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DOJ Rejects McCabe's Appeal,
Indictment Imminent?
Thomas Gallatin
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White House Restricts Corey
Lewandowski’s House Testimony
by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The White House has instructed former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski not to testify before Congress Tuesday about conversations he had with President Donald Trump or White House advisers... that are not discussed in the special counsel’s report. Lewandowski is scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, which is conducting an impeachment inquiry regarding potential Trump obstruction of justice. The White House ordered two other former White House advisers, Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter, not to appear for the hearing.“The White House has directed Mr. Lewandowski not to discuss the substance of any conversations he had with the president or senior presidential advisers about official government matters, unless the information is expressly contained in the report,” White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrote to House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler. “We are adhering to the well-established lines protecting the confidentiality of presidential communications to ensure that future Presidents can effectively execute the responsibilities of the Office of President.” Despite the restrictions, lawmakers will be able to ask Lewandowski about a portion of the special counsel’s report dealing with the investigation into whether the president tried to obstruct the Russia probe. According to the report, Trump asked Lewandowski, who has never held a White House job, to pressure then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to curtail the Russia probe. Lewandowski declined to pass the message to Sessions, according to the report. He asked Dearborn to convey the message, but the White House adviser also declined to do so... https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/16/white-house-corey-lewandowski-testimony/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10040 .
There Was an FBI Spy Inside the Trump
Organization and Judicial Watch
Just Sued to Find Out More
by Katie Pavlich
{ townhall.com } ~ Government watchdog Judicial Watch has issued a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice in order to obtain documents and information about Felix Sater... Sater was working inside the Trump Organization in 2016 on behalf of the FBI and reportedly pushed the Trump Moscow project. That Moscow project was often cited as "proof" by Democrats and media that President Trump had business dealings with the Russians. According to a release, Judicial Watch is "seeking all records of communications, including FBI 302 interview reports and offer agreements between former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office and Felix Sater." Here are the background details: Sater reportedly “began working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1998, after he was caught in a stock-fraud scheme.” It was Andrew Weissmann who, as supervising assistant U.S. attorney, signed the agreement that brought Sater on as a government informant. Federal prosecutors wrote a letter to Sater’s sentencing judge on August 27, 2009, in an effort to get him a lighter sentence: “Sater’s cooperation was of a depth and breadth rarely seen.” Sater also was reportedly a CIA informant in the mid-2000s for the CIA during his undercover work with Russian military and intelligence officers. The Mueller report mentions Sater more than 100 times but fails to mention that he was an active undercover informant for the FBI/CIA for more than two decades. In 2017, Sater was the subject of two interviews conducted under a proffer agreement with Mueller’s office according to page 69, footnote 304 of Mueller’s report on his Russian collusion investigation. In a June 25, 2019 report, Judicial Watch chief investigative reporter Micah Morrison highlighted that: Beginning in late 2015, Sater repeatedly tried to arrange for Trump attorney Michael Cohen and candidate Trump, as representatives of the Trump Organization, to travel to Russia to meet with Russian government officials and possible financing partners. Though his proposal appears to have been rejected by the Trump campaign, Sater persisted. “Into the spring of 2016,” the Mueller Report notes, “Sater and Cohen continued to discuss a trip to Moscow.” Sater emails Cohen that he is trying to arrange a meeting between “the 2 big guys,” Putin and Trump. In addition to working with the Mueller probe, Sater has reportedly cooperated with the Democrat's separate investigation, led by House Intelligence Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff... https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2019/09/17/there-was-a-spy-inside-the-trump-organization-working-for-the-fbi-and-judicial-watch-just-sued-to-find-out-more-n2553166 .
Sea Hunter’s Autonomous Controls Could
Support Unmanned Beach Landings
By Jon Rosamond
{ news.usni.org } ~ Autonomous control systems developed for the Pentagon’s Sea Hunter unmanned ship could also help keep Marine Corps logisticians out of harm’s way during future amphibious landings... according to the company behind the technology. Defense IT specialist Leidos is taking the kit it developed for the Sea Hunter medium unmanned surface vehicle, a 132-foot experimental wave-piercing trimaran, and applying it to the Marines’ Autonomous Littoral Connector program. Leidos has already demonstrated the ability of a modified LCM-8 landing craft to run up a beach, stop for unloading/loading and return to sea without human intervention. Now, with the elderly LCM-8s being phased out of service, the company is providing the same capabilities for the newer and larger Landing Craft Utility. The program is being overseen by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory. Addressing a naval seminar at the DSEI defense exhibition in London last week, Leidos Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Tim Barton said, “the Warfighting Lab asked us to look at the autonomous logistics mission. When the Marine Corps attacks an objective on land from a sea base, what they’d like to do is have all the logistics come up on the beach fully autonomously.”... https://news.usni.org/2019/09/16/dsei-sea-hunters-autonomous-controls-could-support-unmanned-beach-landings?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=749e4922ca-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-749e4922ca-231491269&mc_cid=749e4922ca&mc_eid=3999f18767 .
UK: The Push to End Free Speech
by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In April 2018, Britain's All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims began work on establishing a "working definition of Islamophobia that can be widely accepted by Muslims... political parties and the government". In December 2018, the group concluded its work with a "Report on the inquiry into a working definition of Islamophobia / anti-Muslim hatred." The report defines "Islamophobia" as a form of racism, conflating religion with ethnic origin or nationality: "Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness." The report, furthermore, claims that a definition of Islamophobia is "instrumental" to "the political will and institutional determination to tackle it." Most political parties, including Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Scottish Conservatives, have adopted the broadened definition of Islamophobia, but it has not been adopted by the government. According to a government spokesperson: "We are conscious that the all-party parliamentary group's proposed definition has not been broadly accepted – unlike the IHRA definition of antisemitism before it was adopted by the UK government and other international organisations and governments. This is a matter that needs further careful consideration." The National Police Chiefs' Council, which represents the leaders of law enforcement in England and Wales, have also expressed concern with the broadened definition....
Saudi oil facility attack challenges
Washington's regional commitment
by Karen Young
{ al-monitor.com } ~ The twin attacks on the oil processing center of Abqaiq and the oil field of Khurais will certainly have an impact on oil markets this week. While Brent crude prices have been reticent to move past $60 a barrel for a year... analysts expect price movement anywhere from an additional $5 to $15 per barrel. That price movement will depend on how the Saudi government manages information flow about the attacks on its oil facilities, and how quickly it returns to full production, processing and export. Saudi Aramco President and CEO Amin Nasser promised to share a detailed assessment within 48 hours of the attack, which would time the disclosures before markets open in London and New York on Monday. As of this morning he had yet to make a public update. The transparency will matter a lot. The attacks were able to disrupt half of Saudi oil production over the weekend, cutting 5.7 million barrels per day to global markets. By Sunday, however, Energy Intelligence reported that as much as 40% of that disrupted production about 2.3 million barrels per day was already restored one day after the attack. For Aramco, the state-owned oil giant, the transparency in reporting damage and the ability to regroup and respond to its customers' demands is vital to its promise to take on more shareholders. But ultimately, this attack threatens much more than a small initial public offering on the local exchange. The game changer in international oil markets is the audacity of the attack, in its precision and exposure of the vulnerability of Saudi oil infrastructure. And now everyone knows it can happen again. This isn't about Saudi Arabia at all. It is about American leadership and commitment to a global economic order. We are not going to run out of oil. We may run out of credibility. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quickly attributed blame to Iran, not the Houthi rebels of Yemen who actually did claim responsibility for the attacks. Pompeo and the Donald Trump administration must now follow through with ramifications for the accusation against Iran. If Tehran is responsible, they must share evidence of Iran's culpability in the attacks. And then the United States must act, and act resolutely. To decline retribution would only embolden Iran and its Houthi allies, and it would further distance Saudi Arabia from the United States in a sense of its isolation and a growing frustration with the dependability of the US administration... https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/09/saudi-arabia-oil-attack-iran-credibility.html?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTW1FNFlXVXhaalkxTldReiIsInQiOiJGS0hrVUJhQWFiTkw5blM3bDYzd3ZBdjI3bUxBYXczRWJ3aXppdjBCaWMrTXFhblRvYnNJZlRmVVVqMjJxRUU3U0RhdWhwNXNFTGJtdHlJZ1wvQVo0TnZxSkIxaENPYUh4ZW1JcTRoTjY1eEc3VXZmRmJmQ1VDWGV5bGhhYlwvNVZBIn0%3D .
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DOJ Rejects McCabe's Appeal,
Indictment Imminent?
Thomas Gallatin: On Thursday, the Justice Department rejected an appeal by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to avoid indictment regarding charges that he lied to the DOJ inspector general. This decision opens the door for U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu to move forward on indictment of the infamous coup co-conspirator.
Recall that McCabe was fired back in March 2018 following the IG’s finding that he had lied about his involvement in leaking to The Wall Street Journal the fact that the FBI was investigating the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation. His rationale for leaking this information was likely an attempt to deflect the charge by then-candidate Donald Trump that McCabe was in the tank for scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton because his wife had received significant contributions for her failed state senate run from longtime scumbag/liar-Clintonista and former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
If indicted, McCabe’s defense will be that the only reason for it is because he has long been targeted by Trump, who pressured the DOJ to act. However, as former DOJ prosecutor Andrew McCarthy writes, “According to the IG, McCabe at one point dressed down the FBI’s chiefs in New York and Washington, as if their field offices were responsible for the leak. That is, he knew that he himself was the culprit, yet he tried to shift suspicion and blame to innocent agents. If proved, that is the kind of fact that would not endear McCabe to a jury. It would also make it hard for him to portray himself as a fundamentally honest guy who would never deceive other FBI agents.” In other words, irrespective of Trump’s opinion, the IG found significant grounds to recommend charges.
All that said, as former Rep. Trey Goudy cautioned, an indictment does not equate to guilt. “He’s presumed innocent,” Gowdy said. Everyone is entitled to the same due-process rights of the presumption of innocence until proven guilty in a court of law. This obviously includes McCabe, but it also should serve as an encouragement to all that even those in high positions of government are not above the law. Well, except scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton. ~The Patriot Post
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