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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page gets closed-door grilling from House Republicans
by KATIE BO WILLIAMS 
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Trump says he misspoke on Russian meddling 
during press conference, accepts US intel findings
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump said Tuesday that he misspoke when he seemed to dismiss allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 elections... stating clearly that he accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusions as he sought to quell a bipartisan firestorm over his press conference with Vladimir Putin. The president clarified his remarks during a meeting with lawmakers at the White House, in a rare backtrack.  In Helsinki a day earlier, Trump had said he doesn't "see any reason why" Russia would be behind election meddling. This and other comments led to bipartisan outrage and accusations that he was taking Putin's word over the intelligence community's.  But Trump said Tuesday he meant the opposite. He suggested he was surprised by the negative reaction when he returned to Washington...
VIDEO:  https://fxn.ws/2NXB7Dt #FoxNews
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Lisa Page’s Testimony Has ‘Significant Differences’ 
from Strzok’s on ‘Important Material Facts’ 
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by Craig Bannister
{ cnsnews.com } ~ “I think there are significant differences between their testimony about important material facts,” Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) said Monday... comparing the testimonies of former FBI lawyer Lisa Page and her former love and colleague, FBI agent Peter Strzok. Page’s testimony Monday in a closed-door House hearing was far more cooperative and informative that that of Strzok, who testified in a contentious hearing last week, LifeZette quotes Ratcliffe saying: “I think there are significant differences between their testimony about important material facts,” Ratcliffe said. “I think she has been as forthcoming as she can. I think she is trying to respect the real privileges that exist from her former employer, and she is getting direction from FBI counsel about not answering certain things and she is trying to respect that. At the same time, I think she is trying to give us as much information as she’s allowed to do, which I think is a distinction and difference from what we saw with Peter Strzok.” Page’s testimony not only provides new information, but also raises important questions that require further investigation, Rep. Ratcliffe said...
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Why Are San Fancisco Schools Partnering 
with a Radical Anti-Israel Organization?
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by Cinnamon Stillwell
{ meforum.org } ~ When a school district with a non-discrimination policy and guidelines that stipulate “non-engagement of political activities”... partners with a self-described “social justice” organization that’s blatantly hostile to Israel and its supporters, what could possibly go wrong? The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) did just that in May, when it approved a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) to “provide workshops in classrooms related to leadership development and cultural empowerment” at five San Francisco high schools. The proposal for an MOU with AROC — a pro-BDS organization led by radical anti-Israel activist Lara Kiswani — was put on hold in 2015 after an outcry from parents and organizations, including the San Francisco Interfaith Council, the Jewish Community Federation, and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). The JCRC sent a letter to SFUSD expressing concern that AROC would “push a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist agenda in San Francisco.” Since the chances of AROC reforming itself are nil, it will be up to parents and others in the community to register their displeasure with the San Francisco school board. There’s no excuse for allowing an organization of bigots and extremists to gain a foothold in the city’s public schools....
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Louie Gohmert Discussing Lisa Page Testimony: 
“The guilty dogs are barking pretty loud”
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representative Louie Gohmert appeared on Fox News to discuss the second day of closed-door testimony delivered by former DOJ/FBI Lawyer Lisa Page... Mrs. Page was the special counsel assigned to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Lisa Page resigned from the DOJ on May 4th of this year. One of the more interesting aspects of Lisa Page congressional appearances is the current FBI sending lawyers to control her testimony. Mrs. Page is not an employee of the DOJ or FBI, yet current officials consider her remarks a risk. We know from the insufferable press conference given by current FBI Director Christopher Wray following the IG Report on the liar-Clinton investigation, that current FBI officials are working to protect the former FBI leadership. As a consequence the institution of the FBI is corrupt, not just the officials.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/17/louie-gohmert-discussing-lisa-page-testimony-the-guilty-dogs-are-barking-pretty-loud/.
scumbag-John Brennan Misses Communist Russia
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{ spectator.org } ~ scumbag-John Brennan’s anti-Trump tweets grow more and more maniacal... His latest tweet holds that Donald Trump’s Russian diplomacy in Helsinki “rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes & misdemeanors.’ It was nothing short of treasonous.” That tells people all they need to know about the unseriousness of the left’s impeachment drive, not to mention exposing once again the demented malice behind the liar-nObama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign. The unhinged criticism is also hilariously rich, given that scumbag-John Brennan, who supported the Soviet-controlled American Communist Party, meets the textbook definition of a useful idiot for the Russians. At the height of the Cold War, he was rooting for the Reds, casting his vote in 1976 for Gus Hall, the American Communist Party’s presidential candidate. If anyone is adept at serving as a dupe for the Russians, it is scumbag-John Brennan. To paraphrase hanoi-John Kerry, he was for them before he was against them. What changed? How could scumbag-Brennan support the Soviet Union, even to the point of voting for one of its puppets, but then hysterically denounce any diplomacy toward Putin’s Russia? The answer lies in Russia’s shedding of communism. scumbag-Brennan, who refused to take his oath as CIA director on the Bible, misses the days of atheistic Marxism and fears the revival of a Christian Russia scumbag- Brennan, while walking the halls of the CIA festooned with LGBT buttons, would rant to colleagues about Putin’s refusal to allow gay pride parades in Moscow. scumbag-Brennan deplored Reagan’s description of the Soviet Union as an evil empire and joined other leftists in demanding that he pursue détente with Marxist thugs who make Putin look like a piker. Were Russia still collectivist, he would be using his Twitter account, which boasts his belief in the “collective future,” to praise, not trash, diplomatic gestures...   https://spectator.org/john-brennan-misses-communist-russia/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=d03896fcf6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_17_08_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-d03896fcf6-104608113 
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Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page gets closed-door grilling from House Republicans
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by KATIE BO WILLIAMS

{ thehill.com } ~ Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page on Friday afternoon faced a grilling from House Republicans keen to uncover any discrepancies between her testimony and Peter Strzok’s, the counterintelligence agent who testified in public for 10 hours the day before.

Where the marathon Strzok hearing was a pageant display of the animosity and deeply divided politics surrounding the bureau, Page’s closed-door deposition led to few fireworks.

She did not answer questions from reporters entering and exiting the House Judiciary Committee’s closed spaces — and the handful of lawmakers who conducted the interview provided few details.

Multiple Republican lawmakers described Page as cooperative and credible — in marked contrast to their vituperative characterizations of Strzok — and said she answered some questions that Strzok would not.

“We certainly learned additional things today, but I can tell you that the last thing anyone wants to be is falsely accused and her willingness to cooperate today speaks well of her,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.).

The interview is just the first of two slated sessions. Page is scheduled to return on Monday to continue answering questions.

“The overriding issue for us today is, will her testimony match up with his testimony?” said Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas).

Strzok on Thursday gave a confident and passionate defense of his conduct during the 2016 presidential election, denying that he displayed any bias when exchanging thousands of texts with Page that were critical of then-candidate Donald Trump. The two were having an extramarital affair at the time.

Strzok further infuriated lawmakers when he declined to answer some questions on the instruction of the FBI, where he is still employed.

The appearance of FBI counsel in the interview with Page, who left the bureau in May, also frustrated Republicans Friday.

“Lisa Page is not an FBI employee, but the FBI was here providing counsel and giving her direction as to which questions to answer or not answer and there is a question as to the propriety of that before the House,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), a frequent and vocal critic of the bureau.

Page also defended herself against charges of bias, according to GOP lawmakers in the room, providing context to the texts that they found unpersuasive — if not as patently offensive — as they found Strzok’s self-defense the day before.

One dummycrats-Democratic congressional source said Page appeared less assertive and confident in her answers than Strzok had been. That person added that, two hours into the interview, she did not appear to have contradicted his testimony in any way.

Republican lawmakers see Strzok and Page as the key to exposing what they see as rampant bias within the Justice Department at a time when the bureau was conducting investigations related to both presidential candidates.

Strzok was one of the lead investigators on the liar-Hillary Clinton email probe and was involved in the beginning days of the federal investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. Page was a close adviser to then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, long a hot target on the right.

In particular, lawmakers have zeroed in on the texts as evidence of anti-Trump bias within the bureau. GOP members involved in the probe have also been interested in the timeline of events surrounding the opening of the FBI’s original counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to the Kremlin.

dummycrats-Democrats see the GOP-led probe — a joint investigation run by the chairmen of the Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees — as a partisan sham designed to undercut special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The leaders of the probe have pushed back fiercely on that assertion, although several conservative members of the panel have used revelations about Strzok and Page to call for the Mueller probe to be shut down. The president and his allies repeatedly have described the federal investigation as a “witch hunt.”

“Our investigation is into what happened in the FBI in two investigations in 2016. It has nothing to do with what Robert Mueller is doing,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said Friday.

Just hours before Page arrived on Capitol Hill, Mueller handed down an indictment of 12 Russian nationals accused of hacking into dummycrats-Democratic political organizations and disseminating the stolen emails.

Page’s appearance on Friday came after she defied a subpoena to appear before the House on Wednesday. Page, at the time, said she had not yet received enough information about the scope of the committee’s questioning and access to her FBI notes and other documents. Republicans characterized that rationale as an “excuse” and Ratcliffe on Friday suggested that she had intentionally wanted to hear Strzok’s testimony before she spoke to investigators.

Lawmakers then threatened Page with contempt if she did not appear either publicly with Strzok on Thursday or on Friday behind closed doors.

Page’s texts with Strzok were a focal point of a deeply critical report from the Justice Department inspector general examining the bureau’s handling of the liar-Clinton email investigation.

In perhaps the most explosive new revelation from the report, Strzok told Page “We’ll stop it,” after being asked, “Trump’s not ever going to become president, right? Right?!”

Page left the bureau in May. Mueller removed Strzok from his team after learning of the texts and he was recently escorted from the building in what is believed to be a precursor to his dismissal.

The inspector general, in particular, found that Strzok displayed a “biased state of mind” during a critical phase of the liar-Clinton investigation, but that no decision made during the course of the probe was a result of bias or improper influence.

Strzok repeatedly made the case on Thursday that his personal political opinions did not inform his professional decisionmaking during the 2016 election.

“At no time, in any of these texts, did those personal beliefs ever enter into the realm of any action I took,” Strzok said, adding that “multiple layers” of agents above and below him at the bureau would not have tolerated any “improper behavior.”

The “we’ll stop it” text, he said, was “written late at night, off the cuff and it was in response to a series of events that included then-candidate Trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero.”

But his explanations did not satisfy Republicans on Thursday, who hammered him from the dais for everything from bias to perjury to “looking so innocently into your wife’s eye and lying to her about Lisa Page.”

And despite Republicans’ relatively complimentary assessment of her forthcomingness on Friday, Page’s testimony appears to have done little to calm the waters.

“The specific questions that Lisa Page answered that Peter Strzok did not heightened my concern that the processes at the FBI were contrived to fit the desired outcomes of people who were biased in favor of liar-Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump,” Gaetz said.

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