8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (4,757)
#6389189 at 2019-05-02 03:28:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8170: Act I Is Over Edition
Clinton slams Barr: He's acting as Trump's defense lawyer, not attorney general
Hillary Clinton attacked Attorney General William Barr after his Wednesday testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In an MSNBC interview, Clinton said that Barr's conduct regarding special counsel Robert Mueller's report was not professional, and she thinks Barr is working for Trump rather than for the people.
"I think he is doing the job he was hired to do. He auditioned for the job with his 19-page memo basically saying there is no such thing as obstruction of justice when it comes to a president. He was hired to make sure that was a reality," Clinton said. "He has behaved in that way."
Prior to becoming attorney general, Barr sent an unsolicited memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein warning the Justice Department that the Mueller investigation could do lasting damage to the presidency. "I think that the Democrats on the committee did a good job today in exposing that he is the president's defense lawyer, he is not the attorney general of the United States," she said.
Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday and was scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, although the Justice Department has since announced he will not show up to the hearing, citing "unprecedented" conditions put on by Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/clinton-slams-Barr-hes-acting-as-trumps-defense-lawyer-not-attorney-general
#6388506 at 2019-05-02 02:14:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8169: Wednesday Winning Edition
>>6388408
Execution by lethal injection is too lenient for Hildebeast
BREAKING: During an MSNBC interview tonight, Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is not worried if Attorney General William Barr reopens investigations of her, because
"There's no there, there, and there never has been."
twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1123771448470986754
#6388242 at 2019-05-02 01:48:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8169: Wednesday Winning Edition
Barr was illmatic today, watching the whole video on CSPAN
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee&playEvent
#6387423 at 2019-05-02 00:22:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8168: May 1st. The Day They Became Undone Edition
>>6387079 (PB) Barr makes Da Nang sweat.
>>6387079 (PB)
>>6387260 (PB)
>screenshots don't do the moment justice. He visibly shit a brick. I'd cut a vid for you but I'm a tard when it comes to that. Havne't been able to find the full Da Nang clip either
Alright. I made an anon clip at cspan. The crappening is at 2 min mark in this clip. Rougfhly the 3hr 40 min mark in the full cspan vid
https://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4795483/18-cases-danang-dick
Full vid
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee&playEvent&start=13104
#6386826 at 2019-05-01 23:16:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8167: Barr in Congress Edition
>>6386798
>Old news that was yesterday.
5-1-19
Nadler threatens contempt citation against Barr
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is threatening a contempt citation against Attorney General William Barr if the Justice Department (DOJ) does not comply with a subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted report.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday evening, Nadler said that if he is unable to reach a "reasonable" agreement with the DOJ "in the next day or two" he would seek a contempt citation against Barr.
#6386656 at 2019-05-01 23:03:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8167: Barr in Congress Edition
Barr will be subpoenaed if he fails to appear at House hearing: Democrat
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr will be subpoenaed if does not appear for a hearing of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Democratic Representative Hakeem Jeffries said on Wednesday.
"We plan on subpoenaing him if he decides not to show up. He can run but he can't hide," Jeffries told reporters.
Barr might skip the hearing on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report because he objects to plans for an extra hour of questioning that would include committee lawyers, a Democratic congressional aide said on Sunday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-Barr-jeffries/Barr-will-be-subpoenaed-if-he-fails-to-appear-at-house-hearing-democrat-idUSKCN1S74RD?il=0
#6385834 at 2019-05-01 21:47:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8166: Our Research Marches On Edition
Kamala Harris calls for Barr to resign.
Ridiculous safe-space logic being spread through leftist ranks.
https://splinternews.com/kamala-harris-makes-William-Barr-look-like-a-bumbling-i-1834453529
#6385786 at 2019-05-01 21:40:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8166: Our Research Marches On Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
>>6364968 There are captchas for every post now
Notables
are not endorsements
#8165
>>6385043, >>6385064 John Solomon Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails
>>6385066 Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009
>>6385113 Missing Children's Statistics, where are the children?!
>>6385178, >>6385181 BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes in Oklahoma
>>6385194 FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
>>6385214 Nicholas Sandmann files $275 mil defamation suit against MSNBC & NBC
>>6385222 BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school
>>6385232 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business
>>6385241 President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan
>>6385245 U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX
>>6385250 Judicial Watch Sues Health and Human Services for Documents on Human Fetal Tissue Used in 'Humanized Mice' Testing
>>6385253 massive fire at recycling plant in Knoxville, TN
>>6385277 AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review
>>6385295 Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro says he won't run for Senate next year in Texas
>>6385310, >>6385443 Planefag updates
>>6385198 Admiral Ace Lyons Destroys Obama after John Kerry Introduces Him
>>6385338 Southcomm is observing situation in Venezuela
>>6385362 U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video 'I want to live'
>>6385376 Louisiana House to debate lethal injection secrecy bill
>>6385392 Epoch times on RR is he a hero?
>>6385395 Don't Call it a Coup. Venezuelans Have a Right to Replace an Oppressive, Toxic Regime.
>>6385403 IAFF DIDN'T LIKE POTUS TWEETING ABOUT CA 'WILDFIRES' so they endorsed Biden?
>>6385487 Army VIP G5 R1944 departs Andrews immediately after VENUS41
>>6385491 Hundreds of thousands of bees killed after hives attacked & set on fire
>>6385500 Watch this from @tedcruz. He's absolutely right
>>6385636 Protesters disrupt House session over sanctuary cities bill, in Florida
>>6385658 U.S. Fed sees no strong case for hiking or cutting rates
>>6385702 #8165
Previously Collected Notables
>>6384918 #8164,
>>6382615 #8161, >>6383403 #8162, >>6384269 #8163
>>6380297 #8158, >>6381081 #8159, >>6381842 #8160
>>6378006 #8155, >>6378775 #8156, >>6379541 #8157
>>6375695 #8152, >>6376427 #8153, >>6377229 #8154
>>6373294 #8149, >>6374081 #8150, >>6374904 #8151
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6385702 at 2019-05-01 21:33:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
>>6385043, >>6385064 John Solomon Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails
>>6385066 Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009
>>6385113 Missing Children's Statistics, where are the children?!
>>6385178, >>6385181 BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes in Oklahoma
>>6385194 FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
>>6385214 Nicholas Sandmann files $275 mil defamation suit against MSNBC & NBC
>>6385222 BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school
>>6385232 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business
>>6385241 President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan
>>6385245 U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX
>>6385250 Judicial Watch Sues Health and Human Services for Documents on Human Fetal Tissue Used in 'Humanized Mice' Testing
>>6385253 massive fire at recycling plant in Knoxville, TN
>>6385277 AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review
>>6385295 Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro says he won't run for Senate next year in Texas
>>6385310, >>6385443 Planefag updates
>>6385198 Admiral Ace Lyons Destroys Obama after John Kerry Introduces Him
>>6385338 Southcomm is observing situation in Venezuela
>>6385362 U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video 'I want to live'
>>6385376 Louisiana House to debate lethal injection secrecy bill
>>6385392 Epoch times on RR is he a hero?
>>6385395 Don't Call it a Coup. Venezuelans Have a Right to Replace an Oppressive, Toxic Regime.
>>6385403 IAFF DIDN'T LIKE POTUS TWEETING ABOUT CA 'WILDFIRES' so they endorsed Biden?
>>6385487 Army VIP G5 R1944 departs Andrews immediately after VENUS41
>>6385491 Hundreds of thousands of bees killed after hives attacked & set on fire
>>6385500 Watch this from @tedcruz. He's absolutely right
>>6385636 Protesters disrupt House session over sanctuary cities bill, in Florida
>>6385658 U.S. Fed sees no strong case for hiking or cutting rates
amended
NOTABLES
#6385626 at 2019-05-01 21:25:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
>>6385043, >>6385064 John Solomon Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails
>>6385066 Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009
>>6385113 Missing Children's Statistics, where are the children?!
>>6385178, >>6385181 BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes in Oklahoma
>>6385194 FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
>>6385214 Nicholas Sandmann files $275 mil defamation suit against MSNBC & NBC
>>6385222 BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school
>>6385232 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business
>>6385241 President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan
>>6385245 U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX
>>6385250 Judicial Watch Sues Health and Human Services for Documents on Human Fetal Tissue Used in 'Humanized Mice' Testing
>>6385253 massive fire at recycling plant in Knoxville, TN
>>6385277 AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review
>>6385295 Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro says he won't run for Senate next year in Texas
>>6385310 GTMO844 Heading out
>>6385198 Admiral Ace Lyons Destroys Obama after John Kerry Introduces Him
>>6385338 Southcomm is observing situation in Venezuela
>>6385362 U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video 'I want to live'
>>6385376 Louisiana House to debate lethal injection secrecy bill
>>6385392 Epoch times on RR is he a hero?
>>6385392 Epoch times on RR is he a hero?
>>6385395 Don't Call it a Coup. Venezuelans Have a Right to Replace an Oppressive, Toxic Regime.
>>6385403 IAFF DIDN'T LIKE POTUS TWEETING ABOUT CA 'WILDFIRES' so they endorsed Biden?
>>6385443 USAF G5 VENUS41 departs Andrews AFB
>>6385487 Army VIP G5 R1944 departs Andrews immediately after VENUS41
>>6385491 Hundreds of thousands of bees killed after hives attacked & set on fire
>>6385500 Watch this from @tedcruz. He's absolutely right.
NOTABLES
#6385573 at 2019-05-01 21:22:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/01/james-comey-William-Barr-rod-rosenstein-1296662
I bet Comey knows all about eating 'souls'
=well, bless his soul==
#6385527 at 2019-05-01 21:18:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
>>6385043, >>6385064 John Soloon Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails
>>6385066 Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009
>>6385082 Airplane crashes at Sedona Airport
>>6385113 Missing Children's Statistics, where are the children?!
>>6385178, >>6385181 BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes in Oklahoma
>>6385194 FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
>>6385214 Nicholas Sandmann files $275 mil defamation suit against MSNBC & NBC
>>6385222 BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school
>>6385232 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business
>>6385241 President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan
>>6385245 U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX
>>6385250 Judicial Watch Sues Health and Human Services for Documents on Human Fetal Tissue Used in 'Humanized Mice' Testing
>>6385253 massive fire at recycling plant in Knoxville, TN
>>6385277 AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review
>>6385295 Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro says he won't run for Senate next year in Texas
>>6385310 GTMO844 Heading out
>>6385198 Admiral Ace Lyons Destroys Obama after John Kerry Introduces Him
>>6385338 Southcomm is observing situation in Venezuela
>>6385362 U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video 'I want to live'
>>6385376 Louisiana House to debate lethal injection secrecy bill
>>6385392 Epoch times on RR is he a hero?
>>6385392 Epoch times on RR is he a hero?
>>6385395 Don't Call it a Coup. Venezuelans Have a Right to Replace an Oppressive, Toxic Regime.
>>6385403 IAFF DIDN'T LIKE POTUS TWEETING ABOUT CA 'WILDFIRES' so they endorsed Biden?
>>6385443 USAF G5 VENUS41 departs Andrews AFB
>>6385487 Army VIP G5 R1944 departs Andrews immediately after VENUS41
>>6385491 Hundreds of thousands of bees killed after hives attacked & set on fire
>>6385500 Watch this from @tedcruz. He's absolutely right.
NOTABLES
#6385392 at 2019-05-01 21:06:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
Reposting
Rod Rosenstein: Hero
On April 29, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein submitted his long-awaited resignation letter to President Donald Trump, the man who had selected him for what turned out to be one of the most crucial jobs in his entire administration.
Controversy has swirled around Rosenstein since he was sworn in on April 26, 2017, following his confirmation hearings. He stepped into that top job almost two months after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself, on March 1, 2017, from all 2016 election-related DOJ investigations.
Sessions's recusal meant that his deputy was going to play a crucial role. And indeed, Rosenstein had little time to become acclimated to the new job; by early May, he was thickly involved in Trump's decision to fire James Comey as FBI director.
Rosenstein was originally scheduled to leave in mid-March this year, but new Attorney General William Barr asked him to stay on until the Mueller special counsel's report was finished and released, and Rosenstein agreed.
Rosenstein ended his resignation letter to the president this way:
"We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls. We ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter, because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle.
We keep the faith, we follow the rules, and we always put America first."
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Rosenstein ended his resignation letter with the words "America first," Trump's own slogan.
For more than two years, I've watched various commentators sell narratives to the public about how a bewildered Trump kept being outmaneuvered by the man I've sarcastically dubbed "The Nefarious Rod Rosenstein," a smirking traitor at his elbow who was supposedly helping to plot a coup against him.
Some people just can't shake this firmly held belief that Trump is the world's worst player at the game of "Spot The Traitor."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rod-rosenstein-hero_2901409.html
#6385388 at 2019-05-01 21:06:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
>>6385043, >>6385064 John Soloon Nellie Ohr's 'Hi Honey' emails
>>6385066 Glenn Simpson and Lisa Holtyn attended the same conference, the Wilton Park Conference, between June 25 - 27, 2009
>>6385082 Airplane crashes at Sedona Airport
>>6385113 Missing Children's Statistics, where are the children?!
>>6385164 Truth about Huma that Media Matters DOESN'T want Americans to see
>>6385178, >>6385181 BREAKING: Military Plane Crashes in Oklahoma
>>6385194 FCC Commissioner Demands Answers from AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon on Phone Location Data
>>6385214 Nicholas Sandmann files $275 mil defamation suit against MSNBC & NBC
>>6385222 BREAKING: Large police presence reported at Las Vegas high school
>>6385232 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business
>>6385241 President Trump will be interviewed TONIGHT by Trish Regan
>>6385245 U.S. House panel aims for May 15 hearing on Boeing 737 MAX
>>6385250 Judicial Watch Sues Health and Human Services for Documents on Human Fetal Tissue Used in 'Humanized Mice' Testing
>>6385253 massive fire at recycling plant in Knoxville, TN
>>6385277 AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review
>>6385295 Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro says he won't run for Senate next year in Texas
>>6385310 GTMO844 Heading out
>>6385198 Admiral Ace Lyons Destroys Obama after John Kerry Introduces Him
>>6385338 Southcomm is observing situation in Venezuela
>>6385362 U.S. hospital set to euthanize elderly woman who says on video 'I want to live'
NOTABLES
another big bun…. pepe is proud!
#6385294 at 2019-05-01 20:57:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
@drawandstrike's breakdown of the hearing. (1 of 2)
Thoughts, anons?
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1123676143478034433
Of course Harris misses the revelation here from Barr.
YES Rosenstein is going to be a KEY WITNESS in the coming trials.
She thinks that should DISQUALIFY him from making deciu while he was in charge of the Mueller Special Counsel.
LISTEN CAREFULLY to what Barr repeats to her several times:
RR was *cleared* by the ethics officials to be the acting Attorney General supervising the Mueller Special Counsel *long before Barr got there.
RR was cleared and given the thumbs up to be BOTH a witness AND make decisions while handling the Mueller SC.
This happened…when?
WHEN HE WAS APPOINTED.
Sessions recused himself on March 2, 2017.
Rosenstein was confirmed to the DAG job on April 25, 2017.
Can you all grasp what that means? Because it went right over Harris' head.
Jeff Sessions had been recused from handling *any* of the Russia/election-related investigations for almost two months at the time Rosenstein was finally confirmed by the Senate on April 25, 2017.
That means his being cleared to be a WITNESS against certain people while *simultaneously* running all these investigations - including the Mueller probe - was discussed and CLEARED beforehand with the ethics department of the DOJ.
What
does
that
tell
you?
When I wrot that column I had no idea AG William Barr was gonna come RIGHT OUT AND SAY today that RR was cleared by the DOJ ethics dept. to be a WITNESS in Russia/election-related DOJ cases while *at the same time* managing/overseeing those cases & making decisions about them.
(continued)
#6385277 at 2019-05-01 20:56:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
AG William Barr Outlines Scope/Timeline of OIG FISA Review...
During a round of questioning with Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) AG William Barr was asked about scale and scope of the current IG investigation [04:22 prompted]. In response to the question AG Barr replies:
"I don't want to be too specific; I talked to Mike Horowitz a few weeks ago about it, and its focused on the FISA, the basis for the FISA, and the handling of the FISA application. But by necessity it looks back a little bit earlier than that. The people I have helping me with my review will be working very closely with Mr. Horowitz."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7UJymavAlg
#6385259 at 2019-05-01 20:55:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
>>6385172
https:
//www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
#6385203 at 2019-05-01 20:50:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8165: Angry Shills = WINNING Edition
>>6385177
>>6385200
oops
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee&playevent
#6384893 at 2019-05-01 20:22:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8164: Absolutely Based pt 2. The Easy Bake Edition
Rod Rosenstein: Hero
On April 29, Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein submitted his long-awaited resignation letter to President Donald Trump, the man who had selected him for what turned out to be one of the most crucial jobs in his entire administration.
Controversy has swirled around Rosenstein since he was sworn in on April 26, 2017, following his confirmation hearings. He stepped into that top job almost two months after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions had recused himself, on March 1, 2017, from all 2016 election-related DOJ investigations.
Sessions's recusal meant that his deputy was going to play a crucial role. And indeed, Rosenstein had little time to become acclimated to the new job; by early May, he was thickly involved in Trump's decision to fire James Comey as FBI director.
Rosenstein was originally scheduled to leave in mid-March this year, but new Attorney General William Barr asked him to stay on until the Mueller special counsel's report was finished and released, and Rosenstein agreed.
Rosenstein ended his resignation letter to the president this way:
"We enforce the law without fear or favor because credible evidence is not partisan, and truth is not determined by opinion polls. We ignore fleeting distractions and focus our attention on the things that matter, because a republic that endures is not governed by the news cycle.
We keep the faith, we follow the rules, and we always put America first."
Yes, you are reading that correctly. Rosenstein ended his resignation letter with the words "America first," Trump's own slogan.
For more than two years, I've watched various commentators sell narratives to the public about how a bewildered Trump kept being outmaneuvered by the man I've sarcastically dubbed "The Nefarious Rod Rosenstein," a smirking traitor at his elbow who was supposedly helping to plot a coup against him.
Some people just can't shake this firmly held belief that Trump is the world's worst player at the game of "Spot The Traitor."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rod-rosenstein-hero_2901409.html
#6384886 at 2019-05-01 20:21:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8164: Absolutely Based pt 2. The Easy Bake Edition
>>6384861
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
#6384738 at 2019-05-01 20:05:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8164: Absolutely Based pt 2. The Easy Bake Edition
the stage is set
Barr is boss and Senator Graham now has them in full panic
Attorney General William Barr: "The letter's a bit snitty and I think it was probably written by one of his staff people.
https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1123677525861916675?s=21
#6382423 at 2019-05-01 16:33:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8161: Circling Over Multiple Targets Edition
DOJ misses House subpoena deadline for full Mueller report: aide
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department missed a Wednesday subpoena deadline for providing the House Judiciary Committee with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's unredacted report on his investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a Democratic congressional aide said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler issued the subpoena on April 19, a day after Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of the Mueller report. The deadline for complying with the subpoena expired at 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. The subpoena also sought underlying evidence from Mueller's 22-month investigation.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-subpoena-justice/doj-misses-house-subpoena-deadline-for-full-mueller-report-aide-idUSKCN1S74AX?il=0
#6382185 at 2019-05-01 16:06:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8161: Circling Over Multiple Targets Edition
>>6382137
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
they are on lunch break
#6382171 at 2019-05-01 16:04:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8161: Circling Over Multiple Targets Edition
>>6381931
FOLLOW-UP to Prince info
In a letter to Attorney General William Barr, Schiff claimed Prince, the billionaire founder of a military contracting firm, intentionally misled the House Intelligence Committee and impaired their probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Schiff wrote the publication of the Mueller report shed light on discrepancies between Prince's interview with the special counsel and his testimony before the committee in November 2017, when he denied he was attempting to establish a back channel between Russia and Trump during the president's transition.
"Mr. Prince's false statements hindered the Committee's ability to fully understand and examine foreign efforts to undermine our political process and national security, develop appropriate legislative and policy remedies to counter future malign influence operations targeting campaigns and presidential transitions, and inform the American public, as appropriate," Schiff wrote in the letter.
#6382099 at 2019-05-01 15:57:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8161: Circling Over Multiple Targets Edition
https://www.scribd.com/document/408259022/AG-Bill-Barr-Opening-Statement-May-1st-Written-Statement-For-The-Record
Transcript Release of Attorney General William Barr Opening Statement...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/01/transcript-release-of-attorney-general-William-Barr-opening-statement/#more-163224
Statement of Attorney General William P. Barr Before the
Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
May 1, 2019
Good morning, Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Feinstein, and Members of the Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the conclusion of the investigation into Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 election by Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, and the confidential report he submitted to me, which I recently released to the public after applying necessary redactions. When I appeared before this Committee just a few months ago for my confirmation hearing, Senators asked for two commitments concerning the Special Counsel's investigation: first, that I would allow the Special Counsel to finish his investigation without interference; and second, that I would release his report to Congress and to the American public. I believe that the record speaks for itself. The Special Counsel completed his investigation as he saw fit. As I informed Congress on March 22, 2019, at no point did I, or anyone at the Department of Justice, overrule the Special Counsel on any proposed action. In addition, immediately upon receiving his confidential report to me, we began working with the Special Counsel to prepare it for public release and, on April 18, 2019, I released a public version subject only to limited redactions that were necessary to comply with the law and to protect important governmental interests…
#6381907 at 2019-05-01 15:37:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8161: Circling Over Multiple Targets Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
>>6364968 There are captchas for every post now
Notables
are not endorsements
#8160
>>6381739 (Video) DOD found that Hillary's emails were being forwarded to a company in Manassas Va. that is owned by the Chinees intelligence services.
>>6381737 Anon's April 2019 Habbenings Calendar
>>6381681 Foreign and Domestic Terrorists working together against POTUS and USA
>>6381668 U.S. environment agency says glyphosate weed killer is not a carcinogen
>>6381601 Zero Percent of US Corporate Media Commentators Oppose Regime Change in Venezuela
>>6381567, >>6381610 Anons noticing secret service? individual scanning the JUDICAL COMMITTEE. Very strange
>>6381549 New Documents Reveal DHS Asserting Broad, Unconstitutional Authority to Search Travelers' Phones and Laptops
>>6381520 New FBI Twat w/CAP: China Spy Investigations in every state.
>>6381472, >>6381529 Judicial Watch: Top Hillary Clinton Aide Admits Under Oath that He and Clinton Used Unsecure Personal Email for Official State Department Business
>>6381383 US relocates nuclear bombs from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey
>>6381365 NASA Says Metals Fraud Caused $700 Million Satellite Failure
>>6381220, >>6381320 US Northern and Southern Cmnd twat CAPS: status updates
>>6381219 Missile turned in at gun buyback in Juárez, Mexico
>>6381842 #8160
#8159
>>6381047 Poynter Institute Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted, Including Breitbart News
>>6380961 MN Police Officer Mohamed Noor Found Guilty of Murder of Justine Damond While Responding to her 911 Call
>>6380882 Teen Molested by Catholic School Teacher Gets Record $8-Million Settlement From LA. Archdiocese
>>6380839 POTUS_Schedule twat w/CAP: 10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress - LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio
>>6380804 BREAKING: FAA Bans U.S. Airlines From Flying Low Over Venezuela
>>6380762 U.S. private sector adds 275,000 jobs in April -ADP
>>6380634, >>6380779 French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally
>>6380623 ew DJT twat w/CAP: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION. Besides, how can you have Obstruction when not only was there No Collusion (by Trump)…
>>6380588 Liftoff of a minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB ni California at 2:42AM PST.
>>6380550 Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings
>>6380508 Retired Army major general dies after lawnmower accident
>>6380490 Mueller complained that Barr's letter did not capture 'context' of Trump probe
>>6380481 $356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019
>>6380474 Two Indiana judges were shot in a White Castle parking lot
>>6380467 Anon decodes POTUS tweet storm this morning. Ties back to Q 'TWEET STORM DAY'
>>6380457 White House denies Dems info on security clearance process
>>6380435 Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act "beyond comprehension"…
>>6380424 New DJT twat w/CAP: Congress must change the Immigration Laws now, Dems won't act. Wall is being built…
>>6380423 New DJT twat: Why didn't President Obama do something about Russia in September (before November Election) when told by the FBI?
>>6380418, >>6380585 Barr OPENING STATEMENT and written testimony
>>6380405 South Carolina may use firing squad as alternative death penalty method
>>6381081 #8159
Previously Collected Notables
>>6380297 #8158,
>>6378006 #8155, >>6378775 #8156, >>6379541 #8157
>>6375695 #8152, >>6376427 #8153, >>6377229 #8154
>>6373294 #8149, >>6374081 #8150, >>6374904 #8151
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6381261 at 2019-05-01 14:32:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8160: AG Barr Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee Edition
>>6381242
C-SPAN was doing split screen just a minute ago while fienstien was talking. I captured it above.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee&playEvent
But, hey, whatever works!
#6381185 at 2019-05-01 14:24:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8160: AG Barr Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee Edition
-William Barr Testifies on Mueller Report Before Senate Judiciary Committee-
LIVE NOW:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
#6381155 at 2019-05-01 14:22:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8160: AG Barr Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
>>6364968 There are captchas for every post now
Notables
are not endorsements
#8159
>>6381047 Poynter Institute Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted, Including Breitbart News
>>6380961 MN Police Officer Mohamed Noor Found Guilty of Murder of Justine Damond While Responding to her 911 Call
>>6380882 Teen Molested by Catholic School Teacher Gets Record $8-Million Settlement From LA. Archdiocese
>>6380839 POTUS_Schedule twat w/CAP: 10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress - LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio
>>6380804 BREAKING: FAA Bans U.S. Airlines From Flying Low Over Venezuela
>>6380762 U.S. private sector adds 275,000 jobs in April -ADP
>>6380634, >>6380779 French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally
>>6380623 ew DJT twat w/CAP: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION. Besides, how can you have Obstruction when not only was there No Collusion (by Trump)…
>>6380588 Liftoff of a minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB ni California at 2:42AM PST.
>>6380550 Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings
>>6380508 Retired Army major general dies after lawnmower accident
>>6380490 Mueller complained that Barr's letter did not capture 'context' of Trump probe
>>6380481 $356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019
>>6380474 Two Indiana judges were shot in a White Castle parking lot
>>6380467 Anon decodes POTUS tweet storm this morning. Ties back to Q 'TWEET STORM DAY'
>>6380457 White House denies Dems info on security clearance process
>>6380435 Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act "beyond comprehension"…
>>6380424 New DJT twat w/CAP: Congress must change the Immigration Laws now, Dems won't act. Wall is being built…
>>6380423 New DJT twat: Why didn't President Obama do something about Russia in September (before November Election) when told by the FBI?
>>6380418, >>6380585 Barr OPENING STATEMENT and written testimony
>>6380405 South Carolina may use firing squad as alternative death penalty method
>>6381081 #8159
#8158
>>6380185 POTUS_Schedule: Daily Public Schedule for May 1, 2019
>>6380157, >>6379994, >>6380279 anon compiles POTUS May Day retwat storm. O deltas. 65 Tweets or Re-Tweets in 1h and 15mins
>>6380147 New DJT retwat w/CAP 2: Lou Dobbs: No President in history has endured such vicious personal attacks by political opponents…
>>6380134 New DJT twat w/CAP 2: Gallup Poll: 56% of Americans rate their financial situation as excellent or good. This is the highest number since 2002
>>6380129 New DJT twat w/CAP 1: overriding the Decommission Order of the magnificent aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman
>>6380057 New DJT retwat w/CAP 1: Senator Josh Hawley: The Democrats can't come to grips with the fact that there was No Collusion, there was No Conspiracy…
>>6380063, >>6380039, >>6380054 Assange live twats and was sentenced to 50 weeks. extradition mention is tomorrow.
Bake Assist/Baker Change
>>6379836 Cosco Shipping to sell Long Beach Container Terminal to Macquarie
>>6379942 2016 - Obama's Campaign paid $972k to law firm that paid Fusion GPS
>>6379972 BO on the board w/posts and responses (bun)
>>6379994 PJDT Mayday Tweet Storm list
>>6380017 'Committee of 300' Bun - Call to shovels
>>6380297 #8158
Previously Collected Notables
>>6378006 #8155, >>6378775 #8156, >>6379541 #8157
>>6375695 #8152, >>6376427 #8153, >>6377229 #8154
>>6373294 #8149, >>6374081 #8150, >>6374904 #8151
>>6370951 #8146, >>6371714 #8147, >>6372499 #8148
>>6368629 #8143, >>6369402 #8144, >>6370145 #8145
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6381081 at 2019-05-01 14:16:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
final call for notables @ 650
#8159
>>6381047 Poynter Institute Wants 515 Outlets Blacklisted, Including Breitbart News
>>6380961 MN Police Officer Mohamed Noor Found Guilty of Murder of Justine Damond While Responding to her 911 Call
>>6380882 Teen Molested by Catholic School Teacher Gets Record $8-Million Settlement From LA. Archdiocese
>>6380839 POTUS_Schedule twat w/CAP: 10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress - LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio
>>6380804 BREAKING: FAA Bans U.S. Airlines From Flying Low Over Venezuela
>>6380762 U.S. private sector adds 275,000 jobs in April -ADP
>>6380634, >>6380779 French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally
>>6380623 ew DJT twat w/CAP: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION. Besides, how can you have Obstruction when not only was there No Collusion (by Trump)…
>>6380588 Liftoff of a minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB ni California at 2:42AM PST.
>>6380550 Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings
>>6380508 Retired Army major general dies after lawnmower accident
>>6380490 Mueller complained that Barr's letter did not capture 'context' of Trump probe
>>6380481 $356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019
>>6380474 Two Indiana judges were shot in a White Castle parking lot
>>6380467 Anon decodes POTUS tweet storm this morning. Ties back to Q 'TWEET STORM DAY'
>>6380457 White House denies Dems info on security clearance process
>>6380435 Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act "beyond comprehension"…
>>6380424 New DJT twat w/CAP: Congress must change the Immigration Laws now, Dems won't act. Wall is being built…
>>6380423 New DJT twat: Why didn't President Obama do something about Russia in September (before November Election) when told by the FBI?
>>6380418, >>6380585 Barr OPENING STATEMENT and written testimony
>>6380405 South Carolina may use firing squad as alternative death penalty method
baking in 60-ish
#6381019 at 2019-05-01 14:09:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
Mornin' anons!
Happy May Day!
Barr testimony is live on C-SPAN:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee&playEvent
#6380990 at 2019-05-01 14:06:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
William Barr Testifies on Mueller Report Before Senate Judiciary Committee
Attorney General William Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the Mueller report.
LIVE:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
#6380965 at 2019-05-01 14:04:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
-William Barr Testifies on Mueller Report Before Senate Judiciary Committee-
LIVE:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
#6380921 at 2019-05-01 14:00:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
notables bun @ 500
#8159
>>6380882 Teen Molested by Catholic School Teacher Gets Record $8-Million Settlement From LA. Archdiocese
>>6380839 POTUS_Schedule twat w/CAP: 10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress - LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio
>>6380804 BREAKING: FAA Bans U.S. Airlines From Flying Low Over Venezuela
>>6380762 U.S. private sector adds 275,000 jobs in April -ADP
>>6380634, >>6380779 French police fire tear gas at protesters in Paris May Day rally
>>6380623 ew DJT twat w/CAP: NO COLLUSION, NO OBSTRUCTION. Besides, how can you have Obstruction when not only was there No Collusion (by Trump)…
>>6380588 Liftoff of a minuteman III ICBM from Vandenberg AFB ni California at 2:42AM PST.
>>6380550 Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings
>>6380508 Retired Army major general dies after lawnmower accident
>>6380490 Mueller complained that Barr's letter did not capture 'context' of Trump probe
>>6380481 $356 million in cryptocurrency stolen in first three months of 2019
>>6380474 Two Indiana judges were shot in a White Castle parking lot
>>6380467 Anon decodes POTUS tweet storm this morning. Ties back to Q 'TWEET STORM DAY'
>>6380457 White House denies Dems info on security clearance process
>>6380435 Dozens of beehives were attacked and set on fire in Texas over the weekend in an act "beyond comprehension"…
>>6380424 New DJT twat w/CAP: Congress must change the Immigration Laws now, Dems won't act. Wall is being built…
>>6380423 New DJT twat: Why didn't President Obama do something about Russia in September (before November Election) when told by the FBI?
>>6380418, >>6380585 Barr OPENING STATEMENT and written testimony
>>6380405 South Carolina may use firing squad as alternative death penalty method
#6380839 at 2019-05-01 13:50:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
https://twitter.com/45__Schedule/status/1123576650187276288
POTUS_Schedule
@45__Schedule
31m31 minutes ago
10:00 AM ET - Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress - LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio:
Wednesday, May 1 at Senate Judiciary Cmte https://cs.pn/2XFOL1P
#6380639 at 2019-05-01 13:13:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
AG William Barr TESTIFIES to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Mueller Report
#6380550 at 2019-05-01 12:56:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8159: Happy May Day Edition
Jim Jordan: Democrats Already Started Impeachment Proceedings
Ranking House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said Democrats have already begun impeachment proceedings against President Trump.
Speaking with Fox Business host Lou Dobbs last night, Jordan explained that Chairman Jerrold Nadler's plan to have Judiciary Committee staff ask questions Attorney General William Barr was a way to begin impeachment proceedings.
"...We have to understand the Democrats have already started impeachment proceedings, they're just not calling it that. And the reason they're not calling it that is because they know it is not justified and they know the American people don't want it. But that is what they are doing and that's why they want the staff to ask Bill Barr questions because that is how it works in the impeachment process. So, that's what they're trying to do."
Jordan also said Barr should not appear at Thursday's Judiciary Committee hearing if Nadler insists on changing the questioning format.
"...Bill Barr shouldn't come," he said. "Look, you can't the Attorney General for the last three weeks like Democrats have done and then change the format in the last few days like they are trying to do. And expect the Attorney General to show up. Let the members ask the questions if they're willing to do it the way its always done. Bill Barr will be there. If they're not, he shouldn't show up. And I'm 100% for him not showing up if they don't do it the right way.
Attorney General Barr has threatened not to show up at the hearing after Nadler proposed that Judiciary Committee staff question him.
https://bongino.com/jim-jordan-democrats-already-started-impeachment-proceedings/
#6379793 at 2019-05-01 08:21:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8158: Dems: "Impeach Barr!" (So We Don't Have to Face the Music!)" Edition
>>6379775
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/30/politics/William-Barr-robert-mueller-mueller-report/index.html
kek. they're mad they didn't get the report leaked to them in full. They're bitching about Barr framing the report–by HIS JUSTICE DEPARTMENT.
"At the time – even without the knowledge we now possess about the Mueller letter of March 27 – it seemed odd. The attorney general holding a press conference about a report that he had seen but no one in the media had been given – and wouldn't be for another 90 minutes? It seemed, even before Barr began speaking, to be a relatively transparent attempt by the AG to frame the soon-arriving Mueller report – to set the terms of the conversation for both Congress and the American public.
Within minutes, it became clear that was exactly Barr's intent. Here's just a piece of what Barr said that day:
"So that is the bottom line. After nearly two years of investigation, thousands of subpoenas, and hundreds of warrants and witness interviews, the special counsel confirmed that the Russian government sponsored efforts to illegally interfere with the 2016 presidential election but did not find that the Trump campaign or other Americans colluded in those schemes." "
#6379129 at 2019-05-01 05:30:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8157: Everything Has Meaning Edition
Eric Swalwell: If Barr Doesn't Testify Before Congress, He Should Be Impeached
Tuesday on MSNBC's "Hardball," during coverage of The Washington Post report that special counsel Robert Mueller told Attorney General William Barr his summary "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the probe, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said in light of the report, Barr should be impeached if he does not testify to Congress about his handling of the report.
Swalwell said, "We will hear it from Barr and ultimately from Mueller. If Barr backs out, you are going to get subpoenas. If he doesn't answer, he will face contempt and think he should face impeachment. If he's going to say I'm not going to follow the law and Congress, there has to be consequences. I hope it doesn't come to that, but what do you do when you have enables the president's worst instincts. You have to speak their language as well. That's the only thing they understand."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/30/eric-swalwell-if-Barr-doesnt-testify-before-congress-he-should-be-impeached/
https://twitter.com/repswalwell/status/760649110487638016
#6379025 at 2019-05-01 05:15:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8157: Everything Has Meaning Edition
Maxine Waters: Barr Should Resign or Be Impeached
Tuesday on MSNBC's "All In," Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said in light of the of The Washington Post report that special counsel Robert Mueller told Attorney General William Barr his summary "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the probe, Barr should resign or be impeached.
Waters said, "I think that Barr should resign. If he does not resign, he should be facing impeachment proceedings also. He has abdicated on his responsibility. He's lied. He has used the very words coming right out of the president's mouth, 'no collusion, no collusion, no collusion.' And made a decision that despite what the counsel put into that report about obstruction of justice, he said he made the decision that he had not obstructed justice. It is outrageous, and he needs to go."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/30/maxine-waters-Barr-should-resign-or-be-impeached/
#6378851 at 2019-05-01 04:52:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8157: Everything Has Meaning Edition
KEK
Maxine Waters: Barr Should Resign or Be Impeached
Tuesday on MSNBC's "All In," Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said in light of the of The Washington Post report that special counsel Robert Mueller told Attorney General William Barr his summary "did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance" of the probe, Barr should resign or be impeached.
Waters said, "I think that Barr should resign. If he does not resign, he should be facing impeachment proceedings also. He has abdicated on his responsibility. He's lied. He has used the very words coming right out of the president's mouth, 'no collusion, no collusion, no collusion.' And made a decision that despite what the counsel put into that report about obstruction of justice, he said he made the decision that he had not obstructed justice. It is outrageous, and he needs to go."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/30/maxine-waters-Barr-should-resign-or-be-impeached/
#6378571 at 2019-05-01 04:11:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8156: Combine All Posts And Analyze Edition
"There's another report that everyone has forgotten about involving James Comey alone,"Joe diGenova said.
=
Nunes sending eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr
Thoughts?
#6378315 at 2019-05-01 03:40:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8156: Combine All Posts And Analyze Edition
Adam Schiff: Intel agencies went 'dark' on Trump-Russia investigation after Comey fired
Intelligence agencies stopped updating the House Intelligence Committee about the counterintelligence into President Trump's 2016 campaign after former FBI Director James Comey was fired, Chairman Adam Schiff said on Tuesday. Ahead of testimony by Attorney General William Barr, Schiff opened up what could be another line of questioning he faces from members of the Senate and House Judiciary committees.
"We were getting periodic counterintelligence briefings up until the point where James Comey was fired," Schiff, D-Calif., said on MSNBC. "At that point, the most significant counterintelligence investigation in recent history went into a black hole and the [Justice] Department and the intelligence community stopped fulfilling their statutory obligation to keep us fully informed of any significant counterintelligence activity. "So they've been dark now for a year and a half," he added. "And that, I think, violates the statute. We're insisting on getting full answers now."
The FBI's original Russia investigation, which began in July 2016, was later wrapped into special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry looking into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump's campaign and the Kremlin. Mueller was appointed special counsel by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein eight days after Trump fired Comey in May 2017. The House Intelligence Committee is one of a handful of Democrat-controlled panels that have revved up investigations into the president this year. Part of this push is to obtain the findings of the counterintelligence investigation, which Schiff said is supported by ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif.
"In a very atypical illustration of bipartisanship vis-a-vis the Russia investigation, Mr. Nunes and I have sent two joint requests now to the Department demanding this information," Schiff said. "We're prepared if necessary to use compulsion to get it. We want Mueller to testify, we want the underlying evidence, we want to make sure we get answers."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-intel-agencies-went-dark-on-trump-russia-investigation-after-comey-fired
#6376809 at 2019-05-01 01:16:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8154: Captcha Chaos Continues Edition
Popcorn ready!
WEDNESDAY: Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Senate Judiciary Cmte - LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN3
https://www.c-span.org/video/?459922-1/William-Barr-testifies-mueller-report-senate-judiciary-committee
#6375948 at 2019-04-30 23:58:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8153: Happy Little Captcha Breads Edition
ROSENSTING
[RR] /ourguy/
[RR] signed a FISA warrant to continue the surveillance of POTUS.
[RR] offered to wear a wire in the WH to smoke out traitors in the FBI.
Why didn't POTUS fire [RR] immediately after learning this?
>sting
[RR] played both sides of the fence. Protecting Mueller on one side and keeping the 'Plan' in motion with Trump on the other.
>[RR] = Red Line.
After stepping down [RR] will be a witness in the U1 case.
The U1 case that will put HRC in jail.
The upcoming report on Comey will be the introduction of Huber to the stage.
Comey's misconduct in HRC's email server case will open the door to U1/Pay to Play
Consider the following:
In the 80's Trump was a CI with the FBI and helped to take down NY and Atlanta organized crime.
90's the FBI was pushed hard against the Mob.
Consider this cast:
Rudi Giuliani - led the Mafia Commission
Robert Mueller - led the the Gambino prosecution (90-93)
Rod Rosenstein worked for Mueller at this time.
William Barr was DAG then AG.
Look familiar?
[RR] prosecuted Ranbaxy a Clinton Global Initiative partner that produced watered-down HIV job drugs. [RR] spent five years on that investigation of U1 and was rightly proud of his conviction and then Obama overturned and pardoned Cartwright who was involved in the U1 scandal.
The resignation letter from [RR] says a lot. He is getting his payback.
Buckle up lads, D5 is coming!
https://quodverum.com/2019/03/75/endgame-potus-trump-s-vindication-nears.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV12UaCDvZE (Your Voice America)
#6375510 at 2019-04-30 23:17:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8152: Southbound Carriers Edition
U.S. attorney general recuses self from T-Mobile, Sprint merger probe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr has recused himself from the Justice Department's deliberations on whether to allow T-Mobile to proceed with its $26 billion acquisition of Sprint, according to a source familiar with the decision.
The department's Antitrust Division, headed by Makan Delrahim, is reviewing the deal to determine if it will lead to higher prices for consumers or to slower innovation, as critics allege. The Federal Communications Commission also must approve the transaction for it to go forward.
The recusal was first reported by the New York Post.
In a filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics in December, Barr acknowledged owning a T-Mobile bond valued at $15,001 to $50,000 and two other T-Mobile bonds and a Sprint bond valued at less than $1,001. Those are to be sold within 90 days of his confirmation, which occurred on Feb. 14.
Barr had also recused himself from considering AT&T's plan to buy Time Warner, which the government opposed, because of his involvement with those companies. That deal has closed.
T-Mobile announced on Monday that the companies were extending a deadline to complete their deal to July 29. The two are among just four national wireless carriers, trailing Verizon Communications and AT&T.
Regulators are expected to make a decision on the deal in early June. They will be weighing a potential loss of competition, and subsequently higher prices for consumers, against the prospect of a more powerful No. 3 wireless carrier which can work to build a faster, better 5G next generation wireless network.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sprint-corp-m-a-t-mobile-us/u-s-attorney-general-recuses-self-from-t-mobile-sprint-merger-probe-idUSKCN1S62EF
you know what is being set-up here
#6374095 at 2019-04-30 21:17:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8151: Complete Embargo Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
>>6364968 There are captchas for every post now
Notables
are not endorsements
#8150
>>6374004 DJT Tweet: "If Cuban Troops and Militia do not immediately CEASE military and other operations for the purpose of causing death and destruction to the Constitution of Venezuela…"
>>6373943 83-year-old 'Oxy Doc' gets 20 years in prison.
>>6373927 Missouri lawmaker resigns amid sexual harassment allegations.
>>6373877 The real 'bombshells' are about to hit their targets.
>>6373801 Trump slams European nations for not taking back ISIS fighters.
>>6373785, >>6373798 Wave of beehive attacks.
>>6373741 AirForce re-Tweet @ 15:55.
>>6373734 Former Vice President Dick Cheney selling waterfront estate in Maryland.
>>6373717 Pair of Tennessee students charged with murder-suicide plot.
>>6373672 US extradition request for Julian Assange to be heard this week.
>>6373611 Tech stocks continue to take a hit.
>>6373592 25 Christians killed in suspected Boko Haram attack on Nigerian village.
>>6373362 Reported bomb threat in Colorado.
>>6374081 #8150
#8149
>>6373236 Greg Craig graphic.
>>6373219 Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress on May 1.
>>6373193 The protests in Venezuela have gone international.
>>6373126 Prominent clergy, scholars accuse Pope Francis of heresy in open letter.
>>6373119 Planefag: 4 total B52s up at the moment.
>>6373090 Dems want to probe Barr's handling of Mueller report.
>>6373077 NSA reports 75% increase in unmasking U.S. identities under Foreign Surveillance Law in 2018.
>>6373062 Airbnb loses huge battle over California City's rental law.
>>6373058 DJT Jr. on Charlie Kirk show.
>>6373017 Washingon's Ven. embassy has socialist squatters.
>>6372966 Leopoldo Lopez enters Chile's diplomatic residence in Caracas.
>>6372949 Nonprofit pays bail for man who attacked his wife, hours later he murders her.
>>6372926 California tap water could be source of thousands of new cancer cases.
>>6372849, >>6372870, >>6372885 Guaido vs Maduro: Who is backing whom in Venezuela?
>>6372882 Large movement of people in Caracas, Venezuela, reportedly moving towards the presidential palace.
>>6372878 POTUS Live Soon: "President Trump Participates in the Visit of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series Champion: Joey Logano"
>>6372873, >>6372784, >>6372876 Sensenbrenner's bipartisan drug pricing bills clear House Committee Unanimously.
>>6372858 Virginia schools claim 'thousands of students in Virginia Public Schools ... identify as transgender,' report says.
>>6372833 Planefag: USAF VIP G5 from NYC Westbound.
>>6372792 Student fires gun inside classroom at High School in Virginia.
>>6372747 Gates Foundation quietly plans to control nutritional supplements for the 'good of humanity'.
>>6372744 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the 'future is private'.
>>6372714 POTUS asks for interest rate cuts.
>>6372703 Julian Assange: Clinton Foundation and ISIS were funded from the same source.
>>6372684 Jon Healey: Care about balance of power? Root for Trump's legal team in financial records fight.
>>6372673 Archbishop says Christians slaughtered 'like chickens' in Nigeria.
>>6372668 Lawmaker from Kansas City [DaRon McGee] resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
>>6372655 Award winning cop, clergyman, and teacher arrested in sting trying to have sex with children.
>>6372646 Maria Tweets about the baby snatching illegal immigrants at our border.
>>6372641 Ivanka Trump to speak at Milken Institute Global Conference
>>6372618 Marines Tweet: "#SeeSomethingDoSomething"
>>6372613, >>6372676 Tauscher dig. Call to shovels.
>>6372612 Venezuela claims Washington planned coup.
>>6372607 Chinese court sentences second Canadian to death on drug trafficking charges.
>>6372601 Prez Juncker reveals he blocks Eurosceptics from Commission jobs, regardless of elections.
>>6372586 Pope donates $6.66 per migrant for the migrant caravan.
>>6373294 #8149
Previously Collected Notables
>>6370951 #8146, >>6371714 #8147, >>6372499 #8148
>>6368629 #8143, >>6369402 #8144, >>6370145 #8145
>>6366332 #8140, >>6367116 #8141, >>6367863 #8142
>>6364031 #8137, >>6364824 #8138, >>6365571 #8139
>>6361724 #8134, >>6362456 #8135, >>6363243 #8136
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6373977 at 2019-04-30 21:07:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8150: NASCAR Visit Edition
>>6373877
>>6373959
Part 2/2
Natasha Bertrand, a reliable mouthpiece for Fusion GPS, is smearing Horowitz and raising questions about his investigation. "Former U.S. officials interviewed by the inspector general were skeptical about the quality of his probe," she wrote in an April 17 piece for Politico. "The inspector general seemed neither well-versed in the FISA process nor receptive to the explanations, the officials said."
Comey unconvincingly is rejecting accusations by Attorney General William Barr and others that there was "spying" on the Trump campaign. "When I hear that kind of language used, it's concerning," serial uptalker Comey said in an April 11 interview. "The FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. I have never thought of that as spying. I don't know of any court-ordered electronic surveillance aimed at the Trump campaign (emphasis added)."
Yates appeared on Sunday for a softball interview with NBC's "Meet The Press" host Andrea Mitchell. Without any sense of irony, Mitchell introduced Yates as "someone who seems to show up at key moments in the Trump presidency," including her central role in the set-up, laughable Logan Act inquiry, and subsequent firing of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. (Yates served as acting attorney general for 10 days before Trump fired her for insubordination.)
Yates, much like Comey, has a flair for the dramatic, often using hushed tones, theatrical facial expressions, and overwrought rhetoric to make her point: "When the Russians came knocking at their door, you would think a man who likes to make a show of hugging the flag would have done the patriotic thing and would have notified law enforcement." (Hard eye roll.)
Yates referred to Trump campaign objections about Russian collusion as "a lie" and (falsely) lamented that "now we have devolved to 'there's nothing wrong with taking help,' illegal help, from a foreign adversary. Surely that's not where we've come to."
But Yates' own words might come back to haunt her, and soon.
An April 19 article in the New York Times, which now is backpedaling on the legimitacy of the Steele dossier in advance of the Horowitz report, speculated that the dossier was part of a Russian propaganda campaign targeting the Trump team.
"There has been much chatter among intelligence experts that Steele's Russian informants could have been pressured to feed him disinformation," the Times reported. Further, at the time Steele was working for Fusion GPS on Russian-sourced dirt against Trump, he also was lobbying on behalf of Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with ties to the Kremlin.
So if Yates signed a court document that heavily relied on shady sources and a lobbyist (Steele) for a Putin-connected billionaire, who would be guilty of relying on help from a foreign adversary for political purposes? Not Donald Trump.
The imperious Yates and her accomplices might have a chance to answer that question-and others-in front of Congress in the very near future.
In response to her "Meet the Press" interview, Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) tweeted that Yates' actions "will certainly be part of forthcoming Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearings on FBI/DOJ during Obama years in which she served as Deputy AG under Loretta Lynch."
The Horowitz report could do what the Mueller report could not: Find legitimate evidence of conspiracies between political operatives, Russian interests, and top government officials; uncover attempts to obstruct justice as the various investigations into misconduct proceeded; and expose rank corruption at the highest levels of a presidential administration.
It just won't be the presidential administration that Mueller and his colleagues were targeting.
#6373306 at 2019-04-30 20:12:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8150: NASCAR Visit Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
>>6364968 There are captchas for every post now
Notables
are not endorsements
#8149
>>6373236 Greg Craig graphic.
>>6373219 Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress on May 1.
>>6373193 The protests in Venezuela have gone international.
>>6373126 Prominent clergy, scholars accuse Pope Francis of heresy in open letter.
>>6373119 Planefag: 4 total B52s up at the moment.
>>6373090 Dems want to probe Barr's handling of Mueller report.
>>6373077 NSA reports 75% increase in unmasking U.S. identities under Foreign Surveillance Law in 2018.
>>6373062 Airbnb loses huge battle over California City's rental law.
>>6373058 DJT Jr. on Charlie Kirk show.
>>6373017 Washingon's Ven. embassy has socialist squatters.
>>6372966 Leopoldo Lopez enters Chile's diplomatic residence in Caracas.
>>6372949 Nonprofit pays bail for man who attacked his wife, hours later he murders her.
>>6372926 California tap water could be source of thousands of new cancer cases.
>>6372849, >>6372870, >>6372885 Guaido vs Maduro: Who is backing whom in Venezuela?
>>6372882 Large movement of people in Caracas, Venezuela, reportedly moving towards the presidential palace.
>>6372878 POTUS Live Soon: "President Trump Participates in the Visit of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series Champion: Joey Logano"
>>6372873, >>6372784, >>6372876 Sensenbrenner's bipartisan drug pricing bills clear House Committee Unanimously.
>>6372858 Virginia schools claim 'thousands of students in Virginia Public Schools ... identify as transgender,' report says.
>>6372833 Planefag: USAF VIP G5 from NYC Westbound.
>>6372792 Student fires gun inside classroom at High School in Virginia.
>>6372747 Gates Foundation quietly plans to control nutritional supplements for the 'good of humanity'.
>>6372744 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the 'future is private'.
>>6372714 POTUS asks for interest rate cuts.
>>6372703 Julian Assange: Clinton Foundation and ISIS were funded from the same source.
>>6372684 Jon Healey: Care about balance of power? Root for Trump's legal team in financial records fight.
>>6372673 Archbishop says Christians slaughtered 'like chickens' in Nigeria.
>>6372668 Lawmaker from Kansas City [DaRon McGee] resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
>>6372655 Award winning cop, clergyman, and teacher arrested in sting trying to have sex with children.
>>6372646 Maria Tweets about the baby snatching illegal immigrants at our border.
>>6372641 Ivanka Trump to speak at Milken Institute Global Conference
>>6372618 Marines Tweet: "#SeeSomethingDoSomething"
>>6372613, >>6372676 Tauscher dig. Call to shovels.
>>6372612 Venezuela claims Washington planned coup.
>>6372607 Chinese court sentences second Canadian to death on drug trafficking charges.
>>6372601 Prez Juncker reveals he blocks Eurosceptics from Commission jobs, regardless of elections.
>>6372586 Pope donates $6.66 per migrant for the migrant caravan.
>>6373294 #8149
Previously Collected Notables
>>6370951 #8146, >>6371714 #8147, >>6372499 #8148
>>6368629 #8143, >>6369402 #8144, >>6370145 #8145
>>6366332 #8140, >>6367116 #8141, >>6367863 #8142
>>6364031 #8137, >>6364824 #8138, >>6365571 #8139
>>6361724 #8134, >>6362456 #8135, >>6363243 #8136
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6373294 at 2019-04-30 20:11:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8149: We Stand With The People of Venezuela Edition
#8149
>>6373236 Greg Craig graphic.
>>6373219 Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress on May 1.
>>6373193 The protests in Venezuela have gone international.
>>6373126 Prominent clergy, scholars accuse Pope Francis of heresy in open letter.
>>6373119 Planefag: 4 total B52s up at the moment.
>>6373090 Dems want to probe Barr's handling of Mueller report.
>>6373077 NSA reports 75% increase in unmasking U.S. identities under Foreign Surveillance Law in 2018.
>>6373062 Airbnb loses huge battle over California City's rental law.
>>6373058 DJT Jr. on Charlie Kirk show.
>>6373017 Washingon's Ven. embassy has socialist squatters.
>>6372966 Leopoldo Lopez enters Chile's diplomatic residence in Caracas.
>>6372949 Nonprofit pays bail for man who attacked his wife, hours later he murders her.
>>6372926 California tap water could be source of thousands of new cancer cases.
>>6372849, >>6372870, >>6372885 Guaido vs Maduro: Who is backing whom in Venezuela?
>>6372882 Large movement of people in Caracas, Venezuela, reportedly moving towards the presidential palace.
>>6372878 POTUS Live Soon: "President Trump Participates in the Visit of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series Champion: Joey Logano"
>>6372873, >>6372784, >>6372876 Sensenbrenner's bipartisan drug pricing bills clear House Committee Unanimously.
>>6372858 Virginia schools claim 'thousands of students in Virginia Public Schools ... identify as transgender,' report says.
>>6372833 Planefag: USAF VIP G5 from NYC Westbound.
>>6372792 Student fires gun inside classroom at High School in Virginia.
>>6372747 Gates Foundation quietly plans to control nutritional supplements for the 'good of humanity'.
>>6372744 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the 'future is private'.
>>6372714 POTUS asks for interest rate cuts.
>>6372703 Julian Assange: Clinton Foundation and ISIS were funded from the same source.
>>6372684 Jon Healey: Care about balance of power? Root for Trump's legal team in financial records fight.
>>6372673 Archbishop says Christians slaughtered 'like chickens' in Nigeria.
>>6372668 Lawmaker from Kansas City [DaRon McGee] resigns amid sexual harassment allegations
>>6372655 Award winning cop, clergyman, and teacher arrested in sting trying to have sex with children.
>>6372646 Maria Tweets about the baby snatching illegal immigrants at our border.
>>6372641 Ivanka Trump to speak at Milken Institute Global Conference
>>6372618 Marines Tweet: "#SeeSomethingDoSomething"
>>6372613, >>6372676 Tauscher dig. Call to shovels.
>>6372612 Venezuela claims Washington planned coup.
>>6372607 Chinese court sentences second Canadian to death on drug trafficking charges.
>>6372601 Prez Juncker reveals he blocks Eurosceptics from Commission jobs, regardless of elections.
>>6372586 Pope donates $6.66 per migrant for the migrant caravan.
#6373219 at 2019-04-30 20:03:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8149: We Stand With The People of Venezuela Edition
https://twitter.com/45__Schedule/status/1123316089788801029
POTUS_Schedule
@45__Schedule
1m1 minute ago
Attorney General William Barr testifies on Mueller Report before Congress - LIVE on C-SPAN3 & @cspanradio:
Wednesday, May 1 (10am ET) at Senate Judiciary Cmte https://cs.pn/2XFOL1P
Thursday, May 2 (9am ET) at House Judiciary Cmte https://cs.pn/2XFOLil
#6372648 at 2019-04-30 19:05:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8149: We Stand With The People of Venezuela Edition
>>6372576
ROSENSTING
[RR] /ourguy/
[RR] signed a FISA warrant to continue the surveillance of POTUS.
[RR] offered to wear a wire in the WH to smoke out traitors in the FBI.
Why didn't POTUS fire [RR] immediately after learning this?
>sting
[RR] played both sides of the fence. Protecting Mueller on one side and keeping the 'Plan' in motion with Trump on the other.
>[RR] = Red Line.
After stepping down [RR] will be a witness in the U1 case.
The U1 case that will put HRC in jail.
The upcoming report on Comey will be the introduction of Huber to the stage.
Comey's misconduct in HRC's email server case will open the door to U1/Pay to Play
Consider the following:
In the 80's Trump was a CI with the FBI and helped to take down NY and Atlanta organized crime.
90's the FBI was pushed hard against the Mob.
Consider this cast:
Rudi Giuliani - led the Mafia Commission
Robert Mueller - led the the Gambino prosecution (90-93)
Rod Rosenstein worked for Mueller at this time.
William Barr was DAG then AG.
Look familiar?
[RR] prosecuted Ranbaxy a Clinton Global Initiative partner that produced watered-down HIV job drugs. [RR] spent five years on that investigation of U1 and was rightly proud of his conviction and then Obama overturned and pardoned Cartwright who was involved in the U1 scandal.
The resignation letter from [RR] says a lot. He is getting his payback.
Buckle up lads, D5 is coming!
https://quodverum.com/2019/03/75/endgame-potus-trump-s-vindication-nears.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV12UaCDvZE (Your Voice America)
#6370777 at 2019-04-30 15:12:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8146: Enjoy the Show, Sleepy Joe Edition
>>6370659
Already named Rosen for new DAG.
https://www.alternet.org/2019/02/heres-why-trumps-pick-for-deputy-attorney-general-could-be-even-more-dangerous-than-William-Barr/
#6370471 at 2019-04-30 14:39:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8146: Enjoy the Show, Sleepy Joe Edition
CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
>CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
>CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
>CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
>CAPTCHA BREAD IS COMFY BREAD
ROSENSTING
[RR] /ourguy/
[RR] signed a FISA warrant to continue the surveillance of POTUS.
[RR] offered to wear a wire in the WH to smoke out traitors in the FBI.
Why didn't POTUS fire [RR] immediately after learning this?
>sting
[RR] played both sides of the fence. Protecting Mueller on one side and keeping the 'Plan' in motion with Trump on the other.
>[RR] = Red Line.
After stepping down [RR] will be a witness in the U1 case.
The U1 case that will put HRC in jail.
The upcoming report on Comey will be the introduction of Huber to the stage.
Comey's misconduct in HRC's email server case will open the door to U1/Pay to Play
Consider the following:
In the 80's Trump was a CI with the FBI and helped to take down NY and Atlanta organized crime.
90's the FBI was pushed hard against the Mob.
Consider this cast:
Rudi Giuliani - led the Mafia Commission
Robert Mueller - led the the Gambino prosecution (90-93)
Rod Rosenstein worked for Mueller at this time.
William Barr was DAG then AG.
Look familiar?
[RR] prosecuted Ranbaxy a Clinton Global Initiative partner that produced watered-down HIV job drugs. [RR] spent five years on that investigation of U1 and was rightly proud of his conviction and then Obama overturned and pardoned Cartwright who was involved in the U1 scandal.
The resignation letter from [RR] says a lot. He is getting his payback.
Buckle up lads, D5 is coming!
https://quodverum.com/2019/03/75/endgame-potus-trump-s-vindication-nears.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV12UaCDvZE (Your Voice America)
#6370356 at 2019-04-30 14:28:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8146: Enjoy the Show, Sleepy Joe Edition
Trump Announces Immigration Asylum Changes
President Donald Trump issued new immigration guidelines Monday evening specifically addressing migrants who are attempting to claim asylum along the U.S. southern border.
In a presidential memorandum, Trump directed Attorney General William Barr and acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to address the ongoing situation at the southern border.
"The extensive resources required to process and care for these individuals pulls U.S. Customs and Border Protection personnel away from securing our Nation's borders," the memorandum reads in part, according to The Hill.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/29/trump-immigration-asylum-changes?
#6369991 at 2019-04-30 13:36:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8145: Is It Swell? or CAPTCHA Hell!? Edition
Trump orders changes to the asylum system in memo
President Trump has ordered new and more stringent restrictions for those wishing to gain entrance into the U.S. through the asylum process. In a Monday memo to acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Attorney General William Barr, Trump ordered furterh restrictions be put in place to dampen the flow of asylum seekers. The changes include application fees and work permit restraints. The memo also directs officials to settle asylum case applications in immigration courts within 180 days of filing.
"The purpose of this memorandum is to strengthen asylum procedures to safeguard our system against rampant abuse of our asylum process," Trump said.
The memo did not clarify exactly how the changes would be carried out in immigration courts, which have more than 800,000 pending cases and a backlog wait time of nearly two years. Trump said that the Justice Department and Homeland Security Department have 90 days to develop proposals relating to Monday's memo.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-orders-changes-to-the-asylum-system-in-memo
Memo;
http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/04/29/office.of.the.press.secretary.pdf
#6369890 at 2019-04-30 13:17:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8145: Is It Swell? or CAPTCHA Hell!? Edition
Barr going live
We are LIVE AG William Barr TESTIFIES to the Senate Judiciary Committee on the Mueller Report
Watch: https://t.co/hxbCcBnDJ7
#6368340 at 2019-04-30 05:47:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8143: [RR] Edition
ROSENSTING
[RR] stepped down so he could be a witness in U1 case.
The U1 case that will put HRC in jail.
[RR] signed a FISA wa[RR]ant to continue the surveillance of POTUS.
[RR] played both sides of the fence. Protecting Mueller on one side and keeping the 'Plan' in motion with Trump on the other.
>[RR] = Red Line.
Consider the following:
In the 80's Trump was a CI with the FBI and helped to take down NY and Atlanta organized crime.
90's the FBI was pushed hard against the Mob.
Consider this cast:
Rudi Giuliani - led the Mafia Commission
Robert Mueller - led the the Gambino prosecution (90-93)
Rod Rosenstein worked for Mueller at this time.
William Barr was DAG then AG.
Look familiar?
[RR] prosecuted Ranbaxy a Clinton Global Initiative partner that produced watered-down HIV job drugs. [RR] spent five years on that investigation of U1 and was rightly proud of his conviction and then Obama overturned and pardoned Cartwright who was involved in the U1 scandal.
The resignation letter from [RR] says a lot. He is getting his payback.
https://quodverum.com/2019/03/75/endgame-potus-trump-s-vindication-nears.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV12UaCDvZE (Your Voice America)
#6366233 at 2019-04-30 02:31:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8140: Captcha Chaos Edition
House panel chairman says Barr must testify Thursday
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said on Monday that Attorney General William Barr must testify before his panel on Thursday, despite Barr's reported objections to a more aggressive format for questions planned by Democrats. "We've been very clear. Barr has to come. He has to testify. It's none of the business of a witness to try to dictate to a congressional committee what our procedures for questioning him are," Nadler told reporters. "He is supposed to show up on Thursday and we will take whatever action we have to take if he doesn't," he added. Justice Department officials had no immediate comment on the lawmaker's remarks.
A Democratic congressional aide on Sunday said that Barr might skip the hearing because he objects to plans for an extra hour of questioning that would include committee lawyers, and a closed session to discuss classified sections of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russian investigation report. The report covers Mueller's probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and actions by President Donald Trump and his campaign.
It details a series of actions by Trump to impede the Russia probe. It did not conclude whether those actions constituted the crime of obstruction. But it did conclude that Trump and his campaign had not engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Moscow. Barr, a Trump appointee, released a redacted version of the document on April 18.
Nadler has subpoenaed the full document and demanded that the Justice Department provide it and underlying evidence by 10 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. After meeting with Justice Department officials earlier on Monday, the chairman said he expects the administration to adhere to the deadline.
Republicans on Nadler's committee have sided with the attorney general, saying the demands are unreasonable. But Democrats say the new format is necessary to ensure that witnesses answer the questions posed. The traditional hearing format gives each lawmaker five minutes for questions. But Democrats say Trump administration officials have become adept at running out the clock. Nadler said he would not negotiate on the hearing's format. "That's an affair entirely for Congress … administration witnesses have to come in and be examined as the committee sees fit," he said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-Barr-nadler/house-panel-chairman-says-Barr-must-testify-thursday-idUSKCN1S52B5?il=0
#6365666 at 2019-04-30 01:52:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8140: Captcha Chaos Edition
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/29/house-democrats-Barr-mueller-report-1292182
House Democrats set the stage for a Barr standoff
A key House committee with the power to impeach President Donald Trump is moving ahead with a Thursday hearing to question Attorney General William Barr about the Mueller report, even if the attorney general doesn't show.
The standoff took its latest turn Monday when the Judiciary Committee formally announced plans to hold a Wednesday morning vote that would authorize the panel's Democratic and GOP counsels to split an hour of additional questioning about the special counsel's findings on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.
#6365526 at 2019-04-30 01:42:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8139: Bye Bye RR Edition
Democrats dare Barr to pull out of hearing
Democrats made moves Monday in defiance of Attorney General William Barr's wishes ahead of his planned testimony before the House Judiciary Committee this week. The two sides are grappling over the terms of the top Justice Department official's testimony on special counsel Robert Mueller's report, and if they can't reach an agreement, a subpoena could be in the making. Barr is scheduled to testify before the committee Thursday but threatened to pull out this week after getting word that Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., wants to add additional rounds of questions where the counsel for the Democratic and Republican parties would have 30 minutes to ask Barr questions. The Justice Department has so far not signaled a willingness to accept those terms.
''
"The Attorney General agreed to appear before Congress. Therefore, Members of Congress should be the ones doing the questioning. He remains happy to engage with Members on their questions regarding the Mueller report," a Justice Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner early Monday morning. Undaunted by the DOJ's objections, the Democratic majority formally announced on Monday it would stick to Nadler's preferred format, counsel questioning included. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Politico that he believes Barr is trying to exert undue control over the committee. "The attorney general seems to want to dictate the internal decision-making of the House Judiciary Committee. That's plainly unacceptable to us," Raskin said. "We obviously can't and don't tell him how to run his meetings. And he can't tell us how to run our meetings."
Nadler suggested Barr might be afraid but strongly hinted that a subpoena would ensue if the attorney general doesn't show. "If the attorney general is afraid to subject [himself] to questions where you can follow up, that may indicate lack of confidence in his own position," Nadler said to reporters Monday. "And more to the point, we have to get to the bottom of these issues. That's why we've called him in. It's not up to the attorney general to tell the committee how to conduct its business.
The White House has said it prefers cooperation with lawmakers, but press secretary Sarah Sanders snapped at Democrats on Monday. "You have to look at the outrageous behavior, particularly of the House Democrats, who are asking for things they know they can't have, that they know they have no legal authority to have," Sanders said. Barr is also set to testify before the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, which by all appearances is still a go.
A redacted version of Mueller's report on his 22-month investigation was released on April 18. The report clears Trump of colluding with Russia but also lays out 10 instances where Trump might have obstructed justice. Attorney General William Barr and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote a four-page summary of Mueller's investigation last month that cleared Trump of conspiring with Russia and of obstructing justice. Upset with Barr's rollout and emboldened by some of the findings in Mueller's report, Democrats have ratcheted up calls for investigations into the president and his administration, although leadership has sidestepped calling for impeachment proceedings.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-dare-Barr-to-pull-out-of-hearing
#6363262 at 2019-04-29 22:57:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8137: Lady Bears Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
Notables
are not endorsements
#8136
>>6363062 Suffolk, Middlesex DAs join advocates in suit against ICE over courthouse visits.
>>6363047 PapaD Tweet.
>>6362949 House Democrats move to block Trump administration's abortion "gag" rule.
>>6362861 Unindicted co-conspirator law and legal definition.
>>6362801 U.S. SEC freezes assets over suspected insider trading in Anadarko.
>>6362715 The EU has provided 2 million migrants with unlawful cash cards worth 1.55 billion euros in an effort to legalize illegal migration.
>>6362742 Study finds correlation between youth suicide and Netflix show.
>>6362642 RR Q crumb compilation.
>>6362699, >>6362768 California man arrested in terror plot to detonate explosive device designed to kill innocents.
>>6362653, >>6362662 US taxpayers spend $1.12T on illegal aliens' education every year.
>>6362660 Turkey says UAE spy suspect committed suicide in prison.
>>6362652 US Army: Selfless service.
>>6362597 Housing renovations to begin on Guantanamo.
>>6362605,>>6362622 Marines Tweet: Security aboard USS John P. Murtha / Evasion training.
>>6362568 Judge rules Civil War statues are protected by law.
>>6362563 RR's resignation letter sauce.
>>6363243 #8136
#8135 Baker Change
>>6361903 8 chan being attacked again.
>>6362371 Former Missouri sheriff sentenced to 6 months in fed prison.
>>6362313 Elmwood Park Mayor resigns, charged with voting tampering.
>>6362282 5/11: 11/5 mirror.
>>6362339 Vice chair resigns from airport authority.
>>6362240 I'd watch the news that day.
>>6362217 Buttigieg accused of sexual assault.
>>6362170 ZH: "The Fed Owns The Next Crash."
>>6362180 RR's resignation letter to POTUS.
>>6362173 National Guard Tweet with 17:17 timestamp.
>>6362147 Gunfire erupts near rear entrance of US embassy in Haiti.
>>6362113 Pompeo marks a year of "swagger" at State.
>>6362084 Cohen wishes he slept with pornstars.
>>6362055 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6362028 Marketfag update.
>>6362019 Q Proof: LBP?
>>6361993 John Singleton, "Boyz N the Hood" director, has died at 51.
>>6361900 Candace Owens birthday.
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism.
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers.
>>6361866 Planefag update.
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account.
>>6362456 #8135
Previously Collected Notables
>>6361724 #8134,
>>6359341 #8131, >>6360093 #8132, >>6360967 #8133
>>6357050 #8128, >>6357817 #8129, >>6358590 #8130
>>6354767 #8125, >>6356050 #8126, >>6356279 #8127
>>6352406 #8122, >>6353195 #8123, >>6353971 #8124
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6362464 at 2019-04-29 21:51:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8136: Melania Monday Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6348477 BO Related Global Notables
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
Notables
are not endorsements
#8135
>>6361903 8 chan being attacked again.
>>6362371 Former Missouri sheriff sentenced to 6 months in fed prison.
>>6362313 Elmwood Park Mayor resigns, charged with voting tampering.
>>6362282 5/11: 11/5 mirror.
>>6362339 Vice chair resigns from airport authority.
>>6362240 I'd watch the news that day.
>>6362217 Buttigieg accused of sexual assault.
>>6362170 ZH: "The Fed Owns The Next Crash."
>>6362180 RR's resignation letter to POTUS.
>>6362173 National Guard Tweet with 17:17 timestamp.
>>6362147 Gunfire erupts near rear entrance of US embassy in Haiti.
>>6362113 Pompeo marks a year of "swagger" at State.
>>6362084 Cohen wishes he slept with pornstars.
>>6362055 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6362028 Marketfag update.
>>6362019 Q Proof: LBP?
>>6361993 John Singleton, "Boyz N the Hood" director, has died at 51.
>>6361900 Candace Owens birthday.
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism.
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers.
>>6361866 Planefag update.
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account.
>>6362456 #8135
#8134
>>6361000 $15 Trillion From Thin Air-The Massive Central Bank Fraud On The World Economy
>>6361006, >>6361083 LA terror attack plotter vet & recent convert to Islam
>>6361008 Biden struggles to fill small PA auditorium
>>6361052 Dems want climate change, tax hikes in infrastructure deal… party of High taxes!
>>6361064 Attorney General tells Netanyahu 'no indictment delay'
>>6361088, >>6361092 Multiple dead after helicopter crashes in Hawaii/ report confirmed 3 dead
>>6361118 Without fanfare, Australia opens trade and defense office in Jerusalem
>>6361147 Tesla says may seek new funding; shares up after SEC agreement
>>6361148, >>6361171 America's Super-Vaccination Agenda is put on Super Steroids-Why now?
>>6361178 Arab League warns of erasure of Palestinian history in school curriculum
>>6361184 How The Delusion of Diversity Destroys Our Common Humanity
>>6361209 EVIDENCE: Brennan and Clapper Hacked FISA Court Judge Reggie Walton; Comey Covered It Up
>>6361169 Tiffany Trump tweets very Q like message
>>6361250 Terror Suspect Talked of Killing LAPD Officers and Blowing Up Santa Monica Pier, LA Freeways
>>6361180 Major US airlines hit with systemwide ticketing outages today
>>6361306 POTUS will NOT assert Executive Privilege re: Mueller report
>>6361322 Current fake news narrative: Climate Change in Canada is somehow worse than anywhere else worldwide
>>6361330 US Navy SEAL Officers Attempted to Cover Up Evidence of War Crimes
>>6361349 Judicial Watch: Bruce Ohr Email Raises Possible Ethics Concerns Tied to Russia Testimony
>>6361352 Maxine Waters' recent impromptu visit to Haiti
>>6361363, >>6361578 POTUS welcomes Baylor Lady Bears to WH/ Dons white hat
>>6361369, >>6361415 The Trump Campaign has announced it will be holding a MAGA Rally in Panama City Beach, FL on May 8/cap
>>6361402 PapaD tweets about Turkish intel working w/ CIA to spy on him
>>6361444 AS is panicking on twitter again
>>6361526 The supreme court rules against California for using it's power to fine businesses and citizens unconstitutionally
>>6361551 James Clapper Knew There Was No Evidence of Trump-Russia Collusion In 2016… yet he still persisted
>>6361642 Presidential Message to the Senate of the United States on the Withdrawal of the Arms Trade Treaty
>>6361688 Anon on Sparrow Red
>>6361724 #8134
Previously Collected Notables
>>6359341 #8131, >>6360093 #8132, >>6360967 #8133
>>6357050 #8128, >>6357817 #8129, >>6358590 #8130
>>6354767 #8125, >>6356050 #8126, >>6356279 #8127
>>6352406 #8122, >>6353195 #8123, >>6353971 #8124
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6362456 at 2019-04-29 21:51:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
#8135
>>6361903 8 chan being attacked again.
>>6362371 Former Missouri sheriff sentenced to 6 months in fed prison.
>>6362313 Elmwood Park Mayor resigns, charged with voting tampering.
>>6362282 5/11: 11/5 mirror.
>>6362339 Vice chair resigns from airport authority.
>>6362240 I'd watch the news that day.
>>6362217 Buttigieg accused of sexual assault.
>>6362170 ZH: "The Fed Owns The Next Crash."
>>6362180 RR's resignation letter to POTUS.
>>6362173 National Guard Tweet with 17:17 timestamp.
>>6362147 Gunfire erupts near rear entrance of US embassy in Haiti.
>>6362113 Pompeo marks a year of "swagger" at State.
>>6362084 Cohen wishes he slept with pornstars.
>>6362055 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6362028 Marketfag update.
>>6362019 Q Proof: LBP?
>>6361993 John Singleton, "Boyz N the Hood" director, has died at 51.
>>6361900 Candace Owens birthday.
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism.
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers.
>>6361866 Planefag update.
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account.
#6362410 at 2019-04-29 21:46:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
#8135
>>6361903 8 chan being attacked again.
>>6362371 Former Missouri sheriff sentenced to 6 months in fed prison.
>>6362313 Elmwood Park Mayor resigns, charged with voting tampering.
>>6362282 5/11: 11/5 mirror.
>>6362339 Vice chair resigns from airport authority.
>>6362240 I'd watch the news that day.
>>6362217 Buttigieg accused of sexual assault.
>>6362170 ZH: "The Fed Owns The Next Crash."
>>6362180 RR's resignation letter to POTUS.
>>6362173 National Guard Tweet with 17:17 timestamp.
>>6362147 Gunfire erupts near rear entrance of US embassy in Haiti.
>>6362113 Pompeo marks a year of "swagger" at State.
>>6362084 Cohen wishes he slept with pornstars.
>>6362055 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6362028 Marketfag update.
>>6362019 Q Proof: LBP?
>>6361993 John Singleton, "Boyz N the Hood" director, has died at 51.
>>6361900 Candace Owens birthday.
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism.
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers.
>>6361866 Planefag update.
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account.
Last call / Baking in 70
#6362274 at 2019-04-29 21:33:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
#8135
>>6362217 Buttigieg accused of sexual assault.
>>6362170 ZH: "The Fed Owns The Next Crash."
>>6362180 RR's resignation letter to POTUS.
>>6362173 National Guard Tweet with 17:17 timestamp.
>>6362147 Gunfire erupts near rear entrance of US embassy in Haiti.
>>6362113 Pompeo marks a year of "swagger" at State.
>>6362084 Cohen wishes he slept with pornstars.
>>6362055 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6362028 Marketfag update.
>>6362019 Q Proof: LBP?
>>6361993 John Singleton, "Boyz N the Hood" director, has died at 51.
>>6361900 Candace Owens birthday.
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism.
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers.
>>6361866 Planefag update.
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account.
#6362083 at 2019-04-29 21:19:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
#8135
>>6362055 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6362028 Marketfag update.
>>6362019 Q Proof: LBP?
>>6361993 John Singleton, "Boyz N the Hood" director, has died at 51.
>>6361900 Candace Owens birthday.
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism.
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers.
>>6361866 Planefag update.
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account.
#6361921 at 2019-04-29 21:05:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
William Barr and Roseanne Barr are each of Ukrainian descent though seemingly unrelated.
#6361882 at 2019-04-29 21:02:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
>>6361785 New York Times Publishes Second Controversial Cartoon Amid Outrage Over Anti-Semitism
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers
>>6361866 planefag update
>>6361871 twitter suspends new POTUS schedule account
NOTABLE BUN
#6361820 at 2019-04-29 20:56:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
>>6361799 Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers
NOTABLE
#6361799 at 2019-04-29 20:54:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8135: Big Buns Make Baker Crazy & Proud Edition
Nadler Threatens to Subpoena AG William Barr if He Skips Hearing Conducted by Staffers
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold (D-N.Y.) has threatened to subpoena Attorney General William Barr if he decides to skip an upcoming House Judiciary hearing, this week.
Barr is scheduled to testify before the committee on Thursday, but the Department of Justice (DOJ) has voiced objections over the format of the hearing. Nadler has proposed having committee staff question Barr about special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Democrats also want to go into a closed session with the attorney general to discuss the redacted parts of the Mueller report.
DOJ officials have said that they oppose any plans to go into a closed session and contend that lawmakers, not staffers, should conduct the hearing. "The attorney general agreed to appear before Congress; therefore Congress does the questioning," an official said.
"The witness is not going to tell the committee how to conduct its hearing, period," Nadler told CNN on Sunday, adding that if Barr does not appear on Thursday, his committee "will have to subpoena him, and we will have to use whatever means we can to enforce the subpoena."
Republicans called the Democrats' demands "abusive and illogical."
A spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee Republican minority told Fox News over the weekend:
Attorney General Barr wasn't asked to testify before the committee-he offered. He provided the Mueller report voluntarily. He invited Democrat leaders to view the less-redacted report in person. Yet the only thing, apparently, that will satisfy Democrats, who refuse to read the less-redacted report, is to have staff pinch hit when a cabinet-level official appears before us.
What actual precedent is there for our committee making such demands of a sitting attorney general as part of our oversight duties? The attorney general isn't a fact witness, and this committee's investigations-as Democrat leadership reminds us daily-don't constitute impeachment, so Democrats have yet to prove their demands anything but abusive and illogical in light of the transparency and good faith the attorney general has shown our committee.
According to Politico, DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec argued that since Barr was the one who volunteered to testify before Congress, "Members of Congress should be the ones doing the questioning." She added: "He remains happy to engage with Members on their questions regarding the Mueller report."
The Democrat-led committee nevertheless on Monday announced plans "to hold a Wednesday morning vote that would authorize the panel's Democratic and GOP counsels to split an hour of additional questioning about the special counsel's findings."
https://pjmedia.com/trending/nadler-threatens-to-subpoena-ag-William-Barr-if-skips-hearing-conducted-by-staffers/
#6358988 at 2019-04-29 16:19:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8131: Monday Forecast: Shaliday with a Chance of PAIN Edition
Exclusive - Jerome Corsi Claims Mueller's Team Tried to Pressure Him Into Pleading Guilty
Author and political commentator Jerome Corsi, who was under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller for potential collusion with Russia, claimed Mueller's team tried to pressure him to plead guilty, during an interview with SiriusXM's Breitbart News Tonight.
"I got subpoenaed on August 28. I provided my computers, my laptops, my backup devices, everything, I voluntarily gave to the Special Counsel and to his prosecutors, and from the beginning they treated me like a criminal," he told host and Breitbart News Deputy Political Editor Amanda House in an exclusive interview on Thursday.
Corsi said prosecutors suspected he had communicated with WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, whose website published emBarrassing emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee. Corsi claimed that prosecutors tried to convince him to admit to being that link, despite his denials, so that they could establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
He alleged the Mueller team used aggressive tactics:
They bring you into this unmarked FBI building in southeast Washington. You come in through the garage, you have to go in and give them in this safe room your laptops, all your electronic devices, your computer, everything, and they bring you up to this internal conference room, with no windows, no clock, and it's me and my attorney David Gray at this point, to sit across from three of the prosecutors on Mueller's team, and six to nine FBI, and they start grilling you for hour after hour, and if you forget some emails, or if you state something different from something they have from a phone call three years ago which you didn't remember, all the prosecutors stand up, the FBI, they stomp out of the room, they call your attorney into the next room, they say they're going to put you in prison for the rest of your life.
He alleged this went on for 40 hours over two months, and ended because he did not have contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
"The prosecutors were convinced that I had introduced Roger Stone to Julian Assange, and I was the linchpin, I was key to the prosecutors establishing collusion argument, and if I had I lied or broken down and was willing to tell the prosecutors what they wanted, to stay out of prison, his report would have said collusion, because they believed I could give them the link they were looking for," he said.
He claimed they threatened to put him away for the rest of his life.
"They said, 'If you don't accept this plea deal, and plea to this one count, and say you're guilty of it, and then you'll get no prison time, but if you don't do this, we're going to indict you with multiple counts, obstruction of justice, in Washington, DC, where the jury will hate you, and we'll put you away for 25 years.
"Well, I'm 72 years old, that would have been a life sentence. But as I point out in silent no more, my wife woke up one morning and she said, 'I'd rather visit you in prison for the rest of your life than have you not be the man I married.'"
"I decided I was going to tell them I was not going to take their plea deal, and they were furious," he said.
Corsi also discussed his new book, "Silent No More," on being investigated by the Special Counsel.
"I would wake up at 4:30 in the morning, and look out to see if the FBI's outside. It was - it's been a nightmare," he said.
Corsi now predicts that after the release of Mueller's report earlier this month, the "tables are going to turn" with Attorney General William Barr looking into whether the Obama administration had an appropriate predicate to spy on the Trump campaign.
"As I point out in Silent No More, these prosecutors, we have a weaponized system of justice right now that's very heavily politicized, and this was under Obama. Barr's job is to restore justice, the American people's faith in justice," he said.
Corsi said he has filed a $350 million lawsuit against Mueller and the Justice Department, the CIA, and other agencies.
"I think we have a politically corrupt justice and intelligence system, and I think it extends into the IRS and I think the bureaucracy is very, very biased against the Constitution, against the president...and I don't think we're going to anywhere clear this until we really root out the bureaucracy, I think we'd like to see term limits in the bureaucracy. I'd like to see these people rotated out," he said.
https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/04/28/exclusive-jerome-corsi-claims-muellers-team-tried-to-pressure-him-into-pleading-guilty/
#6356451 at 2019-04-29 07:52:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8128: United We Stand Edition
Senators Grassley & Johnson Release Letter to Attorney General William Barr, Demand Details About Investigation Into Obama's Illegal Spying on Trump Campaign
On Sarah Carter's web page with no text from her, just a link to the document.
https://saraacarter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-04-25-CEG-RJ-to-DOJ-Surveillance-of-Trump-Transition-Team.pdf
https://saraacarter.com/sen-grassley-and-sen-johnson-letter-to-ag-Barr-on-fbi-spying/
#6355242 at 2019-04-29 04:12:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8126: FEAR THE STOR M Edition
Attorney General William Barr has threatened to skip this upcoming week's House Judiciary hearing over Chairman Jerry Nadler's (D-NY) proposal to have committee staff question him.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/28/ag-Barr-threatens-skip-house-judiciary-hearing/
#6354727 at 2019-04-29 03:19:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8125: Dark before the Light Edition
GOP stepping up investigations… And here comes AG Barr!
Sorry if duplicated, but I didn't see this in the bread.
ARTICLE BEGINS HERE:
GOP lawmakers returning to Washington are signaling they intend to step up their campaign to look into alleged spying by FBI agents on President Trump's 2016 campaign. The effort comes as Democrats ramp up their own investigations into the Trump administration and could serve as a bit of GOP counter-programming to put the spotlight on what Republicans contend is suspicious behavior under the Obama administration. Two Senate chairmen previewed the coming GOP efforts with a recent letter to Attorney General William Barr, who raised eyebrows when he publicly asserted he believed the Trump campaign was spied on and said he would review the intelligence community's actions to ensure no improper surveillance occurred.
Democrats were surprised and angered Barr used the word "spying" to describe surveillance that FBI did during their investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, accusing him of promoting a GOP talking point. In a letter sent to the attorney general on Thursday, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked the Justice Department for a briefing on Barr's review and cited text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page that they described as exhibiting "potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team."
"Any improper FBI surveillance activities that were conducted before or after the 2016 election must be brought to light and properly addressed," wrote Grassley and Johnson, who chair the Finance and Homeland Security Committees, respectively. They also raised concerns about potentially unauthorized Justice Department leaks to the press about the Russia investigation. Lawmakers on the House and Senate Judiciary Committees will have an opportunity to grill Barr in back-to-back open hearings this week, as he testifies on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and final report, a redacted version of which Barr released roughly a week ago. Barr is expected to face considerable scrutiny from Democrats who accuse him of bias in his handling of Mueller's report, which did not establish conspiracy between members of the Trump campaign and Russia but explicitly did not exonerate the president on allegations of obstruction. The attorney general is also likely to be questioned by Republicans about his plans to review the decisions in the FBI's original Russia counterintelligence probe.
"I have loads of questions for Barr about origination of the spying and DOJ leaders' role in the spying," Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told The Hill Friday, adding that he has "lots of questions" following the release of Mueller's report.
Republicans have long suggested FBI agents were politically motivated in opening the investigation into the Trump campaign, citing text messages exchanged by officials that worked on the Russia and Clinton email investigations in which they criticized Trump's candidacy. House Republicans led an investigation into the FBI's handling of the Russia and Clinton probes that was quietly shuttered last year, shortly before Democrats took control of the lower chamber. GOP lawmakers have also alleged the FBI abused its surveillance authorities by relying on information from the author of the controversial Trump-Russia dossier, which was in part funded by Democrats, to justify a surveillance renewal application to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Democrats have roundly rejected Republicans' claims, accusing them of trying to undermine Mueller's investigation, which concluded in March after 22 months. The Justice Department's inspector general is currently investigating the FBI's compliance with the law and procedures with respect to the Page warrant application, a review Barr expects to be completed as soon as next month. Barr said in congressional testimony earlier in April that he plans to initiate his own review of the "genesis and the conduct" of intelligence collection directed at members of the Trump campaign based on what Inspector General Michael Horowitz finds; Barr said it was important to determine whether the surveillance was "adequately predicated."
Rest of article here…
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-ready-to-step-up-spying-case/ar-BBWnQFj?li=BBnb7Kz
#6349445 at 2019-04-28 19:16:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8119: Do I Look Like I Know What A JPEG Is Edition
Barr warns House Dems he might not appear at hearing
Attorney General William Barr has warned House Democrats that he might not appear as scheduled this week in front of the Judiciary Committee, The Hill has confirmed.
Barr has told Democrats they need to change the proposed format for the hearing, CNN first reported Sunday, citing an unidentified source.
In addition to five minutes of questioning for each member of the committee, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the committee, has proposed an additional round that would allow for each side to question Barr for 30 minutes, a source said. That round of questioning also would allow the committee counsels for both parties to question Barr.
Nadler also has proposed having the committee enter a closed session to discuss redacted sections of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, the source added.
Barr has rejected the additional rounds of questioning, but it's possible he and Democrats could reach a deal before Thursday, when the hearing is scheduled.
A Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement that "members of Congress should be the ones doing the questioning."
"The Attorney General agreed to appear before Congress. Therefore, Members of Congress should be the ones doing the questioning. He remains happy to engage with Members on their questions regarding the Mueller report," said spokesperson Kerri Kupec.
Lawmakers are expected to grill Barr on the Mueller report, which was made public earlier this month.
Barr held a press conference immediately ahead of the report's release and has been accused of misrepresenting its findings.
Mueller's report did not find evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia ahead of the 2016 election, but the report notes that the campaign believed it would benefit from Russia's interference and that Russia believed it would benefit from a Trump presidency.
Mueller also outlined several instances in which the president potentially obstructed justice.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/441018-Barr-warns-house-dems-he-might-not-appear-at-hearing-report
#6349342 at 2019-04-28 19:07:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8119: Do I Look Like I Know What A JPEG Is Edition
Barr Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/Barr-said-to-form-team-to-review-fbi-s-actions-in-trump-probe
Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions made by Justice Department and FBI officials, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, according to a person familiar with the matter.
#6348529 at 2019-04-28 17:53:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8118: Mirror Digits. Through The Looking Glass. The Bottomless Mimosas Edition
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/441041-nadler-hits-back-at-Barr-the-witness-is-not-going-to-tell-the-committee-how-to
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) fired back Sunday at Attorney General William Barr after the attorney general warned he may not appear at a scheduled committee hearing this week.
"The witness is not going to tell the committee how to conduct its hearing, period," Nadler said Sunday, according to CNN.
Nadler also threatened to issue a subpoena if President Trump's attorney general refuses to attend the hearing.
"Then we will have to subpoena him, and we will have to use whatever means we can to enforce the subpoena," Nadler said.
Barr previously told House Democrats that they need to change the proposed format for the hearing, scheduled for Thursday, before he agrees to attend.
#6346469 at 2019-04-28 14:15:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8115: Baking some Fresh Bread for the Morning Edition
Barr says BTFO
DOJ warns Nadler that Barr won't stand for protracted hearing: Report
by Daniel Chaitin
Attorney General William Barr is reportedly threatening to pull out of a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee this week.
A committee source told CNN that Barr objects to the format planned for Thursday's hearing, which is focused on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., wants two rounds of questions, one for members and a second in which each counsel for the Democratic Party and Republican Party would have the opportunity to ask questions. He also proposed a closed session to discuss redacted sections in Mueller's report.
Barr objects to the added sessions and the closed session. The Justice Department has signaled that Barr may not show up unless Nadler backs off.
A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.
Barr is also scheduled to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, which is still expected to happen.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-warns-nadler-that-Barr-wont-stand-for-protracted-hearing-report
#6337204 at 2019-04-27 21:04:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8103: Anons See Through The Lies Every Single Time
Q 3313
Re 1st & 10 on the 40
>>6337060
>>6336854
>>6336933
>>6337052
https://8ch.net/qresearch/catalog.html
https://saraacarter.com/muellers-report-ends-witchhunt-but-whats-about-to-unfold-is-the-real-story/
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Attorney General William Barr stressed Thursday during his press conference that although Special counsel Robert Mueller detailed 10 "episodes" involving actions by President Trump that might have constituted obstruction of justice, neither the DOJ, nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein believed those actions violated the law.
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What are the 10 episodes and the sequence? What is the first episode?
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Rep. Devin Nunes, R-CA, was one of the first to reveal those threads and never wavered even when the Washington 'swamp monsters' targeted him and his credibility. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-NC, worked tirelessly with their committees to get to the truth. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC, have done the same and all promise to continue to the battle for the truth. Why? Because frankly this political war is not over.
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And, Quote:
Just remember, it was Hillary Clinton and the DNC that paid for former British Spy Christopher Steele's anti-Trump dossier through their attorney's Perkins Coie. It was the embattled research firm Fusion GPS, with its founder Glenn Simpson, that helped spread the dossier and its unsubstantiated and false findings all over Washington D.C. They did so with help from senior officials at the FBI and DOJ. When Simpson and his crew couldn't get it published they used their contacts at the FBI to leak to information to the media with them. They also had their anti-Trump friends in high positions of power within the Obama Administration like then CIA Director John Brennan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, FBI Director James Comey and his then Deputy Director fo the FBI Andrew McCabe to brief the most salacious parts of the dossier to Trump in January, 2017.
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How many of those 10 episodes are pointed at by Sara C in that single article summing-up the origins of the "soft coup"?
Allspeed Anons.
#6336188 at 2019-04-27 19:42:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8102: FREE FLYNN Edition
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#6330394 at 2019-04-27 04:10:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8095: NO C OR O Edition
Senator Graham: Supreme Court Chief Justice Should Have FISA Court Ask DOJ, FBI 'Did You Mislead Us'
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican from South Carolina, told CBS 11 Thursday that he wants U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to have the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) look into allegations that the Department of Justice and the FBI may have misled judges while seeking FISA warrants to investigate the Trump Campaign and former campaign aide Carter Page.
"I expect Justice Roberts to have the [FISA] Court ask questions of the Department of Justice and the FBI, 'Did you mislead us?'" said Graham. "My job is to make sure the laws we have are enough to protect us. Somebody's got to watch those who watch us."
According to CBS News, redacted versions of the FISA documents that have been made public indicated that the FBI told the intelligence court in applying for the wiretap on Page that he "has been collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government." The agency also told the court that "the FBI believes Page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the Russian government."
Page was never charged with a crime and Graham called the evidence used to justify the FISA Court warrant against Page "garbage."
Attorney General William Barr told a Senate panel earlier this month that he intended to investigate the matter.
"I think spying did occur, yes," said Barr. "I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred. I'm saying that I am concerned about it and looking into it, that's all," Barr also said.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/04/26/senator-graham-fisa-supreme-court-did-you-mislead-us/
VIDEO AT LINK FOR NIGHTSHIFT ILLITERATE PEPE's (Love you all).
#6329275 at 2019-04-27 02:20:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8093: Friday Nightshift, We In Here Edition
>>6329252
White House says former official can speak to Oversight panel next week
By Jesse Byrnes - 04/26/19 08:42 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440922-white-house-says-former-official-can-speak-to-oversight-panel-next
White House says former official can speak to Oversight panel next week
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The White House has agreed to allow former personnel security director Carl Kline speak to the House Oversight and Reform Committee next week, the White House counsel said in a letter Friday obtained by The Hill.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote to Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio), the top Republican on the Oversight panel, after Jordan urged the administration to make Kline available for a voluntary transcribed interview on April 30 or May 1.
Cipollone wrote Friday that "we have consulted with Mr. Kline's attorney regarding the interview dates proposed in your letter. Mr. Kline is available to appear for an interview on Wednesday, May 1."
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"We understand the scope of the interview will be limited to White House personnel security policies and practices, consistent with our prior offers for Mr. Kline's voluntary cooperation with the Committee. We also understand that, as a matter of fairness, Mr. Kline may be accompanied by both his personal counsel and a representative of the Office of Counsel to the President," he added.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the chairman of the Oversight panel, had issued a subpoena for Kline to testify before the committee on its investigation into the White House security clearance process.
Cummings blasted the White House this week for blocking Kline from testifying and signaled that he would pursue contempt proceedings against the former top official, who left his role at the White House and now works at the Pentagon.
Cummings's staff did not immediately return a request for comment on Friday night.
An appearance by Kline on Wednesday would also come the same day Attorney General William Barr is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first of two days of testimony on Capitol Hill.
Barr is expected to face questions from lawmakers over his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report as well as his decision to not pursue an obstruction of justice charge against the president based on Mueller's findings.
- Tal Axelrod contributed reporting
#6328203 at 2019-04-27 00:42:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8092: Lets Have Us A Fun Friday Nightshift Edition
Mueller report: Dan Coats declined to help end probe
DNI, former Hoosier senator, advised Trump to let it run its course
Apr 19, 2019
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was asked in 2017 by President Donald Trump to help end Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's alleged interference with the 2016 U.S. election, according to findings by Mueller's team.
The redacted 448-page findings were released Thursday by U.S. Attorney General William Barr.
According to the Mueller report, several times in 2017, Trump asked Coats to help end Mueller's investigation. The investigation, Trump said, was interfering with his ability to conduct foreign relations.
Coats declined, saying his job was to provide intelligence and not get involved with investigations. He told the president that the fastest way to "get it done" was to let the investigation run its course, according to the report.
Coats, a Republican, served as a U.S. senator from Indiana 1989-1999. He also was the congressional representative for Indiana's 4th District 1981-1989, after defeating then incumbent-Birch Bayh for his first term.
On March 22, 2017, Trump asked for Coats and CIA Director Michael Pompeo to stay after a White House meeting, according to the Mueller report. Coats recalled that he was asked to state publicly that no link existed between the president and Russia.
Pompeo said he had no recollection of being asked to stay behind after the March 22 briefing, but he recalled that the president "regularly urged officials to get the word out that he had not done anything wrong related to Russia," the Mueller report found.
Coats told Mueller's office that the president never asked him to speak to James Comey, whom Trump later fired as the director of the FBI, about the FBI investigation.
However, some of Coats' staffers offered different recollections of how Coats described the meeting immediately after it occurred.
According to senior Director of National Intelligence official Michael Dempsey, Coats said after the March 22 meeting that the president had brought up the Russia investigation and asked him to "contact Comey to see if there was a way to get past the investigation, get it over with, end it, or words to that effect," according to the report.
Dempsey said that Coats described the president's comments as falling "somewhere between musing about hating the investigation" and wanting Coats to "do something to stop it."
Dempsey said Coats made it clear that he would not get involved with an ongoing FBI investigation.
https://www.tribstar.com/news/indiana_news/mueller-report-dan-coats-declined-to-help-end-probe/article_090837c2-afcf-553a-ac15-e231921dd6c7.html
#6324469 at 2019-04-26 18:48:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8087: Happy Birthday Melania! Edition
Rosenstein explains his deadpan expression behind Barr at last week's press conference
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explained Friday why he appeared behind Attorney General William Barr with a deadpan expression during last week's press conference following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
During his remarks Friday to the Armenian Bar Association, Rosenstein joked that members of the media would question his behavior regardless of how he appeared to act during the news conference.
"Last week, the big topic of discussion was: 'What were you thinking when you stood behind Bill Barr at that press conference with a deadpan expression?' The answer is: I was thinking, "My job is to stand here with a deadpan expression," Rosenstein said Friday, to applause.
"Can you imagine if I did anything other than stand there at the press conference? Imagine the reaction and the commentary if I had smiled or grimaced," the deputy attorney general continued.
"But you cannot avoid criticism," he said. "The only way you can avoid criticism in public service is if you stay home. But somebody actually has to do the work, and therefore you have to accept the criticism that comes with the job."
A former federal prosecutor remarked on Hill.TV last week that Rosenstein looked like a "hostage" during the news conference, at which Barr defended his characterization of Mueller's report amid criticism from Democrats that his summary of the investigation released last month was misleading.
"First off, [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein looked like he was a hostage for God's sakes. Did you see his eyes?" Gene Rossi told Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on Hill.TV's "Rising."
"I saw those two people behind Barr, I'm thinking to myself, where's Robert Mueller?" he added.
Rosenstein has defended Barr amid the criticism and knocked Democrats earlier this month who accused the attorney general of misleading the public.
"He's being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think, is just completely bizarre," he told The Wall Street Journal. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440848-rosenstein-explains-his-deadpan-expression-behind-Barr-at-last-weeks
#6323671 at 2019-04-26 17:39:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8086: They NEVER Thought She Would Lose Edition
Rosenstein explains his deadpan expression behind Barr at last week's press conference
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440848-rosenstein-explains-his-deadpan-expression-behind-Barr-at-last-weeks
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein explained Friday why he appeared behind Attorney General William Barr with a deadpan expression during last week's press conference following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
During his remarks Friday to the Armenian Bar Association, Rosenstein joked that members of the media would question his behavior regardless of how he appeared to act during the news conference.
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"Last week, the big topic of discussion was: 'What were you thinking when you stood behind Bill Barr at that press conference with a deadpan expression?' The answer is: I was thinking, 'My job is to stand here with a deadpan expression,'" Rosenstein said Friday, to applause.
"Can you imagine if I did anything other than stand there at the press conference? Imagine the reaction and the commentary if I had smiled or grimaced," the deputy attorney general continued.
"But you cannot avoid criticism," he said. "The only way you can avoid criticism in public service is if you stay home. But somebody actually has to do the work, and therefore you have to accept the criticism that comes with the job."
A former federal prosecutor remarked on Hill.TV last week that Rosenstein looked like a "hostage" during the news conference, at which Barr defended his characterization of Mueller's report amid criticism from Democrats that his summary of the investigation released last month was misleading.
"First off, [Deputy Attorney General] Rod Rosenstein looked like he was a hostage for God's sakes. Did you see his eyes?" Gene Rossi told Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton on Hill.TV's "Rising."
"I saw those two people behind Barr, I'm thinking to myself, where's Robert Mueller?" he added.
Rosenstein has defended Barr amid the criticism and knocked Democrats earlier this month who accused the attorney general of misleading the public.
"He's being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think, is just completely bizarre," he told The Wall Street Journal.
#6323483 at 2019-04-26 17:24:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8086: They NEVER Thought She Would Lose Edition
Attorney General Appoints Regina Lombardo Acting Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Attorney General William P. Barr announced today that he has appointed Regina "Reggie" Lombardo to be Acting Deputy Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), effective May 1, 2019. Lombardo will replace Thomas Brandon, who will be retiring from federal service on April 30, 2019.
"Reggie Lombardo has helped run day-to-day operations at ATF for more than a year and she has proven herself to be an outstanding leader," Attorney General William Barr said. "Like her predecessor, Tom Brandon, she started as a special agent and has been entrusted with greater and greater responsibility over decades of faithful service. She is well qualified to continue ATF's successes of recent years, including helping the Department investigate and prosecute more firearms offenders than ever before. I want to thank Tom Brandon for his 30 years of service to ATF and 36 years of service to this country, and I thank Acting Deputy Director Lombardo for her willingness to accept this new role leading one of the most effective law enforcement agencies in the world."
Lombardo has served as the Associate Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer for the agency since March 2018. In this capacity she has been responsible for the day-to-day operations of the agency charged with protecting the public from violent crime and enforcing laws and regulations related to firearms, explosives, arson, and alcohol and tobacco diversion. Lombardo has served as a special agent in the ATF since 1992 and has risen through the ranks as a career employee. She has held numerous management positions at ATF, including Assistant Director of Human Resources and Professional Development, Deputy Assistant Director of Field Operations' Central Region, Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa Field Division, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division, and Assistant Country Attaché in Toronto, Canada. She will be the first female to lead the agency in its history.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-appoints-regina-lombardo-acting-deputy-director-bureau-alcohol-tobacco
#6322953 at 2019-04-26 16:43:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8085: Where She Be At? Edition
AG William Barr to give testimony to Senate judiciary committee on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling at 10 a.m. May 1
Mark your calendars for more great Barr meme material
I think Barr rather enjoys being in front of the camera and talking down to stupid people ")
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/04/24/William-Barr-to-testify-before-Senate-judiciary-next-week/9341556142542/
#6321427 at 2019-04-26 13:37:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8083: Happy Birthday Dear FLOTUS Edition
GOP senators refer Strzok-Page texts to Barr over spying concerns
by Daniel Chaitin | April 25, 2019 10:00 PM
A text message exchange between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page is getting a fresh look.
Two top Senate Republicans sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday, offering a tip for his review of the initial investigation into the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016.
They cite "text messages that may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team," in which Strzok and Page discussed on their work phones the "possibility of developing 'potential relationships' at a November 2016 FBI briefing for presidential transition team staff."
After noting a prior briefing with "Pence," most likely then-incoming Vice President Mike Pence, Strzok indicates he is talking with former top FBI official Bill Priestap and asks Page if they want to "go with" a specific individual, whose name is redacted, "for a variety of [reasons]."
Page replied that she is unsure, wondering, "Would it be unusual to have show up again? Maybe another agent from the team?"
"Or, he's 'the CI [counter-intelligence] guy.' Same.might make sense. He can assess if [there] are any new Qs, or different demeanor. If [redacted's] husband is there, he can see if there are people we can develop for potential relationships," Strzok said.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-senators-refer-strzok-page-texts-to-Barr-over-spying-concerns
#6321072 at 2019-04-26 12:47:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8083: Happy Birthday Dear FLOTUS Edition
Senators Johnson and Grassley Rush Head-First into The Obama/Rice Justification Trap...
Posted on April 25, 2019 by sundance
CTH suspected this was sketchy when notorious Swamp Defender Chris Wallace was used as the point person to push it. FUBAR suspicions confirmed when looking at the construct.
Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson send a letter to AG William Barr questioning post election text messages by Lisa Page and Peter Strzok that outline questions about the FBI counterintelligence operation against the Trump transition team. First the letter:
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If you've followed the DC pattern, you can pick up the purpose of sending a letter that walks directly, and purposefully, into the President Obama and Susan Rice justification trap, CTH warned about a few months ago.
Asking questions about the motives of Lisa Page, Peter Strzok and the FBI counterintelligence unit in the post election period is ridiculous; all it does is open the door for justification. The FBI has admitted on-the-record the operation picked up by Special Counsel Robert Mueller was an extension of an ongoing FBI investigation.
Continue reading ? https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/25/senators-johnson-and-grassley-rush-head-first-into-the-obama-rice-justification-trap/
#6320068 at 2019-04-26 07:50:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8082: Night is Followed by Light Edition
Carter Page says Mueller is worse than Mussolini, Saddam, and Gadhafi
Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser who was suspected by the FBI of being a Russian spy, has written a foreword to an e-book version of the Mueller report, calling it "propaganda" and comparing his time in front of the Mueller grand jury to being at Guantanamo Bay.
Written in hyperbolic terms, Page compares the 448-page report put together by special counsel Robert Mueller, and lightly redacted by Attorney General William Barr, to the propaganda pushed by some of modern history's worst dictators. And he blasts what he sees as a politically motivated "witch hunt" targeting himself and President Trump.
Venting his frustrations, Page wrote: "In Italy, Mussolini had his autobiography. In Libya, Gadhafi widely distributed his Green Book both to the masses, in the national media and even with featured quotes on billboards throughout the country. Iraq's tyrannical Saddam Hussein wrote a series of novellas." Benito Mussolini, Moammar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein - and, according to Page, Robert Mueller.
Page, 47, claims that, if anything, the Mueller report is even worse: "Most of the prior historical propaganda endeavors are modest when compared to DOJ's two-volume work which was created by a handful of despots in Washington."
Mueller's report concluded that although the Russians interfered in the 2016 election through cyberattacks and social media disinformation campaigns, there was no criminal collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign - or any other American. Nearly half of Mueller's report, however, was dedicated to leaving the door open to claims of obstruction of justice.
Page wrote that investigators were working on behalf of the Democratic Party during the 2016 election, and that the Mueller report is the end result, calling it "a shameful conglomeration of propaganda meant to sow further discord in the minds of Americans against their fellow citizens."
In Mueller's report, grand jury testimony is largely redacted. In a podcast interview with the Washington Examiner's Byron York, Page was asked about this largely secret aspect of Mueller's investigation: "I was wondering if you could give us a little preview of what it was like in the grand jury during your time with Mueller?"
Page said, "Basically it's like Guantanamo Bay detention camp in a lot of ways, right? But I actually would've enjoyed being in Gitmo more than what I went through with these people, you know, in terms of the intense interrogation and strong arm tactics there."
Page echoed these comments in his book foreword: "In comparison, a government-funded vacation down at Gitmo in the Caribbean might have seemed almost luxurious and relaxing."
In his report, Mueller wrote that "the investigation did not establish that Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election." But Mueller draw attention to the fact that "Page advocated pro-Russia foreign policy positions and traveled to Moscow in his personal capacity" while associated with the Trump campaign.
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/carter-page-says-mueller-is-worse-than-mussolini-saddam-and-gadhafi
#6319298 at 2019-04-26 05:22:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8081: IT WILL ALL COME OUT Edition
Rosenstein hits at Obama for hiding that Russian trolls were infiltrating 2016 election
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian election meddling, had a few things to say about the way it started. Starting with the Obama administration. "The previous Administration chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America," he said.
Rosenstein punched back at critics during a speech at the Armenian Bar Association's Public Servants Dinner in New York City on Thursday, where he defended the Department of Justice's handling of the investigation and his role in it. "There was overwhelming evidence that Russian operatives hacked American computers and defrauded American citizens, and that is only the tip of the iceberg of a comprehensive Russian strategy to influence elections, promote social discord, and undermine America, just like they do in many other countries," he said.
But it wasn't for the DOJ to make an ultimate finding. "I did pledge to do it right and take it to the appropriate conclusion. I did not promise to report all results to the public, because grand jury investigations are ex parte proceedings. It is not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges," he said.
The Justice Department came under fire from critics following the release of the 448-page Mueller report. A four-page summary by Attorney General William Barr that determined that while Russia had interfered in the 2016 presidential election, the Trump campaign did not collude with the effort. While Mueller said did not draw a conclusion about whether President Trump obstructed justice, saying the report "also does not exonerate him," Barr and Rosenstein concluded there was not sufficient evidence to determine whether Trump did so.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rod-rosenstein-hits-at-barack-obama-for-hiding-russian-trolls-were-infiltrating-2016-election
Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein Delivers Remarks at the Armenian Bar Association's Public Servants Dinner
https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/deputy-attorney-general-rod-j-rosenstein-delivers-remarks-armenian-bar-association-s
#6318569 at 2019-04-26 04:08:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8080: 4 More Years, Trump 2020 Edition
BREAKING: FBI Texts Show Agents Discussed Recruiting White House Sources To Spy For Bureau
Senior Republican chairmen submitted a letter Thursday to Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr revealing new texts from former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to his paramour FBI Attorney Lisa Page showing the pair had discussed attempts to recruit sources within the White House to allegedly spy on the Trump administration. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson revealed the information in a three page letter. The texts had been obtained by SaraACarter.com Tuesday and information regarding the possible attempt to recruit White House sources had been divulged by several sources to this news site last week.
The texts and sources reveal that Strzok had one significant contact within the White House - Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, whose wife was working as an analyst for Strzok on the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server. A senior White House official told this news site that Pitcock's wife recused herself from the Clinton investigation as soon as Pence and Trump became the Republican nominees in July 2016. A senior law enforcement official also told SaraACarter.com that Pitcock's wife no longer worked under Strzok after she recused herself from the Clinton investigation. However, the text messages uncovered from November, 2016 and have left questions lingering about the relationship between Strzok, Pitcock and his wife among congressional investigators and lawmakers. "The course of our oversight work we have reviewed certain text messages that may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team," the letter states. "In text messages exchanged between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, the two discussed the possibility of developing "potential relationships" at a November 2016 FBI briefing for presidential transition team staff. Specifically, it appears they discussed sending "the CI guy" to assess an unnamed person 'demeanor' but were concerned because it might be unusual for him to attend." The Senators are investigating if any "of these communications, and the precise purpose of any attempts to 'develop relationships' with Trump or VP Mike Pence transition team staff are not immediately clear."
"Were these efforts done to gain better communication between the respective parties, or were the briefings used as intelligence gathering operations? Further, did any such surveillance activities continue beyond the inauguration, and in the event they did, were those activities subject to proper predication," the letter states. "Any improper FBI surveillance activities that were conducted before or after the 2016 election must be brought to light and properly addressed."
https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/
#6318347 at 2019-04-26 03:41:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8079: Enough Is Enough Edition
FBI to meet with Sen. Rick Scott about Russian election interference
FBI to meet with Sen. Rick Scott about Russian election interference
by Zachary Halaschak
| April 25, 2019 07:19 PM
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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said Thursday that he will meet with the FBI in the coming weeks to discuss suspicions that Russia was able to hack into at least one Florida county government computer network during the 2016 presidential election. Allegations that Russian hackers were able to access the network were raised in special counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report, which was released last week. Once the news was made public, Scott sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray asking for information the agency had to support the claim.
When former Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., made a similar claim last year, Scott pushed back on the notion calling the claim "irresponsible" and demanded proof. Scott was governor at the time and successfully unseated Nelson during the 2018 midterm elections.
Current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, also said that the FBI reached out to schedule a briefing with him regarding the matter. He said Thursday in Miami that he was upset about the lack of detail provided. "They won't tell us which county it was. Are you kidding me? Why would you not say something immediately?" said DeSantis. "We're looking for answers. I think finally next week we're going to get somebody, or maybe the week after we're going to have somebody come brief us on what happened."
Mueller's report was released last week and indicated that Russian operatives meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein wrote a four-page summary of Mueller's investigation last month that cleared Trump of both colluding with Russia and obstructing justice.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-to-meet-with-sen-rick-scott-about-russian-election-interference
#6315633 at 2019-04-26 00:46:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8076: War-Like Posture Edition
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1121574457762562054
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Chairmen Press DOJ to Probe FBI 'Spying' & Leaks Before & After 2016 Election.
"Texts suggest FBI briefings with Trump 2016 transition team doubled as covert intelligence gathering effort."
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/chairmen-press-doj-probe-fbi-spying-leaks-after-2016-election
Chairmen Press DOJ to Probe FBI 'Spying' & Leaks Before & After 2016 Election
Apr 25, 2019
Texts suggest FBI briefings with Trump transition doubled as covert intelligence gathering effort
WASHINGTON - Two Senate chairmen are requesting a briefing from the Justice Department on its review of spying on the Trump presidential campaign. The lawmakers are also raising questions about potential efforts by senior FBI officials to use briefings with the Trump transition team as intelligence gathering operations. In a letter today to Attorney General William Barr, Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson also discuss a number of unauthorized leaks of highly sensitive information regarding intelligence efforts related to President Trump's election and administration.
"We share your concerns about these activities, and are troubled by the apparent unauthorized disclosures of surveillance efforts and other classified information during the same time period," the senators wrote in the letter to Barr.
The letter highlights a series of texts between former FBI special agent Peter Strzok and former FBI attorney Lisa Page in which they discuss using FBI briefings with the Trump transition team to develop relationships and gather information, including using a "CI guy" to assess "demeanor" of individuals during the briefing.
"Were these efforts done to gain better communication between the respective parties, or were the briefings used as intelligence gathering operations?" the senators ask in the letter. "Any improper FBI surveillance activities that were conducted before or after the 2016 election must be brought to light and properly addressed."
Strzok was initially a part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating potential collusion between the Russian government and the Trump campaign and any efforts by President Trump to obstruct justice, but was removed following revelations of politically-laced, anti-Trump text messages.
The senators also raised concerns about several leaks of sensitive information in the course of the FBI's Russia investigation prior to Mueller's appointment. The leaks include reports of secret surveillance warrants against campaign advisor Carter Page, the use of FBI informants against the campaign and briefings between U.S. and U.K. intelligence officials.
"Leaks to the media about ongoing investigations undermine the ability of investigators to properly investigate. Moreover, sensitive leaks to the media while members of Congress are kept in the dark is unacceptable," the senators said, noting recent DOJ Inspector General findings about a culture of leaks at the FBI.
#6315298 at 2019-04-26 00:20:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8076: War-Like Posture Edition
FBI Texts Show Agents Discussed Recruiting White House Sources To Spy For Bureau
Senior Republican chairmen submitted a letter Thursday to Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr revealing new texts from former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to his paramour FBI Attorney Lisa Page showing the pair had discussed attempts to recruit sources within the White House to allegedly spy on the Trump administration.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson revealed the information in a three page letter. The texts had been obtained by SaraACarter.com Tuesday and information regarding the possible attempt to recruit White House sources had been divulged by several sources to this news site last week.
The texts and sources reveal that Strzok had one significant contact within the White House - Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, whose wife was working as an analyst for Strzok on the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server. A senior White House official told this news site that Pitcock's wife recused herself from the Clinton investigation as soon as Pence and Trump became the Republican nominees in July 2016. A senior law enforcement official also told SaraACarter.com that Pitcock's wife no longer worked under Strzok after she recused herself from the Clinton investigation.
However, the text messages uncovered from November, 2016 and have left questions lingering about the relationship between Strzok, Pitcock and his wife among congressional investigators and lawmakers.
"The course of our oversight work we have reviewed certain text messages that may show potential attempts by the FBI to conduct surveillance of President-elect Trump's transition team," the letter states. "In text messages exchanged between former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and former FBI Attorney Lisa Page, the two discussed the possibility of developing "potential relationships" at a November 2016 FBI briefing for presidential transition team staff. Specifically, it appears they discussed sending "the CI guy" to assess an unnamed person 'demeanor' but were concerned because it might be unusual for him to attend."
The Senators are investigating if any "of these communications, and the precise purpose of any attempts to 'develop relationships' with Trump or VP Mike Pence transition team staff are not immediately clear."
https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/
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#6306405 at 2019-04-25 06:13:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8064: That Is Not Going To Age Well Edition
Georgian Businessman Releases Texts With Cohen That Were Left Out Of Mueller Report
A Georgian-American businessman is calling for a retraction of a footnote in the special counsel's report that refers to a text message exchange with Michael Cohen about a rumored Trump sex tape.
Giorgi Rtskhiladze's lawyer sent a letter to the attorney general claiming that the Mueller report has "glaring inaccuracies."
The report quoted a text message in which Rtskhiladze told Cohen he was "stopping the flow" of tapes of Trump. But in a text message left out of Mueller's report, Rtskhiladze suggested he did not believe the rumor.
A Georgian-American businessman is accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of publishing "glaring inaccuracies and misrepresentations" about rumors of alleged sex tapes of President Donald Trump during a visit to Moscow in 2013. In a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, a lawyer for the businessman, Giorgi Rtskhiladze, called on the Justice Department to retract a footnote in Mueller's report mentioning an Oct. 30, 2016 text message exchange he had with attorney Michael Cohen about a rumored Trump tape. Rtskhiladze claims that the special counsel's report inaccurately quotes his text message with Cohen. He says that additional text messages not quoted in the report show that he was doubtful about a rumor he had heard from an associate in Moscow about the existence of a tape. "We strongly demand that a full and immediate retraction of these falsehoods should be issued forthwith to restore his good name," wrote A. Scott Bolden, a lawyer for Rtskhiladze. The letter was first reported by Bloomberg News and obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Bolden's letter takes issue with several parts of the the special counsel's report, including the quote of Rtskhiladze's text message as reading: "Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know." Rtskhiladze actually wrote that he had "stopped flow of some tapes," the text messages show.
Rtskhiladze told prosecutors during interviews in 2018 that he was told that the tapes were fake but that he did not communicate that to Cohen, according to Mueller's report. Cohen told Mueller's team in a Sept. 12, 2018 interview that he notified Trump about the message from Rtskhiladze. Rtskhiladze claims that his additional texts with Cohen show that he had no direct knowledge of the tapes and that he saw them as mere rumor, rather than fact. Bolden also says that Rtskhiladze did not hear the rumor first-hand. "Not sure of the content but person in Moscow was bragging had tapes from Russia trip. Will try to dial you tomorrow but wanted to be aware. I'm sure it's not a big deal but there are lots of stupid people," Rtskhiladze wrote in the texts, which were provided to TheDCNF. "You have no idea," Cohen replied. Rtskhiladze responded: "I do trust me." Bolden says in the letter that Rtskhiladze was not present at the event in Moscow where the claim about the tape was allegedly
Melanie Bonvicino, a spokeswoman for Rtskhiladze, told TheDCNF that he has not been in Russia in more than a decade. She said that Rtskhiladze does not know who made the comment at the Moscow party, but that he heard about it from another person. Rtskhiladze identified the intermediary during interviews with Mueller's team. Rtskhiladze has also voluntarily agreed to meet with the House Intelligence Committee, Bonvicino said. The footnote in the special counsel's report reignited speculation about the most salacious allegation contained in the infamous Steele dossier. In the unverified report, author Christopher Steele alleged that the Kremlin had video of Trump with a group of prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room during his visit there in November 2013 for the Miss Universe pageant.
Trump has vehemently denied taking part in the activities described in the dossier, and such a tape has never been produced. Steele's alleged source for the claim has also come under intense scrutiny. People who were with Trump during his visit to Moscow have doubted the claims about the tape, saying that he only stayed one night in the Russian capital and was only alone for a few hours.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/24/giorgi-rtskhiladze-texts-cohen-mueller/
Giorgi Rtskhiladze letter to DOJ
https://www.scribd.com/document/407493978/Giorgi-Rtskhiladze-letter-to-DOJ#from_embed
#6301463 at 2019-04-24 23:59:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8058: What Did DS Know and When Did They Know It Edition
Will Assange 'Team-Up' With Trump To Bury The Deep State Once And For All?
Don't believe that Russiagate has concluded. Indeed, it may have only just begun…
Coming just days after the release of the anticlimactic Mueller Report, Julian Assange was deprived of asylum and arrested at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he now faces extradition to the United States. Was the timing of this dramatic move a mere coincidence, or is something else going on?
The WikiLeaks founder and editor was dragged into the blinding light of London just 30 days after the IMF approved a $4.2-billion loan for cash-strapped Ecuador, and 18 days after the conclusion of the two-year Robert Mueller investigation, which failed to unearth any trace of Russian collusion. Hang on, that's not all. One day before Assange lost his asylum, Attorney General William Barr told US lawmakers that he believed the Trump presidential campaign was spied on during the 2016 election.
"I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr told a House panel on April 10, one day before Assange's apprehension.
Vanity Fair wondered aloud in a headline, "Will Trump get his Grand Inquisition?"
Last but not least, Chelsea Manning, the former US Army intelligence officer who leaked some 750,000 documents, videos, diplomatic cables, was sent back to prison for refusing to testify before a grand jury against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-24/will-assange-team-trump-bury-deep-state-once-and-all
#6300104 at 2019-04-24 21:51:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8056: Wednesday Winning Edition
Barr To Give Senate Testimony About Mueller Report.
Attorney General William Barr will testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee next Wednesday, May 1st at 10 a.m. about special counsel Robert Mueller's recently concluded Russia investigation, according to the Washington Examiner.
The committee, chaired by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), listed Barr as a witness for a hearing titled "The Department of Justice's Investigation of Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election."
Earlier this month, Barr testified in front of the House Appropriations Subcommittee, where he said that the Obama campaign 'spied' on Donald Trump during the 2016 US election.
Barr released a redacted version of the long-anticipated 450-page Mueller report on Thursday, which cleared President Trump of coordinating with Russia during the 2016 US election, yet left open the question of whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that Trump did not.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-24/Barr-give-senate-testimony-about-mueller-report
#6295105 at 2019-04-24 11:43:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8050: Qwick Bake Edition
[FINAL - Application under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1982]
To the Australian Information Commissioner/Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade,
Subverting the democratic process of the People of The United States of America, by a Foreign Government/Entity or individual, is considered an 'Act of War' by an 'Enemy Combatant'.
Now that the Mueller Report has been tabled by William Barr, the blockade to Australian FOIA transparency, ought be removed.
Hence I humbly request ALL information pertaining to potential spying by the Australian/UK Governments and other Entities/individuals, upon the Presidential Candidate and subsequent POTUS, Donald J Trump.
The request is reasonable given the gravity of the matter involved. For similar reasons, it can not be considered to be interfering with the minister's functions.
The predicate date searches required would be for documents/communications created from 1st January 2015 until 24th April 2019 inclusive - under section 15(2) of the FOIA 1982.
Please send the reply by email address only.
A) I seek all relevant cables, faxes, diary entries, notes, letters, memos, reports, emails, draft emails, Five Eyes Signals, telephone records and other communications - by, to, between and amongst, but not limited to the following Entities/individuals:
ASIO/ASIS/ASD/DOD/DIO/AGO
Members of The National Security Committee of Cabinet (NSC) of Australia under the Turnbull and Morrison Governments
Members of the Armed Forces Council of Canada under the Harper and Trudeau Governments
Members of The Cabinet National Security Committee (NSC) of New Zealand under the Key and Ardern Governments
Members of the National Security Council (NSC) of the United Kingdom under the Cameron and May Governments
Huma Abedin
Jacinda Ardern
Julie Bishop
Rear-Admiral Scott Bishop
Greta Bossenmaier
George Brandis
John Brennan
Chris Burrows
David Cameron
Christian Cantor
James Clapper
Hillary Clinton
James Comey
CSIS/CSE/CFINTCOM
Sir Richard Dearlove
The Lord Paul Deighton
Emanuela Del Re
Luigi Di Maio
Alexander Downer
Sir Bill English
Richard Fadden
Niall Fitzgerald
Jeremy Fleming
GCHQ/SIS/DI
Hakluyt & Company (Holdingham Group Limited)
Stefan Halper
Robert Hannigan
Joe Hockey
Jeremy Hunt
Valerie Jarrett
Daniel Jean
Boris Johnson
Michael Keenan
John Key
Sir Iain Lobban
Loretta Lynch
Andrew McCabe
Theresa May
MI6/MI5
Joseph Mifsud
NZSIS/DDIS/GCSB
Barack Obama
Carter Page
Lisa Page
George Papadopoulos
Bill Priestap
Harjit Sajjan
Christopher Steele
Peter Strzok
Erika Thompson
Ivan Timofeev
Elisabetta Trenta
Justin Trudeau
Malcolm Turnbull
General Jonathon Vance
Olga Vinogradova
Sally Yates
Alex Younger
(no insinuations alleged)
B) With regard to the Entity/Team posting on 8chan under the acronym QAnon or Q (Q level clearance in the US Department of Energy), I request NSC, ASIO/ASIS/ASD/DOD/DIO/AGO information in relation to the irrefutable mathematical/statistically significant association between Q Post and POTUS tweet delta's.
As you are aware, QAnon has posted vast quantities of military intelligence related to the above mentioned subversion. The relevance of a Q/POTUS association is therefore profound and of national interest. Co-ordination/collaboration with the US Embassy in Canberra is clearly mandatory prior to an association disclosure.
Whence, I seek all relevant cables, faxes, diary entries, notes, letters, memos, reports, emails, draft emails, Five Eyes Signals, telephone records and other communications - by, to, between and amongst, but not limited to the following Entities - NSC, ASIO/ASIS/ASD/DOD/DIO/AGO on the Q Post/POTUS tweet delta association.
C) Pertaining to A + B, I seek all relevant cables, faxes, diary entries, notes, letters, memos, reports, emails, draft emails, Five Eyes Signals, telephone records and other communications with regard to any D-Notice/gag/suppression order or suggested suppression directive by the Australian Government or any other Entity/individual to the Australian MSM.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr Russell McGregor
MBBS, BSC, FRANZCP
24th April 2019
#6291380 at 2019-04-24 02:36:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8045: Barr Meeting Huber & OIG Edition
>>6291373
Jessie Liu
On June 12, 2017, Trump announced his first wave of U.S. attorney candidates. Among them were John Huber and Jessie Liu. Huber was renominated for his U.S. attorney post in Utah while Liu, who was serving as the deputy general counsel for the Department of the Treasury, was nominated as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, replacing Obama's intended AG successor, Channing Phillips. Liu had met directly with Trump prior to her nomination for the position of U.S. attorney.
Liu, who was confirmed on Sept. 25, 2017, had an extensive background within the DOJ, having served as the deputy chief of staff for the NSD, as counsel to the deputy attorney general, and as deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division.
On March 5, 2019, Trump nominated Liu for the third-highest post at the DOJ-associate attorney general. Liu had been specifically recommended for the post by current Attorney General William Barr, who said of Liu, "With her record of public service, particularly in civil justice and federal law enforcement matters, it is clear that she will be an outstanding addition to our leadership team at the Department."
Liu's nomination fell through on March 28 due to her prior role as the vice-president of the National Association of Women Lawyers-a group that supported abortion rights. Barr expressed his displeasure at the withdrawal of Liu's nomination, stating, "She has been an outstanding United States attorney and would have made an outstanding associate attorney general. I have zero doubt she would have faithfully executed my priorities and advanced my rule-of-law agenda."
Barr later announced that he was appointing Liu to lead the attorney general's advisory committee, which provides counsel to the attorney general on policy, procedure, and management matters. Barr said Liu "will be an integral part of our leadership at the Department."
One of the cases Liu inherited as the U.S. Attorney for D.C. from Channing Phillips was the prosecution of Imran Awan, a former IT employee for House Democrats. Awan had pleaded guilty on July 3, 2018, to a federal charge stemming from a false statement made on a home equity loan.
A grand jury had been sworn in on Nov. 13, 2016, and formal charges were filed on on Aug. 17, 2017-prior to Liu's Sept. 25, 2017, confirmation as U.S. attorney.
Phillips's office had brought no charges against Awan related to allegations of hacking House IT systems. In September 2016, the House Office of Inspector General had warned House leadership and the Committee on House Administration that Awan and other family members had made unauthorized logins on the systems of House members.
John Huber
Huber was appointed by AG Sessions on or before Nov. 13, 2017, to lead a prosecution team and is currently working with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on his various investigations.
"I already have directed senior federal prosecutors to evaluate certain issues previously raised by the Committee. ... Specifically, I asked United States Attorney John W. Huber to lead this effort," Sessions said on March 29, 2018, when responding to congressional requests for the possible appointment of a second special counsel.
Horowitz is currently conducting several investigations, including into FISA abuse and media leaks by the FBI.
On March 7, 2019, Barr had a meeting with Huber, who serves as vice chair of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee-the same committee that Barr had recently appointed Liu to lead.
On Sept. 2, 2017, Trump nominated John Demers to be the head of the NSD, but his confirmation process was lengthy and Demers was not able to assume his role until Feb. 15, 2018. Demers, who had prior experience with the NSD, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
On Oct, 27, 2017, Boente announced that he would be resigning from his post at the EDVA-and at the NSD-but also noted that he would remain in those positions until Trump nominated and confirmed his replacements. Boente officially gave up his U.S. attorney role on Jan. 28, 2018, when he was finally replaced by Tracy Doherty-McCormick.
Zachary Terwilliger was the individual who ultimately replaced Boente as the U.S. attorney for the EDVA. Prior to his appointment to the EDVA, Terwilliger served as an associate deputy attorney general, and was chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein. Terwilliger previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney at the EDVA during Boente's time as U.S. Attorney and also worked on criminal legislation under Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for the Senate Judiciary Committee.
#6289474 at 2019-04-23 23:43:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8042: Crazy Dems Town Hall Edition
>>6289344
>Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
Doug Collins' letter to Nadler re: Misrepresenting the Mueller Report
#6289344 at 2019-04-23 23:31:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8042: Crazy Dems Town Hall Edition
>>6289304
Well… you're just not paying attention are you?
"Russiagate was the WMD of this generation of journalists, a gigantic lie with devastating consequences for the country and the world. Mueller's appointment was born of corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI where, after talk about wearing wires to set up the President and fomenting cabinet factions in support of using the 25th Amendment against him, an endless Special Counsel investigation starring Robert Mueller seemed a sounder path to impeachment.
It was all generated by a request from British intelligence to unleash the full power of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies against a presidential candidate, and then, an incoming President, using a crappy, amateurish, and obviously fabricated dossier produced by British spy Christopher Steele and promoted by the Clinton Campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence, foreign policy, and defense establishments. As we have reported before, this is the largest political scandal in American history. The Constitution itself is at stake. Mueller's May 2017 appointment was revenge for the firing of James Comey, immediately allowing a coverup of the criminal actions of officials complicit in the coup, at the State Department, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. In the process, the crimes of the actual foreign intervenors into the 2016 election, the British, and to a far lesser extent, the Ukrainians, were also supposed to be buried.
The deflation of the Democratic Party and the media hacks who have driven the coup against President Trump has, since Friday, been audible and smelly, like a balloon of sulfurous gas having finally been pricked. Predictably, they have begun a new round of attempts to hype the results and cover up the evil at play here. Thirty-four individuals indicted, 700 crimes, is the talking point that has emerged from Democratic Party candidates and the news media over the weekend, in a full-throated defense of Robert Mueller's inquisition. To that can be added Sunday's leading refrain from Congressman Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
They are desperate losers facing an American people likely to say: "Stuff it-your time just ran out." Our job is to make that happen."
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4612-mueller_releases_report_now_dr.html
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy
spygate
part 1 = Fusion GPS - https://archive.is/jebsM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-1-fusion-gps-7da0c3293eab
part 2 = Christopher Steele - https://archive.is/qYphy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-2-christopher-steele-f3b7b2cf17f3
part 3 = The Dossier - https://archive.is/RW7LX
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-3-the-dossier-72c397a442b7
part 4 = Foreign Intelligence - https://archive.is/9KrxM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-4-foreign-intelligence-921c0accb9c2
part 5 = Crowdstrike - https://archive.is/i18vy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-5-crowdstrike-17eb2c81f395
part 6 = Alfa Bank - https://archive.is/IQzJe
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-6-alfa-bank-65a788038fe6
part 7 = Brennan's Working Group - https://archive.is/8kYSH
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-4ab7d8188ac
part 8 = American Intelligence - https://archive.is/Kufqn
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-8-american-intelligence-a945ffc1cd35
part 9 = The Deputies Meetings - https://archive.is/XiUC3
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6
part 10 = Kimberlin and the Chalupas - https://archive.is/QKdux
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-10-kimberlin-and-the-chalupas-5b5ac679fad2
part 11 = Stefan Halper - https://archive.is/3ySHd
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-11-stefan-halper-477f2a723dc7
part 12 = Michael Flynn - https://archive.is/3f9CR
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-12-michael-flynn-5e9cc5783ebf
part 13 = The Season of Leaks - https://archive.is/EFuec
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-13-the-season-of-leaks-9a829665f48a
part 14 = Peter W. Smith - https://archive.is/1B2ts
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-14-peter-w-smith-a4efd88291a
part 15 = The FBI vs Donald Trump - https://archive.is/nlizm
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-15-the-f-b-i-vs-donald-trump-23221196ad6f
#6285110 at 2019-04-23 16:27:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8037 POTUS Gonna Free the UK Edition
Upcoming calendar of Mueller Report events
May 1 - House Judiciary issued subpoena to the DOJ for full Mueller report. DOJ needs to comply by May 1st.
https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1119226892748562433
May 2 - AG William Barr testifies before House Judiciary Committee on May 2nd.
May 21 - Former White House Counsel Don McGahn testifies on May 21st.
https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1120438319379304450
Mueller testify before House Judiciary Committee before May 23.
https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1118877752843808768
#6282463 at 2019-04-23 07:54:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8034: Just Waiting the the Next Shoe to Drop Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6121805, >>6122032 New BO, FastJack, announced in Meta (Cap: >>6175099)
>>6102951, >>6102968 8bit on global notables and baker assist
>>6069810 BV's announce BO's resignation in Meta thread. All board-related decisions will be made by BV's as a group
>>6069934 8bit, thank you for your service to /qresearch/
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
Notables
are not endorsements
#8033 Baker change
Last Call
>>6282380, >>6282397 Anons on 6.4 Phillipines earthquake
>>6282312, >>6282368 POTUS on "acid washing"
>>6282364 De Blasio violated ethics rules in seeking donations, probe finds
>>6282305, >>6282329 Notre Dame's 12 apostles were sculpted in copper
>>6282294 Hussein's anti-Assad Operation Timber Sycamore (Zerohedge)
>>6282290 Joe Biden lavished praise on Wm Barr during 1991 AG confirmation hearing
>>6282278 Dem 2020 candidates who are for & against Trump's impeachment
>>6282250 JA's mom on Q as a psy-op
>>6282244 Anon on Payseur & illuminati.am; Call for a DIGG
>>6282221 Kim Foxx (supposedly) receiving "racially charged" threats
>>6282209 Notre Dame's 12 Apostles And 4 Evangelists Statues Beheaded for Islam?
>>6282084, >>6282085, >>6282088 Resignations in the news today
>>6282074 Pieczenk on Sri Lanka & the relationship to Notre Dame (4min vid)
>>6282021 Reminder: Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Growing Stronger (re-post)
>>6281988 Elon Musk says a machine to connect the human brain to computers is "coming soon"
>>6281913, >>6282149, >>6282185, >>6282190, >>6282198 Anons on woman who's gone missing after berating a 74-old-man wearing a MAGA hat
>>6281909, >>6282374, >>6282431 Kerrville plane crash victims ID'd
>>6281894 Air quality in US getting better & better (contrary to gloomy SJW reports)
>>6281823 Time Magazine: Putin's Nefarious Plot to Dominate the World (fake news alert)
>>6281785, >>6281842, >>6281880, >>6281940 Long Beach DIGG: Anons on Evergreen & OOCL
>>6281741, >>6281745 18 Spectacularly wrong predictions made around first Earth Day in 1970
#8032
>>6281025, >>6281075, >>6281435 Reminder: POTUS and Pence to visit NRA convention on April 26th
>>6281034 An 18-year-old illegal alien living in Ohio has been arrested and charged with rape
>>6281057 Anon on Iran related crumbs: Iran Heating Up
>>6281133 Edward Snowden Explains Why the CIA Just Made an Instagram
>>6281191 Reminder of Bill Clinton's flights on Epstein's Lolita Express
>>6281217 Rep. Ratcliffe: Comey, Yates, McCabe & Rosenstein Caught Lying on FISA Warrants to Spy on Trump
>>6281219 Anon on what HRC and Hussein meant by Easter Worshippers and the Satanic connections
>>6281297 NC Man pleads guilty to filming underage girls, women aboard his boat 'Yachts O' Trouble'
>>6281301, >>6281310 How CIA & allies helped jihadists in Syria
>>6281350 Mueller report contains claim Russia taped Bill Clinton having phone sex with Monica Lewinsky
>>6281444 How CIA & Allies Helped Jihadists In Syria: French Covert Ops Expert Exposes New Details
>>6281677 #8032
#8031 Baker Change
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264, >>6280622 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerrville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
>>6280472 Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member's wife
>>6280647 Oil near 2019 highs after U.S. ends all Iran sanction exemptions
>>6280650, >>6280687, >>6280801 Anon on HRC's eyes
>>6280696, >>6280757 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report
>>6280795 POTUS sent 44 tweets today
>>6280823 How a US Member of Congress Ilhan Omar was Raised by the Red-Green Axis
>>6280863 Anon's first hand account of being in Sri Lanka
>>6281043 #8031
Previously Collected Notables
>>6279348 #8029, >>6280141 #8030
>>6277061 #8026, >>6277843 #8027, >>6278589 #8028
>>6274686 #8023, >>6275471 #8024, >>6276281 #8025
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6282290 at 2019-04-23 07:05:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8033: Many In Our Govt Worship Satan Edition
>>6282278
Terry McAuliffe dropped out 6 days ago…but prior to that, he was considering it.
Joe Biden as far as I know is against impeachment
John Kerry may run if Biden bows out…
De Blasio is considering
Joe Biden praising William Barr in 1991 confirmation hearing as AG
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/mustsee_tv_joe_biden_lavishing_praise_on_William_Barr_during_1991_confirmation_hearing_as_ag.html
#6281684 at 2019-04-23 05:22:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8033: Many In Our Govt Worship Satan Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6121805, >>6122032 New BO, FastJack, announced in Meta (Cap: >>6175099)
>>6102951, >>6102968 8bit on global notables and baker assist
>>6069810 BV's announce BO's resignation in Meta thread. All board-related decisions will be made by BV's as a group
>>6069934 8bit, thank you for your service to /qresearch/
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
Notables
are not endorsements
#8032
>>6281025, >>6281075, >>6281435 Reminder: POTUS and Pence to visit NRA convention on April 26th
>>6281034 An 18-year-old illegal alien living in Ohio has been arrested and charged with rape
>>6281057 Anon on Iran related crumbs: Iran Heating Up
>>6281133 Edward Snowden Explains Why the CIA Just Made an Instagram
>>6281191 Reminder of Bill Clinton's flights on Epstein's Lolita Express
>>6281217 Rep. Ratcliffe: Comey, Yates, McCabe & Rosenstein Caught Lying on FISA Warrants to Spy on Trump
>>6281219 Anon on what HRC and Hussein meant by Easter Worshippers and the Satanic connections
>>6281297 NC Man pleads guilty to filming underage girls, women aboard his boat 'Yachts O' Trouble'
>>6281301, >>6281310 How CIA & allies helped jihadists in Syria
>>6281350 Mueller report contains claim Russia taped Bill Clinton having phone sex with Monica Lewinsky
>>6281444 How CIA & Allies Helped Jihadists In Syria: French Covert Ops Expert Exposes New Details
>>6281677 #8032
#8031 Baker Change
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264, >>6280622 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerrville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
>>6280472 Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member's wife
>>6280647 Oil near 2019 highs after U.S. ends all Iran sanction exemptions
>>6280650, >>6280687, >>6280801 Anon on HRC's eyes
>>6280696, >>6280757 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report
>>6280795 POTUS sent 44 tweets today
>>6280823 How a US Member of Congress Ilhan Omar was Raised by the Red-Green Axis
>>6280863 Anon's first hand account of being in Sri Lanka
>>6281043 #8031
#8030
>>6280041, >>6280083 Washington state set to become the first to allow human composting
>>6280001 Planefag list of GTMO callsigns; call to autism
>>6279970, >>6279996 Anon: Co-ordinated cabal 'Easter Worshippers' tweets vs Q post devil worshippers
>>6279959 Digging on Podesta emails, plot to stop Trump (GatewayPundit) (Video)
>>6279956 IDF Shoots Blindfolded, Handcuffed 15y/o Palestinian Boy Fleeing Arrest (southfront via Haaretz)
>>6279725 Florida Man and Two Florida Companies Charged With Wire Fraud [Evergreen] (DOJ)
>>6279613 @45_Schedule Daily schedule April 23 2019
>>6279594 Suicide Rate Doubles Among French Cops (Investmentwatchblog)
>>6279573 @WhiteHouse: Easter egg roll
>>6279518, >>6279540 Crazy Bernie: Boston bomber should be able to vote from prison (Hill)
>>6279427 CNN: PLEASE CLAP!
>>6279432 Man Sentenced To 37 Years For Sexual Enticement Of A Minor Relative And Document Fraud (DOJ)
>>6280141 #8030
Previously Collected Notables
>>6279348 #8029
>>6277061 #8026, >>6277843 #8027, >>6278589 #8028
>>6274686 #8023, >>6275471 #8024, >>6276281 #8025
>>6272370 #8020, >>6273117 #8021, >>6273916 #8022
>>6270378 #8017, >>6270789 #8018, >>6271565 #8019
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6281043 at 2019-04-23 04:04:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8032: Think Offense Edition
#8031 (posted in #8032)
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264, >>6280622 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerrville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
>>6280472 Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member's wife
>>6280647 Oil near 2019 highs after U.S. ends all Iran sanction exemptions
>>6280650, >>6280687, >>6280801 Anon on HRC's eyes
>>6280696, >>6280757 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report
>>6280795 POTUS sent 44 tweets today
>>6280823 How a US Member of Congress Ilhan Omar was Raised by the Red-Green Axis
#6280921 at 2019-04-23 03:51:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8032: Think Offense Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6121805, >>6122032 New BO, FastJack, announced in Meta (Cap: >>6175099)
>>6102951, >>6102968 8bit on global notables and baker assist
>>6069810 BV's announce BO's resignation in Meta thread. All board-related decisions will be made by BV's as a group
>>6069934 8bit, thank you for your service to /qresearch/
>>6261140 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGs)
Notables
are not endorsements
#8031 Baker Change
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264, >>6280622 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerryville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
>>6280472 Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member's wife
>>6280647 Oil near 2019 highs after U.S. ends all Iran sanction exemptions
>>6280650, >>6280687, >>6280801 Anon on HRC's eyes
>>6280696, >>6280757 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report
>>6280795 POTUS sent 44 tweets today
>>6280823 How a US Member of Congress Ilhan Omar was Raised by the Red-Green Axis
>>6280902 #8031
#8030
>>6280041, >>6280083 Washington state set to become the first to allow human composting
>>6280001 Planefag list of GTMO callsigns; call to autism
>>6279970, >>6279996 Anon: Co-ordinated cabal 'Easter Worshippers' tweets vs Q post devil worshippers
>>6279959 Digging on Podesta emails, plot to stop Trump (GatewayPundit) (Video)
>>6279956 IDF Shoots Blindfolded, Handcuffed 15y/o Palestinian Boy Fleeing Arrest (southfront via Haaretz)
>>6279725 Florida Man and Two Florida Companies Charged With Wire Fraud [Evergreen] (DOJ)
>>6279613 @45_Schedule Daily schedule April 23 2019
>>6279594 Suicide Rate Doubles Among French Cops (Investmentwatchblog)
>>6279573 @WhiteHouse: Easter egg roll
>>6279518, >>6279540 Crazy Bernie: Boston bomber should be able to vote from prison (Hill)
>>6279427 CNN: PLEASE CLAP!
>>6279432 Man Sentenced To 37 Years For Sexual Enticement Of A Minor Relative And Document Fraud (DOJ)
>>6280141 #8030
#8029
>>6279250 Tokyo prosecutors indict Carlos Ghosn (japantimes)
>>6279237, >>6279324 5th Grader Grandchild of IMF Economist, child of Harvard Graduate, killed in Sri Lanka bombings
>>6279235 US navy in mediterranean "Sends a double aircraft carrier message to Iran" (DCExaminer)
>>6279221 POTUS retweeted total of 24 times within 30 minutes
>>6279090 Romney hypocrisy, 2012 and now
>>6279091, >>6279130, >>6279100 Planefag spots Lots of B52s, SKULL12, PAIN11; different plane, DOOMSDAY
>>6279134 Planefag: FEAR[11] + SKULL[12] … Now Comes The Pain 23
>>6279087 @WhiteHouse 15:58 vs Q#1558 Iranian regime
>>6279043 US helping Sri Lanka to counter Human Trafficking (usembassy.gov, 2018)
>>6279011 Three Men Sentenced in Conspiracy to Bomb Somali Immigrants on April 12 (FBI)
>>6278986 California utility owner PG&E in deal with NY-based hedge fund BlueMountain appoints new director
>>6278879 Sri Lanka: lots of missing kids (Article from 2011)
>>6278884 Indian National extradited to US to face charges in multimillion dollar Call Center scam (DOJ)
>>6278828 Suicide Rate Among Police Doubles in France (Investmentwatchblog)
>>6278751, >>6278846 Consumer Alert: Tylenol's Empathy-Killing Properties Confirmed in 2nd Study (greenmedinfo)
>>6278783 Mexico sees spike in homicides of 9.7 percent in 1st Qtr. 2019 (NYPost)
>>6279348 #8029
Previously Collected Notables
>>6277061 #8026, >>6277843 #8027, >>6278589 #8028
>>6274686 #8023, >>6275471 #8024, >>6276281 #8025
>>6272370 #8020, >>6273117 #8021, >>6273916 #8022
>>6270378 #8017, >>6270789 #8018, >>6271565 #8019
>>6267736 #8014, >>6270910 #8015, >>6269254 #8016
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6280902 at 2019-04-23 03:50:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8031: Investigate The Investigators Edition
#8031
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264, >>6280622 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerryville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
>>6280472 Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member's wife
>>6280647 Oil near 2019 highs after U.S. ends all Iran sanction exemptions
>>6280650, >>6280687, >>6280801 Anon on HRC's eyes
>>6280696, >>6280757 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report
>>6280795 POTUS sent 44 tweets today
>>6280823 How a US Member of Congress Ilhan Omar was Raised by the Red-Green Axis
#6280813 at 2019-04-23 03:42:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8031: Investigate The Investigators Edition
LAST CALL
#8031
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264, >>6280622 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerryville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
>>6280472 Pulitzer Prize administrator defends process after prize goes to board member's wife
>>6280647 Oil near 2019 highs after U.S. ends all Iran sanction exemptions
>>6280696, >>6280757 Papadopoulos Disputes Key Claim in Mueller Report
>>6280795 POTUS sent 44 tweets today
#6280618 at 2019-04-23 03:21:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8031: Investigate The Investigators Edition
Notables so far
#8031
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280264 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerryville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
>>6280414, >>6280470 Anon on Rare Aircraft Carrier Activity
>>6280423 Anon that "works in and around the cabal": YOU HOLD ALL THE CARDS
>>6280428 Sara Carter tweet on Kamala Harris
#6280411 at 2019-04-23 03:04:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8031: Investigate The Investigators Edition
Notables so far
#8031
>>6280213 Facebook hires 'co-writer' of the pro-surveillance Patriot Act amid growing concerns over privacy
>>6280221, >>6280221 Bill Clinton hard of hearing, trembling hands on speaking tour
>>6280234 "William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
>>6280256 Tony Podesta and Tom Steyer at meetings with overseas shipping container CEO
>>6280289 Flynn liked a tweet with #WWG1WGA in it
>>6280325 On a plane crash this morning in Kerryville, Texas
>>6280391 Joe Biden Reportedly Delays Wednesday Campaign Announcement
#6280234 at 2019-04-23 02:48:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8031: Investigate The Investigators Edition
Q Proof
Hunters Become the Hunted
"William Barr Just Let Us Know the Hunters Are About to Become the Hunted"
https://twitter.com/POTUSPress/status/1120517463194656770
#6274263 at 2019-04-22 17:29:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8023: Egg Pharma Edition
-Bob Woodward: Steele dossier appeared in draft of US intel assessment on Russian meddling- April 21st.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bob-woodward-steele-dossier-appeared-in-draft-of-us-intel-assessment-on-russian-meddling
last half of the article excerpt:
Woodward's suggestion that the CIA was pushing for the inclusion of the dossier in the intelligence assessment comes nearly a month after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he was told former CIA Director John Brennan "insisted" the dossier be included in the report. "BREAKING: A high-level source tells me it was Brennan who insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report … Brennan should be asked to testify under oath in Congress ASAP," Paul tweeted.
Woodward also wrote about Brennan's endorsement of the dossier in his book Fear. "The sources that Steele used for his dossier had not been polygraphed, which made their information uncorroborated, and potentially suspect," Woodward wrote in the book published last year. "But Brennan said the information was in line with their own sources, in which he had great confidence." A spokesman for Brennan insisted he never trusted the dossier, telling the Associated Press, "because it wasn't corroborated intel."
The declassified January 2017 report determined Russia had ordered an "influence campaign" to help President Trump get elected in 2016. There is no mention of the dossier, compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele, which contained salacious and unverified claims about Trump's ties to Russia. It was used by the FBI obtain a series of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to wiretap one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded his investigation into Russian meddling, finding no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, allies of the president are eagerly anticipating the findings of several investigations looking into possible government surveillance abuse against Trump. Among them are investigations being conducted by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, Attorney General William Barr, and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump, served as CIA director from 2013 to Jan. 20 2017, the day of Trump's inauguration. He huddled with a group of House Democrats late last month.
#6273264 at 2019-04-22 15:46:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8022: Easter Egg Roll 2019 Edition
and now the crescendo, TA DA enter one MR> Barr the INSLAW inc affair or is it LIFE LOG
William Barr appointed Special Counsel, Nicholas J. Bua, to advise him on what had become known by 1991 as the Inslaw Affair.
By June 1993, a 267-page Bua Report[25][18] was released, clearing Justice officials of any impropriety.[26] Inslaw's attorney, Elliot Richardson immediately wrote Inslaw's 130-page Rebuttal with evidence suggesting Bua's report was riddled with errors and falsehoods.[19] On September 27, 1994, Attorney General Janet Reno released a 187-page review concluding "that there is no credible evidence that Department officials conspired to steal computer software developed by Inslaw, Inc. or that the company is entitled to additional government payments." [27] Yet, according to Wired (magazine), "Reno's report was released the same day [that] the House Judiciary Committee passed HR 4862[28], a bill which would have bound the U.S. Court of Federal Claims legally to independently investigate the Inslaw case-thus circumventing the Department of Justice's claims of innocence;"[29] however, HR 4862 was defeated by a partisan committee-vote later that night before it was set to go before the full House.
#6273252 at 2019-04-22 15:45:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8022: Easter Egg Roll 2019 Edition
the Inslaw Inc affair of the PROMIS computer system
Attorney General Dick Thornburgh repeatedly reneged on agreements made with the House committee to provide full and open access to information and witnesses[6]
Then, in September 1991, the House Judiciary Committee issued the result of a three-year investigation. House Report 102-857 Inslaw: Investigative Report[6] confirmed the Justice Department's theft of Promis. The report was issued after the Justice Department convinced the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on a jurisdictional technicality to set aside the decisions of the first two federal bankruptcy courts.[nb 12] The House Committee also reported investigative leads indicating that friends of the Reagan White House had been allowed to sell and to distribute Enhanced Promis both domestically and overseas for their personal financial gain and in support of the intelligence and foreign policy objectives of the United States.[15][3][21] The report even went so far as to recommend specifically further investigations of both former-Attorney General Edwin Meese and businessman, Earl Brian, for their possible involvement in illegally providing or selling Promis "to foreign governments including Canada,[22] Israel,[23][8] Singapore, Iraq,[2] Egypt, and Jordan."[6] The Democratic Majority called upon the Attorney General Dick Thornburgh to compensate Inslaw immediately for the harm that the government had "egregiously" inflicted on Inslaw. The Republican Minority dissented. The Committee was divided along party lines 21-13. Attorney General Thornburgh ignored the recommendations, and reneged on agreements made with the committee.[6]
[edit]
Inslaw Affair divides into two separate issues
On November 13, 1991, newly appointed, Attorney General William Barr, appointed a retired federal judge, Nicholas J. Bua, as Special Counsel to advise him on the allegations that high-ranking officials had acted improperly for personal gain to bankrupt Inslaw.[24]
#6270626 at 2019-04-22 06:39:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8018: New Baker Edition
VIPS memo The Fly in the Mueller Ointment, signed William Binney et al
Published 5 days ago.
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/16/vips-fault-mueller-probe-criticize-refusal-to-interview-assange/
The first few paragraphs:
MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
SUBJECT: The Fly in the Mueller Ointment
April 16, 2019
Mr. President:
The song has ended but the melody lingers on. The release Thursday of the redacted text of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's "Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election" nudged the American people a tad closer to the truth on so-called "Russiagate."
But the Mueller report left unscathed the central-but-unproven allegation that the Russian government hacked into the DNC and Podesta emails, gave them to WikiLeaks to publish, and helped you win the election. The thrust will be the same; namely, even if there is a lack of evidence that you colluded with Russian President Vladimir Putin, you have him to thank for becoming president. And that melody will linger on for the rest of your presidency, unless you seize the moment.
Mueller has accepted that central-but-unproven allegation as gospel truth, apparently in the lack of any disinterested, independent forensic work. Following the odd example of his erstwhile colleague, former FBI Director James Comey, Mueller apparently has relied for forensics on a discredited, DNC-hired firm named CrowdStrike, whose credibility is on a par with "pee-tape dossier" compiler Christopher Steele. Like Steele, CrowdStrike was hired and paid by the DNC (through a cutout).
We brought the lack of independent forensics to the attention of Attorney General William Barr on March 13 in a Memorandum entitled "Mueller's Forensic-Free Findings", but received no reply or acknowledgement. In that Memorandum we described the results of our own independent, agenda-free forensic investigation led by two former Technical Directors of the NSA, who avoid squishy "assessments," preferring to base their findings on fundamental principles of science and the scientific method. Our findings remain unchallenged; they reveal gaping holes in CrowdStrike's conclusions.
We do not know if Barr shared our March 13 Memorandum with you. As for taking a public position on the forensics issue, we suspect he is being circumspect in choosing his battles carefully, perhaps deferring until later a rigorous examination of the dubious technical work upon which Mueller seems to have relied.
[memo is much longer, see link above]
#6268622 at 2019-04-22 01:52:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8016: We Are The News Now. The QNN Nightly News Edition
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/obama-doj-has-to-fess-up-on-fisa-spying-after-mueller-finds-no-collusion-gop-investigator-says
Obama DOJ has to fess up on FISA 'spying' after Mueller finds no collusion, GOP investigator says
A key Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee says the Obama Justice Department has some explaining to do.
Special counsel Robert Mueller's inability to find collusion between President Trump's campaign and Russia begs the question of why officials sought FISA warrants to wiretap one-time campaign adviser Carter Page, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, said Sunday on Fox News.
He said Attorney General William Barr, who recently testified "spying did occur" on Trump's campaign, needs to seek answers.
#6264811 at 2019-04-21 18:56:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8011: Happy National Park Week Edition
NYT: The Tables Have Turned – Time To Investigate The FBI, Steele And The Rest Of The 'Witch Hunters'
As we now shift from the "witch hunt" against Trump to 'investigating the investigators' who spied on him - remember this; Donald Trump was supposed to lose the 2016 election by almost all accounts. And had Hillary won, as expected, none of this would have seen the light of day.
We wouldn't know that a hyper-partisan FBI had spied on the Trump campaign, as Attorney General William Barr put it during his April 10 Congressional testimony.
We wouldn't know that a Clinton-linked operative, Joseph Mifsud, seeded Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos with the rumor that Russia had 'Dirt' on Hillary Clinton - which would later be coaxed out of Papadopoulos by a Clinton-linked Australian ambassador, Alexander Downer, and that this apparent 'setup' would be the genesis of the FBI's "operation crossfire hurricane" operation against the Trump campaign.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-21/nyt-tables-have-turned-time-investigate-fbi-steele-and-rest-witch-hunters
#6263571 at 2019-04-21 16:17:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8009: Easter Sunday Morning Edition
Journalism is never having to say you're sorry. Or wrong. That's what much of the news media taught the American people this week.
Most news organizations downplayed, ignored or outright contradicted the conclusion of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that there was no collusion between the Trump election campaign and Russia to help elect Donald Trump president in 2016.
But rather than celebrate the good news that presidential candidate Trump wasn't secretly working with Russia to get to the Oval Office, many in the media set about trying to rewrite the report their own way.
TRUMP TAKES AIM AT 'HIGHLY CONFLICTED' MUELLER, 'FAKE NEWS MEDIA' AMID RUSSIA REPORT FALLOUT
Many journalists complained about cover-ups even before the redacted Mueller report was released. As a result of this and their past reporting on the president, their massive anti-Trump spin was a foregone conclusion.
In fact, the same journalists who scream about transparency and demand that Trump administration officials answer their questions suddenly complained because Attorney General William Barr held a news conference shortly before he released the report.
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace accused Barr of trying to "shape the coverage" because he spoke to reporters before the Justice Department published the Mueller report on the Internet. She was joined by many others in the media who decided access to newsmakers was bad ... if they countered the anti-Trump narrative.
The coverage didn't go downhill from there. It fell off a cliff.
Talking heads shouted "collusion" in one breath and "impeachment" in the next. In just a 24-hour span there were 309 mentions of impeachment on broadcast news and liberal cable TV outlets. CNN led the pack, of course, with 148 mentions. MSNBC was close behind with 138. CNN reporter Dana Bash portrayed the Mueller report as "a road map to potential impeachment proceedings"
CNN political commentator Symone Sanders - who was national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in his 2016 presidential campaign - made it clear she wants to go beyond impeachment. She blasted the justice system and argued that President Trump should "be in handcuffs right now."
MSNBC anchor Brian Williams called Barr "Baghdad Bill Barr," a reference to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's spokesman, who told absurd lies to reporters. Yes, that came right out of the mouth of confessed liar Williams, who lost his prestigious job as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" and was exiled to MSNBC for making up stories about his career and telling the lies on TV.
The media wouldn't let go of the collusion fantasy. ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl said that "you might even say collusion" was detailed in the report. The Washington Post front page the day after the report was released had no headlines indicating the actual news - that the Trump campaign wasn't guilty of collusion.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/dan-gainor-media-wont-drop-false-collusion-claims-against-trump-as-reporter-demands-sarah-sanders-be-fired
#6261637 at 2019-04-21 11:52:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8007: Easter Blessings to Q Team & All the Anons Edition
>>6261600
It's an OpEd. "They" the NYT, are merely the publisher. All an OpEd is, is a glorified letter to the editor. The NYT didn't "get something right" by publishing this piece.
A vengeful President Trump and his writhing nest of liars slither past the Mueller report – for the moment. By Maureen Dowd
A scrupulous report saved an unscrupulous president. By Bret Stephens
The Mueller report won't move the political needle. Trump supporters always knew he was a scam artist. By Roger Cohen
A Nixonian Attorney General - William Barr vs. the Justice Department as we knew it. By David Leonhardt
It's Not the Collusion, It's the Corruption - By David Brooks
#6260857 at 2019-04-21 07:48:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8006 New Bakers Gettin Reps
With the Mueller report complete, is another investigation looming?
WASHINGTON (SBG) - With the contents of the Mueller report now public, President Trump and key White House aides are said to be taking a fresh look at declassifying documents that GOP allies believe will expose unlawful actions at the Department of Justice and the FBI purportedly taken against the Trump campaign in 2016. Attorney General William Barr has already begun investigating the investigators at both the DOJ and FBI. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, probing the same matters, is said to be drafting his final report, due within six weeks or so. Any declassification by the president is expected to occur around that time and to focus on the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in October 2016.
"We need to go back to these five key people – Comey, McCabe, Baker, Strzok, Page – and figure out what exactly happened right from the get-go says Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) James Comey was the FBI Director fired by President Trump. Andrew McCabe, a Deputy Director fired for unauthorized disclosures to the news media. James Baker was FBI General Counsel, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were senior FBI officials caught texting about their antipathy for Donald Trump when they were conducting investigations into him and Hillary Clinton. All have denied wrongdoing. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair of the House Intelligence Committee this week dismissed the Republicans' allegations and cast the Attorney General as a political animal.
For the White House and Congressional Republicans, the forthcoming Inspector General report is an eagerly anticipated event, with the outstanding questions being whether Michael Horowitz will find any wrongdoing, and whether that will entail criminal referrals for potential prosecution.
https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/with-the-mueller-report-complete-is-another-investigation-looming
#6256755 at 2019-04-20 22:46:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8000: 8 Years, 0 Collusion, 0 Obstruction, 0 Crimes Committed Edition
1/15/2019:
I 'Can Conceive of Situations' Where Journalists Might Be Jailed 'as a LAST RESORT'
William Barr
3/18/2019:
PANIC IN DC?
THE REAL PANIC COMES IN THE FORM OF A LAST RESORT.
Q
https://www.thedailybeast.com/William-Barr-i-can-conceive-of-situations-where-journalists-might-be-jailed-as-last-resort
https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1085233106410487808
#6256144 at 2019-04-20 21:55:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8000: 8 Years, 0 Collusion, 0 Obstruction, 0 Crimes Committed Edition
NYT use actual ex-FBI agent to warn readers of Barr's 'Russian disinfo tactic' (with Soviet imagery)
The Mueller report didn't just clear President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia, the New York Times said, it handed Russia's Vladimir Putin the "ultimate victory." If you thought otherwise, blame secret Soviet mind games.
In a New York Times op-ed, former FBI agent-turned CNN analyst Asha Rangappa argues that by conflating the terms "collusion" and "conspiracy," Attorney General William Barr performed a bizarre Soviet trick on the American public, giving Putin his "ultimate victory."
The trick, Rangappa explains, is called 'Reflexive Control,' a "uniquely Russian" concept that, put simply, involves drip-feeding an audience carefully-prepared words to make them reach the conclusion you want them to. That's basically what PR is - only this time it's "Russian" and, therefore, bad.
https://www.rt.com/usa/457118-nyt-soviet-tactics-mueller-Barr/
#6255678 at 2019-04-20 21:04:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7999: The Day Collusion Died Edition
U.S. Intelligence Institutionally Politicized Toward Democrats
Former CIA analyst says agencies dominated by liberals
The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst. John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump. The institutional bias outlined in a lengthy article in the quarterly International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence risks undermining the role of intelligence in support of government leaders charged with making policy decisions.
Gentry stopped short of saying the widespread liberal bias of intelligence officials has influenced intelligence reports and products. However, he concludes that "bias may have crept into CIA analyses." "A considerable body of evidence, much of it fragmentary, indicates that many CIA people have left-leaning political preferences, but less evidence shows that political bias influences CIA analyses," Gentry concludes. In the past, intelligence politicization was defined as either skewing intelligence to fit biases or manipulating intelligence by those outside the intelligence community. "But in 2016 observers of U.S. intelligence began to wonder if the CIA's once-firm prohibition on partisan politics had changed, and to ponder whether a new kind of politicization had arisen: namely, institutionally embedded, partisan bias," Gentry wrote.
Gentry points to the activities of senior retired intelligence officials during the 2016 campaign that "universally" criticized then-candidate Trump and supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. "The attacks on Trump were unprecedented for intelligence officers in their substance, tone, and volume," he stated. "Critics went far beyond trying to correct Trump's misstatements about U.S. intelligence; they attacked him as a human being."
Gentry, currently a professor at Georgetown and Columbia Universities, provides a detailed analysis of whether the 16-agency U.S. intelligence community and the CIA in particular have become institutional partisans supporting the Democratic Party. He reached no definitive conclusion on whether intelligence reports and activities were politicized and found no proof "intelligence products have been politicized to mislead or to avoid helping President Trump." CIA spokesmen did not return emails seeking comment.
The article was written before the conclusions of the investigative report on Russian collusion by special counsel Robert Mueller were made public by Attorney General William Barr, who told Congress the Trump campaign was spied on by the U.S. government. The Justice Department is investigating whether the FBI and senior officials acted properly in launching a counterintelligence investigation of ties between President Trump and Russia based on information contained in a Democratic Party-funded dossier. Gentry said in an interview that he has not seen any movement within the intelligence community to address the institutional politicization. "My guess is the issue is not going to go away," he said.
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-intelligence-institutionally-politicized-toward-democrats/
#6253027 at 2019-04-20 15:55:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7996: So Baked Right Now. Found another Lost Bread. The 4/20 AM Edition
>>6253025
"The memorandum also confirmed the Special Counsel's authority to investigate certain other matters, including two additional sets of allegations involving Manafort (crimes arising from payments he received from the Ukrainian government and crimes arising from his receipt of loans from a bank whose CEO was then seeking a position in the Trump Administration); allegations that Papadopoulos committed a crime or crimes by acting as an unregistered agent of the Israeli government; and four sets of allegations involving Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor to President Trump," Mueller added.
Despite this revelation, Nunes said in a statement earlier in the day the Mueller report "ignored a wide range of abuses committed during the FBI's investigation of the Trump campaign."
Steele's dossier was filled with unverified claims about Trump's compromising ties to Russia. His efforts were funded in part through opposition research firm Fusion GPS, by Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, and the Democratic National Committee. Republicans such as Nunes have alleged the FBI misled the FISA court to obtain warrants to spy on Page by using the dossier without mentioning its Democratic benefactors and Steele's anti-Trump bias.
"Rosenstein then directed them to use that dirt, that dossier, which I think makes up the bulk of what is in the scope memo, that we have still yet to be able to see," Nunes told Hannity.
During his interview Thursday evening, Nunes praised Attorney General William Barr as the "adult" who is "driving the media crazy" by sticking to the facts. Barr worked with Mueller for the past few weeks to redact sensitive information in the report and preceded its release with a press conference, which irked Democrats and some pundits who were concerned he was trying to spin its findings before the public got a chance to read them.
Nunes also said "real action" needs to be taken to stop FBI overreach in the future. Last week, Nunes sent a notification letter to Barr saying his team "identified several potential violations of the law" as part of an investigation into origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and hopes to set up a meeting to discuss eight criminal referrals.
Nunes' criminal referrals, which include two related to charges of conspiracy to lie to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, came together as Mueller concluded his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Mueller's report did not find evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in its election interference efforts, but it did not reach a conclusion on whether the Trump team obstructed justice.
#6252139 at 2019-04-20 14:11:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7995: Saturday Morning Edition
Democrats Decline to View Less Redacted Mueller Report
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and other top Democrats declined Friday to view a less redacted Mueller report.
Top Democrats responded to a proposal from Attorney General (AG) William Barr to view a less redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report that confirmed President Donald Trump did not collude with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election.
In the wake of the Mueller report's release, Pelosi and Schumer said that Mueller needs to testify before Congress. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nalder (D-NY) said that Mueller should testify before his committee because they "clearly cannot believe" what Barr tells us about the Mueller report.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/19/democrats-decline-to-view-less-redacted-mueller-report/
#6246575 at 2019-04-20 01:04:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7987: Time For Congress To Do Its Job Edition
In-flight:
- John Huber is investigating Uranium one and everything Clinton; This has been going on for over 1 year
- Michael Horowitz is investigating everything that went down triggering the Russia investigation. This has been going on for nearly 2 years. This report is to be released in the coming weeks.
- Lindsey Graham reopened the Clinton email scandal investigations.
- William Barr acknowledges spying into the Trump campaign and is investigating
- Devin Nunes criminally referred individuals from the Obama administration
- Andrew McCabe was criminally referred by the OIG and is under investigation
- Obama's White House Counsel was indicted as a result of the Mueller investigation.
- Michael Cohen was criminally referred for lying to congress
- Forensic financial investigators testify under-oath that the Clinton foundation is operating as an illegal slush fund
- The Clinton Foundation is under investigation by the FBI
- The Clinton Foundation was raided by the FBI/DOJ
Sauces…
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-10/clinton-comey-uranium-one-who-john-w-huber
https://www.ajc.com/news/national/who-john-huber-the-man-appointed-investigate-gop-concerns-about-fbi-justice-department/EpVp5miuzXzTVh6aufFhOI/
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/06/01/breaking-inspector-general-says-investigation-into-fbi-handling-of-clinton-email-probe-is-ongoing-n2486435
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/426249-graham-angers-dems-by-digging-into-clinton-obama-controversies
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/04/William-Barr-investigate-obama-officials-spying-trump.html
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/04/07/Nunes-to-send-eight-criminal-referrals-to-DOJ-over-Trump-Russia-probe/7741554670556/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/inspector-general-recommends-criminal-investigation-andrew-mccabe-n867571
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/greg-craig-ex-obama-white-house-counsel-indicted-on-making-false-statements-to-doj
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/02/breaking-top-gop-lawmakers-refer-michael-cohen-for-criminal-investigation-for-committing-perjury-during-congressional-testimony/
https://saraacarter.com/financial-bounty-hunters-testify-clinton-foundation-operated-as-foreign-agent/
https://saraacarter.com/financial-experts-testify-fbi-currently-investigating-clinton-foundation/
https://truepundit.com/mystery-as-doj-load-it-with-boxes-documents/
#6245388 at 2019-04-19 23:24:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7986: TOTALLY VINDICATED Edition
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) said in a recent interview that he thought that Attorney General William Barr handled himself "extremely well" with the release of the special counsel's final report on the Russia collusion probe amid accusations that the attorney general was protecting the president.
Jordan made an appearance with fellow Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) on Fox News to discuss the release of the Mueller report. During the interview, Jordan praised the attorney general when asked whether Barr was acting as President Donald Trump's lawyer rather than the nation's top lawyer.
"No, I think the attorney general handled himself extremely well," Jordan said. "I think he said that he will hold people accountable last week when he talked about the fact that there was spying that took place. And I think that he presented the conclusions, and the conclusions speak for themselves-no new indictments, no sealed indictments, no obstruction, no collusion."
"I think he has handled himself exactly the way the American people want their attorney general to operate. And I think what's most important now, lots of people Mark and I talk to, they want us to get to the bottom of this," he added.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/rep-jim-jordan-praises-ag-Barr-for-his-handling-of-the-mueller-report-release_2887430.html
#6245209 at 2019-04-19 23:08:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7986: TOTALLY VINDICATED Edition
Who Was the Bearded Man at the Barr Press Conference?
At a Thursday morning press conference on the Mueller report's impending release, Attorney General William Barr offered an effusive absolution of President Donald Trump. The entire exercise felt more like public relations than fair-minded legal analysis, and Barr's conclusions will likely contribute to existing perceptions that the Department of Justice is essentially working for Trump. But Barr didn't work alone, and as public scrutiny inevitably fixes on him in the aftermath of today's events, he may share the hot seat with the two individuals who joined him for Thursday's briefing. One, Rod Rosenstein, is somewhat familiar to the public as the department's deputy attorney general. His bearded neighbor is not as well known. He's Edward O'Callaghan, a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who joined the Department of Justice earlier this month as a principal associate deputy attorney general.
O'Callaghan's career reveals a firm commitment to the Republican Party. As Newsweek reported, O'Callaghan previously worked for the 2008 presidential campaign of the late Senator John McCain. In that capacity, he traveled to Alaska to intervene in a state investigation into Sarah Palin, then the state's governor and McCain's running mate. Palin faced an ethics probe into her suspicious termination of the state's Department of Public Safety Commissioner, Walt Monegan; Monegan had reportedly refused to fire a state trooper who happened to be the ex-husband of Palin's sister. According to Newsweek, O'Callaghan worked with Palin aide Meghan Stapleton to try to defuse the investigation.
"Stapleton and this guy did almost daily press conferences to discredit the investigation," Hollis French, an Alaska legislator, told Newsweek. "She was the face Alaskans would recognize. Others would have no idea who this attorney was standing next to her." Les Gara, a serving Democratic state legislator, told the magazine that O'Callaghan and Stapleton made the investigation "look like a Democratic attack against Palin." Sounds familiar!
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/bearded-man-Barr-mueller-press-conference.html
#6245208 at 2019-04-19 23:08:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7986: TOTALLY VINDICATED Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/19/democrats-decline-to-view-less-redacted-mueller-report/
Democrats Decline to View Less Redacted Mueller Report
Top Democrats responded to a proposal from Attorney General (AG) William Barr to view a less redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report that confirmed President Donald Trump did not collude with the Russian government during the 2016 presidential election.
In the wake of the Mueller report's release, Pelosi and Schumer said that Mueller needs to testify before Congress. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nalder (D-NY) said that Mueller should testify before his committee because they "clearly cannot believe" what Barr tells us about the Mueller report.
#6245166 at 2019-04-19 23:04:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7986: TOTALLY VINDICATED Edition
QAnon Is Just the Standard Trump Train Now
By Brian Feldman
The release of the Mueller report this week marks the supposed end of one of the great conspiracy theories of our time: #QAnon. The idea behind QAnon, if you need a refresher, was that a high-level government employee with knowledge of Mueller's investigation was posting on anonymous message boards like 8chan, alleging that the Mueller investigation into Trump's campaign was actually a smoke screen. In fact, the story goes (I think - it gets muddy), Mueller and Trump were working together to expose corrupt elite Democrats who are part of a global pedophile ring, or something. It was Pizzagate on steroids, and it captured the imagination of a vocal minority of the MAGA crowd, all waiting and believing that Q was telling the truth.
Obviously, Q's predictions were never going to be proven true. Q's posts are often vague and noncommittal, allowing his or her followers to fill in the blanks with their own projections. A potent subgenre of Q-decoding videos cropped up on YouTube as "citizen journalists" sucked up the attention of presidential supporters desperately grasping at straws (crafty merchandisers also sucked up a fair amount of money too).
But as Mueller's investigation dragged on and Trump cohorts began getting indicted, the Q conspiracy devolved into less of an elaborate scheme and more of a frame of mind. It turned from a double-crossing spy-movie plot into wishful thinking. The Mueller report used to be the endgame, now it is only the beginning. With some heavy massaging and redacting, Attorney General William Barr did his job and delivered a verdict of "no collusion," validating the central Q belief that the charges were bogus, even if the actual theory of QAnon went belly-up. As it stands now, Q followers - the ones who used to believe in mantras like "Trust [Jeff] Sessions" - are now positioning the Mueller report as just the first step in a much longer process.
WE ARE THE NEWS
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/what-the-end-of-the-mueller-report-means-for-qanon.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&fbclid=IwAR1zafm765W-RQcQoV7-QrrQRXenn4IK02a9qd1mRDRzOK4TPIl_fwZHkVU
#6245091 at 2019-04-19 22:58:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7985: A Good Day For America Edition
QAnon Is Just the Standard Trump Train Now
By Brian Feldman
The release of the Mueller report this week marks the supposed end of one of the great conspiracy theories of our time: #QAnon. The idea behind QAnon, if you need a refresher, was that a high-level government employee with knowledge of Mueller's investigation was posting on anonymous message boards like 8chan, alleging that the Mueller investigation into Trump's campaign was actually a smoke screen. In fact, the story goes (I think - it gets muddy), Mueller and Trump were working together to expose corrupt elite Democrats who are part of a global pedophile ring, or something. It was Pizzagate on steroids, and it captured the imagination of a vocal minority of the MAGA crowd, all waiting and believing that Q was telling the truth.
Obviously, Q's predictions were never going to be proven true. Q's posts are often vague and noncommittal, allowing his or her followers to fill in the blanks with their own projections. A potent subgenre of Q-decoding videos cropped up on YouTube as "citizen journalists" sucked up the attention of presidential supporters desperately grasping at straws (crafty merchandisers also sucked up a fair amount of money too).
But as Mueller's investigation dragged on and Trump cohorts began getting indicted, the Q conspiracy devolved into less of an elaborate scheme and more of a frame of mind. It turned from a double-crossing spy-movie plot into wishful thinking. The Mueller report used to be the endgame, now it is only the beginning. With some heavy massaging and redacting, Attorney General William Barr did his job and delivered a verdict of "no collusion," validating the central Q belief that the charges were bogus, even if the actual theory of QAnon went belly-up. As it stands now, Q followers - the ones who used to believe in mantras like "Trust [Jeff] Sessions" - are now positioning the Mueller report as just the first step in a much longer process.
WE ARE THE NEWS
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/what-the-end-of-the-mueller-report-means-for-qanon.html?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1&utm_campaign=nym&fbclid=IwAR1zafm765W-RQcQoV7-QrrQRXenn4IK02a9qd1mRDRzOK4TPIl_fwZHkVU
#6244408 at 2019-04-19 22:04:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7985: A Good Day For America Edition
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/439786-justice-department-calls-dem-subpoena-for-mueller-report-premature
DOJ: Dem subpoena for Mueller report is 'premature and unnecessary'
Kerri Kupec, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement that Attorney General William Barr had released Mueller's report with only "minimal redactions," and that he already made arrangements for Nadler and other lawmakers to review a version with fewer redactions.
"In light of this, Congressman Nadler's subpoena is premature and unnecessary," Kupec said. "The Department will continue to work with Congress to accommodate its legitimate requests consistent with the law and long-recognized executive branch interests."
#6242899 at 2019-04-19 20:13:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7983: NO BLOCKADE = GAME OVER Edition
>https://radio.foxnews.com/2019/04/19/john-dowd-rod-rosenstein-has-to-answer-for-appointing-robert-mueller-as-special-council/
John Dowd, former attorney for President Trump, spoke with Brian Kilmeade about President Trump's instincts being right about the special council investigation and how Attorney General William Barr captured exactly what the President felt about the investigation. Dowd feels the Mueller report is a disgrace to the Department of Justice. Dowd also wants to get to the bottom of how the special council started in the first place and feels Rod Rosenstein has to answer for Mueller being appointed as head of the special council without informing President Trump he was doing so.
#6242872 at 2019-04-19 20:11:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7983: NO BLOCKADE = GAME OVER Edition
>>6242705 lb
>Here's what I think about Barr....
Body Language: Catatonic Rosenstein, William Barr Press Conference
#6240415 at 2019-04-19 16:56:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7979: Total Bullshit Edition
I wonder what would happen if some of this redacted information would leak to the media or elsewhere (what damage could be done to an investigation).
I wonder if the person who did the leaking would be identified and what would happen to them.
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The Justice Department told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Thursday that Attorney General William Barr will allow the chairman and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, the "Gang of Eight," and one designated staff member per lawmaker to read the less-redacted version of the report.
The Gang of Eight refers to the top Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate intelligence committees, as well as congressional leaders from both parties.
The Justice Department will have a secure reading room available for lawmakers and their staff between between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. from Monday through April 26. The less-redacted version of the report will also be provided in secure spaces on Capitol Hill during the week of April 29.
The less-redacted version will still maintain redactions for grand jury information, but the other categories of information (for example, an ongoing investigation), will remain unredacted.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/18/politics/less-redacted-mueller-report-hill-leaders/index.html
#6238750 at 2019-04-19 14:01:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7977: Comey's Guided Nature Tours Edition
Elijah Cummings: 'I am begging the American people to pay attention to what's going on'
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said Friday he's "begging the American people to pay attention to what's going on" the day after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"I think we are in a very difficult time in this country's history and I'm begging the American people to pay attention to what's going on," the chairman of the House Oversight Committee said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."
Cummings is leading that panel's investigations into President Trump.
"And I often say that people are going to look back at this time 200 years from now and ask the question 'what did you do to reverse this?'" he said.
Cummings also ripped Attorney General William Barr for saying Trump did not obstruct any investigations into Russian collusion when the Mueller report declined to take a stance regarding obstruction of justice.
"I just found that Attorney General Barr went overboard in trying to represent the president when he should have been representing the people of the United States of America," he said.
Democrats have seized on Barr's determination, saying he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein mischaracterized Mueller's report.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/439689-elijah-cummings-i-am-begging-the-american-people-to-pay-attention-to-whats
#6238493 at 2019-04-19 13:31:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7977: Comey's Guided Nature Tours Edition
Mueller report: House issues subpoena for full unredacted version
House judiciary chairman, Jerry Nadler, on Friday issued a subpoena for the full, unredacted report by special counsel Robert Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 US election and the Trump campaign.
The subpoena seeks not only the "complete and unredacted" report, but also all of the underlying documents referenced in it including grand jury evidence. The New York Democrat said on Good Morning America that the information was necessary "to make informed decisions" on what happens next.
Nadler's committee, which has the power to launch impeachment proceedings, voted in early April to authorize the subpoena for the report after attorney general William Barr outlined the categories he intended to shield.
The subpoena came as Democrats vowed to continue investigating Donald Trump a day after the report was made public, revealing striking new details about the president's effort to thwart a federal inquiry he believed threatened his presidency.
Shortly after a redacted version of the exhaustive report was released to the public on Thursday, Nadler said it outlined "disturbing evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction of justice" and the "responsibility now falls to Congress to hold the president accountable for his actions."
The 448-page summary of Mueller's nearly two-year investigation concluded without reaching a verdict on whether the president illegally obstructed justice. But the report catalogues nearly a dozen instances in which Trump attempts to stop the investigation, narrow its scope or influence witnesses involved in the inquiry. Mueller cited legal constraints which prevent the justice department from charging a sitting president with obstruction of justice - and suggested a final say on the matter may lie with Congress.
In a letter to colleagues, Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi cited the passage and declared: "Congress will not be silent."
Republicans viscerally disagreed with the assessment that Congress should pick up where Mueller left off.
"Democrats want to keep searching for imaginary evidence that supports their claims, but it is simply not there," said House minority leader Kevin McCarthy. "It is time to move on."
But far from turning the page on the investigation, Democrats are opening a new, bitterly partisan chapter. Facing them now is an issue that has already sharply divided the party along ideological and generation lines: impeachment.
Democratic leaders see more risk than reward in initiating an impeachment inquiry, especially after Mueller said he found "insufficient evidence" to conclude that Trump conspired with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. Without that support, Republicans are unlikely to break with the president, as they did with Richard Nixon after Watergate.
"Unless [there's] a bipartisan conclusion, an impeachment would be doomed to failure," the House intelligence committee chairman, Adam Schiff, said on CNN. "I continue to think that a failed impeachment is not in the national interest."
A partisan endeavor could risk repeating what Democrats widely view as a historic overreach by Republicans, when they pursued impeachment against Bill Clinton in the late 1990s. Democrats fear that a divisive and unpopular impeachment battle would galvanize Trump's supporters - as it did for Clinton 21 years ago - and would swamp the party's policy agenda that they believe is crucial to unseating Trump in the 2020 election and holding onto their majority in the House of Representatives.
Still, if the House did move forward with articles of impeachment, every Senate Democrat and 20 Senate Republicans would have to vote to remove Trump from office - an unlikely scenario at this stage.
The House majority leader, Steny Hoyer, told CNN that impeachment was "not worthwhile" with a presidential election 18 months away. Nadler said that impeachment hearings were "one possibility" but that it was "too early" to discuss it.
"We will have to go follow the evidence where it leads," he said. "And I don't know exactly where it will lead."
But in a sign that the issue is far from settled, New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, one of the most vocal and high-profile members of Congress, said she would sign on to an impeachment proposal offered by her fellow freshman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan.
"While I understand the political reality of the Senate + election considerations, upon reading this DoJ report, which explicitly names Congress in determining obstruction, I cannot see a reason for us to abdicate from our constitutionally mandated responsibility to investigate," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a series of tweets explaining her decision.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/19/mueller-report-democrats-investigate-subpoena
#6238231 at 2019-04-19 12:53:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7977: Comey's Guided Nature Tours Edition
It's official: the collapse of the mainstream media's credibility is now complete
Attorney General William Barr held a press conference this morning to address the contents of the Mueller report, just as he promised to do. Not long after, Barr delivered the full Mueller report to the public with necessary redactions, also as promised. And yet the mainstream media, which demanded all of these things and has now received them, still isn't happy.
In fact, most fake news media pundits are now foaming at the mouth, questioning Barr's loyalties and accusing him of colluding with President Donald Trump to convey the "spun" message that he's innocent - which it would seem as though no amount of evidence will ever convince those with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is actually true.
In a nutshell, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whom Leftist Democrats have been hailing for the past two years as their savior and hero who was going to take down Trump, didn't end up procuring what these Trump haters were wishfully thinking he would. And in response, Trump haters everywhere are reeling with more anger than ever, demanding that Mueller be burned at the stake for failing to prove their deranged conspiracy theories.
https://newstarget.com/2019-04-18-collapse-of-the-mainstream-medias-credibility-now-complete.html
#6236866 at 2019-04-19 07:40:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7975: The Tide is Turning Edition
>>6236841
Body Language: Catatonic Rosenstein, William Barr Press Conference
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=Dl9DwPBPwXI
#6236113 at 2019-04-19 05:44:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7974: When the info is released [RR] no more. The DECLAS is Coming Edition
I was looking at the pics in theis daily mail story about Trump heading to Mar Lago for the weekend.
I noticed they had a picture of Trump supporters and one is Holding a Trump 2Q2Q sign, kek
Trump is greeted by huge crowds of jubilant MAGA fans as he lands in Mar-a-Lago with Melania, Tiffany and Barron: President tells his supporters it's 'back to work' after the release of the Mueller report - but the Democrats insist it's NOT over
President Donald Trump and Melania have landed in Mar-a-Lago for the Easter weekend in Palm Beach
The couple were joined by son Barron and Donald's daughter Tiffany for the long holiday weekend
On landing on Thursday night Trump told supporters at the airport: 'Game over folks, now it's back to work'
Crowds of supporters in MAGA hats were pictured waiting as Air Force One arrived at Palm Beach airport
Later fans holding homemade signs lined the streets as Trump's motorcade passed through Florida
He had earlier not stopped to take questions from the press as he left the White House Thursday afternoon
Congress could still find POTUS guilty of obstruction despite Attorney General William Barr clearing him
Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer slammed Bill Barr for 'deliberately distorting' the Mueller Report
And Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar back Trump's impeachment following it's release
Trump had himself tweeted about it numerous times in the day and said earlier he was having a 'good day'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938157/Trump-flies-Mar-Lago-Melania-doesnt-answer-questions-Mueller-report.html
#6235549 at 2019-04-19 04:51:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7973: [RR] Departure Soon. The Bags Are Packed And He Ready To Go Edition
Body Language Ghost
Body Language: Catatonic Rosenstein, William Barr Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl9DwPBPwXI
Interesting analysis of Rosenstein, but the other guy (?) whith the beard became interesting as well. Was he the "correcting element" for Barr as Barr gushed over Rosenstein's assistance in the transition.
One might wonder if RR continued his sabotage in that transition and Barr only brought it up in order to make a mention of it, and then had to express civility in the process. But the beard's eyes – might not agree.
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#6235175 at 2019-04-19 04:25:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7973: [RR] Departure Soon. The Bags Are Packed And He Ready To Go Edition
HBO Tells POTUS - Stop Using Game Of Thrones Likeness
Just to be clear, our justice system is a system built on being presumed innocent until proven guilty. President Trump is happy that he has been exonerated from the Russian collusion allegations and accusations and it should be a glorious day for everyone but HBO is not pleased.
On Thursday, President Trump tweeted a "Game Over" jubilation message after Attorney General William Barr held his press conference. It so happened that the graphic looked like Game Of Thrones. Mashable reached out to HBO for a comment, and they responded: "Though we can understand the enthusiasm for Game of Thrones now that the final season has arrived, we still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes."
A sensitive company, eh?? To be clear, our justice system is a system built on being presumed innocent until proven guilty. Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion and inconclusive evidence of possible obstruction. What he did or did not see was not enough to suggest charges be brought against President Trump. 'This means that President Trump is innocent of all allegations levied against him in this matter.'
What it does not mean is that Mueller can say he is currently not guilty of anything. He was never "not guilty" because he was never charged with anything. One of two things needs to occur, either it gets dropped, or charges get filed. If it gets dropped, Trump is innocent, point blank and period. If charges are brought and a court case proceeds, then we will find out if he is guilty or not guilty. But until then, he is still innocent.
https://www.waynedupree.com/donald-trump-game-of-thrones/
#6234620 at 2019-04-19 03:37:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7972: Barr > Rod Edition
Trump Lawyer Reads Directly From Mueller Report To Push Back Against Brian Williams
President Donald Trump's lawyer, Jay Sekulow, read directly from the Mueller report Thursday when MSNBC's Brian Williams asked him how Attorney General William Barr came to the conclusion that there was no collusion. Barr held a Thursday morning press conference in which he summarized aspects of the special counsel's investigation. Many suggested that some of Barr's comments were inappropriate for the attorney general.
"My first question, I'm afraid, is going to verge on plain English," Williams began. "Where did the attorney general get off with that characterization this morning, including four mentions that there was no collusion? What document was he reading, compared to the one we're left with?" Sekulow responded, "Well, page two of the document says, 'The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign coordinated with the Russian government in its election of interference activities.' So it's right from the document itself."
"Have you read part one?" Williams retorted. "I have read part one and part two," Sekulow added. Williams shot back, "Do you find good news in here for the president and the administration?" "The investigation-page 181-the investigation did not establish the Contacts described in volume one-that's the Russian contacts-amounted to an agreement to commit any violation of federal criminal law, including foreign influence and campaign finance laws," Sekulow followed up. "Yes, I think it's very good win."
Trump responded to the release of the report during a ceremony with the Wounded Warriors Project at the White House. He said, "They're having a good day, I'm having a good day too. It's called no collusion, no obstruction. There never was, by the way, and there never will be."
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/18/trump-sekulow-mueller-russia-msnbc/
#6234311 at 2019-04-19 03:14:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7972: Barr > Rod Edition
Wow a quick scan of online news articles about the Mueller Report reveals dozens of MSM articles indicating Trump is clearly of. . .[something]?
The Mueller report is the opposite of exoneration
The legal dispute between William Barr and Robert Mueller
William Barr Must Resign
Mueller Report Busts Russian crime spree, Trump interference
Mueller laid out 'thorough and compelling' case of obstruction, but Barr …
Mueller report lays out obstruction evidence against the president
Trump Beat the Rap, but Mueller Uncovered a Historic Scandal
How to Get Away With Obstruction of Justice
Collusion by any other name
The case Trump may have obstructed justice, in one paragraph
People are nervous…..
#6234257 at 2019-04-19 03:10:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7972: Barr > Rod Edition
Let me ask fellow Anons this?
Would President Trump [knowingly] lie to us (The American Public)(The World)..
If your answer is Yes and the public found out about it…
Who would be pissed off about it? and all shit would hit the fan..Am I Right!!!
Well we have:
Democrats
MSM/News even some of the Conservative News stations would be a little pissed that the Trump lied.
Liberals and everyone else who didn't like Trump
Ok…now…here we go…Occum's Razor.
Let's say Trump wasn't/hasn't been lying to us…then all the information about what Trump has been saying must be true. (Twitter, rallies,on TV interviews..etc…).
THAT WOULD MAKE MUELLER AND RR – BLACK HATS..(RR maybe turned gray)…
For one simple fact if this was a Sting OP and Trump knew it or was part of it…then he would have been lying the whole time to us/the world…right?
Trump always said that this is a Hoax…That Mueller and his 19 Top Democrat Lawyers were bias.
Trump always complained that if RR wore a wire it would be bad.
I'm not really going over all the stuff that Trump said about the bad guys and the attempted coup.
As far as you know…Has Trump been wrong???
So, if everything Trump says was true and he has been telling the truth(which I think he has)..I think we need to give a Special Thanks to:
Matthew Whittaker
William Barr
Devon Nunes
Mark Meadows
Rudy Giuliani
Sara Carter
John Soloman
Big round of applause for Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Judge Jeanine Piro
Special Thanks to Adam Dershowitz (D)
'Q' and the 'Q' Team plus many, many fellow Top Anons…
And many more…
#6234201 at 2019-04-19 03:06:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7971: The Tables Have Turned Edition
>>6233873
Body Language: Catatonic Rosenstein, William Barr Press Conference
LOVE THIS STUFF….
DO IT Q & Q+
MANY MANY PRAYERS FOR ALL Y'ALL
#6234128 at 2019-04-19 03:03:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7971: The Tables Have Turned Edition
How Trump's Attorneys General are transforming U.S. immigration law
Under U.S. President Donald Trump, the attorney general's office has reshaped immigration law at an unprecedented rate. Unlike the federal judiciary system, U.S. immigration courts fall under the Justice Department's jurisdiction, and the attorney general can intervene in cases to set national legal precedent. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and his successors have been unusually active in this practice compared to their predecessors, a Reuters analysis of Justice Department data shows. The data describe an unprecedented effort by the Justice Department to quietly advance policy goals and transform immigration law from the top down.
In one case, Sessions overturned a grant of asylum to a victim of domestic violence from El Salvador. He wrote in his ruling in the case, known as Matter of A-B-, that most gang and domestic violence victims will not qualify for asylum under his narrowed definition. That decision, however, was struck down by a U.S. federal judge. In four other cases in 2018, Sessions issued decisions restricting the discretion of immigration judges to put off final deportation hearings by continuing, closing or dismissing proceedings. After stepping in as acting attorney general in November, Matthew Whitaker continued in Sessions' footsteps and singled out three immigration cases for review.
One case, known as the Matter of L-E-A-, concerns whether a man who fled a kidnapping attempt by cartels in Mexico qualifies for asylum. Another case, known as the Matter of Castillo-Perez, questions whether convictions for driving under the influence should disqualify immigrants from certain legal protections to remain in the country. Newly appointed Attorney General William Barr, who replaced Sessions, is also following his predecessors' path with a decision on Tuesday that revoked the right of some asylum seekers to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge, expanding indefinite detention for some migrants who must wait months or years for their cases to be heard. The American Civil Liberties Union said they will challenge the move in court.
https://graphics.reuters.com/USA-IMMIGRATION-TRUMP/010091HF26W/index.html
Court rules in favor of asylum seekers, against Trump policy
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-asylum/court-rules-in-favor-of-asylum-seekers-against-trump-policy-idUSKCN1OI2BI
Trump attorney general's ruling expands indefinite detention for asylum seekers
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-bond/trump-attorney-generals-ruling-expands-indefinite-detention-for-asylum-seekers-idUSKCN1RT053
#6232351 at 2019-04-19 00:46:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7969: Investigate The Other Side Edition
'Now the Tables Have Turned:' Trump Campaign Demands Origin of Mueller Probe Investigated
Shortly after Attorney General William Barr released the full redacted Mueller report on Thursday, April 18, Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale demanded an investigation of the "liars who instigated this sham investigation into President Trump." "President Trump has been fully and completely exonerated yet again. Now the tables have turned, and it's time to investigate the liars who instigated this sham investigation into President Trump, motivated by political retribution and based on no evidence whatsoever," he said in a statement. "Now that the collusion and obstruction conspiracy theories have been exposed for the pathetic hoaxes they always were, the Obama-era DOJ and FBI must answer for their misdeeds and the scam that they perpetrated against the American people," read the statement.
Earlier in the day, Barr re-affirmed that no member of the Trump campaign, or any other American, colluded with Russia to interfere with the 2016 elections. He made the remarks during a press conference before releasing the Mueller report to the congressional committees and the public. The Special Counsel "did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Barr said, quoting the Mueller report. He also said that he and Deputy Attorney Rod Rosenstein determined there was no obstruction of justice case based on the information presented by Mueller.
Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of Republican National Committee (RNC), also asked for the origin of the Mueller probe to be investigated. "It is now time to get to the bottom of how an investigation based off of fake and partisan information began in the first place. After two years and over $35 million, American taxpayers deserve answers and the integrity of our democratic process depends on ensuring this never happens again," she stated.
Trump and his legal team declared victory after the Mueller report was released. "I'm having a good day, too, it's called 'no collusion, no obstruction,'" he said while addressing the Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride at the White House. "There never was by the way, and there never will be." "This should never happen to another president again, this hoax, it should never happen to another president again," he added.
Many Trump supporters also joined the rally on social media to declare victory. "Thank you to every Trump supporter who never gave up on him or doubted him. YOU are the champions today," wrote Bill Mitchell, the host of a conservative talk radio show and one of the pundits on Trump, on Twitter.
'Failure Among a Group of Leaders There' During an April 10 hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Barr said that spying on Trump Campaign in 2016 "did occur." "I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur," he confirmed when Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) asked if he suggested that spying occurred. He also said that he wants to pull everything together from the various investigations at the Capitol and the DOJ and see if there are any remaining questions to be addressed. "I haven't set up a team yet. But I do have in mind having some colleagues to help me pull all this information together and let me know whether there's some areas that should be looked at," he stated. Barr clarified that he is not launching an investigation into the FBI, but he thought there was probably "a failure among a group of leaders there."
https://www.theepochtimes.com/now-the-tables-have-turned-trump-campaign-demands-origin-of-mueller-probe-investigated_2886143.html
#6231960 at 2019-04-19 00:14:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7969: Investigate The Other Side Edition
Barr: Mueller Probe Did Not Present Sufficient Evidence to Establish Obstruction-of-Justice Offense
Attorney General William Barr said on April 18 that special counsel Robert Mueller did not provide sufficient evidence to support an obstruction-of-justice case against President Donald Trump.
"After carefully reviewing the facts and legal theories outlined in the report, and in consultation with the Office of Legal Counsel and other department lawyers, the deputy attorney general and I concluded that the evidence developed by the special counsel is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction-of-justice offense," Barr said at a press conference.
Mueller, in his report, had not reached a prosecutorial judgment on the allegation of obstruction of justice and instead left the decision to the attorney general.
Barr said that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "disagreed with some of the special counsel's legal theories," but nevertheless "accepted the special counsel's legal framework for purposes of our analysis and evaluated the evidence as presented by the special counsel in reaching our conclusion."
In their report, the special counsel team presented 10 different episodes, which it then used to discuss potential legal theories for connecting the president's actions to obstruction of justice.
The 10 episodes presented are wide ranging, from the circumstances of FBI Director James Comey's firing, to the allegation that Trump asked White House legal counsel Don McGahn to request that the Justice Department fire Mueller.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/Barr-mueller-probe-did-not-present-sufficient-evidence-to-establish-obstruction-of-justice-offense_2886408.html
#6231312 at 2019-04-18 23:22:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7968: Happy Exoneration Day Edition
Help!
A normalfag asked me to explain the Muller repoer today.
Could anons help me with the response
(I am unsure about many things, abnd am confused about some)
This should be useful for talking to other normalfags.
My vision is this:
I will send her a series of text messages.
I also want to introduce her to the names of people and other important terms
(so that she could be able to understand Sara Carter articles, for instance),
while keeping the autism level low.
I have some questions I am confused about:
1. How many investigations are there?
(Russia probe, Russia investigation, etc.)
Were the FISA warrents part of multiple investigations?
What is the name of the investigation into Trump campaign ((prior)) to presidency?
2. What was the Steele dossier used for?
Was it just for obtaining FISA warrents?
OR
Was it to initiate the ((?? name ??)) investigation?
OR
XXX
3. How were the text messages between Struzk and Page obtained?
Who got the warrent?
(I was confused about this from day 1)
Please help me correct/create a series of text messages.
This is what I was thinking (please correct):
1
Some background
Mueller was head of FBI when the Uranium One (U1) incident occurred.
By the time of the presidential and presidential primary races, he was already retired
Another player of import is Rod Rosenstein, who is a high official in the Department Of Justice (DOJ). Specifically, he is the Deputy Attorney General (2nd highest official in DOJ). He claims to be a Republican, while his wife (Barsoomian) represented Bill Clinton.
His Senate confirmation vote was 94–6. He was also involved in the Uranium One (U1) incident.
2
Investigations during trump campaign
The US gov is not allowed to spy on it's own citizens. This means that while in reality spying is prevalent, the information obtained cannot be used in court. However, the gov has a way of legally spying – a warrant – and the warrant which allows the most intrusive spying is a FISA Warrant, which could only be obtained
1. In a special court (called FISC)
2. With approval of high DOJ signature (under oath)
3. For 6-month periods at a time
Such warrants were obtained against members of trump campaign (Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Paul Manafort), and were extended.
However, it has been shown in multiple congressional testimonies (Lisa page, Peter Strzok) that everybody knew that evidence against carter page was false/fake.
It is believed that Rosenstein signed the FISA applications. The public is waiting for the declassification (or an un-redacted version) of the FISA application.
In fact, it has been shown that the "evidence" for opening an investigation about Russia (the so-called "salacious Steele dossier") was
1. Not corroborated
2. Paid-for and compiled by the DNC
3. Introduced to FBI through Bruce Ohr (whose wife, Nellie Ohr compiled it on behalf of the DemonCRats)
3
Initial Mueller Report
Recently, a new attorney general, William Barr, assumed office, and he released a short reportabout the Mueller report. It exhonorated Trump (as everybody expected from the beginning).
4.
Mueller Report
Although Special counsel Robert Mueller detailed 10 'episodes' involving actions by President Trump that might have constituted obstruction of justice, neither the DOJ, nor Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein believed those actions violated the law.
Remember that this has nothing to do with the premise of the investigation. However, the Mueller team was given a mandate to persue any crime they uncover during the investigation. While I am told that such a mandate is not uncommon, I think it is universally-agreed that in such a case (if you could call it that), it is totally inappropriate (obviously, this one is an investigation desperate for a crime).
5
Results of the investigation
In practice, this investigation has wated many millions of (tax-payer) dollars, and has been used (without evidence) to sway power away from the republicans (in the elections, ralleys, etc.). The lie of Russian 'collusion' has been perpetrated endlessly by the press, who are on record admitting they know it is empty.
#6231306 at 2019-04-18 23:22:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7968: Happy Exoneration Day Edition
Dem Sen. Blumenthal: Mueller Report Demonstrates 'a National Scandal' - It's 'Far From the End'
While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that the Mueller report demonstrates "a national scandal."
Blumenthal said, "What's demonstrated, in powerful and compelling detail in this report, is nothing less than a national scandal. And this report is far from the end of the inquiry that this country needs and deserves. It is the beginning of another chapter. I will be asking for Robert Mueller to testify, for an unredacted copy of this report, for all of the evidence and findings that underlie it, and for other testimony, including William Barr, who has agreed to testify in early May."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/18/dem-sen-blumenthal-mueller-report-demonstrates-a-national-scandal-its-far-from-the-end/
PANIC
D5 gang of eight to read the D5 page ?
#6231234 at 2019-04-18 23:17:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7968: Happy Exoneration Day Edition
Hollywood's Mueller Report Meltdown: 'Complete Whitewash,' 'Trump Is Guilty As Hell'
Hollywood joined Democrats and the establishment media in going into full meltdown mode Thursday following Attorney General William Barr releasing the full Mueller report to the public. Celebrities accused President Donald Trump of being "guilty" and called the report a cover-up.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/18/hollywood-mueller-report-meltdown-complete-whitewash-trump-is-guilty-as-hell/
Patton Oswalt
@ pattonoswalt
Sooooooo it's not illegal if you're really upset?
11:28 AM - Apr 18, 2019
#6230871 at 2019-04-18 22:47:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7967: 1st & 10 on the Comfy Edition
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/18/instagram-facebook-password-lapse-privacy-breach-data-exposed-
At 10 am ET on Thursday, as the attorney general, William Barr, wrapped up his news conference on the release of the report of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, Facebook updated a 21 March blogpost, which revealed it had mistakenly stored the passwords of hundreds of millions of users unencrypted, to include a sentence admitting that millions more Instagram accounts had been affected.
The 21 March post initially said "hundreds of millions of Facebook Lite users, tens of millions of other Facebook users, and tens of thousands of Instagram users" had data stored in an insecure way.
The clear implication of the timing of its admission is that Facebook is trying to bury this privacy oversight in the midst of its larger scandals of the week,
#6230531 at 2019-04-18 22:22:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7967: 1st & 10 on the Comfy Edition
Russia Truther Eric Swalwell Calls on AG Barr to Resign
Democrats on Capitol Hill went after Attorney General William Barr with both Barrels Thursday, accusing him of acting more like President Trump's personal attorney than an attorney general.
In his 22-minute press conference, Barr told reporters that Mueller found that Russia did indeed attempt to interfere in the election, but he found no evidence that President Trump or Trump campaign officials colluded in those efforts. Barr also concluded that the report did not prove Trump obstructed justice.
Democrats reacted with "shock and rage" to Barr's assertion that "there was, in fact, no collusion," accusing him of "using talking points that could have been written by the White House," according to Politico.
In tweet after angry tweet, Democrats demonstrated that they aren't ready to "move on" from the Russia collusion hoax even as their precious narrative collapsed before their eyes.
"Now that President @realDonaldTrump's campaign press conference is over: It's time for Congress and the American public to see the #MuellerReport," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote on Twitter.
Added Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "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," she said.
In his statement to reporters, Barr was adamant in his defense of Trump, saying the president faced an "unprecedented situation" and acted with the "sincere belief" that Mueller's probe was undermining his presidency.
"Criminal acts are still criminal even if you're 'frustrated' when you commit them," Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.), a Judiciary member and former police chief, tweeted in response.
Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.), another member of the Judiciary panel, added that Barr was acting as "the president's personal attorney rather than as the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the nation."
https://pjmedia.com/trending/russia-truther-eric-swalwell-calls-on-ag-Barr-to-resign/
#6230207 at 2019-04-18 21:58:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7966: Easter Exoneration Edition
Body Language: Catatonic Rosenstein, William Barr Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl9DwPBPwXI
I love this gals vids, she does some interesting work. Have a watch and laugh along.
#6230179 at 2019-04-18 21:56:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7966: Easter Exoneration Edition
'Now the Tables Have Turned:' Trump Campaign Demands Origin of Mueller Probe Investigated
Shortly after Attorney General William Barr released the full redacted Mueller report on Thursday, April 18, Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale demanded an investigation of the "liars who instigated this sham investigation into President Trump."
"President Trump has been fully and completely exonerated yet again. Now the tables have turned, and it's time to investigate the liars who instigated this sham investigation into President Trump, motivated by political retribution and based on no evidence whatsoever," he said in a statement.
"Now that the collusion and obstruction conspiracy theories have been exposed for the pathetic hoaxes they always were, the Obama-era DOJ and FBI must answer for their misdeeds and the scam that they perpetrated against the American people," read the statement.
More
https://www.theepochtimes.com/now-the-tables-have-turned-trump-campaign-demands-origin-of-mueller-probe-investigated_2886143.html
#6229686 at 2019-04-18 21:13:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7966: Easter Exoneration Edition
Axelrod: Mueller Report 'Virtually Inviting an Impeachment Probe' from Congress
"The report provides a conundrum for Congress by virtually inviting an impeachment probe around the obstruction issue."
Democratic operative David Axelrod, who is best known for serving as chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns, said Special Counsel Robert Mueller's redacted final report virtually invites "an impeachment probe" for President Trump on Thursday.
Attorney General William Barr released a redacted version of Mueller's final report regarding whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. While Mueller's final report found no evidence of collusion, there is still the question of whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice. "The report provides a conundrum for Congress by virtually inviting an impeachment probe around the obstruction issue," Axelrod tweeted.
https://ntknetwork.com/axelrod-mueller-report-virtually-inviting-an-impeachment-probe-from-congress/
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1118902263882440704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
#6229621 at 2019-04-18 21:07:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7966: Easter Exoneration Edition
Dem Sen. Blumenthal: Mueller Report Demonstrates 'a National Scandal' - It's 'Far From the End'
While speaking to reporters on Thursday, Senate Judiciary Committee member Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated that the Mueller report demonstrates "a national scandal."
Blumenthal said, "What's demonstrated, in powerful and compelling detail in this report, is nothing less than a national scandal. And this report is far from the end of the inquiry that this country needs and deserves. It is the beginning of another chapter. I will be asking for Robert Mueller to testify, for an unredacted copy of this report, for all of the evidence and findings that underlie it, and for other testimony, including William Barr, who has agreed to testify in early May."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/18/dem-sen-blumenthal-mueller-report-demonstrates-a-national-scandal-its-far-from-the-end/
https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1118922682437750791?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
#6227659 at 2019-04-18 19:11:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7963: Democrats Grasping For Straws Ended Up With The Short One Edition
Hollywood's Mueller Report Meltdown: 'Complete Whitewash,' 'Trump Is Guilty As Hell'
Hollywood joined Democrats and the establishment media in going into full meltdown mode Thursday following Attorney General William Barr releasing the full Mueller report to the public. Celebrities accused President Donald Trump of being "guilty" and called the report a cover-up.
As Barr already stated in his letter to Congress in March, the Mueller probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election found no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia, and did not recommend criminal charges against the president for obstruction of justice. Hollywood, having learned nothing since their last Mueller meltdown, simply quadrupled down on their claims that President Trump is a criminal.
Actor John Cusack, without explanation, claimed that William Barr was engaging in a "complete whitewash coverup." Rosie O'Donnell repeated her plea to impeach "poor donald" Trump. Rob Reiner declared simply, "Prima Facie: Trump is guilty as hell." "Just stunning to see the Attorney General in the role of Trump's personal attorney," Mia Farrow bemoaned. Debra Messing echoed CNN's Ana Navarro, who called Attorney General Barr "disloyal to the Constitution."
Actress Jamie Lee Curtis ominously quoted from the Mueller report, "if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment." Meanwhile, Sophia Bush mocked the redactions. Patricia Arquette used her social media to baselessly speculate about Mueller's funding being cut off. Rob Delaney remarked that Trump was simply a "garden variety criminal." Comedian Kathy Griffin, feeling the capitalist spirit, used the Mueller news to hawk her anti-Trump merchandise.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/18/hollywood-mueller-report-meltdown-complete-whitewash-trump-is-guilty-as-hell/
Hollywood Digs In on Russia Conspiracies: 'Fight for Our Democracy Is About to Intensify'
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/03/24/hollywood-digs-in-on-russia-conspiracies-fight-for-our-democracy-is-about-to-intensify/
#6227513 at 2019-04-18 18:59:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7963: Democrats Grasping For Straws Ended Up With The Short One Edition
CNN's Dana Bash: Actually, There Was Collusion in the 'Truest Definition of the Word'
Despite Attorney General William Barr saying otherwise, CNN contributor Dana Bash made the bizarre declaration Thursday that there was collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
"There was no conspiracy, but it turns out, maybe I'm answering my own question, that, I'm sorry, but there was 'collusion' when you look at the actual definition of that term," Bash said.
CNN's Jake Tapper replied that "collusion" is not a "legal term."
"It's not a legal term. That's exactly right," Bash replied.
She continued, "There wasn't conspiracy, there was no crime committed, according to the special counsel, but on page after page after page, instance after instance, you see people within the Trump campaign, and the Russians, talking to, coordinating with one another, starting with what you said at the beginning when we first got this...Don Jr., to other instances, the Trump Tower meeting ... with Wikileaks. It goes on and on."
"Not criminal, but, 'collusion' in the truest definition of the word."
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/18/cnns-dana-bash-actually-there-was-collusion-in-the-truest-definition-of-the-word/
#6227363 at 2019-04-18 18:48:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7963: Democrats Grasping For Straws Ended Up With The Short One Edition
Kellyanne Conway: 'We're Accepting Apologies Today' From Anyone Who 'Feels The Grace In Offering Them'
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, held court on the White House driveway on Thursday, shortly after the report from special counsel Robert Mueller was released. She made a magnanimous gesture to all the people who have been claiming that Trump colluded with Russia to alter the outcome of the 2016 election, and then sought to obstruct justice to cover it up.
Addressing a throng of reporters - many of whom had perpetuated the allegations - she said: "We're accepting apologies today, too, for anybody who feels the grace in offering them."
Conway also called today "really the best day since he got elected" and reiterated that there was "no collusion, and there was certainly no criminal conspiracy with any Russians."
She was asked about sections from the Mueller report in which Trump worried about the end of his presidency. Conway responded: "I was very surprised to see that because that was not the reaction of the president that day." She said "never once" did Trump convey those kind of feelings to her.
And she added: "The president's in a great mood."
Asked whether the White House would support calls in Congress for Mueller to testify, Conway said that Attorney General William Barr had already supported that.
Conway also said that now that the report is released, it's "time to move on." For those who don't, "the burden is increasingly on those who won't let go of this big lie."
The counselor added that Trump "doesn't need a point by point rebuttal" of the report. The fact that Trump remains in office is "his greatest rebuttal."
Conway also said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) should resign as House Intelligence Committee chairman. "Not only should he resign, he should produce the evidence that he said he has," she said. "If he has evidence of collusion that somehow the special counsel couldn't find over 22 months and $35 million of our money, I want Adam Schiff to produce that," Conway said. "He ought to put up or shut up."
Appearing later on Fox News, Conway said: I would say that that that's sort of the latest iteration of the palace intrigue stories that the media, the mainstream media tend to love to run around here."
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/kellyanne-conway-were-accepting-apologies-today-from-anyone-who-feels-the-grace-in-offering-them/
KEK and your husband???
#6227308 at 2019-04-18 18:40:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7963: Democrats Grasping For Straws Ended Up With The Short One Edition
>>6227238
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-William-Barr-mueller-report-hearing-20190409-story.html
#6227306 at 2019-04-18 18:40:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7963: Democrats Grasping For Straws Ended Up With The Short One Edition
Mueller Report: Leftists, Never-Trumpers Claim 'Pee Tape' Is Real Based on Misleading Screenshot
Several leftists and anti-Trumpers on Thursday cited a misleading screenshot of special counsel Robert Mueller's report to affirm the existence of the alleged "pee-pee" blackmail tape from the unverified dossier authored by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele. The purported comprising footage is said to show President Trump watching two prostitutes pee on a bed inside the presidential suite at Moscow's Ritz-Carlton Hotel in 2013. The alleged incident is believed to have occurred during a visit to Russia to attend the Miss Universe pageant. According to a footnote in Mueller's report, longtime Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was sent a text message from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze in October 2016, saying: "Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there's anything else. Just so you know..." The footnote continues on the next page, where Mueller's report then concedes that Rtskhiladze told investigators that any alleged tapes were fake, to his knowledge.
Although the report cites Rtskhiladze calling the alleged footage "fake," this did not stop journalists, pundits, and other verified media figures from deceptively sharing only the first part of the report's except. Those who shared the misleading passage include MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin, Ellen producer Andy Lassner, Daily Beast contributor Rick Wilson, and former Hillary Clinton staffer Zac Petkanas. Bloomberg's live blog of the Mueller report's release fails to include the part in which the tapes are referred to as "fake."
The Justice Department on Thursday released the long-awaited report by Mueller, which specifies the two-year investigation and details that the team found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia before the 2016 election. The report, in total, is 448 pages long. It describes in detail how the Russian GRU intelligence unit hacked campaign emails of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, which were subsequently leaked by WikiLeaks. It also specifies there were some links between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Attorney General William Barr previewed the report immediately before its release, emphasizing there was no cooperation. Echoing the summary he gave last month, Barr said the investigation found the Russian Internet Research Agency spread disinformation on social media "designed to provoke and amplify political and social discord in the United States." Barr released the report to high-ranking members of Congress and then the public. Further, he said no Americans colluded with Russians to sway the election. On the issue of whether President Trump obstructed justice in any way, the report said it couldn't clear him. It identifies 10 episodes where the president possibly could have obstructed justice. In response to the report, President Trump tweeted a meme that said, "Game Over," in a style from the HBO drama Game of Thrones.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/18/mueller-report-leftists-never-trumpers-claim-pee-tape-is-real-based-on-misleading-screenshot/
Fake News: Mic's Emily Singer Detects Alleged Russian Spy in Oval Office
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/07/17/mic-emily-singer-tweets-fake-news-about-russian-spy-meeting-trump/
#6226904 at 2019-04-18 18:00:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7962: Heavy Flak Attack Edition
Mueller Report: Trump says,'This should never happen to another president again'
President Donald Trump said he was 'having a good day' Thursday, shortly after DOJ Attorney General William Barr delivered his briefing on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report and warned that what happened to him 'should never happen to another president again.'
After more than $30 million dollars, thousands of documents, hundreds of subpoenas and warrants the special counsel did not find any evidence that Trump, anyone on his campaign, or any American conspired with Russia in the 2016 presidential elections.
https://saraacarter.com/mueller-report-trump-saysthis-should-never-happen-to-another-president-again/
#6225736 at 2019-04-18 16:20:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7961: Better Luck Next Hoax Edition
>>6225530
Just saw some fakeness myself. Pulled up the internet and first 3 headlines I see are:
Investigators Struggled Over Whether to Charge Trump…TheWashingtonPost
Opinion: Mueller Took Many Improper Actions in His Probe…FoxNews
Opinion: William Barr Has Failed America…Slate(whoever that is)
These headlines do not coincide with what I just listened to not all that long ago. Ridiculous!
#6225300 at 2019-04-18 15:48:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7960: Wounded Warrior Project Soldier Ride Edition
CNN, Corporate Media Meltdown over Barr Presser: 'Just Completely F**king Amazing'
CNN and other establishment media melted down in response to Attorney General William Barr holding a press conference about the Mueller report Thursday, with commentators questioning Barr's loyalty and accusing him of protecting the president.
During the press conference Thursday, Barr repeated the conclusions contained in his letter to Congress last month, reiterating that despite attempts from Russian nationals to influence the 2016 election, nobody from President Trump's 2016 campaign engaged in collusion.
On the issue of obstruction of justice, the attorney general stated that special counsel Robert Mueller outlined several instances of actions taken by President Trump relating to obstruction in his report but did not make any legal judgments or recommend charges. Both Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded that there was no case to prosecute the president on obstruction.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/18/cnn-establishment-media-melt-down-over-Barr-press-conference-just-completely-fking-amazing/?__twitter_impression=true
#6224264 at 2019-04-18 14:34:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7959: Exoneration Edition
The White House
Verified account @WhiteHouse
4m4 minutes ago
"The Special Counsel's report did not find any evidence that members of the Trump campaign or anyone associated with the campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these hacking operations" - Attorney General William Barr
#6224121 at 2019-04-18 14:26:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7959: Exoneration Edition
TRUST KIKE POMPEO
KIKE PENCE
JOHN BOLTON
AND William Barr
#6223158 at 2019-04-18 13:34:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7957: Big Habbenings Coming
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ag-William-Barr-speaks-about-mueller-report-ahead-of-its-release-live-blog
AG William Barr speaks about Mueller report ahead of its release – live blog
#6223011 at 2019-04-18 13:22:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7957: Big Habbenings Coming
Barnes & Noble offers free Mueller report download
Barnes & Noble is offering curious readers a chance to view special counsel Robert Mueller's full report on the Russia investigation as soon as Attorney General William Barr drops the 400-page document early Thursday.
In a tweet, the bookselling company instructed followers how to easily download the materials.
"Be the first to read THE MUELLER REPORT for free! Pre-order today and it will be delivered to your NOOK Library upon expected release," Barnes & Noble wrote Wednesday in a tweet, which has been shared nearly 500 times.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barnes-and-noble-free-mueller-report-download
#6222817 at 2019-04-18 13:09:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7957: Big Habbenings Coming
Live: AG Barr holds news conference on release of Mueller report
April 18, 2019
Awaiting the Live News Conference
WATCH LIVE at 9:30 a.m. ET: Attorney General William Barr and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein will hold a press conference on the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
#6222665 at 2019-04-18 12:54:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7957: Big Habbenings Coming
PANIC!
"Why William Barr should resign"
via @TheHillOpinion http://hill.cm/BEdGJ2G
#6222238 at 2019-04-18 12:02:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7956: Night Watch before the Morrow Edition
Panic in Clown World. Honk honk
The Numerous "Investigations" still in place now that the Mueller Investigation is over
https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/3486106002
Ag Barr needs to resign:
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/439386-why-William-Barr-should-resign?amp
AG Barr is acccussed of "helping" the President prior to report release
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-47974261
#6222234 at 2019-04-18 12:01:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7956: Night Watch before the Morrow Edition
>>6222190
Beginning of an impeachment drive. The DEMs can't help themselves. Seth Abramson piece sets out the parameters of investigations …
https://www.newsweek.com/William-Barr-robert-mueller-report-only-beginning-1399317
#6222019 at 2019-04-18 11:19:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7956: Night Watch before the Morrow Edition
https://www.newsweek.com/William-Barr-robert-mueller-report-only-beginning-1399317
Comic relief. The Mueller Report is just the beginning, from the "we've got him now!" brigade.
#6221945 at 2019-04-18 10:56:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7956: Night Watch before the Morrow Edition
"With Bill Barr at the helm, the rule of law is secure." ~ Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, US Department of Justice
William Barr
By Rod Rosenstein
The enthusiasm in and around the Department of Justice was palpable when President Trump announced his nomination of Attorney General William Pelham Barr. A brilliant and principled conservative lawyer, Barr brings unique experience to the challenge of working at the intersection of law and politics.
During his first stint as Attorney General, from 1991 to 1993, Barr dealt with politically sensitive cases, appointed special and independent counsels, handled delicate national-security issues, and navigated contentious congressional oversight requests. He earned widespread respect for his integrity and professionalism, and he enhanced that reputation in the private sector.
Now Barr returns to public service with a hearty sense of humor, a lifetime of wisdom and a valuable perspective about the Department of Justice. He knows the history, he understands the issues, he respects the employees, and he will defend the principles. With Bill Barr at the helm, the rule of law is secure.
http://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567756/William-Barr/ ...
#6221928 at 2019-04-18 10:48:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7956: Night Watch before the Morrow Edition
Barack Obama was being briefed in almost real time on the spying of Donald Trump as early as November of 2015?! Wonder if that will be in the Mueller Report release? Will AG William Barr mention it at his press conference?
#6221541 at 2019-04-18 08:55:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7955: 5:5 - Eyes On, We've been ready, We are ready. The WAR Edition
House Democrat Committee Chairs Urge Attorney General William Barr to Cancel Press Conference on Mueller Report
…Damn this is gunna be good, they keep making this better for us when (((they)))PANIC
#6220086 at 2019-04-18 04:47:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7954: Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming Edition
you read the first paragraph, and think "woke".
and then continue, and realize that they have no inkling that the referrals are for Russian Collusion; and that that means not Trump.
https://www.newsweek.com/William-Barr-robert-mueller-report-only-beginning-1399317
#6219836 at 2019-04-18 04:20:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7953: “Nigga We Ride With Donald Trump†Edition
'This is not justice': Democrats accuse Barr of protecting Trump in rollout of Mueller report
WASHINGTON - Democrats are in an uproar over Attorney General William Barr's handling of the highly anticipated report by special counsel Robert Mueller, demanding that he cancels a planned news conference on Thursday about Mueller's findings before actually releasing the report to the public.
For weeks, House Democrats have criticized Barr's handling of the report but those critiques intensified significantly on Wednesday, one day before the Justice Department is set to release a redacted version of the 400-page report to the public.
"Once again, Barr wants to shape the public's perception of the report," House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., wrote on Twitter. "This is not justice. Just PR."
In a joint statement, Democratic House chairs called Barr's news conference "unnecessary and inappropriate" and called for release of the full report.
"These new actions by the Attorney General reinforce our concern that he is acting to protect President Trump," the statement says.
"He should let the full report speak for itself. The Attorney General should cancel the press conference and provide the full report to Congress, as we have requested," the statement continues. "With the Special Counsel's fact-gathering work concluded, it is now Congress' responsibility to assess the findings and evidence and proceed accordingly."
Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will hold news conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT, Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said. The report is expected to go to Congress between 11 a.m. and noon EDT and likely will be released to the public around the same time.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi railed against the decision and pointed to a New York Times report indicating that Justice officials had briefed the White House on the contents of the report in advance of its public release. White House and Justice officials declined to comment on The Times account.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/04/17/mueller-report-ag-William-Barr-under-fire-over-handling-report/3502602002/
PANIC
#6219592 at 2019-04-18 04:00:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7953: “Nigga We Ride With Donald Trump†Edition
Democrats furious at Attorney General Barr for Mueller report rollout
Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will hold a press conference on Thursday at 9:30 am ET to discuss the release of a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Why it matters: Congress will receive the report around 11 am or 12 pm and release it to the public shortly after, according to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler. Nearly 2 years after the special counsel was appointed, the public will get its most in-depth glimpse yet into what Mueller found in his investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
What they're saying: Nadler and several other Democrats have expressed frustration over a story from the New York Times that the Justice Department has already briefed the White House on the contents of the report. The fact that Congress will not receive the Mueller report until at least an hour after the press conference has further infuriated them.
Nadler: "I'm deeply troubled by reports that the White House is being briefed on the Mueller report AHEAD of its release. Now, DOJ is informing us we will not receive the report until around 11/12 tomorrow afternoon - AFTER Barr's press conference. This is wrong. #ReleaseTheReport"
Elijah E. Cummings: "This is outrageous. The AG is supposed to be an independent beacon of truth and justice. Instead, Barr is debasing the rule of law, degrading our democratic institutions, and decimating any trust the American people have left in this Administration."
Chuck Schumer: "The process is poisoned before the report is even released. Barr shouldn't be spinning the report at all, but it's doubly outrageous he's doing it before America is given a chance to read it. Barr doesn't want Americans to make up their own mind. What is he so afraid of?"
Nancy Pelosi: "AG Barr has thrown out his credibility & the DOJ's independence with his single-minded effort to protect @realDonaldTrump above all else. The American people deserve the truth, not a sanitized version of the Mueller Report approved by the Trump Admin."
PANIC
https://www.axios.com/mueller-report-justice-department-rosenstein-Barr-9d118d53-fd39-4997-9cac-af463531f324.html
#6218577 at 2019-04-18 02:39:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7952: (YOU) Are A Threat To The Narrative Edition
(((Posobiec)))
>BREAKING: Secretary of State Pompeo met with AG William Barr today to discuss possible 'fallout' with US allies over the release of the Mueller Report tomorrow - @OANN
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1118655464282234880
#6218051 at 2019-04-18 02:04:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7951: D5 Happenings Edition
>> (pb)
>https://twitter.com/roland__do/status/1118690239919337472
>
>Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters, and Eliot Engel issued a joint statement calling for William Barr to cancel his press conference
#6217770 at 2019-04-18 01:46:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7951: D5 Happenings Edition
https://medium.com/@HouseJudDems/house-chairs-demand-ag-Barr-cancel-press-conference-on-mueller-report-d92e70ccfb7a
HOUSE CHAIRS DEMAND AG Barr CANCEL PRESS CONFERENCE ON MUELLER REPORT
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam B. Schiff, Committee on Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, Committee on Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, and Committee on Foreign Affairs Chairman Eliot L. Engel issued the following joint statement calling for Attorney General William Barr to cancel a press conference on Special Counsel Mueller's report scheduled to take place before Congress is set to the receive the report
#6217725 at 2019-04-18 01:43:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7950: Democrat's Barrometer Just Exploded Edition
>>6217673
>Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters, and Eliot Engel issued a joint statement calling for William Barr to cancel his press conference
I thought they all demanded to see the Mueller report, not just eh Barr summary?
Why the change?
#6217673 at 2019-04-18 01:40:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7950: Democrat's Barrometer Just Exploded Edition
https://twitter.com/roland__do/status/1118690239919337472
Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff, Elijah Cummings, Maxine Waters, and Eliot Engel issued a joint statement calling for William Barr to cancel his press conference
#6217437 at 2019-04-18 01:25:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7950: Democrat's Barrometer Just Exploded Edition
Pa-pa-pa-panic
Has never been so evident.
House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler: AG William Barr has taken "unprecedented steps to spin" Robert Mueller's investigation.
"The attorney general appears to be waging a media campaign on behalf of Pres. Trump."
https://twitter.com/abc/status/1118676240389435394?s=21
#6217151 at 2019-04-18 01:07:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7950: Democrat's Barrometer Just Exploded Edition
Rob Reiner: Trump will Use Mueller Report to 'Drive Stake Through the Heart of Democracy'
Hollywood director and left-wing activist Rob Reiner on Wednesday expressed concern over the Trump administration scheduled release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on now-debunk Trump-Russia collusion, suggesting it could spell the end for U.S. democracy.
"Tomorrow Donald Trump, with the aid of the Attorney General of the United States, will try to drive a stake through the heart of Democracy," tweeted Rob Reiner.
The All in the Family star's hyperbolic tweet follows an announcement by the Justice Department stating Attorney General William Barr will hold a 9:30 a.m. news conference accompanied by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversaw the investigation after Mueller's appointment in May 2017.
It is unclear if Barr will speak before or after the report is released. The Justice Department also plans to provide a "limited number" of members of Congress and their staff access to a copy of the Mueller report with fewer redactions than the public copy, according to a court filing Wednesday.
The nearly 400-page report is expected to reveal what Mueller uncovered about ties between the Trump campaign and Russia that fell short of criminal conduct. It will also lay out the special counsel's conclusions about formative episodes in Trump's presidency, including his firing of FBI Director James Comey and his efforts to undermine the Russia investigation publicly and privately.
Rob Reiner, one of Hollywood's most vocal Trump critics, has claimed for nearly two years that the special counsel would uncover proof of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Last month, the actor began criticizing Barr's handling of the Mueller report, accusing the attorney general of attempting to "gas light" Americans with his summary of Mueller's findings.
"Autocracy 101: Continually lie and tell you not to believe what you see with your own eyes," he wrote in a tweet. "Trump, with the protection of cult GOP, FOX, & AG Barr, is in full gas light mode. We've seen Collusion & Obstruction in plain sight. Reality is reality. Truth is truth. Trust Your Eyes."
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has claimed vindication after nearly two years of unrelenting investigation, seeing "complete and total exoneration" in the Justice Department's account of Mueller's findings.
"It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia," the president said in brief remarks to reporters upon the summary's release. "It's a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest it's a shame that your president has had to go through this."
Overall, Mueller brought charges against 34 people - including six Trump aides and advisers - and revealed a sophisticated, wide-ranging Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential election. Twenty-five of those charged were Russians accused either in the hacking of Democratic email accounts or of a hidden but powerful social media effort to spread disinformation online.
Five former Trump aides or advisers pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate in Mueller's investigation, including former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, former national security adviser Michael Flynn and his former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen. Stone is awaiting trial on charges including false statements and obstruction.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/17/rob-reiner-trump-will-use-mueller-report-to-drive-stake-through-the-heart-of-democracy/
#6216612 at 2019-04-18 00:24:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7949: Color Coded Redactions Edition
Q3312 decode (Apologies if this anonfag is rehashing what has already been stated):
"As the target(s) turn to the other side, the attacks will intensify."
Example: Rod Rosenstein will be accompanying William Barr at the hearing on April 18, 9:30am.
[RR] is a target. Leverage is being applied to [RR] to give (legit) credibility to both Barr's letter, and the redacted Mueller report as indeed exonerating POTUS as not having colluded with Russia.
When this happens, that's when the Demokkkrats will know the stark truth that [RR] "turned" on them.
They probably already anticipate this, but it's not public yet so the D's sheep do not yet 'need' to be distracted.
The attacks will increase after tomorrow's hearing.
Now with that said, I could be wrong or I could be right, perhaps more "anti-Trump" personalities will face the same fate as [RR], and also "turn" at the right time, when it is safe to do so.
Since [RR] was not exactly "loud" like Comey and Brennan and Crooked (likely no deals?), those 'quiet' anti-Trumpers who made deals are the next ones to 'turn'?
#6216350 at 2019-04-18 00:03:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7949: Color Coded Redactions Edition
Washington in frenzy over release of Mueller report
Washington is on edge as it awaits the highly anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Thursday, the findings of which could ignite a political firestorm.
Attorney General William Barr isn't delivering the report to Congress until 11 a.m. – after he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hold a 9:30 a.m. press conference to discuss the findings.
The move drew howls of protest from Democrats on Wednesday night, especially after The New York Times reported that White House lawyers and Department of Justice officials have already discussed details of Mueller's conclusions.
Democrats say Barr has acted as an agent of President Trump in his role overseeing the release of the report, which will mark the culmination of one of the most watched probes in recent political history.
Barr has consistently argued he had to wait to release the report in order to redact any grand jury material, classified information or details pertaining to ongoing investigations.
Democrats are hoping to use the report to bolster their sprawling probes into Trump's administration, businesses and campaign.
But if the roughly 400-page document contains little evidence implicating Trump on obstruction of justice, the probes are certain to lose steam and thwart their plans to dig into every facet of the administration heading into 2020.
Republicans have already celebrated the principal findings of Mueller's report – as provided by Barr – that found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
But GOP lawmakers are cautiously eyeing whether Thursday's release will reveal damaging information about the president, which could cause a lasting migraine for both the White House and Republicans in their 2020 election efforts.
Trump and his conservative allies have repeatedly sought to undercut the credibility of the probe, with the president this week calling it "the greatest scam in political history" and a complete "fabrication."
Democrats are focusing their firepower on Barr, who sparked their fury after he decided, along with Rosenstein, that there was not sufficient evidence to charge the president with obstruction of justice, even though Mueller declined to make a call on the matter.
Democrats have since questioned whether Barr can be a fair arbiter of justice.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/439426-washington-in-frenzy-over-release-of-Mueller-report
#6216290 at 2019-04-17 23:59:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7949: Color Coded Redactions Edition
Schumer slams Justice Dept over 'pre-damage control' on Mueller report
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) ripped Attorney General William Barr over his plan to hold a press conference Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller's final report before Congress has a chance to read the document.
"The American people deserve the truth," Schumer tweeted Wednesday. "They don't need any more pre-damage control or spin from [President Trump's] hand-picked attorney general, William Barr. Mr. Barr is acting more like a Trump campaign spokesman than an independent agent of the law."
The comment comes amid reports that lawmakers on Capitol Hill would not receive Mueller's report until 11 a.m. on Thursday, more than an hour after Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's scheduled 9:30 a.m. press conference.
Democrats have seized on the timing of the press conference to accuse the administration of plotting to spin Mueller's report before its release reveals potentially damaging information for Trump.
The release of Mueller's findings has been highly anticipated since the special counsel submitted his confidential report to Barr last month. Lawmakers and the public are clamoring to read the report's conclusions regarding alleged coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia and whether the president obstructed justice in the investigation.
Barr told lawmakers last month in a four-page summary of the report that Mueller did not find any evidence of criminal collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, but said that the special counsel declined to make a determination on whether Trump obstructed any subsequent investigations. The attorney general said he and Rosenstein determined Mueller's evidence was not sufficient to bring an obstruction charge.
While most lawmakers will receive a redacted version of the report, some members of Congress will be able to review the findings "without certain redactions," according to federal prosecutors.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/439435-schumer-slams-doj-plan-to-deliver-mueller-report-to-congress-after-news
Kek! Schumer hasn't gotten the new talking points yet…. handpicked!!
Every AG is handpicked… KEK!
>While most lawmakers will receive a redacted version of the report, some members of Congress will be able to review the findings "without certain redactions," according to federal prosecutors.
Those that aren't under investigation/sealed indictment….
#6215991 at 2019-04-17 23:33:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7948: The PANIC Watch Edition
>>6215793
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/ken-starr-muellers-report-shouldnt-go-congress/585577/
"Under the regulations that governed his appointment and now guide his final acts, Mueller is to provide a confidential report to one person only: the attorney general. The regulations, which were promulgated during the final months of the Clinton administration, do not contemplate any sort of report sent directly from the special counsel to Congress or the general public. To the contrary, the regulations call upon the attorney general, William Barr, to receive the confidential report and then do two things: First, to notify Congress of the investigation's completion and, second, to provide an explanation for certain specifically enumerated actions. There is no requirement for a Barr-edited version of the Mueller report."
#6215626 at 2019-04-17 23:05:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7948: The PANIC Watch Edition
Senate Leaders Want Information On 'Highly Classified' FBI Memo About Clinton
The FBI drafted a secret and 'highly classified' memo in May 2016 regarding the bureau's Midyear investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server that she used to send classified government emails but never submitted it to then Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to a letter written by three Republican Senators and delivered to Attorney General William Barr.
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Lindsey Graham, R-SC; Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Charles Grassley, R-Iowa and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Ron Johnson sent the letter to Barr Wednesday requesting information obtained by Inspector General Michael Horowitz about the bureau's secret memo.
Last year, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a 'classified letter' to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz requesting the information he referred to in the appendix of the report: "A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election." At the time, Grassley was the chairman of the Judiciary committee.
The letter stated that on "July 31, 2018, the Judiciary Committee requested a briefing on the steps the Department has taken, or plans to take, in light of the report's findings." They were denied the briefing due to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation.
Later "in a subsequent phone call with Department personnel on September 17, 2018, the Department declined to brief the Judiciary Committee, asserting without any clear basis, that it would interfere with Special Counsel Mueller's equities," the letter states.
"Now that the Special Counsel's investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee's inquiries," the chairman told Barr in the letter.
According to Horowitz's report, late into the FBI's investigation into Clinton, the bureau then "considered obtaining permission from the Department to review certain classified materials that may have included information potentially relevant to the Midyear investigation." The bureau drafted a memo in 2016 to then Deputy Attorney General Yates.
The FBI said the review of the "highly classified materials was necessary to complete the investigation" but then never submitted the memo to Yates. According to the IG the FBI said it believed "this information would not materially impact the conclusion."
The explanation is "inconsistent with the memorandum's self-identified purpose and demands clarification," the Republican chairmen told Barr in their letter. The Republicans are requesting access to Horowitz's classified appendix regarding the bureau's explanation for not submitting the memo.
"The classified appendix raises significant issues associated with the FBI's failure to review certain highly classified information in support of its Midyear investigation," it states.
https://saraacarter.com/senate-leaders-want-information-on-highly-classified-fbi-memo-about-clinton/
I love this Patriot!
#6215032 at 2019-04-17 22:17:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7947: The 17:17 Edition
Barnes and Noble is sending out emails and advertising on their website they are giving the Mueller Report from The DOJ
as a free download on NOOK book. Can pre oreder it right now:
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Overview
This is a PDF/direct replica of historic The Mueller Report as released by the U.S. Department of Justice, Barr redactions and all, and it is essential reading for all Americans on both sides of the aisle.
After almost two long years, the wait is over for one of the most important investigations in the history of American politics-the U.S. Special Counsel's Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, led by Robert S. Mueller. For the first time, the public will be able to see the nearly 400-page Mueller Report, which examines allegations of collusion between the Russian government and the Trump presidential campaign of 2016, as well as potential obstruction of justice by President Trump and others in regard to the investigation.
Since the investigation began, Mueller has indicted 34 people and three companies, including top advisers to President Trump, on charges ranging from election interference to hacking e-mails. After Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary of the massive findings on March 24-including text from the report stating that the "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," and while it "does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him"-speculation about what the investigation actually did find has only grown.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781454938125
Publisher: Sterling Publishing
Publication date: 04/19/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1131278152?ean=9781454938125
#6214440 at 2019-04-17 21:27:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7946: Mystery Person Spotted On Notre Dame Before Blaze Edition
Senate Leaders Want Information On 'Highly Classified' FBI Memo About Clinton
The FBI drafted a secret and 'highly classified' memo in May 2016 regarding the bureau's Midyear investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private server that she used to send classified government emails but never submitted it to then Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, according to a letter written by three Republican Senators and delivered to Attorney General William Barr.
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Lindsey Graham, R-SC; Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee Charles Grassley, R-Iowa and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Ron Johnson sent the letter to Barr Wednesday requesting information obtained by Inspector General Michael Horowitz about the bureau's secret memo.
Now that the Special Counsel's investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee's inquiries, The Chairmen Said.
Last year, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent a 'classified letter' to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz requesting the information he referred to in the appendix of the report: "A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election." At the time, Grassley was the chairman of the Judiciary committee.
The letter stated that on "July 31, 2018, the Judiciary Committee requested a briefing on the steps the Department has taken, or plans to take, in light of the report's findings." They were denied the briefing due to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation.
Later "in a subsequent phone call with Department personnel on September 17, 2018, the Department declined to brief the Judiciary Committee, asserting without any clear basis, that it would interfere with Special Counsel Mueller's equities," the letter states.
"Now that the Special Counsel's investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee's inquiries," the chairman told Barr in the letter.
https://saraacarter.com/senate-leaders-want-information-on-highly-classified-fbi-memo-about-clinton/
#6214157 at 2019-04-17 21:06:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7946: Mystery Person Spotted On Notre Dame Before Blaze Edition
>>6214145
"Russiagate was the WMD of this generation of journalists, a gigantic lie with devastating consequences for the country and the world. Mueller's appointment was born of corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI where, after talk about wearing wires to set up the President and fomenting cabinet factions in support of using the 25th Amendment against him, an endless Special Counsel investigation starring Robert Mueller seemed a sounder path to impeachment.
It was all generated by a request from British intelligence to unleash the full power of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies against a presidential candidate, and then, an incoming President, using a crappy, amateurish, and obviously fabricated dossier produced by British spy Christopher Steele and promoted by the Clinton Campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence, foreign policy, and defense establishments. As we have reported before, this is the largest political scandal in American history. The Constitution itself is at stake. Mueller's May 2017 appointment was revenge for the firing of James Comey, immediately allowing a coverup of the criminal actions of officials complicit in the coup, at the State Department, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. In the process, the crimes of the actual foreign intervenors into the 2016 election, the British, and to a far lesser extent, the Ukrainians, were also supposed to be buried.
The deflation of the Democratic Party and the media hacks who have driven the coup against President Trump has, since Friday, been audible and smelly, like a balloon of sulfurous gas having finally been pricked. Predictably, they have begun a new round of attempts to hype the results and cover up the evil at play here. Thirty-four individuals indicted, 700 crimes, is the talking point that has emerged from Democratic Party candidates and the news media over the weekend, in a full-throated defense of Robert Mueller's inquisition. To that can be added Sunday's leading refrain from Congressman Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
They are desperate losers facing an American people likely to say: "Stuff it-your time just ran out." Our job is to make that happen."
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4612-mueller_releases_report_now_dr.html
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy
#6213884 at 2019-04-17 20:42:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7946: Mystery Person Spotted On Notre Dame Before Blaze Edition
Attorney General William Barr will hold a press conference to discuss Mueller report at 9:30 am ET Thursday
Attorney General William Barr will discuss special counsel Robert Mueller's report at a 9:30 a.m. ET press conference on Thursday.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will accompany him, according to NBC News. There was no indication that the report would be released before the press conference.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/17/attorney-general-William-Barr-will-hold-a-press-conference-to-discuss-mueller-report-at-930-am-et-thursday.html
#6213822 at 2019-04-17 20:37:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7945 Ambassadors of Freedom Edition
Attorney General William Barr will hold a press conference to discuss Mueller report at 9:30 am ET Thursday
Attorney General William Barr will discuss special counsel Robert Mueller's report at a 9:30 a.m. ET press conference on Thursday.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will accompany him, according to NBC News. There was no indication that the report would be released before the press conference.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/17/attorney-general-William-Barr-will-hold-a-press-conference-to-discuss-mueller-report-at-930-am-et-thursday.html
#6211497 at 2019-04-17 16:32:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7942: Wednesday Winning Edition
Barr Clamps Down On 'Catch And Release' With Indefinite Detention For Some Apprehended Migrants
US Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday struck down a decision allowing some asylum seekers to request release on bond in front of an immigration judge - a decision that expands 'indefinite detention' for migrants, some of whom must wait months or years for their cases to be heard.
Last month, Imimgration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said the average daily population of immigrants in detention topped 46,000 for the 2019 fiscal year - the highest level since the agency was created in 2003.
Even that figure likely understates the backlog because it doesn't include the impact of the 35-day government shutdown in December and January. Because the system's roughly 400 immigration judges were furloughed during the shutdown, some 60,000 hearings were canceled. Thousands were rescheduled, adding to the already long wait times.
The administration "has not only failed to reduce the backlog, but has eroded the court's ability to ensure due process" by pressuring judges to rule "at a breakneck pace" on whether an immigrant should be removed from the United States, the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. - a nonprofit organization of more than 15,000 immigration attorneys and law professors - said in a statement. -LA Times
Barr's decision applies to migrants who have illegally entered the United States as well as those apprehended within the country, according to Reuters.
"I conclude that such aliens remain ineligible for bond, whether they are arriving at the border or are apprehended in the United States," wrote Barr, who added that such people can be held in immigration detention until their cases are eventually heard, or the Department of Homeland Security decides to release them by granting them "parole."
Barr is delaying the effective date of the ruling by 90 days "so that DHS may conduct the necessary operational planning for additional detention and parole decisions."
According to law professor Steve Vladeck of the University of Texas, the full impact of the decision is not yet clear because it will depend on DHS' ability to expand detention capabilities.
"The number of asylum seekers who will remain in potentially indefinite detention pending disposition of their cases will be almost entirely a question of DHS's detention capacity, and not whether the individual circumstances of individual cases warrant release or detention," said Vladeck.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-17/Barr-expands-indefinite-detention-apprehended-migrants
Clamps down or 'Hammers' down… either way
#6211419 at 2019-04-17 16:25:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7942: Wednesday Winning Edition
REPORT: "Dirty dealings of dirt devils who concocted Trump-Russia probe."
Posted on April 16, 2019 by DCWhispers
The above title came directly from President Trump and not the report's author, the highly respected Andrew McCarthy. That said, the president's title does add a certain indignant flair to the what the report has to say-namely that D.C. is drowning in the most despicable anti-American scoundrels who have for far too long believed themselves to be above the law they demand others follow.
A must read, Andy McCarthy's column today, "Dirty dealings of dirt devils who concocted Trump-Russia probe." The greatest Scam in political history. If the Mainstream Media were honest, which they are not, this story would be bigger and more important than Watergate. Someday!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2019
Via The New York Post:
In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr used the word "spying" to refer to the Obama administration, um, spying on the Trump campaign. Of course, fainting spells ensued, with the media-Democrat complex in meltdown. Former FBI Director Jim Comey tut-tutted that he was confused by Barr's comments, since the FBI's "surveillance" had been authorized by a court.
(Needless to say, the former director neglected to mention that the court was not informed that the bureau's "evidence" for the warrants was unverified hearsay paid for by the Clinton campaign.)
The pearl-clutching was predictable. Less than a year ago, we learned the Obama administration had used a confidential informant - a spy - to approach at least three Trump campaign officials in the months leading up to the 2016 election, straining to find proof that the campaign was complicit in the Kremlin's hacking of Democratic emails.
As night follows day, we were treated to the same Beltway hysteria we got this week: Silly semantic carping over the word "spying" - which, regardless of whether a judge authorizes it, is merely the covert gathering of intelligence about a suspected wrongdoer, organization or foreign power.
There is no doubt that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign. As Barr made clear, the real question is: What predicated the spying? Was there a valid reason for it, strong enough to overcome our norm against political spying? Or was it done rashly? Was a politically motivated decision made to use highly intrusive investigative tactics when a more measured response would have sufficed, such as a "defensive briefing" that would have warned the Trump campaign of possible Russian infiltration?
Last year, when the "spy" games got underway, James Clapper, Obama's director of national intelligence, conceded that, yes, the FBI did run an informant - "spy" is such an icky word - at Trump campaign officials; but, we were told, this was merely to investigate Russia. Cross Clapper's heart, it had nothing to do with the Trump campaign. No, no, no. Indeed, the Obama administration only used an informant because - bet you didn't know this - doing so is the most benign, least intrusive mode of conducting an investigation.
Me? I'm thinking the tens of thousands of convicts serving lengthy sentences due to the penetration of their schemes by informants would beg to differ. (Gee, Mr. Gambino, I assure you, this was just for you own good . . .) And imagine the Democrats' response if, say, the Bush administration had run a covert intelligence operative against Obama 2008 campaign officials, including the campaign's co-chairman. Surely David Axelrod, Chuck Schumer, The New York Times and Rachel Maddow would chirp that "all is forgiven" once they heard Republicans punctiliously parse the nuances between "spying" and "surveillance"; between "spies" and "informants"; and between investigating campaign officials versus investigating the campaign proper - and the candidate.
The "spying" question arose last spring, when we learned that Stefan Halper, a longtime source for the CIA and British intelligence, had been tasked during the FBI's Russia investigation to chat up three Trump campaign advisers: Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Sam Clovis. This was in addition to earlier revelations that the Obama Justice Department and FBI had obtained warrants to eavesdrop on Page's communications, beginning about three weeks before the 2016 election.
The fact that spying had occurred was too clear for credible denial. The retort, then, was misdirection: There had been no spying on Donald Trump or his campaign; just on a few potential bad actors in the campaign's orbit.
It was nonsense then, and it is nonsense now.
The pols making these claims about what the FBI was doing might have been well served by listening to what the FBI said it was doing.
#6211205 at 2019-04-17 16:02:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7942: Wednesday Winning Edition
Trump primary challenger: 'It's not spying' to investigate Trump campaign
Former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld (R) argued Wednesday that it wasn't "spying" when the FBI investigated the Trump campaign in 2016, breaking with Attorney General William Barr.
"The thing a couple weeks ago where [Barr] said if the FBI opens an investigation on a Trump organization, that's 'spying.' That's not spying," Weld, who has launched a 2020 primary challenge against President Trump, said during an interview on CNN's "New Day."
"When an agency opens an investigation, it may be a lot of things, it may be bad news for the target. But it's not spying. It's just opening an investigation," he added.
Barr said during a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing last week that he believed the Trump campaign was spied on in 2016 and added that he needed to "explore" the issue.
"I think spying did occur," Barr said. "But the question is whether it was adequately predicated, and I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but I need to explore that."
He later attempted to clarify his statement before lawmakers, saying he was concerned "improper surveillance" may have occurred in 2016 and he was "looking into it."
Trump has long called for a probe into the origins of the investigation of his 2016 campaign and has since seized on Barr's remarks, which Democrats have called for the attorney general to walk back.
"There was absolutely spying into my campaign," Trump told reporters last week. "I'll go a step further. In my opinion it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again."
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/439304-trump-primary-challenger-its-not-spying-to-investigate-trump-campaign
This turkey makes jeb bush look energized.
#6210857 at 2019-04-17 15:26:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7942: Wednesday Winning Edition
To lie or not to lie, that is the question.
pic occum's razor
Let me ask fellow Anons this?
Would President Trump [knowingly] lie to us (The American Public)(The World)..
If your answer is Yes and the public found out about it…
Who would be pissed off about it? and all shit would hit the fan..Am I Right!!!
Well we have:
Democrats
MSM/News even some of the Conservative News stations would be a little pissed that the Trump lied.
Liberals and everyone else who didn't like Trump
Ok…now…here we go…Occum's Razor.
Let's say Trump wasn't/hasn't been lying to us…then all the information about what Trump has been saying must be true. (Twitter, rallies,on TV interviews..etc…).
THAT WOULD MAKE MUELLER AND RR – BLACK HATS..(RR maybe turned gray)…
For one simple fact if this was a Sting OP and Trump knew it or was part of it…then he would have been lying the whole time to us/the world…right?
Trump always said that this is a Hoax…That Mueller and his 19 Top Democrat Lawyers were bias.
Trump always complained that if RR wore a wire it would be bad.
I'm not really going over all the stuff that Trump said about the bad guys and the attempted coup.
As far as you know…Has Trump been wrong???
So, if everything Trump says was true and he has been telling the truth(which I think he has)..I think we need to give a Special Thanks to:
Matthew Whittaker
William Barr
Devon Nunes
Mark Meadows
Rudy Giuliani
Sara Carter
John Soloman
Big round of applause for Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Judge Jeanine Piro
Special Thanks to Adam Dershowitz (D)
'Q' and the 'Q' Team plus many, many fellow Top Anons…
And many more…
#6210431 at 2019-04-17 14:40:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7941: No More Cuban Footsie Edition
Rod Rosenstein defends Barr's 'integrity' ahead of Mueller report release
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said "the rule of law is secure" with a Justice Department led by Attorney General William Barr.
Rosenstein's brief profile of Barr appeared in Time's 2019 list of 100 most influential people, published online just one day before Barr's redacted release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report is expected to spur a fierce partisan battle over transparency.
"The enthusiasm in and around the Department of Justice was palpable when President Trump announced his nomination of Attorney General William Pelham Barr," Rosenstein wrote. "A brilliant and principled conservative lawyer, Barr brings unique experience to the challenge of working at the intersection of law and politics."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rod-rosenstein-defends-Barrs-integrity-ahead-of-mueller-report-release
#6209735 at 2019-04-17 13:11:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7940: Laguna Beach Patriots Edition
Didn't see this in notables. Sorry if previously posted. This is HUGE! If the AG's office can do this why did Jeff Sessions not do it for two whole years?
ARTICLE STARTS HERE:
"Immigration judges cannot release migrants who are caught sneaking into the United States, even if the migrants ask for asylum, says a binding legal decision by Attorney General William Barr. The decision will dramatically shift the migration-caused civic and housing crises from the nation's blue-collar communities over to the Congress and the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget and detention centers only have enough resources to house about 50,000 people year-round.
"The [text of the relevant] Act provides that, if an alien in expedited proceedings establishes a credible fear, he "shall be detained for further consideration of the application for asylum," says Barr's April 16 decision, titled. Matter of M-S-. Because of the law, "I order that, unless DHS paroles the respondent under section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Act, he must be detained until his removal proceedings conclude." "This is a HUGE ruling that will harm thousands seeking protection from persecution at the US border since far more will be held in detention even after passing the threshold screening under the credible fear standard," complained Greg Chen, director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
The association's lawyers make their money by guiding migrants and corporate hiring managers through the extremely dense network of migration laws and regulations. But Barr's decision blocks the use of a common path for migrants who are trying to get through the courts and into the U.S. jobs they need to repay the smuggling fees they owe to the cartels. Barr directed officials to delay implementation of the law for 90 days, giving DHS managers - and congressional leaders - three months to decide which migrants should be released into the nation's cities and towns. The delay gives time for DHS to set up tent cities where migrants can be held until the judges decide the asylum pleas. If DHS detains most of the migrants - and so prevents them from working - the next wave of migrants may decide that any effort to get into the United would be an economic disaster for their families.
Barr's decision is part of a large legal battle of move-countermove between President Donald Trump's deputies and the many pro-migration progressive judges in the federal courts. Massive resistance by those judges has blocked and delayed many of Trump's policies, but Trump's deputies are expected to win most of the decisions if and when the U.S. Supreme Court decides to rule on each dispute. Barr's new ruling does not apply to the many "UAC" migrant minors who are being smuggled northwards by parents living illegally in the United States. It also does not apply to migrants who walk up to the nation's official ports of entry to ask for asylum. But the ruling will apply to the huge number of migrants who cross the borderline away from the ports of entry. Those migrants must now be held for many months - or even years - unless DHS leaders formally release the migrants. The decision ensures that migration judges' preference - and migration lawyers' pleadings - will not allow the illegal migrants to be released on bonds which are often a tiny fraction of the economic value gained by the migrants from working illegally in the United States.
However, the decision also raises the incentives for migrants to legally apply for asylum through the formal process at the ports of entry, instead of trying to sneak past the border patrol. The decision does not overcome the 2015 Flores decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California, which forces DHS to release migrants who bring children. Federal agencies, however, are drafting a regulation that may bypass that court Flores ruling. The AG's decision is based on the treatment of a migrant from India, who is part of a small but fast-growing stream of very cheap laborers who are being hired by the growing population of Indian legal immigrants. According to Barr:
The respondent here is a citizen of India. He traveled to Mexico and crossed illegally into the United States. He was apprehended within hours about 50 miles north of the border. DHS placed him in expedited removal proceedings.
[ARTICLE TRUNCATED]
Migration lawyers complained bitterly about the Barr decision:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/attorney-general-Barr-blocks-catch-and-release-by-migration-judges/
#6208641 at 2019-04-17 08:59:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7939: The Graveyard Edition
Remember former FBI Assistant Director Andy McCabe? Since his dismissal from the FBI, everyone assumed that he was under criminal investigation for lying and leaking.
It turns out that a powerful official within the Justice Department named Ms. Jessie K. Liu, has been "burying" criminal referrals, letting suspects off with a slap on the wrist, or totally dismissing charges, as Chicago DOJ (Kim Foxx) did for Jussie Smollett.
Some examples of Jessie Liu's handi-work:
The manipulated DC legal case surrounding the Awan brothers; and how they escaped full accountability, likely due to need to protect politicians. (House of Representatives) The sweetheart plea deal.
The manipulated DC legal case surrounding SSCI Security Director James Wolfe; and how he was allowed to plea only to lying to investigators when the evidence was clear from the outset how he leaked classified information to his journalist concubine. Again, likely due to the need to protect politicians. (SSCI, Senate) The sweetheart plea deal.
The manipulated DC legal case surrounding Obama lawyer Greg Craig; and how he escaped accountability for FARA violations by running out the statute of limitations and burying Mueller's evidence for 18 months. Again, likely due to the need to protect politicians (Obama White House). Sweetheart double standards.
The manipulated DC legal case, a non-filing, surrounding former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for lying to INSD investigators about his media leaks. Again, likely due to the need to protect the administrative state.
Detailed explanation at: theconservativetreehouse.com…
One of the first things new Attorney General William Barr did, after getting wind of Ms. Liu's actions, was to MOVE HER to a less influential job at the DOJ. (He was LIVID!)
BUT…it's not just Jessie K. Liu who ignored criminal referrals from Congress. Recent Special Counsel BOB MUELLER and Assistant AG ROD ROSENSTEIN ignored a criminal referral of Trump Dossier author, CHRISTOPHER STEELE.
The DOJ (Mueller) investigation of Christopher Steele was dropped.
Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley sent a criminal referral of Chris Steele to Rosenstein/Mueller in January 2018; however the case was used as a shield to ward-off FOIA inquiry, but the case was never actually pursued - and eventually dropped.
Additionally, with hindsight and a greater understanding of the Mueller team corruption, we can see how this specific referral hits the center of the FBI intent around their Russia collusion-conspiracy.
The issue surrounds the October 2016 Carter Page FISA application, and how the Steele Dossier was used therein.
Full Article at: theconservativetreehouse.com…-162559
If Bob Mueller were to investigate Christopher Steele, it would be learned that the Dossier was FAKE, the FISA court was lied to, and several top people in the DOJ (including Rosenstein himself) were corrupt lawbreakers.
After reading the above two articles, I now understand why we've never heard anything on the status of criminal referrals Congress has sent to the Department of Justice on McCabe, Comey, Hillary, Strzok, Lynch, and a few others. THEY WERE IGNORED.
This also explains why the 8 people Congressman Devin Nunes are referring for Criminal Investigation, will be hand-delivered by Nunes himself to Attorney General William Barr, this week. Jessie Liu and Bob Mueller are out of the way. But Rod Rosenstein is still the Assistant Attorney General, and able to intercept and/or sabotage the Nunes referrals.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1236530/pg1
Tough fonts but direct link below/
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/14/the-corruption-and-influence-of-jessie-k-liu/
#6208479 at 2019-04-17 08:16:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7939: The Graveyard Edition
Immigration judges cannot release migrants who are caught sneaking into the United States, even if the migrants ask for asylum, says a binding legal decision by Attorney General William Barr.
The decision will dramatically shift the migration-caused civic and housing crises from the nation's blue-collar communities over to the Congress and the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget and detention centers only have enough resources to house about 50,000 people year-round.
"The [text of the relevant] Act provides that, if an alien in expedited proceedings establishes a credible fear, he "shall be detained for further consideration of the application for asylum," says Barr's April 16 decision, titled. Matter of M-S-. Because of the law, "I order that, unless DHS paroles the respondent under section 212(d)(5)(A) of the Act, he must be detained until his removal proceedings conclude."
"This is a HUGE ruling that will harm thousands seeking protection from persecution at the US border since far more will be held in detention even after passing the threshold screening under the credible fear standard," complained Greg Chen, director of government relations at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/16/attorney-general-Barr-blocks-catch-and-release-by-migration-judges/
#6208351 at 2019-04-17 07:44:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7939: The Graveyard Edition
Exclusive: House Dems Sign Secret MOUs To Target Trump
Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Elijah Cummings and Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters executed a secret Memorandum of Understanding to "target" President Trump and subpoena all his financial and banking records, according to a letter sent to Cummings from ranking committee member Rep. Jim Jordan.
Further, Jordan's letter indicates that other MOUs have apparently been signed and agreed to with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Ca, who has promised to continue investigations into the president despite findings by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office that there was no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. Attorney General William Barr released a summary of Mueller's 400 page report several weeks ago and the redacted version of the report is expected to be released by the DOJ this Thursday.
On Monday, Jordan sent a memorandum explaining his objections to the partisan behavior of Cummings and "unprecedented subpoena to Mazars USA LLP," as reported by SaraACarter.com.
"We'd describe (the MOUs) as an agreement to conspire and coordinate their efforts to attack and investigate POTUS," Congressional official.
"We'd describe (the MOUs) as an agreement to conspire and coordinate their efforts to attack and investigate POTUS," said a congressional official with knowledge of the MOUs. "This is not how committee's normally operate. Dems aren't interested in legislating. Only attacking POTUS."
Jordan emphatically objected to the secret MOUs and excoriated Democrats who "did not consult with Republican Members of the Committee or allow Members to consider and debate the terms of your MOU before executing the MOU with Chairwoman Waters. You did not disclose the MOU's existence to Members or the American people until after I raised the matter."
In the letter Jordan asks Cummings to "provide greater transparency around your secretive conduct."
Jordan also requested that Cummings answer specific questions about the MOUs.
"If you intend to continue to use the Committee's limited resources to attack President Trump for political gain, I hope that you will at least be transparent about your actions," said Jordan at the end of his letter. "Your ability to function as a fair and unbiased finder of fact is now at grave risk. The Members of the Committee-and, more importantly, the American citizens we represent-deserve to know exactly how you are leading this Committee. I look forward to your detailed answers to these questions."
Questions for Cummings
How many MOUs with committee chairpersons have you signed as Chairman since the beginning of the 116th Congress?
Would you provide the Committee with a detailed list of the other MOUs you have signed, including their dates, signatories, and topics?
Why did you not publicly disclose that you had signed MOUs with committee chairpersons?
Will you publicly disclose all the MOUs you have signed as Chairman since the beginning of the 116th Congress?
Why did you choose not to consult with any Republican Members before signing these MOUs?
Have you signed any MOUs as Chairman with any entities outside of the House Representatives relating to the Committee's oversight or legislative work?
To the extent your MOUs create duties for the Committee that conflict with the Rules of the House of Representatives or the Rules of the Committee, which duties prevail?
More at
https://saraacarter.com/reps-elijah-cummings-maxine-waters-and-adam-schiff-sign-secret-mous-to-target-trump/
#6207778 at 2019-04-17 06:01:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7938: Nightshift Rolls On Redux Edition
William Barr knows spying occurred in 2016. So does everyone else who was not programmed by the Mainstream Media.
#6206610 at 2019-04-17 03:42:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7936: Crazy Bernie vs. Creepy Uncle Joe Edition
Barr makes major reversal in ruling some asylum seekers could be held indefinitely
(CNN)Attorney General William Barr decided Tuesday that some asylum seekers who have established credible fear and are subject to deportation cannot be released on bond by immigration judges – a major reversal from a prior ruling that could lead to immigrants being held indefinitely.
The decision means the Department of Homeland Security alone will have the discretion to decide whether to release immigrants who crossed the border illegally and later claimed asylum.
The ruling effectively blocks concerted efforts by immigration lawyers and immigrant rights advocates to push for bond hearings for detained asylum-seekers. The advocates argue that there's no reason for the United States to detain people who are seeking safety and have already cleared hurdles to prove they have a credible case.
While advocates argued that bonds set for detained asylum-seekers were often prohibitively high, a number of crowdfunding efforts in recent months had aimed to help immigrants get money to pay bonds and get out of detention.
Asylum seekers who presented themselves at legal ports of entry were already unable to be released on bond by immigration courts.
On October 12, 2018, the attorney general "directed the Board of Immigration Appeals to refer Matter of M-S- for his review," according to a Justice Department fact sheet.
Barr's ruling could likely affect thousands of migrants apprehended at the border, many of whom are seeking asylum and would be subject to expedited removal.
"Basically if you pass the initial asylum screening you can now be indefinitely detained," said immigration attorney Eileen Blessinger, who called Barr's decision "horrible news."
Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project, said the organization plans to challenge the decision.
"This is the Trump administration's latest assault on people fleeing persecution and seeking refuge in the United States," Jadwat said in a statement. "Our Constitution does not allow the government to lock up asylum seekers without basic due process. We'll see the administration in court."
Barr's decision marks the first time he's used his position to overrule precedent-setting decisions in immigration court – a power the US attorney general has because immigration courts are not independent and are part of the Justice Department. His predecessor, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, used this power to make major overhauls on immigration policies, including a decision that makes it harder for domestic violence victims to win asylum cases.
"It's an extension of the Jeff Sessions campaign to further strip the immigration courts and immigration judges of their authority," said David Leopold, Counsel to DHS Watch and former President of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
It's a "senseless decision" given the already "overburdened system," said Leopold, adding that the appearance rate in court is "very high" for people who have established a credible fear of persecution.
The ruling takes effect in 90 days.
Barr's decision comes as the administration deploys a range of strategies to deter what officials say is an influx of families crossing the US border and seeking asylum.
In March, there were approximately 92,000 arrests of undocumented migrants for illegal entry on the southern border, up from 37,390 last March, according to Customs and Border Protection. Overall in March, there were more than 103,000 individuals apprehended along the border, or encountered at a port of entry and deemed "inadmissible."
#6203886 at 2019-04-16 23:47:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7933: Memorandums of Treason Edition
In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr used the word "spying" to refer to the Obama administration, um, spying on the Trump campaign.
Of course, fainting spells ensued, with the media-Democrat complex in meltdown.
Former FBI Director Jim Comey tut-tutted that he was confused by Barr's comments, since the FBI's "surveillance" had been authorized by a court.
(Needless to say, the former director neglected to mention that the court was not informed that the bureau's "evidence" for the warrants was unverified hearsay paid for by the Clinton campaign.)
#6203782 at 2019-04-16 23:35:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7933: Memorandums of Treason Edition
ere they go again.
Attorney General William Barr is already under fire for his March letter to Congress, which reported the results of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a way many feel was mostly beneficial to President Donald Trump.
Now, Democrats are taking aim at Barr's recent congressional testimony in which he slipped in his opinion that federal law enforcement officials may have "spied" on his boss' successful presidential run.
But if that wasn't enough, some experts argue that Barr's previous work in the private sector could conflict with his continuing supervision of the investigation into Russian tampering in the 2016 election campaign.
Why? A few of Barr's previous employers are connected to key subjects in the probe. And some argue that, even if Barr didn't break any rules, his financial ties to companies linked to aspects of the Russia investigation raise questions about whether he should-like his predecessor, Jeff Sessions-recuse himself.
"The legal standard is really clear about these issues. It's not about actual conflict, it's about the appearance of a conflict, about the appearance of bias," Jed Shugerman, a professor at Fordham University's School of Law and an expert on judicial and government ethics, tells Newsweek . "The problem is that we have so many flagrant conflicts that are so obvious, we get distracted from what the legal standard is."
This much is known: On Barr's public financial disclosure report, he admits to working for a law firm that represented Russia's Alfa Bank and for a company whose co-founders allegedly have long-standing business ties to Russia. What's more, he received dividends from Vector Group, a holding company with deep financial ties to Russia.
These facts didn't get much attention during Barr's confirmation hearing, as Congress was hyperfocused on an unsolicited memo Barr wrote prior to his nomination, which criticized the special counsel's investigation-and whether he would release an unredacted Mueller report to Congress. Much of the information is public, but it has so far been unreported in relation to Barr.
https://www.newsweek.com/so-many-conflicts-so-little-time-1396435
#6203763 at 2019-04-16 23:33:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7933: Memorandums of Treason Edition
Justice Dept. denies bond for tens of thousands of asylum seekers
By TED HESSON
04/16/2019 07:16 PM EDT
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/16/doj-bonds-asylum-seekers-1362789?bcmt=1
In a move that could keep tens of thousands of asylum seekers locked up, the Justice Department said Tuesday that it will deny a large class of undocumented immigrants a bond hearing to argue for their release.
The opinion, by Attorney General William Barr, adheres to the Trump administration's stance that migrants caught at the border should be detained whenever possible, even when they've petitioned for asylum.
The 11-page precedent-setting decision reverses a 2005 immigration court ruling that guaranteed bond hearings for certain migrants. Under the earlier ruling, some migrants who passed a "credible fear" interview - the first step in their asylum review - were eligible to seek release on bond.
The new standard will eliminate that option. The Homeland Security Department will, however, retain discretion to let individual asylum seekers out of detention, a decision that can be dictated by the availability of resources.
"It strips away the ability of an immigration judge to look at the merits of the case and determine in a bond hearing whether the person is going to be a flight risk or a threat to the community," said Andrew Free, a Nashville-based immigration attorney.
Barr said in the opinion that the effective date will be delayed 90 days, so that the Homeland Security Department "may conduct the necessary operational planning for additional detention and parole decisions." A spending bill passed by Congress in February funded more than 45,000 detention beds, but the Trump administration has argued that's not enough.
The ruling, known as Matter of M-S-, will not apply to migrant children traveling alone or with families, Free said. Under the 1997 Flores settlement agreement, children cannot be detained for longer than 20 days.
In addition, the decision does not apply to migrants who seek asylum at ports of entry. They must be granted "parole" into the U.S. and are not eligible for bond hearings.
Greg Chen, director of government relations for the American Immigration Lawyers Association, called the new standard "a devastating blow to those seeking protection from persecution."
With Tuesday's decision, Barr followed in the footsteps of former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who issued several precedential immigration decisions during his tenure at the Justice Department.
A June decision issued by Sessions, known as Matter of A-B-, restricted the ability of migrants to seek asylum based on domestic violence or gang violence. However, a federal judge struck down the bulk of that ruling and related policies in December.
#6202271 at 2019-04-16 21:10:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7931: Never Socialism Edition
DOJ lost Mueller excuse to dodge questions on Clinton emails investigation, GOP leaders say
Top Senate Republicans are renewing the push for access to more information on the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server now that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has concluded. In a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, three Senate chairman argue the Justice Department can no longer cite the ongoing Russian interference investigation as a reason not to comply with their demand for a briefing.
"Now that the Special Counsel's investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee's inquiries," Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote in their letter. The Republicans previously requested information on a classified appendix to the Justice Department inspector general's report titled, "A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election," that was released in June 2018.
"The classified appendix raises significant issues associated with the FBI's failure to review certain highly classified information in support of its Midyear investigation," they wrote, referring to the code name for the email investigation. "In particular, the Inspector General noted that it learned that the FBI acquired classified material that 'may have included information potentially relevant to the Midyear investigation.' The FBI even drafted a memorandum in May of 2016 stating that access to the information was 'necessary to complete the investigation.' However, that memorandum was never completed."
The 568-page inspector general report found former FBI Director James Comey was "insubordinate" and "affirmatively concealed" his intentions from Justice Department leadership during the investigation into Clinton's private email server. The report also slammed former FBI investigator Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were having an affair with each other, for anti-Trump tweets that suggested "a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects."
Though the report criticized FBI actions as unorthodox and at times improper, ultimately it concluded that this did not change the outcome of the Clinton email investigation. Mueller concluded his investigation last month, issuing a nearly 400-page report to Barr on his findings. Barr intends to release a redacted version of the full report on Thursday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-lost-mueller-excuse-to-dodge-questions-on-clinton-emails-investigation-gop-leaders-say
Inspector general slams 'insubordinate' James Comey, concludes bias did not hinder FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/inspector-general-no-political-bias-in-fbis-investigation-of-hillary-clintons-emails
#6202192 at 2019-04-16 21:02:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7931: Never Socialism Edition
Federal judge criticizes Barr over transparency concerns for the Mueller report
A federal judge handling a case centered around special counsel Robert Mueller's final report criticized Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, saying he has "created an environment that has caused a significant part of the American public to be concerned that there will be transparency." Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia delivered the rebuke in federal court before ruling that the Justice Department would not be compelled to provide BuzzFeed with a version of the Mueller report by Thursday. The judge's words appeared to echo concerns about Barr that congressional Democrats have also expressed. "Obviously there is a real concern about whether there will be transparency ... I hope that the government will be as transparent as it can be," Walton said.
BuzzFeed is seeking Mueller's report through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and asked for it to be provided to them under an expedited schedule by April 18, which is this Thursday. Earlier this week, the DOJ announced it will be providing a copy of Mueller's highly anticipated report to Congress that same day with redactions being overseen by Barr. In his opening remarks, Walton said that even though he doesn't know what the redacted Mueller report released by Barr will look like, "it seems to me that it's premature to believe that what will be released on Thursday will be different than what would be released under FOIA." BuzzFeed filed its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in early April, asking the court for injunctive relief to compel the Justice Department to provide a copy of the Mueller report to them. Walton denied a similar request earlier this month that was brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, but the research center had also sought a whole host of other nonpublic documents related to the special counsel investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election as well. BuzzFeed had hoped it might receive a more favorable ruling because its request was much narrower than the information sought by the research center. That didn't happen.
DOJ's attorney argued to Walton that "an injunction is an extraordinary act with a high burden" and said that "this is particularly true when trying to order the Justice Department to do something." In prior court filings, DOJ argued BuzzFeed "cannot establish irreparable harm," specifically citing the fact that Barr sought to release the Mueller report in mid-April and said he would "color code" the report with "explanatory notes describing the basis for each redaction." Matthew Topic, the attorney for both BuzzFeed and its journalist Jason Leopold, said, "We intend to challenge the redactions," and argued that "the longer we wait to get the FOIA response, the longer it takes for us to move this case forward." In a recent court filing, BuzzFeed said, "It is likely, given the categories of information the Attorney General has already determined will be redacted, that we are at the first step of what could be a lengthy legal process to decide whether those redactions are legally permissible under FOIA."
Given the number of public pronouncements made by government officials such as President Trump and others, Topic said there was an incredible public interest in knowing what the full Mueller report contains. Countering the idea that further delay wouldn't cause any harm, Topic argued, "The irreparable harm would be being forced to wait." Walton disagreed, saying BuzzFeed "cannot be harmed irreparably by waiting a little longer. ... I don't doubt there's some harm, but it's not irreparable." He denied BuzzFeed's motion for injunctive relief.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/federal-judge-criticizes-Barr-over-transparency-concerns-for-the-mueller-report
#6202062 at 2019-04-16 20:50:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7930: IS IN EU Edition
DOJ lost Mueller excuse to dodge questions on Clinton emails investigation, GOP leaders say
Top Senate Republicans are renewing the push for access to more information on the FBI's handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server now that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has concluded. In a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, three Senate chairman argue the Justice Department can no longer cite the ongoing Russian interference investigation as a reason not to comply with their demand for a briefing.
"Now that the Special Counsel's investigation has concluded, we are unaware of any legitimate basis upon which the Department can refuse to answer the Judiciary Committee's inquiries," Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote in their letter. The Republicans previously requested information on a classified appendix to the Justice Department inspector general's report titled, "A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election," that was released in June 2018.
"The classified appendix raises significant issues associated with the FBI's failure to review certain highly classified information in support of its Midyear investigation," they wrote, referring to the code name for the email investigation. "In particular, the Inspector General noted that it learned that the FBI acquired classified material that 'may have included information potentially relevant to the Midyear investigation.' The FBI even drafted a memorandum in May of 2016 stating that access to the information was 'necessary to complete the investigation.' However, that memorandum was never completed."
The 568-page inspector general report found former FBI Director James Comey was "insubordinate" and "affirmatively concealed" his intentions from Justice Department leadership during the investigation into Clinton's private email server. The report also slammed former FBI investigator Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who were having an affair with each other, for anti-Trump tweets that suggested "a willingness to take official action to impact the presidential candidate's electoral prospects."
Though the report criticized FBI actions as unorthodox and at times improper, ultimately it concluded that this did not change the outcome of the Clinton email investigation. Mueller concluded his investigation last month, issuing a nearly 400-page report to Barr on his findings. Barr intends to release a redacted version of the full report on Thursday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-lost-mueller-excuse-to-dodge-questions-on-clinton-emails-investigation-gop-leaders-say
Inspector general slams 'insubordinate' James Comey, concludes bias did not hinder FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/inspector-general-no-political-bias-in-fbis-investigation-of-hillary-clintons-emails
#6201868 at 2019-04-16 20:32:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7930: IS IN EU Edition
Electronic surveillance isn't spying; it's much more powerful
By Kevin R. Brock, opinion contributor - 04/16/19 10:30 AM EDT
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/439046-electronic-surveillance-isnt-spying-its-much-more-powerful
Attorney General William Barr used the "S" word in front of Congress and the world last week, and organized fainting spells commenced.
"I believe the government spied on the Trump campaign," said Mr. Barr in a town where semantic directness is simply not practiced among the political pharisees and their pilot fish in the media who seek to preserve a certain order by obfuscating true intent.
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His use of the word "spy" was as blunt as his everyman face. Its stinging connotation was validated in direct proportion to the contrived outrage of opposition politicians and cable news mannequins flopping to the ground and clutching their knees like European soccer players.
A few weeks ago, disgraced former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe stated that he believed President Trump was an agent of the Russian government, i.e. a spy. His assertion was met with somber nodding and little, if any, pushback.
He made this incredible statement without, according to Barr's summary of the Mueller report, possessing any evidence that it was true. He was, however, in the middle of a book tour and raising cash on a GoFundMe website because, according to him, he was in desperate need of money since the president cut short some of his retirement benefits.
His anguish can be seen as he drives around his tony neighborhood in his luxury car. Thank you for your contributions to this destitute and victimized man.
McCabe's fellow traveler in the empty collusion investigation they cooked up and ran - fired former FBI Director James Comey - was quick to seize another opportunity to moralize to a camera the day after AG Barr used the "S" word.
"I don't know what the heck he's talking about, that's all I can say." Apparently it was not all Comey could say, since he added: "When I hear that kind of language used, it's concerning because the FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance." And, having quite a bit to say, he kept talking: "I have never thought of that as spying."
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Comey was anxious to echo the narrative advanced by those in opposition to the president that court-ordered electronic surveillance is somehow different or less distasteful than the untidy, morally fluid concept of spying.
He can seek to take shelter in the softer "surveillance" word, but here is what he and McCabe unleashed on an American citizen involved on the outskirts of a presidential campaign: A Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court-ordered electronic surveillance allows the FBI leeway to intercept more than telephone and computer communications. It allows the clandestine microphone and camera capture of the target at all times and in all places, even the most intimate, of his daily life. It is more intrusive than even a Title III criminal wiretap of a drug dealer or mob boss.
So, in a way, Comey is right. FISA court-ordered electronic surveillance is different than spying. It is the epitome of government power over an individual's privacy. It is the nuclear option in the world of intelligence collection.
#6199708 at 2019-04-16 16:51:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7927 Shilling Intensifies: Approaching Target Edition
Iran-Contra, etc. No worries, Frens. The operative word is LEVERAGE. Remember Mueller's history…
April 16, 2019
While at the CIA, William Barr drafted letters calling for an end to the Agency's moratorium on destroying records
Decades before he was Attorney General (twice), Barr served in the Agency's Office of Legislative Council in the wake of the the Church Committee hearings
A memo uncovered in the Central Intelligence Agency's declassified archives shows that during his time at the CIA's Office of Legislative Council, current Attorney General William P. Barr drafted letters calling for the end of the moratorium on destroying records imposed on the Agency ahead of the Church Committee hearings.
https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/apr/16/cia-Barr-crest/
#6198312 at 2019-04-16 14:14:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7926 Feel'n the Bern on Socialism Edition
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1118147312033914881
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"Behind the Obama administration's shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign."
Behind the Obama administration's shady plan to spy on the Trump campaign
By Andrew C. McCarthy
April 15, 2019 | 11:07pm
https://nypost.com/2019/04/15/behind-the-obama-administrations-shady-plan-to-spy-on-the-trump-campaign/
In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr used the word "spying" to refer to the Obama administration, um, spying on the Trump campaign. Of course, fainting spells ensued, with the media-Democrat complex in meltdown. Former FBI Director Jim Comey tut-tutted that he was confused by Barr's comments, since the FBI's "surveillance" had been authorized by a court.
(Needless to say, the former director neglected to mention that the court was not informed that the bureau's "evidence" for the warrants was unverified hearsay paid for by the Clinton campaign.)
The pearl-clutching was predictable. Less than a year ago, we learned the Obama administration had used a confidential informant - a spy - to approach at least three Trump campaign officials in the months leading up to the 2016 election, straining to find proof that the campaign was complicit in the Kremlin's hacking of Democratic emails.
As night follows day, we were treated to the same Beltway hysteria we got this week: Silly semantic carping over the word "spying" - which, regardless of whether a judge authorizes it, is merely the covert gathering of intelligence about a suspected wrongdoer, organization or foreign power.
There is no doubt that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign. As Barr made clear, the real question is: What predicated the spying? Was there a valid reason for it, strong enough to overcome our norm against political spying? Or was it done rashly? Was a politically motivated decision made to use highly intrusive investigative tactics when a more measured response would have sufficed, such as a "defensive briefing" that would have warned the Trump campaign of possible Russian infiltration?
Last year, when the "spy" games got underway, James Clapper, Obama's director of national intelligence, conceded that, yes, the FBI did run an informant - "spy" is such an icky word - at Trump campaign officials; but, we were told, this was merely to investigate Russia. Cross Clapper's heart, it had nothing to do with the Trump campaign. No, no, no. Indeed, the Obama administration only used an informant because - bet you didn't know this - doing so is the most benign, least intrusive mode of conducting an investigation.
Me? I'm thinking the tens of thousands of convicts serving lengthy sentences due to the penetration of their schemes by informants would beg to differ. (Gee, Mr. Gambino, I assure you, this was just for you own good . . .) And imagine the Democrats' response if, say, the Bush administration had run a covert intelligence operative against Obama 2008 campaign officials, including the campaign's co-chairman. Surely David Axelrod, Chuck Schumer, The New York Times and Rachel Maddow would chirp that "all is forgiven" once they heard Republicans punctiliously parse the nuances between "spying" and "surveillance"; between "spies" and "informants"; and between investigating campaign officials versus investigating the campaign proper - and the candidate.
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#6196289 at 2019-04-16 06:13:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7923: Now Comes The PAIN in 23 Edition
Every Q follower should read this. Don't know what to make of it, but I hope q/potus can explain?
CIA Covert Operative William Barr Nominated by Trump for Attorney General. His Role in the Iran Contra Affair
This article was originally published on December 12, 2018. The serious questions raised in the piece remain completely unanswered.
Why was Barr chosen, given his shocking and deeply criminal/cover-up kingpin background?
Was Trump duped by Deep State enemies, who have placed another predator into his administration with the power to destroy his presidency? Or has Trump co-opted and turned Barr, in the hopes that Barr will do Trump's bidding? Why would Barr ever turn against his own Deep State cronies?
Does Trump have a plan? With Barr in place, is Trump signaling to his enemies that "I now own the Deep State"? Or is Barr the Deep State's ultimate and final weapon against Trump, who remains surrounded by Bush/Clinton "swamp creatures" such as National Security Adviser John Bolton, who is one of Barr's many fellow Iran-Contra co-conspirators, Vice President Mike Pence (who is in ideal position for a coup against Trump, and remains very cozy with the Clintons, dozens of Obama appointees that remain in place, and Republican "Never Trumpers", all of whom continue to undermine Trump.
Political Succession and "The Bush-Clinton Nexus": Permanent Criminal State, "A Clinton White House Guarantees War with Russia"
Pay careful attention to the confirmation "hearings". How many of the senators "questioning" Barr are themselves connected to the Bush/Clinton era criminal operations that Barr supervised as George H.W. Bush's attorney general?
Will anyone in Washington, or in the CIA asset-filled mainstream media, dare bring up Iran-Contra? Will anyone dare detail Barr's corruption, and his longstanding ties to the Bush/Clinton network? What about the fact that Barr is best friends with Robert Mueller?
Even the alternative media, including the whistleblowing research-intensive pro-Trump anon community, has been virtually silent on Barr, despite the fact that his criminal history is glaringly obvious, lurid, and begging to be exposed.
Rumors abound that slippery Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is expected to leave the Justice Department following Barr's likely confirmation. This further clears the way for Barr to seize the power to determine the fate of the Mueller probe, the John Huber (Inspector General) report, FISAgate, Clinton emails, Uranium One, and other key investigations.
William Barr could well determine the course of the political war between President Donald Trump and his enemies, and decide the fate of Donald Trump's presidency itself.
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.
Iran-Contra
To understand the scope, scale, and gravity of William Barr's central role working for George H.W. Bush, one must grasp the significance of Iran-Contra, the massive criminal operation that was the cornerstone of the Bush era, headed by the Bushes, with the Clintons as partners.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ciabushiran-contra-covert-operative-fixer-William-Barr-nominated-attorney-general/5662609
#6187257 at 2019-04-15 18:14:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7912: Notre Dame Burns Edition
AG Barr To Release Mueller Report To Congress, Public On Thursday
Mark it in your calendars, people: The highly anticipated Mueller Report comes out Thursday morning.
Attorney General William Barr said last Wednesday that the full report - with redactions to remove classified or sensitive material - would be released "within a week." Democrats in the House had demanded the report by April 2, but the redaction work was not yet complete by then. Now, Justice officials have said the report will come out Thursday, NBC reported.
Barr sent a four-page summary of the special counsel's findings to Congress earlier this month. In his letter, Barr wrote "that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense." But Democrats claim the full report could show something much different.
In his two-year, $30 million probe, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of lawyers issued more than 2,800 subpoenas, conducted nearly 500 searches with warrants, and interviewed more than 500 witnesses. Barr said his team has been sifting through the reams of documents to remove portions that "reveal intelligence sources and methods," among other reasons.
The attorney general said redactions will be broken down into four categories so readers can see why the information was omitted.
"First is grand jury information," Barr told lawmakers last Wednesday as he testified before the House Appropriations Committee. "The second is information that the intelligence community believes would reveal intelligence sources and methods. The third are information in the report that could interfere with ongoing prosecutions. You'll recall that the special counsel did spin off a number of cases that are still being pursued. And we want to make sure that none of the information in the report would impinge upon either the ability of the prosecutors to prosecute the cases, or the fairness to the defendants."
"And finally, we intend to redact information that implicated the privacy or reputational interest of peripheral players where there is a decision not to charge them," Barr said.
President Trump, who has been blasting Mueller for months, went on another tear Monday, ripping the special counsel's probe into alleged campaign collusion with Russia and blasting Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and "dirty cops."
"Mueller, and the A.G. based on Mueller findings (and great intelligence), have already ruled No Collusion, No Obstruction. These were crimes committed by Crooked Hillary, the DNC, Dirty Cops and others! INVESTIGATE THE INVESTIGATORS!" Trump wrote on Twitter in an early morning post.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/ag-Barr-to-release-mueller-report-to-congress-public-on-thursday/
#6186852 at 2019-04-15 17:44:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7911: They All Get An Illegal Edition
Democratic freak-out over William Barr's investigation: What do they want hidden?
Any time President Trump showed the slightest discomfort at having his life probed by a special counsel with unlimited power, Democrats and the media suspiciously wondered: Well, what's he got to hide?!
Now, Attorney General William Barr says he wants to take a peek at the Obama administration's spying on Trump's 2016 campaign. And those same Democrats are calling it a political hit job.
Well, what have they got to hide?!
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democratic-freak-out-over-William-Barrs-investigation-what-do-they-want-hidden
#6185988 at 2019-04-15 16:23:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7910: Dark Knights Edition
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#6185877 at 2019-04-15 16:13:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7910: Dark Knights Edition
DOJ to release Mueller report Thursday
The Department of Justice plans to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report to Congress and the public on Thursday, according to reports. The report on Mueller's 22-month investigation is nearly 400 pages long. It's expected to describe the legal analysis and factual findings that support the conclusions previously shared by Attorney General William Barr in a four-page summary of the report last month.
The redacted information includes grand jury material, foreign intelligence that could compromise sources and methods, information about ongoing investigations, and derogatory information about people who were not charged. According to Barr, Mueller concluded the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election. Mueller did not establish whether or not Trump obstructed justice, but Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to charge the president with obstruction.
The redacted report will be heavily scrutinized by Republicans, who have claimed the report vindicates Trump, and Democrats, who have accused Barr of giving cover to the president.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/doj-to-release-mueller-report-thursday
#6185864 at 2019-04-15 16:12:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7910: Dark Knights Edition
Redacted Mueller Report To Be Released To Congress & Public On Thursday
Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec announced this morning Attorney General William Barr is expected to send Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report to Congress and make it public on Thursday (ahead of the long weekend's news cycle).
Those following Mueller's investigation will pore over the report's almost 400 pages for any new disclosures of contacts between Trump's presidential campaign and Russian operatives who interfered in the 2016 election, as well as evidence that the president sought to obstruct justice by interfering in the probe.
But, as Bloomberg reports, readers also will puzzle over sections that Barr has said he'll blank out. He's said the redacted material will be color-coded to indicate whether it involves classified material, grand jury information or damage to the reputation of a private citizen "peripheral" to the investigation.
One key question the report may answer is why Mueller decided not to make a recommendation one way or the other on whether to charge Trump with obstructing justice.
We look forward to Schiff and Swalwell's comments…
As a reminder, Barr will testify about the Mueller report before the House and Senate Judiciary panels on May 1 and May 2.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-15/redacted-mueller-report-be-released-congress-public-thursday
#6184289 at 2019-04-15 13:27:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7908 Monday Forecast: Cloudy with Isolated Shillstorms Edition
Why Democrats Freaked Out When Barr Said The Trump Campaign Was Spied On
There are two reasons the political media establishment is growing increasingly hostile towards Attorney General William Barr: First, he serves under President Donald Trump. Second, he is not only the messenger of the demise of the Russiagate conspiracy theory that the Deep State and its aiders, abettors, and enablers in the political media establishment worked so hard to perpetuate, but he could also be the source of the demise of the establishment itself, if he ends up exposing their whole sordid affair.
Should Barr conduct a thorough investigation of the Russiagate investigators, and the associated leakers and colluders, and dispense justice to the fullest extent of the law, it would drive a stake through the heart of the establishment writ large by demolishing the unjust system of double standards from which it has benefited, while punishing its foes.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/15/democrats-freaked-Barr-said-trump-campaign-spied/
#6183319 at 2019-04-15 09:16:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7907 Fastest. Bread. Ever Edition
The 5 fights to expect after the Mueller report is released
(CNN) - Sometime in the next 72 hours, we expect Attorney General William Barr to release a redacted version of the 300+-page report compiled by special counsel Robert Mueller and aimed at examining Russian interference in the 2016 election.
That release will be a BIG deal – our first real glimpse into what the Russians were trying to do in 2016, how much (or little) the Trump campaign played along with those efforts and whether President Donald Trump (or anyone in his circle) undertook an effort to get in the way of the probe.
This is, without doubt, an end. But don't fool yourself: This is not the end.
No matter what the Mueller report says – or how much of it we actually get to see after the redactions – it will continue to be a source of massive contention in our culture, with tentacles that reach not only into the political world (up and down Pennsylvania Avenue) but also the legal one.
Here are five of the major fights to come over the Mueller report:
* The Redaction Fight: In testimony in front of a House committee last week, Barr made clear that he had no plans to show Congress the full, unredacted report. (He did say he'd be willing to talk to the chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary committees about what was in the unredacted version.) Barr also said that there were four categories of redacted information: 1) grand jury material 2) classified information 3) information linked to ongoing probes and 4) details that could be damaging "peripheral third parties" in the investigation. Democrats have already made clear that they want to see the full report and have already authorized a subpoena for it in the event that Barr doesn't release the whole thing.
* The Obstruction Fight: We know from the Barr top-line letter that "evidence" exists on both sides of the debate over whether Trump or anyone affiliated with him sought to purposely obstruct the Mueller investigation into Russian interference. And the Barr letter also quotes Mueller saying this: "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." Barr decided not to charge Trump with obstruction, nor did Mueller make a recommendation to do so, as Barr testified last week to Congress. So why did he? And why didn't Mueller make a recommendation on obstruction? One other: What evidence are we talking about on both sides of the obstruction question?
* The Rebuttal Fight: For months, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been promising that the White House will produce its own report as a way to answer back to what Mueller put together. Giuliani told CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday night that the White House still expects to release a rebuttal report, and that it will be released after the Mueller report comes out. Is there any, well, "there" there on this rebuttal report? Or is it simply Trump's tweets with some legal-ese thrown in there? Does it gain any traction within the broader debate over the Mueller report? Or is it dismissed as simply garbage spin and forgotten within a day or two?
* The Russia Fight: If there was "no collusion" between the Trump campaign and the Russians – as Barr's summary of Mueller's report made clear – then why the hell were SO many Trump associates in contact with the Russians during the 2016 election? (According to CNN reporting, at least 16 Trump associates had contacts with Russians during the campaign or transition.) And why did so many of them either lie (Michael Flynn) or misremember (Jeff Sessions) the depth and breadth of their interactions with Russians? Was it all just the world's biggest coincidence? That central question is likely to be the subject of much back-and-forth on and off Capitol Hill as Democrats seek to push past Mueller's expected collusion conclusion in search of answers.
* The Steele Dossier Fight: The opposition research document put together by former British spy Christopher Steele in many ways sits at the core of the disagreement between the two parties about the entire investigation. Democrats see Steele as getting most of the big things right about Trump, and note that former FBI director James Comey has said under oath that the Justice Department was able to independently confirm parts of the Steele Dossier. On the other hand, Republicans view the Steele Dossier as a partisan, gotcha document funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee. They insist the dossier is the reason the FBI began a counter-intelligence probe, which led to the Mueller special counsel in the first place. And that's a problem because many Republicans think that many of the dossier's claims are untrue. That disagreement isn't going anywhere because it's too powerful for both sides to let it go.
#6179450 at 2019-04-15 00:29:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7902: Suddenly Shilly Sunday Edition
Mark Meadows Expects Criminal Referrals In DOJ Watchdog's Report
North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows said Sunday that he expects the Justice Department's inspector general to issue criminal referrals as part of an investigation into the FBI's possible abuse of the surveillance courts during the Trump-Russia probe.
"We're fully anticipating that the [inspector general's] report will come out as Attorney General Barr said in the next four to six weeks, and I think it's highly likely that we'll see criminal referrals coming from them that will correspond with what Chairman [Devin] Nunes has already put forth," Meadows said in an interview on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures."
Attorney General William Barr told Congress on Tuesday that he expects Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, to issue a report in late May or June. On March 28, 2018, Horowitz opened an investigation into whether the FBI and Justice Department complied with legal requirements to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Meadows, a close ally of President Trump's, said that he and Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan met earlier this week with Horowitz. Both have expressed confidence in Horowitz's work, and have heightened expectations that the investigation will be favorable to Republicans.
Meadows said that he believes that Horowitz's report will also focus on FBI leaks to the media. The Republican claimed to have seen evidence that the bureau would leak information to the press and then use those stories to justify additional investigations.
"So what we would find is people within the Department of Justice, primarily the FBI, would actually give information to the media, then those reports would actually come out and they would say 'wow, we have these reports now,' and then they would take the actual reports and use those as the probable cause to do a further investigation," Meadows told Fox host Maria Bartiromo.
"It was a big circular reasoning ... you'll see all of that come out, I believe, when inspector general's report comes out."
Horowitz is also examining the FBI and Justice Department's communications with Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier that the FBI relied on to obtain the Page FISAs.
Republicans have alleged that the FBI failed to verify the dossier before using it to obtain the FISAs. They also claim that the FBI failed to disclose that Steele was working for the DNC and Clinton campaign in the FISA applications.
Horowitz is also investigating the FBI's use of confidential informants in the Trump-Russia probe. The New York Times reported earlier this week that Horowitz is scrutinizing Stefan Halper, a former Cambridge University professor who made contact with several Trump campaign advisers while working as an FBI informant.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/14/mark-meadows-criminal-referrals-horowitz/
#6179218 at 2019-04-15 00:06:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7901: Slow Ridin' Sunday Edition:
This is the absolute 100% true story of how the deep state tried to topple Donald J. Trump, and it's exactly WHY Attorney General William Barr recently said "I think spying did occur" on the Trump campaign. These are the FACTS that CNN will never ever tell their viewers.
Patriots, Don Bongino and Sgt Report for the critical timeline analysis.
this started back in 2007 with Glenn Simpson, just changed the name and dates.
Adm Rogers discovered the problem with the NSA about Queries and took to FISC to report.
THEN FISAgate kicked in to try and cover tracks with the dossier.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2017/12/21/report-russia-dossier-based-10-year-old-wall-street-journal-articles/
#6178720 at 2019-04-14 23:20:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7901: Slow Ridin' Sunday Edition:
POTUS_Schedule Retweeted
Matt Wolking
Verified account @MattWolking
50m50 minutes ago
"the sunlight of transparency soon will shine on the rancid corruption of the [DOJ, FBI & intelligence agencies under Obama]. Turning the tables on the conspirators is absolutely necessary to hold accountable those who tried to rig the election."
As Trump soars higher, Dems reach their lowest point yet
By Michael Goodwin
April 13, 2019 | 10:51pm
https://nypost.com/2019/04/13/as-trump-soars-higher-dems-reach-their-lowest-point-yet/
Predicting what history will decide was significant is always dicey. But in the context of our fractured nation and the nonstop Washington tumult since 2016, events in the last three weeks have been nothing short of remarkable.
Against an enormous army of antagonists, political and cultural, academic and judicial, Donald Trump is enjoying some of the best days of his presidency. His power and popularity are expanding.
Meanwhile, Democrats and the left, including the media, have suffered one crushing blow after another. Their recent confidence that Trump was not long for the Oval Office is suddenly morphing into a panic that he could win a second term.
The worm began turning on the afternoon of Sunday, March 24, when Attorney General William Barr released his letter summarizing the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller. There was no collusion with Russia, Mueller found, and no obstruction of justice, Barr determined.
The momentous victory for Trump vindicated his claims of innocence. The fog of accusations that he was an illegitimate president was destroyed by a news flash that left no room for ambiguity.
To grasp the significance, imagine the consequences if the report found he was probably guilty of one or both charges.
The left would have erupted in orgasmic joy. We would be discussing articles of impeachment and Republicans would have fallen in line. There would have been worldwide implications as America turned inward to face its crisis.
Yet it is now apparent that Mueller's report, as great as it was for Trump, was just the start of a dramatic turnaround in the fortunes of both the president and his tormentors. The bookend, at least so far, came last week with Barr's stunning comment that "spying did occur" on Trump's 2016 campaign and that Barr was obligated to review "the conduct of the investigation."
"Spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr said matter-of-factly.
Heart be still. Barr's promise touches on the holy grail for those of us who believe there was an outrageous abuse of government power to try to tip the election to Hillary Clinton and then to topple Trump.
If Barr keeps his word, the sunlight of transparency soon will shine on the rancid corruption of the Justice Department, the FBI and the intelligence agencies under Barack Obama.
Turning the tables on the conspirators is absolutely necessary to hold accountable those who tried to rig the election. That accountability, if it is seen as honest and evenhanded, will prevent a repeat and begin to restore public trust.
see also
William Barr: 'I think spying did occur' against Trump campaign
Among the obvious questions that must be addressed are these: How did the unprecedented FBI probe of a presidential candidate get started if the allegations were instigated and paid for by the opposition? Who leaked scores of misleading investigative tidbits to the media in ways that suggested Trump's guilt was all but certain?
It's no exaggeration to say that Barr's promise to investigate the investigators sets the stage for fundamentally changing the narrative from the one the media fed the nation for two years.
#6177695 at 2019-04-14 21:43:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7899: Trump Curse In Reverse. The Lions, Tigers, and Beers Edition
Mark Meadows Expects Criminal Referrals In DOJ Watchdog's Report
North Carolina Republican Rep. Mark Meadows said Sunday that he expects the Justice Department's inspector general to issue criminal referrals as part of an investigation into the FBI's possible abuse of the surveillance courts during the Trump-Russia probe. "We're fully anticipating that the [inspector general's] report will come out as Attorney General Barr said in the next four to six weeks, and I think it's highly likely that we'll see criminal referrals coming from them that will correspond with what Chairman [Devin] Nunes has already put forth," Meadows said in an interview on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures." Attorney General William Barr told Congress on Tuesday that he expects Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, to issue a report in late May or June. On March 28, 2018, Horowitz opened an investigation into whether the FBI and Justice Department complied with legal requirements to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. Meadows, a close ally of President Trump's, said that he and Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan met earlier this week with Horowitz. Both have expressed confidence in Horowitz's work, and have heightened expectations that the investigation will be favorable to Republicans. Meadows said that he believes that Horowitz's report will also focus on FBI leaks to the media. The Republican claimed to have seen evidence that the bureau would leak information to the press and then use those stories to justify additional investigations.
"So what we would find is people within the Department of Justice, primarily the FBI, would actually give information to the media, then those reports would actually come out and they would say 'wow, we have these reports now,' and then they would take the actual reports and use those as the probable cause to do a further investigation," Meadows told Fox host Maria Bartiromo. "It was a big circular reasoning ... you'll see all of that come out, I believe, when inspector general's report comes out."
Horowitz is also examining the FBI and Justice Department's communications with Christopher Steele, the author of the dossier that the FBI relied on to obtain the Page FISAs. Republicans have alleged that the FBI failed to verify the dossier before using it to obtain the FISAs. They also claim that the FBI failed to disclose that Steele was working for the DNC and Clinton campaign in the FISA applications. Horowitz is also investigating the FBI's use of confidential informants in the Trump-Russia probe. The New York Times reported earlier this week that Horowitz is scrutinizing Stefan Halper, a former Cambridge University professor who made contact with several Trump campaign advisers while working as an FBI informant.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/14/mark-meadows-criminal-referrals-horowitz/
#6170771 at 2019-04-14 03:29:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7891: Misspellings Matter Edition
Wikileaks is comped.
"YOU MAY HAVE THE SITE BUT WE HAVE THE SOURCE" - Q
From now on, "wikileaks" is now what ASSANGE releases from his OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS, e.g. Official twitter account @JulianAssange.
There was a fake news post on this site recently about a stadium of 100,000 people allegedly chanting "Please Trump, Lock Her Up", allegedly from Assange's twitter account.
It is Fake News because the supposed Assange twitter account that this video and caption "Please Trump, Lock Her Up" was posted, was in fact a parody account of Assange @REAL_ASSANGE_
The underscores gave it away for me. It's a silly SQL entry level job coder who puts underscores between logical categories of the data.
Check put the number of followers showing in that parody account, 370 or something?
The real twitter account of the real Julian Assange has 210 million followers.
And the twitter name is @JulianAssange
Who else in the world would have the very first logical way of PLAIN LANGUAGE name identification twitter account. He secured it before any even knew who he was.
"ATTACKS WILL INCREASE" means we all have to start NOT BLINDLY ACCEPTING INFORMATION WE SEE ON QRV AND 8CH EVEN IF THE IDEA OF THE INFORMATION BEING TRUE MAKES US 'FEEL GOOD'.
The Enlightenment consisted of people for the first time at that worldwide scale discovering the real meaning and significance and benefit of and reality of delayed/restrained satisfaction that allowed people to see their own reality of who and what they are and how they are grounded as what they make of it for themselves as individuals, the good springing forth that is not an illusion and not a call to benefit one's 'class' or 'group' or 'tribe' but a call in how a person can help themselves become better people because others should not be automatically assumed as being 'responsible' for us, to help us or stop us from doing bad things on the notion it is impossible for anyone to help themselves.
This is how the Satanic Demokkkrats see the downtrodden and those presently struggling with problems: UNABLE TO HELP THEMSELVES BY ASSUMPTION AND NOT BY OBSERVATION, LOGIC AND EVIDENCE.
They therefore attack independent "victim class" people like Candace Owens: DISGUST AND RESENTMENT.
They hate outspoken black people who are not in the Demokkkrat ideological plantation of 'protected tribe' classification to control and manipulate not truly help.
Wikileaks is comped, attacks/disinfo are everywhere now, the shills are becoming more and more obvious and panicky.
Go to Youtube and search using the string "William Barr".
Fake news MSNBC garbage DOMINATES the highest search results. MSNBC #1, MSNBC #2, MSNBC #3, MSNBC #4, MSNBC #5, ETC, ETC.
Lying/asleep/acting freaks and shreakers like Maddow are in every top spot.
ATTACKS WILL INCREASE means we are now each on our own when it comes to the efficacy of our minds from here on out.
WWG1WGA
#6169525 at 2019-04-14 01:44:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7889: Criminals Of All Shapes, Sizes And Kinds Edition
Been away for a few days but here is a piece that I posted late last week about William Barr and it received no traction. Who is Bill Barr really?
"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."
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ciabushiran-contra-covert-operative-fixer-William-Barr-nominated-attorney-general/5662609
#6166481 at 2019-04-13 20:46:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7885: Storm On The Horizon Edition
Democrats lash Devin Nunes plan for private chat with William Barr
House Democrats are sounding the alarm over plans by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to meet privately with Attorney General Bill Barr to discuss criminal referrals against federal authorities involved in investigating Trump and his campaign associates over the Russia collusion allegations. In a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee this week, Barr said that he plans to investigate the probes and the collection of evidence that sparked special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Nunes joined other congressional Republicans in supporting Barr's probe, saying over the last several days that he will send as many as eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department. At the hearing, Barr told lawmakers that he was awaiting Nunes' information as the new probes unfold. "We expect to learn more if and when the Department of Justice receives the referrals, assuming the department follows appropriate protocol and Barr holds any such meeting only with representatives of the majority and minority present," one Democratic Intelligence Committee member told Politico. "[B]ut it is clear they believe they now have an ally in the attorney general to perpetuate their conspiracy theories of 'spying' and their determination to investigate the investigators, no matter how misguided and damaging their efforts are to our national institutions, or the dedicated public servants who work to keep us safe," the aide added.
But congressional Republicans continue to urge Barr to stay the course in investigating the launch of the Mueller investigation, arguing that the real collusion and violations of federal law are buried in the Democrats' attempt to tear down President Trump. "Now that [Mueller] concluded that Trump did not collude with the Russians, which we all knew, it's time to see if Democrats and Obama and Clinton operatives broke the law in their attempt to smear Trump. We know the Steele dossier, which turned out to be fake, was illegally obtained and unethical in every sense of the word. Now we know that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign," a senior aide to a Republican member on the House Intelligence Committee told the Washington Examiner on Saturday.
"Democrats took a gamble and it failed. Now they don't want the spotlight on these issues anymore." Nunes told Sean Hannity this week that is preparing a meeting with the attorney general and will be joined by fellow House Intelligence Committee colleague John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, who previously served as a U.S. attorney.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-Barr
#6164921 at 2019-04-13 18:26:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7883: Anons Will Never Forget Edition
>>6164910
>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-Barr
Democrats lash Devin Nunes plan for private chat with William Barr
House Democrats are sounding the alarm over plans by House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., to meet privately with Attorney General Bill Barr to discuss criminal referrals against federal authorities involved in investigating Trump and his campaign associates over the Russia collusion allegations.
In a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee this week, Barr said that he plans to investigate the probes and the collection of evidence that sparked special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Nunes joined other congressional Republicans in supporting Barr's probe, saying over the last several days that he will send as many as eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department. At the hearing, Barr told lawmakers that he was awaiting Nunes' information as the new probes unfold.
"We expect to learn more if and when the Department of Justice receives the referrals, assuming the department follows appropriate protocol and Barr holds any such meeting only with representatives of the majority and minority present," one Democratic Intelligence Committee member told Politico.
"[B]ut it is clear they believe they now have an ally in the attorney general to perpetuate their conspiracy theories of 'spying' and their determination to investigate the investigators, no matter how misguided and damaging their efforts are to our national institutions, or the dedicated public servants who work to keep us safe," the aide added.
But congressional Republicans continue to urge Barr to stay the course in investigating the launch of the Mueller investigation, arguing that the real collusion and violations of federal law are buried in the Democrats' attempt to tear down President Trump.
"Now that [Mueller] concluded that Trump did not collude with the Russians, which we all knew, it's time to see if Democrats and Obama and Clinton operatives broke the law in their attempt to smear Trump. We know the Steele dossier, which turned out to be fake, was illegally obtained and unethical in every sense of the word. Now we know that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign," a senior aide to a Republican member on the House Intelligence Committee told the Washington Examiner on Saturday.
"Democrats took a gamble and it failed. Now they don't want the spotlight on these issues anymore."
Nunes told Sean Hannity this week that is preparing a meeting with the attorney general and will be joined by fellow House Intelligence Committee colleague John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, who previously served as a U.S. attorney.
#6164910 at 2019-04-13 18:24:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7883: Anons Will Never Forget Edition
PANIC
https://twitter.com/dbongino/status/1117130374419832833
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/democrats-lash-devin-nunes-plan-for-private-chat-with-Barr?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_04/13/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=260
Democrats lash Devin Nunes plan for private chat with William Barr
#6164074 at 2019-04-13 16:49:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7882: Reeee Our FAMILY The Wake and Bake Saturday Brunch Edition
Great Article by prior Democrat Senator on DOJ and criticism of democrats Today
Bob Kerrey: How did Department of Justice get the Trump-Russia investigation so wrong?
By Bob Kerrey Mar 29, 2019
The writer, of New York, is a former Nebraska governor and U.S. senator.
Delusions fascinate me in part because I have so many of my own. Most often delusions are harmless. Sometimes they are not.
At the moment my fellow Democrats are suffering from two that are harmful. The first is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives. That this is a delusion can be seen in the promises made by six successful Democratic candidates in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan: three governors and three senators. Not one of them supported the Green New Deal, a tax on wealth or "Medicare for all."
The second Democratic delusion is that Americans were robbed of the truth when Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr concluded that President Trump did not collude with Russia in 2016. All evidence indicates that the full report will not change the conclusion that Donald J. Trump did not collude with Vladimir Putin to secure his victory in 2016.
Rather than investigating the president further, Congress needs to investigate how the Department of Justice got this one so wrong. If the president of the United States is vulnerable to prosecutorial abuse, then God help all the rest of us. Members of Congress cannot do this themselves. We do not trust them enough with such a vital mission.
Congress should create a nonpartisan commission to find out what went wrong and to tell us what needs to be done to make certain it never happens again.
A commission to investigate the FBI needs to focus on four questions:
1. Has the law that gave the director of the FBI a 10-year term of office been sufficient to protect the appointee from political pressure to investigate potential crimes of candidates or elected officials? Neither Democratic nor Republican mobs should decide the outcome of our criminal justice system.
2. How can we write clear rules that govern the behavior of the candidate or officeholder? Tweets can and do stoke the fire of the mob. That is what they are intended to do. When the chief law enforcement officer encourages his audience to chant "lock her up," this signals the FBI to follow the mob. When he sends out tweets that encourage law enforcement to investigate political opponents, this is also mob rule. Rules of acceptable behavior do not apply just to the president but to Congress as well. In the Twitter age, all of us need to understand when our candidate has crossed the line.
3. When is it appropriate for the FBI to begin an investigation? Once started, these things are hard to stop. A single campaign official suggesting the possibility of collusion with a foreign power or a document written as opposition research or a demand from a member of Congress are very thin reeds upon which to challenge the legitimacy of an elected official.
4. Are federal pardons justified? The commission needs the authority to examine whether some Americans were convicted and sentenced because they did not tell the truth about a collusion that never happened. The commission should be given the authority to recommend a pardon for anyone it believes was sentenced unjustly.
Our democracy will survive the hostility of Vladimir Putin. What it may not survive is distrust of our system of justice. At the moment that distrust is deep and wide. We need a nonpartisan national commission to tell us what has just happened and to advise us on what we need to do to keep it from happening again.
https://www.omaha.com/opinion/midlands_voices/bob-kerrey-how-did-department-of-justice-get-the-trump/article_7b68c700-f356-5cb8-8baf-bbbdc5375bf4.html
#6163761 at 2019-04-13 16:11:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7882: Reeee Our FAMILY The Wake and Bake Saturday Brunch Edition
Trump confidant Roger Stone seeks full Mueller report
President Donald Trump's longtime confidant, Roger Stone, asked a federal judge Friday to compel the Justice Department to turn over a full copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation as part of discovery in his criminal case.
Stone has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to Congress, engaged in witness tampering and obstructed a congressional investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In a court filing late Friday night, his lawyers said Stone is entitled to see the confidential report - which was submitted to the attorney general late last month - because it would help prove their allegation that there are constitutional issues with the investigation.
In a separate action, a former aide to Stone who was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury asked a federal appeals court to determine whether he still needs to testify now that the Russia probe has concluded.
In court documents, the lawyers argue they are entitled to a private disclosure of the nearly 400-page report that Mueller submitted to Attorney General William Barr late last month and said they "must be allowed to review the Report in its entirety because it contains the government's evidence and conclusions on matters essential to Stone's defense."
"To be clear, Stone is not requesting the Report be disclosed to the world - only to his counsel so that it may aid in preparing his defense," the lawyers wrote.
Stone, who is set to go on trial in November, has maintained his innocence and blasted the special counsel's investigation as politically motivated. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which stem from conversations he had during the campaign about WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group that released material stolen from Democratic groups, including Hillary Clinton's campaign.
In a four-page letter to Congress that detailed Mueller's "principal conclusions," Barr said the special counsel did not find a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump associates during the campaign, but did not reach a definitive conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice. Instead, Mueller presented evidence on both sides of the obstruction question, but Barr said he did not believe the evidence was sufficient to prove that Trump had obstructed justice.
Barr has said he expects to release a redacted version of Mueller's report next week that will be sent to Congress and made public.
In the separate case, Andrew Miller, a former Stone aide, filed a petition with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia over the subpoena he was issued in Mueller's investigation.
Last year, Mueller's team sought Miller's testimony regarding Stone, WikiLeaks and the Russian government-controlled online persona Guccifer 2.0, which was used to release hacked material during the 2016 election. But Miller challenged his grand jury subpoena, arguing that Mueller's appointment was unconstitutional.
Earlier this year a three-judge panel of the court upheld the special counsel's appointment and a contempt order intended to force Miller to testify.
In the new petition, Miller's attorney, Paul Kamenar, argued that the matter now appears to be moot because Stone has been indicted and like "Cinderella's carriage that turned into a pumpkin at midnight, special counsel Mueller's authority expired."
Kamenar is now asking the court to have the government formally say whether it will still pursue Miller's testimony. If that's the case, Kamenar is asking for a rehearing of the case. He said in a statement that he will take the fight to the Supreme Court if necessary.
https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article229214134.html
#6162127 at 2019-04-13 12:41:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7880: Night Fire Edition
Curious turn of phrase, no?
WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General William Barr said on Wednesday that a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election will be released next week.
"I'm landing the plane right now," Barr said at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. "I've been willing to discuss my letters and the process going forward, but the report is going to be out next week and I'm just not going to get details of the process until the plane's on the ground."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mueller-report-next-week-u-155318757.html
Q post 1402 from last May relevant?
#6158898 at 2019-04-13 03:08:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7876: "Sanctuary City" 4D Chess Edition
Scalia with regard to independent special counsel, "…But this wolf comes as a wolf"'''
From 1989 Whistleblower memo written by William Barr
https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/1989/07/31/op-olc-v013-p0207_0.pdf
#6156600 at 2019-04-12 23:55:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7873: Thesaurus Theater Edition
https:
//www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/04/11/fbi_mans_testimony_points_to_significant_wrongdoing_beyond_spying.html
FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spying
Bill Priestap, left, with Michael Horowitz, DoJ inspector general.
By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations
April 12, 2019
Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved "spying."
The spying, which Barr vowed to investigate, is not the only significant possible violation of investigative rules and ethics committed by agents, lawyers, managers, and officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice. A catalogue of those abuses can be found in recently released testimony that ex-FBI official Edward William Priestap provided to Congress in a closed-door interview last summer.
From the end of 2015 to the end of 2018, Bill Priestap was assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, which meant he oversaw the FBI's global counterintelligence efforts. In that role, he managed both of the bureau's most politically sensitive investigations: the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information and the probe into whether Donald Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.
#6156360 at 2019-04-12 23:29:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7873: Thesaurus Theater Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
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Notables
are not endorsements
#7872
>>6156346 DJT Tweet: "WSJ's Strassel: Barr 'Right' to Say 'Spying' Occurred on Trump Campaign…"
>>6156294 Dig on Jennifer Gaffney: The DA who let Epstein off.
>>6155952 Zuckerberg compensation more than doubles with $22.6 million Facebook paycheck.
>>6156060 US Army ReTweet. 17:17 timestamp.
>>6156155, >>6156242 The curious case of Greg Craig.
>>6156153 WH Tweet: "Former Obama officials are calling for a bipartisan solution to our border crisis…"
>>6155955, >>6156065 Okeechobee school/body dig.
>>6156057 PapaD: CIA told me they were keeping tabs on me in 2014.
>>6155933 Congressman Loebsack to retire in 2020.
>>6155896 Backlash against Omar's comments builds.
>>6155804, >>6155952 Netflix CEO and Fmr. WH CoS stepping down from Facebook board. MZ takes home double compensation.
>>6155715 Eating healthy soon to be pathologized.
>>6155713 General Electric agrees to pay $1.5 billion penalty for alleged misrepresentations concerning subprime loans included in residential mortgage-backed securities.
>>6155660 More calls for full Mueller report.
>>6155652, >>6156318 JA's smear campaign swings into action.
>>6155644 Protective Order filed in Craig case.
>>6156355 #7872
#7871
>>6155487 US DoD: "Flying in rare air."
>>6155447 Identity politics being used at an absurd level.
>>6155425 Giuliani: "Rep. Ilhan Omar must be denounced for outrageous 9/11 comments."
>>6155378 Photos surface revealing 2017 'closed-door' meeting between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan.
>>6155297 POTUS 911 video 43 seconds long.
>>6155088 Planefag: Planefag: 44A10F gets around.
>>6155084 Kim Jong Un reportedly willing to meet for a third summit.
>>6155026 Glenn Greenwald points out the MSM's hypocrisy and deceitful comments regarding JA.
>>6155062 Christchurch terror attack used to justify mass surveillance of Muslims in China.
>>6155045 Planefag tracking UK/Ireland aircraft.
>>6154965 DJT Tweet: "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" (video)
>>6154964 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6154955 No trafficking in Kraft case?
>>6154894 AZAZ09O9 heading towards DC from Kansas City / Ft Leavenworth.
>>6154880 Q: Lost bible scriptures?
>>6154864 POTUS: "Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump, America is now winning the global race to deploy secure and reliable 5G!"
>>6154844 Milley: "Happy birthday to Army Aviation!"
>>6154821 House Oversight Committee planning to subpoena POTUS financial records.
>>6154820 11th MEU: "Not in our Waters!"
>>6154819 New York DA knew Clinton pal Epstein was "dangerous pedophile" while arguing for leniency. The "Weiner" treatment.
>>6155547 #7871
#7870
>>6154634 Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr is misleading with Mueller summary 'bizarre'.
>>6154626 Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field.
>>6154575 US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war.
>>6154584 Boston Globe writer urges waiters to 'tamper' with food of Republicans.
>>6154507 Jim Jordan's response to Cummings subpoena of a private company to target POTUS.
>>6154478 Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirms SpyGate coup told "no" *three* times at the FISA Court.
>>6154426 Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .
>>6154398 DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"
>>6154270 U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
>>6154744 #7870
Previously Collected Notables
>>6152319 #7867, >>6153110 #7868, >>6153922 #7869
>>6150584 #7865, >>6151576 #7866, >>6152319 #7867
>>6148427 #7862, >>6149176 #7863, >>6149933 #7864
>>6146039 #7859, >>6146817 #7860, >>6147587 #7861
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6155574 at 2019-04-12 22:19:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7872: Q Club Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6121805, >>6122032 New BO, FastJack, announced in Meta (Cap: >>6121863)
>>6102951, >>6102968 8bit on global notables and baker assist
>>5958613 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGS) for images
>>6069810 BV's announce BO's resignation in Meta thread. All board-related decisions will be made by BV's as a group
>>6069934 8bit, thank you for your service to /qresearch/
Notables
are not endorsements
#7871
>>6155487 US DoD: "Flying in rare air."
>>6155447 Identity politics being used at an absurd level.
>>6155425 Giuliani: "Rep. Ilhan Omar must be denounced for outrageous 9/11 comments."
>>6155378 Photos surface revealing 2017 'closed-door' meeting between Rep. Ilhan Omar and Turkish President Erdogan.
>>6155297 POTUS 911 video 43 seconds long.
>>6155088 Planefag: Planefag: 44A10F gets around.
>>6155084 Kim Jong Un willing to meet for a third summit.
>>6155026 Glenn Greenwald points out the MSM's hypocrisy and deceitful comments regarding JA.
>>6155062 Christchurch terror attack used to justify mass surveillance of Muslims in China.
>>6155045 Planefag tracking UK/Ireland aircraft.
>>6154965 DJT Tweet: "WE WILL NEVER FORGET!" (video)
>>6154964 Q clock update. Re-read crumbs.
>>6154955 No trafficking in Kraft case?
>>6154894 AZAZ09O9 heading towards DC from Kansas City / Ft Leavenworth.
>>6154880 Q: Lost bible scriptures?
>>6154864 POTUS: "Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump, America is now winning the global race to deploy secure and reliable 5G!"
>>6154844 Milley: "Happy birthday to Army Aviation!"
>>6154821 House Oversight Committee planning to subpoena POTUS financial records.
>>6154820 11th MEU: "Not in our Waters!"
>>6154819 New York DA knew Clinton pal Epstein was "dangerous pedophile" while arguing for leniency. The "Weiner" treatment.
>>6155547 #7871
#7870
>>6154634 Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr is misleading with Mueller summary 'bizarre'.
>>6154626 Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field.
>>6154575 US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war.
>>6154584 Boston Globe writer urges waiters to 'tamper' with food of Republicans.
>>6154507 Jim Jordan's response to Cummings subpoena of a private company to target POTUS.
>>6154478 Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirms SpyGate coup told "no" *three* times at the FISA Court.
>>6154426 Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .
>>6154398 DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"
>>6154270 U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
>>6154744 #7870
#7869
>>6153755 Mktfag Report
>>6153632, >>6153769 Counter-terrorism operation ongoing in Russia. ISIS.
>>6153556 France willing to consider offering Julian Assange asylum to prevent US extradition.
>>6153531 Elizabeth Warren wants to end "beyond a resonable doubt" for criminal convictions.
>>6153508 Wherever Putin goes, GPS stops working. Report tracking Russian GPS spoofing activity reveals.
>>6153432 Sudan military chief steps down a day after staging coup to topple long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.
>>6153413 There is no constitutional difference between WikiLeaks and The New York Times.
>>6153376 Facebook removes page of Ecuador's former President on same day as Assange's arrest.
>>6153324 Swedish programmer with ties to Wikileaks arrested in Ecuador.
>>6153314 California issued fake IDs to 3 million "residents."
>>6153309 Honduran national charged with raping, murdering NJ jogger was deported twice .
>>6153301, >>6153332, >>6153364 Video and details of immolation man being carried away by USSS.
>>6153303 California governor makes new proposals to fight wildfires, PG&E shares rise.
>>6153922 #7869
Previously Collected Notables
>>6152319 #7867, >>6153110 #7868,
>>6150584 #7865, >>6151576 #7866, >>6152319 #7867
>>6148427 #7862, >>6149176 #7863, >>6149933 #7864
>>6146039 #7859, >>6146817 #7860, >>6147587 #7861
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6154753 at 2019-04-12 21:20:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7871: Narrative Shift Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>6137135 Bakers reminder, do not add Q's posts WITHOUT a tripcode to the dough
>>6121805, >>6122032 New BO, FastJack, announced in Meta (Cap: >>6121863)
>>6102951, >>6102968 8bit on global notables and baker assist
>>5958613 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGS) for images
>>6069810 BV's announce BO's resignation in Meta thread. All board-related decisions will be made by BV's as a group
>>6069934 8bit, thank you for your service to /qresearch/
Notables
are not endorsements
#7870
>>6154634 Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr is misleading with Mueller summary 'bizarre'.
>>6154626 Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field.
>>6154575 US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war.
>>6154584 Boston Globe writer urges waiters to 'tamper' with food of Republicans.
>>6154507 Jim Jordan's response to Cummings subpoena of a private company to target POTUS.
>>6154478 Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirms SpyGate coup told "no" *three* times at the FISA Court.
>>6154426 Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .
>>6154398 DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"
>>6154270 U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
>>6154744 #7870
#7869
>>6153755 Mktfag Report
>>6153632, >>6153769 Counter-terrorism operation ongoing in Russia. ISIS.
>>6153556 France willing to consider offering Julian Assange asylum to prevent US extradition.
>>6153531 Elizabeth Warren wants to end "beyond a resonable doubt" for criminal convictions.
>>6153508 Wherever Putin goes, GPS stops working. Report tracking Russian GPS spoofing activity reveals.
>>6153432 Sudan military chief steps down a day after staging coup to topple long-time leader Omar al-Bashir.
>>6153413 There is no constitutional difference between WikiLeaks and The New York Times.
>>6153376 Facebook removes page of Ecuador's former President on same day as Assange's arrest.
>>6153324 Swedish programmer with ties to Wikileaks arrested in Ecuador.
>>6153314 California issued fake IDs to 3 million "residents."
>>6153309 Honduran national charged with raping, murdering NJ jogger was deported twice .
>>6153301, >>6153332, >>6153364 Video and details of immolation man being carried away by USSS.
>>6153303 California governor makes new proposals to fight wildfires, PG&E shares rise.
>>6153922 #7869
#7868
>>6152891, >>6152915 Security incident unfolding outside the White House. The secret service members have arrested one person
>>6152687 Louisiana Diocese Releases List Of Accused Predator Priests
>>6152621 The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
>>6152570 LIVE POTUS remarks on 5G depolyment
>>6152529 Cryptologic School Commandant Diane Janosek Cryptologic School Commandant Diane Janosek Notice "Q'
>>6152463 Hillary Clinton: Assange "Must Now Answer For What He Has Done"
>>6152431 Google Blasted For Labeling Anti-Abortion Film Unplanned' As 'Propaganda'
>>6153110 #7868
Previously Collected Notables
>>6152319 #7867,
>>6150584 #7865, >>6151576 #7866, >>6152319 #7867
>>6148427 #7862, >>6149176 #7863, >>6149933 #7864
>>6146039 #7859, >>6146817 #7860, >>6147587 #7861
>>6143677 #7856, >>6144494 #7857, >>6145260 #7858
Notables Archive by BV's (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6154744 at 2019-04-12 21:19:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7870: Greatest Country on Earth Edition
#7870
>>6154634 Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr is misleading with Mueller summary 'bizarre'.
>>6154626 Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field.
>>6154575 US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war.
>>6154584 Boston Globe writer urges waiters to 'tamper' with food of Republicans.
>>6154507 Jim Jordan's response to Cummings subpoena of a private company to target POTUS.
>>6154478 Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirms SpyGate coup told "no" *three* times at the FISA Court.
>>6154426 Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .
>>6154398 DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"
>>6154270 U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
#6154647 at 2019-04-12 21:12:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7870: Greatest Country on Earth Edition
#7870
>>6154634 Rod Rosenstein: Saying Barr is misleading with Mueller summary 'bizarre'.
>>6154626 Plane crashes into Connecticut high school baseball field.
>>6154575 US declassifies some 11,000 pages of documents on Argentina dirty war.
>>6154584 Boston Globe writer urges waiters to 'tamper' with food of Republicans.
>>6154507 Jim Jordan's response to Cummings subpoena of a private company to target POTUS.
>>6154478 Trump attorney Jay Sekulow confirms SpyGate coup told "no" *three* times at the FISA Court.
>>6154426 Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .
>>6154398 DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"
>>6154270 U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
Last call / Baking in 70
#6154591 at 2019-04-12 21:08:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7870: Greatest Country on Earth Edition
Robert De Niro Still Believes Mueller Can Put Trump 'Away for a Long Time'
…
"I consider it my civic duty to do that part - just to be there because [Mueller] doesn't say much, but he doesn't have to. It's that simple," said the star, who added that he still has hopes of the president serving jailtime for suspected collusion with Russia in the 2016 election. "I might even be happier the day that Mueller puts him in handcuffs, takes him in an orange jumpsuit and puts him away for a long time."
…
The Taxi Driver actor also baselessly claimed that Attorney General William Barr covered up negative details in the Mueller report, calling it "pathetic."
…
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/04/12/robert-de-niro-still-believes-mueller-can-put-trump-away-for-a-long-time/
#6154444 at 2019-04-12 20:56:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7870: Greatest Country on Earth Edition
#7870
>>6154426 Ex-Venezuelan head of military intel detained in Madrid at US request .
>>6154398 DOD outreach: "Going in for the takedown!"
>>6154270 U.S. EPA revives provision that may name refiners applying for biofuel waivers.
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
#6154272 at 2019-04-12 20:44:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7870: Greatest Country on Earth Edition
#7870
>>6154241 Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe.
>>6154167, >>6154170 Discussion of using more military troops for the border crisis.
>>6154043 Democrats new favorite strategy: strong arming financial institutes.
>>6154089 27 more 'possible graves' found near Fla. reform school infamous for beatings, sex abuse.
>>6154087 Dems demanding DOJ disclose results of misconduct handling Epstein case.
#6154241 at 2019-04-12 20:42:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7870: Greatest Country on Earth Edition
NOTABLE
BREAKING, from U.S. Atty Press Release: Jury Finds Local Businessman Keith Forney guilty of fraud related to his obtaining small business preferences for his company, Forney Enterprises, Inc., in bidding for D.C. government contracts. Background:
Breaking: Nunes Sends Criminal Referral Notification to Barr-"Potential Violations" in Russia Probe
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has sent a criminal referral notification to Attorney General William Barr claiming "potential violations" in the FBI's handling of the Trump-Russia probe, according to Fox News.
"As part of that investigation, Committee Republicans identified several potential violations of law," Nunes wrote in a brief letter to Barr today.
Nunes and Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-TX) are prepared to brief the attorney general on their "eight criminal referrals."
According to Fox, "The letter did not provide further details on what the referrals will allege but the congressman previously told Fox News the referrals include two for conspiracy, as well as for 'global leaks' and for lying, misleading or obstructing congressional investigators."
Yesterday, Attorney General Barr testified before a Senate committee that he believed "spying" on the Trump campaign did occur.
"I think spying did occur," he said. "The question is whether it was adequately predicated. ... I think it's my obligation. Congress is usually very concerned with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane."
Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) recently suggested more criminal referrals are in the works.
Responding to a tweet on Monday about Nunes' referrals, Meadows wrote, "More criminal referrals to come. And certainly more deserved. Overwhelming evidence shows multiple FBI + DOJ executives abused their power to undermine a duly elected President Trump. They will be held accountable."
https://bongino.com/breaking-nunes-sends-criminal-referral-notification-to-Barr-potential-violations-in-russia-probe/
#6152655 at 2019-04-12 18:59:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7868 When Does a Bird Sing? Edition
Rick Wilson is scared
Bill Barr Is the Most Dangerous Man in America
Barr is also openly weaponizing the Department of Justice to potentially sully the future public, private, and legal testimony of members of the DOJ, FBI, and intelligence community who have seen the damning data on Trump and his claque. The goal is to intimidate anyone who would investigate Trump's vast portfolio of corruption and obstruction of justice, both before and after he took office. It goes far, far beyond the Russia probe; it is an investigation that by its nature aims to terrify all future witnesses and whistleblowers into silence.
By acceding to Trump's demands for political revenge and refusing to call out the language of witch hunts, crooked cops, angry Democrats, and treasonous enemies within, Barr sent a message to every member of the DOJ and intelligence community-even before reaching his own investigative conclusion-that they can either follow the Trump line, or potentially face persecution and prosecution.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/William-Barr-is-the-most-dangerous-man-in-america
#6150766 at 2019-04-12 16:28:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7865 For Our BREXIT Mates Edition
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1116736525629304833
POTUS_Schedule
@45_Schedule
12m12 minutes ago
"Not exposing our British partners has been the Justice Department's justification for locking up secrets about the beginnings of the Trump investigation. The redactions try & fail to hide that Priestap met repeatedly w/his British counterparts in 2016."
FBI Man's Testimony Points to Wrongdoing Well Beyond Spyin
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/04/11/fbi_mans_testimony_points_to_significant_wrongdoing_beyond_spying.html
By Eric Felten, RealClearInvestigations
April 12, 2019
Attorney General William Barr shocked official Washington Wednesday by saying what previously couldn't be said: That the counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign in 2016 involved "spying."
The spying, which Barr vowed to investigate, is not the only significant possible violation of investigative rules and ethics committed by agents, lawyers, managers, and officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice. A catalogue of those abuses can be found in recently released testimony that Edward William Priestap provided to Congress in a closed-door interview last summer. From the end of 2015 to the end of 2018 Bill Priestap was assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, which meant he oversaw the FBI's global counterintelligence efforts.
In that role, he managed both of the bureau's most politically sensitive investigations: the inquiry into Hillary Clinton's handling of classified information and the probe into whether Donald Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election. His testimony provides rare insight into the attitudes and thoughts of officials who launched the Russia probe and the probe of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose final report is expected to be released very soon.
More important, his testimony contains extensive indications of wrongdoing, including that the FBI and DoJ targeted Trump and did so with information it made no effort to verify. It paints a portrait of the Obama-era bureau as one that was unconcerned with political interference in investigations and was willing to enlist the help of close foreign allies to bring down its target. And, perhaps presaging a defense to Barr's claim that American officials had spied on the Trump campaign, it showcases the euphemisms that can be used to disguise "spying."
Filling In the Blanks
Priestap's testimony took place on June 5, 2018, in Room 2226 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The questioning, by congressmen and House committee staff, focused on whether the FBI had applied the same rigor to the Clinton investigation that it had to the Trump probe.
The transcript the public can read today contains not only those questions and Priestap's responses, but also the tell-tale redactions of anxious bureaucrats. One thing that is very clear is that the Sharpie brigades at the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice really, really didn't want anyone to know where Bill Priestap was a week into May 2016.
Rep. Jim Jordan: Where in the world was Bill Priestap?
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Not long into the questioning that Tuesday morning last summer, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked, "Do you ever travel oversees?"
"Yes," said Priestap.
"How often?"
"As little as possible."
The seeming comedy routine notwithstanding, Jordan later asked how many times in his 2½ years running the counter-intelligence shop Priestap had traveled abroad.
"I want to say three times," he said.
"And can you tell me where you went?" Jordan asked.
"The ones I'm remembering are the [REDACTED]."
#6150038 at 2019-04-12 13:23:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7865 For Our BREXIT Mates Edition
Q said to archive this drop. Pelosi seems real nervous and is lashing out. Those who scream the loudest…
Will in a week from today we find out why?
Pelosi: Barr Is So Far Up Trump's Ass I Can't Tell Where He Ends and Trump Begins
The House speaker has accused the attorney general of doing Trump's bidding and undermining the Constitution.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/nancy-pelosi-William-Barr
#6149469 at 2019-04-12 11:15:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7864: Bringing It All the Way Home Edition
meme material
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/17/senate-democrats-William-Barr-1110669
#6149317 at 2019-04-12 10:36:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7864: Bringing It All the Way Home Edition
It's very interesting listening to politicians and commentators turn on William Barr and accuse an upright man of evil behaviour and partiality - just as they did with Brett Kavanagh. Accusing a person of unethical behaviour, with no corroborating evidence, is far more revealing of the character and thinking of the accuser than that of the accused. As the Bible says: "out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." These accusers project onto others their own corrupt thoughts and behaviour and lay bare to the world the wicked machinations of their minds. They would do well to hold their tongues if they want their secret, evil thoughts to remain secret. Meanwhile, I carefully take note of their words, knowing that their words reveal more about themselves than the targets of their malice.
#6148178 at 2019-04-12 06:26:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7862: FREE JA Edition
>>6148146
>another NOTABLE for next bread
ADD to the list:
Rod Rosenstein: "He's (AG Barr) being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think is just completely BIZARRE!" ?
Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday defended Attorney General William Barr against allegations that he is misleading Congress and the public about the special counsel's Russia report.
"He's being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think is just completely bizarre," Rosenstein said in a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Democrats have accused Barr of releasing misleading information about special counsel Robert Mueller's findings from his 22-month investigation, which focused on possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether President Trump tried to obstruct the probe.
Barr sent a letter to Congress on March 24 saying that Mueller was unable to establish that collusion occurred. On the obstruction matter, Barr said that Mueller declined to make a decision one way or the other on whether to recommend a case against Trump.
U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies on the Justice Department's budget proposal before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2019. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein
Barr said that he conferred with Rosenstein and Justice Department lawyers and decided against pursuing a case. Barr said that since there was no allegation of conspiracy, Trump had no underlying crime to conceal by obstruction. (RELATED: Barr: 'I Think Spying Did Occur' On The Trump Campaign)
Democrats heightened their criticism last week after The New York Times reported that members of Mueller's team were frustrated that Barr had misrepresented Mueller's findings. The anonymous sources claimed that there was a stronger case to be made on obstruction than Barr's letter let on.
But Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel on May 17, 2017 and oversaw the probe, said that Barr revealed as much information as he could. He also defended the review process taking place ahead of the release of the report. Barr said on Tuesday that he expects to give a redacted version of Mueller's report to Congress "within a week."
The Justice Department, in coordination with Mueller's team, is reviewing the report to decide which grand jury and classified information to redact.
"It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, 'I'm not going to give you the report,'" Rosenstein told The Journal.
"What he said is, 'Look, it's going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what's in it. I'm going to give you the top-line conclusions.' That's all he was trying to do."
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/rod-rosenstein-defends-William-Barr/
#6146593 at 2019-04-12 03:47:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7860: Take Care Of Our Wizzard, Fam Edition
House chairman threatens to find Justice official in contempt of Congress
House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) said his committee will consider a Department of Justice official to be in contempt if he does not comply with a subpoena to testify. Cummings, in a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday, wrote that Barr appears "to be instructing" John Gore, a principal deputy assistant attorney general, "to defy a duly authorized congressional subpoena" requesting his testimony. "The Committee expects Mr. Gore to testify in accordance with the Committee's lawful subpoena and the Committee's rules," the letter reads. "If Mr. Gore fails to comply with the subpoena, the Committee will consider him to be in contempt of Congress."
The letter is in response to the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserting in a letter sent to Cummings on Tuesday that it would not comply with the committee's subpoena if Gore was not permitted to have an agency lawyer with him. Gore is wanted for testimony about a citizenship question added to the 2020 census. The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments about the question later this month. Three federal judges have blocked the question from being added to the 2020 survey. Gore has already met with the Oversight panel but Cummings has said he refused to answer more than 150 questions. The agency argued that because of the ongoing legal challenges to the question, Gore was not and would not be able to answer certain questions.
In arguing that a DOJ lawyer should be present for Gore's testimony, the DOJ argued that there is a precedent for such action and that Gore is acting in his official capacity. Cummings has offered to allow Justice Department counsel to be in a separate room during Gore's deposition. He also said Gore would be allowed to consult with the attorney during his testimony if needed. Gore was scheduled to sit for the deposition Thursday. An Oversight Committee spokesperson told The Hill that the testimony had been postponed, and a rescheduled date would be announced
later.
The Department of Commerce announced last year it would add the question on citizenship status on the next census, saying it would help DOJ enforce the Voting Rights Act. The decision sparked pushback from a number of states, who opted to legally challenge the addition of the question in the courts. Critics of the move have argued it could deter individuals from responding to the census, which could lead to the population being undercounted. The census is used to calculate how federal funding will be allocated.
In addition to Gore's testimony, the committee also issued two additional subpoenas. One was to the Justice Department requesting any communications on the census question between DOJ, the White House, the Republican National Committee, the Trump campaign or members of Congress. And a second was issued to the Department of Commerce calling for unredacted internal communications and documents on the census question from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438489-house-chairman-threatens-to-find-justice-official-in-contempt-of-congress
#6146317 at 2019-04-12 03:27:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7860: Take Care Of Our Wizzard, Fam Edition
>>6146293
I love William Barr. LOVE him.
#6145569 at 2019-04-12 02:28:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7859: All Your Servers Are Belong To Us Edition
If Mueller is not a white hat then explain his long term friendship with AG William Barr?
#6144249 at 2019-04-12 00:49:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7857: "The 'Server' Brings Down The House" Edition
Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General's Handling Of Mueller Report
Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday defended Attorney General William Barr against allegations that he is misleading Congress and the public about the special counsel's Russia report. "He's being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think is just completely bizarre," Rosenstein said in a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal. Democrats have accused Barr of releasing misleading information about special counsel Robert Mueller's findings from his 22-month investigation, which focused on possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether President Trump tried to obstruct the probe.
Barr sent a letter to Congress on March 24 saying that Mueller was unable to establish that collusion occurred. On the obstruction matter, Barr said that Mueller declined to make a decision one way or the other on whether to recommend a case against Trump. Barr said that he conferred with Rosenstein and Justice Department lawyers and decided against pursuing a case. Barr said that since there was no allegation of conspiracy, Trump had no underlying crime to conceal by obstruction.
Democrats heightened their criticism last week after The New York Times reported that members of Mueller's team were frustrated that Barr had misrepresented Mueller's findings. The anonymous sources claimed that there was a stronger case to be made on obstruction than Barr's letter let on. But Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel on May 17, 2017 and oversaw the probe, said that Barr revealed as much information as he could. He also defended the review process taking place ahead of the release of the report. Barr said on Tuesday that he expects to give a redacted version of Mueller's report to Congress "within a week."
The Justice Department, in coordination with Mueller's team, is reviewing the report to decide which grand jury and classified information to redact. "It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, 'I'm not going to give you the report,'" Rosenstein told The Journal. "What he said is, 'Look, it's going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what's in it. I'm going to give you the top-line conclusions.' That's all he was trying to do."
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/rod-rosenstein-defends-William-Barr/
#6144208 at 2019-04-12 00:46:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7857: "The 'Server' Brings Down The House" Edition
POTUS_Schedule Retweeted
The Daily Caller
Verified account @DailyCaller
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https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1116485610020179969
Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General's Handling Of Mueller Report
7:28 PM 04/11/2019 | US
Chuck Ross | Reporter
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/11/rod-rosenstein-defends-William-Barr/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true
Outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday defended Attorney General William Barr against allegations that he is misleading Congress and the public about the special counsel's Russia report.
"He's being as forthcoming as he can, and so this notion that he's trying to mislead people, I think is just completely bizarre," Rosenstein said in a rare interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Democrats have accused Barr of releasing misleading information about special counsel Robert Mueller's findings from his 22-month investigation, which focused on possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, as well as whether President Trump tried to obstruct the probe.
Barr sent a letter to Congress on March 24 saying that Mueller was unable to establish that collusion occurred. On the obstruction matter, Barr said that Mueller declined to make a decision one way or the other on whether to recommend a case against Trump.
Barr said that he conferred with Rosenstein and Justice Department lawyers and decided against pursuing a case. Barr said that since there was no allegation of conspiracy, Trump had no underlying crime to conceal by obstruction. (RELATED: Barr: 'I Think Spying Did Occur' On The Trump Campaign)
Democrats heightened their criticism last week after The New York Times reported that members of Mueller's team were frustrated that Barr had misrepresented Mueller's findings. The anonymous sources claimed that there was a stronger case to be made on obstruction than Barr's letter let on.
But Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller as special counsel on May 17, 2017 and oversaw the probe, said that Barr revealed as much information as he could. He also defended the review process taking place ahead of the release of the report. Barr said on Tuesday that he expects to give a redacted version of Mueller's report to Congress "within a week."
The Justice Department, in coordination with Mueller's team, is reviewing the report to decide which grand jury and classified information to redact.
"It would be one thing if you put out a letter and said, 'I'm not going to give you the report,'" Rosenstein told The Journal.
"What he said is, 'Look, it's going to take a while to process the report. In the meantime, people really want to know what's in it. I'm going to give you the top-line conclusions.' That's all he was trying to do."
#6144082 at 2019-04-12 00:36:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7857: "The 'Server' Brings Down The House" Edition
POTUS retweet
Rod Rosenstein Defends Attorney General's Handling Of Mueller Report
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1116485610020179969
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#6142662 at 2019-04-11 22:40:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7855: More Than The Gist Edition
>>6142631
April 11, 2019 6:29 p.m. ET
Rod Rosenstein Defends Justice Department Handling of Mueller Report
Deputy attorney general rebuts Democrats' suggestions that William Barr is trying to mislead
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rod-rosenstein-defends-justice-department-handling-of-mueller-report-11555021002
#6141931 at 2019-04-11 21:46:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7854: Super Elite Edition
Barr says 'I think spying did occur' on Trump campaign - PBS
Attorney General William Barr told senators Wednesday that he believes
"spying did occur" on the Trump campaign but "the question is whether
it was adequately predicated."
"Spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr said.
The attorney general also said he would not redact information from
special counsel Robert Mueller's report to protect the president. But Barr,
in explaining his rationale for which parts of the Mueller report he plans
to redact, said he might redact information to protect private third parties.
#6140825 at 2019-04-11 20:28:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7853: The Many Handed Wizard Edition
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Rep. Devin Nunes sent a criminal-referral notification to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday alleging several "potential violations" of the law.
The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said he and Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe are prepared to brief Barr on alleged misconduct during the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling and contacts with Trump advisers during the 2016 campaign.
The referrals stem from the investigation conducted by the House Intelligence Committee when Republicans held the House majority.
"As part of that investigation, Committee Republicans identified several potential violations of law," Nunes, R-Calif., wrote in a brief letter to Barr on Thursday.
The notification comes after Barr testified to Congress this week that he is reviewing the "conduct" of the original FBI investigation. During the second of two Capitol Hill appearances on Wednesday, Barr said he believes "spying did occur," and the question is "whether it was adequately predicated."
Amid criticism from Democrats who accused him of playing into President Trump's "deep state" rhetoric, Barr stressed that he just wants to make sure "there was no unauthorized surveillance."
Nunes has been looking into such surveillance and other issues for months. In his letter Thursday to Barr, Nunes said he would have his staff arrange a time for him and Ratcliffe, R-Texas, to "brief you directly on eight criminal referrals."
The letter did not provide further details on what the referrals will allege but the congressman previously told Fox News the referrals include two for conspiracy, as well as for "global leaks" and for lying, misleading or obstructing congressional investigators.
The step comes as Republicans have pushed for the release of key documents to uncover the origins of the accusations that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. According to a summary of the now-completed Robert Mueller probe, that investigation did not uncover evidence of collusion. Trump recently told Fox News he would release the entirety of the FISA applications used to surveil one of his top aides, and other related documents.
Nunes earlier told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he has been working on the referrals for more than two years, and wanted to wait until Barr's confirmation.
Nunes asserted that "we've had a lot of concerns with the way intelligence was used" during the Trump-Russia probe.
Redacted versions of FISA documents already released have revealed that the FBI extensively relied on documents produced by Christopher Steele, an anti-Trump British ex-spy working for a firm funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC), to surveil Trump aide Carter Page. The FISA application did not clearly state that the firm was funded by the Clinton team and DNC.
Further, just nine days before the FBI applied for the FISA warrant to surveil Page, officials were battling with a senior Justice Department official who had "continued concerns" about the "possible bias" of a source pivotal to the application, according to internal text messages obtained by Fox News in March.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-sends-criminal-referral-notification-to-Barr-alleges-several-potential-violations-in-russia-probe
#6140751 at 2019-04-11 20:23:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7853: The Many Handed Wizard Edition
Stefanik Moves To Prevent Comey-Era Spy Abuses At FBI
APRIL 11, 2019 By Mollie Hemingway
Elise Stefanik, a Republican lawmaker who sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, introduced legislation Wednesday that would require the FBI director to promptly inform Congress when investigations of candidates for federal office are undertaken by federal law enforcement or intelligence authorities.
Two years ago, when then-FBI Director James Comey finally notified Congress that he'd opened up a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign the previous year, some members were deeply troubled. Not only was the FBI director not supposed to hide his counterintelligence work from a key group of congressional members who receive his briefings, he was supposed to notify them in particular about politically sensitive probes.
The legislation from Stefanik, a two-term representative from New York, addresses a loophole in current law that allowed Comey to unilaterally withhold that information from key congressional oversight bodies. In a March 2016 hearing, Comey admitted to Stefanik that he did not follow the typical protocols or procedures regarding notifying Congress about the opening of a counterintelligence investigation in part because he was not required to do so.
Pressed to explain why he waited nine months to brief the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees, he admitted he was supposed to provide quarterly updates but had refused to do so regarding the Trump-Russia probe for the same reason many thought he should have done so. "I think our decision was, it was a matter of such sensitivity that we wouldn't include it in the quarterly briefings," he said.
Comey suggested in testimony that he did not make the decision to hide the information from Congress, placing the blame on the "head of our counterintelligence division." But Bill Priestap, the former assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division, told a joint congressional committee it was Comey himself who made the decision to hide the existence of the anti-Trump spy operation from Congress.
"Mr. Comey was involved in those notifications. I was not," Priestap told lawmakers. "I don't instruct Mr. Comey, nor did I ever instruct him to do anything." When Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, asked him point-blank "Who made the decision not to brief Congress in this particular instance?" Priestap said, "Mr. Comey."
Stefanik's legislation would formalize the requirement of quarterly updates on counterintelligence briefings. In addition, it would require the FBI director to "promptly notify" the committees if the agency was investigating any candidate for federal office, any candidate's campaign, or any individual known to be affiliated with a campaign.
The Trump-Russia probe from the 2016 campaign touched off a massive scandal that included wiretaps of private citizens, weaponization of campaign-funded opposition research, the deployment of overseas intelligence assets against American citizens, and allegations that America's top law enforcement and intelligence officials were attempting a soft coup of the duly-elected president of the United States. That probe, thanks to strategic leaks from intelligence officials, then folded into Special Counsel Robert Mueller's sprawling two-year-long investigation. It resulted in zero charges related to collusion or conspiracy with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton.
Attorney General William Barr acknowledged the spy operation before the Senate Wednesday, and said he is reviewing the origins of the probe.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/11/stefanik-moves-to-prevent-comey-era-spy-abuses-at-fbi/
#6139815 at 2019-04-11 19:26:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7851: PAYBACK Edition
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., discusses his 2020 campaign, how his message can cut through a crowded presidential field and his thoughts on AG William Barr's remarks during a Wednesday Senate hearing.
Rep. Eric Swalwell: AG William Barr Has No Business Being On Case | Morning Joe | MSNBC
#6139786 at 2019-04-11 19:25:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7851: PAYBACK Edition
Attorney General William Barr told a Senate panel Wednesday that he thinks spying did occur by the U.S. government on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. The Morning Joe panel reacts to Barr's statement.
#6139624 at 2019-04-11 19:16:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7851: PAYBACK Edition
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1116418018983272450
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The first of multiple criminal referrals from Devin Nunes has been sent to AG Bill Barr.
Nunes sends criminal-referral notification to Barr, alleges several 'potential violations' in Russia probe
By Catherine Herridge, Gregg Re | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-sends-criminal-referral-notification-to-Barr-alleges-several-potential-violations-in-russia-probe
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Rep. Devin Nunes sent a criminal-referral notification to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday alleging several "potential violations" of the law.
The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said he and Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe are prepared to brief Barr on alleged misconduct during the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling and contacts with Trump advisers during the 2016 campaign.
The referrals stem from the investigation conducted by the House Intelligence Committee when Republicans held the House majority.
"As part of that investigation, Committee Republicans identified several potential violations of law," Nunes, R-Calif., wrote in a brief letter to Barr on Thursday.
The notification comes after Barr testified to Congress this week that he is reviewing the "conduct" of the original FBI investigation. During the second of two Capitol Hill appearances on Wednesday, Barr said he believes "spying did occur," and the question is "whether it was adequately predicated."
AG William Barr grilled on Capitol Hill for the second dayVideo
Amid criticism from Democrats who accused him of playing into President Trump's "deep state" rhetoric, Barr stressed that he just wants to make sure "there was no unauthorized surveillance."
Nunes has been looking into such surveillance and other issues for months. In his letter Thursday to Barr, Nunes said he would have his staff arrange a time for him and Ratcliffe, R-Texas, to "brief you directly on eight criminal referrals."
The letter did not provide further details on what the referrals will allege but the congressman previously told Fox News the referrals include two for conspiracy, as well as for "global leaks" and for lying, misleading or obstructing congressional investigators.
The step comes as Republicans have pushed for the release of key documents to uncover the origins of the accusations that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government. According to a summary of the now-completed Robert Mueller probe, that investigation did not uncover evidence of collusion. Trump recently told Fox News he would release the entirety of the FISA applications used to surveil one of his top aides, and other related documents.
Nunes earlier told Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he has been working on the referrals for more than two years, and wanted to wait until Barr's confirmation.
Nunes asserted that "we've had a lot of concerns with the way intelligence was used" during the Trump-Russia probe.
Redacted versions of FISA documents already released have revealed that the FBI extensively relied on documents produced by Christopher Steele, an anti-Trump British ex-spy working for a firm funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee (DNC), to surveil Trump aide Carter Page. The FISA application did not clearly state that the firm was funded by the Clinton team and DNC.
Further, just nine days before the FBI applied for the FISA warrant to surveil Page, officials were battling with a senior Justice Department official who had "continued concerns" about the "possible bias" of a source pivotal to the application, according to internal text messages obtained by Fox News in March.
Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.
#6139510 at 2019-04-11 19:09:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7851: PAYBACK Edition
Nunes sends criminal-referral notification to Barr, alleges several 'potential violations' in Russia probe
EXCLUSIVE: Republican Rep. Devin Nunes sent a criminal-referral notification to Attorney General William Barr on Thursday alleging several "potential violations" of the law.
The ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee said he and Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe are prepared to brief Barr on alleged misconduct during the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling and contacts with Trump advisers during the 2016 campaign.
FBI CLASHED WITH DOJ OVER POTENTIAL 'BIAS' OF SOURCE
The referrals stem from the investigation conducted by the House Intelligence Committee when Republicans held the House majority.
"As part of that investigation, Committee Republicans identified several potential violations of law," Nunes, R-Calif., wrote in a brief letter to Barr on Thursday.
The notification comes after Barr testified to Congress this week that he is reviewing the "conduct" of the original FBI investigation. During the second of two Capitol Hill appearances on Wednesday, Barr said he believes "spying did occur," and the question is "whether it was adequately predicated."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-sends-criminal-referral-notification-to-Barr-alleges-several-potential-violations-in-russia-probe
#6137224 at 2019-04-11 16:40:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7848: Extra Dishin' Edition
Barr says 'I think spying did occur' on Trump campaign - PBS
Attorney General William Barr told senators Wednesday that he believes
"spying did occur" on the Trump campaign but "the question is whether
it was adequately predicated."
"Spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr said.
The attorney general also said he would not redact information from
special counsel Robert Mueller's report to protect the president. But Barr,
in explaining his rationale for which parts of the Mueller report he plans
to redact, said he might redact information to protect private third parties.
#6137151 at 2019-04-11 16:35:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7848: Extra Dishin' Edition
>>6137142
Lmao
Look at the eyes tho
Completely soulless
Trumps eyes arnt
Theres definitely some darkness in there tho
Suprisingly William Barr doesnt have evil eyes at all
#6137111 at 2019-04-11 16:31:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7848: Extra Dishin' Edition
Tuesday at the top of her primetime MSNBC program, host Rachel Maddow argued that legal maneuvering by Attorney General William Barr not to offer Congress an unredacted copy of the Mueller Report could force congressional Democrats to seek impeachment of President Donald Trump.
"The Rachel Maddow Show" host told viewers that if the House Judiciary Committee opened an impeachment inquiry, it could force Barr to offer grand jury testimony that was redacted in any future release of the Mueller Report.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/10/maddow-ag-Barrs-refusal-to-hand-over-unredacted-mueller-report-could-force-impeachment-inquiry/
#6136807 at 2019-04-11 16:08:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7848: Extra Dishin' Edition
17) Trump said he hopes the attorney general will go "back to the origin of exactly where this all started."
And it appears that this is what Attorney General William Barr is doing.
https://twitter.com/JasperFakkert/status/1116351408075345921
#6136709 at 2019-04-11 16:01:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7847: Dominoes are Falling Edition
QNN SPECIAL REPORT:
ATTORNEY GENERAL William Barr SAYS "I THINK SPYING DID OCCUR"
- RE-READ THE DROPS RE: Barr -
#6136298 at 2019-04-11 15:27:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7847: Dominoes are Falling Edition
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1116352774864814080
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Focus on the Leaking, Not Just the Spying.
Focus on the Leaking, Not Just the Spying
Ask not only how the FBI got interested in the Trump campaign, but also how its investigation became public.
By Eli Lake
April 11, 2019, 6:00 AM EDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-11/spying-did-occur-but-Barr-should-also-focus-on-the-leaking
Attorney General William Barr thinks that U.S. intelligence agencies spied on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. And as Bloomberg News reported Tuesday, he has assembled a team to review the matter.
He does not know if the spying was improper, Barr emphasized. "The question is whether it was adequately predicated," he said. He later clarified that he does not think the FBI itself is corrupt. Nonetheless, Barr said, "spying on a political campaign is a big deal."
Barr is correct on both counts - that there was snooping on the Trump campaign, and that the question of whether it was justified deserves further scrutiny. What also deserves scrutiny is how an ongoing intelligence investigation into that campaign became public.
As far as the spying is concerned, none of this should be a surprise. It has already been reported, for example, that in the summer and fall of 2016 the FBI sent an informant to meet with three Trump advisers and report back. The bureau also received a warrant in October 2016 to eavesdrop on Carter Page, a former Trump campaign adviser (notably, the warrant allowed the FBI to read Page's past texts, emails and phone logs). The head of the U.K.'s signal intelligence agency briefed former CIA director John Brennan that fall on intercepts that showed communications between Trump's campaign and Russian officials.
And just because special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence of a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 election, it doesn't necessarily follow that the spies and FBI officers probing those claims violated any laws. What's more, many of these kinds of investigations are predicated on suspicion that a U.S. person has been targeted by a foreign power - even if that individual did not knowingly engage in espionage.
The abuse of power here is what happened after Trump won the election. This is when the investigations themselves and other kinds of surveillance were disclosed to the press. Details about incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition leaked. So did the FBI's probe of Trump associates and their contacts with Russia, along with the existence of the surveillance warrant on Page himself.
#6135721 at 2019-04-11 14:41:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7846: Trust the Plan Edition
QNN SPECIAL REPORT:
ATTORNEY GENERAL William Barr SAYS "I THINK SPYING DID OCCUR"
– RE-READ DROPS RE: Barr –
#6135122 at 2019-04-11 13:47:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7845: PANIC in the Air: Suicide Watch Weekend Approaching Edition
Barr Confirms Multiple Intel Agencies Implicated In Anti-Trump Spy Operation
'I'm not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly,' Barr said.
"Spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Attorney General William Barr told a Senate committee on Wednesday morning. Barr's comments came in the context of potential Justice Department reviews of the Trump-Russia investigation and how it began in 2016.
While it is important that the top law enforcement in the United States publicly acknowledged that the Obama administration and its intelligence agencies surveilled its domestic political opponents during the heat of a presidential election, it is what he said next that was most startling: that the CIA and other federal agencies in addition to the FBI may have been involved. "I'm not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly," he said.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/10/Barr-confirms-multiple-intel-agencies-implicated-in-anti-trump-spy-operation/
#6134232 at 2019-04-11 12:24:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7844 Julian Arrested Edition
Post 3059
Attorney General William Barr Is Disgusted by What He's Discovered (So-far)
Q
!!mG7VJxZNCI
14 Mar 2019 - 2:43:38 PM
AG Barr "DISGUSTED" BY WHAT HE'S DISCOVERED (SO-FAR).
"IN ALL MY YEARS, IN ALL MY LIFE, I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT [ ] BE POSSIBLE WITHIN THE HALLS OF THESE PRESTIGIOUS FEDERAL AGENCIES."
PRESS CONF COMING?
THEY WILL CLAIM POLITICAL ATTACK.
Q
Barr in Congress States doing his own investigation. Spying within the Intelligence community.
=Q PROOF=
#6132432 at 2019-04-11 07:38:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7842: D's make claims with no evidence, Nobody Panics... Edition
Stefan Halper: The Cambridge don the FBI sent to spy on Trump
"When Attorney General William Barr stated "spying did occur" against the 2016 Trump campaign, most attention was focused on the FBI's surveillance of former junior foreign policy aide Carter Page.
But the spying Barr was thinking of, and which he said may or may not have been legally authorized, is more likely to be that carried out by Stefan Halper, a former Republican operative and White House aide who became a foreign policy academic with close ties to both American and British intelligence. "
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/stefan-halper-the-cambridge-professor-the-fbi-sent-to-spy-on-trump
#6131009 at 2019-04-11 04:46:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7840: Lights on Nightshift Edition
Jim I really feel empathy for you.I don't think yo will do well in prison. How you became GEN is a mystery. I guess the theory of perfumed princes is true for you. You will not do well in prison. You are too soft.
"
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: It is "stunning and scary" that Attorney General William Barr would raise the spying allegation https://cnn.it/2UviL3A"
#6130916 at 2019-04-11 04:36:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7840: Lights on Nightshift Edition
William Barr IS A CHABAD LUBAVITCH JEWISH PUPPET
#6128786 at 2019-04-11 01:43:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7837: Not Just Russia Hoax. Treasonous Russia Hoax Edition
Reporter having nervous breakdown?
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27101724/William-Barr-investigate-fbi-trump-russia/
William Barr Is Shooting Squid Ink for Republicans to Hide Behind
And we're off. Even if a photo leaks of the president* taking a paper bag full of rubles from Vladimir Putin outside the Kremlin walls, there will be "another side" in which Republicans can hide for electoral purposes. The squid-ink bazooka is fully loaded and primed. The conservative media apparatus has something to bellow about. William Barr has done his job. He's done the work he's been hired to do-part of which was summarized deftly by Senator Brian Schatz as "giving the cable-news universe something to freak out" over. Meanwhile, his press release will dominate that narrative
He also emphasized the importance of the big, stupid wall as part of the war on drugs, and specifically on opioids
He also staunchly defended his DOJ's decision not to defend the Affordable Care Act. But the main news was his announcement of his task force as part of Operation Distract And Deflect. And he spent most of the rest of the hearing telling Democratic senators to pound sand.
#6128568 at 2019-04-11 01:28:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7837: Not Just Russia Hoax. Treasonous Russia Hoax Edition
>>6128300
That's fine. It doesn't matter what the MSM says or does anymore.
Besides, AG William Barr is the honey badger.
He most certainly don't give a shit.
#6128430 at 2019-04-11 01:19:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7837: Not Just Russia Hoax. Treasonous Russia Hoax Edition
Gaetz Introduces Resolution To Remove Schiff From House Intel Committee
Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz unveiled his new resolution targeting House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff for his handling of the Russian collusion theory, during Tucker Carlson's Wednesday show.
The resolution, titled "Preventing Extreme Negligence with Classified Information Licenses Resolution"-or "Pencil Act"-calls for Schiff's resignation from the committee. The acronym is a reference to "pencil neck," which is President Donald Trump's recent nickname for Schiff.
"Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congressman Adam Schiff should be removed from the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House and that his security clearance should be revoked immediately," the resolution begins. "Whereas Congressman Adam Schiff is the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives." "I have filed legislation today, sent to the House, that Adam Schiff needs to be removed from the Intelligence Committee, because how are the rest of us supposed to be able to rely on a man, who you just showed, lied to the American people when he said that there was not spying? Or when he lied and said that there was actual evidence of collusion or clear evidence of collusion?" Gaetz began.
"If Adam Schiff is able to review covert operations and intelligence, and if we have to rely on his representation, our whole system is broken," he continued. "It would be like putting Lori Loughlin in charge of the college board. It would be like putting Jussie Smollett in charge of the hate crime of the FBI."
As Gaetz referenced, Schiff has faced significant heat since special counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation and filed his report. Attorney General William Barr relayed to Congress a summary of the report, which concluded that the president's 2016 campaign did not conspire with Russia.
Back in March 2017, Schiff claimed he had seen "more than circumstantial evidence of collusion." The nine Republicans on the House Intel Committee sent a letter to Schiff at the end of March that called for him to step down, alleging that he "spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!"
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/10/gaetz-schiff-intel-committee-russia/
#6128316 at 2019-04-11 01:11:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7837: Not Just Russia Hoax. Treasonous Russia Hoax Edition
Guyz…..
sauce
https://denver.cbslocal.com/2016/08/17/denver-international-airport-magic-johnson-makeover/
https://www.infrapppworld.com/news/megaproject-725-denver-international-airport-picks-ferrovial-jlc-loop-capital-partners-team-for-p3-project
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-William-Barr-mueller-report-hearing-20190409-story.html
#6128081 at 2019-04-11 00:53:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7837: Not Just Russia Hoax. Treasonous Russia Hoax Edition
My apologies if already posted
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/politics/William-Barr-spying-carter-page/index.html
On Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr told lawmakers that "spying did occur" on President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, adding: "I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal."
Which, if true, it is! Here's the problem: Barr provided little context or evidence for the "spying" charge. Which is kind of troubling given that he is the top law enforcement official in the country.
Later, he added, "I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred. I am saying that I am concerned about it and I'm looking into it."
But never mind that right now…
Since Barr provided almost no explanation for "spying" allegation, let's try to figure out what he's talking about.
BUT THE BEST WAS THE ENDING…
But if past is prologue, the investigation will show that federal law enforcement officials acted entirely within their legal boundaries.
#6127908 at 2019-04-11 00:41:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7836: The Sound of Justice is Barritone Edition
William Barr:
"I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016."
'"A lot has already been investigated and a substantial portion of it is being investigated by the IG at the Department." One of the things I want to do is pull together all the investigations that have gone on including on The Hill and in the department. And see if there are any remaining questions to be addressed."
Spying on a political campaign is a BIG DEAL
The key point here is that Barr won't have to kick off an investigation, Congress, Horowitz and Huber have been working on this since 2017.
"I think spying did occur."
#6127677 at 2019-04-11 00:21:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7836: The Sound of Justice is Barritone Edition
Barr Doesn't Care That His Obamacare Lawsuit Would Hurt People
The Trump administration is trying to kill the Affordable Care Act in court. William Barr isn't interested in addressing the human cost.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-attorney-general-doesnt-care-that-his-obamacare-lawsuit-would-hurt-people_n_5cae1ddfe4b0c0e0e535e6e4
#6127550 at 2019-04-11 00:10:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7836: The Sound of Justice is Barritone Edition
>>6127448
Wow demonrat triggered
>https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/politics/nancy-pelosi-William-Barr-mueller-report/index.html
#6127448 at 2019-04-11 00:01:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7836: The Sound of Justice is Barritone Edition
pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-PANIC
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Attorney General William Barr is "going off the rails"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/politics/nancy-pelosi-William-Barr-mueller-report/index.html
#6127368 at 2019-04-10 23:53:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7836: The Sound of Justice is Barritone Edition
(just in my in box)
WIRED Special Edition - The Mueller Report
"The Mueller Report has been sitting in the Justice Department for nearly two weeks. Attorney general William Barr told Congress today he's hoping the public will finally get a look at the 300-plus page document sometime within the next week, ending a bizarre period of dissembling and fumbling by Barr that has left America with more questions than answers about the seriousness of what Mueller uncovered.
So far, the public has seen less than 70 words of Mueller's own conclusions, not a single complete sentence among them. But Barr's performance on Capitol Hill deepened the sense of unease about the coming unveiling of the Mueller report, and how much of it would be made public.
Particularly worrisome, Barr seemed to be adopting the president's call for "investigating the investigators," fueling a theory (based on vague and incorrect dot-connecting) that the FBI investigation was illegal.
On the contrary, all public evidence has shown that the special counsel's investigation of Trump's campaign was by the book. If anything, Mueller's team showed just how right the FBI was. From money laundering, to tax fraud, to working as unregistered foreign agents, Trump's campaign officials committed enough crimes to make it the most criminal political enterprise in modern American history."
http://links.newsletters.wired.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MTU0NDgyMDMS1&r=MjM5NjgxOTIwNDE0S0&j=MTYyMDY4MTI3NwS2&mt=1&rt=0
#6127346 at 2019-04-10 23:52:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7836: The Sound of Justice is Barritone Edition
Media unload on Barr over spying: 'Trump's toady,' 'prejudices the conversation,' 'highly questionable'
Attorney General William Barr's bombshell statement before Congress that there was "spying" on the 2016 Trump campaign triggered a ferocious media reaction. "I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016. I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr said during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.
That statement set off a media frenzy.
Tim O'Brien of Bloomberg compared Barr to Roy Cohn, the notorious chief counsel of Sen. Joseph McCarthy's hearings into suspected communists in the 1950s and later Donald Trump's personal lawyer. Cohn was "a ruthless and sleazy attack dog who taught Trump how to weaponize the legal system," and Barr was "trying" to be like him, O'Brien said. He took issue with the use of the word "spying" by Barr, though the attorney general made it clear that he had made no judgment on whether it was legal or not. "Spying is cloak-and-daggerish and, when it doesn't involve foreign governments trying to game and surveil one another, it feels untoward. It's your neighbor looking into your bedroom window, ... it's all sort of dirty," he wrote, adding: "Saying you're looking into spying prejudices the perspective and prejudices the conversation."
The Washington Post also joined the pile-on. Aaron Blake wrote in an analysis article that Barr's testimony was "highly questionable" and cited fired FBI Director James Comey and Jim Clapper, former director of national intelligence - both outspoken Trump critics. Blake wrote that Comey had characterized FBI scrutiny of the Trump campaign as "simply an information-gathering effort." He added that when asked whether the FBI had spied on the Trump's campaign, Clapper had responded: "No, they were not."
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post called via Twitter for Barr to be impeached. She then elaborated in an article headlined "William Barr, Trump toady" that Barr was using "the language of a PR spinner, not the attorney general of the United States." She lamented Barr's use of the "spying" as a "loaded phrase and a political accusation." She quoted approvingly the judgment of Laurence Tribe, an outspoken liberal and former adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, that "Barr has been gravely abusing the powers of his office."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/media-unloads-on-Barr-over-spying-trumps-toady-prejudices-the-conversation-highly-questionable
Bill Barr Is Trying Hard to Be President Trump's Roy Cohn
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-10/bill-Barr-wants-to-be-trump-s-new-attack-dog
William Barr, Trump toady
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/10/William-Barr-trump-toady/?utm_term=.2cdc275f9d66
William Barr's highly questionable use of Trump's 'spying' talking point
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/04/10/William-Barrs-highly-questionable-use-trumps-spying-talking-point/?utm_term=.64da77fc1dbc
#6127120 at 2019-04-10 23:32:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7835: William the Barrbarian Edition
AG William Barr: "Yes, I think spying did occur" on Trump Campaign
Attorney General William Barr delivered stunning, albeit obviously honest, remarks during congressional testimony today in response to Democrat Senator Jeanne Shaheen about his intent to review prior intelligence activities in targeting the Trump campaign.
Before getting to the video and transcript, it is important to note how this line of questioning surfaces. The professional political apparatus, primarily Democrats - but also Republicans, who participated in the 'soft coup' effort are attempting to gauge the landscape of their risk by identifying AG Barr's intention. This line of questioning is NOT organic or random; it is deeply purposeful and scripted. You can smell the fear.
Shaheen is being asked by allies within the Administrative state, including interests no longer holding political office, to do advanced query.... this is political reconnaissance intended to give corrupt officials and media allies the background to: (a) scale their risk; and (b) plan their defense narrative. They are nervous now. Very nervous.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/10/ag-William-Barr-yes-i-think-spying-did-occur-on-trump-campaign-video-and-transcript/
#6126780 at 2019-04-10 23:07:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7835: William the Barrbarian Edition
Attorney General William Barr testifies that "spying did occur" to the Trump campaign but offers no evidence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/10/Barr-modifies-justice-departments-motto/
#6126295 at 2019-04-10 22:29:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7834: Open Barr of Justice Edition
Pelosi: Barr is 'off the rails'
LEESBURG, Va. - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday said Attorney General William Barr has gone "off the rails" after he testified before a pair of House and Senate committees this week.
"Let me just say how very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails yesterday and today," Pelosi told reporters as she kicked off House Democrats' annual "issues" retreat at a golf resort 35 miles northwest of Washington.
Barr "is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump."
A day earlier, the attorney general testified before a House Appropriations subcommittee that he has opened an investigation into how the FBI initially decided to launch a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
On Wednesday, Barr went further, telling a Senate committee that he thought that the FBI was "spying" on the Trump campaign, comments that infuriated Democrats in the Capitol.
"I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur. But the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated," Barr told Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) during the hearing.
Barr told House and Senate lawmakers that he expects the Justice Department to send them a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference within a week. Pelosi and other Democrats have called on Barr to release the full, unredacted report.
"We want to see the Mueller report. There was an assault on the integrity of our election in our country, the basis for our democracy. There is no doubt about that. ...it took place by Russia," said Pelosi, who by virtue of her position is one of the top eight intelligence officials on Capitol Hill.
"You would think that every resource in our country would say we want to make sure this never happens again instead of engaging in this silliness. But, no, it isn't silly; it's too serious to be silly – this obstruction of getting the truth to the American people."
Asked if she has confidence that Barr will fairly conduct his investigation into how the FBI carried out their Russia probe, Pelosi offered a terse, one-word answer: "No."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/438323-pelosi-Barr-is-off-the-rails
#6126194 at 2019-04-10 22:22:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7834: Open Barr of Justice Edition
Schumer: Barr must retract 'spying' shocker
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused Attorney General William Barr of spreading conspiracy theories on Wednesday after the Justice Department chief said he thinks "spying did occur" on President Trump's 2016 campaign.
In a terse tweet, Schumer demanded a retraction from Barr. "AG Barr admitted he had no evidence to support his claim that spying on the Trump campaign 'did occur.' AG Barr must retract his statement immediately or produce specific evidence to back it up. Perpetuating conspiracy theories is beneath the office of the Attorney General," Schumer, D-N.Y., said.
Hours earlier Barr made the stunning declaration to a Senate budget panel.
"I think spying did occur. But the question is whether it was predicated - adequately predicated," Barr testified. "I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but I need to explore that. I think it's my obligation. Congress is usually very concerned about intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane." "I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. It's a big deal," Barr added, an apparent reference to GOP allegations that the FBI misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to monitor former Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
However, later in the hearing, Barr clarified that he hasn't proven there was any wrongdoing. "I am not saying that improper surveillance occurred, I'm saying that I am concerned about it and looking into it, that's all," he said. Still, Barr's "spying" bombshell has riled Democrats.
At a Democratic retreat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Barr went "off the rails."
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler suggested he was misled and demanded answers. "These comments directly contradict what DOJ previously told us. I've asked DOJ to brief us immediately. In the meantime, the AG still owes us the full Mueller report. #ReleaseTheReport," Nadler, D-N.Y., tweeted.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said such a comment would be pleasing to Trump. "The casual suggestion by the nation's top law enforcement officer of 'spying' may please Donald Trump, who rails against a 'deep state coup,' but it strikes another destructive blow to our democratic institutions. The hardworking men and women at the DOJ and FBI deserve better," Schiff tweeted.
Barr, who is putting a team together to look into surveillance abuse, also said he expects to release a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report "hopefully next week." The Judiciary Committee, ruled by Democrats, voted last week in favor of subpoenaing Barr to turn over the entire Mueller report. However,Nadler saidon Tuesday that his panel, which has oversight over DOJ, will not actually issue a subpoena for Mueller's full report until they see the redacted version provided by Barr.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schumer-Barr-must-retract-spying-shocker
#6125801 at 2019-04-10 21:54:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7834: Open Barr of Justice Edition
Trump urges inquiry into 'attempted coup' against him
"President Donald Trump says he has spoken to the US attorney general about tracing the origins of the inquiry that cleared him of colluding with Russia.
Mr Trump described the investigation by former FBI director Robert Mueller as "an attempted coup".
Attorney General William Barr meanwhile said he believes US authorities did spy on the Trump campaign.
US intelligence officials have previously said they were spying on the Russians, not the Trump campaign."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47884252
#6125647 at 2019-04-10 21:42:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7833: Winning Wednesday Edition
Jordan, Meadows call for DOJ watchdog to testify once 2016 surveillance probe ends
By Olivia Beavers - 04/10/19 03:15 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/438278-jordan-meadows-urge-cummings-to-request-doj-watchdog-to-publicly
Two conservative House members are calling on the head of the Oversight and Reform Committee to request the public testimony of a Justice Department (DOJ) watchdog once he concludes his probe into the use of surveillance warrants during the 2016 election.
Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio), the top Republican on the Oversight panel, and Freedom Caucus colleague Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) in a letter on Wednesday pressed the panel's chairman, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), to secure a date for DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to testify sometime this spring.
"As the committee of jurisdiction for inspectors general, we write to request that you invite Mr. Horowitz to publicly testify before the Committee immediately following the completion of his review," they wrote.
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Jordan, Meadows and other Republicans have long been eager to see the probe's findings on whether federal authorities - who they claim were biased against President Trump during the 2016 election - misled a secretive court in order to obtain a surveillance warrant on Carter Page after he left the Trump campaign.
They allege that their anti-Trump animus influenced their actions as they conducted a counterintelligence investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Their letter comes after Attorney General William Barr testified before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that Horowitz is expected to complete his review in May or June of this year.
"The Office of the Inspector General has a pending investigation of the FISA [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act] process in the Russia investigation and I expect that will be complete in probably May or June, I am told," Barr replied.
"So, hopefully, we will have some answers from Inspector General Horowitz on the answer of the FISA warrants. More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr added.
Barr also fueled GOP claims of surveillance abuse on Wednesday by stating that he does believe there was spying during the election, though he is examining whether it is improper or not.
"I think spying did occur," Barr said. "But the question is whether it was adequately predicated. And I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated, but I need to explore that."
Though Barr appeared to later change his wording to mean improper surveillance, his remarks sparked immediate outrage among Democrats while eliciting praise among Republicans who say Barr is doing his job.
#6124528 at 2019-04-10 20:17:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7832: Glorious Fallout Edition
Musing about STEALTH BOMBER at work.
Our STEALTH BOMBER is the B-2 Spirit bomber.
Obviously we got BOOMS, but it's also the only bomber that can fire stand-off missiles. Firing missiles well outside of the targets defensive range
William Barr -> BILL Barr -> B B-> B-2
What had Barr been doing during Session's, and Whitaker's tenure? Could he have been the Stealth Bomber the whole time if it is indeed him?
#6124353 at 2019-04-10 20:05:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7832: Glorious Fallout Edition
>>6124344
Trump cries 'treason'
Patrick, who chaired Trump's campaign effort in Texas, took a day off from presiding over the state Senate to join the president. He greeted Trump on the tarmac in San Antonio when Trump landed just before noon, and sat beside him at a roundtable with donors as he talked about border security with the news media.
Before leaving the White House, Trump said he views the special counsel inquiry as a "witch hunt" and a case of "treason" because Democrats had sought to use it as a way to illegally force him from office.
Treason carries the death penalty, and his view is not widely accepted by legal scholars.
"This was an attempted coup. This was an attempted take-down of a president," he said before boarding Marine One.
Steve Vladeck, a law professor at the University of Texas who specializes in national security law, was among the experts rejecting Trump's use of the term "treason" to describe an inquiry housed within the Department of Justice. He noted that the Constitution provides a narrow definition "to prevent those in power from using it to attack their political opponents."
Before leaving the White House, Trump insisted that Attorney General William Barr should open an investigation into "the origins of exactly where this all started," asserting that Americans "hunger" for such an inquiry, particularly those who voted for him.
"Because this was an illegal witch hunt and everybody knew it. And they knew it too and they got caught. And what they did was treason. …What they did was against our Constitution and everything we stand for," Trump said.
In San Antonio, Trump meets privately with supporters at noon at The Argyle – a party venue that has served as headquarters for a sprawling horse ranch, a Confederate arsenal, and guest house for the likes of Robert E. Lee – before speaking at a closed-door lunch with donors at a joint fundraiser to benefit his campaign and the RNC.
Julián Castro, a former San Antonio mayor and housing secretary during the second term of Barack Obama, is organizing a "Texas United Against Hate" rally at San Antonio's Hemisfair Park on Wednesday night as a show of force against Trump, though the president will be long gone by then.
The state Democratic Party has also urged turnout for that rally.
"It doesn't matter how much Donald Trump raises from wealthy Republicans and corporate interests, Texans are fighting back and his poll numbers are plummeting. Texas is the biggest battleground state," Texas Democratic Party chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said. "Texans won't sit idly by as Trump steals our land, destroys our healthcare, and threatens to shut down our economy…. In 2020, we will defeat Trump and [Sen. John] Cornyn and turn Texas blue."
Trump spent roughly three hours in San Antonio before heading to Houston. He will attend a fund-raising dinner at the Lone Star Flight Museum, after a visit to nearby Crosby, Texas, and the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center.
There, he will sign an executive order that will make it harder for states to use concerns about water quality to block pipeline projects.
#6122665 at 2019-04-10 17:41:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7830: Q Confirms PANIC Edition
Q CAN RETIRE NOW.
THE ADULT, William Barr, IS NOW IN CHARGE.
RUN ALONG NOW.
#6122397 at 2019-04-10 17:22:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7829: The P A N I C Edition
>>6122297
>Seems Q gave the all hands on deck // spread the word // GO sign
WATCH: "William Barr is personally reviewing the conduct of the FBI in launching the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. He knows that the process by the FBI was corrupted by political bias and personal animus."
twitter.com/seanhannity/status/1116025576593162248
www.hannity.com/media-room/jarrett-on-hannity-there-was-never-any-credible-evidence-to-launch-russia-probe/
#6121545 at 2019-04-10 16:24:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7828: James Baker's Second Interview Released Edition
John Solomon
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/438227-finally-united-house-republicans-refer-ex-trump-lawyer-michael-cohen-for?amp&__twitter_impression=true
During the dark days of the early Russia collusion probe, House Republicans often were fractured on how to best defend Donald Trump or pursue evidence of FBI bias and abuses.
Key conservatives such as Reps. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) were often frustrated by then-Speaker Paul Ryan's proceed-carefully approach.
What a difference two years makes!
Ryan (R-Wis.) has left the House and, before he did, even he had come to the conclusion that the FBI probe of Trump likely involved abuses. Special counsel Robert Mueller has closed his investigation with the conclusion that there was no collusion between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to swing the 2016 election. And new Attorney General William Barr is opening a wide-ranging investigation into the FBI's conduct during the presidential election.
The result is that House Republicans - from the establishment wing to the sometimes rebellious Freedom Caucus - are now united.
The clearest sign emerged Wednesday morning when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) put his personal weight behind an effort to force the Democratic-controlled House to refer former Trump attorney Michael Cohen for possible perjury prosecution for multiple statements Cohen made in February testimony that conflicts with other evidence in the public realm.
Together with his rank-and-file, McCarthy unveiled a resolution that was conceived by Jordan and Meadows and sponsored by Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.) that would require the House to send a copy of Cohen's Feb. 27 testimony before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
"It is the judgment of the House of Representatives that providing a copy of the official transcript of the hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Reform on February 27, 2019, to the Department of Justice would aid the Attorney General's consideration of investigation and potential prosecution of Michael Cohen's criminal conduct," the resolution declares.
On its face, the resolution is good politics, an effort to create a boomerang that wounds Democrats for making Cohen - already a convicted liar - their first major witness at the first major hearing on their new time in power.
Cohen's most recent testimony, that he never wanted a pardon from Trump and never sought a White House job, was directly contradicted by other witnesses and documents, and it has caused Democrats some significant heartburn.
But the real headline of Wednesday's event is that a House caucus, once divided on how and whether to defend Trump on Russia-collusion charges, has found common ground between leadership and rebel and is signaling an intention to go on offense for the rest of 2019.
John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist whose work over the years has exposed U.S. and FBI intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks, federal scientists' misuse of foster children and veterans in drug experiments, and numerous cases of political corruption. He serves as an investigative columnist and executive vice president for video at The Hill.
#6121364 at 2019-04-10 16:05:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7828: James Baker's Second Interview Released Edition
Rep. Mark Green
https://twitter.com/RepMarkGreen/status/1116006552178241537
Verified account @RepMarkGreen
10m10 minutes ago
Mr. Chairman, do what you said you'd do and hold Mr. Cohen accountable for lying before our committee.
Oversight Republicans Introduce Resolution Directing Chairman Cummings to Send Michael Cohen Transcript to Justice Department
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Washington, April 10, 2019
Tags: Government Reform
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Oversight Republicans introduced a House Resolution, sponsored by Representative Mark Green (R-TN), that directs Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to submit an official copy of the transcript of Michael Cohen's testimony to the Department of Justice for investigation and potential prosecution.
"If Chairman Cummings fails to refer Mr. Cohen to the Department of Justice for perjury, it will forever mar the reputation of the Oversight committee and call into question the integrity of the entire House. Mr. Chairman, do what you said you'd do and hold Mr. Cohen accountable for lying before our committee," said Representative Mark Green (R-TN).
Background:
On February 27, 2019, Michael Cohen falsely testified during sworn testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.
On February 28, 2019, Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr referring Michael Cohen for investigation and potential prosecution.
On March 8, 2019, Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows sent a letter to Michael Cohen's attorney concerning contradictions between Cohen's testimony before the House Oversight and Reform Committee and media statements made by House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff.
On March 13, 2019, Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows sent a letter to Chairman Elijah Cummings urging him to refer Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice for perjury.
On March 14, 2019, Ranking Member Jim Jordan offered a Committee resolution to refer Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice for perjury.
On April 2, 2019, Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Representative Mark Meadows sent a letter to House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff and Ranking Member Devin Nunes requesting access to transcripts of Michael Cohen's closed-door testimony on February 28, 2019, and March 6, 2019.
On April 2, 2019, Dr. Green offered a Committee resolution to refer Michael Cohen to the Department of Justice for perjury.
Full text of the resolution can be found here.
https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/GREETN_013_xml.pdf
#6121095 at 2019-04-10 15:38:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7828: James Baker's Second Interview Released Edition
>>6120810 LB
>Horrrey Sheet!!! Barr says he believes there was spying on the Trump campaign!
Barr: 'I THINK SPYING DID OCCUR' AGAINST TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Attorney General William Barr dropped a bombshell Wednesday, telling a group of senators that he believes spying against the Trump campaign did take place in 2016.
"I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr said during an exchange with Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Shaheen asked in a follow-up whether Barr believed the FBI spied on the Trump team.
"You're not suggesting, though, that spying occurred?" Shaheen asked.
"I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur. But the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated," Barr said.
"I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicted, but I need to explore that."
Barr was discussing his plans to investigate the FBI's decision to open a counterintelligence investigation against Trump campaign associates. The bureau used confidential informants and relied heavily on the Democrat-funded Steele dossier as part of the investigation, which was code-named Crossfire Hurricane.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have dubbed the counterintelligence probe "Spygate," especially regarding the FBI's use of an informant named Stefan Halper. Halper, a former Cambridge professor, made contact with at least three Trump campaign advisers, Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos
Democrats have bristled at the term "spy" to describe the FBI's confidential human sources.
Barr said that he plans to form a team to gather information from the Justice Department and Capitol Hill related to the FBI's investigation, which was formally opened on July 31, 2016.
"I'm not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it's important to look at that."
"I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of the intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016," Barr said.
Barr said that he will not be investigating the entire FBI.
"This is not launching an investigation of the FBI," he added. "To the extent there were any issues at the FBI, I do not view it as a problem that's endemic to the FBI. I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there at the upper echelon, so I don't like to hear attacks of the FBI."
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/10/William-Barr-spying-trump-campaign/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=Twitter
#6121040 at 2019-04-10 15:33:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7828: James Baker's Second Interview Released Edition
Barr: 'I THINK SPYING DID OCCUR' AGAINST TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Attorney General William Barr dropped a bombshell Wednesday, telling a group of senators that he believes spying against the Trump campaign did take place in 2016.
"I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal," Barr said during an exchange with Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Shaheen asked in a follow-up whether Barr believed the FBI spied on the Trump team.
"You're not suggesting, though, that spying occurred?" Shaheen asked.
"I think spying did occur. Yes, I think spying did occur. But the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated," Barr said.
"I'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicted, but I need to explore that."
Barr was discussing his plans to investigate the FBI's decision to open a counterintelligence investigation against Trump campaign associates. The bureau used confidential informants and relied heavily on the Democrat-funded Steele dossier as part of the investigation, which was code-named Crossfire Hurricane.
President Donald Trump and other Republicans have dubbed the counterintelligence probe "Spygate," especially regarding the FBI's use of an informant named Stefan Halper. Halper, a former Cambridge professor, made contact with at least three Trump campaign advisers, Carter Page, Sam Clovis and George Papadopoulos. (RELATED: DOJ Watchdog Scrutinizing FBI Informant Who Made Contact With Trump Campaign)
Democrats have bristled at the term "spy" to describe the FBI's confidential human sources.
Barr said that he plans to form a team to gather information from the Justice Department and Capitol Hill related to the FBI's investigation, which was formally opened on July 31, 2016.
"I'm not suggesting that those rules were violated, but I think it's important to look at that."
"I am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of the intelligence activities directed at the Trump campaign during 2016," Barr said.
Barr said that he will not be investigating the entire FBI.
"This is not launching an investigation of the FBI," he added. "To the extent there were any issues at the FBI, I do not view it as a problem that's endemic to the FBI. I think there was probably a failure among a group of leaders there at the upper echelon, so I don't like to hear attacks of the FBI."
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/10/William-Barr-spying-trump-campaign/
#6120720 at 2019-04-10 14:59:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7827: Momentum Building... Nowhere to Hide Edition
BOOM
Barr believes "there was spying" on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/live-news/William-Barr-testimony-attorney-general-testify-senate-appropriations-committee-today-2019-04-10/#click=https://t.co/Me5vM5gzMP
#6120420 at 2019-04-10 14:27:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7827: Momentum Building... Nowhere to Hide Edition
Those who started Russia probe were attempting a 'coup', AG must start investigation - Trump
President Donald Trump has called the FBI's investigation into alleged 'Russian collusion' a "coup" attempt, and said he wants Attorney General William Barr to investigate the probe's origins.
"It was an illegal investigation, it was started illegally, everything about it was crooked," Trump told reporters outside the White House. "It was an attempted coup."
He also said that he himself hadn't seen or read the report on alleged Russia's involvement in the 2016 election presented by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
"I won," he said. "There was no collusion, no obstruction."
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been investigating the FBI's alleged misuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for just over one year, and Barr told a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday that Horowitz' final report should be completed by "May or June."
Horowitz' investigation centers around the FBI's use of the now-infamous 'Steele Dossier' as evidence to acquire a warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The dossier was compiled by a former British spy, paid for by Trump's opponents within Hillary Clinton's campaign, and contained a raft of unverified claims about Trump's supposed contact with Russians.
Speaking at Tuesday's hearing, Barr also told lawmakers that he may open a broader investigation into the FBI's 2016 'Crossfire Hurricane' counterintelligence investigation against Trump, opened by openly Trump-hating FBI agent Peter Strzok.
"More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr told the hearing.
Barr did not elaborate further, but a potential investigation could look into claims that the FBI actively worked to keep Trump out of the White House, whether Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page's anti-Trump bias affected the agency's investigation, and whether top FBI officials selectively leaked information to the press to build negative publicity around Trump.
https://www.rt.com/usa/456129-trump-russia-probe-coup
#6120396 at 2019-04-10 14:23:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7827: Momentum Building... Nowhere to Hide Edition
>>6120374
I'm getting hardcore deja vu had to check it's live
and that blurb I copied from underneath the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAMS0m96INU
Attorney General William Barr is facing members of the Senate on Wednesday for the first time since taking office - and amid intense speculation over his review of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report.
Barr isn't coming to Congress to talk about the report, but lawmakers are expected to ask about it anyway as they anxiously wait to see it in the coming days.
The topic of the House appropriations subcommittee hearing is the Justice Department's budget, and Barr's prepared remarks sent to the committee on Monday focused on funding requests for immigration enforcement and to combat violent crime and opioid addiction, not mentioning Mueller's report at all.
#6120236 at 2019-04-10 14:06:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7827: Momentum Building... Nowhere to Hide Edition
LIVE: Mueller Report update at Senate hearing featuring A.G. William Barr
Barr ACTIVATED!
#6119948 at 2019-04-10 13:24:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7826: FBI HRC Email Cover-Up Exposed Edition
Putin Hopes For Fresh Start With Trump After "Notorious" Mueller Commission Found Nothing
Russian president Vladimir Putin said he's ready to turn the leaf on the first two years of diplomatic scandals between the US and Russia, and is seeking areas of cooperation with his US counterprart (and according to various now debunked lunatics, spy) Donald Trump, calling the furor over election-meddling allegations part of the deep political crisis in Washington. In his first public comments on the outcome of Robert Mueller's investigation which found no collusion or conspiracy between Trump and Russia, Putin welcomed the controversial findings. "We said from the very start that this notorious commission of Mr. Mueller wouldn't find anything because we know this better than anyone," Putin told the International Arctic Forum in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, adding that it was "utter nonsense aimed solely at a domestic audience and used for internal political struggle in the U.S." In retrospect, he was right.
As a reminder, Trump scored the biggest political victory of his presidency - even as the credibility of the US liberal medial plumbed new lows - last month after AG William Barr published a summary of Mueller's finding that there was no collusion during the campaign. Trump, who repeatedly - and correctly - condemned the 22-month inquiry as a "witch hunt" said he'd been completely exonerated. Agreeing with his US colleague, Putin said that witch hunts are "a black page" in U.S. history and "I would not like it ever to happen again" (here the conspiracy nuts should be ready to chime in with a witty rejoinder). The outcome of the Mueller investigation showed that "a mountain gave birth to a mouse," the Russian president said.
While Putin said when the two leaders met in Helsinki last year that he'd wanted Trump to win the 2016 election because of his pledge to improve relations - and because Hillary Clinton's State Department did everything in its power to set the stage for a war between Russia and Ukraine - he avoided generating more controversy, and said he supports Trump's re-election in 2020. "We respect the wishes of the American people," he said. "Whoever is president, we're ready to work with them."
To be sure, much bad blood remains between the US "deep state" and Moscow: recall that US intelligence agencies "concluded" that Russia was behind hacking aimed at damaging Democratic Party contender Hillary Clinton (which unveiled that the DNC had rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders, and that Hillary Clinton was a professional in saying one thing to the public and something else to Wall Street). Russia, naturally, rejects the allegations. Trump pledged during his campaign to improve ties with Russia and has repeatedly said he wants good relations with Putin. As for how the former KGB spy and Trump are getting along currently, Putin said he has "plenty of disagreements" with Trump, whose administration has imposed a series of new sanctions on his country, but is ready to work with the U.S. on issues of joint interest including terrorism and arms control. "We hope that when this situation normalizes, opportunities will emerge for bilateral cooperation on all issues," Putin said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-09/putin-hopes-fresh-start-trump-after-notorious-mueller-commission-found-nothing
#6119633 at 2019-04-10 12:31:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7826: FBI HRC Email Cover-Up Exposed Edition
FINALLY anonymous source says Barr conducting an investigation on FBI and DOJ actions on "crossfire hurricane" (what a stupid name, meanwhile hrc investigation "mid year exam". That right there tells you there's bias)
Attorney General William Barr was questioned today by republican lawmaker Robert Aderholt about potentially fraudulent DOJ and FBI submissions to the FISA court - to gain a Title-One surveillance warrant against U.S. Person Carter Page.
In a deliberate response AG Barr stated: "The Office of the Inspector General has a pending investigation of the FISA process in the Russia investigation. I expect that will be complete in probably May or June, I am told. More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016."
the response would indicate AG Barr is taking personal interest in the events behind the July 31st, 2016, origination of the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation. Additionally, this approach indicates AG Barr's review is going much further than Inspector General Horowitz; taking the review all the way to the origin of the intelligence community operation.
UPDATE: Bloomberg Reports: Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions made by Justice Department and FBI officials, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, according to a person familiar with the matter.
This indicates that Barr is looking into allegations that Republican lawmakers have been pursuing for more than a year - that the investigation into President Donald Trump and possible collusion with Russia was tainted at the start by anti-Trump bias in the FBI and Justice Department.
"I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr told a House panel on Tuesday.
Barr's inquiry is separate from a long-running investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters. The FBI declined to comment. Barr said he expected the inspector general's work to be completed by May or June.
The issue came up as Barr testified before a Democratic-controlled House Appropriations subcommittee. Most of the questioning concerned demands for Barr to give lawmakers Special Counsel Robert Mueller's full report and the evidence behind it. But the issue is sure to get more attention when Barr appears Wednesday before the panel's GOP-led Senate counterpart. (read more)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/09/cautious-optimism-ag-William-Barr-states-he-is-reviewing-doj-fbi-conduct-during-the-summer-of-2016/
#6119021 at 2019-04-10 10:48:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7825: T Minus One Year Delta DJT Day Edition
CSPAN
Verified account
@cspan
18m18 minutes ago
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Attorney General William Barr testifies before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee (@SenateApprops) - LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN3
#6118674 at 2019-04-10 09:37:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7825: T Minus One Year Delta DJT Day Edition
U.S.
Breaking: Chuck Norris New Glock Gun Brand Spokesman
For years, the left has advocated and tried to abolish the second amendment. Despite the second amendment being embedded in the nation's values, the left wants to take the guns away. It really didn't help their mental state when the Glock gun brand announced their new official spokesman.
Interestingly, actor and long-time Second Amendment advocate Chuck Norris have officially been signed by Glock as its new spokesman, the company announced Monday. (RELATED: Rep. Nunes to Send 8 Criminal Referrals to AG William Barr )
For years, Chuck Norris has been revealed as a great American hero and a top-notch martial arts expert. He is well-known and loved by both the right and the left. Many remember him from the hit television series, "Walker Texas Ranger."
That said, the left came unhinged after the announcement from Glock that Norris would be their official spokesman.
"Chuck Norris revolutionized and ushered martial arts into the American mainstream just like Glock revolutionized firearms by inventing and commercializing polymer-based pistols and the 'Safe Action' System," Josh Dorsey, Vice President of Glock, said in a news release. (RELATED: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigns)
"Having him represent the Glock brand brings two iconic names together that are mutually committed to perfection and their fan base. We couldn't be more excited about this partnership," he said.
Norris will appear on behalf of Glock at the NRA Annual Conference in Indianapolis scheduled for April 26 and April 27.
Moreover, it is only a matter of time before "gun grabbers" like David Hogg finds out and start calling for boycotts of all Chuck Norris' movies and T.V. shows. (RELATED: Trey Gowdy: 'CIA May Stop Giving Adam Schiff Info Because He Leaks' )
We are excited to see a gun company stand up for our rights to own firearms. However, it won't stop the angry Twitter mob from vomiting their hatred for our Constitution.
https://westernfreepress.com/chuck-norris-new-glock-gun-brand-spokesman-jl/
#6118275 at 2019-04-10 07:54:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7824: The Graveyard Edition
>>6118243
"Russiagate was the WMD of this generation of journalists, a gigantic lie with devastating consequences for the country and the world. Mueller's appointment was born of corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI where, after talk about wearing wires to set up the President and fomenting cabinet factions in support of using the 25th Amendment against him, an endless Special Counsel investigation starring Robert Mueller seemed a sounder path to impeachment.
It was all generated by a request from British intelligence to unleash the full power of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies against a presidential candidate, and then, an incoming President, using a crappy, amateurish, and obviously fabricated dossier produced by British spy Christopher Steele and promoted by the Clinton Campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence, foreign policy, and defense establishments. As we have reported before, this is the largest political scandal in American history. The Constitution itself is at stake. Mueller's May 2017 appointment was revenge for the firing of James Comey, immediately allowing a coverup of the criminal actions of officials complicit in the coup, at the State Department, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. In the process, the crimes of the actual foreign intervenors into the 2016 election, the British, and to a far lesser extent, the Ukrainians, were also supposed to be buried.
The deflation of the Democratic Party and the media hacks who have driven the coup against President Trump has, since Friday, been audible and smelly, like a balloon of sulfurous gas having finally been pricked. Predictably, they have begun a new round of attempts to hype the results and cover up the evil at play here. Thirty-four individuals indicted, 700 crimes, is the talking point that has emerged from Democratic Party candidates and the news media over the weekend, in a full-throated defense of Robert Mueller's inquisition. To that can be added Sunday's leading refrain from Congressman Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
They are desperate losers facing an American people likely to say: "Stuff it-your time just ran out." Our job is to make that happen."
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4612-mueller_releases_report_now_dr.html
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy
spygate
part 1 = Fusion GPS - https://archive.is/jebsM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-1-fusion-gps-7da0c3293eab
part 2 = Christopher Steele - https://archive.is/qYphy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-2-christopher-steele-f3b7b2cf17f3
part 3 = The Dossier - https://archive.is/RW7LX
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-3-the-dossier-72c397a442b7
part 4 = Foreign Intelligence - https://archive.is/9KrxM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-4-foreign-intelligence-921c0accb9c2
part 5 = Crowdstrike - https://archive.is/i18vy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-5-crowdstrike-17eb2c81f395
part 6 = Alfa Bank - https://archive.is/IQzJe
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-6-alfa-bank-65a788038fe6
part 7 = Brennan's Working Group - https://archive.is/8kYSH
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-4ab7d8188ac
part 8 = American Intelligence - https://archive.is/Kufqn
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-8-american-intelligence-a945ffc1cd35
part 9 = The Deputies Meetings - https://archive.is/XiUC3
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6
part 10 = Kimberlin and the Chalupas - https://archive.is/QKdux
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-10-kimberlin-and-the-chalupas-5b5ac679fad2
part 11 = Stefan Halper - https://archive.is/3ySHd
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-11-stefan-halper-477f2a723dc7
part 12 = Michael Flynn - https://archive.is/3f9CR
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-12-michael-flynn-5e9cc5783ebf
part 13 = The Season of Leaks - https://archive.is/EFuec
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-13-the-season-of-leaks-9a829665f48a
part 14 = Peter W. Smith - https://archive.is/1B2ts
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-14-peter-w-smith-a4efd88291a
part 15 = The FBI vs Donald Trump - https://archive.is/nlizm
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-15-the-f-b-i-vs-donald-trump-23221196ad6f
#6118115 at 2019-04-10 07:26:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7824: The Graveyard Edition
>>6118105
look at the eyes
those are some seriously evil eyes
you can really tell if someone is evil just by the eyes
suprisingly William Barr doesnt have evil eyes
i could be wrong tho since hes ex cia
#6117610 at 2019-04-10 05:52:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7823: AG BARR "DISGUSTED" BY WHAT HE'S DISCOVERED Edition
Shots Fired: William Barr Puts Deep State on Notice
The Attorney General of the United States put the Deep State on notice today for the first time since taking office for a second time.
Barr revealed on Tuesday that he is reviewing the "conduct" of the FBI's original Russia investigation during the summer of 2016, following calls from Republicans to investigate the origins of the probe according to Fox News.
Barr also made mention that Inspector General Michael Horowitz has a pending investigation into the FISA warrants and stated the probe will be completed in May or June.
Barr then said he's "personally" overseeing the investigation into the counterintelligence investigation from 2016.
"More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted in the supper of 2016," Barr testified.
The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes has said he will make 8 criminal referrals into that investigation, and Barr said "Obviously , if there is a predicate for investigation, it will be conducted."
The Department of Justice and the FBI have seen a mountain of firings and resignations since the unraveling of the fake Russian dossier. Former FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, 3rd in charge of the FBI Peter Strzok, among others have all been fired. Several others were also terminated and or resigned.
https://thedcpatriot.com/shots-fired-William-Barr-puts-deep-state-on-notice/
#6117445 at 2019-04-10 05:25:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7823: AG BARR "DISGUSTED" BY WHAT HE'S DISCOVERED Edition
We were told by Q to trust Barr but besides the fact that he served as AG under Bush, what else do we really know about him? Here is a little dig. SYNOPSIS: WHO IS Barr?
There is so much about William Barr that is under cloak and dagger but allow me to summarize. As promised two more segments will be coming out and they are on his GLOBAL ACTIVITIES. You think the Brennan was dirty or how I exposed how Peter Strzok (shortly thereafter FIRED) as an IRANIAN advocate was incredible...wait till you hear about William Barr.
Barr graduated college and rolled right into working for the CIA. He was assigned to Bush 41. He was his handler since 1976. A little context before we delve into this. The passage below is very important. Federal Prosecutors attempted to prosecute the Bush and Clinton cartels. All destroyed, all shamed and all stripped of any credibility. Why is this important? The mastermind William Barr.
William Barr was the handler of Bush 41, and his right-hand man. Like Valerie Jarrett and Barack Hussein Obama. He wrote the incredible legal theory known as the Thornburgh Doctrine. Thornburgh began his career with blood on his hands. Ever heard of Budd Dwyer? He committed suicide in front of everyone during a press conference telling them he was being framed by the corrupt government within the government which Governor Thornburgh was part of. Eighteen months later, Thronburgh was sworn in as US Attorney General. Dwyer's last statement before he committed suicide:
The Doctrine Barr drafted was contested by many since the brief he based it on was classified. I submitted a FOIA request this morning to gain a copy of it. It will be interesting to see the brief that justifies how the FBI is allowed to kidnap people in foreign countries disregarding international laws.
In 1990 Barr became Deputy Attorney General. As Deputy Attorney General, Barr took over most duties from Thornburgh and Thornburgh was forced to resign. This is because Thornburgh could not keep the Justice Department reigned in from investigating Bush, the Clintons and abuse of power by the intelligence community. Barr was immediately appointed Acting Attorney General and subsequently sworn in as Attorney General.
To be clear, he was slotted in to ensure that investigations into the Bush, Clinton and intelligence community STOP. Therefore, why would President Trump nominate him as AG- If he was the one that created the Intelligence Community swamp?
In my article, "William Barr - Bill Clinton 5,242.7 km, $100 MIL & DOPE" where I reminded the world who Bush 41, Crooked Clintons and Barr really are. They are a TEAM!
I notioned that Barry Seal was the "innocent" one that was framed. I would bet my life on the fact that Hillary Clinton was the mastermind in skimming the money Noriega and Bush were trying to locate. They framed the government pilot who was tasked with the drug running from Panama to Bill Clinton's stomping ground: Arkansas.
Barr is a swamp creature and was involved with Bush 41 during Iran-Contra and was known as a fixer.
More here anons: http://toresays.com/2018/12/07/Barr-super-predators-privatizing-prisons-and-disarming-citizens/
And here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115403764859408384.html
#6117134 at 2019-04-10 04:50:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7823: AG BARR "DISGUSTED" BY WHAT HE'S DISCOVERED Edition
We were told by Q to trust Barr but besides the fact that he served as AG under Bush, what else do we really know about him? Here is a little dig. SYNOPSIS: WHO IS Barr?
There is so much about William Barr that is under cloak and dagger but allow me to summarize. As promised two more segments will be coming out and they are on his GLOBAL ACTIVITIES. You think the Brennan was dirty or how I exposed how Peter Strzok (shortly thereafter FIRED) as an IRANIAN advocate was incredible...wait till you hear about William Barr.
Barr graduated college and rolled right into working for the CIA. He was assigned to Bush 41. He was his handler since 1976. A little context before we delve into this. The passage below is very important. Federal Prosecutors attempted to prosecute the Bush and Clinton cartels. All destroyed, all shamed and all stripped of any credibility. Why is this important? The mastermind William Barr.
William Barr was the handler of Bush 41, and his right-hand man. Like Valerie Jarrett and Barack Hussein Obama. He wrote the incredible legal theory known as the Thornburgh Doctrine. Thornburgh began his career with blood on his hands. Ever heard of Budd Dwyer? He committed suicide in front of everyone during a press conference telling them he was being framed by the corrupt government within the government which Governor Thornburgh was part of. Eighteen months later, Thronburgh was sworn in as US Attorney General. Dwyer's last statement before he committed suicide:
The Doctrine Barr drafted was contested by many since the brief he based it on was classified. I submitted a FOIA request this morning to gain a copy of it. It will be interesting to see the brief that justifies how the FBI is allowed to kidnap people in foreign countries disregarding international laws.
In 1990 Barr became Deputy Attorney General. As Deputy Attorney General, Barr took over most duties from Thornburgh and Thornburgh was forced to resign. This is because Thornburgh could not keep the Justice Department reigned in from investigating Bush, the Clintons and abuse of power by the intelligence community. Barr was immediately appointed Acting Attorney General and subsequently sworn in as Attorney General.
To be clear, he was slotted in to ensure that investigations into the Bush, Clinton and intelligence community STOP. Therefore, why would President Trump nominate him as AG- If he was the one that created the Intelligence Community swamp?
In my article, "William Barr - Bill Clinton 5,242.7 km, $100 MIL & DOPE" where I reminded the world who Bush 41, Crooked Clintons and Barr really are. They are a TEAM!
I notioned that Barry Seal was the "innocent" one that was framed. I would bet my life on the fact that Hillary Clinton was the mastermind in skimming the money Noriega and Bush were trying to locate. They framed the government pilot who was tasked with the drug running from Panama to Bill Clinton's stomping ground: Arkansas.
Barr is a swamp creature and was involved with Bush 41 during Iran-Contra and was known as a fixer.
More here anons: http://toresays.com/2018/12/07/Barr-super-predators-privatizing-prisons-and-disarming-citizens/
And here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115403764859408384.html
#6116405 at 2019-04-10 03:34:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7822: Barr Meeting Huber & OIG Edition
Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows discussed FISA abuse investigation with DOJ inspector general
Two Republican lawmakers met with Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday and discussed the yearlong Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse investigation. During an interview on Fox News, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Horowitz told him and Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., he "expects" a report on his investigation into possible FISA abuse by the DOJ and FBI "in May or June." That confirmed what Attorney General William Barr testified earlier in the day to a congressional panel.
Horowitz announced the initiation of the FISA abuse investigation in March 2018 after requests from both then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Republican members in Congress. The lawmakers claimed the Justice Department and FBI had abused the FISA process and misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in their investigation and surveillance of President Trump and his associates during the campaign, as well as during the Trump administration.
Onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page was the subject of a FISA warrant and three renewals. Pointing to Horowitz's findings in regards to misconduct by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Jordan said, "We expect the inspector general to do the good work that he's always done."
Both Jordan and Meadows also heaped praise on Barr. Jordan said Barr "handled himself professionally" during his hearing Tuesday, which was meant to focus on the DOJ's proposed budget but got sidetracked by Russia investigation questions, and Meadows called him "extremely diligent." Meanwhile, their colleague, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is expected to send Barr this week criminal referrals targeting eight people tied to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. "The right move from @DevinNunes. More criminal referrals to come. And certainly more deserved. Overwhelming evidence shows multiple FBI + DOJ executives abused their power to undermine a duly elected President Trump. They will be held accountable," Meadows tweeted earlier in the week.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jim-jordan-mark-meadows-discussed-fisa-abuse-investigation-with-doj-inspector-general
https://oig.justice.gov/press/2018/2018-03-28b.pdf
#6116016 at 2019-04-10 02:59:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7821: Huber Report Edition
https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-continues-to-prepare-the-battlefield_2770855.html
Why a New Attorney General for Prosecution Phase?
The real battlefield has never been in the news media. The losing side picked the wrong battlefield. All the leaking in the world to The Washington Post or The New York Times won't change the outcome now.
Trump is getting ready to make two key moves on this battlefield as he prepares for the fight: The first is a new Attorney General for the prosecution phase. The second key move will involve the courts.
The former "recused" attorney general is now gone. Jeff Sessions was always going to have to recuse himself from the 2016 election-related investigations and he was always going to have to step down from the attorney general post before the prosecution phase could begin, and here's why.
There was simply no way Sessions could stay in charge of the DOJ investigations of people who had targeted him as a Russian agent and tried to "prove" he colluded with Russians. His recusal was absolutely necessary and people who dispute this are simply wrong.
Likewise, before it came time for the prosecutions of those plotters who targeted Sessions, he was going to have to step down as attorney general, because he was going to be called as a witness in the prosecutions. A sitting attorney general can't be a witness in a case his own Justice Department is prosecuting. (Explaining the obvious is just another free service that I provide.)
William Barr is coming in now to take over the next phase, while 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 witness in these prosecutions? Because like Sessions, he's involved a lot of this as a witness? Rod Rosenstein.
Of course, we've been given cover stories. "Sessions is resigning because at long last Trump has had enough of this incompetent bumbling idiot who's been doing nothing!" and "Rosenstein is leaving because Barr wants to bring in his own team." Most people don't question the cover stories because they fit their biases.
The result is a new "commander" at the DOJ for the next phase of the "battle." And when it goes to the courts, as much of it invariably will, that's where Trump has been making numerous changes with dozens of judicial appointments.
#6114889 at 2019-04-10 01:33:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7820: Avalanche Coming Edition
>>6114715
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/09/cautious-optimism-ag-William-Barr-states-he-is-reviewing-doj-fbi-conduct-during-the-summer-of-2016/#more-162340
*UPDATED* Cautious Optimism - AG William Barr States He is Reviewing DOJ/FBI Conduct During The Summer of 2016...
Posted on April 9, 2019 by sundance
Attorney General William Barr was questioned today by republican lawmaker Robert Aderholt about potentially fraudulent DOJ and FBI submissions to the FISA court - to gain a Title-One surveillance warrant against U.S. Person Carter Page.
In a deliberate response AG Barr stated: "The Office of the Inspector General has a pending investigation of the FISA process in the Russia investigation. I expect that will be complete in probably May or June, I am told. More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016."
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The response would indicate AG Barr is taking personal interest in the events behind the July 31st, 2016, origination of the Crossfire Hurricane counterintelligence operation. Additionally, this approach indicates AG Barr's review is going much further than Inspector General Horowitz; taking the review all the way to the origin of the intelligence community operation.
UPDATE: Bloomberg Reports: Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions made by Justice Department and FBI officials, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, according to a person familiar with the matter.
This indicates that Barr is looking into allegations that Republican lawmakers have been pursuing for more than a year - that the investigation into President Donald Trump and possible collusion with Russia was tainted at the start by anti-Trump bias in the FBI and Justice Department.
"I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr told a House panel on Tuesday.
Barr's inquiry is separate from a long-running investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive matters. The FBI declined to comment. Barr said he expected the inspector general's work to be completed by May or June.
The issue came up as Barr testified before a Democratic-controlled House Appropriations subcommittee. Most of the questioning concerned demands for Barr to give lawmakers Special Counsel Robert Mueller's full report and the evidence behind it. But the issue is sure to get more attention when Barr appears Wednesday before the panel's GOP-led Senate counterpart. (read more)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/Barr-said-to-form-team-to-review-fbi-s-actions-in-trump-probe
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#6113767 at 2019-04-10 00:07:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7818: We Did It For Free Edition
Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to review controversial counterintelligence decisions made by Justice Department and FBI officials, including actions taken during the probe of the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016, according to a person familiar with the matter.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-09/Barr-said-to-form-team-to-review-fbi-s-actions-in-trump-probe
#6113526 at 2019-04-09 23:49:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7818: We Did It For Free Edition
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that he is "reviewing the conduct" of the FBI's Russia probe during the summer of 2016, and that the Department of Justice inspector general will release a report on the FBI's use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process and other matters in the Russia case in May or June.
"I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted during the summer of 2016," Barr said in public testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee, his first since last month's release of his four-page summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Barr made the comment during an exchange with Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., ranking member on the panel, who noted that Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had referred eight people to the FBI for investigation regarding "alleged misconduct during the Russia investigation including the leak of classified material and alleged conspiracies to lie to Congress and the FISA court in order to spy on then-candidate Trump and other persons." ….
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/Barr-testify-congress-first-time-mueller-summary-n992286
#6112759 at 2019-04-09 22:42:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7817: The 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!' Edition
John Solomon
Sitting in the hot seat of a high-profile congressional hearing has a way of unmasking the mettle of any witness.
Attorney General William Barr showed us Tuesday, in his first testimony since the end of the Russia probe, that he's not big on emotion, animation or flashy presentations. Calm, scholarly and precise was his modus operandi, even as Democrats tried to lob a bomb or two his way.
But the even-keeled nature of his two-hours-plus performance shouldn't blind us to one momentous declaration he made to lawmakers.
Though it didn't happen on his watch, Barr told Congress he will investigate how the FBI came to conduct a counterintelligence investigation against Donald Trump, then the Republican nominee for president, starting in the summer of 2016.
We have known for more than a year now that the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general, Michael Horowitz, has been investigating whether the FBI or DOJ abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to secure a warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page less than three weeks from Election Day 2016.
But Barr made clear Tuesday that his review is distinct and more far-ranging than IG Horowitz's investigation. It goes back to the moment when a probe code-named Crossfire Hurricane was opened on July 31, 2016, by Trump-hating FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok.
That probe's goal was to determine whether Trump was colluding with Russia to hijack the election. And, very quickly, the FBI chose to use an opposition research project, funded by Trump rival Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party and written by British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, as key evidence - even though it was unverified at the time.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has settled the collusion issue, concluding (like House and Senate intelligence committee Republicans before him) that there was no Trump-Russia conspiracy.
But Barr used a question from Rep. Robert Aderholt (R-Ala.) to signal that he wants to go further than Mueller or the IG, to determine whether the counterintelligence probe was legit from the start.
(Article continued)
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/438136-the-single-sentence-russia-bombshell-that-attorney-general-Barr-delivered?amp&__twitter_impression=true
#6110911 at 2019-04-09 19:45:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7815: 53% (at least) Approval Rating Edition
Putin mocks Mueller probe: 'A mountain gave birth to a mouse'
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed vindication Tuesday in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe, saying "a mountain gave birth to a mouse," according to the Associated Press.
Putin said the findings of the 22-month investigation prove that allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia were the result of Democrats' failure to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election.
"It was clear for us from the start that it would end like this," Putin said at an Arctic forum in St. Petersburg, according to the AP. "A mountain gave birth to a mouse."
Putin went on to call the collusion claims "sheer nonsense" and argued that continued emphasis on the investigation disrespected the will of voters.
"We have been saying from the start that this notorious commission led by Mr. Mueller won't find anything, because no one knows better than us: Russia has not meddled in any U.S. election," Putin said, according to the AP. "There was no collusion between Trump and Russia that Mr. Mueller was looking for."
Putin and other Russian officials have repeatedly denied that Russia meddled in the 2016 election.
"Unjustified accusations of interference in the domestic affairs of particular countries are made while simultaneously engaging in an open campaign to undermine and topple democratically elected governments," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at the United Nations in September.
Putin repeated those denials Tuesday, saying the Russian government had no contact with Trump when he visited Moscow as a private citizen, according to the AP.
In a four-page summary of Mueller's findings, Attorney General William Barr said the special counsel found no evidence of criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia and did not draw a conclusion on obstruction of justice.
https://thehill.com/homenews/438091-putin-mocks-mueller-probe-a-mountain-gave-birth-to-a-mouse
I believe Putin wanted to get in on the trolling… he must be seeing POTUS is having a great time.
#6110752 at 2019-04-09 19:30:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7815: 53% (at least) Approval Rating Edition
Barr Reviewing FBI Conduct During 2016 Election In Separate, Wide-Ranging Probe
Update4: Attorney General William Barr says that he is reviewing the "conduct" of the FBI during its original 2016 Trump-Russia investigation, following calls by GOP legislators to investigate the origins of the probe.
After explaining that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz has a pending investigation into FISA abuse, Barr said "I am reviewing the conduct of the Russia investigation, and all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted in the summer of 2016."
The comments come after House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said over the weekend he was preparing to send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week regarding alleged misconduct by DOJ and FBI officials during the Trump-Russia investigation. It is unclear whom Nunes will refer for investigation, and what the process at the Justice Department might be. -Fox News
Barr says he hasn't seen Nunes' referrals yet, adding "Obviously, if there is a predicate for investigation, it will be conducted."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-09/attorney-general-William-Barr-testify-congress-first-time-mueller-report
#6109553 at 2019-04-09 17:21:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7813: Spoiler Alert: Unicorns Aren't Real Edition
https://saraacarter.com/ag-Barr-says-hell-deliver-the-mueller-report-within-a-week-and-is-working-diligently-to-make-as-much-information-public/
Attorney General William Barr testified before Congress Tuesday saying he will release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 400 page report within a week. Barr stressed the report will be redacted citing classified content, ongoing litigation and privacy protection for persons not charged by Mueller's office that may have been interviewed in the process of the investigation.
Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee, Barr emphasized that based on regulations put in place during President Bill Clinton's tenure he is required as the Attorney General to review the 400 page report and release it based on 'public interest' in the findings. The regulations do not allow Mueller to publish his own findings, like what happened under Kenneth Starr's report on Clinton…
https://twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1115665416431579139
#6109366 at 2019-04-09 17:05:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7813: Spoiler Alert: Unicorns Aren't Real Edition
https://thehill.com/homenews/1230-report/438018-when-robert-mueller-russia-report-will-be-released-William-Barr-had-inkling-of-conclusions-
The Hill's 12:30 Report: Dems press Barr on Mueller report
Or; FWIW
When the Mueller report will be released: Within a week
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What is currently happening with the report: "DOJ is working with the special counsel's office and DOJ will color code the report and add explanations for the basis of each redaction of the report."
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On whether Barr knew what the Mueller report would say: "Barr confirms he 'had an inkling' of what Mueller was going to conclude because of briefings and conversations before Mueller filed his report."
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Was the Mueller team involved with the four-page summary?: No
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On deciding what information will be public: "I am relying on my own discretion to make as much public as I can,"
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On Trump's efforts to strike down ObamaCare in court: Barr was asked why the DOJ would take such "dramatic and drastic action." Barr replied: "Do you think it's likely we're going to prevail? … We are in litigation and we have to take a position. If you think it's such an outrageous position, you have nothing to worry about. Let the courts do its job."
Barr also said: "I'm a lawyer. I'm not in charge of health care."
End
#6108987 at 2019-04-09 16:25:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7812: Dems Just Raised the Barr Edition
https://twitter.com/45_Schedule/status/1115651191667679233
"AG William Barr says he'll release Mueller's report "within a week" and will offer some explanations for material he is withholding."
#6108877 at 2019-04-09 16:13:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7812: Dems Just Raised the Barr Edition
>>6108857
>>6108857
Keep the CNN headlines
for other platforms please
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/09/politics/William-Barr-mueller-report-donald-trump/index.html
#6108833 at 2019-04-09 16:08:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7812: Dems Just Raised the Barr Edition
Good article for anyone not able to watch the hearings:
Attorney General Barr says he expects to release redacted version of Mueller report within a week
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department will release a version of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report with redactions "within a week."
Barr, who oversaw the tail end of Mueller's probe of Russian interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, set that deadline during testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee.
"I think that from my standpoint, within a week I will be in a position to release the report to the public," Barr said during the hearing, which was primarily intended to focus on the fiscal 2020 budget.
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday that the Justice Department will release a version of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report with redactions "within a week."
Barr, who oversaw the tail end of Mueller's probe of Russian interference and possible collusion with the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, set that deadline during testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee.
"I think that from my standpoint, within a week I will be in a position to release the report to the public," Barr said during the hearing, which was primarily intended to focus on the fiscal 2020 budget.
Barr has faced a high-pressure campaign from Democrats to release the nearly 400-page Russia report to Congress without redactions. That pressure only intensified after Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein released a four-page summary of that report's principal conclusions less than 48 hours after the report was delivered to the Justice Department on March 22.
Mueller's report did not establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and made no determination about whether President Donald Trump himself obstructed justice, according to the summary. Barr and Rosenstein concluded, however, that Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to merit an obstruction charge.
Barr's opening statement did not mention the Mueller report. He focused instead on the Trump administration's $29.2 billion budget proposal for fiscal 2020.
Barr highlighted four of the Justice Department's main priorities: combating violent crime; enforcing immigration laws; fighting "the scourge of illegal drugs," especially the opioid crisis; and protecting the country against national security threats, including cyberattacks.
But Democrats on the subcommittee, including its chairman, Rep. Jose Serrano of New York, immediately asked Barr about Mueller's report.
"We could not hold this hearing without mentioning the elephant in the room, and I'm not referring to my colleagues on the other side," Serrano said.
"The American people have been left with many unanswered questions, serious concerns about the process by which you formulated your letter, and uncertainty about when we can expect to see the full report," Serrano said.
Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, was more blunt: "Before getting into your budget request, I want to address a serious oversight matter," she said referring to "your unacceptable handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report."
She criticized Barr for the quick turnaround time between the hefty report's delivery and the release of the brief summary, which she said "seems to cherry-pick from the report" and is arguably "more suspicious than impressive."
Barr said in response that "the thinking of the special counsel was not a mystery to the Department of Justice prior to the submission of the report," since there had been prior discussions with Mueller. "So we had an inkling as to what was coming in our direction," he added.
Barr has spelled out four categories of redactions he plans to make before sharing the Mueller report, including information related to Mueller's grand jury and information related to ongoing investigations.
During the hearing Tuesday, Barr said that those redactions will be color-coded depending on which of the four areas they fall under.
Republicans on the panel also questioned Barr about whether the DOJ will be investigating the origins of the government's Russia probe, which Trump has long described as a "witch hunt." The subcommittee's ranking member, Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala., asked Barr about the use of a salacious and unverified dossier in the pursuit of surveillance warrants.
Barr said the department's Office of Inspector General has a pending investigation of the legal processes under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, which was used by the FBI to obtain surveillance warrants.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/09/ag-Barr-expects-to-release-redacted-version-of-mueller-report-within-a-week.html
#6108754 at 2019-04-09 16:01:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7812: Dems Just Raised the Barr Edition
Barr suspects Mueller team 'wanted more put out' in summary
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday he suspects special counsel Robert Mueller's team "wanted more" out of his summary of the final report for the Russia investigation.
"I suspect that they probably wanted more put out," Barr testified during a House Appropriations panel hearing. "But, in my view I was not interested in putting out summaries or trying to summarize because I think any summary, regardless of who prepares it, not only runs the risk of being under inclusive or over inclusive but also would trigger a lot of discussion and analysis that really should wait everything coming out at once."
Days after Mueller submitted his roughly 400-page-long final report to the Justice Department last month, Barr provided a four-page summary to Congress.
This summary said Mueller did not establish the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and did not find President Trump committed obstruction of justice. Although Mueller also did not exonerate the president, Barr said he concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish a crime.
Further adding fuel to their ire were reports last week from the New York Times and Washington Post in which anonymous sources said members of Mueller's team were frustrated with the way Barr portrayed the findings of their years-long investigation in a four-page summary.
Reacting to those reports, Trump tore into Mueller's team on Sunday, accusing the "angry Democrats" of "illegally leaking" information to the media.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/Barr-suspects-mueller-team-wanted-more-put-out-in-summary
#6108683 at 2019-04-09 15:54:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7812: Dems Just Raised the Barr Edition
Here's what we have so far…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/09/attorney-general-William-Barr-testifies-before-house-appropriations-committee/
Attorney General William Barr Testifies Before House Appropriations Committee
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/09/watch-live-house-judiciary-holds-hearing-on-hate-crimes-and-rise-of-white-nationalism/
House Judiciary Holds Hearing on 'Hate Crimes' and 'Rise of White Nationalism'
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/09/watch-live-senate-hearing-on-unprecedented-migration-to-u-s/
Senate Hearing on 'Unprecedented Migration' to U.S.
#6108430 at 2019-04-09 15:32:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7812: Dems Just Raised the Barr Edition
Attorney General Barr defends administration's efforts to overturn ObamaCare in court
Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday defended the Justice Department's controversial decision to support the overturning of ObamaCare in the courts.
The DOJ last month sided with a lower court ruling that ObamaCare is unconstitutional, going past its previous position that only part of the law should be struck down.
Asked by Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-Penn.) why the DOJ would take such "dramatic and drastic action," Barr replied: "Do you think it's likely we're going to prevail?"
"We are in litigation and we have to take a position. If you think it's such an outrageous position, you have nothing to worry about. Let the courts do its job."
In December, a federal judge in Texas ruled ObamaCare unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed by Republican-led states against the Trump administration.
The judge sided with the states in ruling that ObamaCare can't stand without the penalty for not having insurance, which Congress' repealed in 2017.
Last month, the DOJ said in a court filing that the judge came to the correct conclusion and it would support it when the decision is appealed.
That goes past the DOJ's previous position that only the law's protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be thrown out.
The DOJ, which typically defends federal laws in court, broke with precedent in refusing to defend ObamaCare, a move that Democrats call politically motivated.
A coalition of Democratic states, led by California, has been defending the law and is seeking an appeal of the decision.
On Tuesday, House Democrats sent letters to the DOJ, the Department of Health and Human Services and the White House demanding access to documents and information regarding the involvement of key administration officials in the decision not to defend the law.
Specifically, House Democrats, including Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, are asking for communications between White House officials regarding that decision and a list of officials involved in the decision.
"The House is determined to get answers on the administration's nakedly political decision to rip affordable healthcare away from millions and millions of Americans,' Nadler said Tuesday.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/438030-attorney-general-Barr-defends-administrations-efforts-to-overturn-obamacare
Looks like AG Barr brought his jackhammer to work.
#6107917 at 2019-04-09 14:34:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7811: EBake
DOJ attorney: Agency is 'well along' in its redactions of Mueller report
A Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney said Tuesday that the agency is "well along" in its process of redacting portions of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Courtney Enlow said during a court hearing for a lawsuit seeking the release of the report that while she did not know the exact timeline, the department was "well into" the review, which includes redactions.
Attorney General William Barr told a House panel Tuesday that a version of the Mueller report would be made public "within a week."
The court hearing was in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) to obtain the report.
Judge Reggie Walton, who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush, declined EPIC's request to issue a preliminary injunction requiring the Justice Department to quickly release the report, saying the advocacy group did not prove there would be irreparable harm if the agency failed to do so.
Walton said that he understood EPIC wants the information be released as soon as possible, and that the subject matter is extremely important for the nation.
He ordered the government to file its formal response to EPIC's request by April 25, and for both parties to appear before him again on May 2 with a status update on the exact documents requested and when they might be expected to be released.
EPIC said last week that the Justice Department had agreed to an expedited release of the report and its underlying documents. However, because the lawsuit was filed under FOIA, it will be subject to exemptions under the law.
Congress is also immersed in a battle over obtaining Mueller's full report. The House Judiciary Committee last week authorized a subpoena for DOJ to hand over the report in its entirety.
Barr missed an April 2 deadline set by the Democratic chairmen of several House committees to release the full report. He has said DOJ is working to redact certain kinds of information from the document, including any details pertaining to national security or ongoing investigations.
Barr said in his summary letter sent to Congress last month that Mueller determined the Trump campaign and Moscow did not collude to influence the 2016 presidential election.
He said Mueller did not make a determination on whether Trump had obstructed justice. In reviewing the evidence, Barr said that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had decided against bringing forward such a charge.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/438003-doj-attorney-agency-is-well-along-in-its-redactions-of-mueller
Bait?
#6107707 at 2019-04-09 14:12:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7811: EBake
Full text: Barr's opening statement
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/09/full-text-William-Barr-testimony-congress-1263404
#6107396 at 2019-04-09 13:24:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7810: Lotsa Green Notes Edition
soon
AG Bill Barr testifies before Congress for first time since receiving Mueller report suppose to be about
Attorney General Barr Testifies on President's 2020 Justice Department Budget Request
Attorney General William Barr testifies before a House but you know Dems will blast him on Mueller report…
#6106723 at 2019-04-09 10:46:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7809: The Graveyard Edition
CSPAN
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#6106407 at 2019-04-09 08:58:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7809: The Graveyard Edition
Belated random 4am headlines (anon's comments)
MSNBC
- They thought Trump was taking notes, then they saw the paper. (book promo)
- Trump's weekend tweet storm suggests bad news ahead of Mueller report release
- Trump consolidates power with staff of 'acting' officials (catching on)
CNBC
- Theresa May seeks help from Merkel and Macron ahead of critical Brexit summit
- Oil markets may have to brace for 'greater disruption,' says strategist
- HSBC predicts China's 2019 GDP will soar past others' estimates
CNN
- Is the sultan of Brunei imposing Sharia law to clean up his family's image?
- Could Bibi lose the Israeli election?
- Trump overseeing 'near-systematic purge'
NBC NEWS
- Stephen Miller is the lone survivor at the center of Trump Homeland chaos
- Virginia completes historic comeback to win its first basketball championship.
- Vitamin supplements don't help longevity, study finds (wtf?!)
CBS NEWS
- Virginia tops Texas Tech 85-77, wins its first NCAA men's basketball title
- Top House Democrats plan to hammer William Barr over Mueller report
- Federal judge blocks Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy
FOX NEWS
- Lawmaker sues news agency in latest bombshell claim, alleging smears from reporter, operative (Nunes)
- House Dem calls WH adviser Stephen Miller a 'white nationalist'
- Lori Loughlin's name missing from list of guilty pleas in admissions scam
#6106379 at 2019-04-09 08:43:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7809: The Graveyard Edition
o7
Patriots in control.
A week to remember?
A weekend to remember?
The "absolutely horrific" leak of Donald Trump's contentious 2017 phone call with Malcolm Turnbull could lead to criminal charges.
Devin Nunes, the highest-ranking Republican member on the US House of Representatives intelligence committee, announced on Sunday he was sending eight criminal referrals to the US attorney general, William Barr.
One is aimed at finding out who leaked transcripts of the US president's phone call with Turnbull on 28 January 2017, a call with the then Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications with a Russian ambassador.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/08/leak-of-call-between-donald-trump-and-malcolm-turnbull-could-lead-to-criminal-charges
#6106342 at 2019-04-09 08:30:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7809: The Graveyard Edition
William Barr will send a message tomorrow.
#6106076 at 2019-04-09 07:22:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7809: The Graveyard Edition
>>6106035
(You) are living in denial.
It's like (You) are completely unaware of the reality around you.
It's sad really.
"Russiagate was the WMD of this generation of journalists, a gigantic lie with devastating consequences for the country and the world. Mueller's appointment was born of corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI where, after talk about wearing wires to set up the President and fomenting cabinet factions in support of using the 25th Amendment against him, an endless Special Counsel investigation starring Robert Mueller seemed a sounder path to impeachment.
It was all generated by a request from British intelligence to unleash the full power of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies against a presidential candidate, and then, an incoming President, using a crappy, amateurish, and obviously fabricated dossier produced by British spy Christopher Steele and promoted by the Clinton Campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence, foreign policy, and defense establishments. As we have reported before, this is the largest political scandal in American history. The Constitution itself is at stake. Mueller's May 2017 appointment was revenge for the firing of James Comey, immediately allowing a coverup of the criminal actions of officials complicit in the coup, at the State Department, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. In the process, the crimes of the actual foreign intervenors into the 2016 election, the British, and to a far lesser extent, the Ukrainians, were also supposed to be buried.
The deflation of the Democratic Party and the media hacks who have driven the coup against President Trump has, since Friday, been audible and smelly, like a balloon of sulfurous gas having finally been pricked. Predictably, they have begun a new round of attempts to hype the results and cover up the evil at play here. Thirty-four individuals indicted, 700 crimes, is the talking point that has emerged from Democratic Party candidates and the news media over the weekend, in a full-throated defense of Robert Mueller's inquisition. To that can be added Sunday's leading refrain from Congressman Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
They are desperate losers facing an American people likely to say: "Stuff it-your time just ran out." Our job is to make that happen."
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4612-mueller_releases_report_now_dr.html
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy
spygate
part 1 = Fusion GPS - https://archive.is/jebsM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-1-fusion-gps-7da0c3293eab
part 2 = Christopher Steele - https://archive.is/qYphy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-2-christopher-steele-f3b7b2cf17f3
part 3 = The Dossier - https://archive.is/RW7LX
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-3-the-dossier-72c397a442b7
part 4 = Foreign Intelligence - https://archive.is/9KrxM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-4-foreign-intelligence-921c0accb9c2
part 5 = Crowdstrike - https://archive.is/i18vy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-5-crowdstrike-17eb2c81f395
part 6 = Alfa Bank - https://archive.is/IQzJe
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-6-alfa-bank-65a788038fe6
part 7 = Brennan's Working Group - https://archive.is/8kYSH
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-4ab7d8188ac
part 8 = American Intelligence - https://archive.is/Kufqn
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-8-american-intelligence-a945ffc1cd35
part 9 = The Deputies Meetings - https://archive.is/XiUC3
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6
part 10 = Kimberlin and the Chalupas - https://archive.is/QKdux
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-10-kimberlin-and-the-chalupas-5b5ac679fad2
part 11 = Stefan Halper - https://archive.is/3ySHd
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-11-stefan-halper-477f2a723dc7
part 12 = Michael Flynn - https://archive.is/3f9CR
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-12-michael-flynn-5e9cc5783ebf
part 13 = The Season of Leaks - https://archive.is/EFuec
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-13-the-season-of-leaks-9a829665f48a
part 14 = Peter W. Smith - https://archive.is/1B2ts
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-14-peter-w-smith-a4efd88291a
part 15 = The FBI vs Donald Trump - https://archive.is/nlizm
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-15-the-f-b-i-vs-donald-trump-23221196ad6f
#6103638 at 2019-04-09 02:16:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7806: I Bake Two Breads In The Afternoon, It Makes Me Feel Alright Edition
Mark Meadows: More criminal referrals coming, 'overwhelming evidence' shows DOJ, FBI abuse
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., teased more criminal referrals against Justice Department and FBI officials on Monday as a colleague of his plans to submit one of his own. House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes, R-Calif., announced on Sunday he is ready to send eight criminal referrals to Attorney General William Barr this week related to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.
In a tweet, Meadows, a member of the Oversight Committee, said it was the "right move" and hinted that there is more to come. "The right move from @DevinNunes. More criminal referrals to come. And certainly more deserved. Overwhelming evidence shows multiple FBI + DOJ executives abused their power to undermine a duly elected President Trump. They will be held accountable," Meadows said. Like Nunes, Meadows has been a leading GOP investigator of alleged misconduct and bias within the upper echelons of the DOJ and FBI, including the anti-Trump text messages of former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
Last month he told Fox News of the coming release of documents that will "show" U.S. ambassadors conspired with the FBI and the Justice Department to harm President Trump, suggesting they were part of a "Deep State" plot.''' Nunes has not disclosed any names of people ensnared in his referrals on Sunday, but he did break down three categories in which they fall, including conspiracy to lie to Congress and the FISA court.
Nunes also suggested his effort could drastically expand to encompass dozens of people. "We think there's only a few people behind these leaks but there could be multiple people, so on the global leak referral, there could be several individuals," Nunes told Fox News. "When you look at the conspiracy that could get up to a dozen, two dozen people."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-meadows-more-criminal-referrals-coming-overwhelming-evidence-shows-doj-fbi-abuse
#6095327 at 2019-04-08 13:08:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7795: Thank You POTUS Edition
Leak of call between Trump and Malcolm Turnbull could lead to criminal charges
Devin Nunes says he is sending eight criminal referrals to US attorney general William Barr
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/08/leak-of-call-between-donald-trump-and-malcolm-turnbull-could-lead-to-criminal-charges
The "absolutely horrific" leak of Donald Trump's contentious 2017 phone call with Malcolm Turnbull could lead to criminal charges.
Devin Nunes, the highest-ranking Republican member on the US House of Representatives intelligence committee, announced on Sunday he was sending eight criminal referrals to the US attorney general, William Barr.
One is aimed at finding out who leaked transcripts of the US president's phone call with Turnbull on 28 January 2017, a call with the then Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, and former national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications with a Russian ambassador.
"You had conversations with the president of the United States and the prime minister of Australia leak," Nunes told Fox News. "You had leaks of President Trump talking to the president of Mexico leak.
"We all know the travesty of General Flynn.
"Nobody knows where those supposed transcripts came from.
"Those are just three examples that are absolutely horrific but there's things that are even worse that were leaked, and there were only two or three reporters involved in this, so it would not be hard to get to the bottom of."
The Trump-Turnbull phone call transcript leak to the Washington Post rocked the usually solid US-Australian alliance, with both nations going into damage control when it was revealed the president abruptly cut short the planned hour-long call to just 24 minutes.
The transcript showed Turnbull pushing Trump to support the asylum seeker deal struck with the former US president Barack Obama. It was Trump's last of numerous calls with world leaders that day, including the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
"Putin was a pleasant call," Trump told Turnbull. "This is ridiculous."
Nunes said the eight referrals "are classified or sensitive" so he was unable to offer details.
Ex-Trump adviser takes aim at Alexander Downer after Mueller report
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"Five of them are what I would call straight up referrals, so just referrals that name someone and name the specific crimes," Nunes said. "Those crimes are lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information."
The referrals also involve alleged abuse by "numerous individuals" of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which involves surveillance warrants against suspected foreign spies inside the US.
Some Republican members of Congress allege the FBI counterintelligence investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump election campaign, which led to the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, was marred by lies and false information to obtain Fisa warrants.
Q !UW.yye1fxo ID: c9daa0 No.8039 📁
Jan 6 2018 16:03:28 (EST)
How much did AUS donate to CF?
How much did SA donate to CF?
Compare.
Why is this relevant?
What phone call between POTUS and X/AUS leaked?
List the leadership in AUS.
IDEN leadership during Hussein term.
IDEN leadership during POTUS' term.
Who controls AUS?
Who really controls AUS?
UK?
Why is this relevant?
Q
#6092093 at 2019-04-08 03:12:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7791: DIVIDERS will FAIL Edition
>>6092054
"Russiagate was the WMD of this generation of journalists, a gigantic lie with devastating consequences for the country and the world. Mueller's appointment was born of corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI where, after talk about wearing wires to set up the President and fomenting cabinet factions in support of using the 25th Amendment against him, an endless Special Counsel investigation starring Robert Mueller seemed a sounder path to impeachment.
It was all generated by a request from British intelligence to unleash the full power of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies against a presidential candidate, and then, an incoming President, using a crappy, amateurish, and obviously fabricated dossier produced by British spy Christopher Steele and promoted by the Clinton Campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence, foreign policy, and defense establishments. As we have reported before, this is the largest political scandal in American history. The Constitution itself is at stake. Mueller's May 2017 appointment was revenge for the firing of James Comey, immediately allowing a coverup of the criminal actions of officials complicit in the coup, at the State Department, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. In the process, the crimes of the actual foreign intervenors into the 2016 election, the British, and to a far lesser extent, the Ukrainians, were also supposed to be buried.
The deflation of the Democratic Party and the media hacks who have driven the coup against President Trump has, since Friday, been audible and smelly, like a balloon of sulfurous gas having finally been pricked. Predictably, they have begun a new round of attempts to hype the results and cover up the evil at play here. Thirty-four individuals indicted, 700 crimes, is the talking point that has emerged from Democratic Party candidates and the news media over the weekend, in a full-throated defense of Robert Mueller's inquisition. To that can be added Sunday's leading refrain from Congressman Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
They are desperate losers facing an American people likely to say: "Stuff it-your time just ran out." Our job is to make that happen."
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4612-mueller_releases_report_now_dr.html
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy
spygate
part 1 = Fusion GPS - https://archive.is/jebsM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-1-fusion-gps-7da0c3293eab
part 2 = Christopher Steele - https://archive.is/qYphy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-2-christopher-steele-f3b7b2cf17f3
part 3 = The Dossier - https://archive.is/RW7LX
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-3-the-dossier-72c397a442b7
part 4 = Foreign Intelligence - https://archive.is/9KrxM
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-4-foreign-intelligence-921c0accb9c2
part 5 = Crowdstrike - https://archive.is/i18vy
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-5-crowdstrike-17eb2c81f395
part 6 = Alfa Bank - https://archive.is/IQzJe
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-6-alfa-bank-65a788038fe6
part 7 = Brennan's Working Group - https://archive.is/8kYSH
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-7-brennans-working-group-4ab7d8188ac
part 8 = American Intelligence - https://archive.is/Kufqn
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-8-american-intelligence-a945ffc1cd35
part 9 = The Deputies Meetings - https://archive.is/XiUC3
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-9-the-deputies-meetings-cde47d4d08a6
part 10 = Kimberlin and the Chalupas - https://archive.is/QKdux
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-10-kimberlin-and-the-chalupas-5b5ac679fad2
part 11 = Stefan Halper - https://archive.is/3ySHd
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-11-stefan-halper-477f2a723dc7
part 12 = Michael Flynn - https://archive.is/3f9CR
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-12-michael-flynn-5e9cc5783ebf
part 13 = The Season of Leaks - https://archive.is/EFuec
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-13-the-season-of-leaks-9a829665f48a
part 14 = Peter W. Smith - https://archive.is/1B2ts
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-14-peter-w-smith-a4efd88291a
part 15 = The FBI vs Donald Trump - https://archive.is/nlizm
https://medium.com/@the_war_economy/spygate-part-15-the-f-b-i-vs-donald-trump-23221196ad6f
#6087977 at 2019-04-07 21:21:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7786: Secure Our Border, Close The Loopholes Edition
Devin Nunes prepares criminal referrals targeting DOJ leaks, FISA abuses in Mueller probe
House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) announced on Fox News Sunday that he is prepared to send eight criminal referrals to the Department of Justice related to the origins of the FBI's counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, which later morphed into special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Nunes' announcement came just weeks after Mueller concluded that Trump's campaign did not collude with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
What did Nunes say?
Speaking with Maria Bartiromo on "Sunday Morning Futures," Nunes said "Watergate wannabes" within the government, with the help of the mainstream media, perpetuated the myth of Trump-Russia collusion, only resulting in "unbelievable disclosures of classified information."
To combat illegal conduct within the government, Nunes said he has prepared eight criminal referrals for Attorney General William Barr, which he will hand over this week.
"We're prepared this week to notify the attorney general that we're prepared to send those referrals over," Nunes said, explaining his team has been working on the notices for more than two years.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/devin-nunes-criminal-referrals-mueller-investigation
#6087737 at 2019-04-07 21:00:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7785: FISA Abuse, Lying, and Leaking Edition
>>6087518
"Russiagate was the WMD of this generation of journalists, a gigantic lie with devastating consequences for the country and the world. Mueller's appointment was born of corruption at the top levels of the DOJ and FBI where, after talk about wearing wires to set up the President and fomenting cabinet factions in support of using the 25th Amendment against him, an endless Special Counsel investigation starring Robert Mueller seemed a sounder path to impeachment.
It was all generated by a request from British intelligence to unleash the full power of the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies against a presidential candidate, and then, an incoming President, using a crappy, amateurish, and obviously fabricated dossier produced by British spy Christopher Steele and promoted by the Clinton Campaign and Barack Obama's intelligence, foreign policy, and defense establishments. As we have reported before, this is the largest political scandal in American history. The Constitution itself is at stake. Mueller's May 2017 appointment was revenge for the firing of James Comey, immediately allowing a coverup of the criminal actions of officials complicit in the coup, at the State Department, the FBI, DOJ, and CIA. In the process, the crimes of the actual foreign intervenors into the 2016 election, the British, and to a far lesser extent, the Ukrainians, were also supposed to be buried.
The deflation of the Democratic Party and the media hacks who have driven the coup against President Trump has, since Friday, been audible and smelly, like a balloon of sulfurous gas having finally been pricked. Predictably, they have begun a new round of attempts to hype the results and cover up the evil at play here. Thirty-four individuals indicted, 700 crimes, is the talking point that has emerged from Democratic Party candidates and the news media over the weekend, in a full-throated defense of Robert Mueller's inquisition. To that can be added Sunday's leading refrain from Congressman Jerrold Nadler, which seems to go something like this: "Saint Bob [Mueller] didn't decide about obstruction, and the evil Trump disciple William Barr stepped in and is attempting to cover up for the evil President. We demand to have testimony from Robert Mueller."
They are desperate losers facing an American people likely to say: "Stuff it-your time just ran out." Our job is to make that happen."
https://larouchepub.com/other/editorials/2019/4612-mueller_releases_report_now_dr.html
#6087468 at 2019-04-07 20:36:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7785: FISA Abuse, Lying, and Leaking Edition
Adam Schiff 'not going to stop' Trump-Russia collusion siren
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday he is not going to stop insisting there is evidence of collusion between President Trump and Russia.
"What I have been saying all along is that the evidence that I'm concerned about is in plain sight. And I have used those words probably 100 times," the California Democrat said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"If the fact that the president called on the Russians to hack Hillary [Clinton]'s emails, if the fact that Don [Trump] Jr. said he would love to get the Russians' help – all of this is in plain sight – if the Republicans think that's perfectly fine because it doesn't amount to the crime of conspiracy, then we are going to part company," he added. "And I'm not going to stop making the point that we should hold our president, our campaigns, our elected officials to a higher standard than mere criminality."
Schiff's insistence on there being collusion has become a flash point between Democrats and Republicans, particularly after special counsel Robert Mueller's submitted his final report last month. Mueller did not establish that there was conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, according to a summary from Attorney General William Barr.
In a tremendous move to display their frustration, all of the House Intelligence Committee Republicans called on Schiff to resign as chairman last month because they had "no faith" in his leadership given his repeated assertion there was "more than circumstantial evidence" that Trump colluded with Russia.
Schiff, who has the backing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., attributed this partisan divide to blind loyalty to Trump.
"Look, I think there is a different standard here between the Republicans and the Democrats," Schiff said. "The Republicans seem to think that, as long as you can't prove it's a crime, then all is fair love and war, that it's all OK, what the Trump administration, the Trump campaign does."
Schiff has called for Mueller's roughly 400-page report to be released to Congress with no redactions.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-not-going-to-stop-trump-russia-collusion-siren
#6086660 at 2019-04-07 19:14:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7784: Border States are Very Key – Public Will Learn Edition
https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/leaked-turnbull-trump-phone-call-could-lead-to-criminal-charges-20190408-p51bty.html
"You had conversations with the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Australia leak," Nunes told Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures. "You had leaks of President Trump talking to the President of Mexico. We all know the travesty of General Flynn. Nobody knows where those supposed transcripts came from.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/us-news-trump-turnbull-phone-call-devin-nunes-australia-politics/02ddecb3-7a66-4114-a522-5cfc35d203c4
The "absolutely horrific" leak of US President Donald Trump's contentious 2017 phone call with then Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull could lead to criminal charges.
Devin Nunes, the highest-ranking Republican member on the US House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, announced today he is sending eight criminal referrals to US Attorney General William Barr.
One of the referrals is aimed at finding out who leaked transcripts of Mr Trump's January 28, 2017 phone call with Mr Turnbull, a call with then-Mexican president Pena Nieto and former national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications with a Russian ambassador.
Mr Nunes said the eight referrals "are classified or sensitive" so he was unable to publicly offer details.
Aussies worried ? Five eyes involved ?
#6085645 at 2019-04-07 17:34:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7783: National Beer Day — Free Beer for all Anons Edition
>>6085622
Concur when is William Barr going to do anything in this revolution??? Bodies everywhere and we are still playing by peace time Political Correct bullshit rules…
#6085379 at 2019-04-07 17:10:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7782: Nunes will be remembered as a Great American Hero Edition
Rudy Giuliani says Jerry Nadler should get 'everything' in Mueller's report
Rudy Giuliani, personal attorney to President Trump, said on Sunday that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., should get all of the information in Robert Mueller's report on collusion between the Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia. "I would like him to get all the information," Giuliani said. "Everything," he added, including grand jury material.
Attorney General William Barr has been preparing the roughly 400-page report for Congress with redactions said he expected to be sent to Congress by the end of this month. But congressional Democrats have demanded the full, unredacted Mueller report, and the House Judiciary Committee voted to approve a subpoena to get it.
Nadler, who said Congress could obtain the full report by the end of the next, and other congressional Democrats have suggested Mueller's findings could include damning information on actions that do not rise to the level of criminal conspiracy but could jeopardize Trump's presidency. "There could be grounds for impeachment. There could be grounds for other action. There could be things the American people ought to know," Nadler said Sunday on CBS.
Giuliani brushed off concern about the full report producing damning information on Trump, pointing to Barr's four-page summary to Congress on the main findings in the report that said there is no information that rises to the level of criminal conspiracy or criminal obstruction of justice. "I guarantee you, except for little quibblers, I'm not worried about the report at all. There is no way those two good lawyers would have written that kind of letter if there is any issue," Giuliani said. Although Barr's summary said Mueller did not find Trump committed obstruction of justice, it was also noted that Mueller did not exonerate Trump on this charge. However, Barr said he concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish a crime.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/rudy-giuliani-says-jerry-nadler-should-get-everything-in-muellers-report
#6085336 at 2019-04-07 17:07:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7782: Nunes will be remembered as a Great American Hero Edition
Jerry Nadler says Congress could get Mueller report within a week
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said on Sunday that Congress could get special counsel Robert Mueller's final report as early as next week. "Attorney General Barr said by the middle of April. It could be the end of this week or beginning of next week, but the important thing is not do we get it this week or next week, the important thing is what do we get?" Nadler said on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Nadler has demanded to see Mueller's full report without any reactions. Attorney General William Barr recently revealed the report is around 400 pages long and his office is working to redact classified information before releasing it to Congress this month. Unsatisfied with Barr's four-page summary of Mueller's report that President Trump and his allies claim provided him exoneration, the House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Mueller's full report.
Adding fuel to their wrath were reports Wednesday evening cited officials saying some of the investigators involved in the 22-month inquiry are worried public perception of the investigation has been improperly shaped by Barr's initial summary, a four-page memo to Congress in which he said Trump did not collude with Russia. The summary also said Mueller did not find Trump committed obstruction of justice nor did he exonerate the president, but Barr said he concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish a crime. "Our position is that he should redact none of it. Congress, the Judiciary Committee, in every similar situation in the paths, whether with Nixon or with Clinton or with in other situation, the Judiciary Committee has gotten all the information, all the underlying documents and evidence, and the Judiciary Committee has decided what of that cannot be released to the public." Nadler said. Nadler said that he expects a court order will be necessary for the release of grand jury information.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jerry-nadler-says-congress-could-get-mueller-report-within-a-week
#6085289 at 2019-04-07 17:03:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7782: Nunes will be remembered as a Great American Hero Edition
Devin Nunes locked and loaded: 8 criminal referrals ready, including 3 targeting 'conspiracy' and 'global leaks'
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., announced on Sunday he is ready to send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department next week related to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. "We're prepared this week to notify the attorney general that we're prepared to send those referrals over and brief him if he wishes to be briefed," Nunes said on Fox News. The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee has been teasing a referral for months and previously predicted its delivery by the end of last week.
However, Nunes backed away from that deadline, hinting that his team of investigators found more people, potentially up to two dozen, who could be the subject of a criminal referral. Nunes said on "Sunday Morning Futures" that the people ensnared in his eight-person referral "may not be all of them." Nunes did not disclose any names, but he did break down three categories in which they fall."Five of them are what I would call straight up referrals so just referrals that are, that name someone and name the specific crimes. Those crimes are lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information," Nunes said. The other three, he said are more complicated, related to charges of conspiracy to lie to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
"There are three that I think are more complicated so you mentioned conspiracy. So the question on conspiracy is what, there's the conspiracy statute, and then what do they need to look at under that statute. So on the first one, is FISA abuse and other matters we believe there is a conspiracy to lie to the FISA Court, mislead the FISA court by numerous individuals that all need to be investigative and looked at," Nunes said. "The second conspiracy one is involving manipulation of intelligence. That also could [involve many] many Americans and we are, so that's kind of the second one. As you know, we've had a lot of concerns with the way intelligence was used."
The third referral Nunes called a "global leak referral." "There are about a dozen highly sensitive classified information leaks that were given to only a few reporters over the last two and a half-plus years, so we don't know if there's actually been any leak investigations that have been open, but we do believe that we've got pretty good information and a pretty good idea of who could be behind these leaks," Nunes said. "Doesn't mean we know all the people behind the leaks because when you read these a lot of these they're always anonymous sources, and they always say something to the effect of current and former senior officials."
Nunes has looked to Attorney General William Barr to make headway toward completing an investigation begun last year by a joint GOP-led task force comprising the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee. Key to this effort, which has been bolstered by intelligence panel Republicans, was investigators looking over roughly 15 transcripts of interviews conducted by the task force last year. In recent weeks, House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., released transcripts of the private 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, and former top FBI official Bill Priestap. Also a potential contributing factor to Nunes' efforts is the House Intelligence Committee's vote last fall to release the transcripts of more than 50 interviews it conducted in its now-completed Russia investigation, which had been submitted to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for declassification review.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-locked-and-loaded-8-criminal-referrals-ready-including-3-targetting-conspiracy-and-global-leaks
#6084795 at 2019-04-07 16:06:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7782: Nunes will be remembered as a Great American Hero Edition
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow accuses Democrats of playing politics, 'The president has not asked for Nancy Pelosi's tax returns'
As the White House faces pressure from congressional Democrats on several fronts, President Donald Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow fired back at the House Ways and Means Committee's bid for the president's tax returns on Sunday, arguing the request does not serve a "legitimate legislative purpose."
"This idea that you can use the IRS as a political weapon ... is incorrect both as a matter of statutory law and constitutionally," Sekulow said in an exclusive interview on "This Week" Sunday morning. "It's not the law for the United States. We don't have a requirement that presidents do that."
Last week, the Democrat-controlled panel formally requested Trump's business and personal tax information dating back to 2013 from the IRS. In making his request, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., cited Section 6103(f) of the federal tax code, an obscure, nearly hundred-year-old provision, which says that the Treasury Secretary "shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request."
The very purpose of the tax code provision Neal wants to exercise was written with the express intention of executive branch oversight, in the wake of the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal, said Steve Rosenthal, a senior fellow in the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and a tax lawyer with 25 years' experience.
"If you look to the legislative context for why this statute exists, and then why Neal is asking, there is not any credible argument to refute the request," Rosenthal told ABC News.
In a letter to Treasury Department's general counsel on Friday, a new lawyer for Trump, William Consovoy, called the move by Democrats "a gross abuse of power" and encouraged the IRS to "refrain from divulging the requested information."
"If it has to be litigated, it will be litigated," Sekulow told ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday. "As the president's counsel, we have the right to protect his interests as a private citizen and as president."
Asked about Democrats' request, Trump said last week that he is "not inclined" to release any of his tax information willingly, citing an ongoing audit.
Sekulow also reiterated the president's position on the much-anticipated release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report, which Attorney General William Barr has said could come out "by mid-April, if not sooner."
"The president has said he turns this over to the attorney general," Sekulow said Sunday. "The attorney general, pursuant to the regulations, George, makes the determination as to what's released, how it's released."
Democrats are clamoring for more information about the special counsel's nearly 400-page report since Barr released his four-page letter to Congress outlining the document's "principal findings."
On Wednesday, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize subpoenas for the full report, but the chairman of that panel, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has said the committee would "work with the attorney general" before issuing any subpoenas.
"I find it ironic that people are talking about subpoenas already for the documents when we're probably less than a week away - or about a week away - from getting them," Sekulow said Sunday.
But a report in the New York Times suggesting "some" of Mueller investigators believe Barr has "failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry" breathed new life into debate over Barr's handling of the report.
The Washington Post later reported that the special counsel's office had prepared summaries that could be released publicly, reflecting different sections of Mueller's report, which Barr has withheld. One source told the Post that the summaries contained potentially sensitive information that needed to be vetted before release.
Sekulow on Sunday brushed those reports aside, denying that the full report will be more damaging to the president than what Barr indicated in his four-page letter to congress.
"There's two conclusions that are important to reiterate," Sekulow said. "No obstruction, and no collusion."
In response, the Justice Department issued a statement defending the attorney general's handling of the matter without directly addressing those news reports.
"Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the Attorney General [previously] decided to release the report's bottom-line findings and his conclusions immediately – without attempting to summarize the report," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said in a statement.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-legal-team-member-jay-sekulow-responds-democrats/story?id=62221530
#6073673 at 2019-04-06 17:55:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7768: Useful Idiots And A Total Witch Hunt Edition
DEMOCRATS Are Now Even Calling Out Rachel Maddow For Being A Conspiracy Theorist
For the past two years, radical Democrat and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been pushing Russia collusion conspiracy theories in an attempt to undermine President Trump.
First, Attorney General William Barr came out with the summary of the Mueller report which showed that the Trump Campaign did NOT collude with Russia, next Maddow's ratings plummeted and then she CONTINUED to push conspiracy theories by claiming that Barr was involved with a cover up to protect President Trump.
Maddow is becoming so unhinged that some Democrats are now even calling her out. One of these Democrats is far-Left Democrat Jacob Bacharach with the The New Republic.
In an article, Bacharach HAMMERED the MSNBC host for her constant lies and Russian conspiracy theories. Check out what he had to say:
"Bread crumbs" are emblematic of the informal house style at MSNBC. The channel has a range of on-air talent, and its shows each have their own cadence and feel, but they are joined across the arc of each daylong cycle of programming, and especially the larger meta-cycle of the Russia investigation, by a kind of Sherlockian, my-dear-Watson zeal. We are discovering the clues, uncovering the documents, connecting the threads, following the trail in the forest.
A mystery is a puzzle to solve, but a conspiracy can only produce more and more mysteries...
...The prevailing criticism of Maddow's on-air personality is that she embodies the stereotype of the smug liberal, and if you encounter her mainly through the brief video clips that are both the reputational currency and the lingua franca of online media, it's easy to see why. She has a bit of a shtick-a habit of cocking her head or raising her eyebrow and speaking confidently but with an air of almost bemused incredulity. Can you, she seems to be asking, believe these guys? She gestures widely. She shrugs. She is arch and broadly ironic. She is very certain that she is right.
mmediacy and intimacy are necessary for a show that consists, for long stretches, of a basically inert shot of a single woman who occupies the left-hand two-thirds of your screen, talking. But these qualities also render less conspicuous the defining trait of the show, which more than any other has contributed to Mueller's near-messianic hold over segments of the so-called Resistance-a movement that was caught by surprise when Mueller finally submitted his report in late March, apparently concluding, from what we know of the report as of this writing, that Trump and his aides had not conspired with Russia to steal the election. Maddow's prime-time hour of overheated speculation lacks the antic sensibility and maudlin sentimentality of, for instance, the pre-exile Glenn Beck, who had scribbled all his manic and intricate chalkboard theories of history as conspiracy (and vice versa) with the studied passion of a coffee-shop prophet. But Maddow-and much of her network these days-is frequently just as bonkers.
BRUTAL. You know it's a bad situation when never-Trumper Democrats are even turning on each other.
Maddow's show on MSNBC has took a major hit after Barr released a summary of the Mueller report which completely destroyed Maddow's pipe dream of Russian collusion.
The implosion of the Russian collusion narrative damaged more than just Maddow's ego - it also destroyed her ratings, at least temporarily.
"The Rachel Maddow Show" on MSNBC delivered monster ratings for the network, cementing the cable host as the left-wing foil to Fox News' Sean Hannity. Maddow consistently finished 1st or 2nd in overall cable news ratings over the past year, sometimes garnering more than 3 million viewers.
But according to The Daily Beast, Maddow's show dropped 500,000 viewers in just one week after the Mueller report dropped.
Ouch! That's what she gets for peddling a far-Left conspiracy theory for 2 years and counting!
https://ilovemyfreedom.org/democrats-are-now-even-calling-out-rachel-maddow-for-being-a-conspiracy-theorist/?utm_source=star&utm_medium=twitter
#6072144 at 2019-04-06 15:26:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7766: Ukraine Biden China Edition
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/qanon-russiagate-mueller-report-redactions/
The similarities extend to the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the election. Mueller became a folk hero to liberals who believed that his investigation would stop Trump's administration and put the president in handcuffs. And Mueller also occupied a lofty, if somewhat confusing, position in the QAnon conspiracy theory, where at first he was secretly working with Trump to take down pedophile rings, before morphing into a controlled agent of the deep state working against Trump. But even just the brief summary provided by Attorney General William Barr was enough to send the conspiracy theorists on both sides off to grab their shovels and dig in harder. On the most recent episode of Chapo Trap House with Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi, host Virgil Texas linked the two extremes together, both demanding transparency from Mueller so as to prove their own closely-held theories-one exonerating Trump, and the other damning him.
Is this what they are afraid of. Disillusioned dems flocking to Qanon for answers the MSM couldnt give them ?
#6071450 at 2019-04-06 14:08:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7765: Wishing Our BO A Safe Journey Edition
Trump calls Russia probe 'a big hoax,' says Dems have 'done a lousy job'
President Trump, in an interview that aired Saturday on "Fox & Friends," called the FBI Special Counsel's Russia investigation "a big hoax" and claimed that Democrats are keeping up pressure on the Justice Department to release the report sooner because "they've done a lousy job."
"You know there's no collusion, OK? The famous word 'collusion.' There's no obstruction because they put a decision and the attorney general made the decision, he said no obstruction," Trump told Fox News' Griff Jenkins. "So there's no collusion, there's no obstruction. There's no nothing."
"It's all a big hoax and the Democrats want to keep playing it because they've done a lousy job," he said.
Attorney General William Barr last month revealed his summary of the Mueller report, which stated that the special counsel found no evidence of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians during the 2016 presidential election. The special counsel did not come to a conclusion on obstruction of justice, but Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the evidence was "not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
But as the White House declared "complete exoneration," Democrats have kept up the pressure in demanding the release of the full report. Barr has said he wishes to review the report with the special counsel's team to determine details to be redacted prior to its release to Congress.
Democrats had set a deadline of April 2 for the full report to be released to Congress and to the public. That deadline was missed and Barr has said he intends to release the report by "mid-April, if not sooner."
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for the full report. Meanwhile, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has claimed that there is evidence of collusion with the Russians.
"There is plenty of evidence of collusion and corrupt co-mingling of work between the Trump campaign and the Russians," Schiff said during an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday. "But I fully accept that as a prosecutor that he couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that crime."
On Friday, Trump said that he was president because Democrats "haven't governed well."
"They haven't governed well again that's why I'm here," he said. "The way they governed is the reason that I'm president and we are doing a great job."
He also took aim at Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., for their responses to the Barr letter.
"Schiff and Nadler they keep playing their game," he said. "They can't get off it and they were very disappointed but it was a very easy decision."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-russia-probe-a-big-hoax-says-democrats-have-done-a-lousy-job
#6070577 at 2019-04-06 11:07:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7764: Thank You 8bit, /ourBO/ Edition
The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, in a Friday interview with Tucker Carlson, criticized the New York Times' Wednesday report alleging that Attorney General William Barr is mishandling Robert Mueller's report on Russian collusion.
The Times' story, which relied on anonymous, secondhand sources, claimed that members of Mueller's team believe that the report is more damaging to President Donald Trump than Barr indicated in his summary of its principal conclusions, which was delivered to Congress last month.
Greenwald began, "Well, it's similar to the journalism that has fueled the three-year hoax that has drowned U.S. discourse: namely, that the New York Times, The Washington Post gives anonymity to totally unknown people to make claims that are completely bereft of any specifics unaccompanied by any evidence whatsoever."
"So that it's impossible to analyze and then journalists see it and start celebrating online on social media and cable news as though it's some sort of a smoking gun," he continued. "I don't really have personally any problem with having the Mueller report published, since I don't think that in this case, a special counsel is just acting as a prosecutor. They are also there to say what actually happened. I think we would all benefit from that so that we no longer have to have CIA leaks trying to manipulate our brain."
Greenwald went on to point out that the anonymous people who are allegedly unhappy feel that way based on Barr's characterization that Trump did not obstruct justice.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/05/green-greenwald-called-out-nyts-piece-criticizing-Barr/
#6069797 at 2019-04-06 07:18:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7763: The Gift That Keeps On Giving Edition
As ((([Dems]))) seek his tax returns, POTUS Trump has a chance to nullify an awful ((([IRS]))) regulation - and he SHOULD
A stuttering, angry House Speaker Nancy Pelosi struggled her way through a session with reporters on Friday as she demanded - demanded - that the Justice Department release special counsel Robert Mueller's "no collusion" report in full and that POTUS Donald Trump hand over his tax returns to political opportunists in the House.
"Show us the Mueller report," Speaker Pelosi said, pounding the lectern. "Show us the tax returns. And we're not walking away just because you say 'no' the first time around."
First of all - and we'll say this as long as Democrats play stupid political games while our southwestern border collapses in chaos - the Justice Department is under no legal obligation to provide Congress with jack when it comes to Mueller's report.
The attorney general has broad release and non-release authority, as well as the responsibility to ensure that sources are protected, that individuals' privacy is maintained, and that witnesses who spoke to investigators with the expectation that their identities would not be revealed are protected.
No one on Capitol Hill who is being honest and serious expects that elements of the Mueller report won't be leaked to a "mainstream" media that has long served as the Democratic Party's propaganda wing. House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) would probably be the first to do so; he's got that reputation, you know.
AG William Barr, who is known as a straight shooter, will deal with that demand. But this business of Congress demanding POTUS' tax returns has to be dealt with legally and constitutionally because it is a gross violation of Fourth Amendment privacy rights.
As The Hill noted on Friday, POTUS, when asked by reporters if he was prepared to release his returns per a congressional request, said he was currently under audit - which is what he's said for two years. However:
The IRS has said that audits don't prevent people from releasing their own tax information, and Democrats are attempting to use a provision in the federal tax code that gives the chairmen of Congress's tax committees the power to ask for any tax returns and return information and examine them in a closed session.
The statute says that the Treasury secretary "shall furnish" the documents, so long as they are reviewed in a closed session. But it's unclear how quickly the IRS will respond and if they will provide House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-Mass.) with the documents.
Neal asked the IRS to provide the requested tax returns and related information by Wednesday. Democrats argue that there is no room in the statute for the IRS not to comply and that their request is necessary to conduct oversight of the IRS's enforcement of tax laws against a president.
Anyone who has spent a month covering Washington politics knows that Democrats have no interest in the president's returns other than to use them in some way to emBarrass him or expose him legally.
But let's be clear about some things here. Whether the president's last name is Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Reagan, or whomever:
- There is no constitutional requirement for the president to release his tax returns, so all of the Democratic and media noise about the president 'failing to release' them is just that, noise
- There is no legal requirement for the president to release his tax returns to the public, and just because 'all other presidents have done it' makes no difference whatsoever;
- The IRS is also an enforcement agency; if billionaire Donald Trump had run afoul of the nation's tax agency in the past, it would have caught up with him already - long before he got two years into his first term.
More at https://thenationalsentinel.com/2019/04/05/as-dems-seek-his-tax-returns-potus-trump-has-a-chance-to-nullify-an-awful-irs-regulation-and-he-should/
#6068589 at 2019-04-06 04:43:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7761: Friday Night Research Edition
Democrat Hank Johnson Suggests Attorney General Barr May Have 'Obstructed Justice'
Some Democrats in Congress are suggesting that Attorney General William Barr broke the law in announcing the principal conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report last week, according to a report.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) - who once asked during a hearing whether Guam could tip over and capsize if more Marines were added, suggested Friday that Barr's handling of the report may have "obstructed justice."
"If it turns out that he has obstructed justice by how he has handled the Mueller report that will be a deep stain on his legacy," said Rep. Hank Johnson, member of the House Judiciary Committee, according to Politico.
Barr, in a letter to leaders of the Judiciary Committee, wrote that the special counsel did not establish any collusion, conspiracy, or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.
He also said Mueller declined to take a position on whether the president obstructed the investigation, which he said left him to make the decision. Barr said he, in consultation with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, concluded Trump did not obstruct the special counsel investigation.
Democrats have slammed Barr's characterizations of Mueller's principal conclusions, and demanded that he release the report by April 2. Barr notified them that he intended to release the report by mid-April, if not earlier, as he scrubbed the report of four categories of legally protected information.
He also responded to their criticism by adding that his letter was never meant to be summary of Mueller's report.
"Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own," he wrote. "I do not believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemeal fashion."
Still, House Judiciary Democrats have blasted Barr for not yet releasing the full investigation, and on Wednesday, moved to authorize subpoenas for the report, as well as former White House advisers as part of their investigation to find any wrongdoing by the president.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) suggested that Barr was making up justifications not to release it in full:
>The Attorney General's repeated justifications for withholding grand jury material - instead of seeking court approval to release it - simply don't add up.
>We fought to ensure Mueller could finish his work. And we will fight to ensure Mueller's report is not buried.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) defended Barr on Fox News.
"Attorney General Barr has operated at lightning speed, providing the conclusions to Congress even over the weekend," he said. "So, certainly he is going to be faithful to his commitment to get as much as is appropriate and legal from the Mueller report into the public square."
"What [Republicans] don't agree with is a strategy that would compromise sources and methods from the intelligence community or that would limit our ability to conduct important investigations in the future," Gaetz added.
"Democrats made these very arguments when we were trying to get the underlying documents as to how this whole ridiculous investigation got started in the first place. Now they're being total hypocrites," he said.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/05/democrat-hank-johnson-suggests-attorney-general-Barr-may-have-obstructed-justice/
#6068264 at 2019-04-06 04:07:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7761: Friday Night Research Edition
Glenn Greenwald Called Out NYT's Piece Criticizing Barr
The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald, in a Friday interview with Tucker Carlson, criticized the New York Times' Wednesday report alleging that Attorney General William Barr is mishandling Robert Mueller's report on Russian collusion. The Times' story, which relied on anonymous, secondhand sources, claimed that members of Mueller's team believe that the report is more damaging to President Donald Trump than Barr indicated in his summary of its principal conclusions, which was delivered to Congress last month.
Greenwald began, "Well, it's similar to the journalism that has fueled the three-year hoax that has drowned U.S. discourse: namely, that the New York Times, The Washington Post gives anonymity to totally unknown people to make claims that are completely bereft of any specifics unaccompanied by any evidence whatsoever." "So that it's impossible to analyze and then journalists see it and start celebrating online on social media and cable news as though it's some sort of a smoking gun," he continued. "I don't really have personally any problem with having the Mueller report published, since I don't think that in this case, a special counsel is just acting as a prosecutor. They are also there to say what actually happened. I think we would all benefit from that so that we no longer have to have CIA leaks trying to manipulate our brain."
Greenwald went on to point out that the anonymous people who are allegedly unhappy feel that way based on Barr's characterization that Trump did not obstruct justice. He continued, "It's amazing that actually the part about the no collusion got bolstered because even these malcontents who are complaining to the New York Times anonymously are saying, 'We don't have the problem with the section finally finding no collusion.'" The Washington Post followed up on the NYT's report that quoted sources but they still did not talk to members of the Mueller team.
The Department of Justice pushed back on their reporting. "Every page of the 'confidential report' provided to Attorney General Barr on March 22, 2019, was marked 'May Contain Material Protected Under Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)' - a law that protects confidential grand jury information - and therefore could not be publicly released," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec previously said in a statement to The Daily Caller.
https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/04/05/green-greenwald-called-out-nyts-piece-criticizing-Barr/
#6064591 at 2019-04-05 22:56:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7756: Goin Back to Cali, Cali, Cali. The DJ Cool T Edition
>>6064461
Patriot Anon
POTUS already gave orders to DECLAS 2018
But DECLAS was Blockade by [RR]
Now Blockade has already been removed
[RR] replacement should be sworn maybe next week
AG William Barr has full control of when DECLAS happens
#6064253 at 2019-04-05 22:31:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7756: Goin Back to Cali, Cali, Cali. The DJ Cool T Edition
https://twitter.com/saracarterdc/status/1114293504769953793?s=21
https://saraacarter.com/democratic-lawmaker-some-things-may-need-to-be-redacted-from-mueller-report/
New article up on Sara Carter by Jenny Taer
Democratic Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA), speaking on Fox News about Mueller report and upcoming testimony before congress of Attorney General William Barr, said that he understands that there will be things that need to be redacted from the report before it becomes public.
"The House Appropriations Committee, funds the entire federal government, and we have to listen to the testimony from the executive branch officers who come in present their proposed budgets and tell us what they want to spend money on etc...so as part of funding the Justice Department, we have the Attorney General coming in and talking about the President's budget for that department. The Mueller report will come up during his testimony," said Rep. Cartwright.
"The House voted unanimously, Democrat and Republicans that this is a report that ought to be made public, so we can stop speculating about it, who said what, let's go through the exercise and see what the facts are" continued Rep. Cartwright, "somethings may need to be redacted, like grand jury testimony is supposed to be secret, and if they want to redact that fine...if there are national security secrets that are in there...they should be redacted. And I do think that a more select group of people in the congress, should look at the whole unredacted version, perhaps the House Intelligence Committee...and they are used to being entrusted with top secret information that they are going to honor their commitment to guard top secret information and not reveal it to the public. But also, to review the whole thing so that they have the entire facts and context."
#6064230 at 2019-04-05 22:30:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7756: Goin Back to Cali, Cali, Cali. The DJ Cool T Edition
https://saraacarter.com/democratic-lawmaker-some-things-may-need-to-be-redacted-from-mueller-report/
Democratic Lawmaker: 'Some Things May Need To Be Redacted' From Mueller Report
Matt Cartwright (D-PA), speaking on Fox News about Mueller report and upcoming testimony before congress of Attorney General William Barr, said that he understands that there will be things that need to be redacted from the report before it becomes public.
"The House Appropriations Committee, funds the entire federal government, and we have to listen to the testimony from the executive branch officers who come in present their proposed budgets and tell us what they want to spend money on etc...so as part of funding the Justice Department, we have the Attorney General coming in and talking about the President's budget for that department.
#6064189 at 2019-04-05 22:26:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7755: 22 Quick Math Edition
>>6064065
W. B.
William Barr
#6064179 at 2019-04-05 22:25:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7755: 22 Quick Math Edition
>>6064065
>>6064077
>>6064079
Patriot Anons
Any chance the WB a message to AG William Barr is cleared to DECLAS when he is ready
#6059310 at 2019-04-05 16:11:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7749: One Nation Under God Edition
States ask judge to stop construction of Trump border wall
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/437553-states-ask-judge-to-stop-construction-of-trump-border-wall
California on Friday led a group of 20 states in requesting that a federal judge stop President Trump from diverting federal funds to build his wall on the southern border.
The state attorneys general announced their request for the preliminary injunction as Trump traveled to California to visit a segment of the border wall.
In the filing, the states argue that Trump's declaration of a national emergency in order to divert federal funding to the wall from other sources is unconstitutional, and that construction of the wall under those circumstances would cause irreparable damage.
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"Notwithstanding the president's expressed frustration with Congress and the legislative process, he must act in accordance with the procedures established in the Constitution to obtain funding for his border wall," the filing reads.
The states also claim that construction of the wall could cause "possible irreparable harm to endangered species" living near the border, and that the administration has violated the National Environmental Policy Act by not studying the potential environmental impact of the wall.
The states' request came just hours after the ACLU also asked a federal judge to implement a preliminary national injunction to halt construction of the border wall.
Trump declared a national emergency earlier this year following shortly after a 35 day-long partial government shutdown after Congress refused to pass a funding bill granting him his requested amount of funding to construct the border wall.
Attorney General William Barr said at the time that Trump had the legal authority and standing to declare the national emergency. And Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other immigration officials have since called the situation at the border a crisis.
Trump earlier this week threatened to shut down the border with Mexico. But he later backed off that position, saying that he will give Mexico a year to stem illegal immigration and drug trafficking happening on the southern border.
#6055866 at 2019-04-05 06:30:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7745: Border Rally Cali. The 45 Digits Edition
>>6055822
"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
#6055434 at 2019-04-05 05:35:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7744: Total Faith Truth Will Out Edition
In Less Than 24 Hours, House Democrats Unveil Three Efforts Targeting Trump
(1 of 2)
The Democratic chairmen of three key House committees launched a multi-pronged attack on President Donald Trump on April 3, unveiling a request for the commander in chief's tax returns, confirming plans to issue a subpoena for his financial records, and authorizing subpoenas for the release of the special counsel report by Robert Mueller. Early on April 3, the House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), to issue subpoenas for the Mueller report and underlying documents. Hours later, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform said he plans to issue a subpoena to Trump's accounting firm after the company signaled its readiness to turn over 10 years of financial records upon being compelled by Congress. And before the day was over, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee used a little-known provision in the tax code to request six years of Trump's tax returns from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
House Democrats have initiated a number of far-reaching efforts targeting Trump since gaining the majority after the 2018 midterm election, but the spree on April 3 was the busiest day in their campaign to pressure the president. The flurry of activity is the latest effort in the offensive campaign by the Democrats, which appears to have ramped up after Mueller exonerated Trump of collusion allegations and Attorney General William Barr concluded that there isn't enough evidence of obstruction to bring a case against the president in a court of law. Nadler did not immediately issue any subpoenas for the Mueller report. The Democrats on the committee moved to authorize the subpoenas, despite Barr having indicated that he plans to release the report to Congress in mid-April.
Mueller's report will likely be redacted to protect grand jury testimony and information that links to ongoing investigations. If that ends up being the case, Nadler has indicated that he will fight to see the full report. "This committee requires the full report and the underlying materials because it is our job, not the attorney general's, to determine whether or not President Trump has abused his office," Nadler said April 3. In 1998, Nadler argued against releasing the full report by independent counsel Kenneth Starr which recommended the impeachment of Democratic President Bill Clinton, arguing that it would contain "all kinds of material that it would be unfair to release."
In a response to Nadler's April 3 move, House Republicans wrote on Twitter that "without facts on their side, Democrats have put all their hope in optics. There is no legislative purpose to these subpoenas." Not long after the judiciary committee voted to authorize the subpoenas, the Democratic chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) told reporters that Trump's accounting firm, Mazars USA, had asked the committee for a "friendly" subpoena in order to comply with a request for 10 years of Trump's financial records. "They have told us that they will provide the information pretty much when they have a subpoena," Cummings said, according to Politico. "And we'll get them a subpoena." Cummings requested the documents from Mazars USA in a letter (pdf) on March 20. The request drew on information the committee gathered from the testimony of Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/house-democrats-unveil-three-efforts-targeting-trump_2867078.html
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Elijah Cummings letter to Mazar's USA
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000169-c07d-dc59-a16d-e6fd451d0002
#6054337 at 2019-04-05 03:58:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7743: March Madness Brings April Showers of R(P)AIN Edition
Dems Have Vastly More to Fear from Full Mueller Report than GOP (UPDATED)
Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is huffing and puffing away about his committee's subpoena-in-waiting lest Attorney General William Barr not be sufficiently forthcoming about the details of the Mueller Report.
"But if we cannot reach an accommodation, then we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials," Nadler warned. "And if the department still refuses, then it should be up to a judge - not the president or his political appointee - to decide whether or not it is appropriate for the committee to review the complete record."
Methinks the chairman doth protest too much. In other words, it's all a charade for the faithful. He doesn't really want to do anything. Likely Nadler is secretly praying Barr redacts the whole damn thing or ties things up in the courts for long enough for the investigation to disappear at least somewhat down the memory hole.
The full text of the Mueller report is a booby-trap for the Democrats. And many of them not named Schiff must know or suspect it.
Sure there will be one or two tidbits to keep the heavy breathers at CNN distracted as their ratings continue to fall through the basement, but largely the report will be four hundred pages demonstrating what we all now know did not happen - i. e. collusion between Trump or anyone on his campaign and the Russians (not that we didn't know that over a year ago).
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/dems-have-vastly-more-to-fear-from-full-mueller-report-than-gop/
#6054311 at 2019-04-05 03:56:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7743: March Madness Brings April Showers of R(P)AIN Edition
The Top 5 Investigations Obstructed by the Obama Administration
With Democrats and the media licking their wounds over the Mueller Report not finding Russian collusion, they've been refocusing their energy on claims of obstruction of justice, even accusing Trump Attorney General William Barr of "protecting" Trump. Which is both amusing and hypocritical considering how they tolerated obstruction of justice by the Obama administration and sometimes assisted in that obstruction.
If Robert Mueller couldn't conclude that Trump obstructed his investigation, then it's quite clear there wasn't any. Having written extensively about Obama-era corruption, I felt it was necessary to remind everyone that not only was the Obama administration plagued by multiple scandals but that obstructing investigations was standard operating procedure. For Democrats, Trump calling the Mueller an investigation a witch hunt is an impeachable offense, but Obama refusing to cooperate with investigations was much ado about nothing.
Despite many abuses of power during the Obama years, not once did Attorney General Eric Holder or Attorney General Loretta Lynch ever appoint a special counsel to investigate them. Instead, they'd occasionally launch their own investigations, which always exonerated them, or, when the Republican-controlled House launched their own investigations, the Obama administration refused to cooperate and obstructed their investigations.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/the-top-5-investigations-obstructed-by-the-obama-administration/
#6052916 at 2019-04-05 02:15:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7741: 1 Year Delta of "POTUS Will Be Up All Night. Watch The News" Edition
>>6052908
sauce
https://www.scribd.com/document/403650585/Attorney-General-William-Barr-letter-to-leaders-of-the-House-and-Senate-Judiciary-committees#fullscreen&from_embed
#6050331 at 2019-04-04 22:49:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7738: JA On The Move? The Paper Planes Edition
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/04/04/dem-rep-quigley-i-dont-doubt-at-all-that-Barr-whitewashed-mueller-report/
Dem Rep. Quigley: 'I Don't Doubt at All' that Barr Whitewashed Mueller Report
House Intelligence Committee member Mike Quigley (D-IL) stated that he doesn't "doubt at all" that Attorney General William Barr whitewashed Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Co-host Jim Sciutto indulged the Conspiracy Talk, "Are you concerned, based on the stories in the Post and the Times, that the attorney general whitewashed the special counsel's report with his summary?"
"I don't doubt at all that the special - that Mr. Barr did that. I mean, the fact of the matter is, he was hired to do that. He applied for this job with a...19-page memo saying he agreed with - he disagreed with the theory of law about the obstruction in this case. So I think he was put in place by the White House to do exactly what he did. It was to keep this report from getting to the American public and arguing against obstruction, despite a two-year investigation, which said he couldn't be exonerated."
#6049484 at 2019-04-04 21:49:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7737: Mueller Report Retort Edition
Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team produced summaries of core investigative findings but didn't submit the documents to the Justice Department's leadership in a way that could allow for their quick release to Congress and the public, according to people familiar with the matter.
The summaries were included as part of an overall confidential report that Mueller submitted to Attorney General William Barr last month, ending his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and whether President Donald Trump or any of his associates conspired in the election meddling effort.
News reports have raised questions about whether Barr could have easily released the summaries, rather than issue his own short, four-page description of Mueller's principal conclusions on March 24.
Two people familiar with the matter said the summaries in Mueller's report had markings indicating that some parts had to be reviewed and withheld, potentially including information related to grand jury proceedings.
According to Barr, the Mueller report didn't establish that Trump or his campaign conspired with Russia but was less decisive on obstruction – citing "difficult issues" of fact and law. Mueller's report "does not exonerate" the president on that point, Barr wrote.
https://archive.fo/YnmWo
[Bloomberg]
#6048370 at 2019-04-04 20:20:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7735: Tchencent Edition
https://www.upi.com/amp/Top_News/US/2019/04/04/Justice-Department-defends-4-page-summary-of-Mueller-report/2241554392381/?__twitter_impression=true
DOJ Defends Barr Summary
April 4 (UPI) – Amid mounting criticism from Democrats and observers, the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday defended its four-page outline that summarizes the nearly 400-page final report from special counsel Robert Mueller.
Mueller completed his investigation into Russian election interference late last month and Attorney General William Barr issued the summary on March 22. It said Mueller's team found no evidence President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russians before the 2016 election – but did not clear the president of obstructing justice. Since then, many have demanded the department release the full report – particularly after learning it's nearly 400 pages long.
"Given the extraordinary public interest in the matter, the attorney general decided to release the report's bottom-line findings and his conclusions immediately – without attempting to summarize the report – with the understanding that the report itself would be released after the redaction process," Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec said Thursday. She added that every page of the report contains confidential grand jury information that can't be publicized.
The department plans to release a redacted version of the report – minus the sensitive information – in the coming weeks.
The department's statement Thursday follows reports in The New York Times and Washington Post that say some investigators on Mueller's team are unhappy with the limited information in Barr's summary.
The Times report said some investigators told associates Barr failed to adequately portray the findings, and that the report was more damaging to Trump than the outline indicated. The Post report said findings on the charges of obstructing justice were "alarming and significant."
The House judiciary committee on Wednesday approved a subpoena for Mueller's full report, which could compel Barr to release it. The panel said it hopes it doesn't have to use the subpoena.
Barr has said he's been working with Mueller's office on making redactions and the White House will not get an advance reviewing of the document.
Also Thursday, tens of thousands of protesters are expected nationwide to demand the full report with rallies in hundreds of locations.
#6045869 at 2019-04-04 16:53:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7732: Fresh Bread FOIA Head Edition
Gotta Love the title: First-Ever Leaks Originating From The Robert Mueller Team | All In | MSNBC
Here's the fake news NYT article that the fake news MSDNC is basing that video on
>Some on Mueller's Team Say Report Was More Damaging Than Barr Revealed
>The officials and others interviewed declined to flesh out why some of the special counsel's investigators viewed their findings as potentially more damaging for the president than Mr. Barr explained…..
>Representatives for the Justice Department and the special counsel declined to comment on Wednesday on views inside both Mr. Mueller's office and the Justice Department.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/William-Barr-mueller-report.html
Unamed sources again. The video alone is nothing but click bait and what if's and could be's. The fact that Mueller and Rosenstein haven't uttered a word to disavow the Barr summary it telling.
Keep digging yourselves into a grave fake news.
#6044385 at 2019-04-04 14:21:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7730: And then There Were Seven Edition
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/William-Barr-mueller-report.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer
I am in hysterics reading the comments from this article, such as this.
"Release the bloody report. Barr, Trump and the Republican party have precisely no credibility on related matters until that report is released to Congress, at least, and ideally to the American people. The notion that Barr is upset as to how Americans interpreted his 4 pager is absurd. If he were honorable, and if he gave it a moment's thought, he would have known that his first action should have been to release the full report to Congress or to the public. Barr's views on the findings of the report are of no more value than those of the 330 million other US citizens. Barr's actions have damaged his own credibility and that of the office of US attorney general. If Barr's 4-pager is the full story then Barr and Trump have nothing to lose by releasing the full report. If there's more to the story, Congress, and the American public, need to know. Anything less is a full-blown Republican coverup."
Anons, I cannot even begin to express the admiration of the blinder being played by POTUS and white hats. You have BS and disinfo being fed to the biggest, most corrpupt msm outfits, NYT & WaPost, DEMANDING the Report be fully released. COVER UP! They scream incessantly.
Pity these poor people. They are literally cows begging a farmer to take them to a salughterhouse after telling them they are not allowed in.
Was the 2 years screaming WITCH HUNT but never shutting it down not enough of a clue? The no indictments and summary? There are literally people living in a parallel fantasy world, akin to November 8th 2016, that are about to have their realities shattered, by their very heroes they put on a pedastal; Mueller, Rosenstein and the media.
I salute POTUS, Q and all the genius patriots who put this perfectly crafted sting operation together.
#6043920 at 2019-04-04 13:16:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7730: And then There Were Seven Edition
TALKING POINTS HITS ON POTUS TODAY
Steven Moore, Trump's pick for Federal Reserve is bad
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/04/01/trump-adviser-stephen-moore-doesnt-belong-federal-reserve-editorials-debates/3331683002/
Trump should not be at Mara Largo because Muh Security Concerns and it cost taxpayers too much
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/mar-a-lago-chinese-malware.html
Mueller Report is much worse than Barr says > Barr is bad
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/William-Barr-mueller-report.html
BOEING IS BAD BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED ILLEGAL TAX BREAKS
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boeing-received-illegal-tax-breaks-according-to-world-trade-organization-body-2019-03-28
BOEING IS BAD BECAUSE THEY CAN'T FIX THEIR SOFTWARE PROBLEM ...and oh, by the way, that will damage the economy big time..( too bad for Trump)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boeing-received-illegal-tax-breaks-according-to-world-trade-organization-body-2019-03-28
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/boeing-received-illegal-tax-breaks-according-to-world-trade-organization-body-2019-03-28
#6042772 at 2019-04-04 07:39:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7728: Kicking The Deep State Right In Their Cabals Edition
Mueller's team frustrated over limited information shared about Russia investigation
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/111807202/muellers-team-frustrated-over-limited-information-shared-about-russia-investigation
Members of special counsel Robert Mueller III's team have told associates they are frustrated with the limited information Attorney General William Barr has provided about their nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether US President Donald Trump sought to obstruct justice, according to people familiar with the matter.
The displeasure among some who worked on the closely held inquiry has quietly begun to surface in the days since Barr released a four-page letter to Congress on March 24 describing what he said were the principal conclusions of Mueller's still-confidential, 400-page report.
In his letter, Barr said that the special counsel did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. And he said that Mueller did not reach a conclusion "one way or the other" as to whether Trump's conduct in office constituted obstruction of justice.
#6040137 at 2019-04-04 02:15:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research #7725: Where's Hussein on Biden? Edition
>>6038772
PANIC PANIC PANIC!
"according to government officials and others familiar with their simmering frustrations."
"a person familiar with the investigation said"
"according to two government officials familiar with Mr. Barr's thinking"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/William-Barr-mueller-report.html
#6034193 at 2019-04-03 18:33:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7717: Memed Into Reality : We Are The News Edition
Democrats vote to subpoena Mueller report over Republican objections
Here we go.
Democratic efforts to compel the release of the Mueller report to Congress from the Department of Justice ended as expected on Wednesday, but not without vocal pushback from Republicans.
A meeting of the House Judiciary Committee resulted in a party-line 24 to 17 vote to authorize a subpoena of special counsel Robert Mueller's report of his investigation and all the underlying evidence from Attorney General William Barr.
"Why are we here?" asked Judiciary member and Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio). "Seems to me we're here because the Mueller report wasn't what the Democrats thought it was going to be.
"In fact, it was just the opposite," Jordan continued. "What'd the attorney general tell us that the principal findings of Mr. Mueller's report were? No new indictments, no sealed indictments, no collusion, no obstruction."
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) also called out Democratic efforts to keep digging into the issue, despite the findings of the Mueller report.
"Enough is enough, for heaven's sakes, let's please move on," Gohmert said, before turning his critiques directly to committee chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.).
"There was a time when I loved and appreciated the current chairman's desire to protect privacy rights; I saw that dramatically eroded during the Obama administration," Gohmert continued. "But I am still hoping and praying that our now-chairman's once great desire to protect privacy rights and to try to hold back the bounds of what Orwell described as happening now ... it's time to go back and clean up the mess that's been made over years of abuse."
The committee's top Republican took issue with Democrats' demand for underlying evidence, saying that Barr would have to violate federal law to comply with it.
"The subpoena for the Mueller report and its underlying evidence commands the attorney general to do what the unthinkable is," said committee ranking member Doug Collins (R-Ga.). "We're going to ask the attorney general to break his regulations, to break the law."
"The attorney general's entire mandate is to enforce the law, and he's expressly forbidden from providing grand jury [material] outside of the department, [with] very limited and narrow exceptions," Collins added. "Congress is not one of the exceptions and the chairman knows it."
A few weeks ago, the House of Representatives voted almost unanimously to make as much of the report public as possible, though a small handful of Republicans objected to the resolution by voting "present."
Barr told congressional leaders last week that he plans to release what he can of the report and that he expects his department "will be in a position to release the report by mid-April, if not sooner."
In his opening statement, Nadler said that he won't issue the report right away, but will instead give Barr a chance to "change his mind" about whether to send a redacted or unredacted report to Congress.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democrats-subpoena-mueller-report
#6033300 at 2019-04-03 17:22:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7716: Bless Our Bakers. The Kitchen Is Comfy Edition
Rep. Meadows: Mueller report subpoena not about the truth, it's about hurting Trump ahead of 2020
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., has accused House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., of creating "political theater" in an attempt to hurt President Trump's chances of winning re-election in 2020.
"This was not a transparency subpoena. This was a 2020 subpoena," Meadows told "America's Newsroom."
"It's all political theater. It has nothing to do with really getting to the truth."
The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to authorize subpoenas for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's full report after the Justice Department missed a Democrat-imposed deadline Tuesday.
The authorization of subpoenas does not mean the committee will issue them but gives Democrats on the panel the option to do so.
Attorney General William Barr has previously said his team must first redact sensitive information but Nadler made it clear Democrats want to see the entire unredacted report.
Meadows believes Democrats are motivated by wanting to do damage to the president and his attorney general.
"This is all about trying to disparage the president of the United States when his attorney general, Attorney General Barr... he's working with warp speed to get information to the American people," Meadows said.
"It's really unprecedented... in terms of his willingness to work with Congress and yet this is how he gets rewarded. It's a sad day for Congress and I would say it's a sad day for the American people."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-meadows-subpoena-not-about-the-truth-its-about-2020
#6031904 at 2019-04-03 15:34:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7714: Patriots ARE in Control Edition
Unable To Wait Two Weeks, Democrats Plan Nationwide Tantrum If Mueller Report Not Released Tonight
A coalition of prominent progressive grassroots organizations are planning a nationwide protest on Thursday if Attorney General William Barr does not release special counsel Robert Mueller's full Russia report by a Tuesday deadline set by House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler.
Barr and Mueller are currently working to redact sensitive information ahead of the report's full public release, which Barr says should be ready by mid-April or sooner.
Not soon enough, however, for Democrats hoping that the full report will provide "gotchas" that will prove Trump and his team committed malfeasance - despite Mueller's conclusion that there was no collusion between Trump and Russia.
"We are calling for a National Day of Action on Thursday, April 4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport if he fails to meet the deadline set by congressional leaders of Tuesday, April 2," announced the Trump Is Not Above The Law coalition on late Monday.
"Barr has offered an alternate timeline for a redacted version of the report," said the group "but we deserve the full report and Congressional leaders and the American people expect it now."
As Common Dreams reported last week, Barr informed Congress in a letter that he plans to release a redacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 400-page report by mid-April.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, was quick to reject Barr's timeline and reiterate his demand for the full report-as well as all underlying evidence-by April 2.
On Monday, Nadler took steps to authorize a subpoena for the complete report.
Expecting Barr to miss the deadline, advocacy groups-including MoveOn, Common Cause, Public Citizen, and Stand Up America-are planning demonstrations throughout the country to demand that all of Mueller's findings be made public. -Common Dreams
So far more than 16,000 people have indicated via RSVP that they will protest outside the White House.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-02/unable-wait-two-weeks-democrats-plan-nationwide-tantrum-if-mueller-report-not
#6031593 at 2019-04-03 15:04:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7714: Patriots ARE in Control Edition
Comey the Coward, I cant even believe he ran the FBI
Then again if he did nothing wrong why would he fear an investigation into the investigators?
It's far more likely James Comey was integral to the Trump-Russia hoax that was in fact an attempted coup against a sitting president of the United States. He should be concerned!
Read more at http://dcwhispers.com/james-comey-now-fears-he-is-going-to-be-investigated-for-his-part-in-trump-russia-hoax/#fH5KMohWzRZpUMud.99
Via Politico:
Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump's calls for a possible investigation into how special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia inquiry started, adding that it creates a troubling precedent.
During an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Comey was asked about whether he feared possible counterinvestigations.
"I don't fear it personally. I fear it as a citizen," he said. "Right? Investigate what? Investigate that investigations were conducted? What would be the crime you'd be investigating? So it's a terrible cycle to start."
Several days after Attorney General William Barr released his summary of Mueller's report, Trump and his team have called for investigations into how the probe began.
"Hopefully, somebody is going to look at the other side," Trump told reporters late last month. The president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has also made similar statements.
On Tuesday, Trump continued to advocate for an examination of how the FBI and Mueller investigations began.
"I hope they now go and take a look at the origins of the investigation, the beginnings of the investigation," the president told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. "You look at the origin of the investigation, where it started, how it started, who started it."
Whether it's [former FBI Deputy Cirector Andrew] McCabe or Comey or a lot of them, where does it go? How high up in the White House did it go?" Trump continued, calling on reporters to investigate the origins of Mueller's probe, even dangling the prospect of a Pulitzer Prize to journalists in the room.
Barr, in his four-page summary, wrote that Mueller did not find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election. In addition, Barr wrote that Mueller did not fully exonerate Trump in an obstruction of justice inquiry, but the attorney general added that he did not believe there was enough evidence to bring charges on the matter.
Comey condemned the president's rhetoric of "calling for the locking up of his political opponents, including people like me."
"It will just be more of that dangerous step, and would I hope, although he'll continue to disappoint me, the Republicans would finally stand up and say that kind of thing," he said.
The former FBI director, however, maintained that he would be willing to answer questions if an investigation were opened.
"Me, personally, ask me questions," Comey said. "Go ahead. I would like to answer them in the daylight, if I could."
#6031452 at 2019-04-03 14:51:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7714: Patriots ARE in Control Edition
House panel votes to authorize subpoena for unredacted Mueller report
The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to authorize a subpoena for an unredacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, along with all of the evidence from the two-year investigation.
The vote on the resolution passed the Democrat-led panel on a 24-17 party line vote following an occasionally heated markup hearing Wednesday morning.
It marked the strongest push yet on Capitol Hill to obtain the long-awaited report on the special counsel's probe of Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential election, as well as possible Trump-campaign collusion and obstruction of justice.
It also sets up a fight between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump, whose attorney general, William Barr, has committed to redacting some parts of the nearly 400-page report.
"We are dealing now, not with the president's private affairs, but with a sustained attack on the integrity of the republic by the president and his closest advisors," Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said in an opening statement at the hearing.
"This committee requires the full report and the underlying materials because it is our job, not the attorney general's, to determine whether or not President Trump has abused his office."
The resolution authorized Nadler to issue subpoenas for documents and testimony from five former Trump associates: White House counsel Don McGahn, top strategist Steve Bannon, communications director Hope Hicks, chief of staff Reince Priebus and White House counsel Ann Donaldson.
Some Republicans have accused Democrats of attempting to compel Barr to act in violation of federal rules.
"The subpoena for the Mueller report and its underlying evidence commands the attorney general to do the unthinkable - break the law," ranking member Doug Collins, R-Ga., said at the hearing.
House committee leaders, including Nadler, Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., demanded that Barr hand over the "full and complete" report by Tuesday. Barr had told lawmakers that he expects a version of the report - with redactions - could be delivered by mid-April.
Those potentially blacked-out sections of the report include grand jury-related information, as well as information that could reveal U.S. sources and methods or confidential details about ongoing investigations, Barr wrote, citing the federal rules of procedure.
Democrats have pointed to past federal probes involving special investigators, such as those surrounding the Watergate and Monica Lewinsky scandals, in which grand jury information was released to Congress to bolster their request for the uncensored report.
"There is ample precedent and precedent for releasing all this information of all these categories to Congress, and that's what we're asking," Nadler said in an interview Tuesday.
Collins pushed back at the hearing, accusing Democrats of "desperately searching for something on the president."
"The attorney general's entire mandate is to enforce the law, and he's expressly forbidden from providing grand jury material outside of the department, with very limited and narrow exceptions," the ranking Republican said.
"Congress is not one of those exceptions, and the chairman knows it."
Barr, in a letter to members of Congress on Friday, sought to assure lawmakers that the White House had no plans to exert executive privilege to review the report before it was shared with other parties or the public.
Members of both parties have called for the report to be publicly released since it was delivered under wraps by the special counsel on March 22.
Democrats have signaled their growing dissatisfaction with Barr's decision to provide a four-page summary of the lengthy report's principal conclusions less than two days after receiving it.
Trump and his supporters, however, cheered that summary, in which Barr said that Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to merit a charge of obstruction of justice against the president. Barr also said that the special counsel did not establish collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/house-panel-set-to-vote-on-subpoenas-for-unredacted-mueller-report-and-former-trump-associates.html
#6031447 at 2019-04-03 14:51:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7714: Patriots ARE in Control Edition
Passing by a margin of 24-17, the resolution authorizes subpoenas for special counsel Robert Mueller's full report, as well as its underlying evidence.
Attorney General William Barr did not comply with an April 2 deadline set by Nadler, who has criticized the four-page summary of conclusions on what is believed to be a nearly 400-page report.
Barr and Mueller are currently working to redact sensitive information ahead of the report's full public release, which Barr should be ready by mid-April or sooner, according to comments made by Barr to lawmakers last week.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday, Barr wrote that the public version of the report would be scrubbed of sensitive national security information that could compromise sources and methods; grand jury material; information that could impact ongoing investigations; and "information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties." -The Hill
A redacted report in two weeks isn't enough for House Democrats, who have demanded the immediate release of Mueller's report - with no redactions.
Nadler was singing a different tune in 1998 when the Clinton report was finished,
#6031413 at 2019-04-03 14:47:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7713: Great leader Trump has a server Edition
Passing by a margin of 24-17, the resolution authorizes subpoenas for special counsel Robert Mueller's full report, as well as its underlying evidence.
Attorney General William Barr did not comply with an April 2 deadline set by Nadler, who has criticized the four-page summary of conclusions on what is believed to be a nearly 400-page report.
Barr and Mueller are currently working to redact sensitive information ahead of the report's full public release, which Barr should be ready by mid-April or sooner, according to comments made by Barr to lawmakers last week.
In a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Friday, Barr wrote that the public version of the report would be scrubbed of sensitive national security information that could compromise sources and methods; grand jury material; information that could impact ongoing investigations; and "information that would unduly infringe on the personal privacy and reputational interests of peripheral third parties." -The Hill
A redacted report in two weeks isn't enough for House Democrats, who have demanded the immediate release of Mueller's report - with no redactions.
Nadler was singing a different tune in 1998 when the Clinton report was finished, however - advocating for redactions "as a matter of decency and protecting people's privacy rights."
#6030064 at 2019-04-03 12:12:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7712: Quicksilver With A Side Of Nagalase Edition
For Trump, Exoneration = A Mere Two-Day Respite from Bad Press
After Attorney General William Barr released the key findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 22-month-long investigation, the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts showered Donald Trump with good press (80% positive) for the first time since he became President, according to the Media Research Center's ongoing study of the Big Three's Trump coverage.
But the good news for the White House only lasted for two nights, from Sunday evening, March 24 through Monday evening, March 25. After that, the networks resumed their lopsidedly hostile (79% negative) coverage of the President and his administration, as their news agenda highlighted liberal talking points: the potential demise of ObamaCare, imaginary cuts to the Special Olympics, and the ongoing battle over immigration policy.
From March 1 through March 23, the spin of Trump coverage on the evening news looked about the same as every other month of his presidency: out of 176 evaluative comments from reporters, anchors or non-partisan sources, 161 (or 91%) were negative, vs. just 15 (9%) that were positive. Comments from partisan sources, as well as neutral statements, were not included.
But after Barr's letter was released on March 24, the networks swung in favor of the President. On ABC's World News Tonight that night, anchor David Muir touted the findings as "a major victory for President Trump," while the network's legal analyst Dan Abrams flatly declared it "an all-out win."
The positive tone continued the next night, as CBS Evening News correspondent Paula Reid observed that "for the first time in 22 months, the President was not under the cloud of the Mueller investigation."
Before the Mueller report was completed, the network evening newscasts had devoted a combined 2,284 minutes to the scandal, over the 791 days of the Trump presidency. But by Tuesday, March 26, the positive coverage that the President had enjoyed for just two nights was already over, as the networks seized on the Trump administration's request that a federal appeals court should strike down ObamaCare as unconstitutional.
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt fretted that ending ObamaCare "could leave millions suddenly uninsured," as if a verdict might come any day, instead of after a ponderous months-long appeals process. "Millions of Americans could be in jeopardy," ABC's Jonathan Karl echoed that same night.
And, even though every network reporter knew there was zero chance that Congress would actually cut funding for the Special Olympics, they eagerly lavished coverage on Democrats' roasting of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over the issue, with ABC fill-in anchor Cecilia Vega on March 27 calling it proof of "growing outrage" over the plan to "slash" funding.
That same night, NBC donated more than 10 minutes of its evening newscast to a lengthy interview with fired FBI Director James Comey, ostensibly for his reaction to the Mueller findings. One of Comey's more succinct slams of President Trump was included in the following night's broadcast: "I don't think we've seen in the history of our country a President try to burn down an institution of justice because he saw it as a threat."
By the weekend, the networks were alarmed that the President would follow through on his threat to close the U.S.-Mexican border if there was no cooperation on stemming the illegal immigration crisis. "Closing the border could have severe economic consequences, threatening American jobs and billions in cross-border trade," CBS anchor Reena Ninan frowned on the March 30 Evening News.
Add it up, and the administration's coverage from March 26 to March 31 was almost as negative as it was before the "no collusion" report was released.
For the liberal media, it's as if nothing had changed.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/04/03/trump-exoneration-mere-two-day-respite-bad-press
#6021989 at 2019-04-02 21:41:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7702: On The Move. The Rush Hour Edition
Unable To Wait Two Weeks, Democrats Plan Nationwide Tantrum If Mueller Report Not Released Tonight
A coalition of prominent progressive grassroots organizations are planning a nationwide protest on Thursday if Attorney General William Barr does not release special counsel Robert Mueller's full Russia report by a Tuesday deadline set by House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler.
As a side note - a neckless Nadler vehemently opposed releasing the full Clinton report in 1998 "as a matter of decency and protecting people's privacy rights."
Barr and Mueller are currently working to redact sensitive information ahead of the report's full public release, which Barr says should be ready by mid-April or sooner.
Not soon enough, however, for Democrats hoping that the full report will provide "gotchas" that will prove Trump and his team committed malfeasance - despite Mueller's conclusion that there was no collusion between Trump and Russia.
"We are calling for a National Day of Action on Thursday, April 4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport if he fails to meet the deadline set by congressional leaders of Tuesday, April 2," announced the Trump Is Not Above The Law coalition on late Monday.
"Barr has offered an alternate timeline for a redacted version of the report," said the group "but we deserve the full report and Congressional leaders and the American people expect it now."
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-02/unable-wait-two-weeks-democrats-plan-nationwide-tantrum-if-mueller-report-not
Something tells me Dim's want this report in the past as soon as possible.
#6021024 at 2019-04-02 20:29:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7700: You Could Even Say Treasonous Edition
Comey says he fears possible counterinvestigation after Mueller report
By REBECCA MORIN 04/02/2019 02:45 PM EDT Updated 04/02/2019 02:58 PM EDT
Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump's calls for a possible investigation into how special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia inquiry started, adding that it creates a troubling precedent.
During an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Comey was asked about whether he feared possible counterinvestigations.
"I don't fear it personally. I fear it as a citizen," he said. "Right? Investigate what? Investigate that investigations were conducted? What would be the crime you'd be investigating? So it's a terrible cycle to start."
Several days after Attorney General William Barr released his summary of Mueller's report, Trump and his team have called for investigations into how the probe began.
"Hopefully, somebody is going to look at the other side," Trump told reporters late last month. The president's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has also made similar statements.
On Tuesday, Trump continued to advocate for an examination of how the FBI and Mueller investigations began.
"I hope they now go and take a look at the origins of the investigation, the beginnings of the investigation," the president told reporters at the White House on Tuesday. "You look at the origin of the investigation, where it started, how it started, who started it."
"Whether it's [former FBI Deputy Cirector Andrew] McCabe or Comey or a lot of them, where does it go? How high up in the White House did it go?" Trump continued, calling on reporters to investigate the origins of Mueller's probe, even dangling the prospect of a Pulitzer Prize to journalists in the room.
Barr, in his four-page summary, wrote that Mueller did not find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the 2016 presidential election. In addition, Barr wrote that Mueller did not fully exonerate Trump in an obstruction of justice inquiry, but the attorney general added that he did not believe there was enough evidence to bring charges on the matter.
Comey condemned the president's rhetoric of "calling for the locking up of his political opponents, including people like me."
"It will just be more of that dangerous step, and would I hope, although he'll continue to disappoint me, the Republicans would finally stand up and say that kind of thing," he said.
The former FBI director, however, maintained that he would be willing to answer questions if an investigation were opened.
"Me, personally, ask me questions," Comey said. "Go ahead. I would like to answer them in the daylight, if I could."
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/02/comey-mueller-counter-investigation-1249236
#6019571 at 2019-04-02 18:24:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7699: Informant vs Informant Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>5893788, >>5896066 Baker Protocol: Do NOT Add Non-Tripcode posts from Q
>>5857423 BO on global notables
>>5857492 BO on "baker assist"
>>5958613 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGS) for images
Notables
are not endorsements
#7698
>>6019539 Ecuador's President claims Assange has violated the terms of his asylum.
>>6019432 Koch brothers as bad as Steyers brothers.
>>6019305 Notes from Sander's press briefing.
>>6019093, >>6019355 Nick Lewin (Comey/Mueller Fmr. Nat. Sec. Adv.) fles another brief hoping to have his "John Doe' client's name redacted from Epstein release.
>>6019351 Turkish Lira plunges; connection to JP Morgan?
>>6019318 First Lady Melania Trump visits with students in Florida.
>>6019308 Cartel kidnap and disarm the police in Mexico.
>>6019247 Ex-DOJ officials accuse POTUS of political interference with the AT&T antitrust case because 'Trump hates CNN'.
>>6019181 FBI uses word games to not admit to spying.
>>6019143 Summit starring 2020 Democrats opens with chant from the words of a Marxist and murderer.
>>6018935,>>6018993 Pro-Trump group to release "Creepy Joe" Biden ad.
>>6018833, >>6018985 Julián Castro calls for border crossing to be decriminalized. Familial ties to 'La Raza'.
>>6018990, >>6019031, >>6019354, >>6019504 Dig on Priestap's testimony and a call to shovels. Priestap confirms strategic leaks of informationt to media organizations?
>>6018925 Lokhova details the Cabal's frantic attempts at re-legitimizing of the Russian collusion delusion, possible Flynn FISA and Stefan Halper's insertion.
>>6018909 MAGA coalition's top donor is a convicted fraudster.
>>6018869, >>6018888 Foxx says she didn't legally recuse, just colloquially.
>>6018850 Vice President Pence meets with family members of executives detained by Maduro. (starts soon)
>>6018835 Mexico must 'bring order' to Central American migration, Mexican President says.
>>6018814 May to seek a further extension of Article 50.
>>6018799 Corruption, bribery and fraud charges from the DOJ today.
>>6019553 #7698
#7697 Baker Change
>>6018749 Soros digs.
>>6018718 Nunes: Democrats want to leak classified information from special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation.
>>6018670 Five arrested in Louisiana sex trafficking sting.
>>6018663 Ben Carson: The Federal government has its 'antenna up' about Facebook.
>>6018604, >>6018589 President Trump has every right to close the US-Mexico border.
>>6018452, >>6018470 Transcript of Bill Priestap's interview before @JudiciaryGOP.
>>6018500 SJW actress Alyssa Milano quotes the bible to push abortion.
>>6018135 KMCO plant in Crosby, TX just had an explosion. NE of Houston
>>6018136 Ford would take 'long, hard look' at UK operations after any no-deal Brexit
>>6018159 Doug Collins releases interview of Bill Preistap
>>6018206 North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes has been indicted by a federal grand jury
>>6018216 Microsoft chat and Steam are down for many
>>6018232 Moveon calling for a National Day of Action on 4/4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport
>>6018759 #7697
#7696
>>6017254 New DJT twat with CAP
>>6017363, >>6017362 Mika, Whoopi - Believe the Women!!!! Wait, no, NOT THOSE WOMEN!!!!!
>>6017381 Democrats Fight Back Against Trump's Healthcare Threats
>>6017437 Judge caught with child in hotel near the Biltmore Estate
>>6017693 Politico's founding editor John Harris in chief steps down- WSJ
>>6017712 'Bitch-fight' between Juncker and Orbán: "Nationalism can lead to war"
>>6017751 Eric Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report
>>6017759 Syrian Army destroys hideouts of Turkistani Party terrorists in Hama countryside
>>6017839 Valerie Jarrett: I still haven't accepted Trump is president
>>6017906 Minority Report: New facial recognition technology aims to speed up airport travel
>>6017952 Mueller's FBI destroyed the black boxes found at the WTC
>>6017934 #7696
Previously Collected Notables
>>6017167 #7695,
>>6014678 #7692, >>6015577 #7693, >>6016359 #7694
>>6012503 #7689, >>6013273 #7690, >>6014053 #7691
>>6010158 #7686, >>6010975 #7687, >>6011729 #7688
Notables Archive by BO (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6018765 at 2019-04-02 17:12:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7698: Pawtism Day Edition
Global Board Admin Announcements
>>5893788, >>5896066 Baker Protocol: Do NOT Add Non-Tripcode posts from Q
>>5857423 BO on global notables
>>5857492 BO on "baker assist"
>>5958613 Please use PNGs or JPGs (not JPEGS) for images
Notables
are not endorsements
#7697 Baker Change
>>6018749 Soros digs.
>>6018718 Nunes: Democrats want to leak classified information from special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation.
>>6018670 Five arrested in Louisiana sex trafficking sting.
>>6018663 Ben Carson: The Federal government has its 'antenna up' about Facebook.
>>6018604, >>6018589 President Trump has every right to close the US-Mexico border.
>>6018452, >>6018470 Transcript of Bill Priestap's interview before @JudiciaryGOP.
>>6018500 SJW actress Alyssa Milano quotes the bible to push abortion.
>>6018135 KMCO plant in Crosby, TX just had an explosion. NE of Houston
>>6018136 Ford would take 'long, hard look' at UK operations after any no-deal Brexit
>>6018159 Doug Collins releases interview of Bill Preistap
>>6018206 North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes has been indicted by a federal grand jury
>>6018216 Microsoft chat and Steam are down for many
>>6018232 Moveon calling for a National Day of Action on 4/4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport
>>6018759 #7697
#7696
>>6017254 New DJT twat with CAP
>>6017363, >>6017362 Mika, Whoopi - Believe the Women!!!! Wait, no, NOT THOSE WOMEN!!!!!
>>6017381 Democrats Fight Back Against Trump's Healthcare Threats
>>6017437 Judge caught with child in hotel near the Biltmore Estate
>>6017693 Politico's founding editor John Harris in chief steps down- WSJ
>>6017712 'Bitch-fight' between Juncker and Orbán: "Nationalism can lead to war"
>>6017751 Eric Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report
>>6017759 Syrian Army destroys hideouts of Turkistani Party terrorists in Hama countryside
>>6017839 Valerie Jarrett: I still haven't accepted Trump is president
>>6017906 Minority Report: New facial recognition technology aims to speed up airport travel
>>6017952 Mueller's FBI destroyed the black boxes found at the WTC
>>6017934 #7696
#7695
>>6016475, >>6016731 Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived
>>6016488 US citizens own 40% of all guns in world - more than next 25 top-ranked countries combined, study suggests
>>6016507 Commiefornia 9th Circuit turning red
>>6016526 Democrats Block $13.5 Billion Disaster Relief Because It Didn't Include Enough Money For Puerto Rico
>>6016532 In Florida More Ex-Felons Register as Republicans than Democrats
>>6016668 Creepy Joe got a Ukraine prosecutor fired during an investigation of the company where his son was a board member?
>>6016691 Pelosi and Dems making USMCA passage painful as they can
>>6016724 Pelosi, Not AMLO, Is Driving the Border Crisis
>>6016750 DHS breaks up group of intelligence analysts focused on domestic terror
>>6016765 Obama, Clapper, Brennan, Comey : The Four Horseman of the Russian Hoax
>>6016831 Senate Dems Will Introduce Constitutional Amendment To KILL Electoral College
>>6016901 WikiLeaks Calls QAnon A Likely 'Pied Piper' Operation
>>6016927 Never saw this coming: Chinese hackers make Tesla drive into oncoming traffic (VIDEO)
>>6017005 LIVE: House Oversight Committee to discuss subpoena over White House security clearances
>>6017047 Sanders hauls in eye-popping $18.2M in first quarter
>>6017131 New DJT twat
>>6017167 #7695
Previously Collected Notables
>>6017167 #7695,
>>6014678 #7692, >>6015577 #7693, >>6016359 #7694
>>6012503 #7689, >>6013273 #7690, >>6014053 #7691
>>6010158 #7686, >>6010975 #7687, >>6011729 #7688
Notables Archive by BO (updated nightly): https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Notables also archived here: >>>/comms/3396 (#740~#6384)
#6018759 at 2019-04-02 17:11:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7697: Shills in the Wire Edition
#7697 Baker Change
>>6018749 Soros digs.
>>6018718 Nunes: Democrats want to leak classified information from special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation.
>>6018670 Five arrested in Louisiana sex trafficking sting.
>>6018663 Ben Carson: The Federal government has its 'antenna up' about Facebook.
>>6018604, >>6018589 President Trump has every right to close the US-Mexico border.
>>6018452, >>6018470 Transcript of Bill Priestap's interview before @JudiciaryGOP.
>>6018500 SJW actress Alyssa Milano quotes the bible to push abortion.
>>6018135 KMCO plant in Crosby, TX just had an explosion. NE of Houston
>>6018136 Ford would take 'long, hard look' at UK operations after any no-deal Brexit
>>6018159 Doug Collins releases interview of Bill Preistap
>>6018206 North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes has been indicted by a federal grand jury
>>6018216 Microsoft chat and Steam are down for many
>>6018232 Moveon calling for a National Day of Action on 4/4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport
Baking
#6018659 at 2019-04-02 17:00:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7697: Shills in the Wire Edition
#7697
>>6018604, >>6018589 President Trump has every right to close the US-Mexico border.
>>6018452, >>6018470 Transcript of Bill Priestap's interview before @JudiciaryGOP.
>>6018500 SJW actress Alyssa Milano quotes the bible to push abortion.
>>6018135 KMCO plant in Crosby, TX just had an explosion. NE of Houston
>>6018136 Ford would take 'long, hard look' at UK operations after any no-deal Brexit
>>6018159 Doug Collins releases interview of Bill Preistap
>>6018206 North Carolina Republican Party Chairman Robin Hayes has been indicted by a federal grand jury
>>6018216 Microsoft chat and Steam are down for many
>>6018232 Moveon calling for a National Day of Action on 4/4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport
Last call / Baking in 60
#6018232 at 2019-04-02 16:27:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7697: Shills in the Wire Edition
normies are rallying
We are calling for a National Day of Action on Thursday, April 4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport if he fails to meet the deadline set by Congressional leaders of Tuesday, April 2. Barr has offered an alternate timeline for a redacted version of the report-but we deserve the full report.
https://front.moveon.org/
#6017831 at 2019-04-02 15:49:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7696: Shill Flak Intensifying. Approaching Target Edition
Schiff says Trump broke 'cardinal rule' of childish nicknames: 'Pick one and stick with it'
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) quipped that President Trump broke the "cardinal rule of childish nicknames" by giving him several instead of sticking with just one.
"This is nothing new," Schiff told CNN. "We've seen these childish nicknames for a year and a half, but he is violating the cardinal rule of childish nicknames which is you've got to pick one and stick with it."
Trump in recent weeks has called Schiff names including "little shifty Schiff" and "little pencil-neck Adam Schiff." Trump's 2020 reelection campaign has also begun selling "Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff" shirts.
Republicans have ramped up attacks after Schiff said Democrats would continue their investigation of the president following the completion of the special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference and alleged collusion between Trump's campaign and Moscow.
Mueller in March submitted his final report to Attorney General William Barr, who said the special counsel's team did not find enough evidence to conclude that anyone on the campaign conspired with Russia.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/436906-schiff-says-trump-broke-the-cardinal-rule-of-childish-nicknames-youve-got-to
This needs a graphic to go along with it…. any help?
#6017751 at 2019-04-02 15:39:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7696: Shill Flak Intensifying. Approaching Target Edition
Eric Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report
Former Attorney General Eric Holder joined the chorus Democrats calling for the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report, but in the wake of the Starr report he made the opposite argument. Speaking with Ari Mebler on MSNBC last Monday, Holder said, "You look at the letter and you're trying to figure how much of this is Barr, how much of this is Mueller, how much of this is based on the Mueller findings?… Congress and the public are going to have to get access to the Mueller report." Yet back in 1999, when he was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, Holder's position was starkly different. "Although there is a legitimate concern that the American people have a right to know the outcome of an investigation of their highest officials, the reporting requirement goes directly against most traditions and practices of law enforcement and American ideals," he said after the completion of independent counsel Ken Starr's investigation.
At the time, the Justice Department was governed by the independent counsel statute which was supported by many Democrats from the time of the Watergate era up until Starr started investigating former President Bill Clinton. Then-Attorney General Janet Reno's DOJ came out in opposition to the independent counsel statute in 1999 and it lapsed. The Clinton administration replaced it with the current and more restricting special counsel regulations, which Attorney General William Barr cited in his letter to Congress and could explain why the Mueller report that gets made public might not end up showing the same level of detail as the Starr report. Reno would speak in front of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on May 14, 1993, urging them to reauthorize the independent counsel statute. "It is my firm conviction that the law has been a good one, helping to restore public confidence in our system's ability to investigate wrongdoing by high-level Executive Branch officials," she said. The law was reauthorized the next year.
But, in 1994, Starr was appointed as independent counsel to investigate the Clinton-related Whitewater scandal, and he would carry out his investigation for four years. In September 1998, it culminated in the release of the Starr report - which was full of salacious details about Clinton's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky - and ultimately led to the impeachment of Clinton in December 1998. The Starr report was around 445 pages long, while Mueller's report is nearly 400 pages in length according to Barr. By the time of the Starr report, the independent counsel law had fallen out of favor with Clinton's Justice Department. Reno sent Holder to speak in front of the House Judiciary's Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee on March 2, 1999, where he revealed that the DOJ was officially opposing the reauthorization of the law.
Holder testified that a major flaw with the independent counsel law was its reporting requirements, which allowed non-criminal but potentially politically damaging information to be made public. "A final problem … is the Act's requirement that a final report be prepared by the Independent Counsel," he said. "It is contrary to our concept of a presumption of innocence, our placing of high value on rights of privacy, and our Departmental tradition that we reveal offenses in the courtroom during a criminal trial, not by filing a document that is never filed when we decline to prosecute ordinary criminal cases and that may reveal information that subjects an individual to public emBarrassment," he said. "But worst of all … the reporting requirement provides an incentive for Independent Counsel to over-investigate every detail in order to avoid criticism that their final reports missed something." Twenty years later, Holder is striking a different tone.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/eric-holder-wants-mueller-report-out-but-argued-against-full-transparency-after-starr-report
#6013759 at 2019-04-02 04:26:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7691: Misspellings Matter Edition
John Huber leaves Congress in dark on FBI probe: 'It's like Where's Waldo?'
Attorney General Jeff Sessions thought he had already answered calls for a special counsel to look into the FBI's handling of sensitive political investigations when he named a Utah prosecutor to conduct an inquiry and report back.
Nearly 18 months later, there has been nary a public peep from U.S. Attorney John Huber, the man Mr. Sessions assigned to get to the bottom of things.
Likely witnesses say Mr. Huber has never contacted them, and members of Congress say they are still in the dark despite regular pleas to see progress.
"It concerns me that we haven't heard a darn thing," Rep. Jim Jordan, Ohio Republican, told The Washington Times last week. "It's like 'Where's Waldo?' 'Where's Huber?'"
Mr. Huber's assignment is coming under scrutiny as top Republicans, including President Trump, demand a Justice Department investigation into the way the FBI and Justice Department targeted Mr. Trump's campaign and his associates in 2016 while looking to give Hillary Clinton a pass on criminal wrongdoing, as Republican lawmakers allege.
When it was revealed last year that the FBI used questionable information to obtain a wiretap of a former Trump campaign adviser, Mr. Sessions faced calls for a special counsel. He rejected those calls, saying he already had asked Mr. Huber to investigate and, with the power to call a grand jury, Mr. Huber was supposed to be every bit as adept as a special counsel.
Mr. Sessions was ousted last year. William Barr is now ensconced as head of the Justice Department, yet it's unclear what that means for Mr. Huber and his secret work.
Legal analysts said he should have produced some evidence of progress after more than a year.
"There should be some proof of life," said Andrew Leipold, a law professor at the University of Illinois who served as a consultant on special counsel Kenneth W. Starr's Whitewater investigation.
"We should see people going in and out of his building, people interviewed leaking to the press, or a target calling a press conference," he said. "The fact that none of that has happened is puzzling."
Carter Page, the former Trump adviser who was a subject of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act snooping warrant, said he hasn't heard from Mr. Huber.
He said he is not concerned, but others are frustrated.
Read more at the SAUCE:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2019/apr/1/john-huber-fbi-probe-shrouded-secrecy-18-months-la/
#6011805 at 2019-04-02 01:58:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7689: Creepy Uncle Joe Biden Edition
Biden's Nightmare.
"Lutsenko said some of the evidence he knows about in the Burisma case may interest U.S. authorities and he'd like to present that information to new U.S. Attorney General William Barr, particularly the vice president's intervention."
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived
#6011398 at 2019-04-02 01:30:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7688: RIP Maj. Wiegand & Capt. Brannon Edition
What If Everything You Know Is Fake?
The extraordinary coincidence of Donald Trump and Jussie Smollett both being "cleared" of significant "crimes" last week provides a remarkable vantage point for asking "What if everything you know is fake?"
The ability to discern what we used to quaintly call "truth" from out of the information matrix that surrounds us is undoubtedly the primary survival characteristic of the next generation. With so many competing and contradictory sources of information - and an education system that devalues logic and critical thinking in favor of political correctness - only the most persistent and skeptical news consumers can be confident that they have an understanding that approximates "truth."
That's where the stories of Donald Trump and Jussie Smollett become instructive counterweights at either end of the Media Matrix. On one hand, we have a two-year investigation into whether the president of the United States "colluded" with Russia to steal an election. On the other hand, we have a two-month investigation into whether a Hollywood actor "colluded" with two Nigerian brothers to manufacture a hate crime against himself. In one case we had a supposed criminal who was really a victim, and in the other case we had an apparent victim who was really a criminal.
Last week, we were told by Attorney General William Barr that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation against Trump had found no collusion with Russia. This should have come as no surprise to anyone who had the ability to filter out the blathering background noise of the heads that are paid to talk incessantly.
The insistence on sticking with a false narrative when the evidence overwhelmingly points the other way is a symptom of delusion, which is what Trump has dubbed the Russia collusion hoax.
But the situation for consumers of news is different. In their case, you have to consider that sticking with the facts in the face of overwhelming insistence on a false narrative by the media and your peers takes extraordinary courage. Confronted with a cognitive dissonance between what you perceive to be true and what everyone else tells you to be true, it is psychologically predictable that most people will choose to reduce their stress by going along with the crowd. That has been the case for the majority of Americans over the last two years as they have been continually assured by "respected" voices that Trump is guilty.
The opposite situation prevailed in the hate crime of Jussie Smollett. Here, we had a horrible attack that made Trump supporters look like monsters.
He invented the entire plot, hired two hulking black men to portray white racists, sent them off to purchase the props to be used in the fake lynching, and then employed his magisterial acting ability to cry on cue when being interviewed by Robin Roberts about the maudlin play within the play.
If you want to know the truth, you will have to find it on your own.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/04/01/what_if_everything_you_know_is_fake_139906.html
#6010416 at 2019-04-02 00:10:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7687: 'The Kenyan Did It' Defense Edition
Johnstone: Leaked '401'-Page Mueller Report Proves Barr Lied, Collusion Theorists Vindicated
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com,
An unredacted copy of the Robert Mueller report has been leaked to theWashington Post, who published the full document on its website Monday.
The report contains many shocking revelations which prove that Attorney General William Barr deceived the world in his summary of its contents, as astute Trump-Russia collusion theorists have been claiming since it emerged.
For example, while Barr's excerpted quote from the report may read like a seemingly unequivocal assertion, "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," it turns out that the full sentence reads very differently:
"It is totally not the case that the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
The following sentence is even more damning: "It definitely did establish that that happened."
The report goes on to list the evidence for numerous acts of direct conspiracy between Trump allies and the Russian government, including a detailed description of the footage from an obtained copy of the notorious "kompromat" video, in which Trump is seen paying Russian prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept in by Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as other documents fully verifying the entire Christopher Steele dossier which was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.
Other evidence listed in the report includes communication transcripts in which Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen ordering President Trump to bomb Syria, stage a coup in Venezuela, arm Ukraine, escalate against Russia in America's Nuclear Posture Review, withdraw from the INF treaty and the Iran deal, undermine Russia's fossil fuel interests in Germany, expand NATO, and maintain a large military presence near Russia's border.
These things were done, according to Putin, in order to "keep things interesting."
Mueller told reporters Monday morning that there would indeed be mass indictments of large numbers of Trump associates revealed in the near future, including Jared Kushner and Donald Trump, Jr, just as the diligent journalism of MSNBC and other respected news media outlets have been assuring. Mueller said the delay in the arrests, and the mountain of evidence which will surely lead to Trump's impeachment, was due to the need to "cross a few 't's and dot a few 'i's."
When asked why he didn't reveal to the public that Barr was misrepresenting the contents of his report, Mueller responded with a mischievous grin, "I didn't want to spoil the surprise." He then put on a pair of sunglasses and rode off on a motorcycle due east into the rising sun, while the smooth notes of a single saxophone resounded through the D.C. cityscape.
Needless to say, this completely vindicates the many alert reporters who rightly pointed out that Barr's assertions about the Mueller report could be gravely dishonest, and that there was no way to know whether or not it had determined collusion between Trump and the Russian government. In a greater sense, it vindicates everyone who has spent the last three years focusing all public attention on the suspicion that the Kremlin could possibly have infiltrated the highest levels of the US government. In an even greater sense, it vindicates America, and it vindicates our very souls.
I feel a bit sheepish writing all this, because I've been a very vocal critic of the Russian collusion narrative from the very beginning. It turns out that by voicing skepticism and demanding evidence for a news story that dominated political discourse to the near exclusion of all else, I was actually assisting the Russian government in its war against democracy, truth, and justice.
Obviously I owe the world a very big apology. I'm sorry for calling the Russiagaters idiots, morons, drooling imbeciles, stupid, gullible sheep, foam-brained human livestock, tinfoil pussyhat-wearing delusional conspiracy theorists, demented cold war-enabling McCarthyite bootlickers, oafish slug-headed slime creatures, energy-sucking, CIA-coddling wastes of space and oxygen, and an emBarrassment to the human species. Clearly, because of their indisputable vindication this April the first 2019, they are definitely none of these things.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-01/johnstone-leaked-401-page-mueller-report-proves-Barr-lied-collusion-theorists
HORY FARKING SHEET
#6010339 at 2019-04-02 00:02:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7687: 'The Kenyan Did It' Defense Edition
Happy April Fool's Day faggots.
Walked in the door a bit ago after workfagging and SpouseAnon shared some good news, and then the bad news. Bill Barr has resigned. There's more: 8chan catalog down all day, fuckery afoot.
"What the fuck?" was my reaction. After dinner, I get online in this place w/this glorious company - and mention not seeing anything about William Barr…. and oh yeah,
April Fool's Day.
That SpouseAnon got me good.
#6008891 at 2019-04-01 22:03:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7685: Bring On The April Showers Edition
William Barr there!
#6008020 at 2019-04-01 20:54:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7684: Dissecting The New Comey Tweet Edition
>>6007948
I don't think we should be surprised to learn, in a few years, that some individuals have been operating under very deep cover to beat the Corrupt Cabal.
The corruption is so widespread and endemic that it requires the most unprecedented and unexpected measures to clean it up.
In the past couple of years here, I've at times criticized almost all of those guys, with the exception of William Barr.
These days, I'm not criticizing ANYBODY until I find out what is actually going on.
We may or may not find out for sure what has been happening in the future.
It appears to be working, so if they need to keep something/someone's role classified on the chance it/they can be operated again, that's fine.
GO Q
WORK THAT PLAN
I'll keep digging and praying, as requested.
#6006479 at 2019-04-01 18:54:17 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7682: Happy April Fools Day Edition
Johnstone: Leaked '401'-Page Mueller Report Proves Barr Lied, Collusion Theorists Vindicated
An unredacted copy of the Robert Mueller report has been leaked to theWashington Post, who published the full document on its website Monday.
The report contains many shocking revelations which prove that Attorney General William Barr deceived the world in his summary of its contents, as astute Trump-Russia collusion theorists have been claiming since it emerged.
For example, while Barr's excerpted quote from the report may read like a seemingly unequivocal assertion, "[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," it turns out that the full sentence reads very differently:
"It is totally not the case that the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."
The following sentence is even more damning: "It definitely did establish that that happened."
The report goes on to list the evidence for numerous acts of direct conspiracy between Trump allies and the Russian government, including a detailed description of the footage from an obtained copy of the notorious "kompromat" video, in which Trump is seen paying Russian prostitutes to urinate on a bed once slept in by Barack and Michelle Obama, as well as other documents fully verifying the entire Christopher Steele dossier which was published by BuzzFeed in January 2017.
Other evidence listed in the report includes communication transcripts in which Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen ordering President Trump to bomb Syria, stage a coup in Venezuela, arm Ukraine, escalate against Russia in America's Nuclear Posture Review, withdraw from the INF treaty and the Iran deal, undermine Russia's fossil fuel interests in Germany, expand NATO, and maintain a large military presence near Russia's border.
These things were done, according to Putin, in order to "keep things interesting."
Mueller told reporters Monday morning that there would indeed be mass indictments of large numbers of Trump associates revealed in the near future, including Jared Kushner and Donald Trump, Jr, just as the diligent journalism of MSNBC and other respected news media outlets have been assuring. Mueller said the delay in the arrests, and the mountain of evidence which will surely lead to Trump's impeachment, was due to the need to "cross a few 't's and dot a few 'i's."
When asked why he didn't reveal to the public that Barr was misrepresenting the contents of his report, Mueller responded with a mischievous grin, "I didn't want to spoil the surprise." He then put on a pair of sunglasses and rode off on a motorcycle due east into the rising sun, while the smooth notes of a single saxophone resounded through the D.C. cityscape.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-01/johnstone-leaked-401-page-mueller-report-proves-Barr-lied-collusion-theorists
#6004709 at 2019-04-01 16:29:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7679: Stating The Obvious Edition
Press group files FOIA request for Mueller grand jury materials
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request Monday for the release of grand jury materials in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report.
The press group is seeking a court order that would authorize public release of any grand jury material "cited, quoted or referenced" in the report, which Mueller submitted to Attorney General William Barr on March 22.
Barr has said he cannot release an unredacted version of the report because the grand jury content is subject to a federal statute tied to criminal procedure.
But the Reporters Committee argues that the court should allow the release of those portions of the report due to the "historical significance and overwhelming public interest" in the full report.
"The exceptions to the federal grand jury secrecy rules, multiple precedents, the First Amendment and the public interest all support releasing the Mueller report in full given the extraordinary circumstances of this matter and the need to ensure public confidence in the results of this investigation," Theodore Boutrous Jr., an attorney representing the press group, said in a statement Monday.
"The American people deserve to see and scrutinize the full contents of the report so they can evaluate for themselves the threats to our electoral system from Russian interference and make their own judgments about whether the president and his campaign coordinated with Russia or obstructed justice," he added.
Reporters Committee Legal Director Katie Townsend said, "The public is entitled to see as much of the Mueller report, unredacted, as possible."
The FOIA request came the same day that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced his panel will vote Wednesday to authorize a subpoena for Mueller's full report.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/436727-press-freedom-group-files-foia-request-for-mueller-grand-jury
#6003288 at 2019-04-01 14:20:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7678: The Very Definition Of Gaslighting Edition
Let me ask fellow Anons this?
Would President Trump [knowingly] lie to us (The American Public)(The World)..
If your answer is Yes and the public found out about it…
Who would be pissed off about it? and all shit would hit the fan..Am I Right!!!
Well we have:
Democrats
MSM/News even some of the Conservative News stations would be a little pissed that the Trump lied.
Liberals and everyone else who didn't like Trump
Ok…now…here we go…Occum's Razor.
Let's say Trump wasn't/hasn't been lying to us…then all the information about what Trump has been saying must be true. (Twitter, rallies,on TV interviews..etc…).
THAT WOULD MAKE MUELLER AND RR – BLACK HATS..(RR maybe turned gray)…
For one simple fact if this was a Sting OP and Trump knew it or was part of it…then he would have been lying the whole time to us/the world…right?
Trump always said that this is a Hoax…That Mueller and his 19 Top Democrat Lawyers were bias.
Trump always complained that if RR wore a wire it would be bad.
I'm not really going over all the stuff that Trump said about the bad guys and the attempted coup.
As far as you know…Has Trump been wrong???
So, if everything Trump says was true and he has been telling the truth(which I think he has)..I think we need to give a Special Thanks to:
Matthew Whittaker
William Barr
Devon Nunes
Mark Meadows
Rudy Giuliani
Sara Carter
John Soloman
Big round of applause for Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Judge Jeanine Piro
Special Thanks to Adam Dershowitz (D)
'Q' and the 'Q' Team plus many, many fellow Top Anons…
And many more…
#6002785 at 2019-04-01 13:15:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7677: April Showers Edition
Democrats to prepare subpoenas for Mueller report
(Washington) – The House Judiciary Committee will prepare subpoenas this week seeking special counsel Robert Mueller's full Russia report. This, as the Justice Department appears likely to miss an April 2 deadline set by Democrats for the report's release.
The Judiciary panel plans to vote on subpoenas Wednesday. The chairmen of several House committees demanded the full report last week after Attorney General William Barr released a four-page summary laying out the report's "principal conclusions."
The committee vote would not automatically issue subpoenas but authorize House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler to send them.
The panel will also vote to authorize subpoenas related to a number of President Donald Trump's former top advisers, including Steve Bannon, Hope Hicks, Reince Priebus, Donald McGahn and Ann Donaldson.
https://www.witf.org/news/2019/04/democrats-to-prepare-subpoenas-for-mueller-report.php
#5999436 at 2019-04-01 03:18:55 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7673: FLYNN Is Safe Edition
Conrad Black: The absurd collusion delusion goes up in smoke at last
It was amply documented that the Russians meddled in the election and made repeated efforts to associate with the Trump campaign, but that all such overtures were rebuffed.
As the Trump-Kremlin conspiracy vanishes in a flash and puff of smoke, the colossal absurdity of it suddenly becomes clearer.
The Clinton campaign commissioned a pastiche of defamatory falsehoods collected by a retired British spy and created an echo chamber between the U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, leaking parts of this spurious political assault document to the press and then citing the press references as evidence of its veracity.
The attempt by President Trump's enemies to cling to supposed ambiguity on the question of whether Trump obstructed justice is ridiculous. Attorney General William Barr explained in his letter to the Congressional judiciary committee leaders on Sunday that to charge obstruction (which special counsel Robert Mueller did not recommend), it would be necessary to be confident beyond a reasonable doubt that the suspect had committed an obstructive act with corrupt intent in regard to a judicial proceeding, and that neither he nor the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein (who had recommended the firing of the FBI director, James Comey, and had appointed Mueller in the first place), nor the independent counsel of the Justice Department, considered that there was any evidence of any of the necessary ingredients for an obstruction charge, and they had been examining the issue for the 30 days since Mueller had forewarned the attorney general of his findings. That turkey won't fly any better than the Russian collusion fable.
This astonishing state of affairs arose because Donald Trump successfully attacked the entire political establishment for 20 years of fruitless wars and humanitarian crises in the Middle East, the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, flat-lined living standards being the "new normal," and a foreign policy that oscillated between George W. Bush's trigger-happy foreign policy and Barack Obama's declinist passivity and evaporating "red lines."
The imputation of base motives to Trump is not surprising, but the supreme defamation of treason is the most disgraceful character assassination in American political history.
The unearthing of the anti-Trump conspiracy will produce shocking revelations of misconduct by high intelligence and federal police officials; this is the last stop before the outright intervention of the armed forces: tanks on the White House lawn and generals and admirals commandeering television stations to announce the overthrow of the government.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-the-absurd-collusion-delusion-goes-up-in-smoke-at-last
#5998966 at 2019-04-01 02:43:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7672: Big Week Ahead! Edition
>>5998951
Yep. Never forgive and never forget, as our greatest ally would say.
>So tell me WHY the officers involved were never charged with the crime of CAPITAL MURDER?
Because the AG at the time, William Barr, sided with the FBI. Simple as that.
It's absolutely disgusting.
#5998065 at 2019-04-01 01:31:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7671: Dividers Will Fail Edition
Let me ask fellow Anons this?
Would President Trump [knowingly] lie to us (The American Public)(The World)..
If your answer is Yes and the public found out about it…
Who would be pissed off about it? and all shit would hit the fan..Am I Right!!!
Well we have:
Democrats
MSM/News even some of the Conservative News stations would be a little pissed that the Trump lied.
Liberals and everyone else who didn't like Trump
Ok…now…here we go…Occum's Razor.
Let's say Trump wasn't/hasn't been lying to us…then all the information about what Trump has been saying must be true. (Twitter, rallies,on TV interviews..etc…).
THAT WOULD MAKE MUELLER AND RR – BLACK HATS..(RR maybe turned gray)…
For one simple fact if this was a Sting OP and Trump knew it or was part of it…then he would have been lying the whole time to us/the world…right?
Trump always said that this is a Hoax…That Mueller and his 19 Top Democrat Lawyers were bias.
Trump always complained that if RR wore a wire it would be bad.
I'm not really going over all the stuff that Trump said about the bad guys and the attempted coup.
As far as you know…Has Trump been wrong???
So, if everything Trump says was true and he has been telling the truth(which I think he has)..I think we need to give a Special Thanks to:
Matthew Whittaker
William Barr
Devon Nunes
Mark Meadows
Rudy Giuliani
Sara Carter
John Soloman
Big round of applause for Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Judge Jeanine Piro
Special Thanks to Adam Dershowitz (D)
'Q' and the 'Q' Team plus many, many fellow Top Anons…
And many more…
#5997664 at 2019-04-01 00:59:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7670: RBG Body Double Spotted in the Wild Edition
This seems as if a rather important puzzle piece just clicked into place:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-us-marshals-director-takes-oath-office
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, March 29, 2019
New US Marshals Director Takes Oath of Office
Donald Washington was sworn in as the director of the U.S. Marshals Service today in a ceremony at the Tom Stagg U.S. District Court in Shreveport, Louisiana, with Chief Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. presiding and Chief Judge Carl E. Stewart of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals administering the oath of office.
Washington becomes the agency's 11th director since the office was established in 1970.
The Department of Justice will hold a ceremonial installation service for Washington when he arrives at Marshals headquarters.
"We are thrilled to have Director Washington return to the Department. He brings a wealth of experience as a former U.S. Attorney and lawyer in various private and corporate capacities," said U.S. Attorney General William Barr. "We look forward to formally welcoming him to the U.S. Marshals Service at a ceremony April 11th."
President Donald Trump nominated Washington Oct. 2, 2018, to lead the U.S. Marshals. The U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination March 14.
A 1977 West Point graduate, Washington served in the U.S. Army and U.S. Army Reserve until 1987. In 1989, he received his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas. After law school, Washington began his legal career as an attorney at Conoco Inc.
In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed him U.S. Attorney for Western Louisiana, a 42-parish federal jurisdiction that includes Lafayette, Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe and Lake Charles. Washington served on several U.S. Attorney General's Advisory Committees, as well as subcommittees on Civil Rights, Controlled Substances, and Native American Issues. Washington also served as the Chairman of the Southeastern U.S. Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. In 2010, he returned to private practice in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Add'l sauce: https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/politics/article_4ded20c8-c74d-11e8-88b2-2f62d03e9a58.html
"…Washington would oversee the nation's oldest law enforcement agency, which is primarily responsible for handling security at federal courthouses, transporting federal prisoners and tracking down fugitives."
#5996637 at 2019-03-31 23:39:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7669: On the Move Edition
Let me ask fellow Anons this?
Would President Trump [knowingly] lie to us (The American Public)(The World)..
If your answer is Yes and the public found out about it…
Who would be pissed off about it? and all shit would hit the fan..Am I Right!!!
Well we have:
Democrats
MSM/News even some of the Conservative News stations would be a little pissed that the Trump lied.
Liberals and everyone else who didn't like Trump
Ok…now…here we go…Occum's Razor.
Let's say Trump wasn't/hasn't been lying to us…then all the information about what Trump has been saying must be true. (Twitter, rallies,on TV interviews..etc…).
THAT WOULD MAKE MUELLER AND RR – BLACK HATS..(RR maybe turned gray)…
For one simple fact if this was a Sting OP and Trump knew it or was part of it…then he would have been lying the whole time to us/the world…right?
Trump always said that this is a Hoax…That Mueller and his 19 Top Democrat Lawyers were bias.
Trump always complained that if RR wore a wire it would be bad.
I'm not really going over all the stuff that Trump said about the bad guys and the attempted coup.
As far as you know…Has Trump been wrong???
So, if everything Trump says was true and he has been telling the truth(which I think he has)..I think we need to give a Special Thanks to:
Matthew Whittaker
William Barr
Devon Nunes
Mark Meadows
Rudy Giuliani
Sara Carter
John Soloman
Big round of applause for Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch
Sean Hannity
Tucker Carlson
Judge Jeanine Piro
Special Thanks to Adam Dershowitz (D)
'Q' and the 'Q' Team plus many, many fellow Top Anons…
And many more…
#5995261 at 2019-03-31 21:43:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7667: "Aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’)" Edition
>>5994807
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-in-congress-during-nixons-impeachment-proceedings-William-Barr-is-wrong/2019/01/14/5a3da4cc-1826-11e9-8813-cb9dec761e73_story.html?utm_term=.4a335005ecd7
In 1989, at the beginning of his administration, President George H. W. Bush appointed Barr to the U.S. Department of Justice as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, an office which functions as the legal advisor for the President and executive agencies. Barr was known as a strong defender of presidential power and wrote advisory opinions justifying the U.S. invasion of Panama and arrest of Manuel Noriega, and a controversial opinion that the FBI could enter onto foreign soil without the consent of the host government to apprehend fugitives wanted by the United States government for terrorism or drug-trafficking
You are going to have to better than WAPO they are paid attack dogs. This will help frame the argument.
#5994654 at 2019-03-31 20:47:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7667: "Aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’)" Edition
Congress prepares for a battle over secret grand jury evidence in Russia inquiry
A historic clash is brewing between Congress and Attorney General William Barr over some of the most sensitive evidence in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Barr is reviewing Mueller's final report and said he hopes to reveal much of it by mid-April. House Democrats want it sooner. They signaled that their biggest fight won't be over how quickly they can read the report but whether they get access to some of the evidence Mueller gathered that did not lead to criminal charges.
The fight centers on evidence obtained using grand juries. Barr said federal law requires him to keep it secret, even though the government has disclosed it in previous high-profile cases. The evidence is particularly sensitive because grand juries give prosecutors the power to force reluctant witnesses to testify.
Democratic lawmakers said they need access to that evidence to get a clear picture of Russian interference in the 2016 election and how that benefited Donald Trump's presidential campaign, even if no Americans conspired with foreigners. They could launch a legal battle to obtain the information as soon as Wednesday.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/31/congress-prepares-fight-justice-ag-Barr-robert-mueller-russia-grand-jury-evidence/3266131002/
#5994611 at 2019-03-31 20:43:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7666: Good Trumps Evil Edition Edition
>>5994568
>Attorney General William Barr is "pretty upset" with how the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server.
He's in good company with that insight along with Q
#5994568 at 2019-03-31 20:39:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7666: Good Trumps Evil Edition Edition
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-pretty-upset-with-clinton-emails-investigation-lindsey-graham-says William Barr 'pretty upset' with Clinton emails investigation, Lindsey Graham says
by Daniel Chaitin
| March 31, 2019 02:47 PM
Print this article
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Attorney General William Barr is "pretty upset" with how the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server.
During an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he hopes Barr will appoint a special counsel to look into potential political bias.
"So it seems to me that she was interviewed not under oath. She had a couple of her staff people with her. People in her campaign were given immunity without anything in return. Nobody in the Clinton investigation went to jail for lying about the process because there was no process," Graham told host Maria Bartiromo.
"I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he's pretty upset about the way all this was handled," he added, noting he's not sure how Barr will act.
"I don't know if he's going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior," Graham said. "I'm going to look at what happened from an oversight role. But I hope there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, you know? Because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody's really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation for criminality yet and somebody should."
Former FBI Director James Comey oversaw his agency's inquiry into the unauthorized email server Clinton used while serving as secretary of state.
In a stunning public admission in July 2016, Comey announced his agency would not recommend criminal charges against anyone involved with Clinton's private email network, even after finding that Clinton's team was "extremely careless" in handling classified emails. Less than two weeks before the presidential election, in which Clinton was the Democratic nominee, Comey once again shook the political world when he announced the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton's email server. The FBI closed the inquiry again just days before the election took place. This controversial move has prompted Clinton and her allies to blame Comey, in part, for contributing to her 2016 defeat.
Trump has long attacked Clinton for the email controversy. During the 2016 campaign the chant "Lock her up" became a mainstay at his rallies and during one of their debates Trump told Clinton she would "be in jail" if he was elected president.
#5994422 at 2019-03-31 20:29:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7666: Good Trumps Evil Edition Edition
Democrats won't accept the Mueller report, stating their job is "oversight". We should accept that. LG is becoming an unlikely hero.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-pretty-upset-with-clinton-emails-investigation-lindsey-graham-says
#5993585 at 2019-03-31 19:21:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7665: The Hunters Become The Hunted Edition
>>5993545
>Comey
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-jim-comey-mueller-report-obstruction-20190327-story,amp.html
https://outline.com/d2cnb3
James Comey: 'It doesn't make sense' that Mueller didn't rule on obstruction of justice
James Comey, the former FBI director who started the Russia investigation, expressed confusion over why special counsel Robert Mueller III didn't conclude whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice.
In an interview with Lester Holt of "NBC Nightly News" on Wednesday, Comey said it is the role of the special counsel to make a judgment so political appointees, such as the attorney general, aren't left to make the call. That Mueller left it up to Attorney General William Barr to decide on obstruction of justice "doesn't make sense on its face," Comey said.
"I don't know why he didn't and don't know what combination of law and fact led him to that," Comey said, who urged that Mueller's final report be made public.
Comey also weighed in on Holt's now-famous 2017 interview with Trump soon after he was fired. In that conversation, Trump admitted to Holt that he had "this Russia thing" on his mind when he fired Comey.
Comey told Holt that when he saw that Trump interview he "thought, 'that's potentially obstruction of justice and I hope somebody is going to look at that.' " Comey has made similar comments in the past regarding whether Trump obstructed justice by firing him.
While Republicans have been very critical of the investigation after Mueller did not establish there was a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, Comey believes the report actually rehabs the FBI's image by showing that the organization is not "a nest of vipers and spies, but an honest group of people trying to find out what is true."
Some Republicans, including Trump ally and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have suggested opening a congressional probe into the FBI's handling of the Russia investigation.
President Trump has said that the two-year investigation was a "disgrace" and should "never happen to a president again."
But Comey posited this scenario when asked whether he should have opened up an investigation in the first place:
Imagine the Iranians interfere in the election to help elect Barack Obama, an Obama aide meets with the Iranians to talk about the dirt they have, then President Obama's national security adviser lies to the FBI about his communications with the Iranians, then President Obama asks Comey to drop the investigation of that, fires Comey and said he did so while thinking about the "Iranian thing." Then he invited mullahs to the Oval Office and told them he lifted a lot of pressure by firing Comey.
"Who on earth doesn't think the FBI should investigate that?" Comey asked. "The hypocrisy is revealed just by changing the names," he said.
#5993545 at 2019-03-31 19:18:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7665: The Hunters Become The Hunted Edition
William Barr 'pretty upset' with Clinton emails investigation, Lindsey Graham says
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Attorney General William Barr is "pretty upset" with how the FBI handled the investigation into Hillary Clinton's unauthorized private email server. During an interview on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," Graham, said he hopes Barr will appoint a special counsel to look into potential political bias.
"So it seems to me that she was interviewed not under oath. She had a couple of her staff people with her. People in her campaign were given immunity without anything in return. Nobody in the Clinton investigation went to jail for lying about the process because there was no process," Graham told host Maria Bartiromo. "I know Bill Barr pretty well, and he's pretty upset about the way all this was handled," he added, noting he's not sure how Barr will act. "I don't know if he's going to have a special prosecutor to look at the probability of criminal misbehavior," Graham said. "I'm going to look at what happened from an oversight role. But I hope there's a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias, you know? Because Mueller did his job against Trump. Nobody's really looked at the Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse or the counterintelligence investigation for criminality yet and somebody should."
Former FBI Director James Comey oversaw his agency's inquiry into the unauthorized email server Clinton used while serving as secretary of state. In a stunning public admission in July 2016, Comey announced his agency would not recommend criminal charges against anyone involved with Clinton's private email network, even after finding that Clinton's team was "extremely careless" in handling classified emails. Less than two weeks before the presidential election, in which Clinton was the Democratic nominee, Comey once again shook the political world when he announced the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton's email server. The FBI closed the inquiry again just days before the election took place. This controversial move has prompted Clinton and her allies to blame Comey, in part, for contributing to her 2016 defeat. Trump has long attacked Clinton for the email controversy. During the 2016 campaign the chant "Lock her up" became a mainstay at his rallies and during one of their debates Trump told Clinton she would "be in jail" if he was elected president.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/William-Barr-pretty-upset-with-clinton-emails-investigation-lindsey-graham-says
#5990881 at 2019-03-31 15:18:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7662: 5G Is The Smallpox Blanket Of Our Time Edition
Maxine Waters calls for President Trump 'to be impeached' during acceptance speech at the NAACP Awards - despite the findings of the Special Counsel's report
Congresswoman Maxine Waters called for President Donald Trump to be impeached at the NAACP Image Awards on Saturday night.
During her acceptance speech of the Chairman's Award, Waters took aim at the commander-in-chief and Attorney General William Barr for 'holding' Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report about Russia's involvement during the 2016 election.
'[I] haven't forgotten about 45. He's appointed an attorney general who thinks he can hold the Special Counsel's report from the American people,' she said, according tot The Hollywood Reporter.
'I still think he needs to be impeached.'
The public feud between Waters and Trump has been a slew of name-calling and questioning the other's intelligence.
In a 2017 interview with The New York Times, she called Trump a 'bully, an egotistical maniac, a liar and someone who did not need to be president'.
Then, in an appearance on MSNBC, Waters referred to him as 'the most deplorable person' she has met.
Meanwhile, in response Trump has called Waters at several of his campaign events 'a low IQ individual.'
However, Mueller's report found that no members of Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
According to a summary written by Barr, the report does not recommend obstruction charges against Trump, but, 'it also does not exonerate him'.
Waters, the US Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, addressed 'ultra-right wing white supremacists' and 'haters who have threatened to kill me and my family and my staff during her speech.
She proclaimed to cheers from the audience: 'I've gotten four of them convicted. If you come for me, I'm coming for you.'
Waters then turned her attention towards her accomplishments during her nearly 30-year-career in Washington, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
''After a long career journey, tonight I stand before you as the first woman and the first African American to chair the powerful US House Financial Services Committee,' she said. 'And it is indeed an honor to hold the chairwoman's gavel and yes, I got the gavel and I'm not afraid to use it.'
The Hollywood Reporter stated that Waters also spoke about her ability to connect with constituents across the nation.
'I have the honor of being adopted by millennials as their Auntie Maxine and I'm so proud of their growing influence and presentation,' Waters said. 'It's a growing day in America. Women, people of color, LGBTQ Americans and millennials have growing power and my committee is a testament to it.'
The Chairman's Award is given 'to individuals and organizations who have used their distinct platforms to be agents of change,' according to the NAACP.
It was first awarded to Janet Jackson in 1992 and was presented intermittently. Since 2002, it has been awarded annually.
Waters received the award once before, along with radio-talk show host Joseph Madison, at the 1997 awards.
During that time, she was chaired the Congressional Black Caucus was representing California's 35th district.
Past recipients of the Chairman's Award include former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Al Gore, Harry Belafonte, Tyler Perry, Forest Whitaker and Jussie Smollett.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6870263/Maxine-Waters-calls-President-Trump-impeached-acceptance-speech-NAACP-Awards.html
#5990496 at 2019-03-31 14:31:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7661: Strap In and Watch Edition
Jeanine Pirro returns: 'Don't be satisfied with the Mueller report'
After two weeks off the air, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro delivered a fiery monologue on her Saturday evening show railing against the "attempted coup" against President Trump, which she warned could happen again after the completion of the Russia investigation.
Pointing to potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse to target the Trump campaign, Pirro spoke of an "effort to discredit this president" in which top federal law enforcement and intelligence officials planted "the seeds for indictment and impeachment." Among the people Pirro accused as being complicit in the scheme were former FBI Director James Comey, former Attorney Loretta Lynch, and "the snake at the head" former CIA Director John Brennan. Pirro called for a grand jury to deal with what she described as a "rogue intelligence operation" she suggested could go all the way to former President Barack Obama with a "wink and a nod."
Special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his nearly two-year-long Russia investigation and sent his final report to the Justice Department on March 22. Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's report to Congress last weekend that said Mueller's team found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime. While Trump and his allies claim he is exonerated, Democrats who are unsatisfied with the summary are demanding to see the full report immediately. As the fight over the report's release plays out, Pirro told her audience: "don't be satisfied with the Mueller report."
"This is bound to happen again because these arrogant, lying, condescending, leaking haters of you and me and the America that doesn't have power are going to do it again unless we stop them," she said. The "only way to stop" another incursion, Pirro said, is to set an example with "behind-bars justice."
Saturday marked a triumphant return for Pirro's show after it was off the air for two weeks. Pirro was reportedly suspended after stirring controversy when she questioned whether Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's Islamic faith was impeding her loyalty to the U.S. Earlier this month Pirro received a tremendous boost from Trump, a fan of her show, when he called on Fox News to bring her back and not allow the "radical" Left silence one of his most prominent advocates. During her monologue Saturday, Pirro praised Trump, saying "in spite of it, President Trump worked tirelessly to better our lives, our economy and the security of this great nation."
Her first guest was Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal attorney, who talked about the Mueller report and cheered on Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and his Judiciary Committee investigation into alleged FISA abuse. Giuliani said within six months he expects there will be the emergence of evidence of "criminal" activity by top officials in the DOJ and FBI. Giuliani also told Pirro he was "glad" she was back on the air. "We need, at this time, that our country is in trouble, we need your common sense voice," Giuliani said at the end of his interview.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jeanine-pirro-returns-dont-be-satisfied-with-the-mueller-report
#5987300 at 2019-03-31 04:35:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7657: Nightshift Sets The Night Alight Edition
Many anon's here think that William Barr or Burt Barr is B2 in Q posts.
Has anyone ever considered the person that has been here from the very beginning might be B2??????????????
#5986066 at 2019-03-31 02:39:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7656: Eyes On Cindy Noname and Ukraine Edition
Giuliani takes aim at 'phony politicians' leading FBI over Russia investigation
President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani lambasted current and former top officials at the FBI and the Department of Justice on Saturday for the years-long investigation into President Trump's campaign and Russian election interference on Saturday.
In an interview with Jeanine Pirro on Fox News, the former New York City mayor predicted that evidence of criminality on the part of top FBI officials both currently and no longer in the administration would be uncovered.
"What they did here, I believe, over the next six months, we're going to uncover evidence, I believe, that what they did here was criminal," Giuliani said. "Somebody made this up, Jeanine. Somebody conceived this. And they superimposed it, and they went out and tried to prove it."
"And we have to find out: Who's the brains behind this? Couple of, four or five possibilities. I think we'll find them," he continued.
Giuliani added that his suspicions were limited to top brass at the FBI, adding that field agents and regular agency personnel were just trying to serve their country.
"Well, first of all, I know you agree with me. The people it indicts are the corrupted politicians at the top of the FBI and DOJ. No field office of the FBI is implicated in this. No agent who is sacrificing his life to protect us. It's a bunch of these phony politicians at the top who corrupt themselves because they want to suck up to whoever's in power," he said.
Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation ended last week and a report issued by Attorney General William Barr on the investigation's findings claimed that it established no link between the Trump campaign and Russian efforts to interfere in the election.
The White House and its allies have held Barr's report as a victory over the past week, attacking both Democrats and the mainstream media for claims made about Trump and his campaign throughout the course of the investigation.
Democrats, meanwhile, have called for the full release of Mueller's report to Congress and for Barr to testify publicly.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/436597-giuliani-takes-aim-at-phony-politicians-leading-fbi-over-russia
#5979961 at 2019-03-30 18:05:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7648: The Best Diggers Competition. The Hooahnon Edition
Trump's gifted attorney general aims to please
Donald Trump>s carefully chosen new attorney general, William Barr, has gifted his boss with the one thing his rich and powerful president desperately needed but couldn>t buy for himself: The gift of time.
In this case, legally crafted, politically vital spin-time. And Barr>s gift seems to be working as the attorney general intended. It is allowing Trump to move at warp speed to manipulate public opinion and maybe even finally warp the polls his way.
The beauty of Barr>s gift was its brevity and non-transparency. It was just four pages of willfully uninformative information, a summary Barr gave to Congress last Sunday of the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller>s final report that is almost 400 pages long. And mainly: As intended, Barr>s memo carefully made it impossible for Americans to see even one single factoid of evidence that Mueller and his team found in their two years.
Barr reported that Mueller made one conclusion and one non-conclusion. Mueller found no evidence that Trump or his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia>s interference with America>s 2016 election. Mueller made no conclusion about whether Trump obstructed justice, but Barr knew he had to include Mueller>s essential line that not concluding Trump committed a crime «does not exonerate him.»
Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rob Rosenstein then made the decision Mueller didn>t make - they cleared their boss of obstruction of justice. No surprise: As Trump knew when he selected his new attorney general, back in June 2017 Barr told The Hill newspaper he considered Mueller>s obstruction of justice probe «asinine,» adding Mueller risked «taking on the look of an entirely political operation to overthrow the president.»
In a second letter sent on Friday to the Senate and House Judiciary committee chairs, Barr said that by mid-April, if not sooner, he expects to send Congress Mueller>s full report, minus portions that will be redacted for reasons of legality, national security, or protection of peripheral third parties.
Barr added an optimistic note of future transparency, writing: «Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own.»
Meanwhile, Barr has gifted Trump with several weeks in which he can say he>s been cleared of wrongdoing - but the American people will not yet see what actions and conduct Mueller perhaps considered improper.
In contrast, when FBI Director James Comey announced during the 2016 campaign that Hillary Clinton would face no prosecution for her use of a private email server, Comey simultaneously announced his finding that she had been «extremely careless» in handling our nation>s secrets. She never had a moment to take political advantage of her finding in the manner Trump did this week, and will likely continue doing for a couple of weeks more.
On Thursday, Trump told a Grand Rapids, Mich., rally: «…the Russia hoax is finally dead. The special counsel completed its report and found no collusion and no obstruction. …Total exoneration. Complete vindication.» Complete Braunschweiger.
Also, this mind-blowing fact: When Donald Jr. was emailed that a Russian wanted to meet and give him «dirt» on Hillary Clinton, he replied: «I love it.» Top Trumpers Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner attended; but apparently no dirt was dished.
Once Mueller>s full report goes public, Congress may want to consider some disapproving action short of impeachment - perhaps a strong resolution censuring or rebuking the president for his unprecedented and unpresidential pro-Russia actions and comments.
https://gulftoday.ae/opinion/2019/03/30/trumps-gifted-attorney-general-aims-to-please
#5979803 at 2019-03-30 17:51:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7648: The Best Diggers Competition. The Hooahnon Edition
This has been the best week of Donald Trump's political life
If anyone has a reason to smile this week, it's Donald Trump.
Dark clouds that have been hanging over the US President's head for years were destroyed in just a couple of days.
Now, Trump is effectively untouchable. Chances of impeaching him before the next election are pretty much at zero, and at the same time, the Pentagon has thrown a wad of fresh cash at his border wall.
Here's what's gone down this week.
MUELLER REPORT RULES IN TRUMP'S FAVOUR
For almost two years, the biggest threat to the President's administration has been a special counsel investigation into whether he colluded with Russia to influence the results of the federal election.
For many Democrats, impeaching the President rested on the results of this report. If he was found guilty, there may have been enough grounds to begin the impeachment process. Without that, not so much.
"The special counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or co-ordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 US Presidential Election," Attorney-General William Barr wrote to Congress about the report.
This means the possibility of impeaching Trump is now highly unlikely.
"In terms of the political consequences, the possibility of impeachment is at near zero," Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre told news.com.au earlier this week.
"Nancy Pelosi already said she wasn't keen on impeachment unless there was bipartisan consensus. This makes it impossible for there to be any bipartisan consensus."
While the President faces a separate legal investigation into hush money payments, this is unlikely to play out until he's left office.
Democrats are still pushing for the actual Mueller report to be made public - particularly in light of Barr's letter noting that the report "does not exonerate" the President.
They are hoping the report can provide insight into how the investigation was conducted, and potentially pinpoint any evidence of obstructing justice on Trump's part.
But regardless, the verdict won't change - and that's very much a reason for the billionaire to celebrate.
STORMY DANIELS' LAWYER ARRESTED
So, back to those hush money payments.
Porn star Stormy Daniels alleged that she had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006.
In January last year, it was revealed Trump's then-lawyer Michael Cohen had paid Daniels $US130,000 one month before the US election to keep her from discussing the alleged affair.
Last August, Cohen pleaded guilty to eight charges, including a campaign finance violation, for his role in the transaction. It formed part of his three-year prison sentence.
Trump has consistently denied that he ever personally directed Cohen to make the payments - a move that would constitute an impeachable offence.
While it hasn't been proved whether Trump did direct Cohen to do so, it hasn't been great for the President's reputation.
So it came as good news to him this week that Daniels' lawyer, Michael Avenatti, has been charged with extortion and fraud.
Avenatti is facing up to 50 years in jail after he was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and attempting to extort more than $US20 million ($A28 million) from Nike Inc.
The arrest came just one day after the Mueller announcement. US lawyer Nick Hanna said the timing of the two incidents was not related.
His charges would seem especially sweet to Trump because the lawyer's fame came from the affair.
He gained a huge Twitter presence, appeared at rallies, become a guest on late-night talk shows and was interviewed by US media networks like CNN and MSNBC dozens of times. He also showed a willingness to match Trump's brash speaking style, matching the President insult for insult. He even once announced that he was considering a run for the Oval Office in 2020. Avenatti was freed on $US300,000 bail and continues to deny the allegations. But that hasn't stopped his opponents from making digs.
CONGRESS FAILS TO BLOCK NATIONAL EMERGENCY
PENTAGON GRANTS TRUMP $1B FOR BORDER WALL
MORE: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12217801
#5979551 at 2019-03-30 17:28:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7647: Wake And Bake West coast, Nooner East Coast. The Brunch Edition
Panic
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/sally-yates-William-Barr-should-release-the-full-mueller-report-as-soon-as-possible/2019/03/29/32f5e6d2-5236-11e9-8d28-f5149e5a2fda_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.85c897ee1331#click=https://t.co/alBIDZDAcr
#5975850 at 2019-03-30 09:55:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7643: E Bake Edition
>>5975846
"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
#5971277 at 2019-03-30 01:29:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7637: Ask The Right Questions Edition
John Brennan huddled with Democrats after Mueller investigation ended
Former CIA Director John Brennan reportedly huddled with a group of House Democrats this week. An official told Fox News that Brennan discussed a number of issues during the Thursday meeting on Capitol Hill with House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and other members of his caucus, including national security. Although the "Leader's Council" meeting took place after special counsel Robert Mueller completed his Russia investigation and submitted his final report to the Justice Department on Friday, the source said it was scheduled long before it was known Mueller was wrapping up.
The meeting also came one day after Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tweeted that a "high-level source" told him that Brennan, while serving as CIA director under former President Barack Obama, "insisted that the unverified and fake Steele dossier be included in the Intelligence Report" and called for Brennan to be called to testify before Congress "ASAP." The dossier, compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, was used by the FBI to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign official Carter Page. Republicans have raised concerns about the possibility of an effort undermine Trump, citing how certain information about the dossier, including that it was funded in part by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, was left out of the FISA warrant applications. A commentator for MSNBC, Brennan has criticized Trump and talked about his belief there was collusion in "plain sight" between the president and Russia. He also called Trump's behavior "treasonous."
Trump revoked a security clearance belonging John Brennan in August, claiming his "erratic behavior" should disqualify him from having access to sensitive information. A few weeks ago, Brennan appeared on MSNBC predicting more indictments as part of Mueller's investigation. But those never came to pass.
On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr shared a four-page summary of Mueller's findings with Congress, which stated the investigation found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Answering for his hyping of the Mueller report, Brennan said Monday, "I don't know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was." Barr sent a letter to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees on Friday saying he expects Mueller's report to be released in mid-April, "if not sooner." The attorney general also volunteered to testify publicly after Mueller's report is released to the public and said he is available to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1 and the House Judiciary Committee on May 2.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said he would take that offer "under advisement" but reiterated that he wants Barr to testify "immediately" and seeks the full special counsel report by April 2. According to Barr's four-page summary, Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennan-huddled-with-democrats-after-mueller-investigation-ended
#5970828 at 2019-03-30 00:59:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7636: This Movement Is Bigger Than You Realize Edition
So what are the "tells" that Mueller is "our guy"?
1. He let Flynn off easy.
Michael Flynn is not in prison and in fact, Mueller recommended to the judge that he receive no jail time. Flynn is currently "cooperating" in several investigations unreeled to Russia and obstruction. If you follow anything in the underwebs, you'll know that Flynn is notorious for knowing "where the bodies are buried". He's been extremely vocal about the Clintons and the nefarious actions of the deepstate/Military Industrial Complex
2. Manafort is in prison.
Once the Trump campaign discovered Manafort was dirty, he was immediately fired. Mueller was supposed to squeeze Manafort for information about Trump; either he did this and Manafort gave nothing up, or he only tickled him and just sent him to prison.
3. Rod Rosenstein press conference.
Last year Rod Rosenstein announced that 13 Russian Nationals would be indicted for "meddling" in the 2016 election. If you listened carefully, you would've heard him state the following:
"No Americans knew they were working with Russians"
"No Americans were indicted for conspiring with Russians"
"The Russians staged campaigns both for AND against Donald Trump"
4. Strzok, Page McCabe are all fired.
Nowhere in the Strzok/Page texts was Mueller mentioned. These seventh-floor FBI employees were the brain-trust of the coup against the president. Mueller had to have known about their motives and very well could've been the one who submitted the text messages to the OIG.
5. Mueller waited until William Bar was confirmed.
It was reported that Mueller actually finished his investigation into Russian collusion last year, but he waited until his friend, William Barr was confirmed to be Attorney General. William Bar was a Trump pick and everyone in the Senate agreed he was the right guy.
6. Michael Avenatti was arrested ON the day Mueller finished his report.
Within Mueller's travels, he "farmed off" investigations to the SDNY attorneys if he found something he wanted to take deeper. Guess who is prosecuting Michael Avenatti? The SDNY prosecutors. It's almost certain that Mueller was the catalyst for that investigation since Avenatti was such a deep part of Trump's personal legal life.
Furthermore, Sean Hannity has been claiming for the past 2.5 years that Trump is innocent of "collusion" and Hillary/Democrats are the ones guilty of "collusion" - this has absolutely turned out to be true. There wasn't a shadow of a doubt in his mind that Trump wouldn't be cleared from this debacle.
What's Hannity saying now that the Mueller investigation is over? :
"My sources are telling me that this is all going to come crashing down - that justice will finally be served"
Chances are that his "sources" are the same "sources" who told him that Trump would be cleared and wasn't in any way shape or form "colluding" with Russia.
Something is telling me (I could be wrong!) that the Mueller report is NOT something the Democrats want to be released.
#5970527 at 2019-03-30 00:40:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7636: This Movement Is Bigger Than You Realize Edition
Sorry if this is beating a dead horse. Notable if not.
Redacted Mueller Report Coming Mid-April
An update was given by Barr. Check it out.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/Barr-mueller-report.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/William-Barr-expects-redacted-mueller-report-to-be-released-by-mid-april.html
#5967018 at 2019-03-29 21:25:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7631: A Big Storm is Brewing Edition
>>5966962
>Attorney General William Barr announced today that a redacted version of the Mueller report will be released "by mid-April, if not sooner," and he will not send a copy to the White House for privilege review.
4-10-19 ???
#5966962 at 2019-03-29 21:23:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7631: A Big Storm is Brewing Edition
AG Barr: Mueller Report to be Released by Mid-April, WH Won't Review First
Attorney General William Barr announced today that a redacted version of the Mueller report will be released "by mid-April, if not sooner," and he will not send a copy to the White House for privilege review.
In a letter to the Senate and House Judiciary chairmen, Barr wrote, "As we have discussed, I share your desire to ensure that Congress and the public had the opportunity to read the Special Counsel's report. The Special Counsel is assisting us in this process."
Barr said the Department of Justice was in the process of "identifying and redacting" sensitive material some of which "by law cannot be made public."
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Barr said they "will be in a position to release the report by mid-April, if not sooner."
The Attorney General said that the White House would not receive a sneak peek of the document, writing, "Although the President would have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report, he has stated publicly that he intends to defer to me and, accordingly, there are no plans to submit the report to the White House for privilege review."
Barr also said he would be available to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1 and the House Judiciary Committee on May 2.
Moar:
https://bongino.com/ag-Barr-mueller-report-to-be-released-by-mid-april-wh-wont-review-first/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/Barr-to-release-mueller-report-to-congress-by-mid-april-if-not-sooner-will-not-transmit-to-white-house-for-privilege-review
#5966529 at 2019-03-29 21:01:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7631: A Big Storm is Brewing Edition
>>5966482
"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
#5965849 at 2019-03-29 20:23:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7630: Freedom Edition
READ: AG Barr's letter to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary committees
https://www.scribd.com/document/403650585/Attorney-General-William-Barr-letter-to-leaders-of-the-House-and-Senate-Judiciary-committees#fullscreen&from_embed
#5965229 at 2019-03-29 19:39:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7629: NBC = DNC Edition
AG Barr: Public Release Of Mueller Report Coming "Mid-April If Not Sooner" - No Plan For White House Review
Attorney General William Barr wrote a Friday letter in response to Senate Judiciary Chair Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) notifying them that a redacted copy of the Mueller report will be delivered to Congress, then available to the public, by mid-April "if not sooner."
"Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own," wrote Barr.
Barr says that his office is working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller to redact sensitive information which could affect ongoing matters, infringe on someone's personal privacy or information which could comproimse the DOJ's sources and methods of investigation.
The report will be nearly 400 pages, while Barr writes that there is no plans to let the White House review it beforehand.
"Although the president would have the right to assert privilege over certain parts of the report, he has stated publicly that he intends to defer to me and, accordingly, there are no plans to submit the report to the White House for a privilege review."
Barr also disputes the characterization that a four-page letter released on Sunday was a "summary" of Mueller's report.
"My March 24 letter was not, and did not purport to be, an exhaustive recounting of the Special Counsel's investigation or report," writes Barr. "As my letter made clear, my notification to Congress and the public provided, pending release of the report, a summary of its "principal conclusions" - that is, its bottom line. The Special Counsel's report is nearlyl 400 pages long (exclusive of tables and appendices) and sets forth the Special Counsel's findings, his analysis, and the reasons for his conclusions. . . . I do not believe it would be in the public's interest for me to attempt to summarize the full report or to release it in serial or piecemeal fashion."
Barr then says he will be available to testify in front of Congress on May 1 and 2.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-29/ag-Barr-public-release-mueller-report-coming-mid-april-if-not-sooner-no-plan-white
Link to Barr letter
https://www.scribd.com/document/403649157/Barr-Letter-on-Mueller#from_embed
#5964937 at 2019-03-29 19:16:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7629: NBC = DNC Edition
A majority of American voters believe it's time to stop probing President Donald Trump and his campaign after Attorney General William Barr delivered a summary of the findings from Robert Mueller's nearly 2-year-long special counsel investigation last week.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/6-in-10-americans-say-congress-should-end-trump-probes_2858450.html
#5960280 at 2019-03-29 13:04:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7623: Gregarious Geragos Edition
Major QAnon Presence At Trump Rally In Michigan
The bizarre, baseless conspiracy theory known as QAnon has a lot of tenets, but one of the main ones has always been (per Vox) has always been that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was not so much pursuing the Russia investigation, but rather was secretly working with President Trump to defeat a cabal of pedophiles, centered on Hollywood and the Democratic Party.
The completion of the Mueller Report, and the brief summary released by Attorney General William Barr last Sunday, has disappointed a lot of Trump opponents who were hoping for exposure of wrongdoing by the president. But what's known so far about the Mueller findings hasn't exactly vindicated the QAnon worldview, either.
Judging by their presence at President Trump's rally in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday night, this development has not caused the QAnon crowd to lose faith.
According to multiple reporters covering the rally, there was a major QAnon presence both inside and waiting to get into Trump's Grand Rapids rally.
"I've been covering Qanon for a year, and the amount of pro-Q people in this video from yesterday's Trump rally line in Grand Rapids is absolutely shocking," reporter Ben Collins of NBC News tweeted from the rally Thursday, while sharing a video of dozens of rally attendees in line, many of whom shouted out QAnon-related slogans. Collins also followed someone at the rally who walked the entire line while holding a "make noise for Q" sign, to cheers.
Reporter Will Sommer of The Daily Beast also shared photos from the rally, of lots of attendees wearing QAnon shirts and carrying signs.
The QAnon theory centers on an anonymous message board poster who claims to be a high-level Trump Administration functionary. In cryptic messages, the QAnon author or authors implies high-level conspiracies among politicians and other famous people, often inviting adherents to interpret the messages as they see fit.
At the core of the theory is an ill-defined "Deep State" is conspiring against President Trump and his goals, and that Trump is working to defeat them, possibly through mass arrests at some ill-defined point in the future.
The president doesn't appear to have ever acknowledged QAnon, although adherents of the theory have met with him in the White House, and Trump Thursday night tweeted a photo from the rally that included several "Q" posters.
"So many things in American society had to fail for this many people to believe one party is run by an actual Satanic cabal that eats children, and Trump, Jesus and Bob Mueller are secretly ending it," Collins, the NBC reporter, tweeted after the rally.
https://www.inquisitr.com/5366397/qanon-presence-at-trump-rally-in-michigan/
#5960029 at 2019-03-29 12:25:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7622: Post-Rally Comfy Edition
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) offered an amendment on March 28, which, if approved, would reveal what role former President Barack Obama played in the investigation of the Trump campaign and the use of the debunked Steele dossier.
Paul's amendment would modify a resolution, which calls on the attorney general to release the full report by special counsel Robert Mueller to Congress and the public. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 420-0 on March 14 and is now before the Senate.
"What we need to discover, and we do not yet know, was President Obama involved? Was this done for partisan purposes? Was this done to try to elect Hillary Clinton?" Paul asked on the Senate floor.
According to a summary of Mueller's final report released by Attorney General William Barr, the special counsel did not find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller's finding raises questions about the origins of the investigation of the Trump campaign and suggests that the probe was started without evidence of wrongdoing.
According to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the House Intelligence Committee has enough evidence to establish that the investigation of the Trump campaign began much earlier than late July 2016. If Nunes is right, the bureau will be forced to produce what evidence, if any, it acted on to start the investigation.
Notably, the FBI's current rationale for starting the investigation of the Trump campaign in late July 2016 is already questionable. According to the current narrative, the probe started on evidence that Trump-campaign associate George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. There is no proof Papadopoulos ever had contact with Russian officials. Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to the FBI about contacts with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor with extensive ties to Western intelligence, not Russia. In his new book, Papadopoulos claims he was caught in the crosshairs of a Western intelligence operation to take down Trump.
Paul's amendment also calls for the public release of all documents relating to the communications of several Obama administration officials, including the former president himself, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Susan Rice, former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and former senior DOJ official Bruce Ohr.
Paul's amendment, if enacted, would also call on Brennan and Clapper to testify before Congress. Paul noted that Brennan and Clapper have both lied to the Senate.
More:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/senator-offers-amendment-to-reveal-obamas-role-in-probing-trump-campaign_2858353.html
#5959002 at 2019-03-29 08:33:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7621: What Goes Around, Comes Around Edition
Democrats say they will accuse Barr of a 'cover up' if he delivers incomplete Mueller report
House Democrats are ready to accuse Attorney General William Barr of a "coverup" to protect President Donald Trump if he refuses to detail for Congress the information special counsel Robert Mueller III provided the grand jury during his investigation of Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
The pointed warning, delivered by senior Democratic aides during a media briefing Thursday, marked the latest sign of a potential legal standoff between lawmakers and the Justice Department over access to Mueller's complete findings. Barr has pledged to redact grand jury information from Mueller's report, which spans more than 300 pages, according to people familiar with the document, and that process is expected to take weeks.
That is far longer than Democrats say they are prepared to wait, and they have begun to express suspicion that the attorney general intends to prevent the public disclosure of information within Mueller's findings that may be unflattering or otherwise problematic for the president. It remains unclear what precisely Barr plans to deliver to Congress.
"If he does not include grand jury information in the summary or report or redacted report or whatever he gives to Congress, that amounts to a coverup," a House Democratic staffer told reporters during Thursday's briefing. "We do not want anything in the words of the attorney general. We want to see Robert Mueller's words."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-mueller-report-russia-investigation-20190328-story.html
#5958933 at 2019-03-29 08:10:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7621: What Goes Around, Comes Around Edition
GOP rep calls for investigation into Schiff
Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) on Thursday called for an investigation into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), citing his past rhetoric about President Trump and his family in the special counsel probe into Russian election meddling.
"Isn't that the information that we need to know?" Hice, who serves on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told Hill.TV when asked whether he agreed with Trump's recent comments calling for Schiff to be forced out of office, and he suggested the California lawmaker may have committed a crime.
"Let's find out," Hice continued. "Let's open it up. Let's bring those people forward."
"As I said, we need to find out," he said when asked directly whether he thought Schiff was a criminal.
"I don't know all that he's done, but what I do know is that he's been on the forefront for two years claiming that he had evidence that the president colluded with Russia," he continued. "I believe thoroughly that was false. He was either misled, or he was misleading, and we need to get to the bottom of it."
"So Adam Schiff needs to be one that comes forward. If he has evidence, put it on the table. So if he has committed crimes, we need to find out, and I think that is one individual, absolutely, that needs to be brought forward for a thorough investigation," Hice continued.
Hice's comments came as Schiff hit back at Republicans on Capitol Hill for calling for his resignation.
"My colleagues may think it is OK the president's son was offered dirt as part of an effort to help Trump," Schiff said. "You might think it is OK. I don't."
Schiff's comments were in response to Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who said that the chairman had lost the confidence of the panel by putting out a "demonstrably false" narrative.
"The findings of the special counsel conclusively refute your past and present assertions and have exposed you as abused your position to knowingly promote false information," Conaway said.
Attorney General William Barr said in a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that no evidence of coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow was discovered.
Republicans have since seized on that statement, but Democrats have pointed to Mueller declining to say whether Trump obstructed the probe itself, according to the attorney general's summary.
Barr, however, said in the summary that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came to the conclusion that the evidence was "not sufficient" to establish an obstruction of justice charge.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/436269-gop-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-schiff
#5958801 at 2019-03-29 07:38:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7621: What Goes Around, Comes Around Edition
Democrats Fundraising Off Mueller
Democrats are reaping the benefits of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, just not in the way expected. Prominent Democrats are using the idea that Mueller's full findings will never be released to the public in order to grow their fundraising and engagement lists, as the Daily Beast first noted.
"If you agree that the Mueller report should be released in full to Congress and the public, add your name," states an ad on Sen. Cory Booker's (N.J.) Facebook page. The ad links to Booker's presidential campaign website where individuals can input their contact information.
Booker isn't the only White House aspirant to rely on such tactics. Similar ads have been launched by other 2020 Democrats-including Sens. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), among others-since Sunday, when Attorney General William Barr informed Congress there was no collusion.
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"While Attorney General William Barr contemplates whether or not to release the full findings of the Mueller report, we have one job-and that is to make it clear that is exactly what we seek: the full report," a Sanders ad reads. "Sign our petition, call on Attorney General William Barr to release the full findings of the Mueller investigation to the American people as soon as possible."
Such ads are also being utilized by the Democratic National Committee and high profile members of the party's Congressional leadership. "Robert Mueller's evidence and full report-not just a summary-MUST be released to Congress. The integrity of our constitutional system and the rule of law depend on it. Add your name to oppose White House interference and demand transparency," reads an ad from Sen. Mark Warner, the ranking member of the Senate intelligence committee.
This isn't the first time that Democrats have raised the specter of Russian meddling to line campaign coffers. In August, the Washington Free Beacon reported Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) sent a fundraising email on behalf of former senator Claire McCaskill (Mo.) citing prior attempts to by Russia to hack her Washington, D.C., office.
https://freebeacon.com/politics/democrats-reap-benefits-of-mueller-investigation/
#5956157 at 2019-03-29 02:32:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7617: Traitors Knowingly Lied Edition
WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller's full report Thursday after learning the special counsel's findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of total exoneration based on a four-page summary by his attorney general.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler was told by Attorney General William Barr that there's no intention of giving the confidential report to Congress immediately as he redacts grand jury testimony and other elements.
Democrats say they may subpoena the report if it's not forthcoming by their Tuesday deadline, which Barr has said will not be met.
Through the day, tempers were rising on Capitol Hill.
Shaking her fist for emphasis, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Barr's summary, which cleared Trump of campaign collusion with Russia and criminal obstruction of Mueller's federal probe, was "condescending" and "arrogant."
"Mr. Attorney General," she said, "show us the report and we'll come to our own conclusions." She asked what Trump and the Republicans were afraid of and mocked them as "scaredy-cats."
https://apnews.com/e9f3fb435dc04b4aaa9a2904ab476096
Careful want you ask for Dims….
#5955188 at 2019-03-29 01:33:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7616: Ridiculous Bullshit Edition
Democrats Make '#IStandWithSchiff' Trend on Twitter
Democrats showed their support for embattled House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Thursday by launching a hashtag, "#IStandWith Schiff," as he stood by his allegations of Russian collusion. For more than two years, Schiff claimed that he had seen evidence that President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign had colluded with the Russian government. But Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not establish that was true, according to a summary of his report presented to Congress on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr. But Schiff has refused to back off his previous claims.
Republicans on the committee unanimously demanded Schiff's resignation in a joint letter Thursday: "Your willingness to continue to promote a demonstrably false narrative is alarming. ... As such, we have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties in a manner consistent with your Constitutional responsibility and urge your immediate resignation as Chairman of this Committee." But Schiff was defiant, refusing to resign and listing a series of facts that, in his view, established that collusion had, in fact, occurred.
At a press briefing, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi defended Schiff, saying that Barr had erred by offering his interpretation of Mueller's report (even though he had quoted Mueller directly) and demanding the full document be released. Later, on Twitter, she tweeted a video of her remarks, with the hashtag "#IStandWithSchiff." Other Democrats joined in, sending the hashtag to the list of Twitter "trending" topics in the United States. Despite advice from House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) to let the collusion issue go, Democrats are clearly sticking with it.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/28/democrats-make-istandwithschiff-trend-on-twitter/
#5954754 at 2019-03-29 01:12:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7616: Ridiculous Bullshit Edition
>>5954716
Democrats Make '#IStandWithSchiff' Trend on Twitter
Democrats showed their support for embattled House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Thursday by launching a hashtag, "#IStandWith Schiff," as he stood by his allegations of Russian collusion.
For more than two years, Schiff claimed that he had seen evidence that President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign had colluded with the Russian government. But Special Counsel Robert Mueller could not establish that was true, according to a summary of his report presented to Congress on Sunday by Attorney General William Barr. But Schiff has refused to back off his previous claims.
Republicans on the committee unanimously demanded Schiff's resignation in a joint letter Thursday: "Your willingness to continue to promote a demonstrably false narrative is alarming. ... As such, we have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties in a manner consistent with your Constitutional responsibility and urge your immediate resignation as Chairman of this Committee."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/28/democrats-make-istandwithschiff-trend-on-twitter/
#5953011 at 2019-03-29 00:02:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7613: These People Are Sick Edition
Kushner breaks silence on Mueller investigation after closed-door hearing
President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, who is also a senior adviser in the White House, said special counsel Robert Mueller has confirmed his assertions that there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Kushner released a statement to Axios on Thursday after he met privately with the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier in the day.
"After what has to be one of the most thorough and exacting investigations in history, the Office of Special Counsel has confirmed my assertions," Kushner said. "Today I voluntarily answered follow up questions with the Senate Committee on Intelligence to help them complete their investigation. Which they said would be soon. I hope my cooperation will help the country get the transparency it deserves and puts an end to these baseless accusations. It is time for Congress to complete its work, move on, and to turn its attention to the real problems facing Americans every day," he said.
Kushner was first interviewed by the committee in July 2017. His contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign have come under intense scrutiny since he entered the White House. Kushner, Donald Trump Jr., and Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who is currently in prison, met with Russians at Trump Tower in June 2016 after the president's son was promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton. He also reportedly suggested Trump's team set up a back channel with the Russians to discuss policy issues during the transition, and failed to originally disclose his contacts with the Russians when applying for a security clearance. Attorney General William Barr released a four-page document summarizing Mueller's report Sunday. Barr said Mueller concluded the campaign did not conspire with the Russians.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/kushner-breaks-silence-on-mueller-investigation-after-closed-door-hearing
https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-statement-russia-investigation-Barr-mueller-ae027992-ab7b-4ab2-b6d3-c6ea49439fcc.html
#5952874 at 2019-03-28 23:57:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7613: These People Are Sick Edition
Federal judge rules DOJ must hand over Comey memos
A federal judge ordered the FBI Thursday to turn over former Director James Comey's memos, including the notes that he took during his infamous one-on-one meetings with President Trump. Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled in favor of CNN, USA Today, Judicial Watch, and other outlets, telling the DOJ that it must hand over the Comey memos to the court for review and possible public release. The memos include the notes that Comey said he leaked to the media to spark the appointment of a special counsel.
Media and watchdog groups have fought to obtain documents relating to Comey's notes through the Freedom of Information Act since May 2017, when the existence of the Comey memos was first made public. The memos recount conversations between Comey and Trump that are hotly disputed, and the outlets argue that the public has a right to their contents. But the DOJ has opposed their release. A significant amount of information from the Comey memos has already been made public, but other information has been redacted or otherwise concealed from public view. CNN is also fighting for access to the Justice Department's sealed arguments explaining to the court why the DOJ is opposing the release of the memos.
Trump fired Comey on May 9, 2017. One of the memos leaked by Comey was detailed in the New York Times on May 16, 2017, and Comey later explained to Congress that he leaked it to a friend to help prompt the special counsel investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed the day after the New York Times report to investigate possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the 2016 election. Earlier in March of this year, the DOJ argued that disclosing information related to the Comey Memos could impede the Mueller probe, saying it "would reveal information about the focus and scope of the Special Counsel Office's investigation that have not been officially publicly disclosed, and which if disclosed now could reasonably be expected to cause ... potential harms." The DOJ has also argued that the information being requested by CNN is sensitive and would have harmed the investigation. While the special counsel investigation was ongoing, the court seemed inclined to agree with this argument.
Mueller has now concluded his investigation, however, turning over his final report to Attorney General William Barr on Friday. CNN responded to the DOJ's arguments a week ago, telling the court that they had "shown that the FBI's justifications for redacting the Comey Memos are illogical and implausible." CNN's attorneys argued that the redacted information wouldn't hurt U.S. national security or foreign policy if it is revealed to the public. The redactions likely include: Which foreign leader was the first to congratulate Trump on his inauguration, who in the White House received a defensive briefing in February 2017, information on the investigation of Mike Flynn including whether he was being surveilled under FISA, details related to the so-called Trump Dossier, information on Trump's comments about Vladimir Putin, and more. The Comey memos must now be turned over to the court by April 1.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/federal-judge-rules-doj-must-hand-over-comey-memos
#5948768 at 2019-03-28 21:04:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7608: #FLAGSOUT #FLAGSOUT #FLAGSOUT Edition
Pelosi Doubles Down: AG Barr Is 'Condescending' and 'Arrogant' - 'We Do Not Need Your Interpretation'
Thursday at her weekly news conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) continued her criticism of Attorney General William Barr for his four-page letter summarizing special counsel Robert Mueller's report. Pelosi said, "No thank you, Mr. Attorney General, we do not need your interpretation. Show us the report and we can draw our own conclusions. We don't need you interpreting for us. It was condescending, it was arrogant and it wasn't the right thing to do. So the sooner they can give us the information the sooner we can all make a judgment about it."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/28/pelosi-doubles-down-ag-Barr-is-condescending-and-arrogant-we-do-not-need-your-interpretation/
#5947988 at 2019-03-28 20:37:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7607: Enjoying The Show! Edition
Devin Nunes 'prepared now' to deliver criminal referral after Trump vows to release FISA documents
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Thursday his team is "prepared now" to submit a criminal referral to the Justice Department focusing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee has been teasing a referral for months, and earlier this week he predicted its delivery by the end of next week. During an interview on Fox Business, Nunes said there will be one referral to start, and possibly more to follow, after President Trump said Wednesday he plans to release the unredacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants that jump-started the Russia probe.
"My major concern now is that the FBI and DOJ falsely claimed that this investigation didn't begin until late July," Nunes told anchor Maria Bartiromo. "We now know for certain that that's not true, we're still trying to get to the bottom of that. Of course there are still documents that need to come out, but we are prepared and are now drafting a criminal referral ... we wanted to wait until the Mueller report came out so that we could just - if there was anything in there that might be of interest, but I think we're prepared now to at least submit our first criminal referral." He said he thinks this referral would "grab everybody that we need to grab to make sure that there's a proper investigation done," but noted there may be more to "to supplement" the first.
Nunes has not named anyone who could appear in a referral, but he has railed against what he says is collusion between the Democrats and the Russians, pointing to use of the unverified Trump dossier by the FBI to obtain FISA warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign official Carter Page as proof of an unraveling operation to undermine the president. That dossier, compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, was funded in part by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Testimony from DOJ official Bruce Ohr, who served as an unofficial backchannel between Steele and the FBI, which was made public this year confirmed that top Justice Department officials knew about the dossier earlier than first thought, and that among those who knew was Andrew Weissmann, who went on to become the top deputy of special counsel Robert Mueller. "Some of the biggest challenges that we had is because they used our counterintelligence capabilities - these secret capabilities that are really only supposed to be used to go after terrorists and other bad guys, they actually turned it on a political campaign, and that's where they first went wrong," Nunes told Bartiromo, while talking about a "DOJ and FBI run amok." "Now, my estimation is they used what's called 'counterintelligence' because they could keep it siloed and hidden from the American people and from the rest of FBI and DOJ ... they opened up a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign because they could use these secret capabilities," he added. "Then, of course, we all know the story about how they went to the FISA court, they mislead the FISA court, lied to the FISA court in order to get a warrant on a Trump campaign associate so that they then could get a bunch of emails, phone calls, and records into the campaign."
Mueller concluded his nearly two-year-long Russia investigation and sent his final report to the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's report to Congress on Sunday that said Mueller's team found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime. Nunes had said he wanted to see what was in Mueller's report before taking criminal referral action. Although Congress has not seen the full report, and Democrats are demanding its release within a week, a Justice Department official told Reuters that Barr plans to make public a version of it within "weeks, not months." Nunes has looked to Barr, who on Feb. 14 became attorney general, to make headway toward completing an investigation begun last year by a joint GOP-led task force comprising the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee. Key to this effort, which has been bolstered by intelligence panel Republicans, is investigators looking over roughly 15 transcripts of interviews conducted by the task force last year.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-prepared-now-to-deliver-criminal-referral-after-trump-vows-to-release-fisa-documents
#5946580 at 2019-03-28 19:47:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7605: WWG1WGA!!! Edition
>>5946329
GOP rep calls for investigation into Schiff
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Republican Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) on Thursday called for an investigation into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), citing his past rhetoric about President Trump and his family in the federal probe into Russian election meddling. "Isn't that the information that we need to know?" Hice, who serves on the House Oversight Committee, told Hill.TV when asked whether he agreed with Trump's recent comments calling for Schiff to be forced out of office and suggested the California lawmaker may have committed a crime.
"Let's find out," Hice continued. "Let's open it up. Let's bring those people forward." "As I said, we need to find out," he said when asked directly whether he asked if he thought Schiff was a criminal. "I don't know all that he's done, but what I do know is that he's been on the forefront for two years claiming that he had evidence that the president colluded with Russia," he continued.
"I believe thoroughly that was false. He was either misled, or he was misleading, and we need to get to the bottom of it." "So Adam Schiff needs to be one that comes forward. If he has evidence, put it on the table. So if he has committed crimes, we need to find out, and I think that is one individual, absolutely, that needs to be brought forward for a thorough investigation," Hice continued. Hice's comments came as Schiff hit back at Republicans on Capitol Hill for calling for his resignation.
"My colleagues may think it is OK the president's son was offered dirt as part of an effort to help Trump," Schiff said. "You might think it is OK. I don't." Schiff's comments were in response to Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who said that the chairman had lost confidence in the panel by putting out a "demonstrably false" narrative. "The findings of the special counsel conclusively refute your past and present assertions and have exposed you as abused your position to knowingly promote false information," Conaway said. Attorney General William Barr said in a summary a special counsel Robert Mueller's findings in the Russia probe that no evidence of coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow was discovered.
Republicans have since seized on that statement, but Democrats have pointed to Mueller declining to say whether Trump obstructed the probe itself, according to the attorney general's summary. Barr, however, said in the summary that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came to the conclusion that the evidence was "not sufficient" to establish an obstruction of justice charge.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/436269-gop-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-schiff
#5946473 at 2019-03-28 19:44:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7605: WWG1WGA!!! Edition
GOP rep calls for investigation into Schiff
Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) on Thursday called for an investigation into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), citing his past rhetoric about President Trump and his family in the special counsel probe into Russian election meddling.
"Isn't that the information that we need to know?" Hice, who serves on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told Hill.TV when asked whether he agreed with Trump's recent comments calling for Schiff to be forced out of office, and he suggested the California lawmaker may have committed a crime.
"Let's find out," Hice continued. "Let's open it up. Let's bring those people forward."
"As I said, we need to find out," he said when asked directly whether he thought Schiff was a criminal.
"I don't know all that he's done, but what I do know is that he's been on the forefront for two years claiming that he had evidence that the president colluded with Russia," he continued. "I believe thoroughly that was false. He was either misled, or he was misleading, and we need to get to the bottom of it."
"So Adam Schiff needs to be one that comes forward. If he has evidence, put it on the table. So if he has committed crimes, we need to find out, and I think that is one individual, absolutely, that needs to be brought forward for a thorough investigation," Hice continued.
Hice's comments came as Schiff hit back at Republicans on Capitol Hill for calling for his resignation.
"My colleagues may think it is OK the president's son was offered dirt as part of an effort to help Trump," Schiff said. "You might think it is OK. I don't."
Schiff's comments were in response to Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who said that the chairman had lost the confidence of the panel by putting out a "demonstrably false" narrative.
"The findings of the special counsel conclusively refute your past and present assertions and have exposed you as abused your position to knowingly promote false information," Conaway said.
Attorney General William Barr said in a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that no evidence of coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow was discovered.
Republicans have since seized on that statement, but Democrats have pointed to Mueller declining to say whether Trump obstructed the probe itself, according to the attorney general's summary.
Barr, however, said in the summary that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came to the conclusion that the evidence was "not sufficient" to establish an obstruction of justice charge.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/436269-gop-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-schiff
#5943283 at 2019-03-28 17:14:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7603: Anons Have Baker's Back, Feels Good Edition
LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump is returning to California next week for a campaign fundraiser that has premium tickets going for $150,000.
The April 5 event in Los Angeles will bring the Republican president back to the heavily Democratic state where Hillary Clinton handily beat him in the 2016 presidential election.
Tickets for a reception start at $15,000. That's according to an invitation paid for by Trump Victory, a joint fundraising committee of the president's campaign and the Republican National Committee.
The chance to take a photo with the president will cost supporters $50,000.
The top-priced tickets include a roundtable discussion.
The trip comes shortly after the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which Attorney General William Barr said found no evidence of coordination between Trump's 2016 campaign and Russia.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/9436355-181/president-trump-heads-to-los?sba=AAS
#5943195 at 2019-03-28 17:07:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7602: Kayfabe Muh Notables Edition
Trump calls for investigation into Mueller probe
WASHINGTON-President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused former FBI officials and Democrats of treason for their role in the Russia investigation and vowed to "get to the bottom" of how the inquiry began. In a 45-minute interview on Fox News, Trump told host Sean Hannity that he planned to declassify and publish in full the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants the FBI used to get permission to begin surveillance on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, which the FBI suspected was colluding with Russia to influence the election's outcome. The FBI released redacted versions of the warrants in July 2018.
"This was an attempted takeover of our government ... an illegal takeover," the president said. He called for an investigation into the actions of FBI and CIA officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, former FBI agent Peter Strzok, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, and former CIA Director John Brennan. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said he will open an investigation into the how the Russia probe got started.
In an interview for a Washington Post report published late Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., rejected the conclusion of the Mueller investigation as reported by Attorney General William Barr, who on Sunday said special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation found no evidence the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
"Undoubtedly there is collusion," Schiff said. "We will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues. That is, is the president or people around him compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power?" Trump said Schiff should be ousted from office for his focus on the Russia allegations, adding, "You could say it's a crime what he did-he was making statements he knew were false."
https://world.wng.org/content/trump_calls_for_investigation_into_mueller_probe
#5942865 at 2019-03-28 16:49:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7602: Kayfabe Muh Notables Edition
The Latest: Barr Tells House Judiciary Chair He'll Testify
WASHINGTON (AP) - THE Latest on Congress and the special counsel's Russia report (all times local):
12:18 p.m.
Attorney General William Barr has told the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee that he would testify before his panel.
That's according to a Justice Department official familiar with a Wednesday call between Barr and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the New York Democrat who runs the committee.
Democrats are anxious to hear from Barr about special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report. They want to see the full report and the evidence that goes with it. Barr told Nadler on the call that the report is more than 300 pages.
Barr released a four-page summary of the report on Sunday and is expected to produce a public version of the document in the coming weeks.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is heaping scorn on Attorney General William Barr, saying his letter about special counsel Robert Mueller's report was "condescending."
Barr's four-page summary of the Russia probe said special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence that President Donald Trump's campaign "conspired or coordinated" with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election.
Pelosi said she found Barr's decision to write the letter "arrogant." Congress, she said, doesn't need Barr "to be our interpreter of something that he should just show us."
The Democratic chairmen of six House committees have demanded that Barr release the Mueller report to Congress by Tuesday.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-03-28/the-latest-republicans-say-they-have-no-faith-in-schiff
#5942555 at 2019-03-28 16:27:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7602: Kayfabe Muh Notables Edition
How fucking stupid do you have to be to believe Q at this point
It was one thing if you believed Q a year ago
But now that zion don has signaled his intentions by appointing William Barr and sucking off israel
If you support Q
Kill yourself
You are worthless and the founding,fathers frown on you from,the grave
#5938977 at 2019-03-28 09:46:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7597: The Ghosts and The Graveyard Edition
After watching Carl Bernstein on CNN the last 2 years, I really doubt the official watergate story.
I don't doubt wrongdoing. Good people like Elliot Richardson resigned rather than fire the special counsel investigating watergate, few have as much experience at the upper echelons of power without blemish like Elliot Richardson. Later, in the 80s and 90s, Mr. Richardson represented the INSLAW company pro bono, makers of PROMIS software, in their case against the Department of Justice, for unlawful witholding of payment. Really messed up case. Richardson said on the Unsolved Mysteries tv show segment on the death of journalist Danny Casolero, that what the DOJ has allegedly done to INSLAW is far worse than anything that happened in the Nixon administration.
I mention Mr. Richardson because this case is linked to what was known as the octupus, what we now call the cabal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Richardson
I hope our research will lead to Danny Casolero's family finding justice https://unsolved.com/gallery/dan-casolaro/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Danny_Casolaro
the husband and wife team behind PROMIS finding justice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw
William Barr was Attorney General briefly. He appointed a special counsel
An Arkancide in Arizona
Escrow company owner Chuck Morgan https://unsolved.com/gallery/chuck-morgan/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Charles_Morgan
"Chuck was found shot to death in the desert despite the fact he was found wearing a bulletproof vest. He had been shot once in the back of the head with a bullet from his .357 Magnum, which was lying beside him. In his car, police found a note that had directions to the crime scene written in his handwriting. A pair of sunglasses was also found that did not belong to him.
Strangely, Chuck had clipped a $2 bill inside his underwear. Written on the bill…
"Three months after the broadcast, Doug Johnston was found shot to death in his car outside of his Phoenix office. Interestingly, he worked across the street from Deveraux's office, and drove an almost identical car. Deveraux now believes that he was supposed to be killed instead of Doug. A year after Doug's murder, Deveraux was contacted by a writer from D.C. named Danny Casolaro. He agreed to share with him the information that he had uncovered about Chuck's illegal gold transactions. However, Danny died suspiciously before he received the information. All three cases remain unsolved. Sadly, Chuck's widow, Ruth Morgan, died in 2006. "
the 2 boys, Kevin Ives and Don Henry, who were murdered on the railroad tracks in Little Rock Arkansas . This case is the epicenter from which all Clinton crime spews. https://unsolved.com/gallery/don-henry-kevin-ives/
https://unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Don_Henry_and_Kevin_Ives
Older anons might remember the old Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, the intro music alone was nightmare inducing. a few years ago scoured online for every episode. Most were poor quality VHS or even Betamax uploads. I think it can be streamed from hulu or amazon now. these cases besides the ones loosely surrounding journalist Danny Casolero and Don Deveraux are never analyzed as tentacles of the same monster on the same tv show. Like the crash that took the lives of over 200 servicemen from the 101st Airborne Division near Gander International Airfield in Newfoundland. They are separated by years, and geography , yet all link back to what we now refer to as the cabal but Danny Casolero called, the octupus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow0yPO8g9YA&feature=youtu.be
#5937449 at 2019-03-28 05:40:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7595: 'WE' are everywhere Edition
Trump says he wants to release FISA documents now that Mueller investigation is over
President Trump said Wednesday that he plans to release the unredacted Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, which jump-started the Russia probe. Appearing on Fox News, Trump said that prior to Sunday's report by Attorney General William Barr that concluded he didn't conspire with Russia, he was advised by his attorneys not to release the FISA warrants and documents out of fear that he would be nabbed for obstructing justice.
Trump said that is no longer the case now that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is over. "I do, I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release," Trump said. "A lot of people wanted me to do it a long time ago. I'm glad I didn't do it. We got a great result without having to do it, but we will."
Since Sunday's report, Republicans have turned their attention to how the inquiry began in the first place. During Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Republicans allege the Justice Department and FBI abused the FISA process to secure warrants to spy on associates of the president as part of the Trump-Russia investigation, which ultimately led to the Mueller probe. Trump said Wednesday that he wants the details about those warrants released now that the Mueller investigation is over. "This was an attempted takeover of our government, of our country, an illegal takeover," Trump said Wednesday. Trump described the investigation as the "insurance policy" set up by biased individuals within the Justice Department against him. "They wanted to do a subversion. It was treason. It was really treason," he said.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said during a Monday news conference that there would be continued investigations into the origins of Mueller's investigation, including the FISA warrants. "When it comes to the warrant, the Clinton campaign, the counterintelligence investigation, it's pretty much been swept under the rug except by a few Republicans in the House. Those days are over. Going forward, hopefully in a bipartisan fashion, we'll begin to unpack the other side of the story," Graham said.
Barr announced Sunday in a four-page report that Mueller did not find evidence of Trump colluding with Russia. In addition, neither he nor Mueller made a judgment as to whether or not Trump obstructed justice during the 22-month inquiry.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-says-he-wants-to-release-fisa-documents-now-that-mueller-investigation-is-over
#5937111 at 2019-03-28 05:06:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7595: 'WE' are everywhere Edition
Comey Accepts Mueller Finding On Collusion, Defends Opening Russia Probe Anyway
James Comey said it is "good news" special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
The former FBI director also defended opening the probe in an interview that aired Wednesday. There was "enough smoke" that the bureau had to investigate whether Trump associates conspired with the Kremlin to influence the 2016 election, Comey said.
"I didn't know what answer the special counsel would arrive at. When I was fired, we hadn't finished the work so I didn't know what conclusion it would end up at," Comey told NBC News's Lester Holt.
"I think it's good he was able to finish the work and establish both that the Russia thing wasn't a hoax, that the Russians interfered in the election in a huge way, and that's really important," he said. "And then another piece of good news, the evidence didn't establish that any Americans conspired as part of that effort. That should be good news no matter what party you're associated with."
Attorney General William Barr submitted a summary Sunday of Mueller's investigation to Congress. The summary said Mueller found no evidence of a conspiracy between President Donald Trump, his associates or any Americans and the Russian government's efforts to steal Democrats' emails.
Mueller did not arrive at a final decision on the question of obstruction of justice. He deferred the matter to Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Barr said the Justice Department will decline charges on obstruction in part because there was no underlying crime - collusion - to obstruct.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/27/comey-mueller-no-collusion/
#5936864 at 2019-03-28 04:48:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7594: The Reflection Inside The Castle Edition
Comey got played by the DS/CABAL. He has not friends that will bail him out. Comey got used and was discarded. Sucks to be you Comey
"Former FBI Director James Comey "can't quite understand" why special counsel Robert Mueller passed obstruction decision to Attorney General William Barr. https://abcn.ws/2FxrZln "
https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1111118980549353472
#5934991 at 2019-03-28 03:26:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7593: Flyin' Breads Edition
Comey: Mueller report shows 'the FBI is not corrupt, not a nest of vipers and spies'
In his first interview since Attorney General William Barr announced that President Trump did not collude with Russia, former FBI Director James Comey said he is pleased with the findings. In an NBC interview, Comey said he was glad that the special counsel's report cleared President Trump of conspiring with the Russians. He also said he was glad it finished work establishing Russia interfered in the elections. "I think it's good that he was able to finish the work and establish both that the Russia thing wasn't a hoax, that the Russians interfered in the election in a huge way, and that's really important," Comey said. "And another piece of good news, the evidence didn't establish that any Americans conspired as part of that effort. That should be good news no matter what party you're associated with."
Comey said he wants the whole report to be released to show that the FBI is not corrupt and that the investigation itself was justified. "The FBI is not corrupt, not a nest of vipers and spies, but an honest group of people trying to find out what is true. And that's what you see here. And that's why it will be important to read the entire report," Comey said.
The comment comes as questions continue to surround text messages from former FBI agent Peter Strzok to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that show a clear bias against Trump. Strzok served as a lead investigator on the FBI's Russia investigation until the texts were discovered. Comey said he hopes the release of the full report will shed light on the investigation in its entirety. "I don't know what the special counsel found. And I'm prepared, I hope everybody is, to wait and get the transparency that we need," he said
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/comey-mueller-report-shows-the-fbi-is-not-corrupt-not-a-nest-of-vipers-and-spies
#5928976 at 2019-03-27 23:07:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7585: Staff Sergeant Travis Atkins Edition
Mueller's team interviewed Maria Butina: Report
Maria Butina was reportedly one of the roughly 500 witnesses interviewed throughout the course of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Butina, who pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to act as an illegal foreign agent for Russia, was briefly interviewed by Mueller during his 22-month investigation into potential collusion between President Trump's campaign and Russia, according to a Wednesday CNN report. Butina, 30, was interviewed for about an hour on one occasion by Mueller's team, although she did not appear to be a central figure in the investigation.
The special counsel was interested in Butina's ties to one of the Trump campaign's national security aides, J.D. Gordon, who was ultimately not accused of any criminal activity by the probe. Investigators also questioned her about the Trump campaign's 2016 push to change language in the Republican National Committee platform relating to Russia and Ukraine.
Butina pleaded guilty in December, although a sentencing date has not yet been set. Her boyfriend, Republican operative Paul Erickson, 56, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was indicted on federal wire fraud and money laundering charges in February. Mueller's investigation came to a close last week and Attorney General William Barr on Sunday said Mueller cleared Trump of colluding with Russia in a four-page summary of the investigation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/muellers-team-interviewed-maria-butina-report
#5922660 at 2019-03-27 16:43:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7577: Enough Rope To Hang Themselves Edition
Oh my, the keks to be had.
Article on "Resistance Media" going broke.
Looks like the truth about them being the Real Conspiracy Theorisists is coming out and they are desperate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/03/muellers-conclusion-scrambling-resistance-media/585721/
These are turbulent times for Resistance Inc.
The Robert Mueller fetishization cottage industry is collapsing. Russia conspiracy theorists are frantically tweetstorming as though their lives-or livelihoods-depend on it. And across liberal America, cable-news obsessives and keyboard warriors who have spent years waiting for investigators to produce a presidency-ending bombshell are in a state of open mourning.
Nowhere has the anti-climactic conclusion to Mueller-mania been more acutely felt than in the alternative partisan media complex that services the so-called resistance. I first wrote about this world back in 2017, when an array of hyper-partisan Facebook pages, Twitter conspiracists, click farms, and podcasts were gaining popularity among stressed-out Trump-era liberals.
The landscape has shifted since that early attempt to map its topography. But even as new players have arrived on the scene and others have flamed out, the appetite for unsubstantiated, Mueller-centric speculation-and the attendant Trump-is-doomed narrative-never abated. So, when Attorney General William Barr notified Congress last weekend that the special counsel was closing up shop without having established a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, I decided to check back in on the resistance media. How were they taking the news-and what would they do now without their favorite content bonanza?
For now, at least, there remains a strong contingent of Trump-Russia truthers who are determined to squeeze every last ounce of click juice they can from the Mueller story before it turns rancid. In this crowd, the most popular theory of the moment is that Barr's summary of the Mueller report-which has not been released to the public-is part of a sinister "cover-up" to protect the president.
(cont. in article)
#5921114 at 2019-03-27 14:53:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7575: Going Forward Edition
>>5920990
KEY POINTS
President gloats as Barbara Bush biography blames him for 'heart attack'
Nancy Pelosi tells Democrats not to accept William Barr verdict on Mueller report
Speaker calls for calm on impeachment talk
House fails to secure Republican rebellion to overturn presidential veto
House Judiciary Committee kick-starts obstruction of justice action
#5920692 at 2019-03-27 14:18:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7574: Replay The Story Edition
McConnell blocks resolution calling for release of Mueller report for second time
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) blocked a resolution calling for special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia probe to be publicly released for the second time this week.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee and a member of the Intelligence Committee, tried to get unanimous consent for the Senate to pass the resolution, which cleared the House in a 420-0 vote.
"The fact is that a four-page summary cannot possibly illuminate what this thorough of an investigation uncovered. I find it so disappointing that so many are rushing to judgement without being able to see the full report or all of the underlying facts," Feinstein said from the Senate floor.
But McConnell objected to her request to pass the non-binding resolution, noting that Attorney General William Barr is currently working with Mueller to determine what in the report should or should not be released.
"I have consistently supported the proposition that his report ought to be released to the greatest extent possible, consistent with the law. ...I think we should be consistent in letting the special counsel actually finish his work and not just when we think it may be politically advantageous to one side or the other," McConnell added.
Under Senate rules any one senator can try to pass a bill or resolution by unanimous consent. But the move requires every other senator to sign off, meaning one member can also block their request on the Senate floor.
It's the third time Democrats have tried to pass the House resolution, which argues there is "overwhelming public interest" in the government releasing the contents of the high-profile report. The resolution calls on the DOJ to fully release the report to Congress and to release it to the public "except to the extent the public disclosure of any portion thereof is expressly prohibited by law."
It's also the second time that McConnell has blocked the resolution from passing. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) tried to pass the resolution on Monday but McConnell blocked him.
The New York Democrat's first attempt came hours after the resolution cleared the House unanimously, but Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, objected to his request.
Graham blocked the resolution from passing after Schumer refused to amend it to include a provision calling on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged department misconduct in the handling of the investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's email use and the Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications.
McConnell's move has been backed up by some GOP senators. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) defended him on Monday saying the Mueller resolution was the " measure is an unnecessary solution looking for a problem."
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) warned on Wednesday that he would also object to the resolution.
"My plan is to object to the release of the Mueller report and/or all of the Mueller information until they also release the complete information from the White House, DOJ, FBI, on why they chose to credit the dossier," he said in a tweet.
Mueller turned his report over to the Justice Department on Friday, signaling the formal end of the two-year investigation. Barr sent a four-page letter to the House and Senate Judiciary committees on Sunday outlining Mueller's main findings.
Mueller, according to the letter, did not uncover evidence that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 election.
The attorney general's letter also said that Mueller made no conclusion as to whether Trump obstructed justice in the investigation into Russia's election interference. But it states that Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, after reviewing Mueller's findings, determined that they would not pursue an obstruction of justice charge.
https://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/436006-mcconnell-blocks-resolution-calling-for-release-of-mueller-report
Sorry for so much text but good info in this article.
#5919191 at 2019-03-27 10:41:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7572: Quick Pickup Edition
March 25, 2019, 11:02 AM MST
(Muller told Barr and RR no collusion on March 5)
By Julia Ainsley
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller and members of his team informed Attorney General William Barr three weeks ago that they would not reach a conclusion on whether the president had obstructed justice, according to a person familiar with the meeting.
Both Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was also at the March 5 meeting, were surprised by this, the person said.
"It was unexpected," said the source.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/mueller-told-Barr-rosenstein-3-weeks-ago-he-would-not-n987041
#5918988 at 2019-03-27 09:53:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7572: Quick Pickup Edition
Pelosi cannot believe that Barr wrote his letter to Congress without any consultation with Mueller. The left will never admit defeat. Truth is not their issue. It's all about their NARRATIVE!
Pelosi: We Need Mueller Report, Not 'An Interpretation' by Someone Appointed 'To Make Sure the President Is Above the Law'
While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called for the release of the Mueller report and stated that Attorney General William Barr "is appointed for a particular job, to make sure the president is above the law."
Pelosi said, "Right now, the message should be clearly, let us see this report. I have great respect for Special Counsel Mueller, but let us see the report. We don't need an interpretation by the attorney general, who is appointed for a particular job, to make sure the president is above the law. We need to see the report."
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/03/26/pelosi-we-need-mueller-report-not-an-interpretation-by-someone-appointed-to-make-sure-the-president-is-above-the-law/
#5918891 at 2019-03-27 09:32:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7572: Quick Pickup Edition
Breaking on CNN
Glenn Greenwald
Verified account @ggreenwald
7h7 hours ago
Truly amazing: MSNBC has succeeded in convincing a lot of people that William Barr is running around radically misrepresenting the true findings of the Mueller report & Mueller and his team of high-powered lawyers are just sitting silently by while he does it.
177 replies 543 retweets 1,714 likes
David Ricardo Veloz
@David747Heavy
5h5 hours ago
I say we call them collusion truthers. 😂
#5917339 at 2019-03-27 05:09:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7570: Truth Will Always Prevail Edition:
Devin Nunes predicts criminal referral delivery next week
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., predicted Tuesday he will likely make criminal referrals as part of an investigation into alleged political bias in the FBI and Justice Department by the end of next week. During an interview on Fox News, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee he is targeting "people who lied to Congress, perjury, criminal conspiracy." Noting that "will be hopefully by the end of next week," Nunes said his team will work to "make as much public as possible."
His most narrow prediction yet for his criminal referral delivery comes days after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded his nearly two-year-long Russia investigation and sent his final report to the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's report to Congress on Sunday that said Mueller's team found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.
Previously Nunes had said he wanted to see what was in Mueller's report before taking criminal referral action. Although Congress has not seen the full report, and Democrats are demanding its release within a week, a Justice Department official told Reuters Barr plans to make public a version of it within "weeks, not months." Nunes has not named anyone who could appear in a referral, but he has railed against what he says is collusion between the Democrats and the Russians, pointing to use of the unverified Trump dossier by the FBI to obtain warrants to spy on onetime Trump campaign official Carter Page, as proof of an unraveling operation to undermine the president. That dossier, compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, was funded in part by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
"What needs to happen is we need to have full transparency in this matter. Full transparency," Nunes said Tuesday. "There was a lot of – the FBI and DOJ have claimed falsely that this investigation started in July 2016. That was a lie." "We need to know all the informants and everybody they were running into the Trump campaign because what happened here is wrong," he added. "The FBI, the Department of Justice should not be able to use counterintelligence capabilities that are used to target terrorists and other bad guys around the globe against political parties. Republicans and Democrats should agree political opposition research from one candidate should not be used to let the nation's top spy capabilities be used against political parties."
Nunes has looked to Barr, who on Feb. 14 became attorney general, to make headway towards completing an investigation begun last year by a joint GOP-led task force comprising the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight Committee. Key to this effort, which has been bolstered by intelligence panel Republicans, is investigators looking over roughly 15 transcripts of interviews conducted by the task force last year.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/devin-nunes-predicts-criminal-referral-delivery-next-week
#5917243 at 2019-03-27 05:01:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7570: Truth Will Always Prevail Edition:
Trump OK with DOJ releasing Mueller report without White House seeing it, Lindsey Graham says
President Trump said he's fine with the Justice Department releasing special counsel Robert Mueller's final report without the White House having a chance to examine it first, according to Sen. Lindsey Graham. Graham, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the revelation during an interview Tuesday evening with Fox News' Shannon Bream, offering a potential solution to Democrats concerned the president might try to assert executive privilege on key aspects of the report before they see it.
"[Trump] decided that the White House is OK with releasing it without looking at it," Graham, R-S.C., said. "I talked to him just a few minutes ago, the president, and he said let it out," he added. "There'll be some things in there I think will be interesting in terms of conversations. But the bottom line here is that Mueller has looked at this for two and a half years. He's concluded that no one on the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians and that the facts regarding obstruction were insufficient for him to make a decision. Therefore there is no way you could prosecute a case that the prosecutor is unsure."
Mueller concluded his nearly two-year-long Russia investigation last week and sent his final report to the Justice Department. Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's report to Congress on Sunday that said Mueller's team found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also declined to determine whether Trump obstructed justice, and Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein concluded there was insufficient evidence to show the president committed a crime.
During an interview Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said he would "have a problem" if the White House got to see a summary of Mueller's final report before he does. "As we know from the Nixon tapes case, the Supreme Court decided … executive privilege cannot be used to shield wrongdoing and certainly they should not get an advance look at the report," Nadler said on "Fox News Sunday." "The report should go public in its entirety and see what the chips fall." Not satisfied with just a four-page summary, Democrats in Congress have clamored for the entire report to be released. In a letter Monday, House Democrats gave the Justice Department a one-week ultimatum to submit Mueller's full report and the underlying documents to Congress. Certain that the report has exonerated him, Trump said Monday it "wouldn't bother me at all" if the full Mueller report was released for Democrats to examine.
Graham, who had dinner with the attorney general, said Barr told him he plans to release a version of the Mueller report to the public in "weeks, not months." "The report is being looked at for a couple of things," Graham said. "We cannot release grand jury information because It violates the law. So he's going to check with Mr. Mueller to make sure that everything that is grand jury related is taken out of the report because the law requires that. He's going to go to the intelligence community to make sure that we don't release classified information or sources and methods that may jeopardize our national security. He's going to talk to some prosecutors who have cases associated with this to see if anything in the report would undercut them." Graham predicted Barr will turn the report "over to the committee and then I think he'll come to the Senate hopefully sometime in April."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-ok-with-doj-releasing-mueller-report-without-white-house-seeing-it-lindsey-graham-says
#5911771 at 2019-03-26 23:15:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7563: Cryptic Bread Title Edition
President Trump on Tuesday officially nominated Transportation official Jeffrey Rosen to serve as deputy attorney general at the Department of Justice upon Rod Rosenstein's departure.
Rosen currently serves as deputy secretary of Transportation, and will require Senate confirmation for his new role. He previously served in the George W. Bush administration and practiced law at the Kirkland & Ellis law firm.
Trump's choice of Rosen was first reported last month, but the president officially sent the nomination to the Senate on Tuesday.
Rosenstein was previously expected to leave his role in mid-March, but a senior DOJ official told NBC News last week that he would remain on "a little longer."
His exit could be imminent now that special counsel Robert Mueller has wrapped up his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Attorney General William Barr issued a four-page summary on Sunday of Mueller's main findings, writing that the special counsel's investigation did not find that there was collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. On the matter of alleged obstruction of justice, Mueller said he had neither exonerated Trump nor concluded that he had committed a crime, according to Barr's summary.
Rosenstein oversaw the special counsel's investigation after former Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself, but turned over control of the probe to Barr upon his confirmation earlier this year.
Rosenstein came under scrutiny in recent months following a report that he'd been part of discussions about invoking the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.
The president seized on the allegations, detailed by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, to suggest the two men looked "like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught."
The Justice Department issued a statement calling McCabe's account of events "inaccurate and factually incorrect."
McCabe also walked back his remarks, with a spokeswoman issuing a statement that he did not "participate in any extended discussions about the use of the 25th Amendment, nor is he aware of any such discussions."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435931-trump-formally-nominates-jeffrey-rosen-to-replace-rosenstein-at-doj
#5908522 at 2019-03-26 20:50:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7559: Catastrophic Media Failure Edition
Bob Woodward: No leaks on Mueller report length
by Daniel Chaitin
| March 25, 2019 08:14 PM
Veteran journalist Bob Woodward said Monday he is not aware of any leaks regarding the length of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report for the Russia investigation.
During an interview on MSNBC, Woodward guessed it will be very long, perhaps thousands of pages in length.
"I think everybody who is saying we have to see the report is quite correct," he told host Chris Matthews, touching on how Democrats are rallying for the Justice Department to release the whole document after Attorney General William Barr sent a four-page summary to Congress over the weekend.
"God is in the details here," Woodward added. "And this is under dispute, and so let's look at it. I have no idea, and no one I've talked to has any idea or will say how long it is. It might be thousands of pages."
Matthews joked the report could also be three pages, which Woodward dismissed. He said "it has to be" long.
God is in the details here, Bob? Having a hard time telling who is God, and who is the devil? Common phrase in the English language, Bob, is "The devil is in the details".
Also: Cannot confirm, but Bob Woodward lurks here. After all, we are the media now.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bob-woodward-no-leaks-on-mueller-report-length
#5906896 at 2019-03-26 19:11:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7557: These People Are Stupid Edition
Democrats, Republicans both want FBI docs on Trump probes
The House Judiciary Committee, in a rare unanimous vote, approved a resolution Tuesday directing the Justice Department to give Congress all records on FBI obstruction of justice or counterintelligence probes against President Trump.
Days after Attorney General William Barr told Congress he did not find an obstruction case against Trump, the Democrat-led panel voted 22-0 to send the measure to the full House for a possible floor vote.
Full House approval would give Barr 14 days to comply with the demand for all records and communications concerning FBI investigations of Trump, as well any discussions within Justice about secretly recording the president or seeking to replace him by invoking the 25th Amendment to the Constitution.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/26/democrats-republicans-both-want-fbi-docs-on-trump-probes/
#5906515 at 2019-03-26 18:52:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7556: Will the AG need to get involved? Edition
Pelosi reassures Democrats on Mueller report: 'Let's just get the goods'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought to reassure restive Democrats Tuesday that the House will seek the full contents of special counsel Robert Mueller's report apparently clearing President Trump of colluding with the Russians ahead of the 2016 election. In a closed-door meeting Tuesday, Pelosi, D-Calif., urged Democrats to "handle this professionally, officially, patriotically, strategically, and told them to "be calm" and "take a deep breath," according to a source in the room. She added, "Let's just get the goods," referring to the full Mueller report, which is still cloaked in secrecy while Attorney General William Barr determines how much of it will be made public. Pelosi's remarks followed the angry and surprised reactions from many Democrats to the four-page summary of the Mueller report provided to Congress by Barr. Democrats, including Pelosi, are skeptical of the summary, and they instead want to read the entire report to mine it for wrongdoing by Trump that did not meet Mueller's threshold for prosecution.
Barr was confirmed by the Senate along a party-line vote. Democrats objected because of his refusal to promise full disclosure of the Mueller report and because he authored a memo questioning the Mueller investigation. "We have to see the report," Pelosi told Democrats. "We cannot make a judgment on the basis of an interpretation by a man who was hired for this job because he believes the president is above the law. And he wrote a 19-page memo to demonstrate that." Pelosi sought to calm disappointed Democrats who believed the Mueller investigation would help them oust Trump from office. Pelosi reminded Democrats of the indictments and convictions against Trump associates, although none of them are related to Russia collusion or directly tied to the president. "Some people are viewing it as a glass half-full, glass half-empty," Pelosi told Democrats. "I think half-full."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/congress/pelosi-reassures-democrats-on-mueller-report-lets-just-get-the-goods
#5905497 at 2019-03-26 18:03:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7555: "What happens if the phone records of SMOLLETT leak?" Edition
>>5905269 (lb)
>"I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man's case that just took place in Florida...Take the guns first." - Donald Trump, February 2018
>"Guns are safe. Stop falling for FAKE NEWS." - QAnon, March 2018
>"We need to push along the ERPOs so that we have these red flag [gun confiscation] laws…this is the single most important thing I think we can do in the gun control area." -William Barr, Attorney General Nominee, 1/15/19
This isn't fake news; it's literally out of the mouths of our President and new Attorney General. Given the above, and given the federal "red flag" bill that is currently cruising through the "GOP controlled" Senate, is it really too much to ask for some kind of accountability that goes beyond a faith-based circle jerk around here? We're supposed to engage in critical thinking in all instances except when it comes to Q and/or POTUS?
#5901902 at 2019-03-26 14:46:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7550: Humble Pie Costs Double Edition
OH YEAH ANDERSON ITS ALL ABOUT THE DEMS NOW! They are all turning in each other-hilarious
CNN's Anderson Cooper on 'Sad and Crying' Dems: 'Says a Lot About Them'
26 Mar 2019
CNN's Anderson Cooper said on Sunday evening that it "says a lot" about Democrats who are "walking around sad and crying" that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation did not find that President Donald Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016.
Cooper acknowledged that it will be "easy for Democrats to go too far and not to at least acknowledge happiness that the president didn't collude" with the Russians. Cooper said it "says a lot about them" if Democrats are "walking around sad and crying" after Attorney General William Barr revealed that Mueller's investigation "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated" with the Russians.
"I understand people who hate the president are disappointed by the no collusion finding [because] they were hoping this would, I guess, would bring down the president," Cooper said. "But just as an American, this is a good thing that our president, whether you like him or not, has not colluded."
After establishment media networks like CNN and Democrats spread the Russia collusion hoax for two years, many top Democrats seemed like they were in denial after Barr revealed that Mueller's report did not find any Russia collusion.
When Cooper asked Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, if he accepted Mueller's conclusion on Russia collusion, Connolly insisted that "that's a function of language" before rambling on about the ways in which the Trump campaign and the Russians, in his mind, still could have worked together in the 2016 presidential election.
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) also refused to say that there was "no collusion" between Russia and the Trump campaign.
CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked Coons: "Are you ready to say, senator, that there was no collusion?"
Coons responded: "I want to see the full report because, at the very least, the Trump campaign at the highest levels had unprecedented and inappropriate contacts with the Russians. But I do think it's a good thing for the country if the mueller investigation concluded that our president didn't directly conspire with a hostile foreign power."
#5901703 at 2019-03-26 14:26:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7550: Humble Pie Costs Double Edition
Without a doubt, that's gonna come back to bite him…arrogant a-hole
Jeff Zucker: No Regrets on CNN's Russia Hoax Coverage, 'We Are Not Investigators'
26 Mar 2019
CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker is pushing back against critics accusing the news network of being one of the chief propagators of a debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy theory after special counsel Robert Mueller cleared the president's 2016 campaign of alleged collusion with the Kremlin.
In an interview with the New York Times, Zucker said he was "entirely comfortable" with CNN's Trump-Russia coverage and suggested it was entirely appropriate to give near around-the-clock-coverage due to the story's magnitude. "We are not investigators. We are journalists, and our role is to report the facts as we know them, which is exactly what we did," the CNN chief wrote in an email. "A sitting president's own Justice Department investigated his campaign for collusion with a hostile nation. That's not enormous because the media says so. That's enormous because it's unprecedented."
According to a four-page summary of Mueller's findings written by the Justice Department, investigators found no evidence President Trump's campaign "conspired or coordinated" with Russia to influence the election. Attorney General William Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had determined that Mueller's evidence was insufficient to prove in court that the president had committed obstruction of justice to hamper the probe. Further, the attorney general stated said the decision was based on the evidence uncovered by Mueller and not affected by Justice Department legal opinions that say a sitting president cannot be indicted…..
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/03/26/jeff-zucker-no-regrets-on-cnns-russia-hoax-coverage/
#5901011 at 2019-03-26 13:28:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7549: Farm Bill Disrupts Mind Control Edition
Bannon says Trump will 'go full animal' against enemies with Mueller probe over ... and it looks like he started Tuesday morning!
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon believes the end of Robert Mueller's investigation means President Trump will soon "go full animal" against his political enemies.
The president will "come off the chains," Bannon told Yahoo! News over the weekend, following the special counsel's submission of his final report to Attorney General William Barr, who announced in a summary letter that Trump and his campaign had not colluded with Russia during the 2016 election.
"When I saw no new indictments - I thought, Oh my God! They didn't indict anybody regarding the Flynn investigation, they didn't indict Don, Jr.! Maybe [Mueller] could have details about obstruction of justice that are not indictable, but are meaningful," Bannon said.
"But right now, it looks like they have nothing," he added, predicting that the president will use Mueller's report findings against his critics.
"He will use it to bludgeon them," he said. Bannon himself was interviewed twice by the special counsel's team.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/26/bannon-says-trump-will-go-full-animal-against-enemies-with-mueller-probe-over-and-it-looks-like-he-started-tuesday-morning-737394
#5900599 at 2019-03-26 12:46:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7548: Avenatti Out and About but Not for Long Edition
Seth Abramson
On 2/26/19 at 8:21 AM EST
Is Trump's Justice Department Trying to Preempt An Impeachment?
"Impeachment is a political process, not a criminal proceeding, which means that not only can a president be impeached for things that aren't necessarily crimes…"
Seth Abramson is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts & Sciences at the University of New Hampshire and author of Proof Of Collusion (Simon & Schuster, 2018.) On Twitter @SethAbramson
https://www.newsweek.com/mueller-trump-impeachment-justice-department-doj-William-Barr-1344043
https://twitter.com/sethabramson
#5899840 at 2019-03-26 10:44:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7547: RBG Mystery Edition
PANIC MODE
'Trump is the devil!' Alec Baldwin and Cher are among the shell shocked Hollywood celebrities reduced to madness by Mueller after the long awaited report clears the president of collusion
Alec Baldwin, who plays President Trump on Saturday Night Live, called him 'the devil'
Baldwin was reacting to the news that Trump would not be charged with conspiracy or obstruction of justice
Cher and director Rob Reiner also weighed in on Trump, calling him 'corrupt'
John Leguizamo, Mia Farrow, Jon Cryer, Adam Goldberg, and Don Cheadle also took to Twitter in response to the Mueller report's initial conclusions
Attorney General William Barr wrote a summary of the Mueller report, stating that President Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia
Barr wrote that the Justice Department will also decline to charge Trump with obstruction of justice
Hollywood liberals were disappointed with the outcome, though Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness says 'money laundering and tax evasion charges are coming'
Hollywood stars are having difficulty accepting the principal conclusions of the Mueller report - namely the finding that the Trump campaign did not collude with the Russian government.
A number of Tinseltown actors and entertainers took to social media to express their shock and frustration on Monday.
Alec Baldwin, who mocks President Trump regularly on Saturday Night Live, tweeted on Monday: 'You don't need Mueller's report or Barr's conflict of interest or Sean Hannity's imbecility to make clear one unifying thing: Trump is the Devil.'
Cher also lashed out at Trump on Monday, tweeting: 'I Have Not,Nor Will I Change My Opinion Of trump,His Evil,Or His Ties To Russia.He Is up to his Neck in Crime & Corruption.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6849557/Hollywood-stars-try-console-Mueller-Report-clears-Trump-Russia-collusion.html
#5898919 at 2019-03-26 07:38:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7546: Puttin Up Flags and Takin Down Fags, The WWG1WGA Edition
"BREAKING NEWS"' What Did Barack Obama Know And What And When Did He Authorize It?' Calls For Scrutiny Of Fmr President's Role Grow Stronger. America Demanding Justice
Now that Attorney General William Barr has informed Congress that special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation did not find evidence that President Trump or members of his campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election, nor did they find evidence that Trump obstructed justice, Ari Fleischer is calling for the well over due scrutiny of the Obama administration.
Lost in the in the mix, largely because of a protective media, is that Barack Obama was in the White House when the whole sordid Russian collusion hoax began.
And Fleischer, the former White House Press Secretary under President George W. Bush, took to Twitter to ask the very pertinent question.
"Now that Mueller says there was no collusion, it is time to scrutinize the Obama Administration," he tweeted. "They spied on a US campaign, wiretapped Americans, bit on the dossier and unmasked Flynn. What did Barack Obama know and what and when did he authorize it?"
In the autumn of 2016, the DOJ and FBI asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to begin surveilling former Trump campaign aide Carter Page - which began the process of spying on Trump's campaign.
And there are concerns from the GOP about possible abuse of power in obtaining the FISA warrant.
At the center of that effort is the largely discredited dossier, which was compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign - a fact the Justice Department failed to disclose to the court in obtaining the warrant.
A DOJ being run at the time by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. So, what was then-President Obama's role in all of this, if any?
Sen. Lindsey Graham, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, took it a step further than Fleischer, urging the appointment of another special counsel to investigate the Obama administration.
The irony of it all, as noted by White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, is that the Russian interference in the U.S. election, such as it was, occurred on Obama's watch.
Much like the night of the 9/11/2012 terrorist attack on Benghazi, the media loses all intellectual curiosity when it comes to Obama's whereabouts during critical events.
How do you know it's a legitimate concern?
Because former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod is fully engaged in a diversion campaign.
With the Mueller probe now being completed, Axelrod's question falls back on the infamous Helsinki press conference, asking why did Trump "meekly accept" Russian President Vladimir Putin's denial that they had interfered in the U.S. election.
An inquiry that practically answers itself - in all likelihood, it was a clumsy attempt at diplomacy in trying to forge a better relationship with Moscow.
As for the Obama administration, Fox News' Jesse Watters presented a case for who he believes the culprits are in the now proven Russia collusion hoax.
"There are a lot of potential felonies that happened and abuse of power from the Obama Administration," he said.
Talk radio host Mark Levin responded to Fleischer's call for scrutiny to state the obvious: "Two years late but ok ..."
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/03/25/what-did-barack-obama-know-and-what-and-when-did-he-authorize-it-calls-for-scrutiny-of-fmr-presidents-role-grow-stronger-737197
#5898576 at 2019-03-26 06:51:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7546: Puttin Up Flags and Takin Down Fags, The WWG1WGA Edition
–→ NOTABLE ←–
Ted Cruz: Democrats 'fully intend to impeach the president'
Sen. Ted Cruz said Sunday the Democratic Party will do everything in their power to impeach President Trump, no matter what the findings are in special counsel Robert Mueller's final report.
"If anyone thinks that the Mueller report being concluded is the end of the Democrats' attempt to take down President Trump, they haven't been attention the last two years," the Texas Republican said on CNN's "State of the Union."
He said Democrats were already pivoting away from Mueller's findings, which have not yet been released. Cruz said "yesterday the Mueller report was the end all and be all." But now that it appears there won't be further indictments, Democrats will find another way to impeach Trump, he added.
"The extreme left in the Democratic Party, they have so much anger and hatred directed at the president that we're going to see the Democrats moving forward with impeachment whatever the evidence," Cruz said. " ... They fully intend to impeach the president and they don't care about the basis."
In the months leading up to the conclusion of Mueller's investigation, Democratic leaders backed away from an impeachment rallying cry. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said on "Fox News Sunday" that it is "way too early" to talk about impeachment, asserting that Congress needs to see all the facts.
Cruz would not go as far to say the Mueller investigation was a "witch hunt" as Trump frequently said, but called it a "fishing expedition."
Mueller delivered his final report to the Justice Department Friday. Attorney General William Barr is working to get a summary of the report released to Congress by the end of the day.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ted-cruz-democrats-fully-intend-to-impeach-the-president
#5898209 at 2019-03-26 06:15:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7545: TRUMP RAGES: People Have Done 'Evil Things' The POTUS Digits Edition
Trump plots post-Mueller payback
President Trump and his allies on Monday sought to exact political revenge on congressional Democrats and the news media, seizing momentum generated by the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
The clear signal from Team Trump is that they think they can go on offense by using Mueller's findings to jam Democrats and juice Trump's base in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential race.
A summary of the special counsel's conclusions released Sunday by Attorney General William Barr said that Mueller had not found enough evidence to prove a conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Moscow. The special counsel did not make a determination on if the president had obstructed justice.
"There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things - I would say treasonous things against our country," Trump, without naming names, said in remarks from the Oval Office on Monday. "Those people will certainly be looked at. I've been looking at them for a long time."
Trump's advisers and outside allies did name names, blasting out talking points to supporters and flooding the airwaves to attack Democrats who long pledged that Mueller would deliver a major blow to the president.
"I believe that Donald Trump got scrutiny like nobody else in the history of the presidency since Nixon, probably," Graham said. "And he, in my view, came out of this thing stronger. To those who were abusive of the process in 2016 on the other side, you haven't had much scrutiny, but that's coming."
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/435746-trump-plots-post-mueller-payback
REVENGE!!
#5897976 at 2019-03-26 05:55:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7545: TRUMP RAGES: People Have Done 'Evil Things' The POTUS Digits Edition
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>>5897965
>^^^^^^NOTABLE^^^^^^
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>Please add sauce Anon
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>Great catch !
https://www.thedailybeast.com/William-Barr-i-can-conceive-of-situations-where-journalists-might-be-jailed-as-last-resort
#5897373 at 2019-03-26 05:08:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7544: Have A Great Night! Edition
Anons, Glen Greenwald went HARD on CNN & MSNBC and accused them of knowlingly lying today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VAnjK7-o9Y
Don't forget Barr said he'd consider jailing journalists who put things out that harm our country.. pic related
https://www.businessinsider.in/William-Barr-says-he-could-conceive-of-situations-where-reporters-might-be-jailed-as-a-last-resort/articleshow/67548262.cms
Does this mean we'll see arrests of talking heads?
#5897161 at 2019-03-26 04:50:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7544: Have A Great Night! Edition
Report: Michael Flynn Amasses Huge $5 Million Legal Bill
Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in December 2017 to making false statements to the FBI regarding his contact with Russian officials and business dealings with Turkey, is facing millions in legal bills, according to a report.
ABC News, citing a source close to Flynn, says President Donald Trump's formal national security adviser has amassed legal fees of around $5 million.
The hefty legal bill has been amassed despite his December 2017 guilty plea - the first in the Russia investigation - and providing what special counsel Robert Mueller described as "substantial assistance" in numerous investigations.
The revelation, by a source close to the former Defense Intelligence Agency director about his exorbitant costs from hiring veteran Washington lawyers Robert Kelner and Stephen Anthony, came only hours after Attorney General William Barr informed Congress that Mueller found no prosecutable evidence of anyone in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign - including Flynn - colluding with Russian agents.
Flynn has in part relied on the Michael T. Flynn Legal Defense Fund, established by family and friends of the retired army man, to help cover his mounting legal bills. A source told ABC News in February 2018 that Flynn would not accept support from the Patriot Legal Expense Fund, which was set up with Trump's campaign funds to help his White House and campaign officials cover their legal bills related to the Mueller investigation. "General Flynn early on made a decision not to accept funds from President Trump, the Trump Organization, or the campaign, and has not accepted any funds from them," the unnamed source said at the time. "And he does not expect to accept any funds from the new entity."
Reports of Flynn's crushing legal bills come one day after the Department of Justice announced that the special counsel did not find evidence that Trump's presidential campaign "conspired or coordinated" with the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election. The major development set off speculation that Flynn could receive a pardon from the president; however, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday that it was too early to discuss pardons.
Meanwhile, Flynn has been cooperating with prosecutors in Virginia in an ongoing case against two former business associates accused of illegally lobbying for Turkey. That case is scheduled for trial in July, and because of Flynn's continued cooperation, his lawyers recently asked in a court filing to be able to submit another status report in 90 days.
Flynn was supposed to be sentenced last December for lying to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States. However, after the judge appeared poised to send him to prison, Flynn's lawyers asked for a postponement so he could continue cooperating with investigators and earn credit toward a lighter sentence.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/25/report-michael-flynn-amasses-huge-5-million-legal-bill/
#5897039 at 2019-03-26 04:40:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7544: Have A Great Night! Edition
Mitch McConnell: 'No Collusion, No Conspiracy, No Obstruction'
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Monday called on Democrats to accept the outcome of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation and to stop trying to relitigate the 2016 election.
"Yesterday, Attorney General [William] Barr transmitted to Congress his summary of the Special Counsel's principal conclusions from his investigation into Russia's efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. The result of that investigation is being hailed as good news for the president. It certainly is that. But really, it is good news for the country," he said in a speech on the Senate floor.
"[T]he American people hired this president to clean up the mess of the preceding eight years. That's exactly what we've set about doing. And the results are clear. The nation is clearly better off than it was two years ago," he said in a Senate floor speech.
"So I sincerely hope that now, at last, our friends on the left will be able to put aside their fixation on permanently re-litigating their loss in 2016 and actually join in the productive work that the rest of us have been proudly engaged in for two years and counting," he said.
…
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/03/25/mitch-mcconnell-collusion-obstruction/
#5894577 at 2019-03-26 02:27:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7541: Picture Being Painted Edition
Trump DOJ asks appeals court to strike down all of Obamacare
The Trump Justice Department told a federal appeals court Monday night that it favors striking down Obamacare in its entirety. The statement, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, is a departure from the administration's previous stance, which was that only the law's rules on protections for people with pre-existing conditions should be struck down.
A district court had ruled in December that Obamacare was unconstitutional on the grounds that, without the individual mandate requiring people to buy healthcare insurance or face a fine, the rest of the law should fall. Republicans had zeroed out the mandate in the 2017 tax law. The case is now before the appeals court. In a brief letter, assistant attorney general Joseph Hunt and deputy assistant attorney general Brett Shumate wrote that the DOJ "has determined that the district court's judgment should be affirmed."
William Barr was confirmed as attorney general in February, after the district court decision. In confirmation hearings, he had said that he would reconsider the administration's position that the law's pre-existing condition proections, and only those rules, needed to be struck down. Obamacare has remained in place pending the appeal. The original suit against Obamacare was brought by 20 Republican state attorneys general.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/trump-doj-asks-appeals-court-to-strike-down-all-of-obamacare
#5893810 at 2019-03-26 02:00:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7540: Day Of Reckoning Edition
https://nypost.com/2019/03/25/bannon-predicts-trump-to-go-full-animal-now-that-russia-probe-is-over/
Now that the Russia probe is finally over, former White House adviser Steve Bannon believes President Trump will "come off the chains" and "go full animal" on his political opponents.
"He will use it to bludgeon them," Bannon told Yahoo News during a series of interviews this past weekend.
"When I saw no new indictments - I thought, 'Oh my God! They didn't indict anybody regarding the Flynn investigation, they didn't indict Don, Jr.!' Maybe [Mueller] could have details about obstruction of justice that are not indictable, but are meaningful," Bannon said. "But right now, it looks like they have nothing."
The president's former chief strategist said he predicted a clean escape for Trump, and at one point, even suggested that he start treating the probe more seriously.
"I kept telling him, 'Don't say Mueller's bad, I don't think he's going to have anything,' " Bannon remembered.
Yahoo interviewed Bannon in Rome on Friday, when the Russia probe results were handed over to Attorney General William Barr, and again on Sunday as they were being released. The 65-year-old reportedly boasted about how the findings left Democrats "in tears."
"On 'Rachel Maddow,' she went 10 minutes into her show before the words 'no indictment' crossed her lips," Bannon said. "On CNN, they're in the mumble tank. They're crestfallen. They thought this would be it."
Bannon in Rome
#5893568 at 2019-03-26 01:52:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7539: All About To Come Cascading Down Edition
Eric Holder: 'Hard for me to imagine' Robert Mueller asked William Barr to make decision on obstruction
Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday he doesn't think special counsel Robert Mueller would have requested Attorney General William Barr make a determination on whether President Trump obstructed justice. In an interview on MSNBC, Holder said Barr's summary to Congress rightly clears Trump's campaign of collusion, but remains skeptical of Barr saying he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was no obstruction after Mueller declined to make a judgment.
"It seems hard for me to imagine that Bob Mueller asked Bill Barr to do this," Holder said. "Because that would be Bob Mueller shifting the responsibility from making the call to the attorney general. That's just not the way in which Bob Mueller is wound. That's just not the way he is wound." Holder, who has known and worked with Mueller for the last 30 years, said during the interview that Barr and Mueller testifying before the House was "critical" and would help answer many questions that both he and the public have about Mueller's 22-month investigation. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has vowed to bring Barr before his committee.
With regard to obstruction, I think we're really at the beginning, maybe the middle of this whole process," Holder said. "We need to see exactly what was the nature of the interaction between Bob Mueller and Bill Barr. And then we also need to understand how was it that Bill Barr reached these conclusions."
Holder said he believes Mueller did what he thought he was supposed to do under the circumstances. "This is a guy who has the ability to, and the constitution to, make tough decisions," Holder said. "So, the fact that he did not make a call here I think is an indication that he did what he thought he was supposed to do given the strictures that he was under."
When asked whether he thought Barr's statement on obstruction of justice in his summary was warranted given past precedent of other special counsel investigations, Holder said he did not. "I think he is wrong. I think he is taking on to himself a role that has not typically been used by people in the position that [sic] Bob Barr has had," Holder said. Despite his uncertainty about obstruction, Holder said he thinks the report clears Trump of any collusion or conspiracy with Russia. "I think it does," Holder said. "I have not seen the Mueller report. But certainly on the basis of the letter that Attorney General Barr put together, it would it seem to me that that is a substantial finding there."
Holder added that he thinks the report is "good news" for Trump and his 2020 campaign for re-election. Since the summary's release Sunday, Democrats have called for the whole report to be released to the public, an effort Holder supports. On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked a Democratic measure calling on Barr to release the full report.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/eric-holder-hard-for-me-to-imagine-robert-mueller-asked-William-Barr-to-make-decision-on-obstruction
#5890562 at 2019-03-25 23:45:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7535: Watch Hannity Edition
William Barr lives in McLean, VA.
He must know what happens there…
#5889475 at 2019-03-25 22:54:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7534: Q Did Say Avalanche Edition
Supreme Court declines to take up Mueller-related case involving mystery company
Supreme Court declines to take up Mueller-related case involving mystery company
by Melissa Quinn
| March 25, 2019 11:02 AM
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The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge from an unnamed, foreign-owned company fighting a grand jury subpoena related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The court did not provide a reason for denying the petition from the company urging the justices to hear the case, and there were no noted dissents.
The company, known as "Corporation A" owned by "Country A," has been fighting a subpoena issued by a federal grand jury last year as part of Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The corporation argued it did not have to comply with the subpoena because it was immune under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. But a lower court disagreed and ordered the company to comply with the subpoena or incur a $50,000 daily fine.
The federal appeals court in the District of Columbia affirmed the lower court's ruling. In January, the mystery company asked the Supreme Court to freeze the financial fees, but the high court declined to do so. As a result, fines began accruing Jan. 15. The case involving the unknown company has remained one of the mysteries of Mueller's probe, which lasted nearly two years and concluded Friday. Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General William Barr late Friday, setting up a fight over which details of the long-awaited investigation will be made public.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-declines-to-take-up-mueller-related-case-involving-mystery-company
#5889143 at 2019-03-25 22:37:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7534: Q Did Say Avalanche Edition
Eric Swalwell won't back down from Trump-Russia collusion claims: 'He can sue me'
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., said Monday he's ready for President Trump to sue him because he refuses to back down from his public assertions that there was evidence of collusion between Trump's campaign and Russia. During an interview on MSNBC, the California Democrat was asked to respond to a Trump re-election campaign memo asking TV producers to challenge their guests, including Swalwell, who in the past said there was proof of collusion. The memo was sent after Attorney General William Barr released a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation which was unable to determine there was collusion between members of Trump's team and the Kremlin.
"To that I would say the only person who has made false statements about Russia is Donald Trump," Swalwell said on MSNBC. "And I stand by what I said about seeing evidence of collusion and if he has a problem with that, he can sue me. And I promise you I would win in court."
Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, is quoted in the memo from a March 2018 interview on CNN saying, "In our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion." He was referring to his panel's Russia investigation. That inquiry took place when the House Intelligence Committee was in GOP control and concluded last February there was no collusion. Democrats complained that the investigation wrapped up prematurely, and now that the committee is being led by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., another person who has argued there is evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, a revamped investigation into Trump and people around him is underway.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/eric-swalwell-wont-back-down-from-trump-russia-collusion-claims-he-can-sue-me
#5888970 at 2019-03-25 22:27:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7533: Barrage of FAKE NEWS Attacks Edition
Brennan on his hyping of Mueller report: 'I don't know if I received bad information
Former CIA Director John Brennan said Monday he "suspected" special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation would reveal "more than there actually was." "I don't know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was," Brennan said during an interview with MSNBC on Monday.
On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's findings with Congress, which stated that the investigation "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election."
"I am relieved that it's been determined there was not a criminal conspiracy with the Russian government over our election," Brennan said. "I think that is good news for the country." Less than three weeks ago Brennan appeared on MSNBC predicting more indictments as part of Mueller's investigation, which never came to pass. Brennan said Monday he thought there were clear examples of inappropriate attempts to communicate with the Russians, but at the same time was "not all that surprised that the high bar of criminal conspiracy was not met." Brennan also said he was surprised Mueller did not determine whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr quotes Mueller saying "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," after which the attorney general said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein found there was a lack of "sufficient" evidence to determine whether Trump obstructed justice.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-brennan-on-his-hyping-of-mueller-report-i-dont-know-if-i-received-bad-information
#5888836 at 2019-03-25 22:22:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7533: Barrage of FAKE NEWS Attacks Edition
Sen. Mazie Hirono: Putin is happy Robert Mueller came back empty-handed
A true conspiracist is never dissuaded by contradictory evidence. In fact, for the true conspiracist, all evidence is merely proof of the theory's legitimacy. Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is a true conspiracist.
According to her, Russian President Vladimir Putin is thrilled that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation has found no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. Because it can't be that she and her Democratic cohort have been wrong all along. No, the real takeaway from the conclusion of the Russia investigation is that the implosion of their "collusion" theory is beneficial to America's enemies.
"So just because there was not enough evidence for a criminal charge of conspiracy does not mean that this very cozy relationship that Donald Trump has with Vladimir Putin, who, by the way, must be really happy that this came about, that this kind of cozy relationship that is not good for our country, in that it's not transparent, will continue," Hirono said Monday during an appearance on MSNBC. Her frustration is reasonable. It must be emBarrassing, being so wrong so often about so many things.
It was just two days earlier that she claimed in reference to both the Mueller report and various Southern District of New York investigations that "there's more to come" against the Trump White House (there are no more indictments of any sort coming from Mueller). Earlier than that, Hirono claimed the "walls are closing in" for Trump because of the Mueller investigation.
Mueller's investigation concluded it could not "establish that the members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities," Attorney General William Barr announced this weekend. The attorney general and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein also found there is no evidence "to establish that the president committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
Yet, here's Hirono, going on national television to claim Putin benefits somehow from the final, pitiful conclusion to efforts by Democrats and their allies in the news media to make collusion and obstruction charges stick against this White House. It can't be that they failed. The conspiracy can never be allowed to suffer for contradictory evidence. You know what? I have changed my mind. The anti-Electoral College people are right. It's time to take representation away from certain states, starting with Hawaii. Let's do it and be legends.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/sen-mazie-hirono-putin-is-happy-robert-mueller-came-back-empty-handed
#5888542 at 2019-03-25 22:07:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7533: Barrage of FAKE NEWS Attacks Edition
FBI ready to share Mueller intelligence with Gang of Eight
The FBI is ready to share counterintelligence findings from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation with congressional leaders during a closed-door briefing. The Gang of Eight, which includes the Republican and Democratic leaders of the House and the Senate, along with the top members of the intelligence committees, are expected to be briefed by the FBI within the next 30 to 60 days behind closed doors, according to NBC News.
It's unclear whether the briefing will take place. Two Democratic members of the Gang of Eight, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, both California Democrats, said in recent days they don't want private briefings in lieu of releasing Mueller's entire report to the public. "That's not going to fly. This report is going to have to be made public," Schiff said on Sunday during an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" after Pelosi said she would was against private briefings. On Sunday, Attorney General William Barr shared a summary of Mueller's findings with Congress. The four-page letter said the investigation "did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election." The summary did not say whether Trump or any of his associates were compromised by Russia. Barr also quotes Mueller saying "while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," after which the attorney general said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein found there was a lack of "sufficient" evidence to determine whether Trump obstructed justice.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-ready-to-share-mueller-intelligence-with-gang-of-eight
#5888497 at 2019-03-25 22:04:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7533: Barrage of FAKE NEWS Attacks Edition
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The Hill article referenced in @Breaking911 twat, w sauce:
McConnell blocks resolution calling for Mueller report to be released publicly
By Jordain Carney - 03/25/19 05:30 PM EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday blocked a resolution calling on special counsel Robert Mueller's report to be released publicly.
Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) asked for unanimous consent for the nonbinding resolution, which cleared the House 420-0, to be passed by the Senate following Mueller's submission of his final report on Friday.
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"Whether or not you're a supporter of President Trump or not, of what you feel, there is no good reason not to make the report public," Schumer said from the floor. "It's a simple request for transparency. Nothing more, nothing less."
But McConnell objected, noting that Attorney General William Barr is currently working with Mueller to determine what in his report can be released publicly and what cannot.
"The special counsel and the Justice Department ought to be allowed to finish their work in a professional manner," McConnell said. "To date the attorney general has followed through on his commitments to Congress. One of those commitments is that he intends to release as much information as possible."
Under Senate rules, any one senator can try to pass or set up a vote on a bill, resolution or nomination. But, in turn, any one senator can block their request.
It's the second time a Republican senator has blocked Schumer's attempt to pass the House resolution.
The New York Democrat's first attempt hours after the resolution cleared the House unanimously but Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, objected to his request.
Graham blocked the resolution from passing after Schumer refused to amend it to include a provision calling on the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel to investigate alleged department misconduct in the handling of the investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's email use and the Carter Page Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/435703-mcconnell-blocks-resolution-calling-for-mueller-report-to-be-released
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Answer: thehill tweet: https://archive.fo/wImIf #BREAKING: Trump says Obama may have committed treason, refuses to elaborate on specific charges http://hill.cm/HBDahvF 11:49 PM · Jun 22, 2020 ARTICLE REFERENCED: Trump says Obama may have committed treason By Morgan Chalfant - 06/22/20 07:43 PM EDT Updated at 8:12 p.m. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/503993-trump-says-obama-may-have-committed-treason https://archive.fo/cmdQp President Trump on Monday suggested without evidence that his predecessor, former President Obama, committed treason in connection with the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign's contacts with Russia. "Treason. Treason. It's treason," Trump said in an interview with CBN News. The president did not elaborate on the specific charge but repeated his assertion that the previous administration "spied" on his campaign in the course of the Russia probe. "They'd been spying on my campaign," Trump told CBN News's David Brody. "Turned out I was right. Let's see what happens to them now." Trump signaled he was looking forward to the results of U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation, calling the Connecticut prosecutor "highly respected" and praising Attorney General William Barr.
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Answer: ABC tweet: https://archive.fo/JWNNP JUST IN: AG William Barr responds to SDNY attorney Geoffrey Berman: "Unfortunately, with your statement of last night, you have chosen public spectacle over public service... I have asked the President to remove you as of today, and he has done so." https://abcn.ws/2NeUMPZ [images of letter AG Barr wrote] 7:38 PM · Jun 20, 2020
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Answer: Barr was CIA DIR at that time Members: ranged from Marc Andreessen, Fmr House Majority Leader Eric Cantor to William Barr https://www.nationalmemo.com/pompeo-formed-cia-advisory-board-to-build-his-political-network Advantage - Barr brings intel knowledge with thim Advantage Secy of State - Pompeo knows what previous leaders have done and Ops that had been run around the world
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Answer: BREITBART: DOJ: Democrats Paid Pennsylvania Election Officials to Stuff Ballot Box by JOHN BINDER21 May 2020 https://archive.fo/VqyTf A former Judge of Elections in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been charged and pleaded guilty to illegally adding votes for Democrat candidates in judicial races in 2014, 2015, and 2016. On Thursday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced charges against former Judge of Elections Domenick DeMuro, 73, for stuffing the ballot box for Democrats in exchange for payment by a paid political consultant. The charges, and guilty plea, include conspiracy to deprive Philadelphia voters of their civil rights by fraudulently stuffing the ballot boxes for specific Democrat candidates in the 2014, 2015, and 2016 primary elections and a violation of the Travel Act. “The Trump administration’s prosecution of election fraud stands in stark contrast to the total failure of the Obama Justice Department to enforce these laws,†Public Interest Legal Foundation President Christian Adams said in a statement. “Right now, other federal prosecutors are aware of cases of double voting in federal elections as well as noncitizen voting. Attorney General William Barr should prompt those other offices to do their duty and prosecute known election crimes.â€
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Answer: MaverickInSky tweet: https://archive.fo/d1vFs "What happened the the US president in the 2016 election and throughout the first two years of his election was apparent. It was a grave injustice and it was unprecedented in American history. We saw two different standards of justice emerge." [THIS IS A QUOTE OF AG William Barr'S REMARKS - TWEETER MISTRANSCRIBED APPARENT FOR ABHORRENT-SA] #QAnon #QAnons [VIDEO CLIP OF HANNITY ON THE DURHAM PROBE INTO THE FISA ABUSES] https://twitter.com/i/status/1262825965534744577 3:22 PM · May 19, 2020
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Answer: ABC tweet: https://archive.fo/kAA3L JUST IN: Nearly 2000 Justice Dept. officials have signed onto a letter calling for Attorney General William Barr to resign over what they describe as his improper intervention in the criminal case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Nearly 2000 former DOJ officials call for AG Barr to resign over Flynn case Nearly 2000 former DOJ officials have signed onto a letter calling for AG Barr to resign over his handling of the Michael Flynn case. abcnews.go.com 8:37 AM - 11 May 2020 https://t.co/ycgwrKMERd Nearly 2000 former DOJ officials call for AG Barr to resign over Flynn case It's not clear how the judge in Flynn's case will react to DOJ's reversal. By Alexander Mallin May 11, 2020, 3:32 PM https://archive.fo/r1HWf Nearly 2000 former Justice Department officials have signed onto a letter calling for Attorney General William Barr to resign over what they describe as his improper intervention in the criminal case of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn. Last week, the DOJ moved to drop charges against Flynn who had pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the former Russian ambassador during the presidential transition. The letter, signed mostly by former career officials in the department, accuses Barr of joining with President Trump in "political interference in the Department’s law enforcement decisions."
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Answer: filename: f768deaef22da979abcfb73c9175b54d71fcf891666c5449c1969c07c3cc8920.png AP tweet: https://archive.fo/FsBcX BREAKING: Justice Department is dropping criminal case against ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn, according to court filing obtained by AP. The prosecution has been a rallying cry for the president in attacking FBI Russia investigation. AP Exclusive: Justice Dept dropping Flynn's criminal case WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution... apnews.com 11:29 AM - 7 May 2020 AP EXCLUSIVE: Justice Dept dropping Flynn's criminal case By MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKER https://apnews.com/ae1ad252bb13490db2ceffc5d17b6d92 https://archive.fo/mQWhc WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Thursday said it is dropping the criminal case against President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, abandoning a prosecution that became a rallying cry for Trump and his supporters in attacking the FBI’s Russia investigation. The move is a stunning reversal for one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. It comes even though prosecutors for the last three years had maintained that Flynn had lied to the FBI about his conversations with the Russian ambassador in a January 2017 interview. Flynn himself admitted as much, and became a key cooperator for Mueller as he investigated ties between Russia and the 2016 Trump campaign. In court documents being filed Thursday, the Justice Department said it is dropping the case “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.†The documents were obtained by The Associated Press. The Justice Department said it had concluded that Flynn’s interview by the FBI was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn†and that the interview on January 24, 2017 was “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.†The U.S. attorney reviewing the Flynn case, Jeff Jensen, recommended the move to Attorney General William Barr last week and formalized the recommendation in a document this week. “Through the course of my review of General Flynn’s case, I concluded the proper and just course was to dismiss the case,†Jensen said in a statement. “I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed.â€
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Answer: WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Durham scrutinizing John Brennan’s handling of Russian interference in 2016 by Jerry Dunleavy | February 14, 2020 09:02 AM https://archive.fo/heDFU U.S. Attorney John Durham is reportedly reviewing John Brennan’s analysis of Russian election interference, including scrutiny of the former Obama CIA director’s handling of a secret source said to be close to the Kremlin. Durham, who was selected by Attorney General William Barr in 2019 to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation and the government’s response to Moscow’s meddling, is investigating whether Brennan’s CIA was attempting to keep other agencies in the dark as he pushed for a specific preconceived analytic assessment about Russia’s true intentions in 2016, the New York Times reported Thursday. The top Connecticut prosecutor’s team reviewed emails from the CIA, FBI, and National Security Agency analysts who came together to assess Russia’s interference, the new report revealed, and Durham’s investigators pressed for answers about why some agencies at least temporarily denied other agencies access to secretive intelligence about the Kremlin’s active measures campaign. Durham interviewed agents and analysts from all three agencies, and the report said he was scrutinizing whether the clash over intelligence sharing was the typical sort of bureaucratic turf battle over jealously guarded secrets or an effort to cover something up. Much of this revolves around how the United States government eventually reached its January 2017 intelligence assessment on Russian meddling and whether Brennan was pushing for a biased result. One major battle was about the identity and credibility of a CIA source allegedly close to the Kremlin. The NSA wanted more details about him, which the CIA resisted before providing them. The NSA then disagreed with the CIA and FBI about how much confidence to place in the source. At least some intelligence officials were disturbed by a law enforcement officer such as Durham inquiring into the assessments made by intelligence agencies, though Durham played a similar role in his Obama-era investigation into the CIA's destruction of tapes showing the harsh interrogation of detainees. Durham hasn’t yet interviewed Brennan, though the report said his emails and other records have been requested from the CIA by the U.S. attorney. Retired Adm. Mike Rogers, who was head of the NSA at the time, was interviewed by Durham last summer and fall.
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Open Answer: MORE ON BRENNAN: Brennan took a trip to Moscow in March 2016. Originally reported by Interfax, then picked up by the newswires forcing the CIA to officially comment. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2016/03/28/cia-director-brennan-made-secret-trip-to-moscow-a52284 John Brennan, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), made a secret visit to Moscow in March, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Oleg Syromolotov. The visit, he said, had nothing to do with Russia's decision two weeks ago to begin withdrawing from Syria. “It’s no secret that Brennan was here,†Syromolotov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Monday. “But he didn't visit the Foreign Ministry. I know for sure that he met with the Federal Security Service (the successor agency to the Soviet KGB), and someone else.†https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-cia/cia-boss-brennan-visited-moscow-in-early-march-interfax-idUSKCN0WU0S5 https://sputniknews.com/politics/201603281037100681-brennan-moscow-visit/ US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan travelled to Moscow in early March to reiterate the US support for a power transition in Syria as well as urge commitment to maintain the cessation of hostilities in the country, CIA spokesman Dean Boyd told Sputnik on Monday. https://libertyunyielding.com/2018/04/22/astonishing-date-former-cia-director-john-brennan-visited-fsb-russia/ Much as we would ordinarily choose to take Boyd’s word for this, his statement doesn’t necessarily add up. For one thing, the FSB is not a service the U.S. would talk to about a geopolitical transition in Syria. Brennan might talk to the FSB about other things, but the story here doesn’t really track. Russian state policy on the succession in Syria is outside the FSB’s lane. For another thing, the chief of the FSB is not Brennan’s counterpart in Russia on such matters.
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- Question: https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1226908710150299649 Did 'Mueller' open the door to Ukraine? Did 'Mueller' open the door to FISA [illegal]? How do you introduce evidence legally? Did 'Impeachment' provide a platform to discuss findings of Ukraine? How do you introduce evidence legally? Did 'Impeachment' harm or help POTUS [public]? How do you introduce [D]s high crimes [corruption] to the public? Why didn't POTUS remove [Hussein] holdovers from NSC? Do you really believe that POTUS & team trusted [Hussein] holdovers to remain within the admin and work to enact POTUS' agenda w/o bias or confrontation? How do you 'awaken' the 'induced coma' public [FAKE NEWS control] from their long sleep? Sometimes allowing your enemies to [openly] attack……. Logical thinking. [FAKE MOVIE POSTER "HUNTERS BECOME THE HUNTED"]
Answer: filename: Justice.JPG Kylegriffin1 tweet: https://archive.fo/d3E2o Attorney General Barr has acknowledged for the first time that Rudy Giuliani has been giving the Justice Department information he collected in Ukraine, essentially bringing what was a stealth campaign into official government channels. Giuliani Giving Ukraine Data to Justice Department, Barr Says Attorney General William Barr acknowledged for the first time Monday that President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has been giving the Justice Department information he collected in... bloomberg.com 4:40 PM · Feb 10, 2020
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Answer: markknoller tweet: https://archive.fo/6x9Zc Atty Gen Barr says human trafficking is "modern day slavery." Says the issue is "a top priority of the whole Administration." Pledges that the @TheJusticeDept "will do all in its power to bring human traffickers to justice." [PHOTO OF AG William Barr SPEAKING] 3:58 PM · Jan 31, 2020
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Answer: Jeffrey Epstein: FBI ready to strike against paedophile's 'child groomers' FBI agents are poised to arrest at least four suspects in the Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking case, a legal source said last night. By Mike Parker PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Nov 10, 2019 https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1202320/jeffery-epstein-investigation-fyi-arrest-paedophile-child-sex-traffic https://archive.md/upfcJ US Attorney General William Barr has vowed that the investigation will continue despite Epstein’s death. He said: “Any co-conspirators should not rest easy. The victims deserve justice and they will get it.â€
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- Question: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/john-ratcliffe-ag-William-Barr-will-deliver-justice-to-any-obama-officials-who-committed-crimes While Congress is away…. The month of AUGUST is traditionally a really HOT month. Nature is unpredictable.
Answer: WASHINGTON EXAMINER: John Ratcliffe: AG William Barr will deliver justice to any Obama officials who committed crimes by Daniel Chaitin & Jerry Dunleavy | July 28, 2019 02:54 PM https://archive.fo/6KoBG BREAKING 911 TWEET: https://archive.fo/kVwgN text- JUST IN: President Trump expected to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) to replace Dan Coats as director of national intelligence - Axios 11:24 AM - 28 Jul 2019 https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1155544448811634689?s=19 POTUS TWEET: https://archive.fo/GoVsU TEXT - I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated by me to be the Director of National Intelligence. A former U.S. Attorney, John will lead and inspire greatness for the Country he loves. Dan Coats, the current Director will.... 1:45 PM - 28 Jul 2019 (NEXT TWEET) ....be leaving office on August 15th. I would like to thank Dan for his great service to our Country. The Acting Director will be named shortly. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1155580140392501248
Extra Answer: While Congress is away --> It's all about the BREAK POTUS can make recess appointments when Congress is away on break August is called the Dog Days of Summer Nature is unpredictable --> You never know when there will be a STORM BARACK OBAMA TWEET: https://archive.fo/UZwgJ Here’s a worthwhile Sunday read: “…nothing should temper partisanship more than an awareness that somewhere, on some issue, people with whom you disagree are telling a story that you really need to hear.†11:19 AM - 28 Jul 2019 https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1155543273005600768 COATS TO LEAVE ON AUG 15, FULL MOON, CALLED "GREEN CORN MOON"
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Answer: SEN. TED CRUZ TWEET: https://archive.is/WpcPr TEXT - 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) [3 PAGES OF LETTER: https://archive.is/WpcPr/4a13992782ed674ca31bb59a2fc7eddd40f48d9f.jpg, https://archive.is/WpcPr/c04018c42345ca251a636a5af01b7ea3e7e7fcb1.jpg, https://archive.is/WpcPr/687bfdb1f851167a6aa0b8d7a0377d43ca2e5c4e.jpg]. 3:26 PM - 23 Jul 2019
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Answer: filename: TT.PNG ARCHIVE 45_Schedule TWEET: https://archive.fo/YUoi8 TEXT - March 15, 2019: Declaration of a National Emergency on the Southern Border was authorized by US Attorney General William Barr in the Oval Office at 3:42 PM EST. 12:48 PM - 15 Mar 2019
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Answer: ARCHIVE POTUS TWEET: https://archive.fo/Ne2oJ TEXT - William Barr is arriving at a Justice Department that desperately needs an infusion of credibility, writes @KimStrassel wsj.com/articles/bill-… via @WSJ 8:21 PM - 17 Feb 2019
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- Question: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/03/politics/whitaker-prosecutor-fbi/index.html 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/ Read between the lines. BLOCKADE END > GOOD TO GO.
Answer: ARCHIVES: CNN: Acting AG Whitaker reveals federal prosecutor still investigating GOP claims of FBI misconduct Laura Jarrett, CNN Updated 11:58 AM ET, Thu January 3, 2019 http://archive.fo/IgZVb BREITBART: William Barr in 2017: DOJ ‘Abdicating Its Responsibility’ by Ignoring Clinton Uranium Deal in Favor of Russia Collusion by 16 Jan 2019 http://archive.fo/eXpJn [NOTE: NO AUTHOR GIVEN ON BREITBART ARTICLE -SA]
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- Question: When did POTUS make the statement "Calm Before the Storm?" When was HUBER activated by SESSIONS? Who was/is assigned to HUBER? ACTING AG PRIMARY PURPOSE? SCARAMUCCI MODEL? PUBLIC OPINION (OPTICS) DO NOT MATTER. What was leaked today (on purpose?)? https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1070749777334292481 HUBER to testify re: Clinton Foundation? HUBER to reveal 'active' probe actively underway into organization? OIG to release report #2 [overview indicating many 'potentially criminal referrals' made]? "We do not discuss active/ongoing DOJ / FBI investigations." MIL INTEL FISA THE WORLD IS WATCHING.
Answer: ARCHIVE JOHN ROBERTS (FOX NEWS) TWEET: http://archive.fo/bmpSA TEXT - .@realDonaldTrump wants to nominate William Barr to be the next Attorney-General. Barr served as Attorney-General during the Bush 41 presidency. While POTUS normally likes to surround himself with people he knows and likes, he doesn't know Barr, but Barr commands immense respect
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