order empowering Barr could lead to the declassification of "millions of pages of documents," Coats quickly tamped down expectations about how much might be released, saying "I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the IC in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/graham-says-intel-officials-concerned-about-exposure-of-2016-misbehavior

#6592526 at 2019-05-26 14:11:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8429: The Almost E-bake Very Early Very Late Edition

Lindsey Graham: Trump declassification move 'not compromising national security'

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham on Sunday said President Trump's granting Attorney General William Barr broad authority to declassify certain information tied to surveillance activities during the 2016 election doesn't compromise national security, saying there are legitimate questions still to be answered.

"We're not compromising national security here - we're trying to create a system to make sure this never happens again," Mr. Graham, South Carolina Republican, said on "Fox News Sunday."

He said the idea is to shine a light on the FBI's 2016 counterintelligence investigation into potential Russian influence on the Trump campaign, as well as the process to apply for warrants issued through the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

"Did they have a lawful reason to surveil President Trump's campaign? Did they lie to the FISA court? Every American should want to find that out," he said.
"The people who are worried about this are worried about being exposed for taking the law in their own hands," he said.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/26/lindsey-graham-donald-trump-declassification-move-/

#6592202 at 2019-05-26 12:59:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8429: The Almost E-bake Very Early Very Late Edition

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-25/trump-targets-uk-australia-and-ukraines-involvement-greatest-hoax-history-our

President Trump on Friday said that he wants Attorney General William Barr to investigate the UK, Australia and Ukraine for their roles in the 'greatest hoax in the history of our country.'


Down goes Bite Me Biden.

#6591124 at 2019-05-26 06:07:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8427: Patriots On Point Edition

responding in reality: we got Projection and Strzok iHJ image out a BeanTown:
"On Thursday night, President Trump authorized the attorney general, William Barr, to declassify any documents needed to show how the Obama administration weaponized the entire federal government in its attempt to effect a coup against the elected president of the United States. The Deep State, which now includes 98 percent of what was once called the mainstream media, immediately went into projection overdrive."

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/05/25/democrat-projection-exposes-their-guilt-in-framing-trump/

#6590860 at 2019-05-26 05:00:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8427: Patriots On Point Edition

Foor anons who have been wondering and asking why Q said that POTUS circumvented Coats and gave Barr carte blanche to declassify everything, the following article shows why. The DECLAS was never going to happen if swamp creature Coats had anything to do wit it. He's already threatening Barr not to reveal all.

A megaquake is coming with this DECLAS, and its scaring the shit out of everybody. I just hope Barr isn't going to drag his ass on this for another 2 years.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dan-coats-William-Barr-trump-intelligence-risk-warning-045917577.html

#6589957 at 2019-05-26 01:59:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8426: Deep State Paper Trail Wide as I-95 Edition

Alright Anons, I was sitting here trying to spark up the old autism reactor when I think some connections started to make sense. In order to answer Q's last post #3347 "Why circumvent Coates?" we have to go back to one of the earliest posts.

In post #30 Q says: "When Trump was elected you can't possibly imagine the steps taken prior to losing power to ensure future safety & control." We have known for a long time that plants like Manafort and Page were inserted into the campaign, but I have always suspected that in order to hedge (their) bets, the DS decided to use an oldie from their playbook by making sure the VP was one of (them) so they could 187 POTUS like the did JFK and pull a LBJ.

In post #714 Q says: "Save the best for last. [P]". Yes, I know Q later said [P] = Payseur, however the cabal has a penchant for changing their last names to mask family ties. I would not be surprised if Pence is actually Payseur. Additionally, Q has repeatedly said never interfere with your enemy while they are in the process of destroying themselves. I know many Anons are going to say that Pence is a Republican, anti-abortion, etc, etc. but remember the cabal literally lives and dies on its use of the Hegelian dialectic to present people with binary choices that ultimately always funnel people to the outcome (they) want. What better way to reveal the con than to expose the VP as a plant and co-conspirator in Spygate? The people of America would be free from both the establishment left and the controlled opposition establishment right.

If Anons would give me the grace of just a bit more time to bring it full circle. Who else is from Indiana and a swamp creature? DAN COATES the current DNI. Though Coates has at times voted with the will of the people, like opposing the Iran Nuclear Deal, in many more cases he has voted for gun control, for the war in Iraq, was one of Bush 2's top choices for Secretary of Defense, was super close with Merkel when he was ambassador to Germany, lobbied for the bailouts in 2008 and was one of the leading voices that Russia hacked our elections in 2016. Additionally, Dan and his wife (remember follow the wives?) both are heads of the Sagamore Institute, an Indiana "think-tank". Funny how these "think-tanks" like Tavistock Institute and Royal Institute of International Affairs always seem to pop up when we dig into cabal players...

While DNI (confirmed 13-2 not much opposition in the swamp) Coates has ragged about Trump's foreign policy; berating him for pulling out of Syria, mocked his allegations of being wiretapped, saber rattled against Russia, openly laughed at the President's attempts to bring peace to the world, been lauded by CIA clowns like Brennan as a voice of sanity in the administration, and has threatened to quit in "protest". Want to take a guess at who persuaded him to stick around? Pence. Most recently Coates has threatened Barr to not reveal state secrets while exposing Spygate.

Which brings us to some of Q's more recent posts like #3328. Where Q says "C comes before D". In post #3344 Q appears to confirm that C=Comey, which following the pattern would mean D=first letter of first name: [D]an. This explains why POTUS circumnavigated Coates with the declassification. And last the autistic cherry on top that started this whole thing. POTUS's tweet at 3:29PM today where he misspelled (we know POTUS only misspells things for emphasis) Biden as Bidan = Bye Dan.

BONUS AUTISM: Nice article urging POTUS to step down and let Pence be President Newsweek. You're glowing and stupid.

SAUCE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats
https://www.sagamoreinstitute.org/dan-and-marsha-coats-sagamore-co-founders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dan-coats-lobbyist-for-fat-cats-plots-senate-return
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-dan-coats-rogue-president-1035183
https://www.newsweek.com/dan-coats-resign-trump-obama-1027338
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096
https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20190525121028-dan-coats-issues-warning-to-William-Barr/
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132413516063870977
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-let-mike-pence-be-president-1405041

#6589582 at 2019-05-26 00:50:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8425: Taibbi Criticizes MSM Edition

>>6589538
Deep State Has Left 'Paper Trail As Wide As Interstate-95' Which Will 'Fall All Over DC Like Radioactive Ash'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has emerged as one of Trump's biggest supporters, spoke to Fox & Friends on Friday and said:

It is long overdue. You're going to find out the mentality of the people investigating the president. You're going to find out exactly what they did and said. You're going to find out that Papadopoulos was not working with the Russians and [the FBI] knew early on that he had no contacts with the Russians. There'll be some transcripts coming out where he says, 'If you did that, that'd be treason.' So the bottom line is, there's going to be a lot of information about they were warned Steele was a bad guy and you can't trust him. They blew through every stop sign.

While this order should have come a long time ago, at least it's finally been done. The onslaught of all the new House Democratic investigations and the success of liberal judges to force Trump's compliance with congressional subpoenas added to the pressure. Finally, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's unhinged comments to reporters that "the President is engaged in a cover-up" minutes before an important meeting with him forced his hand.

The Washington Examiner's Byron York spoke about an additional benefit of Trump's making this decision at this particular time. He tweeted:

Talking to plugged-in Republicans about Trump declassification order. They see giving AG Barr authority will speed the process. Added benefit: Quick declassification could allow DOJ IG Horowitz to include more stuff in his upcoming report.

Recently, Attorney General William Barr announced his appointment of U.S. Attorney John Durham to open an investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia probe, DOJ IG Michael Horowitz has been examining the FBI's FISA Court application and related activities since March 2018 and his report is expected soon. And, so they say, that elusive man of mystery Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber, began an investigation into Obama-era FBI/DOJ abuses of power in March 2018.

The tide has most definitely turned.

After the unending outrages of the last three years, this will be fun to watch.

Part 2

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/25/deep-state-left-paper-trail-wide-interstate-95-will-fall-dc-like-radioactive-ash/

#6589464 at 2019-05-26 00:29:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8425: Taibbi Criticizes MSM Edition

>>6589440
Democrats always had selective justice, hence why I wrote a poem:
Make Justice Blind Again

About William Barr and his role w/ Trump on taking down the deep state & their allied Democrats.

#6587094 at 2019-05-25 17:47:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8422: Great Awakening Volume 64 - The [[[Hunters]]] Become The Hunted Edition

EX-CIA OFFICIALS FUME ABOUT DECLASSIFICATION ORDER, IGNORING PREVIOUS LEAKS OF SECRET SOURCES AND METHODS
*John Brennan and other intelligence community operatives are circling the wagons against President Donald Trump's declassification directive, claiming that it could expose top-secret sources and methods used in the Trump-Russia probe.
*But Brennan's complaint may be misplaced given that virtually all of the significant leaks about sources and methods used in the investigation have been given to left-leaning news outlets.
*In one case, FBI official Peter Strzok expressed concerns that the CIA was leaking inaccurate information about the intelligence gathered on Trump associates.
Former intelligence community officials, including former CIA director John Brennan, have expressed concern over President Donald Trump's declassification order due the potential release of CIA sources and methods.

"The concern is that very, very precious source and methods of the United States intelligence community as well as our partners and allies abroad - those who share this sensitive information with us," Brennan said on MSNBC on Friday.

But Brennan's concern, which was echoed by other intelligence community veterans and TV pundits on Friday, may be misplaced.

Government officials who appear to not be allies of Trump have been behind countless leaks of classified information regarding sources, methods and investigative targets in the Trump-Russia probe. Some of the leaks have disclosed the existence of surveillance warrants and FBI informants used against the Trump campaign.

In one case, the FBI official who led the investigation into Russian interference, Peter Strzok, believed that the CIA was leaking highly classified assessments about Russia's election-related activities to the press.

"I'm beginning to think the agency got info a lot earlier than we thought and hasn't shared it completely with us. Might explain all these weird/seemingly incorrect leads all these media folks have. Would also highlight agency as source of some of the leaks," Strzok wrote in a text message on April 13, 2017.

Strzok expressed similar concern in a text message months earlier.

"Think our sisters have begun leaking like mad. Scorned and worried and political, they're kicking in to overdrive," Strzok wrote on Dec. 15, 2016, a day after NBC News reported that the CIA believed that Vladimir Putin directed the computer hacks against Democrats.

The New York Times has since reported that a person close to Putin is the CIA's lone source for the information about Putin. The Times reported on Friday that current and former intelligence community officials are concerned that the source (who the newspaper identified as a man) could be in danger because of Trump's declassification order.

But there is no indication that Trump's order will lead to the disclosure of top-secret sources, including those working inside the Kremlin.

On Thursday, Trump directed the heads of various intelligence community agencies, including the FBI and CIA, to provide materials to Attorney General William Barr as part of a review he is conducting of surveillance activities directed at the Trump campaign.

Barr has said that he believes that "spying" occurred against the Trump campaign, and that he is investigating whether it was legal or illegal.

Trump also granted Barr the authority to declassify documents as he sees fit. Brennan said Friday that he is concerned that Barr will release highly sensitive information in "willy nilly" fashion.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/25/brennan-sources-methods-cia-Barr/

#6583585 at 2019-05-25 03:11:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8418: This Time, It's Time Edition

TRUMP 'HOPES' Barr SCRUTINIZES BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN ROLE IN 'HOAX' INVESTIGATION
*President Donald Trump said Friday he hopes the attorney general looks at the roles played by the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments in the investigation of the Trump campaign.
*Trump called out the allied governments when asked about his decision to authorize Barr to declassify a slew of documents related to the origins of the Russia probe.
*"I hope he looks at everything," Trump said of Barr.
President Donald Trump on Friday said he hopes Attorney General William Barr looks at intelligence the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments provided their American counterparts as part of the investigation of the Trump campaign.

"And I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country," Trump told reporters of Barr.

Trump authorized Barr to declassify documents Thursday related to the FBI's surveillance of the Trump campaign. He also instructed other federal agencies, including the CIA and FBI, to provide classified materials to Barr as part of an inquiry he is making into the government surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Barr has said while he believes "spying" occurred against the campaign, he wants to find out whether it was authorized and legal.

"[W]hat I've done is I've declassified everything," Trump said Friday.

While Trump has repeatedly teased declassifying documents from the Russia probe, he has rarely identified foreign allies he believes should be scrutinized as part of an investigation of the surveillance activities against his campaign.

Trump's comments are sure to ruffle feathers, especially since the U.K. and Australia are partners with the U.S. in the "Five Eyes" intelligence sharing agreement.

Both governments provided information to U.S. agencies regarding the Trump campaign's possible links to the Russian government. But as the special counsel found, there was no conspiracy between the two sides to influence the 2016 election.

"It's the greatest hoax, probably, in the history of our country. And somebody has to get to the bottom of it," Trump said. "We'll see."

The Australian government in July 2016 sent the FBI information about Trump aide George Papadopoulos that would reportedly serve as the catalyst for a counterintelligence investigation of the campaign.

Alexander Downer, the top Australian diplomat to the U.K., claimed during a May 10, 2016, meeting with Papadopoulos in London, the young Trump adviser claimed that Russia might release information about Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos has disputed Downer's claims, though he has admitted that two weeks earlier, a Maltese professor told him he had learned the Russian government had "thousands" of Clinton emails. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in the special counsel's probe, but he did not face charges related to a conspiracy with Russia. He has denied viewing or disseminating any Clinton-related materials.

Downer has defended the Australian government's decision to share the information with the FBI, saying he grew alarmed by Papadopoulos's remarks after WikiLeaks began releasing DNC emails July 22, 2016.

British involvement in the counterintelligence probe is less direct.

The FBI relied heavily on a dossier authored by former British spy Christopher Steele to obtain surveillance warrants against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

California Rep. Devin Nunes on Wednesday called on Trump to pose questions to British Prime Minister Theresa May regarding briefings that Steele gave to a top British intelligence official shortly after Trump was elected. The official, Sir Charles Farr, reportedly shared information from Steele with the directors of MI6 and MI5, the foreign and domestic intelligence services, respectively.

The British government also reportedly approved of an FBI operation to use an informant, Stefan Halper, to meet in London with Papadopoulos in September 2016.

Halper also first met Page on British soil at a conference held in July 2016 at Cambridge University.

There have also been reports that GCHQ, the British equivalent of the National Security Agency, provided their American counterparts with signals intelligence of Trump associates.

The Daily Caller News Foundation has also reported a contractor for Fusion GPS claimed one source for the opposition research firm was Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian politician who led an investigation of Manafort.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/trump-Barr-australia-surveillance-uk/

#6583100 at 2019-05-25 02:12:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8417: Literally Shaking - The NPC Dems Edition

Fuck yeah we broke into MSM

Trump calls for investigation into Australia in 'Russia hoax'

US President Donald Trump wants Australia's role in sparking the 2016 FBI probe into potential links between his election campaign and Russia examined by US Attorney General William Barr.
In a potentially explosive development for the historically rock solid US-Australian alliance, Trump has publicly named Australia for the first time while discussing what he calls the "Russia hoax" and "witch hunt".

https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-raises-aust-role-in-russian-hoax/687aef2d-6468-4a54-a343-55b548da8d32

#6582888 at 2019-05-25 01:49:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8417: Literally Shaking - The NPC Dems Edition

Trump 'Hopes' Barr Scrutinizes British And Australian Role In 'Hoax' Investigation

President Donald Trump said Friday he hopes the attorney general looks at the roles played by the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments in the investigation of the Trump campaign.
Trump called out the allied governments when asked about his decision to authorize Barr to declassify a slew of documents related to the origins of the Russia probe.
"I hope he looks at everything," Trump said of Barr.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he hopes Attorney General William Barr looks at intelligence the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments provided their American counterparts as part of the investigation of the Trump campaign.

"And I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country," Trump told reporters of Barr.

Trump authorized Barr to declassify documents Thursday related to the FBI's surveillance of the Trump campaign. He also instructed other federal agencies, including the CIA and FBI, to provide classified materials to Barr as part of an inquiry he is making into the government surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Barr has said while he believes "spying" occurred against the campaign, he wants to find out whether it was authorized and legal.

"[W]hat I've done is I've declassified everything," Trump said Friday.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/trump-Barr-australia-surveillance-uk/

#6582349 at 2019-05-25 00:51:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8416: Bake America Great My Frens Edition

HOT OFF THE PRESS

John Brennan's prized Russia informant abruptly said to be imperiled by Barr's new power
The need for secrecy was so great that CIA Director John Brennan hand-delivered information from a critical informant close to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an envelope to President Barack Obama in August 2016.

Now, one day after President Trump gave Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, the New York Times reports this source is in jeopardy.
(Snipped)

Sauce;
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennans-prized-russia-informant-abruptly-said-to-be-imperiled-by-Barrs-new-power

#6581658 at 2019-05-24 23:10:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8415: Have A Great Memorial Day Weekend Edition

John Brennan's prized Russia informant abruptly said to be imperiled by Barr's new power

The need for secrecy was so great that CIA Director John Brennan hand-delivered information from a critical informant close to Russian President Vladimir Putin in an envelope to President Barack Obama in August 2016. Now, one day after President Trump gave Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, the New York Times reports this source is in jeopardy. The declassification order, celebrated by GOP allies and derided by Democrats as a "plot to dirty up the intelligence community," could put the Justice Department at odds with the CIA over the protection of the identity of this key informant who provided information about the Kremlin's role in interfering in the 2016 election.

Specifically, this informant was the U.S. intelligence community's source in determining that Putin personally "ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election" to undermine Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in favor of Trump. Obama made this public before he left office. The informant is described as being a long-nurtured source who rose up the Russian ranks. Believed to still be alive, the well-being of the informant is one concern as Barr digs into the earliest days of the Russia investigation. Former national security officials and Democratic lawmakers are also worried that Trump may be putting other sources and methods at risk as part of a politically motivated effort to "investigate the investigators." Overseen by Brennan, the information delivered by this high-placed informant was treated with the utmost care, but done so outside of the norm.

Word of this high-placed informant first came out in June 2017 in a Washington Post story that said Brennan began feeding this material to Obama and a small group of aides with a report in an envelope to be read and promptly returned to the CIA. The material was deemed so sensitive that it was kept out of the President's Daily Brief due to concerns that too many people would be made aware of its contents.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennans-prized-russia-informant-abruptly-said-to-be-imperiled-by-Barrs-new-power

#6581586 at 2019-05-24 23:03:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8415: Have A Great Memorial Day Weekend Edition

Mark Meadows views fresh 'Strzok coverup' material at DOJ

Rep. Mark Meadows said he was at the Justice Department to review new information about former FBI agent Peter Strzok. The North Carolina Republican was spotted at Justice Department headquarters in D.C. with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, on Thursday. Asked by a reporter why he was there, Meadows said, "I was reviewing text messages and new correspondence that pertains to the Strzok coverup."

Hours after their visit, President Trump gave Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Meadows and Jordan's visit to the Justice Department also comes after House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes said he learned that an August 2016 text from Strzok about an "insurance policy" had to do with the FBI's use of an unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Strzok was the lead investigator of the Hillary Clinton emails inquiry and opened the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia in the summer of 2016. Text messages between Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, in which they displayed a negative opinion of Trump, were uncovered over the course of the Justice Department's inspector general investigation into the DOJ and FBI's conduct during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server.

The report, which came out in the summer of 2018, said their text messages "potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations. But the inspector general determined that there was no evidence "improper considerations, including political bias, directly affected the specific investigative decisions." Both Strzok and Lisa Page, who are no longer with the FBI, have been a focus of GOP investigators concerned about potential bias within the Justice Department and FBI.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-views-fresh-strzok-coverup-material-at-doj

#6580735 at 2019-05-24 21:21:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8414: Well Fed Koi Edition

Trump Appeals Ruling Which Upheld Subpoenas for His Bank Records

President Donald Trump filed an appeal on May 24 seeking to overturn a federal judge's ruling which upheld two Democrat-issued subpoenas seeking the president's financial records from two banks. The president's attorneys filed the appeal with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf Trump, his children-Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump-and several of their companies.

On May 22, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said that Trump and his company's argument that the subpoenas were unconstitutional would unlikely succeed and that the subpoenas have "a legitimate legislative purpose." The appeal is the second test of congressional subpoena power sent to the circuit courts this week. On May 20, Trump appealed a federal judge's ruling which upheld a subpoena seeking the president's financial records from account firm Mazars LLC. The decision to uphold the subpoena was also issued by an Obama appointee, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta. "It's totally the wrong decision by obviously an Obama-appointed judge," Trump said after Mehta upheld the Mazars subpoena.

The Democrats on the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees say they need the president's financial records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One Bank in order to investigate possible "foreign influence in the U.S. political process," among other matters. Trump argues that the Democrats are insisting on a "do-over" of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, who concluded that there is not enough evidence to establish that Trump or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russia. In addition to Mueller, three separate investigations in the House and Senate concluded there is no evidence of collusion.

The House lawyers argued in a written submission prior to the hearing on May 22 that the president's effort to block the subpoenas was "flatly inconsistent with nearly a century of Supreme Court precedent." Trump's attorneys responded that accepting the House committee's arguments would mean "Congress can issue a subpoena on any matter, at any time, for any reason, to any person, and there is basically nothing a federal court can do about it."

Late last month, the president pledged to fight all subpoenas from the Democrats. In the month that followed his comments, Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin defied a subpoena for the president's tax returns and Attorney General William Barr defied a subpoena seeking a fully unredacted version of the Mueller report. When the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee moved to start the procedure to hold Barr in contempt for defying the subpoena, the White House, at Barr's request, asserted executive privilege over the entire Mueller report. The White House also instructed former White House counsel Don McGahn to not testify before the committee. The Democrats are also attempting to negotiate testimony by Mueller, but talks have stalled because Mueller has demanded to testify only in private. "I don't know why the Radical Left Democrats want Bob Mueller to testify when he just issued a 40 Million Dollar Report that states, loud & clear & for all to hear, No Collusion and No Obstruction (how do you Obstruct a NO crime?) Dems are just looking for trouble and a Do-Over!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-appeals-ruling-which-upheld-subpoenas-for-his-bank-records_2935625.html

>>6580696

#6580658 at 2019-05-24 21:06:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8414: Well Fed Koi Edition

PANIC IN DC!
Democrats unnerved by Trump's declassification move on 2016 campaign surveillance documents

President Trump's decision giving Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority" to declassify documents related to surveillance activities during the 2016 campaign has set off a wave of criticism in Washington.

Democrats and former intelligence officials are worried that the move could politicize the intelligence community and put sources and methods at risk, describing his action as "un-American" and "dangerous."

Trump on Friday defended his decision to grant Barr declassification authority in his investigation, declaring it would reveal the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's election interference. But Democrats, dismayed with Barr's handling of the Mueller report, have raised concerns that the attorney general cannot be trusted with the task.

"We still don't have the full Mueller report, so of course the President gives sweeping declassification powers to an Attorney General who has already shown that he has no problem selectively releasing information in order to mislead the American people," Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the rice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Friday.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called the move "un-American."

John McLaughlin, the former deputy director of the CIA during the George W. Bush administration, called it "a really bad idea" to give Barr declassification authority.

"The agencies can cooperate but must retain their legal responsibility for protecting sources," McLaughlin tweeted late Thursday. "Congressional intelligence committees need to stand in the door on this one."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445478-trump-declassification-move-unnerves-democrats

#6580575 at 2019-05-24 20:53:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8414: Well Fed Koi Edition

NEW YORK - Former Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly one of the few Obama administration officials who participated in secretive meetings during the early stages of the Obama-era intelligence community's initial operations regarding suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
That tidbit was contained deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017 in which the newspaper also detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark. Part of the efforts eventually involved unsubstantiated and ultimately discredited charges made by the Christopher Steele dossier that Trump campaign officials were colluding with Russia.

Biden's largely unreported role in the initial Obama administration meetings on the matter of Russian interference could spark further questions now that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion claims.

Only last week, Barr commented that the intelligence community's early handling of the Russia investigation may itself raise questions. He noted that it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group."

#6580376 at 2019-05-24 20:23:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8414: Well Fed Koi Edition

Trump Appeals Ruling Which Upheld Subpoenas for His Bank Records

President Donald Trump filed an appeal on May 24 seeking to overturn a federal judge's ruling which upheld two Democrat-issued subpoenas seeking the president's financial records from two banks.

The president's attorneys filed the appeal (pdf) with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf Trump, his children-Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump-and several of their companies.

On May 22, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, said that Trump and his company's argument that the subpoenas were unconstitutional would unlikely succeed and that the subpoenas have "a legitimate legislative purpose."

The appeal is the second test of congressional subpoena power sent to the circuit courts this week. On May 20, Trump appealed a federal judge's ruling which upheld a subpoena seeking the president's financial records from account firm Mazars LLC. The decision to uphold the subpoena was also issued by an Obama appointee, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta.

"It's totally the wrong decision by obviously an Obama-appointed judge," Trump said after Mehta upheld the Mazars subpoena.

The Democrats on the House Financial Services and Intelligence committees say they need the president's financial records from Deutsche Bank and Capital One Bank in order to investigate possible "foreign influence in the U.S. political process," among other matters.

Trump argues that the Democrats are insisting on a "do-over" of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, who concluded that there is not enough evidence to establish that Trump or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russia. In addition to Mueller, three separate investigations in the House and Senate concluded there is no evidence of collusion.

The House lawyers argued in a written submission prior to the hearing on May 22 that the president's effort to block the subpoenas was "flatly inconsistent with nearly a century of Supreme Court precedent."

Trump's attorneys responded that accepting the House committee's arguments would mean "Congress can issue a subpoena on any matter, at any time, for any reason, to any person, and there is basically nothing a federal court can do about it."

Late last month, the president pledged to fight all subpoenas from the Democrats. In the month that followed his comments, Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin defied a subpoena for the president's tax returns and Attorney General William Barr defied a subpoena seeking a fully unredacted version of the Mueller report.

When the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee moved to start the procedure to hold Barr in contempt for defying the subpoena, the White House, at Barr's request, asserted executive privilege over the entire Mueller report. The White House also instructed former White House counsel Don McGahn to not testify before the committee.

The Democrats are also attempting to negotiate testimony by Mueller, but talks have stalled because Mueller has demanded to testify only in private.

"I don't know why the Radical Left Democrats want Bob Mueller to testify when he just issued a 40 Million Dollar Report that states, loud & clear & for all to hear, No Collusion and No Obstruction (how do you Obstruct a NO crime?) Dems are just looking for trouble and a Do-Over!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-appeals-ruling-which-upheld-subpoenas-for-his-bank-records_2935625.html

#6579568 at 2019-05-24 18:44:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8413: Friday Freakout For Felons Edition

NEW YORK - Former Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly one of the few Obama administration officials who participated in secretive meetings during the early stages of the Obama-era intelligence community's initial operations regarding suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
That tidbit was contained deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017 in which the newspaper also detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark. Part of the efforts eventually involved unsubstantiated and ultimately discredited charges made by the Christopher Steele dossier that Trump campaign officials were colluding with Russia.

Biden's largely unreported role in the initial Obama administration meetings on the matter of Russian interference could spark further questions now that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion claims.

Only last week, Barr commented that the intelligence community's early handling of the Russia investigation may itself raise questions. He noted that it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group."

#6579564 at 2019-05-24 18:44:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8413: Friday Freakout For Felons Edition

Sara Carter: Pay Attention To The Unmaskings

As President Trump ordered the intelligence community and others to fully cooperate with DOJ Attorney General William Barr in his investigation into the FBI's probe of the 2016 presidential election, a key piece of evidence may reside in the early unmasking of Americans private communications, according to Sara Carter.


Carter pointed this out in her appearance Thursday night on Hannity, with guest host Dan Bongino.

Carter noted former UN Ambassador Samantha Power who unmasked nearly 300 people. These names will surprise Americans if they were to be made public, according to Carter.

Earlier, Carter reported on this news site that Trump's order requires full cooperation from the intelligence community. "The review will be expansive," Carter wrote.

Additionally, Carter said exculpatory evidence related to Trump campaign advisors Carter Page and George Papadopoulos will come to the surface.

https://saraacarter.com/sara-carter-pay-attention-to-the-unmaskings/

#6579539 at 2019-05-24 18:41:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8412: Show Me Flags Out, Flags In, Flags Out Edition

NEW YORK - Former Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly one of the few Obama administration officials who participated in secretive meetings during the early stages of the Obama-era intelligence community's initial operations regarding suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
That tidbit was contained deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017 in which the newspaper also detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark. Part of the efforts eventually involved unsubstantiated and ultimately discredited charges made by the Christopher Steele dossier that Trump campaign officials were colluding with Russia.

Biden's largely unreported role in the initial Obama administration meetings on the matter of Russian interference could spark further questions now that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion claims.

Only last week, Barr commented that the intelligence community's early handling of the Russia investigation may itself raise questions. He noted that it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group."

#6579379 at 2019-05-24 18:19:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8412: Show Me Flags Out, Flags In, Flags Out Edition

>>6579313
Found this is a good read:
President Trump's Declassification Directive Outlines Specific Process and Direction....

Now that President Trump has officially designated the Declassification Memorandum we can review the specifics for process, content and timing. Our previous research led to a set of expectations for the directive. Now, that we have the directive in hand, we gain increased clarity of purpose.

First, President Trump has assigned ownership of the Directive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This part was predictable because the purpose of declassification would be to facilitate a DOJ review of how the intelligence apparatus was used in the 2016 election.

Additionally, because the DOJ review encompasses intelligence systems potentially weaponized in 2016 for political purposes and intents, President Trump carries: (a) declassification authority; but also: (b) an inherent conflict. In this DOJ endeavor candidate Trump would have been the target of corrupt agency activity; and therefore would be considered the target/victim if weaponization were affirmed by evidence.

To avoid the conflict President Trump designates the U.S. Attorney General as arbiter and decision-maker for the purposes of declassifying evidence within the investigation:
..."The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information." (link)

Additionally, AG Bill Barr does not need to assemble the intelligence product for approval by the executive (Trump). Instead the office of the president is granting the AG full unilateral decision-making as to each product being considered for declassification.

This is a huge amount of trust from the President to the Attorney General, and a big responsibility for William Barr.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/23/president-trumps-declassification-directive-outlines-specific-process-and-direction/

#6579143 at 2019-05-24 17:48:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8412: Show Me Flags Out, Flags In, Flags Out Edition

Trump says he 'declassified potentially millions of pages of documents' from Russia investigation

President Trump said he "declassified potentially millions of pages of documents" related to the origins and conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation. Addressing the media Friday afternoon, Trump touted his decision to give Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Barr "can then show them to the public, do whatever he wants to do with them," Trump said, adding, "I just want him to be fair" and the he wants to be "transparent."

The move is the strongest sign yet that Trump is taking serious action to "investigate the investigators" and has found a willing champion in Barr, who rankled Democrats last month when he said "spying did occur" against the Trump campaign. Trump said letting Barr declassify these documents will allow the American people "to able to see how this hoax or witch hunt started and why it started." Trump claimed that this was "an attempted coup or an attempted takedown of the president of the United States." "I think it's very important for our country to find out what happened," Trump said.

The White House issued a memorandum to the heads of several agencies Thursday evening instructing them to cooperate with Barr's inquiry, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Treasury Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the Energy Department.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-says-he-declassified-potentially-millions-of-pages-of-documents-from-russia-investigation

#6579114 at 2019-05-24 17:43:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8412: Show Me Flags Out, Flags In, Flags Out Edition

OMG it's happening, they're are turning on each other

Joe Biden Reportedly Involved in Controversial Early Stages of 2016 Russia Probe. 24 May 2019

NEW YORK - Former Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly one of the few Obama administration officials who participated in secretive meetings during the early stages of the Obama-era intelligence community's initial operations regarding suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

That tidbit was contained deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017 in which the newspaper also detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark. Part of the efforts eventually involved unsubstantiated and ultimately discredited charges made by the Christopher Steele dossier that Trump campaign officials were colluding with Russia.

Biden's largely unreported role in the initial Obama administration meetings on the matter of Russian interference could spark further questions now that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion claims.

Only last week, Barr commented that the intelligence community's early handling of the Russia investigation may itself raise questions. He noted that it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group."…


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/24/joe-biden-reportedly-involved-in-controversial-early-stages-of-2016-russia-probe/

#6578507 at 2019-05-24 16:19:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8411: Extrememly Stable Genius Edition

The future of this Constitutional Republic is now in the hands of AG William Barr.

His responsibility is frightening and the courage he will need is also frightening.

William Barr , if he surfaces the real truth of what happened , will cause social shockwaves with far reaching consequences we might still only guess at.

If he hides the truth though ( I am guessing he will at least hide some for the ' good of the nation ' arguments by his swamp buds ) this Republic is endangered for all except the MEDIA + Silcon Valley + DNC + their backers > the current power in US society.

#6578274 at 2019-05-24 15:45:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8411: Extrememly Stable Genius Edition

Joe Biden Reportedly Involved in Controversial Early Stages of 2016 Russia Probe

NEW YORK - Former Vice President Joe Biden was reportedly one of the few Obama administration officials who participated in secretive meetings during the early stages of the Obama-era intelligence community's initial operations regarding suspected Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

That tidbit was contained deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017 in which the newspaper also detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark. Part of the efforts eventually involved unsubstantiated and ultimately discredited charges made by the Christopher Steele dossier that Trump campaign officials were colluding with Russia.

Biden's largely unreported role in the initial Obama administration meetings on the matter of Russian interference could spark further questions now that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the Russia collusion claims.

Only last week, Barr commented that the intelligence community's early handling of the Russia investigation may itself raise questions. He noted that it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/24/joe-biden-reportedly-involved-in-controversial-early-stages-of-2016-russia-probe/

#6578119 at 2019-05-24 15:20:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8411: Extrememly Stable Genius Edition

Is this right so far?

-McCabe, Comey, Strzok and Preistep - the top-level FBI admins - planned to take Trump out.

-They devised a plan to spy on his campaign, illegally, but made it look "legal" by producing "the dossier"

-Mike Rogers told the Trump administration there were spies after him.

-Strzok and Page destroyed the plan by exposing their private text messages.

-The text messages were sent to the OIG and that started the massive secret investigatory campaign into the Democrats.

-John Huber was then appointed to investigate all things 2016 election while Mike Horowitz - the OIG - continued with his investigations into the FBI's role in the 2016 election.

-John Huber's power allowed him to appoint grand juries in all 50 states.

-Enter Mueller….

-Two years of hell endured as Democrats attempted to change the minds of American citizens - doing everything they can to persuade them that Trump was a Russian spy.

-Trump vehemently defends himself. Publically announces that the Obama admin officials committed treason throughout the Mueller investigation.

-Enter William Barr….

-Barr is briefed on all that's been done by the OIG and John Huber.

-Barr assesses that Trump was spied on and appoints John Durham - a nasty federal prosecutor who is a career expert in prosecuting mob bosses and corrupt politicians.

-Exit Mueller…the plan failed. Somewhere along the line Mueller flipped and produced an exonerating report clearing Trump of all Russian conspiracies.

-Democrats double-down and claim William Barr is a traitor working with the president to undermine the country.

-Democrats attempt to subpoena the world in order to keep the investigations ongoing to give their agenda more velocity into 2020.

-Trump announces that William Barr as the authority to declassify any data and orders ALL intelligence agencies (not just the FBI) to comply.

-The declassified data will not only help the public understand how treason occurred at the highest levels of Hussein's administration, but it also gives the grand juries appointed by Huber the evidence they need to indict those in the administration.

-Once the grand juries indict, John Durham and his team will prosecute all those involved with crimes against the country using the declassified data.

-It's possible a military court will enter into the story at some point.

Remember when Trump announced a military parade way back, then cancelled it? This is when something went wrong and they had to re-plan the timeline.

Now the celebration is on July 4th 2019 - we are back on track and those who committed crimes against the country will go to prison.

#6577329 at 2019-05-24 12:51:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8410: Weekend Forecast: Suicide Watch in Effect Edition

Trump gives AG Barr authority to declassify documents related to 2016 campaign surveillance

President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.

Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. The memo read: "The heads of elements of the intelligence community... and the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the intelligence community shall promptly provide such assistance and information as the Attorney General may request in connection with that review."

"Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election," Press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

"The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today's action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions."

Trump claims his campaign was the victim of "spying," though the intelligence community has insisted it acted lawfully in following leads in the Russia investigation.

Last month, Barr ran into a buzz saw of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and media figures for testifying that "spying did occur" against the Trump campaign in 2016. But despite the backlash, Barr appeared to be referring to intelligence collection that already has been widely reported and confirmed.

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page are currently the subject of a Justice Department inspector general investigation looking at potential misconduct in the issuance of those warrants. That review also reportedly is scrutinizing the role of an FBI informant who had contacts with Trump advisers in the early stages of the Russia investigation.

The use of the term "spying" as it applies to the FBI's surveillance in 2016 has been fiercely disputed. The New York Times, even as it reported last year on how the FBI sent an informant to speak to campaign advisers amid concerns about suspicious Russia contacts, stated that this was to "investigate" Russia ties and "not to spy."

But Barr's testimony suggests he makes no distinction between the two. He also stressed that the question for him is whether that "spying" was justified.

"I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated," Barr testified last month, adding that he believed it is his "obligation" to review whether there was misconduct in the original investigation. "Congress is usually very concerned with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane."

He added that "spying on a political campaign is a big deal."

President Trump backed the attorney general's testimony, saying the same day Barr testified last month that he thinks what Barr said "was absolutely true," adding, "There was absolutely spying into my campaign."

Democrats, though, charged that the testimony indicated Barr was a compromised witness.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told the Associated Press last month that she doesn't "trust Barr," but she trusts Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Barr of "peddling conspiracy theories."

http://c-vine.com/blog/2019/05/23/trump-gives-ag-Barr-authority-to-declassify-documents-related-to-2016-campaign-surveillance/?fbclid=IwAR3pHKUAlQcgU_mlTADdEWxmP27w_KEUC2SsluzvfRdk24u6IEbx_baKyUM

#6576551 at 2019-05-24 08:43:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8409: Cherry Bomb by John Mellencamp Edition

AG Barr must talk to agencies/depts before he declassifies the intel. He cannot delegate that to someone else. Why-he must have authority to declassify information. He is head attorney so they can all be asked questions by him, he's their boss.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-William-Barr-given-power-to-declassify-documents-on-surveillance-activities-into-trump-campaign

#6575563 at 2019-05-24 04:51:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8408: "IT IS TIME" Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6560164 BO creates a backup for QRV
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
>>6385109 Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)

Notables
are not endorsements

#8407
>>6574863, >>6574874, >>6574881 Resignations in the news 5/22/19
>>6574873, >>6574854, >>6575018, >>6575426 Q Proof: May 23 – "Now comes the pain 23"
>>6574932 Japan remains world's biggest creditor at end of 2018
>>6574934 Service members ordered to stay away from KKK rally
>>6574958, >>6574966 DJK tweet: "Intelligence Agencies were used against an American president."
>>6574967 "Former Rep. Tom Coleman (R-Mo.) has penned an op-ed calling for President Trump to be impeached
>>6574968 DoJ Launches Anti-Trust Probe Into Real Estate Brokerage Industry
>>6574986 Trump Seeks to Hand Border Wall Construction to North Dakota Firm
>>6575010 SEAL admiral who commanded bin Laden raid says no one should be pardoned for war crimes
>>6575012 Employees Of 'Sexting-Central' Snapchat Spied On Users
>>6575072 Marines STONEWALL (@Snowden connection)
>>6575120 DJT tweet & Q 35: "IT IS TIME"
>>6575134 Disney World Employee Arrested for Trying to Lure Child to Hotel for Sex
>>6575163 Was Samantha Power a Soros loyalist?
>>6575177, >>6574843, >>6575355 Dan Coats & Dina Haspel
>>6575216 Former FEC Chair: First Amendment Responsible For More 'Violent Hate Crimes' Than Terrorism
>>6575220 Gorka: "Watch in the next two days the rats, the hyenas start to eat each other"
>>6575244 Paul Sperry: NSA missing from POTUS memo directing cooperation with Barr
>>6575365, >>6574969 Svetlana Lokhova Suing Halper, Wall Street Journal, NYT, NBC, Washington Post
>>6575368 Schiff Calls Barr Investigation Into Origins Of Russia Probe 'Un-American'
>>6575296 Pres. and CEO of Las Vegas Investment Co. Sentenced to 50 years for Running $1.5bil Ponzi Scheme
>>6575412 FB Trying To Reduce Political Advertising Sales Ahead Of 2020 Elections
>>6575353, >>6575362 Possible whistleblower, anons DIGG!!
>>6575428, >>6575495 A second look at Q's movie posters
>>6575536 #8407

#8406 baker change
>>6574083 Weinstein, Accusers and Former Board Members Reach Tentative Compensation Deal
>>6574088 SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket With 60 Satellites Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral
>>6574099 Charges against JA classified?
>>6574162 Anon on roles of Laura & Valerie Jarrett
>>6574198 Official White House transcript of Trump's answer to 'reporters' TREASON Question
>>6574169, >>6574169 Anon on movie poster for "The Interview" that threatens NK
>>6574246 Planefag report
>>6574287, >>6574323 Sara Carter Reveals "EXPLOSIVE" Unmasking Revelations About to Break on Samantha Power
>>6574521 AG William Barr given power to declassify documents on surveillance activities into Trump campaign
>>6574650 DJT tweet on Twitter shutting down Conservative Voices
>>6574748 #8406

Previously Collected Notables
>>6573196 #8404, >>6573965 #8405
>>6570972 #8401, >>6571724 #8402, >>6572451 #8403
>>6568523 #8398, >>6569228 #8399, >>6570153 #8400
>>6566244 #8395, >>6566995 #8396, >>6567748 #8397
>>6563912 #8392, >>6564668 #8393, >>6566422 #8394
>>6561602 #8389, >>6562393 #8390, >>6564567 #8391

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6575248 at 2019-05-24 04:11:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8407: Misdirection Brings Betrayal Edition

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/23/president-trumps-declassification-directive-outlines-specific-process-and-direction/

Now that President Trump has officially designated the Declassification Memorandum we can review the specifics for process, content and timing. Our previous research led to a set of expectations for the directive. Now, that we have the directive in hand, we gain increased clarity of purpose.
? First, President Trump has assigned ownership of the Directive to U.S. Attorney General William Barr. This part was predictable because the purpose of declassification would be to facilitate a DOJ review of how the intelligence apparatus was used in the 2016 election.
Additionally, because the DOJ review encompasses intelligence systems potentially weaponized in 2016 for political purposes and intents, President Trump carries: (a) declassification authority; but also: (b) an inherent conflict. In this DOJ endeavor candidate Trump would have been the target of corrupt agency activity; and therefore would be considered the target/victim if weaponization were affirmed by evidence.
To avoid the conflict President Trump designates the U.S. Attorney General as arbiter and decision-maker for the purposes of declassifying evidence within the investigation:
..."The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information." (link)
Additionally, AG Bill Barr does not need to assemble the intelligence product for approval by the executive (Trump). Instead the office of the president is granting the AG full unilateral decision-making as to each product being considered for declassification.
This is a huge amount of trust from the President to the Attorney General, and a big responsibility for William Barr:

good read

#6574816 at 2019-05-24 03:39:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8406: We are Comfy in the Strom Edition

Jerry Nadler: Robert Mueller wants to testify in private

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said he wants special counsel Robert Mueller to testify. But Mueller only wants to testify in private. "We want him to come in and testify," Nadler said Thursday in an MSNBC interview. "Mueller, I think I can say at this point, that he wants to testify in private." When pressed on why Mueller doesn't want to speak publicly, Nadler said, "I don't know why." Nadler later said he was speculating but guessed that Mueller did not want to be part of a political spectacle.

Mueller's lengthy report on his team's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was released with redactions, but congressional Democrats are pushing the Justice Department for full access. The special counsel's office has indicated that Mueller does not want to appear political by testifying. Nadler formally summoned Mueller to testify "no later than May 23," but has delayed the move, likely until sometime in June. Attorney General William Barr said last week, "It's Bob's call whether he wants to testify."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jerry-nadler-robert-mueller-wants-to-testify-in-private

#6574812 at 2019-05-24 03:39:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8407: Misdirection Brings Betrayal Edition

PRAY FOR William Barr SO THAT HE MAY BE PROTECTED

#6574784 at 2019-05-24 03:37:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8407: Misdirection Brings Betrayal Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6560164 BO creates a backup for QRV
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV
>>6446595 BO on baker checks and BV removed >>6477078
>>6385109 Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)

Notables
are not endorsements

#8406 baker change
>>6574083 Weinstein, Accusers and Former Board Members Reach Tentative Compensation Deal
>>6574088 SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket With 60 Satellites Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral
>>6574099 Charges against JA classified?
>>6574162 Anon on roles of Laura & Valerie Jarrett
>>6574198 Official White House transcript of Trump's answer to 'reporters' TREASON Question
>>6574169, >>6574169 Anon on movie poster for "The Interview" that threatens NK
>>6574246 Planefag report
>>6574287, >>6574323 Sara Carter Reveals "EXPLOSIVE" Unmasking Revelations About to Break on Samantha Power
>>6574521 AG William Barr given power to declassify documents on surveillance activities into Trump campaign
>>6574650 DJT tweet on Twitter shutting down Conservative Voices
>>6574748 #8406

#8405
>>6573909 Wikileaks responds the Espionage Act indictment against Assange
>>6573728 Lisa Mei Tweet: Big Web of Players
>>6573701 Seth Rich and Julian Assange, this June?
>>6573619 The Pentagon Creates Tech Giants and Then Buys their Services
>>6573539 Fitton talking about Schiff on Lou Dobbs (video)
>>6573459 Huckabee FOX. "They need to be worried." "Now they're reduced to howling at the moon."
>>6573445 Speaker Pelosi Backs Down on Impeachment Talk After President Trump Rips Into Her
>>6573431 Mississippi Floodway May Be Opened, Unleashing 17 Million Liters Of Water Per Second
>>6573376, >>6573405 Q3341 Assange is Key to Seth Rich Murder
>>6573316 Likely Optics: DOJ Accuses Assange of violating the Espionage Act
>>6573965 #8405

#8404
>>6572935 Schiff Twatting from fear
>>6572921 CNN pounding the "Distraction" canard
>>6572814 Refresher on new NSA 702 policy
>>6572743 Jarrett Twat: Someone is scared
>>6572676, >>6572690 Reminder: Seth Rich (inferring 187 related)
>>6573196 #8404

#8403 Baker Change
>>6572420 New Brackets in [DC] from Q post
>>6571853 Ronna tweet: "Joe Biden's fingerprints are all over the opioid crisis"
>>6571836, >>6571840 Memo to Depts from POTUS
>>6571827 Giuliani Twat: "Get Ready for the Declas Docs"
>>6571814 This is a bigger story than we thought" Tucker - Said Late Show, No Sauce
>>6572197 Cruz was target #2 from Q post
>>6572080 several Q posts PANIC IN [DC]
>>6572451 #8403

Previously Collected Notables
>>6570972 #8401, >>6571724 #8402
>>6568523 #8398, >>6569228 #8399, >>6570153 #8400
>>6566244 #8395, >>6566995 #8396, >>6567748 #8397
>>6563912 #8392, >>6564668 #8393, >>6566422 #8394
>>6561602 #8389, >>6562393 #8390, >>6564567 #8391

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6574748 at 2019-05-24 03:35:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8406: We are Comfy in the Strom Edition

#8406 baker change
>>6574083 Weinstein, Accusers and Former Board Members Reach Tentative Compensation Deal
>>6574088 SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket With 60 Satellites Lifts Off From Cape Canaveral
>>6574099 Charges against JA classified?
>>6574162 Anon on roles of Laura & Valerie Jarrett
>>6574198 Official White House transcript of Trump's answer to 'reporters' TREASON Question
>>6574169, >>6574169 Anon on movie poster for "The Interview" that threatens NK
>>6574246 Planefag report
>>6574287, >>6574323 Sara Carter Reveals "EXPLOSIVE" Unmasking Revelations About to Break on Samantha Power
>>6574521 AG William Barr given power to declassify documents on surveillance activities into Trump campaign
>>6574650 DJT tweet on Twitter shutting down Conservative Voices

>>6574269 ---------------- Why did POTUS give authority to Barr?

#6574521 at 2019-05-24 03:24:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8406: We are Comfy in the Strom Edition

AG William Barr given power to declassify documents on surveillance activities into Trump campaign

President Trump has given Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. The move is the strongest sign yet that Trump is taking serious action to "investigate the investigators" and has found a willing champion in Barr, who rankled Democrats last month when he said "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign. The White House issued a memorandum to the heads of several agencies Thursday instructing them to cooperate with Barr's inquiry, including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defense Department, the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Treasury Department, the Homeland Security Department, and the Energy Department.

"Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General's investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement. "The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information," she added. "Today's action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions." The inquiry could provide clarity to questions GOP investigators have been eager to answer for more than a year, including whether the FBI's counterintelligence investigation began earlier than July 2016; the scope of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation; the full extent of the FBI's use of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's unverified dossier containing salacious claims about Trump's ties to Russia by various agencies; what role, if any, foreign intelligence agencies played; who pushed for the dossier to be included in the intelligence community assessment on Russian election interference; the full extent of the use of spies or confidential informants against the Trump campaign; and matters related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

While much of this information may one day be released to the public, the memorandum from the White House suggests some of it will remain concealed in accordance with established policy on handling classified national security information. "With respect to any matter classified under Executive Order 13526 of December 29, 2009 (Classified National Security Information), the Attorney General may, by applying the standard set forth in either section 3.1(a) or section 3.1(d) of Executive Order 13526, declassify, downgrade, or direct the declassification or downgrading of information or intelligence that relates to the Attorney General's review referred to in section 1 of this memorandum," the memo said. "Before exercising this authority, the Attorney General should, to the extent he deems it practicable, consult with the head of the originating intelligence community element or department. This authority is not delegable and applies notwithstanding any other authorization or limitation set forth in Executive Order 13526."

Trump's decision was panned by David Laufman, who was chief of the Justice Department's Counterintelligence and Export Control Section when the Trump-Russia investigation was launched. In a statement to MSNBC he called it "a grotesque abuse of the intelligence community to further his goal of political retribution, made worse by the spectacle of the Justice Department as his handmaiden." House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., called the move part of a "plot to dirty up the intelligence community, to pretend that there's something wrong with the beginning of the Mueller investigation and to persecute and bring into line the intelligence agencies." House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., called the move part of a "plot to dirty up the intelligence community, to pretend that there's something wrong with the beginning of the Mueller investigation and to persecute and bring into line the intelligence agencies."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-William-Barr-given-power-to-declassify-documents-on-surveillance-activities-into-trump-campaign

#6574506 at 2019-05-24 03:23:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8406: We are Comfy in the Strom Edition

https://www.americanoversight.org/flashback-the-first-time-robert-mueller-wrote-memos-to-William-Barr-about-special-counsel-investigations

American Oversight filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the National Archives and Records Administration, seeking long-filed-away documents from Barr's prior service as attorney general during the first Bush administration, when Robert Mueller served as assistant attorney general. Our investigators received nine boxes containing thousands of pages of documents, including memos from Mueller to Barr with his recommendations on whether to appoint independent counsels to investigate various matters.

#6574026 at 2019-05-24 02:58:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8405: Q is Busy Edition

Susan Rice on Investigating Origins of Russia Probe: 'I Have No Idea What DOJ is Doing'

WASHINGTON - Susan Rice, former national security advisor to President Barack Obama, said she has "no idea" what the Justice Department is doing with its investigation into the origins of the Trump campaign and Russia collusion probe during Obama's time in office.

Rice was asked if she thinks DOJ will find any wrongdoing on the part of the Obama administration during the course of its investigation.

"I have no idea what DOJ is doing," Rice replied on Wednesday.

DOJ's inspector general is currently investigating how the Russia collusion probe began. Attorney General William Barr recently appointed a U.S. attorney to investigate the origins of the probe as well.

Rice declined to comment when asked for her personal opinion of DOJ "investigating the investigators" who established the Russia collusion probe.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/susan-rice-on-investigating-origins-of-russia-probe-i-have-no-idea-what-doj-is-doing/

#6573943 at 2019-05-24 02:54:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8405: Q is Busy Edition

Schiff Panics: Accuses Trump of Cover-up With Declassification of Campaign Spying Docs

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, attacked President Trump Thursday night as being "un-American" after Trump announced he was authorizing Attorney General William Barr to declassify and release documents related to Obama administration and Deep State spying on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

Schiff accused Trump and Barr of conspiring to "weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies", which are the very things done to Trump by the Obama administration and the Deep State that Barr has been tasked by Trump to investigate.

Schiff posted to Twitter: "While Trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, Trump and Barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and classified information against their political enemies. The coverup has entered a new and dangerous phase. This is un-American."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/schiff-panics-accuses-trump-of-cover-up-with-declassification-of-campaign-spying-docs/

#6569524 at 2019-05-23 21:28:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8400: Back In The Saddle Again Edition

Rachel Madcow's Weekly Ratings Just Plunged To Yearly Lows

Following a string of emBarrassments over the last few years, including the famous "I've got Trump's taxes" fiasco, followed by crying on air when she had to announce that Robert Mueller's investigation found no collusion, it looks as though even MSNBC viewers are starting to throw in the towel on Rachel Maddow.

Last week, Maddow's show averaged 2,324,000 viewers, with an average audience of 337,000 in the 25-54 age demographic, both of which mark yearly lows, according to Nielsen Media Research. The drop coincided with the "conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation," according to the Daily Caller.

Maddow's previous weekly low in 2019 was the final week of March, the first full week after Mueller submitted his conclusion to AG William Barr and right around the time that people were starting to realize that it didn't look like further indictments were going to happen.
That week, she averaged 2,458,000 viewers with 392,000 in the key demographic.

Maddow famously spent two non-stop years discussing the collusion hoax, repeatedly alleging that President Trump had conspired with Russia in order to win the 2016 election.

Meanwhile, Sean Hannity - Maddow's prime time foil in more ways than one - saw his show become the most watched among all cable news shows. Hannity averaged 3,108,000 viewers with just under half-a-million viewers in the key demographic. The ratings of CNN's Chris Cuomo, barely a blip on the radar, revealed 880,000 viewers with 225,000 in the key demographic.

Recall, we reported on a devastating Twitter takedown of Maddow by The Nation's Aaron Mate after her narrative of collusion turned out to be one of the biggest "nothingburgers" of Trump's presidency thus far.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/rachel-maddows-weekly-ratings-just-plunged-yearly-lows

#6566858 at 2019-05-23 15:43:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8396: Nowhere to Hide Edition

'THE HAMMER' TIMELINE

November, 2015
U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow releases the "Whistleblower Tapes."

August 19, 2015
Dennis Montgomery, under a limited immunity agreement, turns over to Comey's FBI 47 hard drives that he says prove the existence of Brennan's and Clapper's super surveillance system.

March 4, 2017
President Trump tweets that Obama wiretapped him.

March 7, 2017
WikiLeaks dumps CIA Vault 7, confirming the existence of The Hammer (HAMR).

March 17, 2017
"Whistleblower Tapes: Trump Wiretapped 'A Zillion Times' By 'The Hammer,' Brennan's And Clapper's Secret Computer System" by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones published at TheAmericanReport.org.

March 19, 2017 3:30 pm
General Thomas McInerney exposes The Hammer on America's airwaves with Dr. Dave Janda during Operation Freedom on WAAM 1600.

March 19, 2017 4:26 pm
Strzok and Page exchange cryptic text.

March 19, 2017 11:00 pm
Strzok and Page exchange text referencing Montgomery and Klayman hours after General McInerney's radio interview about The Hammer

March 20, 2017
Comey announces Russia collusion investigation.

April 24, 2017
FISA court lets Brennan, Clapper and others amend their statements and orders destruction of criminal case records.

May 12, 2019
"Comey Launched Trump Russia Investigation Day After General Exposed 'The Hammer'" by Mary Fanning and Alan Jones published at TheAmericanReport.org.

May 13, 2019
U.S. Attorney General William Barr appoints John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to explore the origins of the Trump Russia collusion investigation.

https://theamericanreport.org/category/home/the-hammer/

#6565437 at 2019-05-23 11:29:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8394: Inspirational Anon Edition

What is "fully candid and clear" code for? KS meets Barr. Votes for him. Now she asks to have an hour long, one-on-one, meeting with Barr and he agrees. Her strings were cut right?

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/05/22/sen-kyrsten-sinema-attorney-general-William-Barr-congress-mueller-report/1198307001/

#6563785 at 2019-05-23 03:15:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8392: New Dem Catchphrase

Devin Nunes: Someone on foreign soil was 'running operations' against Trump campaign associates

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said on Wednesday he is certain that someone on foreign soil was "running operations" against the Trump campaign. The House Intelligence Committee ranking member was invited onto Fox News to discuss a letter he sent to President Trump with a list of questions to ask British Prime Minister Theresa May about the Steele dossier when he visits the United Kingdom next month.

Host Sean Hannity asked Nunes about the possibility that members of the U.S. intelligence community in the Obama administration "outsourced what would be illegal intelligence gathering" to allies such as the United Kingdom. "I think we can be sure about one thing and that is that on foreign soil, someone was running operations against Trump campaign people," Nunes said. "Now, we don't know if that was our government, if it was the British government, or if it was some type of firm of some kind that was doing it. But I think it is definitely a fact, Sean, that at least on British soil, possibly on Italian soil, there were activities going on that we need to get to the bottom of."

Nunes has been a leading critic of the FBI's use of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier, filled with unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. At least three federal investigations into alleged FISA abuse and other matters related to the way the FBI and the Justice Department conducted the Trump-Russia investigation and several top ex-officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey, are under increasing scrutiny.

Nunes' letter, obtained by the Washington Examiner, cites a report from the Telegraph published over the weekend that said the leaders of MI5 and MI6, the United Kingdom's top intelligence agencies, were briefed about Steele's dossier shortly after the 2016 election, before Trump was told about them. One subject of Nunes' letter to Trump is Maltese academic Joseph Mifsud, the man who told former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos the Russians had damaging information about Clinton. Papadopoulos later repeated this claim to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who informed the U.S. government and prompted the original counterintelligence investigation into Trump's campaign in July 2016.

Although special counsel Robert Mueller's team portrayed Mifsud, London-based professor, as a Russian asset with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin in their 448-page report, Nunes says they decided to "cherry pick" information from news reports, leaving out that he is described as a Western intelligence asset. Nunes specifically noted that Mifsud has a lot of ties to U.S., British, and Italian intelligence services. Nunes told Hannity that he believes Mueller's team, which he dubbed the "Mueller dossier team," knew British intelligence had warned their U.S. counterparts about Steele's credibility. "I actually believe that Mueller knows that the Mueller dossier team knew that the Brits actually I think did give us some warning. But we can't get that information. I think there are things that Mueller knew about. I think the Brits probably did raise concerns about Steele's credibility to the new administration. But of course, we can't get those documents and it's what we continue to try to get," Nunes said. The congressman said he hopes U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr to review the origins of the Russia investigation, will be able to get the answers he seeks. The Justice Department and House Intelligence Committee struck a deal on Wednesday to allow the panel access to counterintelligence material underlying Mueller's work.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-someone-on-foreign-soil-was-running-operations-against-trump-campaign-associates

#6563056 at 2019-05-23 01:42:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8391: Bucket 5 Edition

Roger Stone contacts John Durham about FBI surveillance

Longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone sent a letter to U.S. Attorney John Durham this week seeking answers about whether he was a subject of surveillance by the U.S. government. "We have strong reason to believe that Mr. Stone was among three advisors to candidate Trump who was under surveillance by the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign," Stone's lawyer Paul Jensen wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. Jensen also said Stone's Fourth Amendment rights may have been violated.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/roger-stone-contacts-john-durham-about-fbi-surveillance

Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/19/us/politics/trump-russia-associates-investigation.html

Durham has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr with reviewing the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into President Trump's campaign. Jensen cited a January 2017 New York Times article titled "Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates," which names Stone as one of at least three Trump campaign associates under scrutiny by American law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The other two were Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

Jensen also sent letters, dated May 20, to House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. The correspondence said Stone has reached out to the White House counsel to urge Trump to declassify documents related to the Russia investigation. If these records from the Justice Department and FBI are not released, Jensen said he would resort to suing the federal government.

According to Rep. Mark Meadows, a close ally of Trump, the declassification of Russia investigation documents are "right around the corner." In what appeared to be a nod of approval, Trump retweeted a Washington Examiner article of Meadows' comment on Wednesday.

Stone was arrested at his Florida home on Jan. 25 in a pre-dawn raid by the FBI. He was later charged by special counsel Robert Mueller with lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing justice. Stone was released on a $250,000 bond and has pleaded not guilty. He is set to go on trial starting Nov. 5.

#6562047 at 2019-05-22 23:34:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8390: Paragrah 1 Edition

AG Barr blasts federal judges who impose nationwide injunctions



Attorney General William Barr blasted federal judges who have issued more than 37 nationwide injunctions during the Trump administration, more than in the entirety of the 20th century.

In a Tuesday speech to the American Law Institute, Barr went after "improper use of nationwide injunctions against policies of all stripes" and said that the use of the injunctions to block policy gives district courts "unprecedented power."

"One judge can, in effect, cancel the policy with the stroke of the pen," he said. "No official in the United States government can exercise that kind of nationwide power, with the sole exception of the President. And the Constitution subjects him to nationwide election, among other constitutional checks, as a prerequisite to wielding that power."

One example he cited was the legal battles over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which offers protections for individuals brought to the U.S. illegally as children, instituted under former President Barack Obama.

He went on to emphasize the magnitude and increase of the injunctions, pointing out that the use of the rulings has increased dramatically since President Trump was inaugurated and contrasted the prevalence of the orders with those under Trump's Democratic predecessor.

"Since President Trump took office, federal district courts have issued 37 nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch. That's more than one a month. By comparison, during President Obama's first two years, district courts issued two nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch, both of which were vacated by the Ninth Circuit," Barr said.

He added that according to his department's estimates, federal judges only issued 27 nationwide injunctions during the 20th century.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ag-Barr-blasts-federal-judges-who-impose-nationwide-injunctions

#6560873 at 2019-05-22 20:53:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8389: The Delicious Downfall of Avenatti Edition

John Brennan Pushes Conspiracy Theory: Mueller Report Proves Russia Collusion

Former CIA Director John Brennan on Tuesday falsely claimed special counsel Robert Mueller's report actually further proves Donald Trump's campaign and Russia worked together during the 2016 presidential election.

"I subsequently learned from the Mueller report that there was a lot more evidence of collusion and obstruction of justice than was indicated in the misleading & highly politicized Barr memo. Your obvious fear of Congressional action is warranted & your dishonesty is appalling," Brennan said in response to President Trump posting an emBarrassing quote from the longtime Deep Stater. Trump quoted Brennan admitting that Trump-Russia conspiracies were much bigger in his own mind than in reality - "I don't know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was" - one day after Attorney General William Barr told Congress that the special counsel did not uncover evidence of cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russia. Further, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who once reportedly volunteered to wear a wire in meeting with President Trump, determined that the president did not obstruct justice in relation to the Mueller probe.

"I don't know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was," the former CIA chief told MSNBC's Morning Joe of Mueller's findings. "I am relieved that it's been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election," he added. "I think that is good news for the country."

Brennan's most recent remarks on Spygate come after he contended there is "ample evidence to justify" the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign. "I was there in the summer of '16 and it was very well predicated," the former intelligence official told MSNBC's Deadline host Nicole Wallace. "To launch this counterintelligence investigation about what the Russians were doing to interfere in our election and how among American citizens might have been working with them."

Meanwhile, as Fox News reported, a dispute has erupted over whether fired FBI Director James Comey or Brennan pushed for the faulty Steele dossier to be included in the intelligence community assessment regarding Russian meddling. In a recent interview with the Fox News Channel, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) suggested: "Whoever is looking into this, tell them to look into emails" between Comey and Brennan from December 2016.

However, in a statement to Fox News, an unnamed former CIA official fingered the former FBI chief as the culprit. "Former Director Brennan, along with former [Director of National Intelligence] James Clapper, are the ones who opposed James Comey's recommendation that the Steele Dossier be included in the intelligence report," said the official.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/22/john-brennan-pushes-conspiracy-theory-that-mueller-report-proves-russia-collusion/

#6560596 at 2019-05-22 20:18:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8388: Eyes On The UK Edition

Bill Barr Used This One Figure To Prove Nationwide Injunctions Are A Problem

Attorney General William Barr condemned the rise of nationwide injunctions Tuesday, saying such sweeping orders undermine the rule of law. Nationwide injunctions prohibit the federal government from enforcing a particular law or policy across the entire country. Progressive cause lawyering groups have used such injunctions to stymie a wide array of Trump policy priorities.

"Since President Trump took office, federal district courts have issued 37 nationwide injunctions against the executive branch - that's more than one a month," Barr said during a Tuesday evening speech to the American Law Institute. "According to the [Justice] Department's best estimates, courts issued only 27 nationwide injunctions­ in all of the 20th century," he added, before bristling at the notion that the disparity is a function of the president's "lawlessness."

Barr cited the Trump administration's attempt to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as the starkest example of a nationwide injunction's harmful effects. After the government took steps to end terminate DACA in 2017, three federal trial judges entered injunctions requiring that Trump maintain the program. Appeals of those injunctions have since reached the Supreme Court, though the justices have declined to broach the issue for months. As a result, Barr says the nationwide injunctions have paralyzed political debates around immigration, culminating in the 35-day government shutdown that extended from December 2018 to January 2019.

"What have these nationwide injunctions wrought? Dreamers remain in limbo, the political process has been pre-empted, and we have had over a year of bitter political division that included a government shutdown of unprecedented length," Barr said. "Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis at our southern border persists, while legislative efforts remain frozen as both sides await the courts' word on DACA and other immigration issues." Aside from the DACA cases, nationwide injunctions are also in effect against the administration's bid to strip so-called sanctuary cities of federal funds, among other items.

Barr leveled other arguments against nationwide injunctions. He said such orders inflate the power of a single federal trial judge, turn ordinary cases into emergency situations requiring prompt resolution, and undermine public confidence in the judiciary, to the extent that lawyers bring cases in ideologically-friendly jurisdictions. Such "forum shopping," he said, creates the impression of partisanship in judging. "Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law," the attorney general said.

Conservative litigators used nationwide injunctions to good effect against former President Barack Obama. For example, a federal trial judge in Texas enjoined enforcement of an administration policy requiring that public schools allow students to use bathrooms corresponding with their stated gender identity, rather than their biological sex. Vice President Mike Pence revealed that the administration is looking for an appropriate case in which to ask the Supreme Court to end nationwide injunctions during a May 8 address to the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers group.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/22/trump-nationwide-injunctions-Barr/

#6560159 at 2019-05-22 19:21:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8388: Eyes On The UK Edition

Attorney General Barr Puts Former Intel Bosses Clapper, Brennan On Notice

Things seem to be moving quickly now. It has been a remarkable few weeks in American history. Momentum is building toward uncovering the distasteful possibility that the targeting of a U.S. presidential campaign was actually a political operation, fostered at the highest levels of government, masquerading as an FBI counterintelligence investigation.

Attorney General William Barr has signaled that his interest in examining the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign extends beyond whether the FBI operated "by the book," as former FBI Director James Comey asserts. Barr also wants to understand the role that the larger intelligence community, or IC, may have played in all of this.

Barr has thrown punches that have left an interesting mix of characters with a standing eight count. Certain eyes around D.C. are a little glassy right now.

Barr's words and actions are telling. First, he raised the concern that the Trump campaign was "spied" upon. His use of the word "spying" appears more calculated than casual. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that followed is also telling. "The FBI doesn't spy" became the sputtering counter-refrain of those trying to mask their nervousness.

It's a fair point that's beside the point. The FBI is charged with acting under strict legal restrictions and court orders. Spying is not a term traditionally associated with those activities.

But it also misses the point Barr appears to be making. The IC does spy; that's what they do. Barr may have been referring less to the FBI and more to the IC's possible murky involvement.

This seems to be validated by Barr's second haymaker in as many weeks: his appointment of a surrogate investigator, U.S. Attorney John Durham. Why would the attorney general add a third investigation to those under way by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Huber? Because those investigations are focused on the FBI. Durham's assignment is not similarly constrained; his marching orders appear broader.

Through Durham, Barr can start dusting for fingerprints across the government, not just the FBI. The squirming has begun.

In just the past week, we've seen a rush to comment by the former directors of national intelligence and the CIA. The FBI's former general counsel has chimed in publicly and, of course, fired FBI Director Comey has been on a media offensive, practicing character assassination as a strategy with Barr among those in his crosshairs.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-Barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice

#6558168 at 2019-05-22 15:32:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8385: Mnuchin vs Man Maxine. 2 Men Enters, 1 Man Leaves Edition

Attorney General Barr puts former intel bosses on notice

Attorney General William Barr has signaled that his interest in examining the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign extends beyond whether the FBI operated "by the book," as former FBI Director James Comey asserts. Barr also wants to understand the role that the larger intelligence community, or IC, may have played in all of this.

Barr has thrown punches that have left an interesting mix of characters with a standing eight count. Certain eyes around D.C. are a little glassy right now.

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/444802-ag-Barr-puts-former-intel-bosses-on-notice

#6557372 at 2019-05-22 12:50:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8384: Kabuki has nothing on this movie... Edition

>>6557255
Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, described the Trump-Russia narrative and Robert Mueller-led operation as parts of an "international effort to take out" President Donald Trump.

He offered his remarks in a Monday interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Fitton previously described the Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative as "the big lie," noting its ubiquity across the overlapping political and news media landscapes. 
"Yesterday, you had confirmation over in the United Kingdom that that intelligence operation there - the UK's intelligence apparatus - also knew about the dossier," said Fitton, "and part of that spying that took place with Stefan Halper also took place in London. The New York Times, at the end of their story, exposing that, disclosed that the UK knew about that spy operation as well."
Fitton added, "You had this other agency - supposedly a friend of the United States - laundering the Steele dossier that was created as a result of FBI-DNC-Clinton campaign money in consultation with Russian intelligence. It's pretty incredible stuff, and it shows you that it was an international effort to take out Trump. It wasn't just based here in the United States

Marlow invited Fitton's perception of Attorney General William Barr. "[William Barr] doesn't seem like someone who's going to be cowed," assessed Fitton. "I hope he does a serious investigation. Certainly everything he's said suggests that's what he wants to do, and he's seen evidence requiring follow-up by a competent attorney general like himself."
Widespread political and partisan corruption within the FBI and broader Department of Justice - particularly with respect to spying on and surveillance of Donald Trump and his circle, both as a candidate and president - must be purged, determined Fitton.

"I hope it's not just an administrative review, [and] that it's a criminal investigation," stated Fitton. "I know it's starting off as a review. The other big thing coming down the pike is the inspector general out of the Justice Department. I don't know what's going to be in there, but all the signals are suggesting that there will be some strong criticism of the FISA abuses under Barack Obama and, frankly, into the Trump administration by these anti-Trumpers."
"William Barr] has seen evidence of criminal misconduct," continued Fitton. "It doesn't necessarily mean something big will happen. He's not only fighting ... the whole Democrat media complex, the institutions of the FBI, and the DOJ, and frankly, the spy agencies are really going to stand strong against anything serious being done. Look at Christopher Wray, he can't even use the word 'spy.' He's so compromised in terms of having internalized this deep state approach to reining in the FBI swamp."
Marlow recalled Joe DiGenova's characterization of former CIA Director John Brennan - now a political commentator on MSNBC - as the "mastermind" of the "conspiracy to frame Donald Trump."

"I think [John Brennan] is a key ringleader," concurred Fitton. "This was a cabal ... and certainly Brennan was pushing this dossier. He was involved in that infamous Oval Office meeting in Barack Obama's White House with James Comey, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, et cetera, just before Comey went to attempt - as his FBI people suggested, or were worried about - to blackmail then-president elect Trump with information about the dossier. It looks like that spy operation would not have taken place without FBI help."

#6557155 at 2019-05-22 11:43:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8384: Kabuki has nothing on this movie... Edition

>>6557153


They devised a plan to turn the Mueller report into a TV show, accessible to millions of viewers who have not read even a page of the report itself. They would call key witnesses to give dramatic testimony in televised hearings that would build support for possible impeachment.

At the same time, they would insist that Attorney General William Barr, who has allowed top lawmakers to see the full Mueller report with the exception of a small amount of grand jury material, was hiding something, and that the hidden material might reveal presidential wrongdoing.

So far, the strategy has not worked. The White House, which provided Mueller testimony and documents that might easily have been withheld as privileged, has not been so forthcoming with Congress. We gave the criminal investigator, Mueller, what he needed, the White House said, but we are not obligated to do the same for Congress.

The dispute could take a long time to settle.

In the meantime, House Democrats have been reduced to stunts to try to grab the public's attention. At the Capitol recently, they enlisted Hollywood star John Cusack to take part in a public reading of the entire Mueller report - it took 12 hours - as C-Span cameras rolled. The event did not exactly captivate the nation.

Now, Republicans have turned the tables on Democrats by pumping new energy into their long-held desire to "investigate the investigation." Barr, who set off enormous controversy with his statement that "spying did occur" against the Trump campaign, has taken up the cause,
assigning U.S. attorney John Durham to look into the origins of the probe.

Anticipation is also building for the release of Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz's report on the department's handling of the case. It is probably not a coincidence that some Obama-era intelligence figures are now pointing fingers at each other over their reliance on the so-called Steele dossier, a collection of unsubstantiated allegations against the president compiled by a former British spy on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign.

None of this would have happened without the Mueller report's conclusion that the evidence did not establish conspiracy or coordination. If Democrats could still claim that Trump and Russia conspired in 2016, they would still have the upper hand. But after Mueller, that claim is no longer possible, and Democratic hopes are dwindling.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-mueller-changed-everything

2/2

#6556296 at 2019-05-22 05:48:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8383: Six Fives Dragon Slayer Edition

AG William Barr: Speaking at the American Law Institute's annual dinner | Fox 10
>10:00 minutes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPXPgYrlV4M

#6555976 at 2019-05-22 04:36:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8383: Six Fives Dragon Slayer Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV
>>6477078 BO removed a BV
>>6446595 BO on baker checks
>>6385109 Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)

Notables
are not endorsements

#8382
>>6555913 Federal judge appears hesitant to block Trump Obamacare alternatives
>>6555774 eyes on: anon's warning of potential divisionfag Q-Counter Narrative
>>6555620, >>6555665, >>6555688, >>6555693 "London Under", by Peter Ackroyd
>>6555642 Planefags: Helo ENDGM606
>>6555555, >>6555576, >>6555615 Tears and Keks. Six Fives. 6 555555. Nom's 8ch Owner Vid >>6555573
>>6555436 Patrick Shanahan said Iran was forced to "put on hold" plans
>>6555399, >>6555412 DJT twatted Benghazi! Benghazi! Benghazi! for YEARS
>>6555390 Mil-Tweets: Dragon Slayer
>>6555359 Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US?
>>6555954 #8382

#8381 Baker Change
>>6555020 Kirk: Sit Room Video Cut during Obama Russia Shenanigans
>>6554998 New DJT - congrats Matt Bevin Rep Primary winner for Gov Kentucky
>>6554991 Senators demand answers over early release of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh
>>6554933 Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Joins ABC News And The Atlantic
>>6554900 Classified Iran briefing turns heated as Trump team clashes with Democrats
>>6554821 Byron York: Pubs seek release of secret Papadopoulos transcripts
>>6554812 anon on Declas and OIG coming via timeline drops
>>6554806 Barr speech at the American Law Institute's annual dinner
>>6554798, >>6554913 PA GOP Fred Keller Wins U.S. House Election w/DJT Twat
>>6554794 Hundreds Rally in Times Square to Protest Ilhan Omar
>>6554779 Coordinated anti-Trump campaign emerges on Instagram
>>6554773 Meadows: What point of special counsel if we're going to demand every witness testify again
>>6554710 'Unprecedented power': William Barr blasts federal judges over nationwide injunctions
>>6554660 North Korea condemns senseless Biden. Top-KEK Kim!!!
>>6554643 New John Brennan: Moar panicking!
>>6554617 Brexit Negotiator fearing Farage, Johnson. Bad for EU (kek)
>>6554587 American Cardinal calls for Limiting Muslim Immigration
>>6554556 2009 Article backgrounder NXIVM: Cult Behind the Coup
>>6554543, >>6554916 Hannity: John Solomon: POTUS WILL DECLASS IN THE NEXT 7-8 DAYS
>>6554532 MS-13 Members Murdered 14-Year-Old Girl, MD Officials Ignored ICE Detainer & Released Alleged Killers
>>6555182 #8381

#8380 New Baker 2nd Bake
>>6553733 John Solomon's latest: New evidence surfaces Steele intel was fool's gold
>>6553822 CEO of National Museum of American Jewish History Resigns
>>6553916 Today's Q Clock says 10-4
>>6554029 Iran links to "DS cabal" - P Strzok & the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
>>6554095 UK Intel Agencies Frame Spygate Involvement Ahead of Trump's Declassification
>>6554077, >>6554060, >>6554105 US DOI & Comey Twat. Comey is tall AF....kinda like a Redwood. Could be code.
>>6554113 New DJT Twat - Mueller probe $40 mil
>>6554156 US Warns Assad Of "Quick Response" After New Chemical Attack Allegation
>>6554316 New DJT - John Brennan on the Mueller probe
>>6554229 New DJT - Dems fishng expedition
>>6554451 #8380 corrected in 8381

Previously Collected Notables
>>6552107 #8377, >>6552881 #8378, >>6553614 #8379
>>6549662 #8374, >>6550446 #8375, >>6551741 #8376
>>6547298 #8371, >>6548269 #8372, >>6548821 #8373
>>6544919 #8368, >>6545721 #8369, >>6546480 #8370

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6555199 at 2019-05-22 03:00:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8382: Rubbins Racing ... Racing Baking Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6551371 Voat admin threatens to deplatform QRV
>>6477078 BO removed a BV
>>6446595 BO on baker checks
>>6385109 Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)

Notables
are not endorsements

8381 Baker Change
>>6555020 Kirk: Sit Room Video Cut during Obama Russia Shenanigans
>>6554998 New DJT - congrats Matt Bevin Rep Primary winner for Gov Kentucky
>>6554991 Senators demand answers over early release of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh
>>6554933 Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Joins ABC News And The Atlantic
>>6554900 Classified Iran briefing turns heated as Trump team clashes with Democrats
>>6554821 Byron York: Pubs seek release of secret Papadopoulos transcripts
>>6554812 anon on Declas and OIG coming via timeline drops
>>6554806 Barr speech at the American Law Institute's annual dinner
>>6554798, >>6554913 PA GOP Fred Keller Wins U.S. House Election w/DJT Twat
>>6554794 Hundreds Rally in Times Square to Protest Ilhan Omar
>>6554779 Coordinated anti-Trump campaign emerges on Instagram
>>6554773 Meadows: What point of special counsel if we're going to demand every witness testify again
>>6554710 'Unprecedented power': William Barr blasts federal judges over nationwide injunctions
>>6554660 North Korea condemns senseless Biden. Top-KEK Kim!!!
>>6554643 New John Brennan: Moar panicking!
>>6554617 Brexit Negotiator fearing Farage, Johnson. Bad for EU (kek)
>>6554587 American Cardinal calls for Limiting Muslim Immigration
>>6554556 2009 Article backgrounder NXIVM: Cult Behind the Coup
>>6554543, >>6554916 Hannity: John Solomon: POTUS WILL DECLASS IN THE NEXT 7-8 DAYS
>>6554532 MS-13 Members Murdered 14-Year-Old Girl, MD Officials Ignored ICE Detainer & Released Alleged Killers
>>6555182 #8381

8380 New Baker 2nd Bake
>>6553733 John Solomon's latest: New evidence surfaces Steele intel was fool's gold
>>6553822 CEO of National Museum of American Jewish History Resigns
>>6553916 Today's Q Clock says 10-4
>>6554029 Iran links to "DS cabal" - P Strzok & the Muslim Brotherhood (MB)
>>6554095 UK Intel Agencies Frame Spygate Involvement Ahead of Trump's Declassification
>>6554077, >>6554060, >>6554105 US DOI & Comey Twat. Comey is tall AF....kinda like a Redwood. Could be code.
>>6554113 New DJT Twat - Mueller probe $40 mil
>>6554156 US Warns Assad Of "Quick Response" After New Chemical Attack Allegation
>>6554316 New DJT - John Brennan on the Mueller probe
>>6554229 New DJT - Dems fishng expedition
>>6554451 #8380 corrected in 8381

#8379 New Baker Shadowing
>>6552943 NYT Trying To Normalize RFID Chipping Humans
>>6553026 "This Is Unfathomable" - Nike, Adidas Pen Letter To Trump Calling Proposed Tariffs "Catastrophic" (kek)
>>6553056 New DJT - Johnny (DeStefano) we will miss you
>>6553245 New DJT - Mark Levin's new book opened at #1.
>>6552983, >>6552910 updates on Vice and Jim's break in (8ch owner)
>>6553191 Q Clock update re-read crumbs
>>6553365 anon proof - Us Navy D5 05/21/2019 and 1 year ago Q 1433 D5 05/21/2018
>>6553384 anon proof - Us Army Green 05/21/2019 and 1 year ago Q 1433 D5 05/21/2018
>>6553339, >>6553153 Assad Gassed Adlb on Sunday (meh)
>>6553361 Inner Circle Member Details Arrest of NXIVM's Leader in Mexico
>>6553356 Spygate: Obama Admin Cut Situation Room's Video Feed During Meetings on Russia Investigation
>>6553496 House Democrat shares text exchange with son about impeachment inquiry
>>6553526 First Twat ever by US_CYBERCOM
>>6553540 JW suing for comms between Clapper, Brennan, and CNN
>>6553422 New DJT - Shahira Knight
>>6553614 #8379

Previously Collected Notables
>>6552107 #8377, >>6552881 #8378
>>6549662 #8374, >>6550446 #8375, >>6551741 #8376
>>6547298 #8371, >>6548269 #8372, >>6548821 #8373
>>6544919 #8368, >>6545721 #8369, >>6546480 #8370

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6555182 at 2019-05-22 02:58:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8381: New Baker 2nd Bake - Carb Loading Edition

Baking

Notables
are not endorsements

8381 Baker Change
>>6555020 Kirk: Sit Room Video Cut during Obama Russia Shenanigans
>>6554998 New DJT - congrats Matt Bevin Rep Primary winner for Gov Kentucky
>>6554991 Senators demand answers over early release of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh
>>6554933 Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Joins ABC News And The Atlantic
>>6554900 Classified Iran briefing turns heated as Trump team clashes with Democrats
>>6554821 Byron York: Pubs seek release of secret Papadopoulos transcripts
>>6554812 anon on Declas and OIG coming via timeline drops
>>6554806 Barr speech at the American Law Institute's annual dinner
>>6554798, >>6554913 PA GOP Fred Keller Wins U.S. House Election w/DJT Twat
>>6554794 Hundreds Rally in Times Square to Protest Ilhan Omar
>>6554779 Coordinated anti-Trump campaign emerges on Instagram
>>6554773 Meadows: What point of special counsel if we're going to demand every witness testify again
>>6554710 'Unprecedented power': William Barr blasts federal judges over nationwide injunctions
>>6554660 North Korea condemns senseless Biden. Top-KEK Kim!!!
>>6554643 New John Brennan: Moar panicking!
>>6554617 Brexit Negotiator fearing Farage, Johnson. Bad for EU (kek)
>>6554587 American Cardinal calls for Limiting Muslim Immigration
>>6554556 2009 Article backgrounder NXIVM: Cult Behind the Coup
>>6554543, >>6554916 Hannity: John Solomon: POTUS WILL DECLASS IN THE NEXT 7-8 DAYS
>>6554532 MS-13 Members Murdered 14-Year-Old Girl, MD Officials Ignored ICE Detainer & Released Alleged Killers
>>6553733 #8381

#6555133 at 2019-05-22 02:51:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8381: New Baker 2nd Bake - Carb Loading Edition

>>6555114

Notables
are not endorsements

8381 Baker Change
>>6555020 Kirk: Sit Room Video Cut during Obama Russia Shenanigans
>>6554998 New DJT - congrats Matt Bevin Rep Primary winner for Gov Kentucky
>>6554991 Senators demand answers over early release of 'American Taliban' John Walker Lindh
>>6554933 Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Joins ABC News And The Atlantic
>>6554900 Classified Iran briefing turns heated as Trump team clashes with Democrats
>>6554821 Byron York: Pubs seek release of secret Papadopoulos transcripts
>>6554812 anon on Declas and OIG coming via timeline drops
>>6554806 Barr speech at the American Law Institute's annual dinner
>>6554798, >>6554913 PA GOP Fred Keller Wins U.S. House Election w/DJT Twat
>>6554794 Hundreds Rally in Times Square to Protest Ilhan Omar
>>6554779 Coordinated anti-Trump campaign emerges on Instagram
>>6554773 Meadows: What point of special counsel if we're going to demand every witness testify again
>>6554710 'Unprecedented power': William Barr blasts federal judges over nationwide injunctions
>>6554660 North Korea condemns senseless Biden. Top-KEK Kim!!!
>>6554643 New John Brennan: Moar panicking!
>>6554617 Brexit Negotiator fearing Farage, Johnson. Bad for EU (kek)
>>6554587 American Cardinal calls for Limiting Muslim Immigration
>>6554556 2009 Article backgrounder NXIVM: Cult Behind the Coup
>>6554543, >>6554916 Hannity: John Solomon: POTUS WILL DECLASS IN THE NEXT 7-8 DAYS
>>6554532 MS-13 Members Murdered 14-Year-Old Girl, MD Officials Ignored ICE Detainer & Released Alleged Killers
>>6553733 #8381


Racing to catch up

#6554873 at 2019-05-22 02:16:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8381: New Baker 2nd Bake - Carb Loading Edition

>>6554855

AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."

https://tenor.com/view/agBarr-Barr-water-William-Barr-shrug-gif-13910125

"It's disappointing to see a number of Democrats in Congress and the media continue to cling to the hoax that was Trump-Russia collusion while simultaneously ignoring the REAL crime that took place - namely the attempted coup against a duly elected president. Ah, but HOW REFRESHING to have an Attorney General who is so willing to tell it like it is and a president who, despite 24/7 attacks against him based on layers of lies after lies, continues to fight for the working men and women of America.
Justice is on the march and President Trump and William Barr are leading the way..."

Via Townhall:
...When asked about the president's use of the term "witch hunt," Barr said he was comfortable with it.
"Because at the time he was saying he was innocent and that he was being falsely accused. And if you're falsely accused, you would think that something was a witch hunt. I have to say when you step back and look at this, two-and-a-half years of his administration - three years of the Trump campaign and first part of his administration - he has been hammered for something - for allegedly conspiring with the Russians. We now know that was simply false," Barr said.
"I use what words I use and it was an investigation. But I think if I had been falsely accused, I would be comfortable saying it was a witch hunt."
Barr also called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge he lied under oath to Congress and committed a crime 'laughable.'
"I think it's a laughable charge and I think it's largely being made to try to discredit me partly because they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election. But obviously, you can look at the face of my testimony and see on its face there is nothing inaccurate about it," Barr said.
He said that he was ready to be the new target for Democrats. "I thought I was in a position where this kind of criticism really wouldn't bother me very much."
Barr called the contempt charge recommendation passed by the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee "part of the circus."

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/ag-William-Barr-yeah-the-trump-russia-investigation-was-a-witch-hunt/#pQDGpQgSo09iKdtd.99

#6554710 at 2019-05-22 01:53:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8381: New Baker 2nd Bake - Carb Loading Edition

'Unprecedented power': William Barr blasts federal judges over nationwide injunctions

Attorney General William P. Barr on Tuesday railed against federal courts issuing nationwide injunctions blocking President Trump from implementing his policies, saying they wield "unprecedented power."

In a speech before the American Law Institute, Mr. Barr said such injunctions block politicians of all stripes from enacting the voters' will.

"One judge can, in effect, cancel the policy with the stroke of the pen," he said. "No official in the United States government can exercise that kind of nationwide power, with the sole exception of the president. And the Constitution subjects him to nationwide election, among other constitutional checks, as a prerequisite to wielding that power."

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/21/William-Barr-rips-federal-judges-over-nationwide-i/

#6553356 at 2019-05-21 22:42:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8379: The More You Attack Us, The More You Validate Us

Spygate: Obama Admin Cut Situation Room's Video Feed During Meetings on Russia Investigation

Comments made by Attorney General William Barr about extraordinary arrangements regarding the original handling of the Russia investigation may take on more significance in light of a previous report showing a high and unusual degree of compartmentalization in the Obama-era intelligence community's initial intel set up of the Russia probe.

In an interview with Fox News that aired Friday, Barr commented that the intelligence community's early handling of the Russia investigation may raise questions. He noted it was first handled at a "very senior level" and then by a "small group."

Barr stated:

The thing that's interesting about this is that this was handled at a very senior level of these departments. It wasn't handled in the ordinary way that investigations or counterintelligence activities are conducted. It was sort of an ad hoc, small group - and most of these people are no longer with the FBI or the CIA or the other agencies involved. I think there's a misconception out there that we know a lot about what happened. The fact of the matter is, Bob Mueller did not look at the government's activities.

Deep inside a 7,700-plus word Washington Post article published June 23, 2017, the newspaper detailed the highly compartmentalized nature of the original Russia interference investigation and the manner in which other U.S. intelligence agencies were deliberately kept in the dark.

According to the newspaper, in the summer of 2016, CIA Director John Brennan convened a "secret task force at CIA headquarters composed of several dozen analysts and officers from the CIA, the NSA and the FBI."

The Post described the unit as so secretive it functioned as a "sealed compartment" hidden even from the rest of the U.S. intelligence community; a unit whose workers were all made to sign additional non-disclosure forms.

The unit reported to top officials, the newspaper documented:

They worked exclusively for two groups of "customers," officials said. The first was Obama and fewer than 14 senior officials in government. The second was a team of operations specialists at the CIA, NSA and FBI who took direction from the task force on where to aim their subsequent efforts to collect more intelligence on Russia.

The number of Obama administration officials who were allowed access to the Russia intelligence was also highly limited, The Post reported. At first only four senior officials were involved: Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey. Their aides were all Barred from attending the initial meetings, The Post stated.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/21/spygate-obama-admin-cut-situation-rooms-video-feed-during-meetings-on-russia-investigation/

#6552229 at 2019-05-21 20:01:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8378: The Q ickening Edition

In The Deep State Coup Attempt, All Roads Lead Back To Barack Obama - Watch Out For A Major Breakout Of Leftist Insanity Should Deep State Crooks Fall

With Democrats now launching all out and desperate attacks against President Trump's Attorney General William Barr with signs emerging over the past week+ that deep state traitors may indeed finally face justice for their attempted coup against President Trump, we'll take a look within this new ANP story at more new evidence that 'all coup roads' lead back to Barack Obama and that it's time for the 'coup plotters' to be held accountable as heard in the videos at the bottom of this story.

http://allnewspipeline.com/Coup_Vs_Trump_All_Roads_Lead_To_Obama.php

#6552204 at 2019-05-21 19:58:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8378: The Q ickening Edition

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/21/tom-fitton-coup-cabal-was-an-international-effort-to-take-out-trump/

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, described the Trump-Russia narrative and Robert Mueller-led operation as parts of an "international effort to take out" President Donald Trump.

He offered his remarks in a Monday interview on SiriusXM's Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Fitton previously described the Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative as "the big lie," noting its ubiquity across the overlapping political and news media landscapes.

"Yesterday, you had confirmation over in the United Kingdom that that intelligence operation there - the UK's intelligence apparatus - also knew about the dossier," said Fitton, "and part of that spying that took place with Stefan Halper also took place in London. The New York Times, at the end of their story, exposing that, disclosed that the UK knew about that spy operation as well."

Fitton added, "You had this other agency - supposedly a friend of the United States - laundering the Steele dossier that was created as a result of FBI-DNC-Clinton campaign money in consultation with Russian intelligence. It's pretty incredible stuff, and it shows you that it was an international effort to take out Trump. It wasn't just based her in the United States."

LISTEN:

Marlow invited Fitton's perception of Attorney General William Barr. "[William Barr] doesn't seem like someone who's going to be cowed," assessed Fitton. "I hope he does a serious investigation. Certainly everything he's said suggests that's what he wants to do, and he's seen evidence requiring follow-up by a competent attorney general like himself."

Widespread political and partisan corruption within the FBI and broader Department of Justice - particularly with respect to spying on and surveillance of Donald Trump and his circle, both as a candidate and president - must be purged, determined Fitton.

"I hope it's not just an administrative review, [and] that it's a criminal investigation," stated Fitton. "I know it's starting off as a review. The other big thing coming down the pike is the inspector general out of the Justice Department. I don't know what's going to be in there, but all the signals are suggesting that there will be some strong criticism of the FISA abuses under Barack Obama and, frankly, into the Trump administration by these anti-Trumpers."

"William Barr] has seen evidence of criminal misconduct," continued Fitton. "It doesn't necessarily mean something big will happen. He's not only fighting ... the whole Democrat media complex, the institutions of the FBI, and the DOJ, and frankly, the spy agencies are really going to stand strong against anything serious being done. Look at Christopher Wray, he can't even use the word 'spy.' He's so compromised in terms of having internalized this deep state approach to reining in the FBI swamp."

Marlow recalled Joe DiGenova's characterization of former CIA Director John Brennan - now a political commentator on MSNBC - as the "mastermind" of the "conspiracy to frame Donald Trump."

"I think [John Brennan] is a key ringleader," concurred Fitton. "This was a cabal ... and certainly Brennan was pushing this dossier. He was involved in that infamous Oval Office meeting in Barack Obama's White House with James Comey, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, et cetera, just before Comey went to attempt - as his FBI people suggested, or were worried about - to blackmail then-president elect Trump with information about the dossier. It looks like that spy operation would not have taken place without FBI help."

Fitton went on, "An administrative review would be good, but that's not going to be enough. These folks need to go before grand juries and really face serious investigation. To me, that's the hallmark of a criminal investigation so that people can have reassurance that something serious is being done."

Fitton concluded, "I would encourage Barr to unleash the hounds in terms of using the powers of the Justice Department that people are familiar with, in terms of bringing in prosecutors, having FBI agents do interviews; frankly, I'm not sure if the FBI should be involved in this - but have acting federal agents do interviews, having an internal administrative review isn't going to cut it."

#6551797 at 2019-05-21 19:04:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8377: Ebake Edition

DOJ, citing Barr contempt vote, threatens to cut off negotiations with Congress over Mueller report

The Justice Department warned House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff if the panel moves forward with a contempt vote or other punishment against Attorney General William Barr, it will no longer work together on a deal that would allow members to view a less-redacted version of the Mueller report. In a letter sent Tuesday to Schiff, D-Calif., from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd, the DOJ proposed a meeting this week with the Intelligence panel's senior staff to continue to search for a compromise in response to 12 requests made by the committee. But that meeting won't happen if the panel decides to punish Barr for failing to turn over the unredacted report, Boyd warned.

"Should the committee take the precipitous and unnecessary action of recommending a contempt finding or other enforcement action against the Attorney General, then the Department will not likely to be able to continue to work with the Committee to accommodate its interest in these materials."

Boyd said the panel "is willing to work with the panel on a reasonable and realistic process," to provide members with "information pertaining to counterintelligence and foreign-intelligence activities," outlined but redacted in the Mueller report, which probed Russian interference in the 2016 election. The House Judiciary Committee cited Barr with contempt earlier this month for failing to turn over the unredacted version, even though the redactions are required by law. The Justice Department has offered a "minimally redacted" version for all members of the Intelligence Committee to view but Democrats have declined.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/doj-citing-Barr-contempt-vote-threatens-to-cut-off-negotiations-with-congress-over-mueller-report

#6548597 at 2019-05-21 04:45:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8373: Rapid Fire Edition

Loretta Lynch: Obama never ordered politically motivated infiltration of Trump campaign

Testifying under oath before lawmakers late last year, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch denied getting any instruction by President Barack Obama or his administration to investigate the Trump campaign for political purposes. Appearing before a joint task force of the House Judiciary and Oversight committees, Lynch was asked if she believed the Justice Department or FBI ever got political in their handling of the inquiry, which began as a counterintelligence investigation in the summer of 2016. "I know that they did not," Lynch said on Dec. 19.

Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who is now the House Judiciary chairman, asked: "Did President Obama, or anyone in his administration, ever make a demand or request that the FBI or DOJ infiltrate or surveil the Trump campaign for political purposes?" Lynch gave a one-word answer: "Never." Asked how she would react if she had received such a request, Lynch said, "I would have declined it and told them how inappropriate it was." Lynch also denied that she ever made any law enforcement decisions at the Justice Department that were for political reasons, including in regards to the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

The transcript of the interview was released Monday evening by House Judiciary ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., giving a look into the private testimony given for a GOP-led inquiry into potential bias in the Justice Department and the FBI at a time when there is a debate about whether there was "spying" on Trump's campaign with the use of wiretapping and informants. Although Republicans have lost control of the House, there is now a multi-pronged effort to root out any misconduct by the Obama administration in the heat of the 2016 election.

The FBI launched its original counterintelligence investigation, called Crossfire Hurricane, in July 2016. It was prompted by Australian diplomat Alexander Downer informing the FBI that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told him Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic rival in the 2016 election. Attorney General William Barr has tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham to review the origins of the counterintelligence investigation, which was later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mueller's report shows his team could not find sufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Republican investigators have charged that there was a politically motivated reason to investigate President Trump and his team. House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said last week that Mueller "knew the day that he walked in the door there was no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians." Mueller was appointed as special counsel in May 2017, eight days after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

GOP lawmakers have also raised the alarm about the FBI's use of an unverified dossier to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Several top-level Obama officials, including Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan, have come under the crosshairs for potential misconduct for their treatment of the dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/loretta-lynch-obama-never-ordered-politically-motivated-infiltration-of-trump-campaign

#6542190 at 2019-05-20 13:51:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8365: Midnight to Almost Dawn Edition

I know William Barr, Huber et al. are doing things - no idea what, but things they are - but admittedly the depression that there are no "mass arrests" and the realization that we're going to have to suffer through another disgusting election cycle has set in.

#6542021 at 2019-05-20 12:55:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8365: Midnight to Almost Dawn Edition

And So It Begins | Epoch Times
>On May 11, Rod Rosenstein left the Department of Justice after a distinguished 29-year career.
>On May 13, it became public that Attorney General William Barr has tasked U.S. Attorney for
>Connecticut John Durham to look into the origins of the investigations into the Trump campaign.

>This means Durham will receive the evidence that the teams working under DOJ Inspector
>General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney for Utah John Huber have been collecting for
>more than a year and a half.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJp1_X5OxRU

#6540321 at 2019-05-20 03:08:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8363: Freedom of Thought Edition

Attorney General William Barr now has the mantle of President Trump's Blessing to the demise of the Secretary of State Pompeo.and the Neo-Con objective.

Clean our own house first.


Israel is last.

#6540271 at 2019-05-20 03:00:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8363: Freedom of Thought Edition

>>6540202


==Byron York: Mueller changed everything
by Byron York==

May 19, 2019 05:00 PM

From now on, the Trump-Russia affair, the investigation that dominated the first years of Donald Trump's presidency, will be divided into two parts: before and after the release of the Mueller report. Before the special counsel's findings were made public last month, the president's adversaries were on the offensive. Now, they are playing defense.

The change is due to one simple fact: Mueller could not establish that there was a conspiracy or coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to fix the 2016 election. The special counsel's office interviewed 500 witnesses, issued 2,800 subpoenas, executed nearly 500 search-and-seizure warrants, and obtained nearly 300 records of electronic communications, and still could not establish the one thing that mattered most in the investigation.

Without a judgment that a conspiracy - or collusion, in the popular phrase - took place, everything else in the Trump-Russia affair began to shrink in significance.

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In particular, allegations that the president obstructed justice to cover up a conspiracy were transformed into allegations that he obstructed an investigation into a crime that prosecutors could not say actually occurred. Although it is legally possible to pursue an obstruction case without an underlying crime, a critical element of obstruction - knowledge of guilt - disappeared the moment Mueller's report was released.

Of course, TV talking heads are still arguing over obstruction. But with the report's release, the investigation moved from the legal realm to the political realm. And in the political realm, the president has a simple and effective case to make to the 99.6% of Americans who are not lawyers: They say I obstructed an investigation into something that didn't happen? And they want to impeach me for that?

The ground has shifted in the month since the report became public. Before the release, many Democrats adopted a "wait for Mueller" stance, basing their anti-Trump strategy on the hope that Mueller would find the much-anticipated conspiracy.


Then Mueller did not deliver. And not only that, Mueller's report stretched to 448 pages, with long stretches of minutia and arcane legal argument that the public would never read. Democrats searched for a way to convince Americans that the president was still guilty of something serious.

They devised a plan to turn the Mueller report into a TV show, accessible to millions of viewers who have not read even a page of the report itself. They would call key witnesses to give dramatic testimony in televised hearings that would build support for possible impeachment.

At the same time, they would insist that Attorney General William Barr, who has allowed top lawmakers to see the full Mueller report with the exception of a small amount of grand jury material, was hiding something, and that the hidden material might reveal presidential wrongdoing.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-mueller-changed-everything

#6536216 at 2019-05-19 16:34:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8358: Moves and Countermoves. Never Stop Learning Never Stop Adapting Edition

'Bull' Durham: New Russiagate prober has been haunting the FBI for months

John Durham, the prosecutor tapped by Attorney General William Barr to investigate how Trump-Russia allegations emerged and spread within federal law enforcement, has already been looking into whether the FBI's former top lawyer, James Baker, illegally leaked to reporters.

In fact, the U.S. attorney from Connecticut appears to have begun that work more than seven months ago, to judge from an underreported transcript of an October congressional interview with Baker. The Baker interview, at which Durham was not present, suggests that the prosecutor nevertheless has some people very worried.

"So did you talk to Mr. Corn about anything that the FBI was working on," Jordan asked, "specifically the now infamous Steele dossier?"
Suddenly, Baker's lawyer, Dan Levin, jumped in: "One second," he said before he and his client had a conversation off the record.

When the microphones were back on, Levin declared he would "not let [Baker] answer these questions right now. You may or may not know, he's been the subject of a leak investigation which is still - a criminal leak investigation that's still active at the Justice Department." And so Levin concluded, "I'm sorry. I'm cutting off any discussion about conversations with reporters."

North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows wanted to make clear what Baker's lawyer was claiming: "You're saying he's under criminal investigation? That's why you're not letting him answer?"

"Yes."

https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/05/18/bull-durham-new-russiagate-prober-has-been-haunting-the-fbi-for-months/

#6535771 at 2019-05-19 15:23:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8357: Morning Bread is Comfy Bread Edition

Rep. Doug Collins says William Barr takes his job seriously.

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6038574642001/

#6535632 at 2019-05-19 15:01:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8357: Morning Bread is Comfy Bread Edition

Devin Nunes 'likely' sending obstruction criminal referral over Steele-State Department meeting

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said on Sunday that he may send another criminal referral to the Justice Department. During an interview on Fox News, Nunes said notes about a meeting between Trump dossier author Christopher Steele and a State Department official were withheld from the House Intelligence Committee during its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that wrapped up last year.

"It's likely now, as we do our investigation as to why we didn't get this information that we've just been discussing from the State Department two years ago when we should have received it, there could be another referral coming on obstruction a congressional investigation," he said. Newly released notes from an Oct. 11, 2016, meeting between Steele and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec cast doubt on the reliability of his dossier and called into question the information provided to the court in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act application that was submitted later that month against onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The notes, which Kavalec is believed to have emailed to the FBI in mid-October, indicate that Steele knew he had been hired by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee and had been told they wanted his findings made public prior to the 2016 election on Nov. 8.

The Daily Caller reported the notes show Steele identified Russian sources, including former Russian foreign intelligence director Vyacheslav Trubnikov and Vladislav Surkov, an aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nunes said Clinton's campaign and the DNC "plainly colluded" with the Russians to receive and disseminate false information about Trump.

Last month, Nunes notified the Justice Department of "several potential violations of the law" in eight criminal referrals as part of an investigation into origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The notes from the Steele-Kavalec meeting came out after special counsel Robert Mueller found no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. The House Intelligence Committee found no Trump-Russia collusion in its assessment. Attorney General William Barr has tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham from Connecticut with reviewing the origins of the federal Russia investigation.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-likely-sending-obstruction-criminal-referral-over-steele-state-department-meeting

#6535559 at 2019-05-19 14:51:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8357: Morning Bread is Comfy Bread Edition

'Trump calls Republican Justin Amash 'a loser' for urging impeachment'

President Trump lashed out at Rep. Justin Amash on Sunday, calling the Michigan Republican a "loser" who is playing into the hands of Democrats by calling for the president's impeachment. Amash is the first Republican in Congress to back impeachment efforts, saying Saturday that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report showed Trump had committed impeachable offenses. Trump responded by calling Amash a "lightweight" for his libertarian views that have often put him at odds with his Republican colleagues.

"If he actually read the biased Mueller Report, 'composed' by 18 Angry Dems who hated Trump, he would see that it was nevertheless strong on NO COLLUSION and, ultimately, NO OBSTRUCTION," Trump tweeted. "Anyway, how do you Obstruct when there is no crime and, in fact, the crimes were committed by the other side? Justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents hands!"

Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election concluded there was no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign's contacts with Russians. Mueller detailed 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice but did not make a determination as to whether Trump obstructed. Attorney General William Barr made that determination instead, defending the president's actions as made by someone frustrated and angry by an investigation he saw as politically motivated. "Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment," Amash said Saturday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-calls-republican-amash-a-loser-for-urging-impeachment

#6534858 at 2019-05-19 11:31:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8356: Night Bread Will Be Fun They Said

https://nypost.com/2019/05/19/michigan-congressman-first-republican-to-call-for-trumps-impeachment

A Republican Congressman on Saturday became the first in his party to publicly call for the impeachment of President Trump.

Justin Amash, of Michigan, tweeted Saturday that impeachment "should be undertaken only in extraordinary circumstances," but that Trump has committed "impeachable conduct."

He also said Attorney General William Barr intentionally misled the public about the report of special counsel Robert Mueller.

Amash tweeted that the report established "multiple examples" of Trump obstructing justice.

Amash told CNN he is considering a third party run for president as a Libertarian.

#6534652 at 2019-05-19 09:30:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8356: Night Bread Will Be Fun They Said

Obama's Top FBI Lawyer Distances Himself From Steele Dossier As DOJ Investigation Looms

James Baker - the Obama FBI's top attorney (general counsel) said on Friday that he was skeptical about the Steele dossier, and "concerned" about its veracity when the agency received it prior to the 2016 US election, according to the Daily Caller's Chuck Ross.

"It was more information that we viewed, that I viewed, skeptically from the outset, and I was concerned about it and had a jaundiced eye, or looked at it with a jaundiced eye right from the outset," Baker told MSNBC's Chuck Todd, adding "Steele was and had been a source that we thought was reliable. He's reporting all this information. It looks alarming. We took it seriously, but we tried to vet it."

The dossier - a collection of memos compiled by an ex-British spy funded by Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and the DNC - was used by the FBI to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to spy on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. Steele alleged that Page provided the Trump campaign a Kremlin backchannel during the election.

Baker also told Todd that he thinks the FISA warrants against Page would have been granted without the dossier, and took a pregnant pause when asked if the dossier was used to obtain FISA warrants on other people - saying "I don't think I should comment on that, I'm not sure what else the government has confirmed," and adding "I don't want to confirm or deny anything about other potential FISA applications."

Meanwhile, Obama's former intel chiefs are at odds over who exactly pushed the dossier.

According to Fox News, an email chain exists which indicates that Comey told bureau subordinates that Brennan insisted on the dossier's inclusion in the intelligence community assessment (ICA) on Russian interference. Also interesting is that the dossier was referred to as "crown material" in the emails - a possible reference to the fact that Steele is a former British spy.

In a statement to Fox, however, a former CIA official "put the blame squarely on Comey."

Comey, meanwhile, has attacked Attorney General William Barr for investigating him, tweeting on Friday "The AG should stop sliming his own Department. If there are bad facts, show us, or search for them professionally and then tell us what you found."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-18/obamas-top-fbi-lawyer-distances-himself-steele-report-amid-scramble-place-blame

#6534577 at 2019-05-19 08:54:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8356: Night Bread Will Be Fun They Said

Sharing, just for the keks.

PIERS MORGAN: The next book America's self-appointed 'superhero' James Comey writes may be his prison diaries, from a cell shared with his fellow Trump-hating FBI villains

James Comey's had a very lucrative year since he was fired by President Trump.

He's sold several million books, made myriad highly paid speeches, and appeared on all the big talk shows.

In doing so, he's become household name.

Comey's now a multi-millionaire celebrity living the American dream.

He even has his own Oprah-style one-name Twitter account: @Comey.

And he's achieved this newfound fame by constantly attacking his old boss, acting in the process like a brazen, politically motivated opponent.

There's just one problem I have with all this: Comey was Director of the FBI, supposedly a top-secret intelligence agency.

His job was to KEEP secrets, not to spill them to anyone with a large check.

And what the hell does Comey have to boast about anyway?

This is the guy who screwed almost everything up while holding one of the most prestigious and important jobs in federal government.

So much so that he is universally loathed and distrusted on both sides of the political aisle.

Yet here he is, strutting around like he's a Marvel superhero sent to save America from the bad guys, whilst conveniently overlooking the increasingly likely fact that he himself is one of the very worst of those bad guys.

The breath-taking irony of Comey's self-promoting new angelic persona is not lost on former colleagues.

Yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein finally went public on his real thoughts about Comey who recently sneered that Rosenstein's soul had been 'eaten' by Trump.

'The former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit,' Rosenstein retorted, in an address to the annual Greater Baltimore Committee Dinner, 'selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. I kid you not. That is disappointing.'

As zingers go, this ice-cold back-slicing riposte was right up there with being mauled by a Polar Bear in the Arctic.

Rosenstein also emphasised his own comparative neutrality.

'People spend a lot of time debating whose side I was on, based on who seemed to benefit most from any individual decision,' he said. 'But trying to infer partisan affiliation from law enforcement decisions is what you might call a category error. It uses the wrong frame of reference.'

Exactly.

Rosenstein's legal assessment of Comey is that he deserved to be fired by Trump because of his inept handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, and especially the public way in which he announced both the results of the investigation and the reopening of it just 10 days before the 2016 election.

In a memo used by Trump to justify Comey's firing, Rosenstein said the director was 'wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority' by holding the press conference where he announced the initial closure of the investigation, and made comments to the press that were 'inappropriate, derogatory and unfair'.

In a damning conclusion, he said it was 'a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.'

But it is Comey's treatment of Donald Trump that may lead to far more serious consequences for him and some of his former FBI team.

Today it emerged that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney, John Durham in Conneticut, to examine the origins of the Russia collusion investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was 'lawful and appropriate'.

Remainder here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7028511/The-book-Comey-writes-prison-diaries-fellow-Trump-hating-FBI-villains.html

#6534556 at 2019-05-19 08:48:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8355: The May Blue Moon of Freedom Edition

Was waiting to drop this in next bread but it could take a long time.

Anyway, thought I'd share this just for the KEKS.

PIERS MORGAN: The next book America's self-appointed 'superhero' James Comey writes may be his prison diaries, from a cell shared with his fellow Trump-hating FBI villains

James Comey's had a very lucrative year since he was fired by President Trump.

He's sold several million books, made myriad highly paid speeches, and appeared on all the big talk shows.

In doing so, he's become household name.

Comey's now a multi-millionaire celebrity living the American dream.

He even has his own Oprah-style one-name Twitter account: @Comey.

And he's achieved this newfound fame by constantly attacking his old boss, acting in the process like a brazen, politically motivated opponent.

There's just one problem I have with all this: Comey was Director of the FBI, supposedly a top-secret intelligence agency.

His job was to KEEP secrets, not to spill them to anyone with a large check.

And what the hell does Comey have to boast about anyway?

This is the guy who screwed almost everything up while holding one of the most prestigious and important jobs in federal government.

So much so that he is universally loathed and distrusted on both sides of the political aisle.

Yet here he is, strutting around like he's a Marvel superhero sent to save America from the bad guys, whilst conveniently overlooking the increasingly likely fact that he himself is one of the very worst of those bad guys.

The breath-taking irony of Comey's self-promoting new angelic persona is not lost on former colleagues.

Yesterday, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein finally went public on his real thoughts about Comey who recently sneered that Rosenstein's soul had been 'eaten' by Trump.

'The former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit,' Rosenstein retorted, in an address to the annual Greater Baltimore Committee Dinner, 'selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. I kid you not. That is disappointing.'

As zingers go, this ice-cold back-slicing riposte was right up there with being mauled by a Polar Bear in the Arctic.

Rosenstein also emphasised his own comparative neutrality.

'People spend a lot of time debating whose side I was on, based on who seemed to benefit most from any individual decision,' he said. 'But trying to infer partisan affiliation from law enforcement decisions is what you might call a category error. It uses the wrong frame of reference.'

Exactly.

Rosenstein's legal assessment of Comey is that he deserved to be fired by Trump because of his inept handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, and especially the public way in which he announced both the results of the investigation and the reopening of it just 10 days before the 2016 election.

In a memo used by Trump to justify Comey's firing, Rosenstein said the director was 'wrong to usurp the Attorney General's authority' by holding the press conference where he announced the initial closure of the investigation, and made comments to the press that were 'inappropriate, derogatory and unfair'.

In a damning conclusion, he said it was 'a textbook example of what federal prosecutors and agents are taught not to do.'

But it is Comey's treatment of Donald Trump that may lead to far more serious consequences for him and some of his former FBI team.

Today it emerged that Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney, John Durham in Conneticut, to examine the origins of the Russia collusion investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was 'lawful and appropriate'.

Remainder here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7028511/The-book-Comey-writes-prison-diaries-fellow-Trump-hating-FBI-villains.html

#6533713 at 2019-05-19 04:44:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8355: The May Blue Moon of Freedom Edition

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>>6477078 BO removed a BV
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Notables
are not endorsements

#8354 baker change
>>6533610 Explanation for Hussein's codename 'Renegade' (Vanity Fair)
>>6533393 Austrian Government on verge of collapse over bribery scandal
>>6533392 , >>6533511 Amash likes his pizza and hotdogs
>>6533352 From 2010: Profile of 3rd Congressional District candidate Justin Amash
>>6533333 Quint get: How teens get trapped in human trafficking
>>6533284 , >>6533614 Amash is co-owner of a Chinese industrial tools company (TBC)
>>6533273 Columbine shooting survivor Austin Eubanks found dead in home
>>6533247 Horse 'Covfefe' wins in the Miss Preakness
>>6533207 , >>6533225 Huber tweets re former US intelligence pandering to the Chinese
>>6533204 , >>6533465, >>6533204 Dig on Tristaca McCray & Nerds Rule Inc
>>6533201 New DJT on abortion and the right to life
>>6533184 , >>6533655 The best summary of the Aussie election: Outsiders steal election victory!
>>6533110 Salad Anon's experiment exposes Finklefag's spamming methods for hitting top of every bread
>>6533389 New website for notable posts in the pipeline
>>6533087 Barr announces creation of the State and Local Law Enforcement Coordination Section
>>6533086 , >>6533469, >>6533549, >>6533666 Kek wills it: 23:23:23 gets: 'Pain'
>>6533070 Hussein caught up in billion dollar fraud
>>6533019 House passes bill forcing schools to let male athletes compete in girls' sports
>>6533706 #8354

#8353 baker change
>>6532255 DHS Chief Threatened To Quit Over Stephen Miller's Attempt At Another Staff Shakeup
>>6532269 Pediatrician to Laura Ingraham: Tranny Rx for children not scientitific; kids are being harmed
>>6532270, >>6532349 Trump & Bar trashed by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich)
>>6532360, >>6532306, >>6532499, >>6532385, Amash DIGG (Amash import biz & China, Long Beach Port, Sen. Wyden from D-Oregon)
>>6532642, >>6532869 Amash DIGG, con't; Amash is member of Freedom Caucus
>>6532282 Hamas thanks UK Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn for his support
>>6532344, >>6532501 Boatfag/planefag reports
>>6532402 Saudi Arabia says does not want war but ready to respond with 'all strength'
>>6532453 Wash Examiner: China luring US intel vets to leak gov't secrets
>>6532484 Salvini Pledges to 'Free Europe from Illegal Occupation Organised by Brussels' at Populist Rally
>>6532530 'Trump: Biden's son should face probe over China business deal'
>>6532561, >>6532668 US Military reports
>>6532582 Students, Faculty Walk Out in Protest of Mike Pence Commencement Address
>>6532683 SAT to Give 'Adversity Score' which is hidden from students; David Coleman architect of Common Core is SAT CEO
>>6532311, >>6532330, >>6532436, >>6532477, >>6532762 Anons discuss effed up Cali land use policy & Oroville Dam
>>6532717 Five foreign tourists killed in plane crash in Honduras
>>6532729 Judge J & Joe di Genova: Obama Knew James Comey Was Going to Blackmail the Trump (vid; 4:20min)
>>6532808 Judge J & Lara Trump on the DS eating each other (vid)
>>6532836 Second plane with migrants from Texas lands in San Diego
>>6532731 Anon on PB notable (Ukraine & Natalie Ann Jaresko)
>>6532942 #8353

#8352
>>6532041 Toledo pedo Pastors go to prison
>>6531970 20,000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
>>6531901 Libya Government Gets Arms Shipment as Tripoli Offensive Stalls
>>6531870 Chris Wallace calls out AG Barr for "protecting" Trump and "advocating his point of view"
>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440, >>6531923, >>6532031, >>6532076, >>6532096 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump, with some digs
>>6532156 #8352

Previously Collected Notables
>>6530610 #8350, >>6531390 #8351
>>6528144 #8347, >>6528956 #8348, >>6529842 #8349
>>6525782 #8344, >>6526578 #8345, >>6527332 #8346
>>6523540 #8341, >>6524479 #8342, >>6525019 #8343

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6533224 at 2019-05-19 03:41:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8354: What's up with Amash? Edition

Republican Justin Amash Claims Donald Trump Engaged in 'Impeachable Conduct,' Rashida Tlaib Praise

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) became the first Republican congressman to accuse President Donald Trump of engaging in "impeachable conduct," citing findings laid out in special counsel Robert Mueller's report on now-debunked collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Often a lone Republican voice in Congress, Amash sent a series of tweets Saturday faulting both President Trump and Attorney General William Barr over Mueller's report. Mueller wrapped the investigation and submitted his report to Barr in late March. Barr then released a summary of Mueller's "principal conclusions" and released a redacted version of the report in April. In a summary to Congress, Barr said Team Mueller concluded that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia. Further, the attorney general stated Mueller did not reach a conclusion on whether President Trump obstructed justice, stating that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that the president had not done so.

Amash said he reached four conclusions after carefully reading the redacted version of Mueller's report, including that "President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct." "Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meets the threshold for impeachment," the congressman tweeted. He said the report "identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence." However, Amash stopped short of calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, which many Democrats have been agitating for.

President Trump and Republican lawmakers generally view the matter as "case closed," as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, (R-KY) recently declared on the floor of the Senate. The president has repeatedly referred to the investigation as a witch hunt" and has declared "total exoneration" from any wrongdoing.

On the other hand, Democrats who control the House are locked in a bitter standoff with the White House as it ignores lawmakers' requests for the more complete version of Mueller's report, the underlying evidence, and witness testimony. Some Democrats want the House to open impeachment hearings, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has resisted, saying impeachment must be bipartisan. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, (D-MI), a freshman who opened her term by profanely calling for President Trump to be impeached, applauded Amash. "You are putting country first, and that is to be commended," Tlaib tweeted. Tlaib is seeking support for a resolution she's circulating calling on the House to start impeachment proceedings.

In contrast, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel criticized Amash's remarks, saying that it's "sad to see Congressman Amash parroting the Democrats' talking points on Russia." "The only people still fixated on the Russia collusion hoax are political foes of President Trump hoping to defeat him in 2020 by any desperate means possible," added McDaniel. "Voters in Amash's district strongly support this President, and would rather their Congressman work to support the President's policies that have brought jobs, increased wages and made life better for Americans."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/18/justin-amash-claims-donald-trump-engaged-in-impeachable-conduct/

#6532952 at 2019-05-19 03:08:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8354: What's up with Amash? Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6477078 BO removed a BV
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Notables
are not endorsements

#8353 baker change
>>6532255 DHS Chief Threatened To Quit Over Stephen Miller's Attempt At Another Staff Shakeup
>>6532269 Pediatrician to Laura Ingraham: Tranny Rx for children not scientitific; kids are being harmed
>>6532270, >>6532349 Trump & Bar trashed by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich)
>>6532360, >>6532306, >>6532499, >>6532385, Amash DIGG (Amash import biz & China, Long Beach Port, Sen. Wyden from D-Oregon)
>>6532642, >>6532869 Amash DIGG, con't; Amash is member of Freedom Caucus
>>6532282 Hamas thanks UK Labour Party's Jeremy Corbyn for his support
>>6532344, >>6532501 Boatfag/planefag reports
>>6532402 Saudi Arabia says does not want war but ready to respond with 'all strength'
>>6532453 Wash Examiner: China luring US intel vets to leak gov't secrets
>>6532484 Salvini Pledges to 'Free Europe from Illegal Occupation Organised by Brussels' at Populist Rally
>>6532530 'Trump: Biden's son should face probe over China business deal'
>>6532561, >>6532668 US Military reports
>>6532582 Students, Faculty Walk Out in Protest of Mike Pence Commencement Address
>>6532683 SAT to Give 'Adversity Score' which is hidden from students; David Coleman architect of Common Core is SAT CEO
>>6532311, >>6532330, >>6532436, >>6532477, >>6532762 Anons discuss effed up Cali land use policy & Oroville Dam
>>6532717 Five foreign tourists killed in plane crash in Honduras
>>6532729 Judge J & Joe di Genova: Obama Knew James Comey Was Going to Blackmail the Trump (vid; 4:20min)
>>6532808 Judge J & Lara Trump on the DS eating each other (vid)
>>6532836 Second plane with migrants from Texas lands in San Diego
>>6532731 Anon on PB notable (Ukraine & Natalie Ann Jaresko)
>>6532942 #8353

#8352
>>6532041 Toledo pedo Pastors go to prison
>>6531970 20,000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
>>6531901 Libya Government Gets Arms Shipment as Tripoli Offensive Stalls
>>6531870 Chris Wallace calls out AG Barr for "protecting" Trump and "advocating his point of view"
>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440, >>6531923, >>6532031, >>6532076, >>6532096 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump, with some digs
>>6532156 #8352

Previously Collected Notables
>>6530610 #8350, >>6531390 #8351
>>6528144 #8347, >>6528956 #8348, >>6529842 #8349
>>6525782 #8344, >>6526578 #8345, >>6527332 #8346
>>6523540 #8341, >>6524479 #8342, >>6525019 #8343
>>6521774 #8339, >>6521002 #8338, >>6522561 #8340
>>6518653 #8335, >>6519433 #8336, >>6520207 #8337

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6532764 at 2019-05-19 02:38:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8353: FULL CONTROL Edition

John Cusack Met with Democrats in DC and Demanded Trump 'Be Removed from Office'

Far-left actor John Cusack met with Democrats in Washington, D.C. this week and call for President Donald Trump to be "removed from office." The 2012 actor attended Thursday's "marathon public marathoning" of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report in the House Rules Committee meeting room.

John Cusack responded to a headline from the Hill noting his calls for the impeachment of Donald Trump. "I didn't "call for impeachment" actually as we've been doing that for years now - I came to discuss what they are doing to protect us from the assault on democracy from trump crime mob," the actor said. Cusack aligned himself with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and his neo-Marxist paradigm of politics as a power struggle between various arbitrarily defined demographic groups. The 52-year-old actor retweets messages invoking "white capitalist patriarchy," "progressive" politics, and characterizing those opposing abortion as "fascists."

During the day, Cusack derided Attorney General William Barr as a "criminal" for adhering to federal law by redacting restricted grand jury information pertaining to Mueller's aforementioned report. Cusack was reported as wearing a jacket with the message "Good Night White Pride" during his visit to the Capitol. "Trump needs to be removed from office," declared Cusack.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/17/john-cusack-met-with-democrats-in-dc-and-demanded-trump-be-removed-from-office/

#6532270 at 2019-05-19 01:33:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8353: FULL CONTROL Edition

WHAT A CRICK OF BS!

GOP lawmaker: Trump has engaged in multiple actions that 'meet the threshold for impeachment'
A Michigan Republican and member of the House Freedom Caucus accused President Trump of "impeachable conduct" in a break with his party.

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) tweeted Saturday that the president's actions to potentially obstruct the now-shuttered special counsel investigation warrant impeachment by the House. He also accused Attorney General William Barr of "deliberately misrepresenting" Robert Mueller's report of the investigation's findings.

"Here are my principal conclusions: 1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report. 2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct. 3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances. 4. Few members of Congress have read the report," Amash wrote Saturday afternoon.

"Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment," the Michigan Republican continued. "Mueller's report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/444416-gop-lawmaker-trump-has-engaged-in-multiple-actions-that-meet-threshold-for

#6532175 at 2019-05-19 01:24:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8353: FULL CONTROL Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6477078 BO removed a BV
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Notables
are not endorsements
#8352
>>6532041 Toledo pedo Pastors go to prison
>>6531970 20,000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
>>6531901 Libya Government Gets Arms Shipment as Tripoli Offensive Stalls
>>6531870 Chris Wallace calls out AG Barr for "protecting" Trump and "advocating his point of view"
>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440, >>6531923, >>6532031, >>6532076, >>6532096 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump, with some digs
>>6532156 #8352

#8351
>>6531381 Ukrainian who meddled against Trump in 2016 is now under Russia-corruption cloud (Hill)
>>6531372, >>6531383 From Apr 2018: Len Boyle, new assistant to Durham. Played key role in high-profile prosecution
>>6531259, >>6530667, >>6531295 Bongino/DJT rt, Q#2789: "…not only scare you, but intensify your resolve…"
>>6531233, >>6530733, >>6530960, >>6531294, >>6531215 Eurovision degeneracy/symbolism.
>>6531189, >>6531131, >>6531258 DJT "Courts & Dems…" C comes before D.
>>6531128 DJT: [D's] are trying to FORCE migrants into our Country! OUR COUNTRY IS FULL…
>>6531001 China unveils new armoured truck which launches swarms of drones to attack enemies
>>6530973 The Spring Offensive (Summary/timeline of Spygate and Deep State)
>>6530878 DJT Retweets: Illegals; MAGA; TREASON!; 33,000 Emails
>>6530774 Prosecutors want to meet victims of sex offender with New Mexico ties (santafenewmexican)
>>6530767 Grabby, Creepy Uncle Joe video clip from rally
>>6530750, >>6530855, >>6530869 Two Good Old Boys have a few words about CNN and the deep state
>>6530720 Bongino: "[Traitors] will wind up in handcuffs"; BHO State Dept admission of guilt from '16
>>6530710 Trudeau Accused of Trying to Buy Election Coverage with New Bill (GatewayPundit)
>>6530696 Davos Elitist Celebrates "Discussions" Being "Quickly Erased From Social Networks" (Summit)
>>6530691 DJT: Tom Fitton retweets
>>6530683 David Horowitz: "Alice in Wonderland stuff from the sick Post."
>>6530667 DJT (rt @dbongino): Thank you Dan!
>>6531390 #8351

Previously Collected Notables
>>6530610 #8350,
>>6528144 #8347, >>6528956 #8348, >>6529842 #8349
>>6525782 #8344, >>6526578 #8345, >>6527332 #8346
>>6523540 #8341, >>6524479 #8342, >>6525019 #8343
>>6521774 #8339, >>6521002 #8338, >>6522561 #8340
>>6518653 #8335, >>6519433 #8336, >>6520207 #8337

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6532156 at 2019-05-19 01:21:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

Notables
#8352

>>6532041 Toledo pedo Pastors go to prison
>>6531970 20,000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
>>6531901 Libya Government Gets Arms Shipment as Tripoli Offensive Stalls
>>6531870 Chris Wallace calls out AG Barr for "protecting" Trump and "advocating his point of view"
>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440, >>6531923, >>6532031, >>6532076, >>6532096 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump, with some digs

baking very soon

#6532087 at 2019-05-19 01:11:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

Notables
#8352

>>6532041 Toledo pedo Pastors do to prison
>>6531970 20,000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
>>6531901 Libya Government Gets Arms Shipment as Tripoli Offensive Stalls
>>6531870 Chris Wallace calls out AG Barr for "protecting" Trump and "advocating his point of view"
>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440, >>6531923, >>6532031, >>6532076 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump, with some digs

last call

#6532030 at 2019-05-19 01:04:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

Notables
#8352

>>6531970 20,000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
>>6531901 Libya Government Gets Arms Shipment as Tripoli Offensive Stalls
>>6531870 Chris Wallace calls out AG Barr for "protecting" Trump and "advocating his point of view"
>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440, >>6531923 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump

let me know if something was missed

#6531842 at 2019-05-19 00:36:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

Midbread Notables
#8352

>>6531763 United Nations Passes Pro-Abortion Resolution for 'Sexual and Reproductive Health'
>>6531713, >>6531740 Something to dig on? "Why did Trump point out six times that the Dems gave Puerto Rico 91 billion disaster relief?"
>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump

#6531680 at 2019-05-19 00:11:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

Early Notables
#8352

>>6531611 Tents Erected Outside Border Patrol Stations to Hold Overflow Migrants
>>6531562 US accidentally kills 17 Afghan police after airstrike 'miscommunication'
>>6531528 AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."
>>6531474 Israel Attacks Syria Two Consecutive Nights While Hosting Eurovision Finals
>>6531440 GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump

call out anything if it was missed

#6531528 at 2019-05-18 23:42:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

>>6531488

BOOM

AG William Barr: "Yeah, The Trump-Russia Investigation Was A Witch Hunt."

"It's disappointing to see a number of Democrats in Congress and the media continue to cling to the hoax that was Trump-Russia collusion while simultaneously ignoring the REAL crime that took place - namely the attempted coup against a duly elected president. Ah, but HOW REFRESHING to have an Attorney General who is so willing to tell it like it is and a president who, despite 24/7 attacks against him based on layers of lies after lies, continues to fight for the working men and women of America.
Justice is on the march and President Trump and William Barr are leading the way..."

Via Townhall:
...When asked about the president's use of the term "witch hunt," Barr said he was comfortable with it.
"Because at the time he was saying he was innocent and that he was being falsely accused. And if you're falsely accused, you would think that something was a witch hunt. I have to say when you step back and look at this, two-and-a-half years of his administration - three years of the Trump campaign and first part of his administration - he has been hammered for something - for allegedly conspiring with the Russians. We now know that was simply false," Barr said.
"I use what words I use and it was an investigation. But I think if I had been falsely accused, I would be comfortable saying it was a witch hunt."
Barr also called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's charge he lied under oath to Congress and committed a crime 'laughable.'
"I think it's a laughable charge and I think it's largely being made to try to discredit me partly because they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election. But obviously, you can look at the face of my testimony and see on its face there is nothing inaccurate about it," Barr said.
He said that he was ready to be the new target for Democrats. "I thought I was in a position where this kind of criticism really wouldn't bother me very much."
Barr called the contempt charge recommendation passed by the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee "part of the circus."

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/ag-William-Barr-yeah-the-trump-russia-investigation-was-a-witch-hunt/#pQDGpQgSo09iKdtd.99

https://tenor.com/view/agBarr-Barr-water-William-Barr-shrug-gif-13910125

#6531440 at 2019-05-18 23:31:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8352: [C]ourts & [D]ems in Congress Edition

GOP Rep. Justin Amash Calls for Impeachment of President Trump

Libertarian Republican Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan called for the impeachment of President Trump on Saturday, becoming the first GOP congressman or senator to do so. Amash also accused Attorney General William Barr of misleading the public about the findings of the Mueller report.

Last month Amash expressed his openness to running against President Trump in 2020 as the Libertarian Party candidate, Roll Call reported.

Amash made his case in a Twitter thread which is presented below without commentary.

Here are my principal conclusions:
1. Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented Mueller's report.
2. President Trump has engaged in impeachable conduct.
3. Partisanship has eroded our system of checks and balances.
4. Few members of Congress have read the report.

I offer these conclusions only after having read Mueller's redacted report carefully and completely, having read or watched pertinent statements and testimony, and having discussed this matter with my staff, who thoroughly reviewed materials and provided me with further analysis.

In comparing Barr's principal conclusions, congressional testimony, and other statements to Mueller's report, it is clear that Barr intended to mislead the public about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's analysis and findings.

Barr's misrepresentations are significant but often subtle, frequently taking the form of sleight-of-hand qualifications or logical fallacies, which he hopes people will not notice.

Under our Constitution, the president "shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors." While "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" is not defined, the context implies conduct that violates the public trust.

Contrary to Barr's portrayal, Mueller's report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/gop-rep-justin-amash-calls-for-impeachment-of-president-trump/

#6530792 at 2019-05-18 21:41:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8351: Winning In Australia Edition

I'm wondering if this was a Justice Democrat's plant in the Republican Party

Justin Amash becomes first Republican in Congress to call for Trump's impeachment
by Colin Wilhelm
| May 18, 2019 05:24 PM
Print this article
Rep. Justin Amash said that President Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses during the course of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

The Michigan Republican also accused Attorney General William Barr of misleading the public as to Mueller's findings from his investigation into Russian interference in the 2017 presidential election.

In a series of tweets posted Saturday, Amash, who has a reputation as an iconoclast within the Republican conference in the House of Representatives, said that Trump's actions reached the threshold for impeachment. The Michigan Republican said he reached his conclusions about Trump and Barr after "carefully and completely" reading the public version of Mueller's report and consulting with staff.


https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/justin-amash-becomes-first-republican-in-congress-to-call-for-trumps-impeachment

#6528728 at 2019-05-18 16:14:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8348: Fear the Storm Edition

https://www.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-toobin-sean-hannity-fox-news-William-Barr-071520546.html

#6524550 at 2019-05-17 23:37:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8343: Global Heating for Traitors Edition

I get it now.

Trump does this thing where he names actors into positions of power. Which in turn forces the left to EXPEND ammo on that said actor, not knowing they are most certainly not Trumps final choice. They are merely shadows casted on the wall. For example, what he did with the AG job. Trump first names Jeff Sessions, the left thinking this is his final choice. EXPEND ammo. Then he names Whittaker. EXPEND more ammo (what little left they have) and then his final choice comes into play. The one person he wanted for the job all along. Attorney William Barr. Now the left has NOTHING to expend on him. They used all their bullets on Sessions and Whittaker.

#6524188 at 2019-05-17 22:49:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8343: Global Heating for Traitors Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6477078 BO removed a BV
>>6446595 BO on baker checks
>>6385109 Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)
>>6364968 Captchas for every post now

Notables
are not endorsements

@8342
>>6524131 ACLJ will get Mills Immunity Omitted Terms
>>6524081 Muslim Community Patrol fake-police fuckery
>>6524078 Graphic/dig on NXIVM connection to AZ Mafia
>>6523962 Playback Facts re: Never Said "No Crisis"
>>6523972 ZeroH: Non-Citizens 42% of Federal Prisons
>>6523951 Mnuchin demurs again Friday on Trump Taxes
>>6523935 Charlie Kirk: Mills, GenZ Support Trump despite MSM
>>6523861 From Dark to Light... @USNavy sailors launch an F/A-18E
>>6523844 Tony Robbins #MeToo'd
>>6523746 Cusack Lobbying Sack Trump; Barr Criminal
>>6523721 Poll-tested Narrative Shift? Global Heating?
>>6523691 Eight highlights from Trump's Immigration Speech
>>6523679, >>6523688 Weiner's bone-book numbers leaked
>>6523765 Facebook run at Candance Ownes: Now Restored
>>6523738, >>6523859 Report of 2016 Hunter Biden Rental with Coke Pipe
>>6523642 Friday Afternoon Cocktail of Obama Tears w/Twist of Whine always refreshing
>>6523632 Companies warn Trump on Trade War/Consumer Hit [yawn … kek]
>>6523628 IPO Market getting toppy, overvalued
>>6523594 OANN: California's voting system allows voters to cast two ballots
>>6523525 NXIVM Trial end of week update from NYPost
>>6523444 Iran Mobile Chem Labs? Iraq? skeptical anons are skeptical
>>6523432,>>6523568 Palm Beach MS-13 Foreshadows Dumping Illegals Chaos
>>6524174 #8342


@8341
>>6522614 (HOT!) GEN FLYNN IS ON STAGE - TRUMP CLAIMS NO ONE TOLD HIM TO NOT HIRE FLYNN
>>6522781 (HOT!) "Treason!" - Barr Finds "Government Power Was Used To Spy On American Citizens
>>6522714 , >>6522740 (HOT!) Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent [Mossad] Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks
>>6522853 , >>6522859 , >>6522869 , >>6522883 (HOT!) Syria: Air Defenses Shoot Down Luminous Projectiles Coming From Israel
>>6522630 >>6522968 MOAR Barr:Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'
>>6522639 HILLARY TWAT COMMS: FF Friday ???
>>6522640 Iran not seeking escalation in region
>>6523143 Former CIA Officer Sentenced To Prison For Espionage
>>6522792 , >>6522827 Trump Comms in tweet? "Catch & Telease loophole" (T instead of R)
>>6522785 Texas CBP Seizes Heroin Worth $1 Million
>>6522864 Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract
>>6522886 Trump Slams MSM: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'
>>6523199 Netanyahu's Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism
>>6522795 Abortion Records Evidence Raniere(NXIVM) Had Sex With Camilia When She Was 13
>>6522600 8% of Chicago's City Council Are Currently Out On Bond
>>6522662 Missouri House Passes Strict Anti-Abortion Bill
>>6522680 , >>6522766 House Approves Equality Act Expansion To Include Sex. Orientation & Gender Identity
>>6522764 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says "regulations" are the biggest Barrier to 5G
>>6522879 NEW DJT on today's Nat. Assoc. of REALTORS address
>>6522816 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523022 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in "gun-free zones"
>>6522739 Reminder: Boeing Reportedly Knew Of The Software Error on 737 for a Year Before Telling Airlines & Regulators
>>6522816, >>6523007 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523221 Report: Facebook Has Struggled to Hire Talent Following Data Scandals
>>6523540 #8341


Previously Collected Notables
>>6521774 #8339, >>6521002 #8338, >>6522561 #8340
>>6518653 #8335, >>6519433 #8336, >>6520207 #8337
>>6516325 #8332, >>6517115 #8333, >>6517871 #8334
>>6513877 #8329, >>6514674 #8330, >>6515451 #8331
>>6511504 #8326, >>6512293 #8327, >>6513042 #8238

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6523746 at 2019-05-17 21:49:12 (UTC+1)
#8342: Friday BOOMS & Shill PAIN Edition

PAIN, they all feel it.

John Cusack Met with Democrats in DC and Demanded Trump 'Be Removed from Office'

…
During the day, Cusack derided Attorney General William Barr as a "criminal" for adhering to federal law by redacting restricted grand jury information pertaining to Mueller's aforementioned report.
…

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/17/john-cusack-met-with-democrats-in-dc-and-demanded-trump-be-removed-from-office/


Calling AG a criminal only bc you fucked and ate many kids and don't want public to know is prolly not exactly legal.

#6523540 at 2019-05-17 21:19:57 (UTC+1)
#8342: Friday BOOMS & Shill PAIN Edition

>>6523355

Better version with last notable fixed

BAKER

Notables Bun if you want to clean up the Notables Dough

#8341

>>6522614 (HOT!) GEN FLYNN IS ON STAGE - TRUMP CLAIMS NO ONE TOLD HIM TO NOT HIRE FLYNN
>>6522781 (HOT!) "Treason!" - Barr Finds "Government Power Was Used To Spy On American Citizens
>>6522714 , >>6522740 (HOT!) Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent [Mossad] Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks
>>6522853 , >>6522859 , >>6522869 , >>6522883 (HOT!) Syria: Air Defenses Shoot Down Luminous Projectiles Coming From Israel
>>6522630 >>6522968 MOAR Barr:Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'
>>6522639 HILLARY TWAT COMMS: FF Friday ???
>>6522640 Iran not seeking escalation in region
>>6523143 Former CIA Officer Sentenced To Prison For Espionage
>>6522792 , >>6522827 Trump Comms in tweet? "Catch & Telease loophole" (T instead of R)
>>6522785 Texas CBP Seizes Heroin Worth $1 Million
>>6522864 Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract
>>6522886 Trump Slams MSM: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'
>>6523199 Netanyahu's Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism
>>6522795 Abortion Records Evidence Raniere(NXIVM) Had Sex With Camilia When She Was 13
>>6522600 8% of Chicago's City Council Are Currently Out On Bond
>>6522662 Missouri House Passes Strict Anti-Abortion Bill
>>6522680 , >>6522766 House Approves Equality Act Expansion To Include Sex. Orientation & Gender Identity
>>6522764 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says "regulations" are the biggest Barrier to 5G
>>6522879 NEW DJT on today's Nat. Assoc. of REALTORS address
>>6522816 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523022 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in "gun-free zones"
>>6522739 Reminder: Boeing Reportedly Knew Of The Software Error on 737 for a Year Before Telling Airlines & Regulators
>>6522816, >>6523007 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523221 Report: Facebook Has Struggled to Hire Talent Following Data Scandals

#6523522 at 2019-05-17 21:17:49 (UTC+1)
#8342: Friday BOOMS & Shill PAIN Edition

>>6523355

BAKER

'''Notables Bun if you want to clean up the Notables Dough==

#8341
>>6522614 (HOT!) GEN FLYNN IS ON STAGE - TRUMP CLAIMS NO ONE TOLD HIM TO NOT HIRE FLYNN
>>6522781 (HOT!) "Treason!" - Barr Finds "Government Power Was Used To Spy On American Citizens
>>6522714 , >>6522740 (HOT!) Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent [Mossad] Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks
>>6522853 , >>6522859 , >>6522869 , >>6522883 (HOT!) Syria: Air Defenses Shoot Down Luminous Projectiles Coming From Israel
>>6522630 >>6522968 MOAR Barr:Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'
>>6522639 HILLARY TWAT COMMS: FF Friday ???
>>6522640 Iran not seeking escalation in region
>>6523143 Former CIA Officer Sentenced To Prison For Espionage
>>6522792 , >>6522827 Trump Comms in tweet? "Catch & Telease loophole" (T instead of R)
>>6522785 Texas CBP Seizes Heroin Worth $1 Million
>>6522864 Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract
>>6522886 Trump Slams MSM: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'
>>6523199 Netanyahu's Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism
>>6522795 Abortion Records Evidence Raniere(NXIVM) Had Sex With Camilia When She Was 13
>>6522600 8% of Chicago's City Council Are Currently Out On Bond
>>6522662 Missouri House Passes Strict Anti-Abortion Bill
>>6522680 , >>6522766 House Approves Equality Act Expansion To Include Sex. Orientation & Gender Identity
>>6522764 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says "regulations" are the biggest Barrier to 5G
>>6522879 NEW DJT on today's Nat. Assoc. of REALTORS address
>>6522816 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523022 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in "gun-free zones"
>>6522739 Reminder: Boeing Reportedly Knew Of The Software Error on 737 for a Year Before Telling Airlines & Regulators
>>6522816 , >>6523007 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523221Report: Facebook Has Struggled to Hire Talent Following Data Scandals

#6523345 at 2019-05-17 20:52:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8341: AG Barr In The House Edition

#8341 NOTABLES
>>6522614 (HOT!) GEN FLYNN IS ON STAGE - TRUMP CLAIMS NO ONE TOLD HIM TO NOT HIRE FLYNN
>>6522781 (HOT!) "Treason!" - Barr Finds "Government Power Was Used To Spy On American Citizens
>>6522714 , >>6522740 (HOT!) Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent [Mossad] Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks
>>6522853 , >>6522859 , >>6522869 , >>6522883 (HOT!) Syria: Air Defenses Shoot Down Luminous Projectiles Coming From Israel
>>6522630 >>6522968 MOAR Barr:Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'
>>6522639 HILLARY TWAT COMMS: FF Friday ???
>>6522640 Iran not seeking escalation in region
>>6523143 Former CIA Officer Sentenced To Prison For Espionage
>>6522792 , >>6522827 Trump Comms in tweet? "Catch & Telease loophole" (T instead of R)
>>6522785 Texas CBP Seizes Heroin Worth $1 Million
>>6522864 Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract
>>6522886 Trump Slams MSM: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'
>>6523199 Netanyahu's Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism
>>6522795 Abortion Records Evidence Raniere(NXIVM) Had Sex With Camilia When She Was 13
>>6522600 8% of Chicago's City Council Are Currently Out On Bond
>>6522662 Missouri House Passes Strict Anti-Abortion Bill
>>6522680 , >>6522766 House Approves Equality Act Expansion To Include Sex. Orientation & Gender Identity
>>6522764 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says "regulations" are the biggest Barrier to 5G
>>6522879 NEW DJT on today's Nat. Assoc. of REALTORS address
>>6522816 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523022 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in "gun-free zones"
>>6522739 Reminder: Boeing Reportedly Knew Of The Software Error on 737 for a Year Before Telling Airlines & Regulators
>>6522816 , >>6523007 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523221Report: Facebook Has Struggled to Hire Talent Following Data Scandals

#6523326 at 2019-05-17 20:50:48 (UTC+1)
#8342: Friday BOOMS & Shill PAIN Edition

Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6477078 BO removed a BV
>>6446595 BO on baker checks
>>6385109 Do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode
>>6508856 Please no JPEGs (new: conversion apps)
>>6364968 Captchas for every post now

Notables
are not endorsements

'#8341
>>6522614 (HOT!) GEN FLYNN IS ON STAGE - TRUMP CLAIMS NO ONE TOLD HIM TO NOT HIRE FLYNN
>>6522781 (HOT!) "Treason!" - Barr Finds "Government Power Was Used To Spy On American Citizens
>>6522714 , >>6522740 (HOT!) Newly Released FBI Docs Shed Light on Apparent [Mossad] Foreknowledge of 9/11 Attacks
>>6522853 , >>6522859 , >>6522869 , >>6522883 (HOT!) Syria: Air Defenses Shoot Down Luminous Projectiles Coming From Israel
>>6522630 >>6522968 MOAR Barr:Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'
>>6522639 HILLARY TWAT COMMS: FF Friday ???
>>6522640 Iran not seeking escalation in region
>>6523143 Former CIA Officer Sentenced To Prison For Espionage
>>6522792 , >>6522827 Trump Comms in tweet? "Catch & Telease loophole" (T instead of R)
>>6522785 Texas CBP Seizes Heroin Worth $1 Million
>>6522864 Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract
>>6522886 Trump Slams MSM: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'
>>6523199 Netanyahu's Acts of Provocation and Destruction Including Violence against Civilians Constitute Both a War Crime and Terrorism
>>6522795 Abortion Records Evidence Raniere(NXIVM) Had Sex With Camilia When She Was 13
>>6522600 8% of Chicago's City Council Are Currently Out On Bond
>>6522662 Missouri House Passes Strict Anti-Abortion Bill
>>6522680 , >>6522766 House Approves Equality Act Expansion To Include Sex. Orientation & Gender Identity
>>6522764 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says "regulations" are the biggest Barrier to 5G
>>6522879 NEW DJT on today's Nat. Assoc. of REALTORS address
>>6522816 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523022 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in "gun-free zones"
>>6522739 Reminder: Boeing Reportedly Knew Of The Software Error on 737 for a Year Before Telling Airlines & Regulators
>>6522816 , >>6523007 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523221Report: Facebook Has Struggled to Hire Talent Following Data Scandals


#8340
>>6521871 New DJT
>>6521895 Exclusive: Barr talks to Fox News in first on-air interview as Trump's AG
>>6521986 Email: Clapper Refused Trump Request to Say 'Pee Tape' Story Is Bogus
>>6522007 Bill Barr reveals Russia probe review to focus on Trump dossier briefing, leaking
>>6522025 Reminder: White House launches tool for reporting social media 'bias'
>>6522084 Faceberg Claims to Bust Israeli Campaign to Disrupt Elections in African, Asian and Latin American Nations
>>6522107 Chinese firms' missing $6 billion tests regulators' resolve
>>6522115 New @HillaryClinton Tweet: Torture is wrong! (kek)
>>6522175 , >>6522218 @HillaryClinton again: Endangered Species Day. (comms alert)
>>6522131 @JudicialWatch: Obama-era WH was more involved with Hillary Clinton's email scandal than previously thought
>>6522193 The awful truth about the new SAT 'adversity' score
>>6522247 Anon Notices Possible Stringer Activated in DJT Tweet
>>6522341 Wells Fargo Banker Pleads Guilty To Helping Launder Millions For Sinaloa Cartel
>>6522330 Trump Admin Notifies 500,000+ Employers They Have Workers With Bogus Social Security Numbers
>>6522362 'Fraudulent', 'poorly sourced' & 'DANGEROUS': Trump strikes out against 'fake news' on Iran
>>6522389 Donald Trump Warns Illegal Immigrants Released in the U.S.: 'You Will Be Leaving Soon!'
>>6522395 Dutch Ministry of Justice covered up 'serious crimes' by asylum seekers. Rape, battery, murder, etc. listed unspecified as "Other"
>>6522501 Facebook Suspends Candace Owens For Saying Liberal Policies Incentivize Fatherless Homes
>>6522507 POTUS is LIVE at the National Association of REALTORS
>>6522551 @NewYorkFBI Tweet - Extremist groups are still operating and recruiting
>>6522561 #8340

Previously Collected Notables
>>6521774 #8339, >>6521002 #8338
>>6518653 #8335, >>6519433 #8336, >>6520207 #8337
>>6516325 #8332, >>6517115 #8333, >>6517871 #8334
>>6513877 #8329, >>6514674 #8330, >>6515451 #8331
>>6511504 #8326, >>6512293 #8327, >>6513042 #8238

Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)

#6523139 at 2019-05-17 20:24:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8341: AG Barr In The House Edition

Current Notables:

>>6522630 >>6522968 MOAR Barr:Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'
>>6522639 HILLARY TWAT COMMS: FF Friday?
>>6522640 Iran not seeking escalation in region
>>6522792 >>6522827 Trump Comms in tweet? "Catch & Telease loophole" (T instead of R)
>>6522785 Texas CBP Seizes Heroin Worth $1 Million
>>6522864 Conservatives ask White House to abandon Amazon talks over Pentagon contract
>>6522886 Trump Slams MSM: Anonymous news sources are 'bullshit'
>>6522795 Abortion Records Evidence Raniere(NXIVM) Had Sex With Camilia When She Was 13
>>6522600 8% of Chicago's City Council Are Currently Out On Bond
>>6522662 Missouri House Passes Strict Anti-Abortion Bill
>>6522680 >>6522766 House Approves Equality Act Expansion To Include Sex. Orientation & Gender Identity
>>6522764 FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says "regulations" are the biggest Barrier to 5G
>>6522879 NEW DJT on today's Nat. Assoc. of REALTORS address
>>6522816 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM
>>6523022 97.8 percent of public shootings occur in "gun-free zones"
>>6522739 Reminder: Boeing Reportedly Knew Of The Software Error on 737 for a Year Before Telling Airlines & Regulators
>>6522816 >>6523007 Prosecution Claims Emiliano Salinas Is a Criminal Co-Conspirator in NXIVM

#6522968 at 2019-05-17 19:56:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8341: AG Barr In The House Edition

Read the Key Quotes From William Barr Interview on Fox News

May 17, 2019
by David Blackmon



https://dbdailyupdate.com/index.php/2019/05/17/read-the-key-quotes-from-William-Barr-interview-on-fox-news/

#6522630 at 2019-05-17 19:04:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8341: AG Barr In The House Edition

Attorney General William Barr: Explanations for Government Spying on Trump Campaign 'Don't Hang Together'

Attorney General William Barr said in a recent interview that the answers he has gotten to why the government began spying on the Trump campaign in 2016 are "inadequate" and have raised more questions than before.
"I've been trying to get answers to questions and I found that a lot of the answers have been inadequate. And I've also found that some of the explanations I've gotten don't hang together," Barr told Fox News's Bill Hemmer in an exclusive interview.

So in a sense, I have more questions today than I did when I first started. Some of what things don't hang together, some of the explanations of what occurred. People have to find out what the government was doing during that period. If we're worried about foreign influence, for the very same reason shouldn't we be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale? I'm not saying that happened, but I'm saying that we have to look at that," he said.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/William-Barr-explanations-government-spying-trump-campaign-dont-hang-together/

#6521738 at 2019-05-17 16:42:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8339: Explanations Have Been 'Inadequate' Edition

panic in DC

"Government power was used to spy on American citizens. I can't imagine any world where we wouldn't take a look and make sure that was done properly." – William Barr

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/politics/bill-Barr-donald-trump-mueller-fbi-comey/index.html

#6521267 at 2019-05-17 15:31:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8339: Explanations Have Been 'Inadequate' Edition

The other Trump Tower meeting: Barr looking into leaks after Comey briefed Trump on dossier

The phrase "the Trump Tower meeting" has become synonymous with the controversial June 9, 2016 meeting between senior members of the Trump campaign and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and others, but Attorney General William Barr says he is looking into another Trump Tower gathering - when then-FBI Director James Comey briefed President-elect Trump on some of the most salacious allegations in the so-called Steele dossier in January 2017 in New York City. In an interview with Fox News that aired Friday, Barr said "one of the things we want to look into" is "the handling of the meeting on January 6, 2017 between the intelligence chiefs and the President and the leaking of information subsequent to that meeting." The allegation that Russia had possible compromising information on Trump was leaked by unknown persons to the press and led to the dossier being published by BuzzFeed just a few days later. Republicans have been calling for investigations into possible politically motivated criminal leaks of classified information for years now.

The meeting between Trump, Comey, and other top intelligence officials took place on Jan. 6, 2017, and it was quickly leaked to the press. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, CIA Director John Brennan, and Comey briefed Trump on the intelligence community's assessment that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, but Comey stayed behind after the meeting to tell Trump about some of the dossier's claims. Days later, on the afternoon of Jan. 10, 2017, CNN ran a story about the meeting titled "Intel chiefs presented Trump with claims of Russian efforts to compromise him." Later that evening, BuzzFeed posted Steele's dossier online with the title "These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia." While demurring on what questions he had about the January 2017 meeting, Barr emphasized that "it's one of the things we need to look at." "We're still at the stage of gathering all the information," Barr added.

Earlier this week, former FBI General Counsel James Baker admitted that the bureau was worried that Comey would appear to be "blackmailing" Trump during the January 2017 briefing at Trump Tower on the allegations in the dossier written by British ex-spy Christopher Steele. The dossier, packed with unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, formed a key part of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications used to justify surveillance warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Steele was working for Fusion GPS which was receiving funding through the Perkins Coie law firm from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee - facts that were not communicated to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Baker said that prior to Comey's meeting with Trump, the FBI was "quite worried" that it might seem like J. Edgar Hoover-style "blackmail" if Comey told Trump about the salacious claims in the dossier, which Comey ended up doing. "Jim [Comey] and I had talked many times about the Hoover days, especially the investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., what was done there, the blackmailing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.," Baker said. "So yeah, we were quite worried about that, quite worried about how that would come off."

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani called Comey a "jackass" over his handling of the dossier and also compared Comey to J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI. Giuliani criticized Comey's decision to tell Trump about the claims in the dossier - like allegations related to prostitutes in a hotel room in Moscow - during their private discussion in January 2017. "That whole thing with going up to Trump and telling him about the Steele dossier ... that wasn't being a Hoover?" Giuliani asked rhetorically. The FBI's handling of the Steele dossier has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks, and there are at least three federal investigations into alleged FISA abuse and other matters related to the way that the FBI and DOJ conducted the Trump-Russia investigation.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/the-other-trump-tower-meeting-Barr-looking-into-leaks-after-comey-briefed-trump-on-dossier

#6521123 at 2019-05-17 15:12:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8339: Explanations Have Been 'Inadequate' Edition

Devin Nunes: Mueller knew there was no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion on day one

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., went further than Attorney General William Barr to answer the question of when special counsel Robert Mueller knew there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. In an interview that aired Friday on Fox News, Barr said he "couldn't say." Appearing after Barr, Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was not so hesitant.

"Bob Mueller knew the day that he walked in the door there was no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians," Nunes said, referring to the findings of the FBI's counterintelligence that began in the summer of 2016. Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election in May 2017, eight days after President Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey. Although Mueller completed his investigation in March, Nunes said the House Intelligence Committee, which conducted its own Russian interference investigation when he was chairman, determined there was no collusion by early 2018. "I'm able to answer that because we looked at all the work. We looked at all the intelligence. We've known for – our report came out a year ago. There's zero evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russians – period," Nunes said.

Despite Nunes' decisiveness, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee argued the probe was wrapped up prematurely. Since taking back control of the House, they have restarted the Trump-Russia investigation. Fox News anchor Sandra Smith repeatedly challenged Nunes on that point, noting that Barr has not publicly said when the collusion question was solved by Mueller. "That's my point. I just wanted to make sure that I answered it for the American people and that's why the attorney general is doing a good job here is he's not jumping to any conclusions," Nunes said.

The Justice Department released Mueller's 448-page report with redactions last month which noted the term "collusion" has no legal application. Instead, Mueller's team focused on analyzing the prospect of criminal conspiracy. Mueller concluded that Russia used cyberattacks and social media disinformation campaigns to interfere in 2016, but he did not establish any criminal conspiracy between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. Republicans have long alleged that the launching of the investigation into Trump in 2016 was influenced by politics and that the probe itself was rife with misconduct.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-mueller-knew-there-was-no-evidence-of-trump-russia-collusion-on-day-one

#6520988 at 2019-05-17 14:45:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8338: It's a Baaaad Day for Evil Edition

Barr: Mueller did not look into origins of Trump-Russia investigation

Attorney General William Barr made it clear that special counsel Robert Mueller did not review how the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation was handled by the Justice Department and the FBI. During a Fox News interview that aired Friday, Barr said "no one has really looked at it" and pointed out that Mueller was focused just on investigating Russian election interference and the possible involvement of President Trump's 2016 campaign. "The fact of the matter is Bob Mueller did not look at the government's activities," Barr said in an interview that aired Friday. "He was looking at whether or not the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians. He was not going back and looking at the counter intelligence program."

The FBI launched its original counterintelligence investigation, called Crossfire Hurricane, in July 2016. It was prompted by Australian diplomat Alexander Downer informing the FBI that Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos told him Russia had damaging information on Hillary Clinton, Trump's Democratic rival in the 2016 election. That counterintelligence investigation was wrapped into Mueller's effort after he was appointed in May 2017. Mueller concluded that Russia used cyberattacks and social media disinformation campaigns to interfere in 2016, but he did not establish any sort of criminal conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign. Republicans have long alleged that the launching of the investigation into Trump in 2016 was influenced by politics and that the probe itself was rife with misconduct.

Barr said that "there is a misconception out there that we know a lot about what happened." Barr said that there were "a number of investigations underway that touch upon it", including DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's investigation into possible Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse, but so far "no one has really looked across the whole waterfront." Barr has also tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham to review the origins of the federal Russia investigation. Barr said his first step is to "find out exactly what happened" which he plans to do by "getting all the relevant information from the various agencies and starting to talk to some of the people that have information." "If we're worried about foreign influence, for the very same reason, we should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale," Barr said.

Barr also pointed out that the handling of the Trump-Russia investigation was unusual in a number of ways, especially the fact that it was being managed at the highest levels of the DOJ and FBI. "It wasn't handled in the ordinary way that investigations or counter intelligence activities are conducted," Barr said. "It was sort of an ad hoc small group. Most of these people are no longer with the FBI or the CIA or the other agencies involved."

James Comey, the head of the FBI at the time, was fired by Trump in May 2017. Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director, was fired by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions in March 2018. Peter Strzok, the FBI's former Counterespionage Section chief, was fired by FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich in August 2018. James Baker, the former FBI general counsel, was reassigned and eventually left the bureau. The FBI's handling of the dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele has come under increased scrutiny in recent weeks. The Steele dossier, filled with salacious and unverified allegations, was used in FISA applications to justify surveillance against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Both Comey and Baker have defended their handling of the dossier in recent days.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/Barr-mueller-did-not-look-into-origins-of-trump-russia-investigation

#6519140 at 2019-05-17 05:27:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8336: PapaD Reveals New Details on Non-Collusion Edition

In an exclusive interview with Fox News, Attorney General William Barr explained that he is trying to get to the bottom of whether or not "government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale" during the early stages of the Russia probe.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-exclusive-attorney-general-Barr-on-getting-answers-about-the-russia-investigation

#6518323 at 2019-05-17 03:14:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8335 The IG Report Now In Staff Review Edition

Barr on Trump-Russia investigation: 'We have to find out what the government was doing'

Attorney General William Barr wants to know what government officials were doing at the start of the Trump-Russia investigation. "If we're worried about foreign influence, for the very same reason, we should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale," Barr said in a Fox News interview set to air Friday. "And so I'm not saying that happened, but I am saying we have to look at that."

Barr is investigating whether the Department of Justice and FBI acted appropriately at the beginning of the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. While he has "been trying to get answers to questions," he said, a lot of the answers have fallen short or "don't hang together." "In a sense, I have more questions today than when I first started," Barr said.

President Trump himself viewed the Mueller investigation with suspicion from the beginning, repeatedly calling it a politically-motivated "witch hunt." And Republicans have called for investigating the investigators for more than two years now, with those calls increasing following the conclusion of Mueller's investigation. The 448-page redacted Mueller report showed Russia had interfered in the 2016 election through cyber attacks and social media disinformation campaigns, but it did not establish that anyone on the Trump campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy with the Russians.

Barr previously told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is looking into the origins of the investigation into Trump, the existence of any criminal leaks from the FBI or DOJ to the media, the possibility that the salacious dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele was influenced by Russian disinformation, whether the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was abused, and more. "I think people have to find out what the government was doing during that period," Barr said Thursday.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/Barr-on-trump-russia-investigation-we-have-to-find-out-what-the-government-was-doing

#6514086 at 2019-05-16 18:32:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8330: Thursday Morning Digs Edition

Nellie Ohr deleted emails sent from husband's DOJ account

Nellie Ohr, the wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, told her husband she was deleting emails sent from his government account. The revelation comes as both Ohrs remain under intense scrutiny for their ties to Fusion GPS and British ex-spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier that was used to obtain warrants to wiretap a member of President Trump's 2016 campaign.

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch obtained a series of April 2016 emails from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Justice Department that show a correspondence between the Ohrs, an aide to Bruce Ohr named Lisa Holtyn, and Stefan Bress, a first secretary at the German Embassy. They discussed setting up a dinner for the German delegation as well as a meeting to discuss Russian organized crime. Included in a proposed agenda is the "Impact of Russian influence operations in Europe ('PsyOps/InfoWar')."

On April 20, responding to the email thread with the subject line, "Analyst Russian Organized Crime - April 2016," came the email from Nellie Ohr about deleting the emails. "Thanks! I'm deleting these emails now," she said. Bruce Ohr was an associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force while his wife Nellie was an independent contractor and Russia specialist.

Emails previously released by Judicial Watch show Bruce Ohr acting as an unofficial back channel between the FBI and Steele. He was demoted when it was revealed he met with Steele and Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which commissioned Steele's work. Ohr also told lawmakers his wife shared a thumb drive with him to hand over to the FBI. The dossier, which contained unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia, has been a subject of concern for GOP lawmakers, particularly for how it was used by the FBI in Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications to gain the authority to spy on onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Nellie Ohr conducted research on connections between Russia and Trump, having been contracted by Fusion GPS.

Both Ohrs testified last year to a joint task force of the House Oversight and Judiciary committees that were investigating decisions made by the Justice Department and FBI surrounding the 2016 election. This month, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., sent a criminal referral addressed to Attorney General William Barr, citing concerns that Nellie Ohr "knowingly provided false testimony" to lawmakers. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said that Nellie Ohr informing her husband about deleting the emails indicates a pattern of covering up a plot against Trump. "This email is disturbing and suggests documents relevant to the improper targeting of President Trump were destroyed," Fitton said in a statement.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/nellie-ohr-deleted-emails-sent-from-husbands-doj-account

Deleted Emails
http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JW-v-DOJ-Ohr-Steele-Fusion-GPS-00490-pg-247-251.pdf

#6514081 at 2019-05-16 18:32:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8330: Thursday Morning Digs Edition

Spygate Origins: Ten Questions


News that Attorney General William Barr had appointed U.S. Attorney John Durham to examine the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion investigations has sent shockwaves across Washington.

Simultaneously, news came out that Barr is working with the directors of the CIA, FBI, and ODNI to review the intelligence gathering techniques used to investigate Trump's 2016 campaign.

The announcements are significant given the amount of information known already, much of which points to irregularities in the investigations and a severe bias.

Take, for example, text messages sent between FBI agent Peter Strzok, and FBI lawyer Lisa Page-both of whom were working on the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign-in which Page asks Strzok: "He's [Trump] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!"

"No. No he won't. We'll stop it," Strzok responded.

Here are ten key questions that remain to be answered in the scandal that has become known as Spygate:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/spygate-origins-ten-questions_2925077.html

#6512772 at 2019-05-16 15:07:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8328: Shills Aren't Even Trying Anymore: GAME OVER Edition

==William Barr Is 'Laughing About Breaking The Law' | MSNBC
Attorney General William Barr made a joke to Speaker Nancy Pelosi on
Wednesday about an impending vote to find him in contempt of Congress.
'Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?,' a bystander told NBC News.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0JtrXM3Msk

#6512410 at 2019-05-16 14:04:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8328: Shills Aren't Even Trying Anymore: GAME OVER Edition

Barr to appear on Fox News from El Salvador on Friday

Fox News announced Thursday that Attorney General William Barr will be interviewed on the network Friday morning from El Salvador.

The televised interview will be Barr's first since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian election meddling in April and Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.

The sit-down with the attorney general will be conducted by "America's Newsroom" anchor Bill Hemmer, Fox News said.

"During the interview, Hemmer will speak with AG Barr about the Mueller Report and his testimony before the Senate, as well as his plans in El Salvador," the network said in a statement. Hemmer is a former CNN anchor who joined Fox News in 2005.

Barr traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday to talk about Department of Justice (DOJ) strategy regarding illegal narcotics, MS-13 gangs, illegal immigration and human trafficking, the department said.

The attorney general is meeting with DOJ personnel and officials from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala amid a growing crisis at the U.S. southern border.

Barr is also visiting the International Law Enforcement Academy while taking part in the Third Ministerial of the Northern Triangle Attorneys General in an effort to strengthen the U.S. working relationship with international law enforcement, officials said.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/443994-Barr-to-appear-on-fox-news-from-el-salvador-on-friday

#6512396 at 2019-05-16 14:00:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8328: Shills Aren't Even Trying Anymore: GAME OVER Edition

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/443994-Barr-to-appear-on-fox-news-from-el-salvador-on-friday
Fox News announced Thursday that Attorney General William Barr will be interviewed on the network Friday morning from El Salvador.
The televised interview will be Barr's first since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian election meddling in April and Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
The sit-down with the attorney general will be conducted by "America's Newsroom" anchor Bill Hemmer, Fox News said.

#6512385 at 2019-05-16 13:59:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8328: Shills Aren't Even Trying Anymore: GAME OVER Edition

AG William Barr will be Interviewed Tomorrow morning at 9 AM EDT of Fox

#6512370 at 2019-05-16 13:56:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8328: Shills Aren't Even Trying Anymore: GAME OVER Edition

Gotta love this Guy…

Barr jokes with Pelosi: 'Did you bring your handcuffs?'

Attorney General William Barr joked with Speaker Nancy Pelosi about Democrats' calls for his arrest, asking the California Democrat whether she brought handcuffs to an event on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday morning.

The exchange - which comes a week after the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Barr in contempt over subpoenas related to the Mueller report - took place as they were waiting for President Trump, who was running roughly 45 minutes late, to arrive at the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service.


"As those seated on the platform waited for the president's arrival in an adjacent tent, Attorney General Barr approached Speaker Pelosi, shook her hand and said loudly, 'Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?'" a bystander told The Hill.

"The Speaker, not missing a beat, smiled and indicated to the attorney general that the House sergeant-at-arms was present at the ceremony should an arrest be necessary. The attorney general chuckled and walked away," the bystander added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/443881-Barr-jokes-with-pelosi-did-you-bring-your-handcuffs

#6512321 at 2019-05-16 13:45:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8327: Billionaires Ball (The Last Hurrah) Edition

>>6512310
>Attorney General William Barr will be interviewed on the network Friday morning from El Salvador.

#6512310 at 2019-05-16 13:40:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8327: Billionaires Ball (The Last Hurrah) Edition

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/443994-Barr-to-appear-on-fox-news-from-el-salvador-on-friday
Fox News announced Thursday that Attorney General William Barr will be interviewed on the network Friday morning from El Salvador.
The televised interview will be Barr's first since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian election meddling in April and Barr's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier this month.
The sit-down with the attorney general will be conducted by "America's Newsroom" anchor Bill Hemmer, Fox News said.

#6507227 at 2019-05-15 20:53:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8321: National Police and Peace Officers Memorial Service Edition

AG William Barr Teases Pelosi About Bringing 'Handcuffs' to D.C. Event

Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday jokingly asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) if she brought her "handcuffs" in an apparent reference to the Democrat leader insinuating she could put him and other Trump Cabinet members in jail.

Fox News producer Jake Gibson, citing a source close to Barr, said the Justice Department head approached Pelosi during the National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill and "asked if she had brought her handcuffs," sparking laughter between the two. "[N]o word on Pelosi's response," Gibson added.

Barr skipped a House hearing May 2nd on special counsel Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia report, escalating an already battle between Democrats and President Donald Trump's Justice Department. House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and fellow Democrat panel members voted May 8th to hold Barr in contempt for refusing to testify.

With Barr absent, Democrats convened a short hearing that included an empty chair with a place card set for Barr. Shortly afterward, Pelosi increased the tensions further. In a reference to the attorney general's testimony last month, Pelosi said Barr "was not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States - that's a crime."

On the day of the contempt vote, Washington Post reporter Bob Costa asked Pelosi if she would arrest Trump Administration officials, such as Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, if they were held in contempt of Congress.

"Well, let me just say, we do have a little jail down in the basement of the Capitol," she responded. "But if we were arresting all of the people in the administration, we would have overcrowded jail situation, and I'm not for that."

At a hearing on April 9th, Rep. Charlie Crist (D-FL) asked Barr about reports that members of Mueller's team believed he had failed to adequately portray their findings in a four-page memo that was released before the full report.

Crist asked at the hearing, "Do you know what they are referencing with that?" Barr responded, "No, I don't," and went on to say Mueller's team probably wanted "more put out" about what they had found.

Democrats have raised questions about that testimony since it was revealed this week that Mueller had written Barr two weeks earlier, on March 27, complaining that the attorney general's memo "did not fully capture the context, nature and substance" of his work.

Barr has said his answer was not misleading because he had been in touch with Mueller, rather than members of his team, and that the concerns were mostly about process and not substance. Within minutes of Pelosi's comments, Justice Department Spokeswoman Kerri Kupec called her words "reckless, irresponsible and false."

Barr's quip Wednesday comes as Nadler is ratcheting up his attacks on the attorney general, calling him a "liar" working to protect President Trump. "Bill Barr is just a liar. And, he's just representing the president," the New York Democrat told CNBC's John Harwood when asked about Barr dismissing lingering Trump-Russia collusion talk earlier today.

"You could have two interpretations of Bill Barr's motives. The less charitable interpretation is he's doing whatever he has to do, to protect the president personally. And he'll hide whatever he has to hide," he added. Lied may be too strong a word, but he certainly misrepresented very strongly what was in the report. The more charitable interpretation is that he simply believes in the so-called unitary theory of government, and this tyrannical theory that any president cannot obstruct justice, that as long as he believes that he didn't do anything wrong, he can stop an investigation, which is a terrible doctrine because it would mean that you can't investigate any president for doing anything."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/15/ag-William-Barr-teases-pelosi-about-bringing-handcuffs-to-d-c-event/

#6506980 at 2019-05-15 20:25:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8321: National Police and Peace Officers Memorial Service Edition

QTo any and all Americans. The choice is yours.

Do you side with brennan?

Or do you side with William Barr?

There is no in between. It's over!

#6506503 at 2019-05-15 19:18:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8320: Wednesday Winning Edition

Barr confronts Pelosi: 'Madam Speaker, did you bring handcuffs?'

Attorney General William Barr asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi whether she planned to arrest him when he appeared on the West Front to commemorate the National Peace Officers Memorial service on Wednesday.

Barr, who was on a platform with Congressional leaders as they awaited President Trump's arrival, approached Speaker Pelosi and shook her hand, a bystander told the Washington Examiner. Apparently joking, he said loudly: "Madam Speaker, did you bring your handcuffs?" The bystander said: "The Speaker, not missing a beat, smiled and indicated to the Attorney General that the House Sergeant at Arms was present at the ceremony should an arrest be necessary. The Attorney General chuckled and walked away."

The House Judiciary Committee cited Barr for contempt last week after he refused to turn over the unredacted Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Pelosi, D-Calif., has not scheduled a floor vote, but it will likely include a criminal and civil contempt citation against Barr. Few expect Barr's Department of Justice to pursue the criminal contempt charge. Barr is prohibited from releasing the unredacted report because it contains classified and other sensitive material. But some Democrats have called for Barr to be jailed and Pelosi joked last week that the House basement houses a small jail. She continued to rib Barr about the matter during the ceremony, according to a witness.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/Barr-confronts-pelosi-did-you-bring-handcuffs

#6506189 at 2019-05-15 18:41:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8320: Wednesday Winning Edition

>>6506087

"If there is any issue that cries out for a special counsel investigation, it is the evolution of the Trump-Russia collusion theory. Attorney General William Barr may well have decided that the nation does not need to go through such an ordeal again, but he did the next best thing by tapping John H. Durham to investigate what could well be the most nefarious political conspiracy in American history."

"Durham is Connecticut's top federal prosecutor, an attorney with a reputation for toughness and a resume that includes investigations into high-level government corruption cases. Reports suggest that he has been on the job for some weeks already, and that is an indication of how seriously the matter is being taken by the attorney general."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-15/coming-wrath-Barr-real-story-behind-russian-hoax

"Joe-diGenova did not hold back. The former US Attorney for Washington DC told Laura and her audience that Comey and Brennan are in serious trouble and better be lawyered up."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/boom-joe-digenova-for-the-first-time-i-believe-these-guys-are-going-to-jail-this-is-big-time-brennan-and-comey-needs-5-attorneys-video/

#6504198 at 2019-05-15 14:01:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8317: Midweek Very Early Morning Edition

==Media Matters Employees Aid Watchdog Hitting Trump With Dozens of Lawsuits. 'Nonpartisan' CREW listed liberal operative David Brock's address on litigation until late 2018=

A "nonpartisan" government watchdog group that has generated a steady flow of litigation against President Donald Trump shares employees with the left-wing Media Matters for America, according to an independent audit.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed lawsuits against Trump and government agencies nearly every month since he was sworn into office. These actions follow a plan that was laid out in a confidential memo from David Brock, the liberal operative who founded Media Matters, American Bridge, and Shareblue, that was handed out to deep-pocketed liberal donors as Trump was taking office.

Brock stepped away from CREW in 2016 because he did not want the group to appear overtly partisan as Trump was coming into power.

"Due to my stepped-up political activities in the American Bridge opposition research super PAC, I decided to step off CREW's board to ensure its public reputation for non-partisanship," Brock wrote in a statement post to CREW's website in December 2016. "I'm very proud of the work CREW has accomplished during my two years on board, and its work is more relevant now than ever."

At this time, Norm Eisen, a former ethics czar for President Obama, was announced as the group's new chair while Richard Painter, a self-identified Republican who served as an ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, would act as the group's vice chair. Eisen was tapped earlier this year by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to help its chair, Rep. Jerry Nadler, pursue congressional investigations into Trump and put pressure Attorney General William Barr.

Despite distancing himself from CREW on paper, Brock never veered far from the group. Just one month after his resignation, the Clinton loyalist held a private retreat with more than 100 liberal donors at the posh Turnberry Isle Resort just outside of Miami where they discussed how they would "kick Donald Trump's ass."

The Free Beacon was on site for the gathering and obtained Brock's private and confidential memorandumthat laid out plans to fight Trump during his first term using his constellation of organizations. Included in the memo was a section on CREW.

"CREW will be the leading nonpartisan ethics watchdog group in a period of crisis with a President and administration that present possible conflicts of interest and ethical problems on an unprecedented scale," the memo states. "Trump will be afflicted by a steady flow of damaging information, new revelations, and an inability to avoid conflict issues."

Despite Brock publicly distancing himself from the group, the organization remained at the same address-and on the same floor-as Media Matters and American Bridge, according to CREW's most recent tax forms from 2017.

Brock's employees have also quietly worked with the "nonpartisan" government watchdog, according to state filings.

As CREW was renewing its registration in North Carolina last October, the group submitted an independent auditor's report that showed Media Matters shared employees with CREW.

"The organization shares employees and other related expenses with Media Matters for America (MMFA), a not-for-profit organization exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code," the audit states. "As of December 31, 2017, $4,790 was owed to MMFA, which is included in accounts payable in the accompanying Statement of Financial Position"…

https://freebeacon.com/issues/media-matters-employees-aid-watchdog-hitting-trump-with-dozens-of-lawsuits/

#6502104 at 2019-05-15 03:46:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8314: Connecticut Grand Jury Edition

Lindsey Graham may not 'back off' FISA abuse probe after all

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., may not be pumping the brakes very hard on the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse after all. Addressing reporters Tuesday morning, Graham, the committee chairman, said he would "back off" the investigation after learning Attorney General William Barr had tasked U.S. Attorney John Durham from Connecticut with examining the origins of the federal Russia investigation. "You've now got a prosecutor. I don't want to get in their way, I don't want to mess up his criminal investigation, and I don't want to put people at risk, so I'm going to back off," he said.

But a source told the New York Times that Durham is only conducting a review and not a criminal inquiry. Informed about the difference, Graham acknowledged it altered his stance. "That is completely different," he told the Times, adding that he would likely now wait for a FISA abuse investigation by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, which is expected to wrap up in late May or June. "If there is not a criminal investigation, then oversight will be different," he said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-may-not-back-off-fisa-abuse-probe-after-all

#6501644 at 2019-05-15 02:54:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8314: Connecticut Grand Jury Edition

>>6501596
>The Russia collusion delusion having been exploded by Robert Mueller, there has been a quick shift to the Barr canard, the ridiculous suggestion that somehow U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr misrepresented to Congress and the people that the president was innocent of obstruction of justice.

Meanwhile the dems constantly ignore Rosenstein's statement about the Barr's summary

Rod Rosenstein defends Attorney General Barr's handling of Mueller report as Democrats ramp up pressure: WSJ

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein defends Attorney General William Barr's handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election interference in a rare interview.

"He's being as forthcoming as he can," Rosenstein says of Barr during an interview Thursday with The Wall Street Journal.


https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/12/rod-rosenstein-defends-attorney-general-Barrs-handling-of-mueller-report.html

#6501596 at 2019-05-15 02:50:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8314: Connecticut Grand Jury Edition

Democrats Cling to Hillary at Expense of Nation's Future

In a recent BBC interview, Nigel Farage, leader of the Britain's Brexit party (the group that advocates for the U.K. to leave the European Community) condemned those who refused to acknowledge the wishes of the British people to remain a sovereign nation.

Painting with a broad, but accurate, brush, Farage declared, "You're in denial, the BBC is in denial, the Conservatives are in denial, the Labour party is in denial."

Something similar is going on in the politics of this country.

The Democrats and their allies in the media cling to the belief that somehow there must be something illegitimate in Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton.

The Russia collusion delusion having been exploded by Robert Mueller, there has been a quick shift to the Barr canard, the ridiculous suggestion that somehow U.S. Atty. Gen. William Barr misrepresented to Congress and the people that the president was innocent of obstruction of justice.

Wiser heads realize, of course, that the president, if he obstructed anything, was obstructing injustice, that is, he was seeking to counter the wrongful use of federal investigative and intelligence agencies by Obama administration officials and the Clinton campaign to undermine his campaign and later his presidency.

We should soon see prosecutions of those errant officials, but it is time to come to grips with the source of the denial of those who still seek to tarnish this president and his administration.

Even without training in psychology it is easy to understand that when one's most basic values are threatened, when it is demonstrated that one's basic assumptions about reality are shattered, one does not easily accommodate.

Human nature being what it is, it is more common to indulge in fantasy that supports one's former views than to make the difficult adjustment to actual reality.

Progressives and the left believed with former President Obama that the arc of history was bending in their direction, but they were deceived. What history actually teaches us is that humans flourish when they adhere to a traditional set of moral values, and when their primary loyalties are to God, to their families, to their "little platoons" as Edmund Burke called them (their local, fraternal, ecclesiastical and charitable organizations), and to their country itself.

Hillary Clinton (following in the steps of President Obama) stood, for many Americans, as a repudiator of these traditional values and loyalties, and the current advocates of Democratic Socialism such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., similarly spurn what, in Donald Trump's felicitous phrasing, made America great.

Someday the mainstream media may acknowledge this reality, and the scales may fall from the eyes of Mr. Trump's enemies. Their blindness now causes them to rail against him, and to imagine he is everything he is not.
''
Fortunately, given time, misconceptions tend to dissipate, especially when good men and women of faith and courage bear appropriate witness. That task now falls to the Trump administration and its supporters, as well as those now investigating the perpetrators of the Russia hoax.

The true friends of the Constitution are not those in Congress who seek wrongly to harass the president and his family by endless political proceedings having nothing to do with the needs of the nation.

The show trials sought to be conducted by congressional enemies of the president may play to the zeal and financial support of the Democratic base and may strengthen the position of some Democrats among their supporters.

They will do nothing, however, to preserve the rule of law, or to restore the foundation of shared beliefs on which this country, Great Britain, and, indeed, many other nations, depend.

https://www.newsmax.com/stephenbpresser/electoral-college-farage-uk/2019/05/14/id/915952/

#6501484 at 2019-05-15 02:37:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8314: Connecticut Grand Jury Edition

Rosenstein slams Comey for becoming a 'partisan pundit'

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein criticized former FBI Director James Comey for becoming a "partisan pundit" in the two years since he was fired by President Donald Trump.

In some of Rosenstein's first extended remarks since leaving the Justice Department last week, the former deputy attorney general called Comey's dismissal, which set off a firestorm in Washington and resulted in the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, "reasonable under the circumstances," citing Comey's handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.

Rosenstein, who authored the memo that the Trump administration initially held up as the reason for Comey's firing, said the president did not tell him what to put in that memo. And he said that though he didn't dislike Comey - "On the contrary, I admired him personally" - the former FBI director crossed certain "bright lines" that were "not within the realm of reasonable decisions."

"I would be the last one to condemn anyone for a judgment call," Rosenstein said in remarks to the Greater Baltimore Committee's annual meeting. "These jobs are difficult. They involve choices that invite criticism."

Still, the former deputy attorney general said "the clearest mistake" Comey made was announcing his recommendation about the investigation into Clinton's private email server at a news conference in which he discussed "details about the investigation without the informed consent of the prosecutors and the attorney general." He also criticized Comey for his letter to lawmakers in the 2016 presidential campaign's final days informing them the Clinton email investigation had been reopened.

The former deputy attorney general said that had he been in Trump's shoes when the president was deciding whether to fire Comey in 2017, he would have included "a more balanced analysis of the pros and cons." He also said he would have ensured Comey's dismissal was carried out with "far more respect and far less drama," alluding to Comey finding out about his dismissal on TV during a trip to Los Angeles.

"So I do not blame the former director for being angry. I would be too if I were in his shoes," Rosenstein said. "But now the former director seems to be acting as a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul. I kid you not."

Rosenstein's criticism of Comey is the latest salvo in what has evolved into a war of words between the two former colleagues. Comey has become a major public figure in the wake of his dismissal and has been at times lauded as a hero by Trump's critics. Several weeks ago, Comey penned an op-ed in The New York Times ripping into Attorney General William Barr and accusing Barr and others in Trump's administration of lacking the "inner strength" to stand up to the president and writing that Trump "eats your soul in small bites." In a televised town hall last week, Comey described Rosenstein to CNN's Anderson Cooper as a person "of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character."

"That is disappointing," Rosenstein shot back Monday. "Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors."

But while he defended Trump's decision to fire Comey and his own role in the move, Rosenstein criticized the president's manner of doing so and called the department's investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia justified and said he would never have let anyone interfere with that investigation.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/14/rod-rosenstein-james-comey-doj-1319967

#6501045 at 2019-05-15 01:48:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8313: Closing in on the Conspirators Edition

Trey Gowdy says John Brennan in more dossier peril than James Comey

During an interview on Fox News, the former Republican congressman from South Carolina discussed a document he saw as a leading GOP investigator before his retirement from Congress.

"I think that it's one more place for Mr. Durham to start," Gowdy said, referring to U.S. Attorney John Durham, who has been tasked by Attorney General William Barr to look into the origins of the Russia investigation.


"That's a pretty easy thing to sort out, who insisted that the dossier or the unverified material from Chris Steele be included," he said. "But … sometimes when you have two people, I can tell from you having been in the courtroom, sometimes when people are blaming each other, they are both right. It's both of them. And I think it's interesting Brennan and Comey right now, the only thing they seem to share is a hatred for Donald Trump. It's going to be interesting if they begin to turn on one another. I've seen the document. I'm not going to describe it any more than that, Comey's got a better argument than Brennan based on what I have seen."

His interview Tuesday follows a Fox News appearance on Monday in which he encouraged investigators to track down emails between Brennan and Comey in December 2016.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trey-gowdy-says-john-brennan-in-more-dossier-peril-than-james-comey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9lI-lUyjlc

#6498875 at 2019-05-14 21:31:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8310: Knocking The Hell Out Of The Swamp Creatures Edition

Ex-FBI General Counsel James Baker: DOJ Inspector General Will Uncover 'Mistakes' in FISA Probe

"The inspector general is looking at everything we did," Baker told CNN, per the Washington Examiner. "If the IG usually finds mistakes that we made, so I expect him to find mistakes this time."

The former FBI official's remarks come as Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to complete his review of alleged surveillance abuses committed by the Justice Department and FBI related to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court applications regarding former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Attorney General William Barr has stated the probe could wrap up by May or June. Meanwhile, Barr has assigned U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut John Durham to look into the origins of the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign, the New York Times reported Monday.

Baker's remarks come after expressing uneasiness last week about Horowtiz's forthcoming report on the bureau's conduct. ((("I'm always nervous about the IG,))) I guess," the former FBI official replied during a fireside chat with Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes in Washington, D.C, the Examiner reported.

((("They're coming in after the fact to look at what we did,"))) Baker continued, adding that during the probe the bureau was "trying to do it in real time and having the pressure to deal with these threats as they were coming."


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/14/ex-fbi-general-counsel-james-baker-doj-inspector-general-will-uncover-mistakes-in-fisa-probe/



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#6498123 at 2019-05-14 20:16:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8309:Based Boomers and Gen Z are Waking Up Edition

Attorney Probing Trump-Campaign Spying Once Exposed One of the 'Greatest Failures' in FBI History

The U.S. attorney reportedly appointed to investigate whether spying by the FBI on the Trump campaign was legal had previously exposed a conspiracy between the bureau's agents and mobsters to cover up for murders committed by mob informants.

Attorney General William Barr tasked Attorney John J. Durham in Connecticut to investigate whether spying on President Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016 was adequately predicated, according to Reuters. The Department of Justice did not respond to a request to confirm the appointment.

Durham will scrutinize the conduct of several current and former senior FBI officials, including former Director James Comey, former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and former Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok. The officials were involved in obtaining a warrant to spy on former Trump campaign associate Carter Page and deployed at least two spies to target Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos.

Durham may be one of the most uniquely qualified prosecutors for the job. In 2000, he exposed a group of FBI officials who used murderers as informants. The agents covered up for a murder committed by a pair of mobster informants by framing four innocent men. The conspiracy to cover up for the murder involved the agents, their supervisors and the FBI director himself, according to a ruling (pdf) by a judge who awarded the framed men and their estates more than $100 million in 2006. The bureau did not appeal the ruling.

Durham's findings led to a Congressional investigation of the FBI's use of confidential human sources. In 2003, Congress released a scorching 3,500-page report titled "The FBI's Use of Murders as Informants." The report concluded that the FBI's conduct in the case amounted to "one of the greatest failures in the history of federal law enforcement."

https://www.theepochtimes.com/attorney-probing-trump-campaign-spying-once-exposed-one-of-the-greatest-failures-in-fbi-history_2923495.html

#6497920 at 2019-05-14 19:55:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8309:Based Boomers and Gen Z are Waking Up Edition

Barr Reportedly Working Closely With CIA To Review Russia Probe Origins

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly working closely with the directors of the CIA, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to review the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, as well as surveillance efforts against the Trump campaign.

According to CNN, Barr is working with CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and ODNI Director Dan Coats on the interagency review.

Barr told Congress in April that he planned to form a team within the Justice Department to investigate whether the U.S. government improperly surveilled the Trump campaign.

"I think spying did occur," Barr told the Senate Appropriations Committee on April 10.

"Yes, I think spying did occur," Barr repeated, adding, "but the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated."

"I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but I need to explore that."

On Monday, it was reported that Barr appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, to investigate the matter.

The probe is running parallel to a Justice Department inspector general's investigation into the FBI's handling of surveillance warrants against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, is also reportedly investigating the FBI's use of confidential informants, including dossier author Christopher Steele and former Cambridge professor Stefan Halper.

The FBI officially began its investigation of the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016, after receiving information from the Australian government about George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser.

The bureau relied heavily on information from Steele, a former British spy, to obtain foreign intelligence surveillance warrants against Carter Page. Horowitz is investigating whether the FBI properly disclosed information about Steele and his investigation to the judges who approved the spy warrants against Page.

The FBI has also not explained why Halper, a longtime FBI informant, made contact with Page at a political event held at the University of Cambridge in England three weeks before receiving the information on Papadopoulos.

Halper was also in contact with Papadopoulos. The pair met in London in September 2016 after Papadopoulos accepted an offer of $3,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to discuss writing an academic paper on Mediterranean energy security issues.

Halper was accompanied on the operation by a woman he claimed was his assistant. But The New York Times has reported that the woman, who used the alias Azra Turk, was working as a government investigator. It is still unclear if she was working for the FBI, CIA, or another agency.

The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/14/William-Barr-cia-fbi-russia-probe/

#6497660 at 2019-05-14 19:24:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8309:Based Boomers and Gen Z are Waking Up Edition

Trey Gowdy tells Barr's investigator John Durham where to look

Former congressman Trey Gowdy appeared on "Hannity" Monday where he reacted to Attorney General William Barr appointing a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation, saying investigators had an "easy road map."

"This is the fourth person that's been charged with investigating the origins of the Russia probe. So I'm more interested in how quickly they do it and how effectively they do it more than the numbers. If this is the right person to do it, more power to them. There's an easy road map to follow," Gowdy told host Sean Hannity.

Attorney General Bill Barr picked Durham for a reason. He is known to be a bulldog who has investigated law enforcement and the CiA. Durham is already working alongside the DOJ Inspector General and is investigating James Baker's leaks to the media to determine if they were authorized.

Durham will examine the origins of Spygate according to multiple news reports. This comes one month after Attorney General Bill Barr announced at a congressional hearing that he would review the spying of the Trump campaign.

During the discussion on 'Hannity', Trey Gowdy suggested Prosecutor John Durham look for emails between Brennan and Comey in December 2016.

"We know the origins of the Russia probe, what the Russians did to us. I want to know the origins of when bureau began to intermingle the Trump campaign with the Russia probe. You just quoted Lindsey Graham they want to stop Trump. All he was doing was quoting Peter Strzok. That's what Peter Strzok said in a text. 'No, we'll stop it.' So what are the origins then I want to know how did the FBI assess Christopher Steele? They have their own internal documents," Gowdy said.

Gowdy was asked by Hannity, if the Russian dossier was used to lie to the FISA court in order "undo a duly elected president" and take him down.

"The lead agent in charge of investigating this, said he thought Trump would be destabilizing, had an insurance policy, and promised his lover he would stop it. You answer it," Gowdy said.

https://www.thedailysheeple.com/trey-gowdy-tells-Barrs-investigator-john-durham-where-to-look_052019

#6497593 at 2019-05-14 19:12:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8309:Based Boomers and Gen Z are Waking Up Edition

So Durham investigated the Boston FBI nailed some but didn't find nothing with Mueller and his kissing buddy judge . just keeping score i realize it was a different playing feild then ,but still . looks like Gina will be coming into play soon .

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-john-durham-William-Barr-russia-investigation-20190514-y3azsicsb5aezexkat2zltjuxa-story.html

#6497198 at 2019-05-14 18:28:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8308: 8chan Dittos @ Rush Edition

Barr REPORTEDLY WORKING CLOSELY WITH CIA TO REVIEW RUSSIA PROBE ORIGINS

Attorney General William Barr is reportedly working closely with the directors of the CIA, FBI and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to review the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, as well as surveillance efforts against the Trump campaign.

According to CNN, Barr is working with CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and ODNI Director Dan Coats on the interagency review.

Barr told Congress in April that he planned to form a team within the Justice Department to investigate whether the U.S. government improperly surveilled the Trump campaign.

"I think spying did occur," Barr told the Senate Appropriations Committee on April 10.

"Yes, I think spying did occur," Barr repeated, adding, "but the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated."

"I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but I need to explore that."

On Monday, it was reported that Barr appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney for Connecticut, to investigate the matter.

The probe is running parallel to a Justice Department inspector general's investigation into the FBI's handling of surveillance warrants against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, is also reportedly investigating the FBI's use of confidential informants, including dossier author Christopher Steele and former Cambridge professor Stefan Halper.

The FBI officially began its investigation of the Trump campaign on July 31, 2016, after receiving information from the Australian government about George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser.

The bureau relied heavily on information from Steele, a former British spy, to obtain foreign intelligence surveillance warrants against Carter Page. Horowitz is investigating whether the FBI properly disclosed information about Steele and his investigation to the judges who approved the spy warrants against Page.

The FBI has also not explained why Halper, a longtime FBI informant, made contact with Page at a political event held at the University of Cambridge in England three weeks before receiving the information on Papadopoulos.

Halper was also in contact with Papadopoulos. The pair met in London in September 2016 after Papadopoulos accepted an offer of $3,000 and an all-expenses paid trip to discuss writing an academic paper on Mediterranean energy security issues.

Halper was accompanied on the operation by a woman he claimed was his assistant. But The New York Times has reported that the woman, who used the alias Azra Turk, was working as a government investigator. It is still unclear if she was working for the FBI, CIA, or another agency.

The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/14/William-Barr-cia-fbi-russia-probe/

#6496163 at 2019-05-14 16:16:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8307: There's No Stopping What's Coming Edition

>>6496149
William Barr Fills Front Office With Trump White House Lawyers

White House lawyer <Claire Murray>
is expected to join Barr's staff as a counselor. Murray clerked from 2012 to 2013 for Justice Samuel Alito, following a clerkship with then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. At the White House, Murray worked on the team that shepherded Kavanaugh though his confirmation fight last year.

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/03/01/William-Barr-fills-front-office-with-trump-white-house-lawyers/?slreturn=20190414121535

#6496137 at 2019-05-14 16:12:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8307: There's No Stopping What's Coming Edition

>>6496054
Durham connection to Whitey Bulger/Mueller:

Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham tapped to lead Russia investigation review

Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham has been appointed to review the beginnings of the Russia investigation by Attorney General William Barr, according to an official familiar with the matter.

A career federal prosecutor, Durham has a long history as a go-to leader for sensitive investigations going back two decades and for presidential administrations of both parties.

A veteran mob prosecutor, Durham was appointed U.S. Attorney for Connecticut by Trump in 2017, capping a 40-year career marked by high-profile corruption cases and investigations into controversial intelligence issues.

In the late 1990s, Durham was tapped by Bill Clinton's justice department to investigate Boston police and FBI agents' connections with infamous gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. That investigation ultimately identified corrupt law enforcement officials who had given the killer information he then used to kill informants and eventually became a part of the case that led to Bulger's conviction.

https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-john-durham-William-Barr-russia-investigation-20190514-y3azsicsb5aezexkat2zltjuxa-story.html

#6495311 at 2019-05-14 13:59:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8306: Is the Dam About To Break? Edition

One more dragged out new investigation involving the Russian Lies…BUT wait evidence would suggest that Durham has been in it for sometime already. So pretty evident that this is moving along behind the scenes and Barr's announcement was most likely for our consumption. Trust the Plan!


AG Barr Assigns U.S. Attorney To Investigate Origins Of Russia Probe

Attorney General William Barr on Monday appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia probe. The goal of Durham's investigation is to determine whether or not the probe was "lawful and appropriate," the Associate Press reported.

"Durham has previously investigated law enforcement corruption, the destruction of CIA videotapes and the Boston FBI office's relationship with mobsters," the AP reported.


Transcript of James Baker of 3-Oct-18 Page 37

conversation between Rep Jordan and Baker's Attorney Levin during voluntary appearance before congressional committee.

"Mr. Levin.
The Justice Department.

Mr. Jordan.
I mean, is the inspector general looking at this or
is this –

Mr. Levin.
No, it's Mr. John Durham, a prosecutor.

Mr. Jordan.
Mr. Huber.

Mr. Levin.
Durham, Durham.

Mr. Jordan.
Oh.
Say it again.

Mr. Levin.
John Durham."

SOURCEs

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/05/13/ag-Barr-assigns-us-attorney-to-investigate-origins-of-russia-probe-n2546282

Baker, James congressional testimony transcript 3-Oct-18 page 37/152

#6495310 at 2019-05-14 13:59:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8306: Is the Dam About To Break? Edition

Ex-DOJ Official: Democrats Should Be 'Quite Worried' About Latest Investigation of the Investigators

(CNSNews.com) - The New York Times reports that Attorney General William Barr has assigned John Durham, the United States Attorney in Connecticut (and a Trump appointee) to look into the origins of the FBI's Trump-Russia investigation.

According to the report, Durham "has a history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among national security officials."

Durham's investigation of the investigators is the third ongoing look at what spurred the FBI to get a FISA warrant on Carter Page, a Trump campaign volunteer who was never accused of a crime.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/ex-doj-official-democrats-should-be-quite-worried-about-latest

#6494819 at 2019-05-14 11:40:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8305: Yuge News Week Coming Our Way Edition

Boom week is here and we've heard this name before, pardons if already posted

Attorney General William Barr Appoints US Attorney to Look into Origins of FBI Probe

Attorney General William Barr has assigned the United States attorney in Connecticut to look into the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into the Trump campaign, according to reports.

Barr has appointed John Durham for the assignment, according to the New York Times. Durham has a history of investigating potential wrongdoing among national security officials.

Barr sent shockwaves through Washington after he acknowledged earlier this year during a hearing that he would review the origins of the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign, and again when he referred to those activities as "spying."

Specifically, he has said he wants to review whether the FBI had appropriate predicate for spying on the Trump campaign, for example, when it sought a surveillance warrant against former campaign adviser Carter Page.

Barr's assignment of Durham may indicate that his review of the origins warrants further investigation and action.

Separately, the DOJ's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is due to issue a report on his findings on whether the FBI acted improperly when investigating the Trump campaign and launching an investigation in July 2016.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed the U.S. attorney in Utah, John Huber, to review aspects of the Russia investigation, but it is unclear what he has been investigating or has found.

Trump nominated Durham for his current position in 2017, and Durham has conducted special investigations under administrations of both parties, according to the Times.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/13/attorney-general-William-Barr-appoints-us-attorney-to-look-into-origins-of-fbi-probe/

#6492363 at 2019-05-14 01:38:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8302: The John H Durham Edition

Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection efforts targeting the Trump campaign were "lawful and appropriate,
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/Barr-us-attorney-connecticut-surveillance-trump-campaign

#6492121 at 2019-05-14 01:03:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8302: The John H Durham Edition

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General William Barr has appointed a U.S. attorney to examine the origins of the Russia investigation and determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was "lawful and appropriate," a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Monday.

Barr appointed John Durham, the U.S. attorney in Connecticut, to conduct the inquiry, the person said. The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Durham's appointment comes about a month after Barr told members of Congress he believed "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign in 2016. He later said he didn't mean anything pejorative and was gathering a team to look into the origins of the special counsel's investigation.

Barr provided no details about what "spying" may have taken place but appeared to be alluding to a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on a former Trump associate, Carter Page, and the FBI's use of an informant while the bureau was investigating former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos.

Trump and his supporters have seized on both to accuse the Justice Department and the FBI of unlawfully spying on his campaign.

The inquiry, which will focus on whether the government's methods to collect intelligence relating to the Trump campaign were lawful and appropriate, is separate from an investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general. The agency's watchdog is also examining the Russia probe's origins and Barr has said he expects the watchdog report to be done in May or June.

Congressional Republicans have also indicated they intend to examine how the investigation that shadowed Trump's presidency for nearly two years began and whether there are any legal concerns.

The recently concluded investigation from special counsel Robert Mueller did not find a criminal conspiracy between the campaign and the Kremlin to tip the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.

Durham has previously investigated law enforcement corruption, the destruction of CIA videotapes and the Boston FBI office's relationship with mobsters.

In addition to conducting the inquiry, he will continue to serve as the chief federal prosecutor in Connecticut.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1128100718060158977

#6491389 at 2019-05-13 23:42:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8301: Attempts By Dems Will FAIL Edition

Let the good times roll!

As Rosenstein Departs, the Battlefield Is Now Ready

The Department of Justice on May 9 held a going-away ceremony for Rod Rosenstein, who is leaving after having served probably the most crucial role in the Trump administration for the past two years.

As Rosenstein makes his long-anticipated departure as deputy attorney general, the final pieces are moving into position on the battlefield that President Donald Trump has been carefully preparing for more than two years.

As I wrote in my column, "Trump Continues to Prepare the Battlefield," on Jan. 18, it was absolutely of paramount importance that Rosenstein leave the Justice Department (DOJ) before the prosecution phase of Spygate could begin. This is what I wrote:

"William Barr is coming in now to take over the next phase, while [Jeff] Sessions is free to appear as a witness and testify about what McCabe and the other plotters told him at the time they were trying to entrap him.

Do you know who would also have to leave his current job at the DOJ to be a participant in these prosecutions? Because like Sessions, he's involved a lot of this as a witness? Rod Rosenstein."

Moar at:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-rosenstein-departs-the-battlefield-is-now-ready_2921586.html

#6490873 at 2019-05-13 22:33:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8300: Hey cabal, do you hear that noise? Edition

As Rosenstein Leaves DOJ, How Will History Judge Him?
May 13, 2019 by Jeff Carlson, CFA

Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has evoked strong opinions across the political spectrum during his two-year tenure.

Interestingly, over the past month, there has been an inversion of people's opinions regarding him. Those on the left, who had been supporting him ever since he appointed special counsel Robert Mueller, are now claiming Rosenstein has been running interference for President Donald Trump. Those on the right, who felt Rosenstein betrayed the president with the appointment of Mueller, have begun to reassess his actions, following the publication of the Mueller report.

Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to the president on April 29, with an effective date of May 11. Rosenstein had previously discussed his intent to resign from his post when a new attorney general was confirmed, following the resignation of Jeff Sessions.

After the appointment of William Barr as attorney general in February, however, Rosenstein stayed on to assist Barr in guiding him through the Mueller report, upon Barr's request in mid-March.

Rosenstein, who had long overseen Mueller's investigation, had knowledge of the more intimate details of the case and its underlying focus. Additionally, Rosenstein had issued to Mueller two expanded scope memos-the first on Aug. 2, 2017, and the second on Oct. 20, 2017-just 10 days before the indictment of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his business partner, Richard Gates.

On March 24, 2019, Barr delivered his principal conclusions letter to Congress. He noted that the special counsel found no evidence of collusion, but also noted that the special counsel didn't draw a conclusion regarding obstruction. Barr told Congress that he and Rosenstein jointly concluded that the evidence presented by Mueller didn't "establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."

Barr later noted that "the Deputy Attorney General and I disagreed with some of the Special Counsel's legal theories."

In other words, Rosenstein not only had a direct hand in determining that Trump hadn't obstructed justice, but also disagreed with some of the special counsel's findings.

Long article, good info and timeline, covers SC appointment, wife and moar. Full article:

https://themarketswork.com/2019/05/13/as-rosenstein-leaves-doj-how-will-history-judge-him/

#6489736 at 2019-05-13 20:16:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8298: This Time Babylon Falls For Good Edition

Rosenstein Commencement Address

A few BOOMs in here.

Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein quoted special counsel Robert Mueller in remarks at the University of Baltimore School of Law commencement on Monday, emphasizing the need to stand by one's principles when under pressure.

"You need to be prepared to compromise when you can do so without violating your principles," Rosenstein said during remarks Monday afternoon. "Of course, you will face pressure to compromise on things that matter most, perhaps even to trade virtue for the appearance of virtue. But you should exercise caution when circumstances tempt you to disregard principles."

"As Robert Mueller once said, 'There [may] come a time when you will be tested. You may find yourself standing alone, against those you thought were trusted colleagues. You may stand to lose [all that] you have worked for. And [it may] not be an easy call,' " Rosenstein continued.

Rosenstein went on to advise the crowd of graduates that they would look back positively on difficult moments in which they stood their ground to defend their principles.

"Principles exist precisely for those moments. When you grow old and reflect on times you stood firmly for what was right although it was painful and costly, the most difficult occasions may rank among your finest moments," Rosenstein said.

Monday's address marked Rosenstein's first public appearance as a private citizen since stepping down from his post in the Trump administration just 48 hours earlier. Rosenstein withstood intense public scrutiny throughout his 16-month tenure as deputy attorney general, first for his role in authoring a memo used to justify James Comey's firing as FBI director and later for his appointment of Mueller as special counsel and oversight of the investigation into Russian interference.

Rosenstein quipped about the attention he attracted on Monday, sharing an anecdote in which he assured his daughter that deputy attorney general would be a "low-profile job."

"Before I went to Washington in 2017, my daughter asked whether I would get my picture in the newspaper. I said no. I told her that deputy attorney general is a low-profile job. Nobody knows the deputy attorney general," Rosenstein said Monday afternoon, prompting chuckles from the crowd. "I was mistaken about that."

"I knew when I started that deputy attorney general is usually a controversial job. It is one of those jobs where you frequently need to make decisions that leave someone aggrieved," Rosenstein continued. "One of my predecessors gave me some wise advice. He said, "In this job, you will never be more popular than on your first day.' He was right about that."

Rosenstein, a former U.S. attorney in Maryland, was a little-known figure before President Trump tapped him as the No. 2 Justice Department official at the beginning of his administration. Rosenstein worked under Attorney General Jeff Sessions and, after Sessions resigned at Trump's request, under Attorney General William Barr.

Rosenstein fell under fire from both Republicans and Democrats at various points during his time in the Trump administration.

An explosive report in The New York Times last September that Rosenstein suggested secretly taping Trump and recruiting other Cabinet members to invoke the 25th amendment to expel the president from office triggered massive speculation he would be fired. But Rosenstein, who fiercely criticized the Times's account, managed to hang on.

It was long expected that Rosenstein, who tapped Mueller as special counsel in May 2017, would leave soon after the conclusion of Mueller's investigation. Rosenstein submitted his resignation letter to Trump on April 29, less than two weeks after Barr released a redacted version of Mueller's final report.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rosenstein-quotes-mueller-in-commencement-address/ar-AABj5tW

#6489630 at 2019-05-13 20:00:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8298: This Time Babylon Falls For Good Edition

1 YEAR AGO FRIDAY

May 17 2018 13:30:25 (EST)
Q !4pRcUA0lBE ID: 349934 No.1444934 📁
May 17 2018 13:18:48 (EST)
>>1444808
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/05/17/report-inspector-general-will-declare-fbi-doj-broke-law-in-clinton-email-probe/📁
God Bless the United States of America.
D5.
Q
>>1444934
What had to happen first?
Think logically.
Think DOJ & FBI.
Think cleaning.
#64
Puzzle coming together?
'''We have reached our cruising altitude of 40,000 ft. long ago.
As we prepare to land, please fasten your seatbelt and make sure your seat back and folding trays are in their full upright position.'''
Q

"I'm landing the plane right now"
- Attorney General William Barr 4/27

New Deputy AG #2 incoming = Current #2 at Department of TRANSPORTATION (5/16 marks 2 years for Rosen @DoT)

This magnificent mobile metaphor is military grade. o7

#6489493 at 2019-05-13 19:39:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8298: This Time Babylon Falls For Good Edition

According to several former FBI officials and legal experts, it could be a potential minefield for Attorney General William Barr if he reviews the report and intends to use compelled information in any criminal prosecution against senior officials for allegedly violating the law with regard to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant, or other matters.

https://saraacarter.com/mine-field-if-Barr-has-any-intention-of-prosecuting-fisa-abuses-he-should-stay-clear-of-ig-report/?fbclid=IwAR1HUcenwAdL3tRkeXJRr8phFxGOsAJ8OCIOJ6OQnBmOMq9o43plbZQwv5k

#6489149 at 2019-05-13 18:56:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8298: This Time Babylon Falls For Good Edition

Mueller Report Proves That It's Time to Investigate the Investigators

Now that President Trump has been exonerated of the false accusations of collusion and obstruction, it is time to investigate the investigators.

The White House has justly praised the outcome of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation for clearing the president of the odious charges that have hung over his presidency since even before his inauguration. The Mueller report overall was favorable to the president, but it also should be remembered as the Mueller special counsel's final abuse of power. There were nearly 200 pages of irrelevancies about Russia collusion, but it couldn't disguise the fact that all of those alleged contacts between the Russians and the Trump campaign amounted to nothing, legally or substantively. And the fact remains that the institutional climate in the Justice Department has been so hostile to the president that we can be certain that, if there had been even a scintilla of evidence supporting a criminal indictment, it would have been pursued.

Liberal members of Congress and their media allies are furious with Attorney General William Barr because he blew up the Mueller report smear job before it was out of the box. The Mueller team wanted to drop its 448-page bomb on the American people, who then would have had to sort through the innuendo and fake legal analysis without context. To his great credit, the attorney general imposed necessary discipline on the release, explaining to Congress and the American people in stark terms that there was no collusion and no obstruction. For this truth-telling, he faces impeachment threats, not plaudits, from the Democratic-media swamp.

The continuing argument over "obstruction" fits with the evident agenda of the anti-Trump Mueller team to create lingering political difficulties for the president, even though he has been cleared of legal jeopardy. Some of the Mueller operation's so-called obstruction theories are ridiculous, such as that the president could not object to being targeted for investigation. Is it now a crime for someone falsely accused to be upset about it? Mueller presumes guilt and then refuses to "exonerate" President Trump. This turns our legal system upside down and shows the rule of law is no bar to smearing President Trump.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/mueller-report-proves-that-its-time-to-investigate-the-investigators/

#6488238 at 2019-05-13 16:56:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8297: Your Most Trusted Source of Information Edition

Ex-FBI Director Comey's indictments shows him as Keystone
Posted on May 13, 2019

https://grayseconomy.com/2019/05/13/ex-fbi-director-comeys-indictments-shows-him-as-keystone/

It appears this week that ex-FBI Director James Comey will face criminal charges for his role in lying to to the FISA Court in order to spy on the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

I believe this is a criminal referral stemming from Comey's congressional testimony and will be unsealed by Attorney General William Barr. This explains why Barr came under such attacks by the Dims last week with Contempt of Congress charges being weighed for not breaking the law by releasing the totally unredacted Mueller Report.

While Comey's indictment will be the tip of the iceberg, it will be the keystone between the career FBI/DOJ members who were corrupt and the Obama administration intelligence team.

Comey was well aware of the corruption going on with his deputy Andrew McCabe and his team of FBI Agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page. However Comey was also taking orders from then-AG Loretta Lynch as well as ex-CIA Director John Brennan and James Clapper, DIA director.

It should be an interesting week.

#6488035 at 2019-05-13 16:25:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8296: Trade War Goes Hot Edition

'House in Order?'

WRAY refusing to arrest [COMEY]………….

OVERRIDE ??


FBI Director Wray breaks with Attorney General Barr over whether the government 'spied' on Trump campaign

William Barr said spying occurred on the Trump campaign leading to political pushback and media frenzy; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-takes-swipe-at-fbi-director-wray-for-protecting-russia-probe-gang

#6487472 at 2019-05-13 14:48:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8296: Trade War Goes Hot Edition

>>6487460
To bens chilli bowl for dinner
Trust William Barr cia nigger
This board is filled with so many npcs
Whats it like not being alive or human "anons"

#6486989 at 2019-05-13 13:05:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8295: BOOM TIME Edition

Part of the Confirmation Hearing of William Barr that most people will not remember

"But I want to make something clear, and that is that this is a complex case. Most – we cannot – we have a standard at the Department of Justice, an indictment standard. We feel we need to have evidence sufficient to support an indictment in hand that we can prove our case in court. And a lot has been said about not wanting to have a political Justice Department. And I agree with that.
… indictment that should be laid down because of political influence.
… that is don't hand down an indictment because of political pressure. Don't lower the standard of indictment just because it's politically convenient….
… Justice is not and should not be driven by a political timetable. I don't know why the people feel we should be handing down indictments immediately…
… to influence the course of this case."

BECAUSE IT WAS FROM HIS FIRST AG NOMINATION PROCESS. This represents an amazing insight on what was to come for us here today. Right Person, Right Time, Right Understanding, Right Courage, Right Reasons.

SOURCE

The embed doesn't work to the exact time of the above statements go to 1 hour 7 minute mark and listen for just a minute or two.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?22668-1/Barr-confirmation-hearing-day-1&start=4024

#6486363 at 2019-05-13 08:31:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8294: The Almost Late Nite Edition

William Barr Is Blocking The Release Of Another Report, This One Involving Twitter

https://www.inquisitr.com/5433949/William-Barr-is-blocking-the-release-of-another-report-this-one-involving-twitter/


While the nation remains transfixed on the ongoing legal showdown between Congress and Attorney General William Barr over the Mueller Report, a much less known controversy regarding the attorney general has continued to unfold, as the ACLU detailed in a blog post published on Friday. This one has less to do with Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and more to do with the social media platform Twitter, not to mention American privacy in general.

For five years, Twitter has attempted to publicize a transparency report which would include statistics detailing the frequency with which the U.S. government requests user data from Twitter. The government continues to push back against that report being made public.

As far back as 2014, Twitter sent its initial report in for review, with the government telling the company that they could not publicize it. The reasoning, they said, was that the report contained classified information. Twitter responded with a lawsuit claiming that blocking the release of the report constituted a violation of the company's First Amendment rights.

The government then claimed in a secret and sealed brief presented to the judge alone (not Twitter's lawyers), that substantial harm could come as a result of Twitter publishing its transparency report, the ACLU explained.

The judge, however, was not persuaded. The case, Twitter, Inc. v. Barr, was dismissed.

#6486362 at 2019-05-13 08:31:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8294: The Almost Late Nite Edition

Bill Barr blocking release of Twitter report
https://www.inquisitr.com/5433949/William-Barr-is-blocking-the-release-of-another-report-this-one-involving-twitter/

#6486153 at 2019-05-13 06:58:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8294: The Almost Late Nite Edition

>>6486143
Agree. Plus Venezuela.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/did-the-us-recycle-a-bush-era-plan-to-take-out-venezuelas-power-grid/256113/

http://themillenniumreport.com/2019/02/William-Barr-and-the-iran-contra-scandal/

https://www.globalresearch.ca/ciabushiran-contra-covert-operative-fixer-William-Barr-nominated-attorney-general/5662609

Barr is dirty as fuck. Bolton is the definition of neocon. Add in Kushner. Then consider how Sheldon Adelson basically secured Repub nomination for Trump. Etc etc.

#6484358 at 2019-05-13 02:21:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8292: TRUTH TO LIGHT Edition

And We Now Know He Was Being Falsely Accused! Who Doesn't Love This Guy, Bill Barr The Hero That Knows The Law

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: 60 Seconds By Attorney General William Barr
Posted on May 3, 2019 by DCWhispers

If you don't understand why the far left is in such a tizzy this past week via their increasingly shrill attacks against Attorney General William Barr all you need to do is listen to this one-minute video which outlines what the D.C. Swamp has been up to and what AG Barr is preparing to unleash against them. This counter-offensive by the Trump administration against the Deep State will include both politicians and some in the media and they know it and are running very scared right now.

Within the next month or so there will be an IG report coming out and then the real fireworks will begin...

Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/in-case-you-missed-it-60-seconds-by-attorney-general-William-Barr/#c52BoJbREf3gJMWH.99

#6482733 at 2019-05-13 00:20:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8289: Baked Once, Baked Again Edition

Another congressional witness interview transcript may be made public in the coming days.

Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said on Wednesday he is preparing to release a transcript next week.

"Get ready for that. I would tell everybody to stay close to Twitter, stay close for the next few weeks. We're releasing the rest of those," Collins, R-Ga., said on Fox News.
Asked by host Sean Hannity if it would be this week, Collins said the wait would be a little longer as Democrats feud with Attorney General William Barr over access to special counsel Robert Mueller's full report.

"Probably not this week, but we're getting ready for next week," he said. "We want to let the Democrats – their hypocrisy shine this week. And we're going to get back and watch what Bill Barr is doing, and we're going to get back exposing this to the American people."

Over the past few months Collins has released several interview transcripts from the Judiciary Committee's investigation into the apparent wrongdoing at the FBI and Justice Department. Among them are the interviews of former FBI agent Peter Strzok, former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, former top FBI official Bill Priestap, and former FBI General Counsel James Baker.

It is unclear which transcript will be released next. Hannity said he is aware of 53 more interviews conducted behind closed doors, the same number of interview transcripts the House Intelligence Committee voted last fall to release from its Russia investigation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doug-collins-getting-ready-for-a-transcript-release-next-week

#6480168 at 2019-05-12 17:00:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8286: Happy Mother's Day Edition

MIKE WHITNEY: "JUDGMENT DAY FOR JOHN BRENNAN"

Sometime in the next 4 weeks, the Justice Department's inspector general will release an internal review that will reveal the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Among other matters, the IG's report is expected to determine "whether there was sufficient justification under existing guidelines for the FBI to have started an investigation in the first place." Critics of the Trump-collusion probe believe that there was never probable cause that a crime had been committed, therefore, there was no legal basis for launching the investigation. The findings of the Mueller report- that there was no cooperation or collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign- seem to underscore this broader point and suggest that the fictitious Trump-Russia connection was merely a pretext for spying on the campaign of a Beltway outsider whose political views clashed with those of the foreign policy establishment. In any event, the upcoming release of the Horowitz report will formally end the the first phase of the long-running Russiagate scandal and mark the beginning of Phase 2, in which high-profile officials from the previous administration face criminal prosecution for their role in what looks to be a botched attempt at a coup d'etat.

Here's a brief summary from political analyst, Larry C. Johnson, who previously worked at the CIA and U.S. State Department:

"The evidence is plain-there was a broad, coordinated effort by the Obama Administration, with the help of foreign governments, to target Donald Trump and paint him as a stooge of Russia. The Mueller Report provides irrefutable evidence that the so-called Russian collusion case against Donald Trump was a deliberate fabrication by intelligence and law enforcement organizations in the US and UK and organizations aligned with the Clinton Campaign." ("How US and Foreign Intel Agencies Interfered in a US Election", Larry C. Johnson, Consortium News)

Bingo. Attorney General William Barr has already stated his belief that spying on the Trump campaign "did occur" and that, in his mind, it is "a big deal". He also reiterated his commitment to thoroughly investigate the matter in order to find out whether the spying was adequately "predicated", that is, whether the FBI followed the required protocols for such spying, or not. Barr already knows the answer to this question as he is fully aware of the fact that the FBI used information that they knew was false to obtain warrants to spy on the Trump campaign. Having no hard evidence of cooperation with the Kremlin, senior-level FBI officials and their counterparts at the Obama Justice Department used parts of an "opposition research" document (The Trump Dossier) that they knew was unreliable to procure warrants that allowed them to treat a presidential campaign the same way the intelligence agencies treat foreign enemies; using electronic surveillance, wiretapping, confidential informants and "honey trap" schemes designed to gather emBarrassing or incriminating information on their target. Barr knows all of this already which is why the Democrats are doing everything in their power to discredit him and have him removed from office. His determination to "get to the bottom of this" is not just a threat to the FBI, it's a threat to multiple agencies that may have had a hand in this expansive domestic espionage operation including the CIA, the NSA, the DOJ, the State Department and, perhaps, even the Obama White House. No one knows yet how far up the political food-chain the skulduggery actually goes, but Barr appears to be serious about finding out.

Here's Barr again: "Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant....I would like to find out whether that is in fact true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it's being represented."

In other words, Barr knows that the Trump campaign was riddled with spies and he is going to do his damnedest to find out what happened. He also knows that the FISA warrants were improperly obtained using the shabby disinformation from an opposition research "hit piece" (The Steele Dossier) that was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC, just like he knows that government agents had concocted a strategy for leaking classified information to the media to fuel the public hysteria. Barr knows most of what happened already. It's just a matter of compiling the research in the proper format and delivering it in a way that helps to emphasize how trusted government agents abused their power by pursuing a vicious partisan plot to either destroy the president's reputation or force him from office. Like Barr said, that's a "big deal".





https://southfront.org/mike-whitney-judgment-day-for-john-brennan/

#6479922 at 2019-05-12 16:09:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8286: Happy Mother's Day Edition

Former Supreme Court justice: Trump 'exercising powers that do not really belong to him'

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens said he is concerned President Trump is crossing a line in refusing to comply with House subpoenas. "I think there are things we should be concerned about, there's no doubt about that," the 99-year-old told the Wall Street Journal. "The president is exercising powers that do not really belong to him. I mean, he has to comply with subpoenas and things like that," he said.

The standoff between the Trump administration and the Democratic-controlled House has escalated in recent weeks after the White House ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn and the former personnel security director to not comply with subpoenas. The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress after Trump asserted executive privilege over special counsel Robert Mueller's report and the underlying evidence.

If the dispute ends up at the Supreme Court, Stevens said it's obvious the justices should rule in favor of the House. "I wouldn't want to predict that anybody's going to take the incorrect view," he said. "But certainly, the correct view is pretty clear." Stevens, who retired in 2010, was nominated by Republican President Gerald Ford and went on to be part of the court's liberal bloc.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/former-supreme-court-justice-trump-exercising-powers-that-do-not-really-belong-to-him

#6475706 at 2019-05-12 01:12:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8280: Movin' into Evening Edition

Notables

'''It's a Trap! Giuliani Cancels Ukraine Trip, Fearing a 'Setup'.

After a full day of media hysteria, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani announced Friday evening that he has canceled his trip to Ukraine. "I've decided I'm not going to go to Ukraine, Giuliani told Fox News' Shannon Bream. He said that the reason he bailed is because he has discovered that the president of Ukraine is surrounded by political enemies and is convinced that he was about to walk into a trap.

Giuliani had planned "to visit Kiev and meet with president-elect Volodymyr Zelensky to ask that Ukraine pursue investigations into two matters," the Washington Examiner reported:

… the origin of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and the involvement of Joe Biden's son in an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch. Last week Giuliani called for Biden to be investigated for a trip he made in 2016 when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees if Ukraine did not dismiss Viktor Shokin, the country's then-prosecutor general. Biden's son, Hunter, stood to gain financially from having Shokin removed.
The New York Times opined on Thursday that "Mr. Giuliani's plans create the remarkable scene of a lawyer for the president of the United States pressing a foreign government to pursue investigations that Mr. Trump's allies hope could help him in his reelection campaign and it comes after Mr. Trump spent more than half of his term facing questions about whether his 2016 campaign conspired with a foreign power."

What the Times forgot to mention is that the reason Mr. Trump has been facing questions is because his team was set up by foreign spies. Giuliani was traveling to Ukraine to encourage the government there to get to the bottom of it.

Giuliani told Bream, "I wasn't going to start an investigation – they already have an investigation of how Ukrainians helped the DNC and Hillary operatives to get, in some cases false, dirty information about the Trump campaign." He also said he believes that parts of the Steele dossier were written in Ukraine.

Giuliani said that there were fears that the Ukrainian president-elect "would be surrounded by literally enemies of the president" who were involved in the 2016 Russia collusion hoax.

Giuliani insisted that his trip had "nothing to do with 2020," because if he wanted to meddle in that election, he would have waited a year and "dropped it right before the convention."

He explained that he came across the information by investigating Ukrainian collusion with Democrats to create the false narrative against Trump and affect the election.

He added enticingly: "In the next three to four months, you're going to find out all about that, including the corruption that went on with the Steele dossier and the corruption that went on with Papadopoulos and the way he was set up. It's all part of one large conspiracy that has two or three parts to it."

Giuliani said he decided not to go to Ukraine because he would have been "walking into a group of people who are enemies of the president, in some cases enemies of the United States, and in one case, an already convicted person who has been found to be involved in assisting the Democrats with the 2016 presidential election – a gentleman by the name of Leshchenko who supplied a black book that was found to be fraudulent."

Giuliani was referring to Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament who was accused in his home country of interfering in the 2016 U.S. election.
According to the Examiner, Trump mentioned that he was "curious" to hear from Giuliani about the trip. "Certainly it would be an appropriate thing" to speak to Attorney General William Barr about, Trump said in an interview that was published before Giuliani backed out of the excursion. "It could be a very big situation."

But that was before he backed out.

The Trump Justice Department has thus far been uninterested in the evidence being offered by the Ukrainians, and it's not clear why. Part of the problem, a top Ukrainian official told The Hill's John Solomon, could be that the U.S. embassy in Kiev has been refusing to provide Ukrainian law enforcement officials with visas so they can deliver their evidence to Washington.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/its-a-trap-giuliani-cancels-ukraine-trip-fearing-set-up/

#6469372 at 2019-05-11 05:49:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8272: Friday Nighshift Diggin and Giggin Edition

>>6469351
Just before the release of the Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr reminded Congress that another report is coming soon(to a theater near (you)).

#6468950 at 2019-05-11 04:27:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8272: Friday Nighshift Diggin and Giggin Edition

it's always interesting to read the comments on videos:

may 9, 2019, rod rosenstein resign ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTMARon-qk

in comments:
Key phrase by Barr here: "Getting the old band back together." Why? Well, so many don't realize that starting back in 1980's and lasting through the late 1990's, Donald J. Trump was helping the Mafia Commission at the FBI take down the "Five Families.' (As someone in construction and casinos, he had much info to offer about them!)

So… Who led the Mafia Commission prosecution? Rudy Giuliani.

Who led the Gambino prosecution? Robert Mueller, who was USAG for the DOJ Criminal Division between 1990-1993.

Who was working for Mueller at DOJ, during this time? Rod Rosenstein.

And who was the Deputy Attorney General between May 1990 and 26 November, 1992, before becoming the Attorney-General?
William Barr.

I do not think the Democrats fully understand the rope-a-dope they've inflicted upon themselves with making Mueller their savior to "get Trump." THIS IS NOT GOING TO END THE WAY THEY WANT IT TO

also:
I can land the plane." Sadly, that's now the line we'll always remember him by. Sometimes, slippery survivors just slip.

(Rosenstein said this?? I don't know where or when he said this)

#6463849 at 2019-05-10 18:40:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8265: Bake Someone Happy Edition

US Security Experts Raise Questions About China's Fentanyl Promise

WASHINGTON-China has pledged to stem a flood of the synthetic opioid fentanyl onto America's streets, where it kills thousands of people a month, but U.S. security experts are skeptical about whether Beijing is willing, or even able, to follow through. Ten current and former U.S. officials, congressional sources and China and trade experts told Reuters in interviews that China cooperates only when it believes it will get something in return. In this case, several said, Beijing appears to have offered its help so that it could get the best deal possible from Washington in trade negotiations. "Will they enforce this, or is this just another gesture to be used to secure something they want?" said Robin Cleveland, vice chair of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which monitors the national security impact of bilateral trade and economic ties. "I think they would hope to leverage it in some meaningful way in the context of trade talks," she said.

Those trade talks ran into trouble this week with China backtracking on earlier commitments to change its laws in key areas, including intellectual property rights, trade secrets, forced technology transfers, access to financial services and currency manipulation, Reuters reported on May 8, citing U.S. government and private-sector sources. President Donald Trump responded to China by vowing to raise tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods from 10 to 25 percent on Friday. Unless resolved in a new round of negotiations, the mounting tensions over trade could derail China's cooperation on fentanyl. "They are not going to do it, the record says, unless they get a trade deal, or we threaten them in the absence of a trade deal," said Derek Scissors, an expert on Sino-U.S. economic relations at the American Enterprise Institute think-tank. "They can stop this if they want, but they won't unless they see a deal."

An explosion in the use of fentanyl, an opioid painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin, and its analogues has driven the most devastating chapter of America's long-running opioid crisis, U.S. law enforcement agencies say, and China accounts for most of the fentanyl and fentanyl analogues seized. The United States recorded more than 28,000 synthetic opioid-related overdose deaths in 2017, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the majority of them fentanyl-related.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised Trump at a summit in Argentina in December that Beijing would crack down on flows of all fentanyl-related substances. In April, China pledged that from May 1 it would expand the list of narcotics subject to state control to the more than 1,400 known fentanyl analogues, which have a slightly different chemical makeup but are all addictive and potentially deadly, as well as any new ones developed in the future. Fentanyl and all of its analogues are controlled substances subject to strict regulation in the United States. China's Ministry of Public Security, National Health Commission and National Medical Products Administration-the departments responsible for the new rules-did not respond to requests for comment on this story. The White House did not respond to requests for comment.

The regulatory change is supposed to shut down the operations of illicit producers and traffickers who advertise and sell fentanyl products on video websites including Google's YouTube and Vimeo, and on the Dark Web. They deliver the drugs to the U.S. market mainly in the mail, through express delivery services or trans-shipping them through Mexico and Canada.

Trump's attorney general, William Barr, has said it is too soon to claim victory. "Whether the Chinese ... actually deliver on it from an enforcement standpoint remains to be seen," Barr testified at a House of Representatives budget hearing in April.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-security-experts-raise-questions-about-chinas-fentanyl-promise_2916293.html

#6462724 at 2019-05-10 16:13:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8264: Something Habbening This Way Comes Edition

Trump Hits 46 Percent Approval, Record High in Gallup Poll

A record high percentage of Americans approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, according to polling by Gallup.

The approval rating hit 46 percent in the April 17-April 30 poll, coinciding with the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report, which established that the 2016 Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to influence the election.

The report contrasted with the incessant coverage in legacy media that was largely supportive of the collusion narrative and, at times, false. The public response to the news appears to be reflected in the poll.

Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama, had an approval rating of 43 percent to 44 percent at the same point of his first term in the Gallup poll.

Trump's previous highs in the poll hit 45 percent in March, as Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the Mueller report; in June 2018, after Trump's historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and, in January 2017, just after his inauguration.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-hits-46-percent-approval-record-high-in-gallup-poll_2910560.html

#6462629 at 2019-05-10 15:54:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8264: Something Habbening This Way Comes Edition

Schiff Mulls Daily $25,000 Fine for Trump Officials Who Defy Subpoenas

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is considering using a rarely-invoked Congressional power to fine Trump-administration officials up to $25,000 per day for evading subpoenas. Schiff told the attendees at an Axios event that he would prefer hefty fines to jail time for Trump-administration officials who fail to comply with requests from Democrat-led committee investigations in the House of Representatives. "One thing we are considering ... is whether we need to revive Congress's inherent contempt power, such that we would have our own adjudication of the Congress and we would levy fines on those who are not cooperating until they produce what they are compelled to produce," Schiff said, according to The Hill. "I think it's much more practical to consider levying individual fines on the person, not the office, until they comply," he added. "You could fine someone $25,000 a day until they comply and that would probably get their attention." Congressional contempt powers are rarely invoked and allow for the detention of an individual at the Capitol or the issuance of fines.

Schiff is one of several Democratic committee chairmen who have issued subpoenas to Trump administration officials as wells the president's associates and family members. On May 9, Schiff issued a subpoena to Attorney General William Barr requesting the full unredacted report by special counsel Robert Mueller and the foreign intelligence and counterintelligence information gathered during the course of Mueller's investigation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would have the ultimate word on whether to invoke contempt powers to fine Trump officials, Schiff said. Doing so would be a "big step," he added.

"We are looking through the history and studying the law to make sure we're on solid ground," Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said. "That's a big step but, look, if we're going to consider other big steps like impeachment, we have to consider steps like inherent contempt that will allow us to get the information we need." "If there is going to be this across the board stonewalling, we are going to have to consider extraordinary remedies," he added.

On May 8, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee voted to recommend that the full House find Barr in contempt for defying a subpoena for the full Mueller report. Republicans unanimously opposed the move and criticized Democrats using the contempt proceeding as a way to discredit Barr as the attorney general looks into whether the spying on Trump's campaign during the 2016 election was politically motivated. In response to the Democrats' move and a request from Barr, the White House asserted executive privilege over the Mueller report. Presidents can exercise the executive privilege to prevent the disclosure of internal deliberations within the executive branch. The Justice Department, to which the special counsel answers, is part of the executive branch.

Mueller finished a 22-month investigation in March, concluding there is no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also decided against charging Trump with obstruction of justice. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reviewed Mueller's findings on obstruction and determined there is not enough evidence to bring a case.

The White House also asserted executive privilege to prevent former White House Counsel Don McGahn from testifying. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) threatened McGahn with contempt proceedings if the former White House Counsel does not appear in response to the subpoena by May 21.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/schiff-mulls-daily-25000-fine-for-trump-officials-who-defy-subpoenas_2916103.html