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Mohammad bin Salman screwed up … big time
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by Joe Gilbertson    
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HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes Discusses Flynn Case
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ House Permanent Sub Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Chairman Devin Nunes appears on with Maria Bartiromo... to discuss the current state of issues with Michael Flynn. Chairman Nunes draws attention to the latest documents released Friday. One of the documents is written by Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe who noted that Flynn was aware the FBI had the content of a phone call between himself and Russian Ambassador Kislyak, prior to the FBI interview. Therefore it is highly unlikely Flynn would lie about the content of that Kislyak phone call. Most people forget the background of how the dirty cop-Mueller probe was constructed. FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and FBI chief legal counsel James Baker selected most of the special counsel investigators; those two then recommended to Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein that he hire dirty cop-Robert Mueller as special counsel lead. scumbag-Comey was fired. The remaining ‘at-risk’ corrupt FBI leadership McCabe and Baker, positioning to defend their own interests, selected the “small group”; then dirty cop-Mueller was selected and brought on his additional team members. The entire  purpose of the special counsel operation was to cover-up the DOJ/FBI activity... Thats why anything that is released by the FBI I question.
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Trump To Review Case Of Green Beret 
Charged With Killing Taliban  
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by Saagar Enjeti
{dailycaller.com} ~ The case centers around former U.S. Army Major Matt Golsteyn, who captured a suspected Taliban bomb-maker in 2010... Golsteyn and his men said the captured bomb-maker refused to cooperate with interrogators and that under their rules of engagement they had to release him.  Golsteyn said that he and his men suspected the Taliban bomb-maker of masterminding the deaths of U.S. Marines killed the day prior and that a local tribal elder had identified him as a known militant. The former U.S. Army Major later told investigators that he conspired with one of his men to kill the bomb-maker and bury his body.  Golsteyn admitted in a 2016 Fox News interview that he killed the bomb-maker, prompting renewed interest in the case. Following the interview and subsequent re-opening of the investigation the Army charged him with premeditated murder earlier this week. Golysten’s commander “has determined that sufficient evidence exists to warrant the preferral of charges against him,” a U.S. Army spokesman said Friday, adding “Major Golsteyn is being charged with the murder of an Afghan male during his 2010 deployment to Afghanistan.” I stand by Major Golsteyn.
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Darryl Issa Discusses Flynn Case, FISA Abuse and
Upcoming scumbag-James Comey Testimony
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Congressman Darryl Issa appears for an interview with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the sketchy dirty cop-Mueller case against Michael Flynn; the likelihood that someone in the administration is going to have to talk to the FISA court about likely DOJ abuse; and the second round of questions for scumbag-James Comey scheduled for tomorrow.  
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Congress Just Made a Dangerous Move
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Clarion Project’s National Security Analyst and head of Clarion’s intelligence network Ryan Mauro discusses... the recent dangerous move by Congress to stop military funds used to help Saudi Arabia in their fight against Iran in the proxy war being fought by the two countries in Yemen. Mauro argues that the move emboldens the Iranian regime, who will have the possibility of cutting off vital shipping lanes as a result:  https://clarionproject.org/dangerous-move-made-by-congress/
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Michael Mukasey Discusses Current State of DOJ
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Former U.S. Attorney General under President George W. Bush Michael Mukasey weighs in on Trump’s appointment of William Barr to U.S. attorney general.  
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Mohammad bin Salman screwed up … big time
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by Joe Gilbertson  

{punchingbagpost.com} ~ When it was only reports in the newspapers that the CIA had sufficient evidence to confirm that Saudi Prince Mohammad bin Salman was complicit in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, President Trump may have been prudent in initially holding off his final judgment on the role played by the heir apparent to the Saudi throne.

Now that a group of bipartisan Senators – including Republicans supportive of President Trump – have been briefed by the CIA and have all concluded that bin Salman is guilty beyond any doubt, we have an entirely different situation.  None of the senators equivocated on their unanimous guilty verdict.  Whether the Prince ordered it or approved of it at the suggestion of others is a distinction without a difference.  In this “who done it,” he done it.

One of the more bothersome questions is why Trump did not know all the facts long before the senators got their briefing?  One would have expected that the President would have had CIA Director Gina Haspel in his office as soon as she returned from Turkey, where the Turkish government provided a detailed account and apparently conclusive evidence pointing to the Prince.

One also wonders why two of the administration’s most important and most credible Cabinet members – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense James Mattis – had also stated that there was no “direct link” to the Prince.  That may be technically true – and maybe not – but there appears to be sufficient circumstantial evidence to establish bin Salman’s guilt beyond any reasonable doubt.

Republican senators Bob Corker (a critic of the President) and Lindsey Graham (an ally of the President) were unequivocal in their statements that the Prince was personally responsible.  Corker said that any jury would convict bin Salman of murder “after thirty minutes” of deliberation.  Lindsey seemed to be addressing not only Trump, but Pompeo and Mattis, when he said that one would have to be “intentionally blind“ not to see bin Salman’s complicity.

Trump has no choice but to accept the conclusion of the CIA and now the majority of the Senate.  The Congress is poised to pass tough sanctions against Saudi Arabia by a majority that could and would overrule any presidential veto.  The legislators may take over the relationship by terminating arms sales and withdrawing support for the war in Yemen.

Trump’s resistance to blame the Prince seems largely due to a desire not to destroy our critical – and yes, it IS critical — working relationship with Saudi Arabia.  They are a key player in the strategy to keep Iran – and indirectly, Russia and China – from dominating the Middle East.  Democrats’ claim that it has to do with business interests between the Saudi royal family and the Trump organization – including son-in-law Jared Kushner.  That is nothing more than political garbage.

That bogus theory would not explain the comments of Pompeo and Mattis.  They clearly understand the strategic importance of Saudi Arabia – as does Israel and most of the European Union.  The EU heads-of-state have been no harsher on bin Salman than has Trump.  There were a large number of those heads-of-state in Argentina for the G20 confab – and they all seemed pretty friendly in their dealings with bin Salman.  Whatever the resolution to l’affaire Khashoggi, the alliance between Saudi Arabia and the western world needs to be preserved.  That is the dilemma.

Editor’s note: The big question is, does this make any difference? Trump has been trying to give MBS the benefit of the doubt because he knows that MBS is not going anywhere either way, and better to just go with the flow. Saudi Arabia is an important ally and the stability of the Middle East currently depends on that alliance. At some point, however, this becomes an issue for Trump (ironically less so for MBS), since demands to terminate our relationship with him will grow louder.

It is the nature of governments that when the stakes are large, people die. In some countries, people die when the stakes are small. As a former inteligence officer, I can tell you that if we broke off relations with countries who might be willing to do what MBS purportedly did, then we would have relationships with no one. The big mistake was getting caught.

This is, of course, a mistake that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton has never made, even though from Vince Foster to Seth Rich, fingers have been pointed.
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