department of justice - Forum - Command Center2024-03-29T06:26:26Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/feed/tag/department+of+justiceIt's Going Down, Antifa. Uncle Sam Just Started Delivering Payback for Terror Riotshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/it-s-going-down-antifa-uncle-sam-just-started-delivering-payback-2020-06-14T00:01:46.000Z2020-06-14T00:01:46.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5930266674,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5930266674,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="5930266674?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p>The Department of Justice has filed what looks to be the first tranche of charges against violent antifa protesters from coast-to-coast following weeks of rioting following the killing of George Floyd by police. As Antifa itself would say, “it’s going down.”</p>
<p>From La Mesa, Calif., Minneapolis, Austin, and Dallas to Baton Rouge, Philly, St. Paul, and Tacoma, Wash., more than 50 people have been indicted on various charges.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">“The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FirstAmendment?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FirstAmendment</a> does not permit people to use a protest as cover to commit arson, destroy property or incite violence. Any protestors who cross this line should know that we will use every tool at our disposal to find you and prosecute you.” <a href="https://twitter.com/USAttyBrady?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@USAttyBrady</a> <a href="https://t.co/BemGXgxIXa">https://t.co/BemGXgxIXa</a></p>
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<p>Conspicuously absent in this wave of indictments is anyone from Portland, Ore., arguably the area most seeded with members of the group designated as domestic terrorists by the Trump Administration. Rioters there attacked the Justice Center. They were back Saturday night to finish the job.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">A civil disturbance/unlawful assembly has been declared <a href="https://t.co/mUyfUcMhmh">pic.twitter.com/mUyfUcMhmh</a></p>
— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrOlmos/status/1271706628996227072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/06/13/its-going-down-antifa-uncle-sam-just-started-delivering-payback-for-terror-riots-n525503?fbclid=IwAR0y9Q3w0DYgls9PUpUZuiZC69C-yGj3InKPD0qczl-0cznuNNGG98IakJg">https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2020/06/13/its-going-down-antifa-uncle-sam-just-started-delivering-payback-for-terror-riots-n525503?fbclid=IwAR0y9Q3w0DYgls9PUpUZuiZC69C-yGj3InKPD0qczl-0cznuNNGG98IakJg</a></p></div>Rand Paul Introduces ‘Justice For Breonna Taylor Act’ Banning No-Knock Warrantshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/rand-paul-introduces-justice-for-breonna-taylor-act-banning-no-kn2020-06-13T10:23:11.000Z2020-06-13T10:23:11.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5911296655,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5911296655,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="5911296655?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">On Thursday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a bill that would prohibit law enforcement officers from forcing entry into homes without announcing themselves first. The proposed legislation, which is known as the “Justice for Breonna Taylor Act,” is a two-page bill that would essentially outlaw no-knock warrants. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The bill is named after Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old former EMT who was </span><a href="https://www.redstate.com/jeffc/2020/05/15/family-seeks-justice-after-police-gunned-down-breonna-taylor-in-her-home/"><span style="font-weight:400;">killed</span></a><span style="font-weight:400;"> by police officers who attempted to forcibly enter her home while serving a no-knock warrant. After her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker allegedly fired a shot at the officers, believing they were burglars, the officers fired 20 shots into the apartment, eight of which struck Taylor, killing her instantly. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">“After talking with Breonna Taylor’s family, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s long past time to get rid of no-knock warrants. This bill will effectively end no-knock raids in the United States,” Paul said in a statement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">The draft of the bill reads, “State or local law enforcement agency that receive funds from the Department of Justice during the fiscal year may not execute a warrant that does not require the law enforcement officer serving the warrant to provide notice of his or her authority and purpose before forcibly entering a premises.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400;">read more here: <a href="https://www.redstate.com/jeffc/2020/06/12/rand-paul-introduces-%E2%80%98justice-for-breonna-taylor-act%E2%80%99-banning-no-knock-warrants/">https://www.redstate.com/jeffc/2020/06/12/rand-paul-introduces-%e2%80%98justice-for-breonna-taylor-act%e2%80%99-banning-no-knock-warrants/</a></span></p></div>This Takes Some Nerve: House Dems File an Amicus Brief In the Flynn Case Against Dismissal, Claim ‘Partisanship’https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/this-takes-some-nerve-house-dems-file-an-amicus-brief-in-the-flyn2020-06-12T23:03:47.000Z2020-06-12T23:03:47.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5895757652,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5895757652,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="518" height="259" alt="5895757652?profile=RESIZE_710x" /></a></p>
<p>Judge Emmet Sullivan has created a dumpster fire of the Michael Flynn case in his desperation to keep it afloat awhile and cloud the issue of the FBI having targeted Flynn inappropriately.</p>
<p>Sullivan created the dumpster fire when he refused to dismiss the case despite both the defense and the prosecution moving to dismiss. Instead, Sullivan opened the door to amicus briefing, and appointed a retired judge, John Gleeson who already had shown a bias in the case, to write a brief on opposing the DOJ motion and opine on whether Flynn should be charged with perjury for pleading guilty to begin, allegedly under duress from the state.</p>
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<p>Opening it up to such filings seemed to be completely political to give a platform to attack Flynn, President Donald Trump, and the DOJ, while obscuring the targeting by the FBI and the lack of predicate for a criminal case they had to begin with.</p>
<p>If that wasn’t already insane enough, now House Democrats, political opponents of Flynn and people who hate him are now being allowed to weigh in on whether to dismiss his case. This is insanely improper, it basically has Sullivan with the advice of Gleeson, both acting as judge and ‘prosecutor.’</p>
<p>How do they try to argue around what the FBI did to Flynn? They argue the DOJ’s request to dismiss is what’s improper and a sign of “corruption.”</p>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/11/this-takes-some-nerve-house-dems-file-an-amicus-brief-in-the-flynn-case-against-dismissal-claim-partisanship/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=54e2ba7df376845982b7a23b8c677baf">https://www.redstate.com/nick-arama/2020/06/11/this-takes-some-nerve-house-dems-file-an-amicus-brief-in-the-flynn-case-against-dismissal-claim-partisanship/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=54e2ba7df376845982b7a23b8c677baf</a></p></div>Barr says familiar names among those DOJ is investigating in Durham probe, calls findings 'very troubling'https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/barr-says-familiar-names-among-those-doj-is-investigating-in-durh2020-06-10T21:24:25.000Z2020-06-10T21:24:25.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5817686480,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5817686480,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="450" alt="5817686480?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a><span style="font-size:12pt;">Attorney General Bill Barr told Fox News' Bret Baier in an exclusive interview aired Tuesday that Americans will be able to recognize "some" of the names under investigation as part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing probe into federal surveillance abuses -- and that he is "very troubled" by "what has been called to" his attention so far.</span></p>
<p class="speakable"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Barr asserted that despite the coronavirus pandemic, the Durham team "has been working very aggressively to move forward," and that there "will be public disclosure" of his findings. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-exclusive-fox-news-interview" target="_blank">Part one of Baier's interview</a> with Barr aired on Monday.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">"I think before the election, I think we're concerned about the motive force behind the very aggressive investigation that was launched into the Trump campaign without, you know, with a very thin, slender reed as a basis for it," Barr told Baier. "It seemed that the bureau was sort of spring-loaded at the end of July to drive in there and investigate a campaign."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">The Justice Department's (DOJ's) watchdog has identified critical errors in every FBI wiretap application that it audited as part of the fallout from the bureau's <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fisa-court-blocks-fbi-agents-linked-to-carter-page-probe-from-seeking-wiretaps-report" target="_blank">heavily flawed</a> investigation into former Trump adviser Carter Page, who was surveilled during the campaign in part because of a largely <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/horowitz-report-spotlights-fbi-agent-role-russia-probe-flynn">discredited</a> dossier funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">read more here: <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-says-familiar-names-among-those-doj-is-investigating-in-durham-probe">https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barr-says-familiar-names-among-those-doj-is-investigating-in-durham-probe</a></span></p></div>DOJ to Gavin Newsom: Start Reopening Churches in Californiahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/doj-to-gavin-newsom-start-reopening-churches-in-california2020-05-20T22:45:00.000Z2020-05-20T22:45:00.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5205686297,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5205686297,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="586" height="330" alt="5205686297?profile=original" /></a></p>
<p class="subheading">The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) warned California Gov. Gavin Newsom Tuesday that his reopening plan discriminates against religion and must be modified to allow for religious services to reopen.</p>
<p>Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband pointed out that Newsom’s plan allows a variety of businesses to reopen in “Stage 2,” but does not allow churches and other houses of worship to reopen until “Stage 3,” for no apparent reason.</p>
<p>Citing Attorney General William Barr’s April memorandum <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/04/27/attorney-general-william-barr-warns-states-local-governments-to-respect-religious-freedom/">warning</a> state and local governments to respect First Amendment rights of religious freedom — “[T]he Constitution is not suspended in times of crisis,” Barr wrote — Dreiband argued that while California could determine the pace of its reopening, it could not infringe on religion:</p>
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<p>Of course we recognize the duty that you have to protect the health and safety of Californians in the face of a pandemic that is unprecedented in our lifetimes.</p>
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<p>Laws that do not treat religious activities equally with comparable nonreligious activities are subject to heightened scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. … Religious gatherings may not be singled out for unequal treatment compared to other nonreligious gatherings that have the same effect on the government’s public health interest, absent the most compelling reasons.</p>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/05/20/doj-to-gavin-newsom-start-reopening-churches/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20200520">https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2020/05/20/doj-to-gavin-newsom-start-reopening-churches/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_campaign=20200520</a></p></div>The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US historyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/the-other-secrets-inside-grenell-s-satchel-are-the-key-to-the-big2020-05-15T21:59:26.000Z2020-05-15T21:59:26.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}5054273274,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}5054273274,RESIZE_400x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="362" alt="5054273274?profile=RESIZE_400x" /></a></p>
<p>That satchel that Acting DNI Ric Grenell personally delivered to the Department of Justice on May 7, 2020 was far too big for just a list of the 39 Obama administration officials, including his chief of staff and ambassador to Italy. Those higher ups have been exposed as requesting the unmasking of General Flynn. But there must have been a lot more inside, and that material was voluminous to require a briefcase-sized container, and that is the key to exposing the real extent of the spy operation that President Obama carried out on his political enemies, and the unmasking of General Michael Fynn is just the tip of the iceberg.</p>
<p>That is the basic message of this long and fascinating <a href="https://libertyunyielding.com/2020/05/13/beyond-biden-brennan-and-clapper-how-grenells-satchel-tells-us-this-is-on-the-right-track/">post</a> by retired naval officer J.E. Dyer at Liberty Unyielding. I urge those who take a keen interest in the subject to read the whole thing, for it is full of technical points and complexities, but I will offer my own perspective on the thesis advanced by Ms. Dyer, who <a href="https://twitter.com/OptimisticCon">tweets</a> under the name OptimisticCon. The post was sent to me by a counterintelligence professional who noted that it reinforced the <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/msm_pretending_dem_pols_unmasking_flynn_is_no_big_deal_not_even_worth_mentioning.html">point I made</a> yesterday:</p>
<p>The unmasking of the unmaskers of General Flynn's telephone call is the camel's nose under the tent of the Obama administration's conspiracy to sabotage the incoming Trump administration, using the vast resources of the federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies using Deep State operatives within them.”</p>
<p>The key message is that for years the Obama administration was mining the incomparable database of the National Security Agency (NSA), which captured virtually all electronic communications – emails, text messages, everything – launched into the ether. The potential for abuse is breathtaking. Everything that political enemies said to each other, except in private in-person conversations or in snail mail letters, could have been spied upon. And now it looks like staggering numbers of intercepts were monitored.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/the_emotheremsecrets_inside_grenells_satchel_are_the_key_to_the_biggest_political_scandal_in_us_history.html">https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/05/the_emotheremsecrets_inside_grenells_satchel_are_the_key_to_the_biggest_political_scandal_in_us_history.html</a></p></div>Flynn Judge Threatened with Ethics Complaints After Extending Case Despite DOJ Dropping Ithttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/flynn-judge-threatened-with-ethics-complaints-after-extending-cas2020-05-13T21:32:12.000Z2020-05-13T21:32:12.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4992776462,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4992776462,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="540" alt="4992776462?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a>The federal judge hearing the case of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn made waves Tuesday by saying he would open up the process to hear “friend of the court” submissions from a liberal group despite the fact that the Justice Department has already said it wants to dismiss the case.</p>
<p>The action by D.C. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, effectively puts the government’s effort to <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/fiery-dan-bongino-flynn-case-obama-knew/" target="_blank">drop the charges</a> on hold.</p>
<p>Sullivan said he will, “at the appropriate time,” develop a schedule for arguments against the Justice Department’s plan to drop the case, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/us-judge-puts-on-hold-justice-dept-move-to-dismiss-michael-flynns-guilty-plea-to-hear-outside-groups-challenges/2020/05/12/2fb4e356-949d-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html" target="_blank">The Washington Post</a>.</p>
<p>Flynn’s defense objected to the stall.</p>
<p>“No rule allows this filing,” attorney <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/attorney-president-obama-involved-plot-set-flynn/" target="_blank">Sidney Powell</a> wrote in her own court filing, noting that Sullivan would not accept outside groups’ comments in the past.</p>
<p>read the case file here (it has been removed from Scribd) : <a href="https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/flynn-judge-threatened-ethics-complaints-extending-case-despite-doj-dropping?fbclid=IwAR1SZq_OOZqrstJJvlsA1NroKNgQw8z6boSsqyJkO1XH3K9iRSxaWqFdIpY">https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/flynn-judge-threatened-ethics-complaints-extending-case-despite-doj-dropping?fbclid=IwAR1SZq_OOZqrstJJvlsA1NroKNgQw8z6boSsqyJkO1XH3K9iRSxaWqFdIpY</a></p></div>Mark Levin: The Silent Couphttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/mark-levin-the-silent-coup2020-05-12T18:47:49.000Z2020-05-12T18:47:49.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Great work by <a href="https://twitter.com/marklevinshow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@marklevinshow</a> <a href="https://t.co/pWMbO0m5JG">https://t.co/pWMbO0m5JG</a></p>— Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) <a href="https://twitter.com/DevinNunes/status/1259322942124482560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2020</a></blockquote> <script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>Why dismiss the Flynn case? Because the FBI can't prove ithttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/why-dismiss-the-flynn-case-because-the-fbi-can-t-prove-it2020-05-12T18:45:03.000Z2020-05-12T18:45:03.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4958638697,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4958638697,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="522" height="347" alt="4958638697?profile=original" /></a></p>
<p>The guiding tenet of the criminal justice system is that the government bears the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. All of the system’s rules are rooted in this principle. These include the prosecutor’s ethical obligation to dismiss a charge in the absence of a good-faith belief that a rational jury could convict the accused based on the government’s evidence.</p>
<p>The Department of Justice (DOJ) last week <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-drop-case-against-mike-flynn-11588878267" target="_blank">dismissed</a> the prosecution of <a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/person/michael-flynn">Michael Flynn</a>, who fleetingly served as <span class="rollover-people"><a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump">President Trump</a></span>’s first national security adviser. In all the heated commentary over this decision, scant attention has been paid to the most compelling reason for vacating Flynn’s 2017 guilty plea to one count of making false statements to FBI agents: The government wouldn’t have a prayer of convicting Flynn at trial.</p>
<p>Allowing the conviction to stand would have been a travesty. This basic fact, this utter lack of sufficient evidence, is obscured by the DOJ’s heavy reliance on a legal rationale for dropping the case. In its 20-page <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/read-dojs-motion-to-dismiss-charges-against-michael-flynn" target="_blank">memorandum</a> in support of dismissal, the DOJ contends that any false statements by Flynn could not have been material because there was no legitimate basis to investigate or interview him. Federal law makes materiality an essential element of a false-statements charge.</p>
<p>The FBI opened a counterintelligence probe of Flynn in August 2016 on the absurd ground that he might be a clandestine Russian agent. (Flynn is a retired three-star Army general and decorated combat commander, who had then recently written <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Field-Fight-Global-Against-Radical/dp/1250131626" target="_blank">a book</a> identifying Russia as a committed global adversary of the United States.) This suspicion was frivolously supported.</p>
<p> The FBI’s then-director, <span class="rollover-people"><a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/james-comey">James Comey</a></span>, authorized closing the investigation in December 2016, and the paperwork to do so was completed on Jan. 4, 2017 — 20 days before the Flynn interview.</p>
<p>Then the FBI learned that Flynn, as an official in the Trump transition who was designated to become the president’s national security adviser, had had communications in December with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. The government was monitoring Kislyak, and recordings showed that Flynn did nothing inappropriate; there was no ground to reopen or continue the counterintelligence investigation or to begin a criminal investigation. </p>
<p>Likewise, DOJ never would have charged Flynn criminally with violating the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Logan-Act" target="_blank">Logan Act</a> — a moribund, unconstitutional prohibition against freelance diplomacy. In the DOJ’s 150-year history, the Logan Act has never been charged. No one has ever been convicted for violating it; there has been no case since 1852. To say it would be a preposterous basis for indicting a president-elect’s top security adviser puts it mildly.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/497064-why-dismiss-the-flynn-case-because-the-fbi-cant-prove-it">https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/497064-why-dismiss-the-flynn-case-because-the-fbi-cant-prove-it</a></p>
<p> </p></div>Acting DNI seeks to declassify any Obama officials involved in Flynn 'unmasking'https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/acting-dni-seeks-to-declassify-any-obama-officials-involved-in-fl2020-05-11T23:08:37.000Z2020-05-11T23:08:37.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><h2 class="Article__Headline__Desc"><em>Grenell visited the Justice Department last week over the matter.</em></h2>
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<p>Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/2000-doj-officials-call-ag-barr-resign-flynn/story?id=70615677" target="_blank">sought to declassify</a> a list of <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/susan-rice-unmasking-controversy/story?id=46592843" target="_blank">former Obama administration</a> officials who were <a href="" target="_blank">allegedly involved</a> in the so-called “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his conversations with the former <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/russia-nation" target="_blank">Russia</a>n ambassador during the presidential transition, a senior U.S. official tells ABC News.</p>
<p>Grenell, who remains the U.S. ambassador to Germany along with being the acting DNI, visited the Justice Department last week to request the declassification of the list, according to the official.</p>
<p>His visit indicates his focus on an issue previously highlighted in 2017 by skeptics of the investigation into the Trump campaign's contacts with Russia, specifically allegations that former officials improperly unveiled Flynn's identity from intercepts of his call with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-dni-seeks-declassify-obama-officials-involved-flynn/story?id=70624372">https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/acting-dni-seeks-declassify-obama-officials-involved-flynn/story?id=70624372</a></p>
<p> </p></div>35 Key People Involved In The Russia Hoax Who Need To Be Investigatedhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/35-key-people-involved-in-the-russia-hoax-who-need-to-be-investig2020-05-11T22:38:36.000Z2020-05-11T22:38:36.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4934559095,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4934559095,RESIZE_710x{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4934559095?profile=RESIZE_710x" width="781" height="475" /></a></p>
<p>Funny how things change. The Washington Post couldn’t say a nice thing about congressional Republican efforts to investigate the Obama administration and FBI shenanigans that occurred before and after the 2016 election. That’s if they even covered these efforts at all.</p>
<p>But with Democrats controlling the House, and that legislative body’s subpoena power, the establishment media’s line has changed. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have just sent letters to 81 people, all associated with President Trump or the Russia probe, demanding answers on Russian election interference.</p>
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<p>This is part of Democrats’ effort to continue their hunt for proof of Russia collusion—although they are already sure that Trump is guilty—as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation appears to be winding down. To cover these events, the Post’s Philip Bump wrote an article titled: “<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/04/people-organizations-just-looped-into-trump-probe-why-they-were-included/?utm_term=.3c616078864a">The 81 people and organizations just looped into the Trump probe—and why they were included</a>.” Of course, the article is totally unquestioning of the House Democrats’ desired narrative and motivations.</p>
<h2>Investigated, But Not for the Reasons Dems Give</h2>
<p>Rinat Akhmetshin—omits glaring and important facts. Bump says Akhmetshin “joined his colleague Natalia Veselnitskaya, a lawyer linked to the Kremlin, at the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower predicated on providing information that would undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign.” But, Bump says, “the focus of the meeting instead reportedly focused on the Magnitsky Act—a law that resulted in sanctions on numerous prominent Russians.”</p>
<p>Bump somehow forgets to tell us that Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm hired by Hillary Clinton to create nefarious ties between Trump and Russia, was <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2018/07/30/facts-behind-trump-tower-meeting-incriminating-not-trump/">working with Akhmetshin and Veselnitskaya</a> to lobby for the Russian government.</p>
<h2>Obama and Comey’s FBI People</h2>
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<p><strong>Gregory Brower</strong> was Jim Comey’s FBI congressional liaison, and <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisgeidner/fbi-comey-brower-congress-departure">left the agency in 2018</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Kevin Clinesmith</strong>, a former FBI lawyer, wrote anti-Trump texts with former top FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.</p>
<p><strong>Joseph Pientka,</strong> an FBI official,was the go-between for Fusion GPS and the FBI.</p>
<h2>Obama’s DOJ People</h2>
<p><strong>Tashina Gauhar</strong> is a Department of Justice attorney who was deeply involved in applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, which were used to spy on the Trump campaign using the dossiers.</p>
<p><strong>John Carlin </strong>is the head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, and got out of the DOJ in late 2016. He was the former chief of staff to Mueller, when Mueller led the FBI in the 2000s.</p>
<p><strong>David Laufman </strong>is a high-level DOJ official in the national security division. Laufman worked with FBI counterintelligence guy Strzok on both the Clinton email investigation and the investigation into the Trump campaign based on the still-unproven, Clinton-paid, and Russian-sourced “dossier.”</p>
<p><strong>Mary McCord </strong>was the acting assistant attorney general for a time, replacing Carlin as the head of the DOJ’s national security division.</p>
<p><strong>George Toscas</strong>, a senior official in the Justice Department, was in charge of the “Mid-Year-Exam” investigation into Clinton’s email abuses. Toscas had a front seat to both McCabe and Comey’s efforts to hide the fact that Clinton’s emails were found on Weiner’s computer, and former Obama attorney general <a href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/mark-hemingway/comey-loretta-lynch-attempted-to-influence-clinton-email-investigation">Loretta Lynch’s efforts</a> to stymie the Clinton email investigation.</p>
<h2>Obama’s State Department People</h2>
<p><strong>Victoria Nuland</strong> was a top Obama State Department official, and potentially Clinton’s secretary of state.</p>
<p><strong>Jonathan Winer</strong> was a top Obama State Department official. Winer received documents alleging Trump-Russia collusion from notorious Clinton guy Cody Shearer.</p>
<p><strong>Jonathan Finer</strong> was another Obama State Department official, and the chief of staff to former secretary of state John Kerry. Finer got the so-called dossier from Winer, and gave it to John Kerry.</p>
<p><strong>Elizabeth Dibble </strong>was the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy in London. She was reported to be one of the State Department officials who received information from Australian ambassador to the U.K. Alexander Downer, who has <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/06/25/the_mysterious_seven_preludes_of_the_fbis_trump-russia_probe.html">ties to the Clinton Foundation</a>, about George Papadopoulos saying to Downer that Joseph Misfud—a European professor with <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/05/26/the_maltese_phantom_of_russiagate_.html">potential ties to western intelligence agencies</a>—told Papadopoulos that Russia had dirt on Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>Finally, <strong>Thomas Williams</strong> is another State Department guy in the London embassy. <strong>Colin Kahl</strong>, <strong>Kathleen Kavalec</strong>, and <strong>Lewis Lukens</strong> were all State Department officials who had some sort of interaction with the dossier, or Fusion GPS people.</p>
<h2>People Tied to the DNC or Clinton Campaign</h2>
<p>Perkins Coie, a law firm, was paid by the Clinton campaign to serve as a go-between to hide the fact that Hillary’s campaign was paying Fusion GPS to push the Trump-Russia smear.</p>
<p><strong>Marc Elias</strong> is a lawyer at Perkins Coie, who hired Fusion GPS for the Clinton campaign.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Sussmann</strong> is another lawyer at Perkins Coie, who received a story about a Russian bank, Alphabank, communicating with a server in Trump Tower from Fusion GPS. Sussmann went directly to the FBI with that story.</p>
<p><strong>Robbie Mook</strong> was a top Hillary Clinton campaign official. As Fusion GPS was working on the dossier, Perkins Coie was getting the information from Steele and <a href="https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/final_russia_investigation_report.pdf">briefing Mook</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Jake Sullivan</strong> is another top advisor in Clinton’s campaign, who played a role in forming the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.</p>
<p><strong>Cody Shearer</strong> is a longtime Clinton dirty tricks guy, with a <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/04/25/test.html">record of smearing the Clintons’ political opponents</a>. He authored a “dossier,” largely based on Steele’s work, that was picked up by Winer at Obama’s State Department.</p>
<p><strong>Sidney Blumenthal</strong> is an even <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/04/25/test.html">more infamous</a> Clinton stooge. “Sid” is so infamous that Obama told Hillary that he didn’t want Blumenthal associated with the Obama administration. Blumenthal got the Trump-Russia conspiracies written by Shearer into the Obama State Department.</p>
<h2>Fusion GPS People</h2>
<p><strong>Rinat Akhmetshin</strong>, <strong>Edward Baumgartner</strong>, <strong>Peter Fritsch</strong>, <strong>Mary Jacoby, Shailagh Murray, Neil King Jr., Thomas Catan, Daniel Jones and Glenn Simpson </strong>is the head of Fusion GPS. There are lots of indications that he lied to Congress during his testimony about Nellie Ohr, the wife of DOJ official Bruce Ohr, before it was publicly known that Nellie worked for Fusion GPS.</p>
<h2>The Big Fish</h2>
<p>Of course, there’s also former director of national intelligence <strong>Jim Clapper</strong>, <strong>Comey</strong> and <strong>Andrew McCabe</strong> at FBI, and former CIA director <strong>John Brennan</strong>.</p>
<p>Comey and McCabe are leakers, and should be prosecuted as such. Brennan is a <a href="https://www.weeklystandard.com/lee-smith/brennan-the-russian-dossier-and-obamas-grand-political-strategy">particular bad actor</a>, and did much to spread the dossiers around the federal government and our intelligence community. It is also thought that Brennan <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/255020/how-cia-director-john-brennan-targeted-james-comey">pushed</a> the FBI to investigate Trump, or at least increase the intensity of its spying on Trump’s campaign.</p>
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<p>I only posted the names of the Bad Actors involved in Obamagate! You can read the whole story and learn more about each here: <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/08/35-key-people-involved-russia-hoax-need-investigated/#.XritltJjc7Y.twitter">https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/08/35-key-people-involved-russia-hoax-need-investigated/#.XritltJjc7Y.twitter</a></p>
<p> </p></div>NastyNancy Condemns Dropping of Flynn Case, Slams Barr for Trump 'Cover Up'https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/nastynancy-condemns-dropping-of-flynn-case-slams-barr-for-trump-c2020-05-08T00:10:08.000Z2020-05-08T00:10:08.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4831356287,RESIZE_930x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4831356287,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="550" alt="4831356287?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
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<p>When the Department of Justice (DOJ) finally dropped the case against General Michael Flynn, a former national security adviser for President Donald Trump, House Democrats slammed the decision as a partisan attempt to “cover up” for Trump — presumably on Russia. While Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, presented evidence suggesting Flynn was “set up by corrupt agents” who threatened his son in order to pressure him into pleading guilty, Democrats insisted that the DOJ’s decision to drop the case will “incriminate Bill Barr.”</p>
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<p>“Attorney General Barr’s politicization of justice knows no bounds,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/496713-pelosi-slams-ag-after-justice-department-drops-flynn-case-barrs-politicization">said in a statement</a>. “Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators in the face of overwhelming evidence – but now, Attorney General Barr’s Justice Department is dropping the case to continue to cover up for the President.”</p>
<p>“Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his illicit Russian contacts,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) tweeted. “His lies do not now become truths. This dismissal does not exonerate him. But it does incriminate Bill Barr. In the worst politicization of the Justice Department in its history.”</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/07/pelosi-condemns-dropping-of-flynn-case-slams-barr-for-trump-cover-up-n389080">https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2020/05/07/pelosi-condemns-dropping-of-flynn-case-slams-barr-for-trump-cover-up-n389080</a></p></div>Sidney Powell, General Flynn's Attorney, Reacts to DOJ Dropping Flynn's Casehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/sidney-powell-general-flynn-s-attorney-reacts-to-doj-dropping-fly2020-05-07T23:58:05.000Z2020-05-07T23:58:05.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/srBqeWQxP08" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></div>Jerry "The Penguin" Nadler Rages After DOJ Drops Flynn Case: ‘Outrageous!’https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/jerry-the-penguin-nadler-rages-after-doj-drops-flynn-case-outrage2020-05-07T22:07:39.000Z2020-05-07T22:07:39.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4829165467,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4829165467,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="500" alt="4829165467?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p class="subheading">House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY) reacted furiously to the Department of Justice reportedly <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/07/report-ap-doj-drops-michael-flynn-prosecution/">dropping</a> its criminal case against retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, referring to the Thursday development as “outrageous.”</p>
<p>“This is outrageous! Flynn PLEADED GUILTY to lying to investigators,” Nadler wrote on social media. “The evidence against him is overwhelming. Now, a politicized DOJ is dropping the case.”</p>
<p>The decision to overrule the special counsel is without precedent and warrants an immediate explanation,” the New York Democrat added.</p>
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<p>Flynn PLEADED GUILTY to lying to investigators. The evidence against him is overwhelming. Now, a politicized DOJ is dropping the case.</p>
<p>The decision to overrule the special counsel is without precedent and warrants an immediate explanation.</p>
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<p>— (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) <a class="x5l" href="https://twitter.com/RepJerryNadler/status/1258473309030752256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">May 7, 2020</a></p>
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<p>“Due to the ongoing COVID-19 emergency, I worked with DOJ to postpone our scheduled hearing with AG Barr as attentions and resources appropriately went to responding to the pandemic. But rest assured, we are going to reschedule that hearing, ASAP, and demand answers!” he concluded.</p>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/07/jerry-nadler-rages-outrageous-that-doj-dropped-flynn-case/">https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/07/jerry-nadler-rages-outrageous-that-doj-dropped-flynn-case/</a></p></div>DOJ releases Mueller's marching ordershttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/doj-releases-mueller-s-marching-orders2020-05-07T01:16:17.000Z2020-05-07T01:16:17.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4801527260,RESIZE_1200x{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4801527260,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="420" height="345" alt="4801527260?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">The Department of Justice has released a less redacted copy of a memo laying out the scope of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) after the Judiciary Committee chairman requested it.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000171-ebc4-d2fd-a9f5-efe5ebf00000" target="_blank">memo</a>, “The Scope of Investigation and Definition of Authority,” was sent on Aug. 2, 2017, to Mueller by Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general at the time.</p>
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<p class="story-text__paragraph">The unredacted bullet points include four names, beginning with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. It tasks Mueller with determining whether Page committed a crime by “colluding with Russian government officials” as they interfered in the 2016 election.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">Mueller was also tasked with investigating whether former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort likewise colluded with the Russian government, whether he committed crimes related to his work in Ukraine, and whether he committed a crime by taking loans from a bank CEO who was pursuing a job in the Trump administration.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">The memo makes the same collusion allegation regarding former Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopolous, and also asks Mueller to look into whether he was an unregistered agent of the government of Israel.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">The memo asks Mueller to probe four questions regarding Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who was fired less than a month into the job: whether he committed crimes by talking to Russian government officials during the Trump transition, whether he lied to the FBI about contacts he had with the Russian government, whether he failed to report foreign contacts and income on his background investigation application and whether he did not properly register as an agent for the Turkish government.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">The scope memo also permitted Mueller to add additional avenues of investigation with approval from Rosenstein's office.</p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph"><strong>click the blue highlighted "memo" to read. </strong></p>
<p class="story-text__paragraph">read the rest of the article here: <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/06/doj-releases-robert-mueller-memo-240666">https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/06/doj-releases-robert-mueller-memo-240666</a></p>
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</div>Maria Bartiromo calls Lindsey Graham out: “Why Do You Continue To Do Nothing”?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/maria-bartiromo-calls-lindsey-graham-out-why-do-you-continue-to-d2020-05-05T11:18:39.000Z2020-05-05T11:18:39.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p>Ms. Maria Bartiromo interviews Senator Lindsey Graham, yet again, about the surveillance coup effort and the recent documents released in the Flynn case. Once again, Senator Graham claims he will use his position as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman to initiate an investigation of those in the DOJ and FBI who have continually lied to the FISA court, the U.S. judicial system (various judges), and the America people.</p>
<p>Bartiromo calls Graham out on his lack of action; however, once again Senator Graham hides behind an “ongoing investigation.” This “I’m not going to interfere in an ongoing criminal matter” is the exact same excuse Graham used previously in: (1) the Mueller investigation; (2) the Horowitz investigation; (3) the IG review of the FBI FISA abuse; (4) the IG review of Andrew McCabe; (4) the IG review of Comey’s memos; and now the Durham investigation into the origins of Obama’s political targeting and Flynn.</p>
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<p>read more here: <a href="https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/03/sunday-talks-maria-bartiromo-questions-senator-graham-why-do-you-continue-to-do-nothing/">https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/05/03/sunday-talks-maria-bartiromo-questions-senator-graham-why-do-you-continue-to-do-nothing/</a></p></div>Declassified Horowitz Footnotes Show Obama Officials Knew Steele Dossier Was Russian Disinformation Designed To Target Trumphttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/forum/declassified-horowitz-footnotes-show-obama-officials-knew-steele-2020-04-16T11:19:29.000Z2020-04-16T11:19:29.000ZAdmin Melony B. DeFordhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AdminMelonyBDeFord<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4438873873,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4438873873,RESIZE_584x{{/staticFileLink}}" width="550" alt="4438873873?profile=RESIZE_584x" /></a></p>
<p>Newly declassified footnotes from Department of Justice Inspector General <a href="https://saraacarter.com/ig-horowitz-we-do-not-have-confidence-that-the-fbi-has-executed-its-woods-procedures/" target="_blank">Michael Horowitz’s</a> December FBI report reveals that senior Obama officials, including members of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane team knew the dossier compiled by a former British spy during the 2016 election was Russian disinformation to target President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Further, the partially declassified footnotes reveal that those senior intelligence officials were aware of the disinformation when they included the dossier in the Obama administration’s Intelligence Communities Assessment (ICA).</p>
<p>As important, the footnotes reveal that there had been a request to validate information collected by British spy <a href="https://saraacarter.com/carter-page-suing-democratic-national-committee-over-steele-dossier/" target="_blank">Christopher Steele</a> as far back as 2015, and that there was concern among members of the FBI and intelligence community about his reliability. Those concerns were brushed aside by members of the Crossfire Hurricane team in their pursuit against the Trump campaign officials, according to sources who spoke to this reporter and the footnotes.</p>
<p>The explosive footnotes were partially declassified and made public Wednesday, after a lengthy review by the Director of National Intelligence <a href="https://saraacarter.com/exclusive-congressional-leaks-threaten-national-security-dni-warns/" target="_blank">Richard Grenell’s</a> office. Grenell sent the letter Wednesday releasing the documents to Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and Sen. Ron Johnson, R- Wisconsin, both who requested the declassification.</p>
<p>“Having reviewed the matter, and having consulted the heads of the relevant Intelligence Community elements, I have declassified the enclosed footnotes.” Grenell consulted with DOJ Attorney General William Barr on the declassification of the documents.</p>
<p>Grassley and Johnson released a statement late Wednesday stating “as we can see from these now-declassified footnotes in the IG’s report, Russian intelligence was aware of the dossier before the FBI even began its investigation and the FBI had reports in hand that their central piece of evidence was most likely tainted with Russian disinformation.”</p>
<p>“Thanks to Attorney General Barr’s and Acting Director Grenell’s declassification of the footnotes, we know the FBI’s justification to target an American Citizen was riddled with significant flaws,” the Senator stated. “Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his team did what neither the FBI nor Special Counsel Mueller cared to do: examine and investigate corruption at the FBI, the sources of the Steele dossier, how it was disseminated, and reporting that it contained Russian disinformation.”</p>
<h5><strong>The Footnotes </strong></h5>
<p>A U.S. Official familiar with the investigation into the FBI told this reporter that the footnotes “clearly show that the FBI team was or should have had been aware that the Russian Intelligence Services was trying to influence Steele’s reporting in the summer of 2016, and that there were some preferences for Hillary; and that this RIS [Russian Intelligence Services] sourced information being fed to Steele was designed to hurt Trump.”</p>
<p>The official noted these new revelations also “undermines the ICA on Russian Interference and the intent to help Trump. It undermines the FISA warrants and there should not have been a Mueller investigation.”</p>
<h5><strong>Russian’s Appeared To Have Preferred Clinton</strong></h5>
<p>The footnotes also reveal a startling fact that go against Brennan’s assessment that Russia was vying for Trump, when in fact, the Russians appeared to be hopeful of a Clinton presidency.</p>
<p>“The FBI received information in June, 2017 which revealed that, among other things, there were personal and business ties between the sub-source and Steele’s Primary Sub-source, contacts between the sub-source and an individual in the Russian Presidential Administration in June/July 2016 [redacted] and the sub source voicing strong support for candidate Clinton in the 2016 U.S. election. The Supervisory Intel Analyst told us that the FBI did not have a Section 702 vicarage on any other Steele sub-source.”</p>
<h5><strong>Steele’s Lies </strong></h5>
<p>The complete four pages of the partially redacted footnotes paint a clear picture of the alleged malfeasance committed by former FBI Director James Comey, former DNI James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan, who were all aware of the concerns regarding the information supplied by former British spy Christopher Steele in the dossier. Steele, who was hired by the private embattled research firm Fusion GPS, was paid for his work through the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee. The FBI also paid for Steele’s work before ending its confidential source relationship with him but then used Obama DOJ Official Bruce Ohr as a go between to continue obtaining information from the former spy.</p>
<p>read more here: <a href="https://saraacarter.com/declassified-horowitz-footnotes-show-obama-officials-knew-steele-dossier-was-russian-disinformation-designed-to-target-trump/">https://saraacarter.com/declassified-horowitz-footnotes-show-obama-officials-knew-steele-dossier-was-russian-disinformation-designed-to-target-trump/</a></p></div>