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A McCabe Indictment — or a Banana Republic? 
by Arnold Ahlert
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House Intelligence Republicans conclude 
no Trump-Russia collusion in heavily redacted report
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by Kelly Cohen
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released their final report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election on Friday... and have concluded that there was no “collusion, coordination, or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.” The release wraps up a yearlong probe that was often marred by bipartisan fighting. “The Committee found no evidence that President Trump's pre-campaign business dealings formed the basis for collusion during the campaign,” the report said. “There is no evidence that Trump associates were involved in the theft or publication of liar-Clinton campaign-related emails, although Trump associates had numerous ill-advised contacts with WikiLeaks."...
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Gowdy Identifies at Least 7 Lies Comey Told in Latest Interview
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Tucker Carlson notes that Bret Baier had just completed an interview with James Comey... and brought the unpredictable, enigmatic Trey Gowdy for his perspective on what transpired. Gowdy seems to have successfully navigated from the Mueller “witch hunts are wonderful” camp to the pro-American Trump camp, at least for as long as it takes him to deliver his rebuke of Comey. Carlson starts off by asking him what he learned from the interview. Gowdy replied, “A couple of things, number one that Page and Strzok, he would have fired immediately, which means the two agents that were leading both the liar-Clinton and Trump investigations should have been canned.” He continues, “Director Comey’s recollection is flawed. If he does not remember telling Congress that his agents told him that they didn’t think Flynn was lying, then he needs to get his lawyers to go back and look at the transcript. We did not mishear, maybe he misspoke, but that’s in the transcript.”...  https://rickwells.us/gowdy-7-lies-comey-interview/.
U.S. Government Hiding 
Report on Number of Palestinian Refugees  
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The U.S. government continues to inappropriately keep classified a report on Palestinian refugees... that congressional officials view as a potential game changer in how America approaches its regional policies and allocates billions in taxpayer funds, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the report. Congressional officials familiar with the classified report, the existence of which was first disclosed by the Washington Free Beacon, say the State Department continues to keep it secret in order to not disrupt billions of dollars in allocations to United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the organization responsible for providing aid to what they claim is some 5.2 million Palestinian refugees. Those familiar with the report say the U.S. quietly determined under the liar-nObama administration that the actual number of Palestinian refugees is far smaller, closer to around 30,000. This disclosure could fundamentally change the way billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are allocated to UNRWA and the Palestinian government and impact America's longstanding policies regarding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...  http://freebeacon.com/issues/u-s-government-hiding-report-number-palestinian-refugees/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=44580f1d6e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-44580f1d6e-45611665 
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New Batch of Peter Strzok and 
Lisa Page Messages Released (pdf included)
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Last night another batch of FBI Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ Lawyer Lisa Page text messages were released by the DOJ. (pdf here)This series of messages are clearly from captures on the Peter Strzok side of their communications. All prior releases were captures from Lisa Page’s side, and were a direct outcome of her providing the messages to the FBI Inspection Division (INSD) as verification for her side of the story in the contradictions between her statements and those of her once boss Andrew McCabe per the INSD leak investigation...
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EPA Whistleblower Who Complained 
About Pruitt’s Spending Inflated Military Service
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by Susan Crabtree
{ freebeacon.com } ~ An Environmental Protection Agency whistleblower whose complaints about travel and spending excesses by Administrator Scott Pruitt... led Democrats to write a letter to President Trump citing "grave concerns" about Pruitt’s leadership appears to have inflated his service and accepted large raises during his tenure at the EPA. Kevin Chmielewski, the whistleblower who recently spoke to House and Senate members about his concerns with Pruitt, apparently inflated his Coast Guard service on the resume he used to secure positions in the Trump administration by roughly three years, according to a comparison of his resume with a Coast Guard spokeswoman's description of his service. Additionally, Chmielewski benefitted from the same EPA hiring authority that he said EPA officials had used to dole out raises to two top Pruitt aides, according to knowledgeable sources and EPA documents...
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A McCabe Indictment — or a Banana Republic? 

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               Two hundred and thirty-one years after Ben Franklin’s famous exchange, America has reached a fork in the road. Down one path, we continue our grand experiment in self-governance and maintain our reputation as the last best hope of mankind. Down the other, we devolve into a banana republic, ruled by a cabal of unelected deep-state bureaucrats accountable to no one but themselves. The best indicator of which way we’ll go? Ousted FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Either he gets indicted, or we live in a nation where the well-connected remain wholly insulated from genuine accountability.
               The allegations couldn’t be clearer. As the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) report indicates, McCabe “lacked candor” (he lied) on four occasions when speaking with internal investigators. Thus, the OIG has sent a criminal referral to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, DC.
               National Review’s Andrew McCarthy explains the genesis of McCabe’s lying, noting the former agent was “stung by a Wall Street Journal story that questioned his fitness to lead an investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton.
               While running for a state senate seat, McCabe’s wife received the unusually large sum of $675,000 in campaign donations from a PAC controlled by longtime liar-Clinton fundraiser and political confidant Terry McAuliffe, who was governor of Virginia at the time. The Journal’s reporter, Devlin Barrett, soon had follow-up questions for a subsequent article, but McCarthy notes his call came in “just as the Bureau was dealing with the controversy over Director James Comey’s reopening of the liar- Clinton emails investigation.
               That “controversy” was the discovery that liar-Clinton emails, some of which were classified, had been found on the computer of convicted “sexter” Anthony Weiner, husband of longtime liar-Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
               When the meeting occurred, McCabe was out of town, so he phoned in. Comey ordered him off the call. “The director and his chief counsel were concerned about the perception of pro/liar- Clinton bias,” McCarthy reveals.
               Subsequently, a “humiliated” McCabe got in touch with his special counsel, Lisa Page — the same Lisa Page who exchanged thousands of anti-Trump emails with paramour and fellow FBI agent Peter Strzok — and told her to leak a rebuttal to Barrett’s story. It was about McCabe’s alleged efforts to defend the FBI’s pursuit of the liar-Clinton Foundation the liar-nObama administration wanted to end. And in the ultimate testimony to McCabe’s “character,” the IG report reveals that after the Journal published the story with the leaked information, he “called up the heads of the FBI’s New York and Washington field offices to ream them out over the leak that McCabe himself had orchestrated!” as McCarthy puts it.
               In response to questions about these machinations, the report states that McCabe “lacked candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions in connection with describing his role in connection with a disclosure to the Journal, and that this conduct violated FBI Offense Codes 2.5 and 2.6.”
               Code 2.5 refers to a Lack of Candor — No Oath. Code 2.6 refers to a Lack of Candor — Under Oath. Lying to federal investigators is a crime.
               The findings of the IG’s report were also sent to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, which recommended  McCabe’s  firing. And while Attorney General Jeff Sessions  obliged, there is often a sense among government insiders that termination, and the inevitable damage it does to one’s reputation, is sufficient “punishment” and that following up with a criminal indictment is “excessive.
               McCabe certainly thinks so. He has announced plans to sue the Trump administration for defamation and wrongful termination.
               McCabe’s attorney, Michael Bromwich, stated, “We have already met with staff members from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. We are confident that, unless there is inappropriate pressure from high levels of the administration, the U.S. Attorney’s Office will conclude that it should decline to prosecute.
               Inappropriate pressure? Such a characterization should offend every law-abiding American, and not just because of McCabe’s alleged malfeasance. Just as important — if not more so — is the OIG report’s stunning assertion that McCabe insisted he received an Aug. 12, 2016, telephone call from an unnamed Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General (PADAG) regarding the FBI’s handling of the liar-Clinton Foundation investigation. “McCabe said that PADAG expressed concerns about FBI agents taking overt steps in the CF Investigation during the presidential campaign,” the report states. “According to McCabe, he pushed back, asking ‘are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?’ McCabe told us that the conversation was ‘very dramatic’ and he never had a similar confrontation like the PADAG call with a high level Department official in his entire FBI career.
               According to FBI and DOJ sources in contact with The Washington Times, “PADAG” refers to Matthew Axelrod, who “quit the Justice Department on Jan. 30, 2017, the same day President Trump fired his boss, Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, for refusing to defend his travel ban executive order,” the paper reveals.
               As former Justice Department official Hans von Spakovsky explains, the chances Axelrod acted on his own are virtually nil. “There is no way I would have ever called the FBI on my own unless I raised concerns with my boss or my boss told me to do so,” he stated.
               In short, McCabe, by accident or design, has revealed the effort to stonewall the liar-Clinton investigation — and in turn, influence the 2016 election — goes further up the bureaucratic food chain. How much further?
               Without an indictment and/or a grand jury investigation, we may never know.
               “Washington continues to operate on a type of ‘Animal Farm’ culture where everyone is equal but some are more equal than others,” asserts George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. “There remains a sharp disconnect in how high-ranking officials are treated as opposed to others in our system.
               And not just McCabe. “Comey was tasked with finding leaks and then became a leaker himself,” Turley adds.
               Donald Trump was elected president for a host of reasons. One of them was the electorate’s increasing realization that a double standard of justice has become the norm, not the exception, especially in Washington, DC. Moreover, that contemptible status quo has been nurtured by the likes of McCabe, Comey and very likely several other liar-nObama administration mandarins, who not only believe they are immune from the consequences of their actions but are justified in engendering what is likely to be the worst scandal in our nation’s history — in service to “A Higher Loyalty,” as the title of James Comey’s self-aggrandizing tome puts it.
               A self-serving, self-perpetuating Ruling Class agenda borne of sheer hubris is more like it.
               “McCabe’s testimony is the best way to learn why the FBI and Department of Justice seemingly mishandled everything related to liar-Hillary Clinton and how the intelligence agencies routinely funneled classified material on Donald Trump to friendly news agencies,” asserts columnist Charles Lipson.
               Only if McCabe is indicted. If not? America as a nation beholden to the Rule of Law will cease to exist.  ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/55590-a-mccabe-indictment-or-a-banana-republic

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  • Bonnie

    A lot of people are also praying and acting upon their belief what needs to be done.

  • i am praying a constitutional republic but ohitler destroyed that b/c he was not impeached for the violations to that precious document.

    we the people must hold our officials accountable and VOTE THE VERMIN OUT.  LIKE RAID RID OURSELVES OF THEM BUT THE FEW THAT REMAIN.  

    IT IS OUR JOB NOW AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN

    THEY ARE TURNING OUR KIDS INTO ROBOTS AND WHIMPS W/O ANY IDEA OF AMERICA

    TIME IS SHORT BUT STILL THERE THE MID TERMS ARE COMING AND THE VERMIN MUST GO

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