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On Friday, I posted a summary analysis of the DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the Hillary Clinton email investigation.
The report — probably in three versions — came out on Thursday, June 14. On June 13, Q wrote (message 1497) the following (emphases in the original). ‘RR’ is Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general:
Q !CbboFOtcZs ID: 8d9246 No.1739449 đ
Jun 13 2018 22:50:25 (EST)
POTUS in possession of (and reviewing):
1. Original IG unredacted report
2. Modified IG unredacted report [RR version]
3. Modified IG redacted report [RR version]
4. IG summary notes re: obstruction(s) to obtain select info (classified)
[#3 released tomorrow]
[SEC: FBI/DOJ handling of HRC email investigation]
[[RR]]
Who has the sole ability to DECLAS it all?
Did you witness the stage being set today?
Nunes/Grassley/Freedom C. push for docs.
[[RR]] central figure within docs (personally involved).
KNOWN CONFLICT.
Immediate impeachment / resignation / termination / recusal IF EVER BROUGHT TO LIGHT.
Be loud.
Be heard.
Fight for TRUTH.
Q
So, President Trump has all three versions of the IG’s report.
The public has the redacted — edited — version. Some are saying that the public version cannot have been redacted because there are no black bars hiding text.
However, all it takes to edit is to delete and/or massage the text. One example of how this is done is for someone to write an executive summary and conclusions that do not tie in with the body of the report, which appears to have been done in this case.
To make matters worse, the FBI director, Christopher Wray — a Trump appointee — held a press conference. He began with a statement, which defended the FBI top to bottom. From what Wray said, he does not see people in the DC Swamp as criminal. He lauds all the efforts with regard to gang members and child abducters but never once mentions white collar crims in government. He closed with corporate verbiage (emphases mine):
As Iâve been saying since my confirmation hearing, Iâm committed to doing this job, in every respect, by the book, and I expect all our employees to do the same. Iâve emphasized at every opportunity Iâve had that Iâm a big believer in processâthat our brand over 110 years is based less on our many successes than on the way we earned them. Following our rules, following the law, following our guidelines. Staying faithful to our core values and best traditions. Trying to make sure weâre doing the right thing in the right way. Treating everyone with respect. And pursuing the facts independently and objectively, no matter who likes it.
Thatâs the best wayâthe only wayâto maintain trust and credibility with the people we serve.
The upshot of the report and Wray’s press briefing is that erring FBI agents will have more ‘training’ to overcome their ways.
Seriously?
On the day the report appeared, IG Horowitz’s office tweeted:
Public reaction to the tweet (read the thread) is scathing — and rightly so.
In summary, this is what the body of the report — Horowitz’s work and writing — tells the American public:
Even a former federal prosecutor thinks there is something amiss:
Not only do senior FBI employees loathe Trump …
… they also loathe his supporters — the people the FBI is notionally serving (see Wray’s remark above):
Senior FBI employees also loathe the United States of America:
Here is something interesting:
The conclusion one can only reach is that application of the law is currently a double standard: one rule for the criminal ‘great and the good’ and another for every day criminals.
Right now, Swampers haven’t a care in the world.
Thanks, FBI.
Thanks, Mr Wray, for defending your guys and gals. Americans thought you were supposed to be the clean up man.
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This post is part of a series about anticipated news topics in 2018. Readers who have not seen the first five posts from earlier this year might find them of interest, as all relate to today’s news item:
Part 2: Hillary WAS supposed to win (The 16 Year Plan to Destroy America)
Part 4: âsecret societyâ and more on missing FBI texts
Part 5: release of the Nunes FISA memo
Since then, more information has come to light about what surveillance took place on the Trump campaign, who was involved and so on. The Conservative Treehouse — The Last Refuge — has the best posts on the subject.
May 2018 marked the first anniversary of Robert Mueller’s continuing investigation. President Trump estimates it has cost upwards of $20 million thus far.
I would elaborate, but that would be pointless. The Storm, which the original Q promised last autumn, never arrived. The next incarnation of Q says to ‘trust the plan’. Although I haven’t given up, I’m no longer holding my breath.
One thing I will say is: this MUST break well in advance of mid-terms and before early voting begins, where applicable. In other words, the Trump administration — e.g. Jeff Sessions — must do something by August or September.
On Wednesday, May 23, 2018, President Trump coined the word ‘Spygate’:
Since then, he has been tweeting about it a lot (see here and here).
On Tuesday, May 29, Trump once again quoted The Federalist‘s Mollie Hemingway …
… before tweeting:
Trump’s right.
Mueller isn’t looking at people who really have colluded with Russia.
TheLastRefuge — Sundance from The Conservative Treehouse — has condensed his analysis into an easy to understand Twitter thread called ‘Understanding “Spygate”, the Big Picture’. The unrolled thread is here.
Excerpts and a summary follow, emphases mine:
This sort of thing has been going on for years. The difference now is:
6. The current “spygate” debate centers around the modern weaponization of that process using advances in technology for surveillance. See: Edward Snowden (NSA) *whistleblower* and/or even Reality Winner (NSA *contractor*) for a more modern context.
(That is a subject I covered earlier this week.)
Spygate began to unfold in 2015, with the ingenious use of ‘contractors’ working within the intelligence community (IC). Said ‘contractors’ are not subject to government oversight or constraints. They also:
as labeled by the IC and FISA Court, had “deliberate access” to NSA and FBI databases. https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies âŚ
One of the many contractors involved was Daniel Richman, a friend of James Comey. According to an April 24 Fox News article, Richman — a Columbia law professor — was:
a âspecial government employeeâ (SGE) for Comeyâs FBI on an unpaid basis …
“I did indeed have SGE status with the Bureau (for no pay),” Richman wrote in an email.
Here I must break from TheLastRefuge to show Professor Richman during a November 2016 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Cooper, by the way, was a CIA summer intern many moons ago. One wonders what was going through his mind …
You don’t even need the sound, just watch:
The Fox News article says that, even if Richman was unpaid:
Richman emerged last year as the former FBI directorâs contact for leaking memos documenting his private discussions with President Trump â memos that are now the subject of an inspector general review over the presence of classified material. Sources familiar with Richmanâs status at the FBI told Fox News that he was assigned to “special projects” by Comey, and had a security clearance as well as badge access to the building. Richmanâs status was the subject of a Memorandum of Understanding.
While Richman’s portfolio included the use of encrypted communications by terror suspects, the sources said Richman also was sent talking points about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. Those talking points attempted to compare and contrast Clinton’s use of an unsecured personal server exclusively for government business with the case of retired Gen. David Petraeus, who shared classified information with his biographer and mistress Paula Broadwell, as well as the case brought against the late Sandy Berger. The former national security adviser under President Clinton pleaded guilty to the unauthorized removal and retention of classified material from the National Archives.
Back now to TheLastRefuge. Note the sensitive access the various contractors had:
Early in 2016 — several months before the election — Admiral Mike Rogers saw what was happening. Afterwards, the contractors had to change tactics. This is important, especially the graphic:
They were quick to react:
At that point, Donald Trump was one of the few left in the Republican presidential primary race. Jeb Bush had dropped out by then. It was only Trump, Ted Cruz and, in distant third, John Kasich. Trump looked strong, despite what the media were telling the public.
The Democrats mobilised forces. Again, note the contractors involved and the husband and wife duo, the Ohrs:
25. Clinton Campaign hires FusionGPS April 2016. Fusion GPS hires Nellie Ohr wife of DOJ-NSD Bruce Ohr. Bruce Ohr has access to FBI/NSA database. Bruce Ohr is #4 in DOJ Bruce Ohr can hire contractors. Fusion GPS then sub-contracts Christopher Steele.
This is what happened next:
Note that actual intelligence agents and/or spies weren’t even involved:
The man in the middle, Stefan Halper, has dual US/UK nationality. He has been involved in politics on both sides of the aisle from the Nixon through to the Reagan administrations. Currently, he is employed by Cambridge University, where he directs the Department of Politics and International Studies.
He is very well connected.
Until recently, no one outside those in the know had ever heard of him.
That, in itself, amazes me. His role in this will continue to unfold in the months to come.
And that is the introduction to Spygate.
My word, who would ever have imagined something of this magnitude taking place in the United States?
In December 2017 and January 2018, I wrote about the FBI/DOJ schemes to undermine Donald Trump’s campaign and subsequent presidency.
The first burst of information emerged early in December:
December 1 and 2: update on the weekend’s news
At that point, Americans discovered that an FBI investigator, Peter Strzok, had been a Hillary supporter in 2016, was part of the group investigating the ‘matter’ of her email server, then went to work as part of Robert Mueller’s investigation before he was removed from Mueller’s team in the summer of 2017. That news had only been revealed in December.
An FBI/DOJ lawyer, Lisa Page, worked for former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe and was also assigned to Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation for a time. She and Strzok developed a close working relationship.
When this became public, it was thought the two were having an extra-marital affair. As time went on, this became less certain. Nevertheless, last year:
Strzok and Page exchanged upwards of 50,000 text messages, many of which have since been recovered. Before that point, however, one of the first sections of texts discovered discussed Strzok’s mention to Page of an ‘insurance policy’:
News in brief — December 12-14, 2017
The ‘insurance policy’ was meant to thwart the Trump presidency:
By January 2018, the DOJ’s inspector general Michael Horowitz had 50,000 of the texts but was missing five months’ more:
Be prepared for 2018 news: part 3 — FBI’s missing texts
I included a message from Q in that post. Q says these missing texts could cast doubt on the FBI and DOJ and put in jeopardy criminal cases from the Obama years:
Then a new batch of texts came to light, which revealed that Strzok and Page discussed an existing ‘secret society’ that would undermine Trump:
Be prepared for 2018 news: part 4 — ‘secret society’ and more on missing FBI texts
After Mueller dismissed Strzok from his team, the latter was assigned to the FBI’s HR department.
Page continued as an FBI lawyer with other, unspecified responsibilities.
On April 11, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) discovered that, according to FBI director Christopher Wray, both Strzok and Page still had their security clearances. The Conservative Treehouse has a full report with supporting documents. Excerpts follow, emphases mine:
Senator Paul inquired with the FBI Director about whether reassigned FBI Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ/FBI Attorney Lisa Page still retained their Top Secret FBI clearances.
According to Senator Paul, the FBI director would not respond to specific agent inquiry, however, Wray did affirm that all existing FBI officials retain Top Secret clearances.
In essence, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, despite being removed from investigative authority over their role in the political efforts to target President Trump, retain employment within the DOJ/FBI apparatus in an unknown capacity and thereby their clearances.
This information by Rand Paul dovetails into an increasingly obvious storyline where Lisa Page and Peter Strzok remain employed because they are cooperating with the internal investigation by Inspector General Michael Horowitz and parallel federal prosecutor John Huber.
Similarly, former FBI chief legal counsel James Baker retained his:
In addition to Page and Strzok, former FBI chief legal counsel James Baker and former DOJ-NSD Deputy Bruce Ohr have been removed from their roles yet still remain inside the FBI and DOJ respectively. Those four are joined by the FBI Asst. Director in charge of Counterintelligence, Bill Priestap. However, despite Priestapâs centrality to the 2015/2016 corrupt FBI activity -including the Trump operation- Priestap remains untouched.
After FBI Asst Director Andrew McCabe was fired the subsequent information revealed what happened inside the group. McCabe lied to FBI and IG investigators about his coordinating leaks to media. McCabeâs story conflicted with the account of his office attorney, Lisa Page. {Go Deep}
To validate the truthfulness of her position Lisa Page provided FBI investigators with access to her text messages which showed conversations about McCabe directing leaks by Page and FBI communications Director Michael Kortan. After the Page messages confirmed her version of the events; eventually McCabe admitted to misleading investigators.
Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Baker and Bruce Ohr have all been removed from responsibilities within the DOJ and FBI yet all still remain inside the organization. FBI Director of Counterintelligence Bill Priestap, who was Peter Strzokâsâ boss throughout the corrupt group activity, remains in his role today.
By April 20, things started to unravel at the FBI. Vox has the whole story, but this tweet summarises the situation, saying that Trump will have the best laugh:
By April 25, it was thought that more Strzok-Page texts had been uncovered, although not made public. Q sent out a message (image courtesy of Reddit’s Q research board, greatawakening):
That day, Republican congressmen Devin Nunes (California) and Mark Meadows (North Carolina) appeared on Hannity calling for the release of the texts. The summary to the video linked here says:
Rep. Devin Nunes accuses the Justice Department of slow-walking the release of documents; he and Rep. Mark Meadows speak out on ‘Hannity.’
The next day:
The Last Refuge — Sundance from The Conservative Treehouse — posted a Twitter thread which discusses the newly released, yet redacted, texts. Only Strzok’s were made public. Excerpts follow:
Sundance also posted about this text release on his site, The Conservative Treehouse. Points of interest include the following (red emphases in the original):
âŚ[May 17th, 2017] Lisa Page mentions reviewing Benjamin Wittes Lawfare website (James Comey BFF and leak conduit) for âarguments to chronicleâ on behalf of Special counsel advocacy.
NOTE: This is interesting because Lawfare Blog also mentions the âInsurance Policyâ.
Important â May 17th, 2017 is the date of the Special Counsel Mueller appointment.
âŚ[May 17th, 2017] Date of Mueller appointment. Discussions of team being assembled. Strzok notes âemailing with Aaronâ. Well thatâs Aaron Ze[ble]y former FBI Director Robert Muellerâs Chief of Staff who was selected for Special Counsel position. Heâs also a partner at WilmerHale, and Strzok mentions to Page that she might find herself working at WilmerHale if she plays her cards right.
The fact that Agent Strzok was emailing with âAaronâ Ze[ble]y prior to the official appointment of the special counsel team should likely raise a few eyebrows.  Of course within this time-frame of the messaging released, the redactions increase. Go figure.
Toward the end of the release a more thorough picture emerges of who was selecting Robert Muellerâs team and why. Andrew McCabe was key player along with James Baker …
Page had broken off her texting with Strzok in 2017, long before the American public was aware of either of them. The Conservative Treehouse interprets her last text as follows:
âPageâs final ânever write to me againâ doesnât seem like a hostile snub. Seems more like a signal/coded message to a friend: âWeâre scr*wed. Every (wo)man for himself. Iâm looking out for myself. You should too.â
That day, Q posted the following message (1288). Emphases in the original:
Jim Rybicki, chief of staff and senior counselor – FIRED.
James Baker, general counsel – FIRED.
Andrew McCabe, deputy director – FIRED.
James Comey, director – FIRED.
Bill Priestap, Head of Counterintelligence and Strzokâs boss – Cooperating witness [power removed].
Peter Strzok, Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence – cooperating witness [power removed].
Lisa Page, attorney with the FBI‘s Office of the General Counsel – cooperating witness [power removed].
Conspiracy?
Think about the above.
Only the above.
Get the picture?
Q
By April 29, The Conservative Treehouse stated — wisely — that there was no romantic relationship between Page and Strzok:
There is zero evidence of a romantic relationship between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page; and no, a complete chronological review doesnât indicate the romantic stuff was withheld. By looking at the messaging chronologically, studying the date and times, thereâs nothing to indicate segments of romantic stuff was removed. What does appear obvious in many redactions, and likely some removals of messages, is an intentional effort to remove content that would be of an embarrassing professional nature to Ms. Lisa Page.
It is more than likely the âaffair narrativeâ was likely created by investigators as part of an agreement on content control to explain withholding some information and message redactions. Investigators would not want those being investigated to know the scale of the evidence trail. Regardless, except for the useful story, the romantic angle is irrelevant.
In looking at the ensuing congressional report, Sundance offered this analysis (excerpted, emphasis in the original):
[Congressional Report â Page 18, Item #3, second paragraph] âThe DOJ OIG obtained the initial batch of text messages on July 20, 2017.â  It is clear that Ms. Page underwent a period of (no less than) three solid days of extensive initial questioning by FBI (INSD) and DOJ (OIG) officials. [Which ended on/around July 20th, 2017.]
âŚJuly 20th, 2017 is a key date. A critical point-of-reference to move forward and review action. It is absolutely clear [BEYOND CERTAIN], that INSD (Inspection Division) and OIG (Inspector General) knew of every single participant in the Page-Strzok engagement team by the end of July 2017.
Along with Page and Strzok, James Baker was also involved in the leaks (emphases mine):
The officials outlined in media leaks, direct or indirect, included: Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, James Baker (FBI Chief Legal Counsel), Andrew McCabe (Deputy Director), and Michael Kortan (FBI Office of Public Affairs). There are also discussions of other people leaking.
Indeed, one of the more stunning aspects of a full review was the scale of groupsâ leaks to the media and how those leaks were used to frame the continued narrative about their ongoing efforts.
The messages show media leaks from 2015 all the way past the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Their discussions with the media were so frequent that Page and Strzok referred to media publications as âthatâs your storyâ, or âthatâs your articleâ, and enjoyed talking about the internal and external effect of the published accounts therein.
As for James Baker:
It does not appear accidental that FBI Chief Legal Counsel James Baker was allowed, by INSD and OIG investigators, to remain in place, *until* Baker was notified of being called to testify to congress (December 21, 2017)⌠then INSD yanked him back; and FBI Director Christopher Wray removed Baker from responsibility.
James Baker remains inside the FBI today; in some unknown capacity. James Baker is also in the text messages as âJBâ, âJimâ, âGCâ (General Counsel), and âJamesâ. He was also an interoffice mentor/role-model of sorts for DOJ assigned Special Counsel Lisa Page. Both Page and Strzok had a great deal of respect and admiration for Baker.
From the messages we can clearly see that James Baker is a key figure amid everything that was happening. Likely Bakerâs cooperation with investigators is the biggest risk to James Comey and Andrew McCabe due to Bakerâs knowledge of situations, decisions, non-decisions and events.
Ultimately (emphasis in the original):
Lisa Page, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr and James Baker have all been clearly identified by investigative releases as participating in gross misconduct at the DOJ and FBI. All four of them have been removed from their responsibilities, yet each of them remains employed within the FBI or DOJ.
It is highly likely all four of them are cooperating with INSD and OIG investigators.
Sundance surmises that those in the know who are not co-operating are as follows:
FBI Communications Director Mike Kortan (quit), DOJ-NSD Deputy Asst. Attorney General David Laufman (quit), AG Loretta Lynch (replaced), AAG Sally Yates (fired), DOJ-NSD Asst Attorney General Mary McCord (quit), FBI Director James Comey (fired), Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe (fired), FBI Chief-of-staff James Rybicki (quit).
Big news emerged on Friday, May 4. The New York Times reported (emphases mine):
WASHINGTON â Two top F.B.I. aides who worked alongside the former director James B. Comey as he navigated one of the most politically tumultuous periods in the bureauâs history resigned on Friday.
One of them, James A. Baker, was one of Mr. Comeyâs closest confidants. He served as the F.B.I.âs top lawyer until December when he was reassigned as the new director, Christopher A. Wray, began installing his own advisers. Mr. Baker had been investigated by the Justice Department on suspicion of sharing classified information with reporters. He has not been charged.
The other aide, Lisa Page, advised Mr. Comey while serving directly under his deputy, Andrew G. McCabe. She was assailed by conservatives after texts that she had exchanged with the agent overseeing the investigation into links between President Trumpâs campaign and Russia were made public. In the messages, they expressed anti-Trump views but took aim at Hillary Clinton and other political figures as well.
The decisions by Mr. Baker and Ms. Page to leave the bureau were unrelated. Mr. Baker said in a telephone interview that he would be joining the Brookings Institution to write for Lawfare, its blog focused on national security law.
Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse had mentioned Lawfare, as cited above. Lawfare was helpful to those in the FBI and DOJ in giving them narrative points and discussing the ‘insurance policy’.
The Daily Caller had more on the story:
The FBI attorney who exchanged anti-Trump text messages with another bureau official resigned on Friday, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
The FBI confirmed that the lawyer, Lisa Page, tendered her resignation.
Page has faced months of scrutiny over the text messages, which she exchanged with Peter Strzok, the former deputy chief of the FBIâs counterintelligence division.
The exchanges show a deep hostility to President Donald Trump at a time when the two officials were working on the FBIâs investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion with the Russian government. Some of the texts show Strzok and Page cryptically discussing how to proceed with the investigation, which was opened on July 31, 2016 …
Both Strzok and Page also served on Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs Russia investigation, which began on May 17, 2017.
Page worked for several weeks on the Mueller team before returning to her position as one of McCabeâs counselors. Strzok worked on the Mueller investigation until July 28, 2017, when Michael Horowitz, the DOJâs inspector general, notified Mueller of the scandalous text messages.
Page is also a central player in Horowitzâs investigation of McCabe. She is the FBI official who McCabe instructed to speak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an October 2016 article about the FBIâs handling of the Clinton email investigation. McCabe authorized Page to leak to The Journal âin a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership,â Horowitz determined.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe on March 16:
based upon a recommendation from the FBIâs Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
Horowitz released his report about McCabe on April 13:
that alleged McCabe gave inaccurate and incomplete statements about his authorization of the media leaks. The report, which dinged McCabe for a âlack of candor,â said he initially denied to both the OPR and the inspector general that he authorized Page to speak with The Journal.
The Daily Caller reported that Horowitz’s next findings would focus more closely on Strzok and Page.
That day, Q posted an update to the aforementioned message (1288) in a new one (1316). Emphases in the original:
[Updated]
James Baker – FIRED [reported today – resigned [false]] / removed Jan/FIRED 4.21
Lisa Page – FIRED [reported today – resigned [false]]
Testimony received.
Tracking_y.
[Added]
Mike Kortan, FBI Assistant Director for Public Affairs – FIRED [cooperating under ‘resigned’ title]
Josh Campbell, Special Assistant to James Comey – FIRED
[DOJ]
David Laufman, Chief of the Justice Departmentâs Counterintelligence and Export Control Section [NAT SEC – HRC email invest] – FIRED/FORCE
John Carlin, Assistant Attorney General â Head of DOJâs National Security Division – FIRED/FORCE
Sally Yates, Deputy Attorney General & Acting Attorney General – FIRED
Mary McCord, Acting Assistant Attorney General â Acting Head of DOJâs National Security Division – FIRED/FORCE
Bruce Ohr, Associate Deputy Attorney General â Demoted 2x – cooperating witness [power removed]
Rachel Brand, Associate Attorney General â No. 3 official behind Deputy AG Rosenstein – FIRED/FORCE
Cross against House/Senate resignations/final term announcements + CEO departures.
CONSPIRACY?
FAKE NEWS?
THE SWAMP IS BEING DRAINED.
TRUST THE PLAN.
JUSTICE.
Q
From that, it is interesting to see that, for public consumption, Page and Baker ‘resigned’, yet, both, according to Q, were actually ‘FIRED’. Q also notes: ‘Testimony received’.
Hmm.
Two of the other people — namely Mike Kortan and Rachel Brand — had reportedly ‘resigned’, too. Q’s take is that both were similarly FIRED.
The important point in Q’s message going forward are the last five lines before sign-off. What concerned Americans suspected wasn’t a conspiracy theory but actual conspiracy. Action has been taken, and the Swamp draining has begun.
Much more to follow once the next inspector general report is published.
Until then, trust the plan as the Trump administration enters the phase where it metes justice.
In the first half of 2017, Trump supporters — myself included — were enthusiastic about Jefferson Beauregard Sessions as attorney general.
On February 10, I wrote about child molesters and traffickers:
Can Jeff Sessions make pizza great again?
Although perverts and traffickers are always being arrested, under Sessions’s watch, the number began to increase exponentially. Great news!
Another big problem was MS-13. On April 10, I posted:
Attorney General Sessions sends message to MS-13: âWe will find youâ
From those two targets, we see that Sessions’s DOJ was making a move on people all of us can agree fall into the category of criminal.
However, there is another type of criminal: Washington DC politicians who work against the interests of the United States and, within that group, the subset which has been trying to bring down President Donald Trump since November 9, 2016, the day after the election. George True’s guest post of April 15, 2018 explains how serious this is:
Guest post: a readerâs perspective on the Deep State and Mueller investigation
That Jeff Sessions does not consider the DC Swamp rats to be criminals is problematic.
My other 2018 posts about him have reflected this:
Trump tweets frustration with slow investigation (February 24 â 28, 2018)
Increasing outcry for Sleepy Sessions to go (April 19)
Guest post: a readerâs perspective on Jeff Sessionsâs priorities (George True, April 20 and Rosensteinâs presidential cufflinks)
Jeff Sessions began recusing himself from Swamp rat investigations early in 2017.
As a result, he has made life extremely difficult for President Trump and his associates. The coup continues apace.
January 10, 2017 — first hint of recusal
As early as January 2017, Sessions said he would recuse himself from any campaign issues involving Hillary Clinton.
On January 10, the Los Angeles Times reported (emphases mine):
Sen. Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next attorney general, testified before Congress on Tuesday that he would recuse himself from any investigations and prosecutions involving Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Sessions and Trump called during the fall campaign for Clinton to be investigated and prosecuted for her use of a private email server, despite determinations by the FBI and Justice Department that her actions did not warrant charges. Since his election, Trump has said he did not support such an investigation or prosecution.Â
Sessions said he had made comments during the “contentious” campaign about Clinton’s use of the email server and her family’s charitable foundation that could place his objectivity in question.
“I believe the proper thing for me to do would be to recuse myself from any questions involving those kind of investigations that involve Secretary Hillary Clinton,” the Alabama Republican told senators on the Judiciary Committee.
March 2, 2017 – first recusal statement
After Sessions was appointed attorney general, he formally recused himself from campaign investigations.
On March 2, he gave a statement, excerpted below:
During the course of the confirmation proceedings on my nomination to be Attorney General, I advised the Senate Judiciary Committee that â[i]f a specific matter arose where I believed my impartiality might reasonably be questioned, I would consult with Department ethics officials regarding the most appropriate way to proceed.âÂ
During the course of the last several weeks, I have met with the relevant senior career Department officials to discuss whether I should recuse myself from any matters arising from the campaigns for President of the United States.Â
Having concluded those meetings today, I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States.Â
Quartz provided the background:
US attorney general Jeff Sessions, responding to mounting pressure from Democrats and from his own party, announced that he is recusing himself from any current or future investigations into the 2016 US presidential campaigns. The decision followed reports that he had spoken twice last year with Russiaâs ambassador to the US. Russia, of course, is widely believed by US intelligence agencies to have meddled in the election.
Sessions, a former Republican senator and an advisor to US president Donald Trump during the race, had testified during his Senate confirmation hearing in January that he had not had communications with the Russians during the campaign. At his press conference today (March 2), Sessions spoke about one of the meetings, recalling that it ending in a tense confrontation about Ukraine.
Business Insider provided more detail:
The attorney general recused himself on March 2 after reports emerged that Sessions had twice met with the Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, during the course of the election, contradicting statements he made during his Senate confirmation hearing, in which he said under oath that he did not have contacts with Russians during the campaign.Â
Following the bombshell report, Democrats swiftly demanded Sessions’ resignation, while a growing group of Republicans called on the attorney general to recuse himself from campaign-related investigations.
During questioning by Sen. Ron Wyden later in the hearing, Sessions said that there were no classified reasons for his recusal, as former FBI Director James Comey suggested in his Senate testimony last week. Sessions also claimed that he had informally recused himself since he was confirmed to lead the Justice Department.Â
“I basically recused myself the first day I got into the office because I never accessed files, I never learned the names of investigators, I never met with them, I never asked for any documentation,” Sessions told Wyden. “The documentation â what little I received â was mostly already in the media.”Â
Months later, the Los Angeles Times noted:
In March, Sessions announced he was recusing himself from any investigation into charges that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election and potential collusion between Russians and Trump’s campaign. Following his announcement, reports surfaced that Trump was irate that Sessions had recused himself from any investigation.
Fake news or a grain of truth in that last sentence?
I’m writing up what happened to HR McMaster, which I will post here in due course, and found that these rumours and reports turned out to be true.
June 13, 2017 – second recusal statement
On June 13, 2017, the Los Angeles Times reported Sessions’s second formal recusal, this time into Russian collusion:
Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions insists his recusal from any investigation into Russian collusion in last yearâs election was simple: Itâs the law.
In an opening statement before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, Sessions cited a Department of Justice regulation that he said mandated him stepping aside …
âI recused myself not because of any asserted wrongdoing on my part during the campaign,â Sessions said. âBut because a Department of Justice regulation, 28 CFR 45.2, required it.â
âThat regulation states, in effect, that department employees should not participate in investigations of a campaign if they have served as a campaign advisor,â said Sessions.
Throughout much of the 2016 election, Sessions served as a senior advisor to Trumpâs campaign.
July 2017 — a vexed Trump unloads
On July 19, three New York Times reporters — Peter Baker, Michael S Schmidt and Maggie Haberman — published an interview (and transcript) with President Trump at the White House.
Trump did not mince words. The article led with this:
WASHINGTON â President Trump said on Wednesday that he never would have appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Mr. Sessions would recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation that has dogged his presidency, calling the decision âvery unfair to the president.â
In a remarkable public break with one of his earliest political supporters, Mr. Trump complained that Mr. Sessionsâs decision ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel that should not have happened. âSessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,â Mr. Trump said.
However, the topic did not come up until later in the interview. On this and other subjects, this has to be one of the best interviews ever. On Robert Mueller, Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein, Trump had this to say:
SCHMIDT: What do you understand to be the four corners of what Mueller [Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel in the Russia investigation] can look at, if he stepsââ [crosstalk]
TRUMP: I donât know. Nobody has contacted me about anything.
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TRUMP: Because I have done nothing wrong. A special counsel should never have been appointed in this case.
BAKER: Can we put that on the record?
TRUMP: Because so far, the only â yeah, you can put it down.
SCHMIDT: Was that [Attorney General Jeff] Sessionsâs mistake or [Deputy Attorney General Rod J.] Rosensteinâs mistake?
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TRUMP: Look, Sessions gets the job. Right after he gets the job, he recuses himself.
BAKER: Was that a mistake?
TRUMP: Well, Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else.
HABERMAN: He gave you no heads up at all, in any sense?
TRUMP: Zero. So Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. I then have â which, frankly, I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, âThanks, Jeff, but I canât, you know, Iâm not going to take you.â Itâs extremely unfair, and thatâs a mild word, to the president. So he recuses himself. I then end up with a second man, whoâs a deputy.
HABERMAN: Rosenstein.
TRUMP: Who is he? And Jeff hardly knew. Heâs from Baltimore.
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TRUMP: Yeah, what Jeff Sessions did was he recused himself right after, right after he became attorney general. And I said, âWhy didnât you tell me this before?â I would have â then I said, âWhoâs your deputy?â So his deputy he hardly knew, and thatâs Rosenstein, Rod Rosenstein, who is from Baltimore. There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any. So, heâs from Baltimore. Now, he, we went through a lot of things. We were interviewing replacements at the F.B.I. Did you know Mueller was one of the people that was being interviewed?
HABERMAN: I did, actually.
TRUMP: He was sitting in that chair. We had a wonderful meeting.
HABERMAN: Day before, right?
SCHMIDT: Did he want the job?
TRUMP: The day before! Of course, he was up here, and he wanted the job.
HABERMAN: And he made that clear to you? He would haveââ
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TRUMP: So, now what happens is, he leaves the office. Rosenstein leaves the office. The next day, he is appointed special counsel. I said, what the hell is this all about? Talk about conflicts? But he was interviewing for the job. There were many other conflicts that I havenât said, but I will at some point. So Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions gave some bad answers.
HABERMAN: You mean at the hearing?
TRUMP: Yeah, he gave some answers that were simple questions and should have been simple answers, but they werenât. He then becomes attorney general, and he then announces heâs going to recuse himself. Why wouldnât he have told me that before?
HABERMAN: Why do you think it was? What do you think it was?
TRUMP: I donât know.
BAKER: What would cause you â what would be the line beyond which if Mueller went, you would say, âThatâs too far, we would need to dismiss himâ?
TRUMP: Look, there are so many conflicts that everybody has. Then Rosenstein becomes extremely angry because of Comeyâs Wednesday press conference, where he said that he would do the same thing he did a year ago with Hillary Clinton, and Rosenstein became extremely angry at that because, as a prosecutor, he knows that Comey did the wrong thing. Totally wrong thing. And he gives me a letter, O.K., he gives me a letter about Comey. And by the way, that was a tough letter, O.K. Now, perhaps I would have fired Comey anyway, and it certainly didnât hurt to have the letter, O.K. But he gives me a very strong letter, and now heâs involved in the case. Well, thatâs a conflict of interest. Do you know how many conflicts of interests there are? But then, then Comey also says that he did something in order to get the special proseâ special counsel. He leaked. The reason he leaked. So, he illegally leaked.
Trump took to Twitter to express his vexation with Sessions, who was on an MS-13 mission in El Salvador at the time (see his priorities!):
So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?
On July 27, Sessions told Tucker Carlson (Fox News) how ‘hurtful’ the President’s tweets were. Note that he defended his recusals:
He never should have taken the job!
Mueller conflicts of interest
To go into all the conflicts of interest in this investigation would take ages. Uranium One is the biggest, and it involves Russia, Mueller and Rosenstein.
That said, the public were angry at the way Big Media — especially CNN — were reporting the Mueller investigation.
On July 24, a contributor to The_Donald posted a testy thread, the title of which is:
FAKE NEWS CNN defending Sessions’ recusal while DEAD SILENT about Mueller needing to recuse for the same reasons. MUELLER IS MORE CONFLICTED THAN SESSIONS! REPORT THE TRUTH!
By way of reply, someone posted a link to a Crime and Consequences article, ‘My View: Mueller is Conflicted Out‘. The premise of the article is that Robert Mueller cannot continue to serve as Special Counsel under 28 USC Section 528 and 28 CFR Section 45.2. You can read the article for the detail.
The author provides an excellent summary of Mueller, James Comey and more. The following continues to be discussed today, particularly in light of Comey’s recent book launch and associated interviews:
Jim Comey and Bob Mueller have been friends for about 15 years …
Comey now finds himself smack-dab at the center of the Russian investigation over which Mueller presides. Questions swirl around Comey — about whether the President wanted/hinted/hoped/asked/directed/or something else the investigation of National Security Adviser Gen. Flynn to be stopped/abandoned/slowed/soft-peddled/something else. This is probably the central element of the obstruction of justice case Mr. Trump’s opponents would like to see made against him.
Questions also swirl about Comey’s notes about this conversation, why he gave them to a private individual (Prof. Dan Richman of Columbia Law) to convey to the press. Additional questions have arisen about whether this curious and seemingly devious means of putting contents of the notes in the public domain (leaking, in other words) was designed specifically to bring about the appointment of a Special Counsel outside the President’s direct reach — and, indeed, whether Comey wanted, expected or intended his friend Mueller to get the job.
There is much to be said of all this, none of it very happy-making. But one thing that can be said with considerable clarity if not comfort is that, under the governing rules (set forth above), Mueller has a long-term relationship with Comey that “may result in a personal…conflict of interest, or the appearance thereof.”
He is therefore disqualified. I hope and believe that Mueller, whom I believe to be an honest man and a partisan of the rule of law, will see this for himself. If he doesn’t, I hope Rod Rosenstein will.
As I’ve said in many other contexts, I like rule-orientation and fear self-justification, a ubiquitous flaw in even the best of men. There is no way Comey is not a central witness in this investigation (if not a subject). Even less is there a way Mueller can be expected to evaluate Comey’s credibility with the fresh neutrality, arm’s-length curiosity, and objective sharp eye his job demands.
Whether Mueller’s departure would work out well or badly for Mr. Trump is not knowable (it is also decidedly not the subject of this post). My point is about the application of stated rules to the facts at hand. Let the chips fall where they may, the application is clear: Mueller cannot remain as Special Counsel.
That article was from June 2017. Nearly one year later, nothing has changed. Mueller’s still in situ.
On September 20, Law & Crime‘s Rachel Stockman asked why Rosenstein wasn’t recusing himself from the Mueller probe. Because Sessions recused himself, Rosenstein is the DOJ’s link to Mueller (emphases in the original, those in purple mine):
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein is overseeing Special Counsel Robert Muellerâs Russia investigation after Jeff Sessions recused himself. However, there are some concerns about his ability to adequately supervise an investigation that he has now become a part of. On Tuesday night, The Wall Street Journal broke the story that over the summer, Muellerâs investigators interviewed Rosentein about President Donald Trumpâs firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
The Journal claims the FBIâs handling of the interview âcould be a sign that Mr. Muellerâs team doesnât view Mr. Rosenstein as a central witness in its probe, as the deputy attorney general hasnât withdrawn himself from overseeing it since that interview.â That could very well be the case, but the optics donât look good. A spokesperson for Rosenstein said âif there comes a time when he needs to recuse, he will. However, nothing has changed.â Well, now might be the time …
Rosenstein, as a federal lawyer and a DOJ employee, is guided by both local D.C. ethics rules and Justice Department guidelines. Both would prohibit him from overseeing an investigation if he is a person of interest or a target …
However, legal experts emphasize that we donât know yet whether Rosenstein is a target of the investigation for his role in writing that infamous memo giving Trump âjustificationâ for firing Comey.  Did Rosenstein cooperate in a lie to the public?  18 USC 1512(c)(2) says that obstruction happens when a person âcorruptly⌠impedes [an] official proceeding or attempts to do so.â
âCreating a false narrative for firing Comey could be such an attempt. The definition of âofficial proceeding; includes âa proceeding before a Federal Government agency which is authorized by law.â That language is broad enough to encompass the FBI and the Comey investigation,â Gillers said.
Now, the hope is that if the investigation starts honing in on Rosenstein, Mueller would advise him that he needed to recuse himself. Â BUT there is this added wrinkle: Mueller may have an incentive in wanting to keep Rosentein as his supervisor. Trumpâs team has hinted more than once that he might fire Mueller. Federal law says that technically Trump canât do the firing. Instead, the U.S. Attorney General (or in this case Rosenstein since Sessions recused himself) would have to do it. From all indications, Rosenstein would probably not demure to such a demand from Trump …
In the end, we must rely on Muellerâs integrity, and pray that if Rosenstein was in legal jeopardy, Mueller would do the right thing and ask him to take himself off the investigation. In the wake of James Comeyâs breach in DOJ policy, asking us to trust our public officials seems like a scary thought. With so much at stake, so many unknowns, and the world watching, Mr. Rosenstein needs to think long and hard about recusing himself.Â
Well, Rosey’s still managing the Mueller investigation.
September 2017 – calls for unrecusal
By September, there were calls for Sessions to unrecuse himself. Here’s Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch:
By December, there was doubt as to whether Sessions should have recused at all:
On December 18, Alan Dershowitz offered the clearest rationale for an unrecusal. Emphases mine below.
He told Fox & Friends (video at the link):
Sessions could un-recuse himself, because the law allows anyone whoâs recused themselves to un-recuse if there are new developments or circumstances.
And Dershowitz said the reason Sessions can do this, is because Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein should recuse himself.
Rosenstein is a âkey witnessâ after writing the memo justifying Jim Comeyâs firing.
November 2017 – question over possible Uranium One recusal
On November 2, Breitbart reported that Rep. Mark Gaetz (R – Florida) told them that Sessions would recuse over Uranium One (H/T: Conservative Treehouse). Bold emphasis in the original, those in purple mine:
Attorney General Jeff Sessions told a small group of lawmakers in late September he was recused from appointing a special counsel to look into potential corruption surrounding the Uranium One deal and Fusion GPSâs work on the Trump dossier, according to one of the lawmakers present.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he and other House Judiciary Committee Republicans had met with Sessions at the Justice Department on September 28 in advance of an upcoming committee hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein later this month.
Gaetz said that when he asked Sessions to appoint a special counsel to investigate the 2010 Uranium One deal and Fusion GPS, the attorney general stood up, said he could not discuss the matter because he had recused himself, and walked out of the room, leaving them with a group of Rosenstein staffers âwho showed no interest.â
âHe said that anything that had to do with 2016 election, or Russia, or the candidates in the 2016 election, fell under the scope of his recusal, and he left the room,â Gaetz said.
âIt was Sessionsâ position that his recusal on the Russia matter divorced him from any oversight on Uranium One and Fusion GPS. Thatâs troubling. Sessionsâ recusal is a function of his involvement in the Trump campaign. In no world does that impact his judgment as it relates to Fusion GPS and Uranium One. But he views the recusal more broadly. Thatâs troubling because that puts Rosenstein in charge,â he said.
Gaetz said Rosensteinâs staffers provided âno answersâ and âno timeline for answers.â
This is why many of us have been saying that Sessions must resign or, as such time as the Senate will approve a replacement, be fired.
Yet, investigative journalist Sara Carter told Fox’s Sean Hannity that the report was not true:
I hope Sara Carter is correct.
November 2017 – Sessions critics told they are disloyal
Sleepy’s critics are constantly being told by his supporters that by being critical of him they are being critical of Trump! False!
As much as I liked Imperator_Rex — currently Vachel Lindsay — on Twitter, the logic that he and others employ with this stance is wrong. Here’s a taster from a rather long thread of his from November 3:
Who knows what’s happening with The Storm? All the people we want to see brought to justice have been going on book tours (Hillary, Comey), giving speeches overseas (Obama) and leading a normal life (e.g. John Podesta).
Re 36, no, it’s not because Trump ‘wants’ Sessions there, it’s because the only way Trump can get a replacement for him is if he (Sessions) resigns (vacancy rules apply).
The Senate told Trump in 2017 that they will not approve any new cabinet members, making it impossible for Trump to fire Sessions. Nor will the Senate allow Trump to appoint someone new when the Senate is not in session. Consequently, the Senate has not been declaring any formal recess.
Trump’s hands are tied, unless Sessions resigns.
Even then, Trump has to have a replacement in mind.
It certainly won’t be Rosenstein.
Re 37, saying that Sessions critics are disloyal to Trump is egregious. We care deeply about President Trump. That’s why we want Sessions out of the way, so that Swamp rats can be dealt with the way the Founding Fathers intended.
Again, we have only Sara Carter’s word for that.
December 2017 – Former FBI director Kallstrom says Mueller should recuse
On December 4, former FBI director James Kallstrom told Breitbart that Robert Mueller should recuse himself:
âBob Mueller should have never been offered nor accepted the job as special counsel as he has a huge conflict of interest,â Jim Kallstrom tells Breitbart News …
Not only do observers describe Mueller and the man he recommended to replace him as FBI director, James Comey, as close or even best friends, but the special counsel pursues an investigation heavily involving the bureau he once led. How one maintains detachment in leading a team that includes numerous anti-Trump partisans in a probe involving oneâs close friend and the former bureau for which Mueller served as director goes unexplained.
Other problems Kallstrom sees include the means by which investigators obtained information and what constituted probable cause to obtain it.
âThe Obama administration apparently, had the advantage of using electronic surveillance, collecting information on the Trump campaign,â Kallstrom explains. âThat collection, in my view, may be found to be unlawful.â
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If the surveillance and investigatory methods prove unlawful, Kallstrom notes that this puts Mueller in an awkward position of looking into his close friend and perhaps the bureau that both men once led.
âIf they used the phony dossier as the predicate for the FISA order they obtained, that could be a huge problem,â Kallstrom tells Breitbart News. âIf they knew the information was phony, that is a felony. If they did not know it was phony, they were incompetent.â
January 2018 – White House tried to talk Sessions out of recusal
On January 5, 2018, Fox News reported that White House officials tried to talk Sessions out of recusing himself in 2017 (emphases mine):
President Trump instructed three senior White House officials to talk Attorney General Jeff Sessions out of recusing himself from the Justice Departmentâs investigation into potential ties between Russia and members of the Trump campaign, multiple sources told Fox News on Friday.
Trump called on White House counsel Don McGahn, former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer to stop Sessions from recusing himself.
Spicer has denied the allegation.
The push to convince Sessions allegedly took place over the course of a number of telephone calls that covered a variety of other topics, the well-placed sources told Fox.
On Thursday, The New York Times first reported that Trump had directed McGahn to contact Sessions this past March. According to The Associated Press, two anonymous sources confirmed that McGahn unsuccessfully lobbied Sessions to continue to oversee the Russia investigation.
Sessions supporters will have trouble with ‘multiple sources’ and ‘anonymous sources’, but every single presidential administration has had them.
My upcoming McMaster chronicle shows that, nearly every time one of these sources spoke to the media, they were telling the truth.
March – Sessions took recusal advice from Obama lawyers
Just when the Sessions situation couldn’t seem more intolerable, the Gateway Pundit reported on March 14 that the attorney general took recusal advice from Obama adminstration lawyers (emphases in the original):
On Wednesday night FOX News contributor and legal expert Gregg Jarrett told Sean Hannity that Sessions used the WRONG LAW when announcing his recusal. He took advice from OBAMA OFFICIALS and they misled him.
Gregg Jarrett: He betrayed the president. He knew when he was sworn in that he was going to recuse himself and the very next day he put the recusal in motion. He never told the president about that. And by the way he cited the regulation in his recusal⌠He cited the wrong law. It didnât apply.
Sara Carter: I think he was being advised badly at the time.
Gregg Jarrett: Yeah, by Obamaâs holdovers. Who in the world would believe them?
Good grief! He cited the wrong law!
The DOJ regulation Sessions cited â 28 CFR 45.2â says âno DOJ employee may participate in a criminal investigation or prosecution if he has a personal or political relationship with any person or organization substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution, or who would be directly affected by the outcome.â
As Andrew McCarthy at National Review reported, âThe regulation he cited applies to a different type of investigation.â
Once again the question must be asked: Who did deep state catch Jeff Sessions in bed with?
My thoughts exactly.
April 2018 – Congress asks Sessions to investigate Swamp
On April 18, members of Congress wrote to Sessions, FBI Director Christopher Wray and United States Attorney John Huber requesting that they issue a criminal referral for a long list of Swamp dwellers, including FBI Director James Comey, Hillary Clinton and others – including FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, for a laundry list of potential crimes surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
You can read the letter in full at Scribd.
ZeroHedge has more (emphases in the original):
Recall that Sessions paired special prosecutor John Huber with DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz – falling short of a second Special Counsel, but empowering Horowitz to fully investigate allegations of FBI FISA abuse with subpoena power and other methods he was formerly unable to utilize.
The GOP letter’s primary focus appears to be James Comey, while the charges for all include obstruction, perjury, corruption, unauthorized removal of classified documents, contributions and donations by foreign nationals and other allegations.
The letter also demands that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein “be recused from any examination of FISA abuse,” and recommends that “neither U.S. Attorney John Huber nor a special counsel (if appointed) should report to Rosenstein.” Â
April 2018 – possible partial recusal in Cohen investigation
Early in April, the home, office and hotel room of President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen were ransacked.
It’s possible that Sessions could recuse himself from this, too — at least partially.
On April 24, Gateway Pundit carried a news story, ‘WTH? AG Sessions Will Not Recuse Himself From Cohen Investigation — Only on Certain Issues‘ (emphases in the original):
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided not to recuse himself from the investigation into Trumpâs personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Donât get too excited because Sessions will consider stepping back on specific matters tied into the Cohen probe …
On Tuesday, GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin sent a letter to AG Sessions demanding to know his involvement in the FBI raid of Cohen.
âWe would like to know if you approved, were consulted, or had any involvement in this decision by the Department of Justice,â Zeldin asked in a letter to AG Sessions about the FBI raid of Cohen on April 9th.
Gateway Pundit cited a Reuters article which says that Sessions discussed the matter at a Senate appropriations subcommittee meeting about the proposed 2019 budget for the Justice Department. Please read it, because it’s got all the classic Sessions recusal statements.
Conclusion
To date, Sessions’s recusals look increasingly like refusals to do the AG job in its entirety.
Jeff Sessions is up for the chop. It’s just a matter of time and circumstance. After the Cohen raid, Trump is even unhappier with the AG and the DOJ than he was a year ago at this time.
A tricky court case came to a close on Good Friday.
The Orlando Sentinel reported that Noor Salman, the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter, was acquitted:
Jurors listened to eight days of testimony and found Salman, 31, not guilty of aiding and abetting Mateenâs providing of material support to a foreign terror organization and of obstruction of justice. The court has kept the names of jurors secret, and went as far as having them meet at a separate location away from the courthouse every day of the trial so U.S. marshals could drive them to the courthouse. The foreman asked to remain anonymous.
The Sentinel‘s report carries the jury foreman’s statement in full. This is the last paragraph (emphases mine):
I want to make several things very clear. A verdict of not guilty did NOT mean that we thought Noor Salman was unaware of what Omar Mateen was planning to do. On the contrary we were convinced she did know. She may not have known what day, or what location, but she knew. However, we were not tasked with deciding if she was aware of a potential attack. The charges were aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice. I felt the both the prosecution and the defense did an excellent job presenting their case. I wish that the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements. The bottom line is that, based on the letter of the law, and the detailed instructions provided by the court, we were presented with no option but to return a verdict of not guilty.
Independent investigative Laura Loomer was not happy:
So were The_Donald’s contributors.
After the shooting, Noor Salman left Orlando and was arrested months later — January 2017 — in California. Her attorney said Salman was the victim of domestic abuse. She denied that Salman knew about plans for the mass shooting of 49 people. (Incidentally, the Daily Mail published an article about Salman shortly after the shooting which explains more about her upbringing and two marriages.)
For people who are upset about Noor Salman’s acquittal, here’s a reminder about the Boston bombing:
There is more to the Orlando case than meets the eye.
Here’s an interesting bit of news from Monday, March 26:
Although I respect Mike Cernovich’s journalism, I did not listen to his Periscope for lack of time.
However, Gateway Pundit‘s Lucian Wintrich did a stellar job in citing the various news reports about the allegation that the Orlando Pulse night club shooter’s father was working for the FBI.
The shooting took place on June 12, 2016. Who was in charge of the FBI at the time? None other than James Comey.
If the allegation is true and Seddique Mateen had been working for the FBI between 2005 and 2016, then Robert Mueller would likely have known about it as he was the director of the agency between 2001 and 2013.
Of the Periscope, Wintrich tells us:
Independent journalist Mike Cernovich has taken to Periscope to damn the FBIâs seeming complicity in the attacks, in line with their refusal to act on a series of domestic acts of terrorism such as the shooting in Parkland, Florida. The prosecution is seemingly shielding terrorist-tied Seddique Mateen, who was already under watch by the FBI, to prosecute Noor Salman; did the FBI have advanced knowledge of these attacks, and did Omarâs father Seddique Mateen encourage his sonâs attack?
Let’s look at the articles Lucian Wintrich cites.
On March 26, 2018, when Salman’s defence team began presenting their case in court, CNN reported:
A judge has denied a motion for dismissal by lawyers for the widow of the Pulse gunman after they said new details from prosecutors reveal the shooter’s father was an FBI informant who is currently under a criminal investigation.
The judge said the fact that Omar Mateen’s father worked as an FBI informant was not relevant to the case against Noor Salman.
According to a motion filed by the defense, Assistant US Attorney Sara Sweeney sent an email to the defense on Saturday — in the middle of Salman’s trial — that stated Seddique Mateen was a confidential FBI source at various points in time between January 2005 through June 2016.
The email also stated that Seddique Mateen is being investigated for money transfers to Turkey and Afghanistan after documents were found in his home on June 12, 2016, the day of the Pulse attack. The dates of the money transfers were between March 16, 2016, and June 5, 2016, according to the email.
Salman’s lawyers argued that a failure to disclose this information violates her due process rights. They had no prior knowledge of this information.
Salman was charged with:
providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice, as prosecutors say she knew about the coming massacre. She has pleaded not guilty, and her defense team has cast her as a victim rather than an accomplice.
The defense began its case Monday.
CBS also carried a report that day:
Salman’s lawyers allege the new revelation prevented them from investigating whether or not Seddique Mateen knew of his son’s plans to attack the nightclub.
According to the motion, defense lawyers allege that the decision not to give Noor Salman a polygraph was possibly “based on the FBI’s desire to implicate Noor Salman, rather than Seddique Mateen in order to avoid scrutiny of its own ineptitude with the latter.”
“Mateen’s father played a significant role in the FBI’s decision not to seek an indictment from the Justice Department for false statements to the FBI or obstruction of justice against Omar Mateen” during its 2013 investigation into his alleged threats, the motion stated.
Meanwhile, attorneys in federal court Monday will try to convince jurors that Salman didn’t help her husband as he prepared for the attack on the gay nightclub.
The New York Post reported:
Her lawyersâ federal court motion filed Monday says prosecutors contacted them Saturday night and told them about Seddique Mateenâs relationship with the feds, the Orlando Sentinel reported.
âIt is apparent from the Governmentâs belated disclosure that Ms. Salman has been defending a case without a complete set of facts and evidence that the Government was required to disclose,â attorney Fritz Scheller said in the court filing.
The motion was filed just hours before Salmanâs lawyers were slated to begin presenting their case. The prosecution rested its case Thursday.
Seddique Mateen, who was on the governmentâs witness list, was never called to testify â though his wife, Shahla Mateen, did testify.
Also:
Had Salmanâs defense attorneys known about those transfers, Scheller argued, they would have âinvestigated whether a tie existed between Seddique Mateen and his son, specifically whether Mateenâs father was involved in or had foreknowledge of the Pulse attack.â
That would be relevant to Salmanâs defense, Scheller argued, because the government has claimed she helped her husband invent a cover story to tell his parents about where he was going the night prior to the mass shooting.
If Seddique Mateen had âsome level of foreknowledgeâ about his sonâs plot, a cover story âwould have been completely unnecessary,â according to the motion.
Mike Cernovich has been discussing this case for some time. After Salman’s not-guilty verdict, he reiterated the information about the case (start at 6:23):
Cernovich went through a lot of information in the public domain. Notably, Mateen told his colleagues in 2013 that he was radicalised. Some of his colleagues went to the FBI at that time quoting what he said.
The FBI did nothing with that information because Seddique Mateen told them not to.
Cernovich also pointed out that the FBI received multiple warnings from the public about Nikolas Cruz’s weird behaviour. The FBI ignored those, too.
The FBI seems to be ignoring warnings about unhinged people.
And what about Seddique Mateen? Will the FBI now investigate him?
This looks like a case for FBI director Christopher Wray. Will he take action?
Warning: some readers might find the second half of this post disturbing.
A lot of confusion surrounds the Florida school shooting that took place on Valentine’s Day 2018.
One thing is certain: gun control is once again the current topic.
A case in point is Philip Mudd:
a deputy director for the FBI’s national security branch and an ex-CIA agent, Philip Mudd has interviewed terrorists and is considered a counterterrorism expert.
Mudd also loathes President Donald Trump, which is useful information in reading what he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. From USA Today:
“I have 10 nieces and nephews who are talking about bump stocks,” he said. “We’re talking about legislation. A child of God is dead. Cannot we acknowledge in this country that we can’t â we cannot accept this.”
He continued before breaking down in tears: “I can’t do it, Wolf, I’m sorr… â We can’t do it.”
Mudd’s emotional response came after Wednesday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. At least 17 people were killed.
On February 16, a contributor to the CBTS_Stream board on Reddit, a Q discussion site, posted part of a page from the 1990 book, Behold A Pale Horse, written by William Cooper, a distinguished US Navy intelligence veteran. More about him in a moment.
For now, note the following from page 225 of the book (image courtesy of CBTS_Stream):
Mudd’s crying on television is designed to hype up the call for gun control. His mention of God is a particularly cynical move.
Reports say that the suspect in the shooting is a white supremacist. Seems strange for someone whose surname is Cruz.
Once again, the media has hauled out the white supremacist tag as they so often do when a light-skinned person commits a mass shooting.
Psychotropics
What we should be asking is if this young man was taking prescription SSRIs — psychotropics — for a mental health disorder.
On October 9, 2017 — eight days after the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas — the mental health watchdog, CCHR International, published an excellent article on psychotropics and mass shootings. Excerpts follow, emphases mine.
This is the introduction to the article:
Twenty-seven drug regulatory agency warnings cite psychiatric drug side effects of mania, psychosis, violence and homicidal ideation; 1,531 cases of psychiatric drug induced homicide/homicidal ideation have been reported to the US FDA; 65 high profile cases of mass shootings/murder have been committed by individuals under the influence of these drugs, yet there has never been a federal investigation into the link between seemingly senseless acts of violence and the use of mind-altering psychotropic drugs.
The first part of the article discusses Stephen Paddock’s prescribed Valium use.
The FDA does not receive many reports of homicide/homicidal ideation links to psychotropic drugs (bold emphasis in the original here, purple highlight mine):
… according to the FDAâs MedWatch reporting system for drug side effects, over a 10-year period, the FDA received 1,531 cases of homicidal ideation/homicide attributed to psychiatric drugs, 40% of which were reported by medical professionals. The FDA admits that only 1-10% of drug side effects are ever reported to MedWatch, so taking a medium range of 5%, the number could easily be 30,620 cases of homicidal ideation/homicide attributed to psychiatric drugs.
Regarding the concept that psychiatric drugs could not have been a contributing factor in a case where the perpetrator was involved in extensive planning or preparations, we look to the definition of âhomicidal,â which includes homicidal ideation, a similar concept to the âsuicidal ideationâ black box warning on antidepressant drugs:
âHomicidal ⌠may encompass a broad variety of ideation and behaviors. They may range from globally aggressive thoughts⌠to a specific lethal plan with available means to carry it out.â
â Emergency Psychiatry journal
The article acknowledges that these drugs can help many people, however, some patients will go off the rails.
The FDA gets so few reports of drug-linked homicide (ideation) because law enforcement is not required to test for the presence of these drugs:
There have been 65 high profile acts of senseless violence, including mass school shootings, mass stabbings, and even the intentional crashing of a commercial airplane, committed by individuals taking or withdrawing from psychiatric drugs, resulting in 357 dead and 336 wounded. Drug proponents argue that there are thousands of shootings and acts of violence that have not been correlated to psychiatric drugs, and that is exactly the point. They have neither been confirmed nor refuted to have been connected to psychiatric drugs, as law enforcement is not required to investigate or report on prescribed drugs linked to violence, and media rarely pose the question.
This is what happened in New York State, where the state Senate attempted to require such testing :
The New York State Senate recognized the lack of reporting correlating mind-altering psychiatric drugs to both suicide and violence as far back as 2000, when the senate introduced a bill which would ârequire police to report to the Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), certain crimes and suicides committed by persons using psychotropic drugs,â citing âa large body of scientific research establishing a connection between violence and suicide and the use of psychotropic drugs.â
It never passed:
Unfortunately that bill stalled out in the finance committee, yet if that bill had passed, a reporting system would be in place to determine the extent to which violence is committed by those under the influence of mind-altering prescribed drugs.
These mass shootings are Russian Roulette on the American population:
With millions of Americans being prescribed psychiatric drugs, itâs apparent not everyone will experience violent reactions to the drugs, besides which, violence is only one of many documented side effects of psychiatric drugs. Â But what the drug regulatory agency warnings confirm, is that a percentage of the population will. And no one knows who will be next.
Scopolamine
There are also natural, non-prescription drugs that present a universal danger. One such drug is scopolamine, known as ‘devil’s breath’, which comes from a beautiful flowering tree in Colombia.
A light dusting of it removes a person’s free will. The victim agrees to do the perpetrator’s bidding. Afterwards, the victim might not remember a thing.
In 2012, the Daily Mail had an excellent, if horrifying, article on the power of this drug, based on research from a Vice.com reporter who travelled to Bogota to find out more:
The Mail‘s article says, in part:
According to the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, the drug – also known as hyoscine – causes the same level of memory loss as diazepam.
In ancient times, the drug was given to the mistresses of dead Colombian leaders â they were told to enter their masterâs grave, where they were buried alive.
In modern times, the CIA used the drug as part of Cold War interrogations, with the hope of using it like a truth serum.
However, because of the drugâs chemical makeup, it also induces powerful hallucinations.
The tree [is] common around Colombia, and is called the âborracheroâ tree â loosely translated as the ‘get-you-drunk’ tree.
It is said that Colombian mothers warn their children not to fall asleep under the tree, though the leafy green canopies and large yellow and white flowers seem appealing.
Experts are baffled as to why Colombia is riddled with scopolamine-related crimes, but wager much of it has to do with the countryâs torn drug-culture past, and on-going civil war.
Scary.
Conclusion
The question with mass shootings is NOT gun control or even bump stock control.
The real question, which nearly everyone is ignoring, has to do with psychotropic drugs.
Footnote on William Cooper
Cooper’s Behold A Pale Horse is 500 pages long, but nearly half of that is supplementary documentation. One of those documents is something no one should ever read, yet millions do.
The premise of the book is that, since 1917, there has been a plan to bring about the New World Order by getting the population to believe there is extra-terrestrial life then instilling fear in people about it to the extent that they will willingly do the state’s bidding. That’s a real stretch.
However, it makes one wonder if this is why a lot of Democrats are so interested in ETs, including Hillary Clinton and her campaign supremo John Podesta.
Anyone who thinks there are UFOs will enjoy Cooper’s book. Disclosure: that excludes me.
However, what is of interest is Cooper’s interspersing of historical elements about the American government and intelligence agencies, such as the page highlighted here.
What Cooper wrote must have been true, because his life was often in danger. In his autobiography at the beginning of the book (p. 33), he describes being forced off the road by a black limo in the hills of Oakland, California. The same limo ran into him again a month later, causing Cooper to lose a leg. That happened in the 1970s.
People who read the book commented on the CBTS_Stream thread cited at the top of this post.
Someone wrote:
They trailed him and harassed him for years. When Clinton was president they sicced the IRS on him on some “tax evasion” crap. He denied any of it was legit. They sent armed officers to his house one day to take him in. He probably knew he’d never get out once they had him, and a gunfight broke out (supposedly). Apache County sheriffs deputy killed him. I don’t remember if his wife and daughter were home. Daughter was about +/-4yrs old when they killed him. I don’t know what ever happened to them.
Another added:
In July 2001, Cooper predicted a large scale terrorist attack would occur in a large metropolitan city (for purposes of garnering worldwide attention) and he specifically said it would be blamed on Osama Bin Laden, not that he was psychic but because he knew the dark side (deep state) of government. The Apache Co. Sheriffs Dept. came for him on the fifth of November in 2001. He died the next day from his wounds suffered in the previous eveningâs gun battle.
Wikipedia tells us about his death in Arizona:
As Cooper moved away from the UFOlogy community and toward the militia and anti-government subculture in the late 1990s, he became convinced that he was being personally targeted by President Bill Clinton and the Internal Revenue Service. In July 1998 he was charged with tax evasion; an arrest warrant was issued, but Cooper eluded repeated attempts to serve it. In 2000, he was named a “major fugitive” by the United States Marshals Service.[6]
On November 5, 2001, Apache County sheriff’s deputies attempted to arrest Cooper at his Eagar, Arizona home on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and endangerment stemming from disputes with local residents. After an exchange of gunfire during which Cooper shot one of the deputies in the head, Cooper was fatally shot. Federal authorities reported that Cooper had spent years evading execution of the 1998 arrest warrant, and according to a spokesman for the Marshals Service, he vowed that “he would not be taken alive”.[1]
I feel sorry for William Cooper. It must have been awful to have been so caught up in the Deep State. It does things to the mind.
Friday’s post provided background to the Russian dossier.
Today’s post looks at the memo from Senators Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) about the dossier. A second version — less redacted — appeared on Tuesday, February 6.
First, this is the current state of play with FBI and DOJ employees involved with the dossier:
On December 7, 2017, Fox News had more on Bruce Ohr’s demotion (emphases mine):
Until Wednesday morning, Bruce G. Ohr held two titles at DOJ: associate deputy attorney general, a post that placed him four doors down from his boss, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein; and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a program described by the department as âthe centerpiece of the attorney generalâs drug strategy.â
Ohr will retain his OCDETF title but has been stripped of his higher post and ousted from his office on the fourth floor of âMain Justice.â
Initially senior department officials could not provide the reason for Ohrâs demotion, but Fox News has learned that evidence collected by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), chaired by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., indicates that Ohr met during the 2016 campaign with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who authored the âdossier.âÂ
Also:
According to congressional sources, Simpson and Ohr met sometime around Thanksgiving last year, when President-elect Trump was in the process of selecting his cabinet, and discussed over coffee the anti-Trump dossier, the Russia investigation and what Simpson considered the distressing development of Trumpâs victory.
How exactly Simpson and Ohr came to know each other is still being investigated, but initial evidence collected by the House intelligence committee suggests that the two were placed in touch by Steele, a former FBI informant whose contacts with Ohr are said by senior DOJ officials to date back to 2006.
A man by the name of Carter Page was used as the excuse to spy on Donald Trump. He very briefly volunteered for the Trump campaign but, contrary to what the media say, was not his foreign affairs adviser:
Christopher Steele, the former MI-6 spy, was responsible for that:
Steele was well known to the FBI:
Some at the FBI were heavily involved with Hillary Clinton’s campaign:
The Conservative Treehouse points out the the DOJ was only interested in this state of affairs when Inspector General Michael Horowitz found out (purple highlights mine):
Proving, once again, this is a well thought-out strategy, Chuck Grassleyâs newest partly declassified version of the Graham-Grassley memo highlights the DOJ didnât care about Bruce Ohr meeting with Christopher Steele until Inspector General Michael Horowitz found out.
Page #5 of the Grassley Memo (pg. 7 pdf), highlights the FBI interviewed DOJ Deputy Attorney Bruce Ohr on November 22nd, and December 12th, 2016 [FD-302 Interview Notes], yet didnât take any action about their discoveries until Inspector General Michael Horowitz found out and revealed the interviews on December 7th, 2017.
Based on what we know to date, the following tweets suggest how the dossier was most likely compiled:
Interesting:
But who is Cody Shearer?
Egads!
You could not make this up!
Conclusion:
Yes, indeed.
When I posted on the FISA memo last week, two of my readers asked questions about Christopher Steele, particularly why he is so anti-Trump.
I held off posting on this until now in the hopes that new information would surface about that. Unfortunately, it has not.
Christopher Steele
It is hard to say why Christopher Steele is so opposed to President Donald Trump.
It could be that is his mindset, given his work for and international involvement with security agencies.
In December 2017, Yoichi Shimatsu, a forensic journalist who was also an editor at The Japan Times for ten years, wrote an exclusive for Rense, ‘How A CIA-DOJ-FBI Team Forged The Trump-Russia Dossier’. It is worth reading. I haven’t included some of it, as there seems to be some questionable information about Steele. It is possible that parts that mention ‘Steele’ might be better worded as ‘people working for him’.
What follows is the story of how Steele ended up getting involved in the Russian dossier.
In 2006, Steele headed the MI-6 Russia desk. He retired in 2009 to co-found (emphases mine):
a for-hire investigative firm called Orbis Business Intelligence, which produced a series of 100 reports on the Ukraine-Russia crisis, which erupted in 2014, on contract with the U.S. State Department. In other words, the main author of the Trump-Russia Dossier had a lucrative contract under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before her presidential campaign.
Shimatsu tells us that Steele might well have met Bruce Ohr, another player in the Trump surveillance scheme, in 2010, when investigating the FIFA scandal. (More about Ohr below.) The FBI went to London for an Orbis briefing on the scandal:
As chief of the DOJ international organized crime bureau, Bruce Ohr likely attended the London briefing, where he would have been first introduced to veteran spy Christopher Steele.
Shimatsu claims that Ohr and Steele met again in 2013. At that time, Ohr was Assistant Deputy Director at DOJ and presented a paper at the third St. Petersburg International Legal Forum:
The Korean-American Ohr presented a paper titled âCriminal Matters and Allegations of Crimes in International Arbitrationâ, a choice of topic timed to undermine Russian counter-claims in the Magnitsky affair. In hindsight itâs ironic that his lecture synopsis included an apt description of the yet to-be drafted Russia Dossier: âa party (in a dispute) may introduce false testimony or forged documents.â
Moscow and Washington were butting heads over the Magnitsky affair when the conference, sponsored by the Russian Federationâs Justice Ministry:
the Kremlin was locked in a controversy over U.S. congressional retaliation for the 2009 prison death of Russian-Jewish accountant Sergei Magnitsky.
(The Magnitsky Act was signed into US law in 2012.)
Before he was imprisoned, Magnitsky worked for Hermitage Capital, which Bill Browder co-owns. Magnitsky worked as an auditor for the firm:
investigating dozens of Russian tycoons allied with President Vladimir Putin as to their links with organized crime figures.
Ohr had a similar interest, as chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, in shady businessmen suspected of money laundering. His job also involved tracking international drug trafficking.
Shimatsu says that Steele was in Russia for the conference in St Petersburg, but is there any corroboration for that? See Glenn Simpson’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee at the end of this post. According to Simpson, Steele had not been in Russia for 17 years. That would tie in with citizen journalists researching when he worked in Moscow: between 1990 and 1992. It is unclear whether he travelled there or was even allowed to enter the country at some point during that time and/or afterwards.
This brings in another Trump surveillance person into the mix, Carter Page. Ohr’s:
cyber-surveillance network would later focus, outside of its authority, on the activities of Trump adviser Carter Page in Russia and Croatia.
The next event, also in 2013, was the Miss Universe Pageant. Donald Trump was the head of the pageant at that time. As US intelligence agencies cannot spy on American citizens abroad, Steele’s — or was it his company’s? — assignment was to make sure the Russian mafia was not involved in skewing the results:
As it turned out, Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2013, meaning Ohr had wasted a lot of American taxpayer money on a wild goose chase.
However, something more significant resulted:
That dated information from 2013 was recycled three years later into the Russia Dossier.
In 2016, Steele became involved in compiling the Russian dossier. Before getting to that part, let’s look at Bruce and Nellie Ohr.
Bruce Ohr
Until recently, Bruce Genesoke Ohr was unknown to the American public, including the media. He worked in the inner sanctum of the Robert F. Kennedy Building, the DOJ headquarters:
on the executive 4th floor, just four doors down from the suite of then Deputy Director Sally Quillian Yates, and since late April her replacement Rod Rosenstein … Ohr served as the assistant to Rosenstein, following the latterâs transfer from the Maryland DOJ office, showing the newcomer the ropes and keeping watch on him on behalf of Yates, Loretta Lynch, Holder and, ultimately, Barack Obama and the Clintons.Â
He lost his associate deputy attorney general title on December 7, 2017.
Also note:
Ohr, in short, is a partisan watchdog for the Democratic establishment, whoâs shown absolutely no respect for the Constitution.
Even worse, Shimatsu asserts that Ohr was partly responsible for the corruption at the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency), because that agency was under the authority of the International Organized Crime Drug office, which he was still in charge of until January 8, 2018:
The DOJ has also ignored nearly the entire CIA-run Afghan drug importation, at least since the Eric Holder years. Cocaine, of course, is being targeted by the DEA/DOJ, but that elite-status drug was never in style with the millennial generation, which prefers depressants like heroin mixed with synthetic opioids, on the path to Nirvana.
In July 2001, Ohr testified to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, downplaying the infiltration of Indian reservation casinos by organised crime:
What Ohr completely failed to mention is how Indian casinos along the U.S.-Mexico border were becoming money-laundering centers for the Mexican mafia, lucrative enough for the Caesarâs team of Drexel Lambert junk-bond dealer to build a Harrahâs casino resort at Rincon reservation. Caesarâs Entertainment Group spectacularly collapsed two years ago, amid angry charges by institutional investors of fraud, financial crimes on a much greater scale than small-time gangster scams.
Ultimately:
The politically correct attitudes toward ethnic minorities, here again, has enabled massive expansion of the organized crime, which is ultimately detrimental to the minority groups to achieve genuine economic development and security from violence. The DOJ/FBI, run by front-men for crime, is [a] big part of the problem and not the solution.
Also:
That exactly is why and how the DOJ/FBI and CIA are enabling Chinese triads, the Taiwanese mob, Vietnamese mafia, Japanese yakuza and Korean gangsters to run heroin smuggling, prostitution rings and counterfeits products unimpeded into the United States. The fix is in with the Democratic Party, and the bad guys every hour of every day are winning the battle against the industrial economy and ethical principles of the USA.
Now to the 2016 campaign. Shimatsu tells us:
the DNC and Hillary campaign generously forked over up to a half-million dollars for the Trump-Russia fabrication.
Shimatsu explains something interesting about southeast Asians and the Democrats and why big donations are kept quiet:
… the Democratic Party relies so heavily on large unreported donations of cash from the urban Chinese and Korean business communities, suspect Asia-based businessmen and major crime groups. This tradition since the end of the Chinese Exclusion era is a feudal tribute legacy, by which Asian âleadersâ (triad or organized crime figures) pay protection money (aka bribery) to Democrat politicians to enable illegal immigration of underpaid laborers, exemption from minimum wage laws and mandatory benefits for employees, unhealthy tenant crowding of buildings, and police neglect of the illicit trade in contraband, including methamphetamines, heroin and more recently synthetic opioids.
Asians, of course, are not alone in groveling before the powers that be, since most immigrants have had to pay their dues to Tammany Hall and dirty cops, from the Irish to the current wave of Arabs. Despite their strong academic performance, East Asians are perpetually under the Democratic Party heel due to the substandard status of the small-business economy. That is changing, for all the wrong reasons, with the pay-for residency by super-wealthy âbusinessmenâ from East Asia, many of them wanted for economic crimes at home, including illicit capital flight. The United States is a sanctuary for Asian fraudsters and gangsters …
Nellie Ohr
As for Bruce’s wife Nellie, Shimatsu says nothing about her father. Her mother, Kathleen Armstrong Hauke, was active in leftist causes in the 1960s. In the 1980s, Hauke taught English in Nairobi, Kenya. She died in 2004.
Nellie has a ham radio licence, which Shimatsu says isn’t that unusual:
Shortwave radio hearkens back to the late Cold War era, when Nellie would have monitored Russian signals for the CIA. Since that Stone Age for telecommunications, Nellie Ohr became part of the CIA cyber-intelligence program known as Open Source Works (OSW), discussed below, which explains her intelligence role inside Fusion GPS, the private investigation group that hired Orbis and Christopher Steele to draft the Trump-Russia Dossier.
Until late 2017, she and her husband shared the same office, indicating that the Ohrs were:
part of a high-level inter-agency intelligence team.
The Ohrs, Steele and the dossier
Shimatsu winds the clock back to 2013 to the St Petersburg conference. However, was it Steele himself or an Orbis representative who attended? Donald Trump arrived in Russia one month later in advance of the beauty pageant:
What a tangled web they weave! The Ohr-Steele encounter in St. Petersburg turned out to be the very seed from which sprang the Trump-Russia Dossier … Just a month later, in June 2013, Donald Trump arrived with his advance team to make the arrangements for the Miss Universe pageant, scheduled for November 2013 at the Crocus hall in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk.
Fast forward to 2016 and Fusion GPS:
the private investigation firm led by three former Wall Street Journal reporters …
… in mid-2016, the Seattle law firm Perkins Coie, representing the Hillary Clinton Foundation and Democratic National Committee, hired Fusion GPS to probe the Russian relationships of Trump and his associates with the aim of discrediting and defeating his presidential campaign …
Fusion GPS, therefore, was hired as a âcut outâ, spy terminology for a neutral go-between created to shield the actual perpetrators in an exchange of stolen information. A psychological operation aimed at political intervention at this level required the direct involvement of and authorization from CIA director John Brennan and Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and this was to interfere in the elections in favor of their former colleague at State, Hillary Clinton, and not a matter of national security. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper should have been aware of these illicit activities and was responsible for shutting down political subversion, meaning that he, too, bears some degree of responsibility for the bureaucratic assault on democracy.
Do readers notice how anti-Trump Brennan and Clapper are whenever they are interviewed on television? YouTube has various videos of them on news programmes and at conferences.
With regard to the dossier, Shimatsu says that Steele provided little of the content. Most of the content:
strongly appears to be based on CIA and NSA intercepts of phone calls and emails, along with human intelligence from informants. There is also an equally strong possibility that many, perhaps most, of the claims in the dossier are fabrications, lies. Nellie Hauke Ohr and her husband at DOJ reviewed and copied from classified files for the dossier in blatant violation of intelligence regulations. The method of direct translation, for example, âRussian regimeâ without the article âtheâ, indicates the CIA protocol followed by Nellie Ohr in radio intercepts. The tiny lapse shows that source is not Moscow but Langley, Virginia.
Shimatsu explains the role of Steele and his company, Orbis:
The notes from CIA and DOJ/FBI classified files, which Nellie Ohr compiled during her several months, during summer and autumn 2016, on the payroll of Fusion GPS while in Washington D.C.. Those materials were then âlaunderedâ through Orbis for plausible deniability at the CIA. Fusion GPS paid the London-based firm more than $160,000, meaning the total budget for consultants, services, travel and communication was probably about a half-million dollars from the original source of funding (prior to DNC-Hillary, which was probably provided by a slush fund at the Clinton Foundation. To the heisted CIA material and forged information, Christopher Steele added his recollections from Donald Trumpâs Miss Universe visits in 2013, supplemented by whatever hearsay picked up immediately after the contest. Examination of the dossier is similar to the findings from a forensic autopsy on Frankensteinâs monster: A lot of body parts that donât fit together, laced together and patched with putty.
Nellie Ohrâs inchoate and disorganized editing, in contrast to the minimal standards at any daily newspaper, reveals the sloppiness thatâs the norm at her post inside the CIA bureau known as Open Source Works, which itself is highly classified and anything but open …
In summary:
Open Source is now the major enterprise of the CIA in its effort to intimidate world leaders, corporate executives, military officers and media personalities. The Trump-Russia Dossier is an end-product of illicit CIA privacy violations, enhanced by selective editing and outright fabrication to incriminate the victim, in this case the President of the United States. The Frank Church amendments need to be upgraded to deal with terror by fake media, so that the offending bureaucrats and their political patrons can be locked away without access to cyberspace.
Present day
On January 22, 2018, just over a month after Shimatsu’s article was published, the New York Post had a report about the testimony to the House Intelligence Committee from Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS:
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-South Carolina) asked Steeleâs Clinton-paid handler Glenn Simpson, during the House Intelligence Committeeâs Nov. 14 closed-door hearing, if Steele had gone âto Russia as part of this project,â to which Simpson replied, âNo, sir.â Steele, at the time he compiled the dossier, hadnât been back to Russia in 17 years.
If true, that clearly contradicts what Shimatsu alleges.
Simpson told the House Intelligence Committee that Steele:
ran a ânetwork of subsources or subcontractorsâ who traveled around Russia and gathered information for him.
As for the framework of the dossier:
… it turns out the primary subcontractor worked not for Steele but for Simpson at Washington-based Fusion GPS, and he contributed key material for the investigation of Trump underwritten by the Clinton campaign.Â
Steele’s reputation preceded him:
Simpson says he completely deferred to Steeleâs expertise and did not question his findings because of his âsterling reputation.â Simpson has pumped this guy up to be the real-life 007 so deep inside the Kremlin, he didnât have to corroborate his information, yet Steele was so far out of the hunt, his tradecraft so rusty, he apparently had to rely on a Russian translator who flacked for Putin to gather his so-called intelligence.
These latest revelations make it all the more baffling that the FBI took Steele so seriously. They also suggest the public should not make that mistake.
Since then, a redacted version of Senator Charles Grassley’s memo on the dossier has been made public. More on that next week.
Brendan Dilley is a Congressional candidate in Arizona and YourVoice⢠America Co-host.
He receives intelligence messages from a source he keeps anonymous. Dilleyâs Twitter account has many positive messages about life. His Periscopes have the intel data.
Someone on 8chan watches the videos then summarises the content. Iâve read this intel several times over the past few days and found it interesting enough to share. The source page is here.
Part 1 covers excerpted drops from January 17 through January 27, 2018.
Part 2 covers intel from January 29 through February 1.
Today’s post covers February 2 and February 3. I have covered these in the order the 8chan contributor did. Not everything is in precise chronological order, but that won’t matter when you read the content below. Excerpts follow (along with correction of a few typos), emphases mine.
My one caveat is that the penalty for sedition is probably not the death penalty, as the intel source says. Treason, however, does carry the death penalty. No matter, I’ve left the text as is. We’ll see.
The Nunes FISA memo was released on Friday, February 2. This has tremendous implications:
Dilley AM Periscope, 2.2.2018, Reading of the Memo
It’s one thing to have conjecture about treason. It’s one thing to report of treason. It’s another to have it come from the House Intelligence Committee, and this is the very first memo.
Who knew what was going on?
Yates, Comey, McCabe, obviously Steele, Preistrap, Strzok, RosensteinâŚ
This is the beginningâthis points 100% that Obama knew. All Obama’s people, they all knew.
This makes Watergate look like a parking ticket.
McCabe knew, Strzok knew, Comey knewâthey got Comey’s signatures on this stuff.
They’re all going down.
They have names of reporters who were propagating this fake news. The goal was to make sure Trump never became President.
They all knew.
And people wonder why there’s going to be Military Tribunals, why there’s 13,000 sealed indictments now, if you go look on Pacer.
They’re screwed.
The MSM is going to try to downplay it. It won’t work. It’s too late.
Hillary Clinton is mentioned in there. They’re all in there. Unbelievable.
After reading the memo and just prior to signing off, Dilley got some intel that he shared:
Sedition = death penalty.
RICO = life in prison
Which category is top tier?
That’s right, sedition, hanging time.
Sessions will talk to POTUS shortly.
Sessions can now unrecuse himself and kill Special Counsel and instruct Gowdy and NEP to start the ball rolling.
Storm is here, and it’s beautiful.
I’ll add; “Wow!”
On February 3, Dilley gave an update:
There are 9 total memos. Dilley believes only 4 will get released.
Memo #5 statesâŚObama’s Daily Briefings (top secret), which he passed on to Hillary, with daily updates on Trump’s campaign via the wiretap. So HRC got all the intel of BHO’s DB’s on the wiretaps of Trump along with OTHER intel updates. SEDITION!
The content of the wiretaps is amazing. They, the O admin, were passing top secret intel to people who had no security clearance to read it.
OIG report is a shocker. Still being compiled. No date when will be released. It goes back ‘really far’.
Gallo[w]s being built.
Uranium One section in Iran is beyond comprehension.
FYI, RICO cases have no statute of limitations. There will be at least one if not 2 very large cases.
Media is complic[i]t.
In the FOIA release of HRC emails last night proves the daily briefings …
sedition = death penalty
rico = life in prison
which category is top tier? that’s right, seditionâŚhanging time …
The chap on 8chan added a note:
(My note: earlier it was posted that Dilley’s source said Gowdy and [NE]P were ready to roll. Dilley actually spelled it out tonight and specifically stated NEP)
Someone on 8chan said that NEP could stand for National Economic Prosecutor, however, no one was able to find any such post. I also searched but couldn’t find it. We shall see.
The 8chan contributor returned to a fuller drop from Dilley’s source dated February 2, most of which follows:
FISA memo. MSM downplaying significance, trying to pretend one-off memo saying it only covers a small window of people.
Memo a product of nearly a million documents.
Memo product of hundreds of hours of testimony.
Memo is smoking gun.
Unequivocally states that Comey, McCabe, Susan Rice, Yates, Priestap, etc., used the Steele fake dossier, planted in Yahoo news, they then took the dossier and the Yahoo article and took it to the FISA court.
The FISA court gave them the warrant to tap the phones of the Trump campaign.
This is not the full scale of it.
Not easy to get FISA warrant. Very difficult. Have to be a foreign actor doing intelligence, they think you’re a spy, to get FISA warrant.
This means FBI conspired with Obama admin and HRC campaign to spy on US citizens who were running for office.
This is called a coup.
This is how you take over an entire country and usurp democratically elected government.
This is treason.
This is sedition.
This will get everyone who’s on that thing h[anged], that’s the penalty. No getting locked up for this.
You signed that thing, you signed your fate.
Obama had this information, he was complicit in this.
Don’t let the media fool you.
This is one of manyâthere are more memos coming out.
Backed up by hundreds of hours of testimony, millions of pages of documents, black and white.
This is history you’re seeing, the media is complicit and they know it.
The State Dept. has a memo coming out against them.
His one was the FBI/DOJ memo that showed they conspired.
You weaponize the Intelligence Community (IG) and your law enforcement community, the top, to fix an election.
This is something you would see in third world countries, not in the USA.
This is what you get shot for in front of a firing squad.
This is how you literally usurp 340 million people and the will of those people, and you plug in who you think should be the next president.
It’s way worse than many of you guys probably realize.
Get the word out, intel coming in a moment you won’t see ANYWHERE ELSE.
This is huge. Intel coming straight from the top (remember that when you’re voting) …
Memo #5, a nu[ke] about to drop on you guys, memo #5 states: “Obamas daily briefings [Top Secret], which he passed to Hillary, with daily intel updates on Trump’s campaign via the wiretap.” Along with other information.
This is called SEDITION.
This is what you would get h[anged] for in the USA.
This is the highest level of crime that you can actually perpetrate, aside from treason, which Obama will have an opportunity to face those crimes as well.
Especially when you guys find out about the weapons and everything else.
But we’ll stick to the topic at hand.
This dude was literally, illegally sp[ying] on a candidate for the Presidency of the United States
They took that information that they were spying on him about.
And passed it to another candidate in that race.
Even if they believed their nonsensical lie that they thought President (Candidate) Trump was actually a Russian spy, well, that whole narrative goes out the window when the next memo comes out and shows they were passing information to that political candidates opponent.
Now you’re done. Dead in the water.
Now you have broken so many laws that it’s not even funny.
This is why Obama lawyered up, why McCabe lawyered up, why Comey lawyered up, they’re all lawyering up.
It seems Dilley’s source is referring to the Grassley memo from the Senate, a post about which will follow.
The next drop from February 2 went over the above material but in slightly more detail. Dilley’s source also said that Senator John McCain (R-Arizona and presidential candidate in 2008) is in trouble:
Dilley Intel Drop, 2.2.18 PM, via Facebook PART 2
The content of the wiretap is amazing. Can only share this one portion, not cleared to do the rest yet.
Touches on people without clearance involved and being shown top secret intel.
They were passing along the most sensitive intelligence that you can receive in government and they were allowing average Joes with no security clearance to read it.
This other part is really bad. Cannot read it yet (aroused anger) but it will give you the most respect for the President of the United States.
Inspector General (IG) Report. Unbelievable, it’s going to take a while, not confirmed when it will be released, but it’s a shocker. Gallows being built. Uranium One section in Iran stuff is beyond comprehension. This is what source telling Dilley.
It goes back really far.
As said before, you will be facing/observing is going to be military tribunals for those at the top, because treason and sedition are punishable by death, and that is not to be tried in a normal, everyday courtroom.
That is to be tried in a military courtroom.
However, also mentioned 13,600 sealed indictments now, of which we don’t know ho[w] many people that actually is.
There will be multiple RICO cases.
Why is that significant?
Fun fact about a RICO case: there is no statute of limitations.
So if you broke the law, part of organized crime, back in 1975, and the evidence is found in 2018, you’re getting charged.
You can’t out run a RICO case.
In a RICO case, you can be sentenced, maybe not to death, but life imprisonment.
We’re going to have a really big RICO case. Probably two of the[m], maybe more.
This is organized crime.
Media is complicit.
[Dilley covered some information specific to the AZ Dist 8 Congressional race he’s in.]
McCain has got major problems.
There’s a reason he’s not be in public in two months.
Five of the memos you won’t ever get (raw intelligence), and you won’t really need them.
The four you will get will be the breakdown of this whole mess. These will suffice …
Don’t let anyone tell you that that memo that came out today wasn’t significant. You’ve got to start paying attention …
They have evidence that, not only did they weaponize the IC, they also weaponized the Judicial Branch. They weaponized judges, just so we’re clear. And there’s actual evidence.
That’s way they (Dems/MSM/GOPe) are trying to downplay this. They are freaking out.
This is how you end up with a banana republic.
Been saying for nine months, the only way to save this country is with law and order, restore law and order.
The rule of law must be established and respected or your country will fall apart.
The 8chan contributor ended his post with this:
[There was a Dilley Periscope that aired just prior to this that I didn’t listen to, but I was told by a friend that this podcast covered it all.]
Dilley made a Periscope before the FISA memo was published on February 2. A few points concern the public mistakenly becoming emotionally involved with certain personalities they deem to be good guys. Dilley’s source says it is not a good idea to do this, because we might end up being disappointed when the truth emerges.
Before I go into the pre-FISA memo drop, on January 23, the intel source advised — and this is well worth keeping in mind:
Get away from Paradigm on who is âGood vs Badâ⌠find out who can get leveraged.
I read a lot of online questions elsewhere about ‘black hats’ and ‘white hats’. There are some of both hats that we have surmised from the outset. However, there are a lot of ‘grey hats’, too: people who agree to be leveraged to save their families from harm or to preserve their reputations. Washington DC is not an environment for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in terms of a moral compass. People work there because they are ambitious or because they have connections. A lot of people in DC can be compromised. Others switch sides when money or a better position comes along. For the most part, they are not like the rest of us. DC has a dirty atmosphere, a stench, about it. Many years ago, I spent a week there, met many people just out of university who worked there, and I hated it. The only nice part about my holiday visit was meeting up with a former classmate of mine. I’m not sure he was cut out for that atmosphere, either. That was the last time I ever heard from him, so I don’t know what happened.
Now onto the intel source’s advice from February 2, before the FISA memo was made public:
Detailed Dilley Intel Drop, 2/2/18, Pre-Memo Early AM Periscope
“#HappyMemoDay w/Congresional Candidate Brenden Dilley”
https:// twitter.com/Hublife/status/959450833850064897
(Part 1)
Summary: Late to this party. Some Anons have dropped later FB streams. No new INTEL in this older post, just a lot of review and insight. IMHO, End is some valuable insight for Q followers …
The left has played directly into Trump’s hands AGAIN!
Trump “lets this build” & “CREATES EVENTS” (Must-See TV) …
Americans – “It’s not about politics anymore” “We want the truth” “enough is enough”
The (Deep State) Objective was to “change the narrative” the other with the train station, but that only lasted only for a few hours because they weren’t successful.
About Trey Gowdy and Christopher Wray: This isn’t “Days of Our Lives” don’t get caught up or emotionally invested in characters in this movie. The only person you should be watching is POTUS.
(Dilley personally believes) Trey Gowdy has very important role in all of this LATER, and that’s why he stepped down.
But once you started getting emotionally attached to people in this story, you start having a hard time accepting new information or even accepting THE TRUTH
This is one of the risks of getting emotionally vested (mockingly – “But I liked him :(“)
Let the information come to you and then let the truth “rise to the top” and who gives a damn about personality.
“THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS SCREWED UP (in the head) RIGHT NOW”
Think about how emotionally invested they became in Obama.
I don’t think the LEFT doesn’t want the truth. They just don’t know what to do with that information.
If you find out that the character you’ve elevated in your household is a treasonous scumbag, what does that mean about you? (self-identity loss)
You do this with actors/athletes as well – stop …
It’s important that everybody be really patient …
Reviewed the previous drop that FBI/CIA being completely broken up and “Done”
FBI will be rebranded as something totally different because of how pervasive he corruption is
CIA has quietly been absorbed as part or underneath the NSA
Part of what’s going on even if you go back to the “Snowden stuff”, the CIA didn’t like the threat that the NSA Posed – technologically, financially, & influentially. This is part of what went with the Snowden situation.
Reiterates Bill Binney is a hero,
Snowden is CIA, went to NSA, tried to bring them down for what they were doing, back and forth.
Dilley has to continue reiterating “I am not Q. Just a guy who likes to problem-solve & people like to talk to me”
Periscope keeps asking who is ‘good’ vs ‘bad’, Brenden Dilley responds “it’s not that simple”
John Brennan is “awful”. He droned American Citizens illegally.
He has a major problem & a lot of dirt on him.
Periscope asks ‘Why are all these corrupt people still working?’
Dilley responds: “You don’t really know anything.”
“When you see Strzok or Page working at the FBI, what if you care that he’s cleaning the latrine?”
One of the most effective ways, until you’re ready to execute your plan, to keep from being attacked, is allowing your enemy to believe that they’re safe. So you keep them under your thumb wherever they’re working.
All the misdirection is done to keep people safe. There’s people whose lives are on the line with this entire deal. Operators who you will never know have their lives on the line doing this.
The value of disinformation is in keeping people safe.
The White Hats lie to keep people safe. The black hats like to try to cause chaos. Unfortunately you have to use deception, that’s the name of intelligence. Keeps people safe and off of the trail of where your interests actually are.
The 8chan contributor continued a summary of the Periscope in a second comment, wherein Dilley explained his hesitance to release some of the intel he received late last year:
Detailed Dilley Intel Drop, 2/2/18, Pre-Memo Early AM Periscope
“#HappyMemoDay w/Congresional Candidate Brenden Dilley”
https:// twitter.com/Hublife/status/959450833850064897
(Part 2)
You’ve got to be okay with the fact that you’re going to be lied to by people. No choice.
You’re going to be lied to by good ppl. Dilley acknowledges that they lie to him.
“I had to willfully enter into this situation knowing looking I could look like a collossal idiot because they might use me for disinformation. I had to consider that – that they might use me. Cause I had a brand & a certain level of credibility that I was afraid to put on the line with this stuff which is why I kept a lot of -“
“I kept a LOT of information in November and December back“
An average Joe would’ve probably released everything, but when you have a public brand like Dilley – life coach, talk show host, congressional candidate, it’s risky because you could end up with egg all over your face and ruin everything that you’ve tried your whole life to build.
“Part of the anxiety of all of this is that they might use me for disinformation to keep people safe, but it might end up destroying my credibility which is something I obviously don’t wanna do – I’ve worked very hard to be someone that people could trust and believe in” …
At the end, Dilley took the risk to do this because he had faith in his critical thinking to discern intel from disinfo.
“I believe my source is legit, but what I believe in more than my source being legit, is my ability to recognize true information.”
“I know how to sniff out BS”
And I’m still trying to⌠no one is infallible.
If you don’t believe Dilley, look at the outcome over the last yearâŚ
The end of CNN, MSM, everyone’s credibility has been destroyedâŚ
Even the early new media 2017 characters on the MAGA side who broke “HUGE” stories and then crumbled. Then a new character came into view because HE drops a huge story, everyone follows him, then HE crumbles. You’ve seen this over and over – the build-up and destruction of new characters on Twitter/Social media. That’s because none of these guys realized that they were being used.
They thought – oh “I’m going to keep dropping this intel because they’re going to ALWAYS gonna give me good information.” – WRONG
There is a final part to this Periscope, again, on the same topic, with an ending about Q and how valuable the Socratic method is to thinking and our personal makeup. It is much better to muse on questions and do research than to always be told something. What if we disagree with it? Isn’t it better to come up with answers based on evidence. That is where Q has done such a great job. Dilley explains that his source tried the same thing:
Dilley states that his source sometimes does the “cryptic Q messages” and Dilley replied “Nah Bro! You wanna deliver Q messages, go take that nonsense over to the Q boards and they can break it down, cause obviously, it’s good information, but I’m not that guy. Don’t give me the information that way.“
Q Drops/Socratic method is very effective way of educating people.
Once the slow drip of breadcrumbs start to make sense, it’s an effective way of penetrating the brainwashing.
Once you’ve breadcrumbed people with logic, it can break through the emotional brainwashing. It works, it’s smart.
Tomorrow’s post has the last of the intel from Dilley’s source thus far, from Monday, February 5.
This post is part of a series about expected news items in 2018. Readers who have not seen the first two posts might find them of interest:
Part 2: Hillary WAS supposed to win (The 16 Year Plan to Destroy America)
Part 4: âsecret societyâ and more on missing FBI texts
Today’s post is related to all of the above. It concerns the release of the Devin Nunes FISA memo on February 2, 2018.
Representative Devin Nunes (R-California) is the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).
His four-page memo concerns FISA warrants allowing surveillance of President Donald Trump and several others.
Democrats and media want one-party state
Before going into the content of the memo, what everyone around the world heard this weekend on media outlets has been an onslaught of anti-Republican and anti-Trump thought.
This is because — as I said in Part 2 — Donald Trump was patently not supposed to have won the 2016 election:
A firestorm of protests and objections to Trump ran from the day after the election to the present. Even former attorney general Loretta Lynch got involved early in 2017:
The blurb for the video reads:
The Obama administrationâs former Attorney General Loretta Lynch has made an impassioned video plea for more âbloodâ and âdeathâ on the streets â a video that was later posted on the Facebook page of Senate Democrats as âwords of inspiration.â
There are some big players behind the move for the one-party state, and many people who ally themselves with the Democrats have been persuaded that this is for the common good. However, based on this memo — and the Democrats’ clear disdain for the American people as seen at the State of the Union address — that might not play out:
Tucker Carlson (Fox News) interviewed Representative Eric Swalwell (D-California) the evening of the memo’s release. Swalwell suggested that Carlson, in defending the memo’s release, was doing Vladimir Putin’s work. Absurd:
The Nunes — FISA — memo
The Nunes — or FISA — memo is four pages long and has no footnotes. A two-page letter from the White House states the president approves of its release. Both are on Scribd and PDF.
Here is a big picture overview of the background to the memo (courtesy of The_Donald):
This image from 8chan has additional information, equally important:
Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch describes the scenario in a nutshell:
This graphic is helpful in understanding what happened when:
Also involved is a man named Carter Page, who was briefly and peripherally involved with the Trump campaign. He was the gateway for the surveillance. Anyone he spoke to on the campaign was automatically surveilled.
The Federalist has a short, concise summary of what is in the memo. Excerpts follow from ‘The 7 Biggest Bombshells In The House Intel Memo On FISA Abuses’, emphases mine outside of the headings:
1. FBI Used News Articled Sourced By Steele To Corroborate His Dossier
The memo, which President Trump agreed to declassify Friday, states that the FBI did not tell the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) a lot of crucial information about the dossier it was citing as evidence when the bureau sought a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to monitor Page.
In September 2016, ex-British spy Christopher Steeleâwho compiled an infamous dossier filled with unfounded claims about President Trumpâtold Yahoo News about Pageâs visit to Moscow. Yahoo News subsequently published a story about this trip. The FBI then cited this Yahoo News report, sourced entirely by Steele, as evidence in its initial FISA warrant application to corroborate information the ex-British spy compiled in his dossier. The FBI incorrectly asserted to the court in its application that Steele did not provide information to Yahoo News about Pageâs Moscow trip. British court filings, however, show Steele admitted he met with Yahoo News in September 2016, two months before the FBI got its initial warrant, to discuss the trip at the direction of Fusion GPS.
Think of it — using a Yahoo News article to obtain a FISA warrant. You could not make this up. The journalist who wrote the article is stunned:
2. FBI Knew Steele Was Being Paid By DNC, Hillary Clinton, Chose Not To Tell The Court
The FBI did not tell the court that information cited in its warrant application was gathered by an individual who was being paid by Trumpâs political opponents.
The bureau was aware that Steele was working for Fusion GPS, a research firm that was hired by Perkins Coie, a law firm Hillary Clinton and the DNC were making payments to. The DNC and Clinton campaign paid Steele $160,000 …
In December 2017 FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe Steele testified that if the dossier hadn’t existed, the FBI would not have sought a warrant (Bombshell 3).
4. FBI Spied On Trumpâs Associate For Nearly a Year
The FBI obtained the initial FISA warrant to surveil Page on October 21, 2016 after he visited Moscow and reportedly spoke to a Russian official who had expressed support for Trump in July 2016. The warrant was renewed three times for the full extent allowed of 90 days each, totaling 360 days under surveillance …
With each of these renewals, the FBI choose not to disclose to the court that it had relied on information funded by Trumpâs political opponents in its quest to surveil a Trump campaign member.
Signatories included then-FBI director James Comey, then-deputy director Andrew McCabe, then-deputy attorney general Sally Yates, then-acting-deputy attorney general Dana Boente, and deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein.
What this means is that Trump was under surveillance even after he became president:
Steele began playing up his role in the operation and gave an interview to David Corn of Mother Jones on October 30, 2016, only several days after the first FISA warrant was approved. The FBI dismissed him as an ongoing source, as he violated bureau protocol (Bombshell 5). However, the FBI never told FISC — the FISA court — when seeking warrant renewals (Bombshell 6).
7. DOJ Officialâs Wife Was Getting Paid By Fusion GPS
Throughout the process of obtaining the initial warrant, then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohrâs wife worked for Fusion GPS, the firm that hired Steele to dig up dirt on Trump. At the firm, she helped conduct opposition research on Trump and his associates. The FBI did not disclose this to the court.
Ohr was demoted within the DOJ in December 2017 after it was discovered he had concealed meetings with Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson. During these meetings, Steele confided in Ohr that he was âdesperate that Donald Trump not get elected.â The FBI knew about Steeleâs political bias against Trump, but did not make this known to the court.
Why this matters — constitutional crisis?
Exposing this — what many Trump supporters knew or suspected — is a very big deal and could cause a constitutional crisis:
From The_Donald:
This congressman takes it even further:
Ultimately:
What’s coming soon
On February 2, Gateway Pundit reported that Senators Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) are busy attempting to get a Senate Judiciary Committee memo declassified.
The HPSCI will also vote to make supporting documents to the FISA memo discussed here available to the public.
Expected in March is the inspector general’s — Michael Horowitz’s — report which is likely to cover this and much more.
2018 will be quite the year for news. Stay tuned.
(Forbidden Bible Verses will appear on Sunday, February 4.)
