Politics EXPOSING THE DEEP STATE

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  1. CupWizier

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    "Newt's World" You just can't make this shit up, lmao!
     
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    Goddammit, we switched from our Wednesday night meetings to Tuesday nights on the hope that you couldn't follow the new change. And yet you've discovered us again. Also, your investigators with their white hats clash with our evil schemers and their black hats.

    Woe is me, next November is going to be brutal. If you were only to give a little bit more to Trump's political action committees it might just be enough to get Trump re-elected and for you to win your bet with me recouping your money. Think of it.

    It's back to the drawing board trying to think up another evil scheme.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Thank you for confirming my fear that a giant conspiracy was sending electromagnetic waves into my brain to make me behave the way they wanted. Now, sell me one of your famous tin foil hats.
    I know you have these hats because I've seen you wearing one -

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    Fitton: Did Obama-Appointed Ukraine Ambassador Intervene to Help Anti-Trump Ukraine Group?
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    Tom Fitton9 Dec 201912
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    As the coup abuse against President Trump accelerates, Judicial Watch focuses on the real Ukraine collusion scandal.

    We just sued the State Department for documents related to a reported “untouchables list” given by former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch to Ukraine Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko in late 2016 (Judicial Watch vs. U.S. Department of State) (No. 1:19-cv-03563).


    Lutsenko recently told The New York Times that Yovanovitch “pressed him not to prosecute anti-corruption activists.” Lutsenko previously reportedly said the do-not-prosecute list included a founder of the Ukraine group Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC), which was funded by George Soros foundations and the U.S. federal government, and two members of the Ukrainian Parliament who vocally supported the Soros group’s agenda:


    The implied message to Ukraine’s prosecutors was clear: Don’t target AntAC in the middle of an American presidential election in which Soros was backing Hillary Clinton to succeed another Soros favorite, Barack Obama, Ukrainian officials said.

    Recently, Rudy Giuliani stated that AntAC “was co-funded by the Obama administration and far-left billionaire financier George Soros,” and “was ironically under investigation for alleged corruption, namely a ‘misplaced’ $4.4 million in U.S. funds designated to ‘fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic,’ during the 2016 presidential election in America.”

    Amb. Yovanovitch, who was recalled from her Ukraine post in May of this year by President Donald Trump, was a key witness for Democrats last month in their public impeachment hearings. Yovanovitch denied providing any do-not-prosecute “list.”

    We filed our FOIA lawsuit here in DC after the State Department failed to respond to our September 24, 2019, FOIA request for:

    • All records of communication between the Department of State and any representative of the Ukrainian government regarding any actual or proposed investigation or prosecution of the AntAC; the International Renaissance Foundation [Open Society Foundations’ office in Ukraine]; and/or Transparency International.
    • All records concerning any meeting or telephonic conversation between former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko.
    • All records related to the list of individuals and entities provided to Lutsenko by Yovanovitch in late 2016.
    Amb. Yovanovitch is on our radar for a number of issues. On October 9, 2019, we filed a FOIA request for State Department records related to the possibly illegal collection of information by Yovanovitch on prominent conservative figures, journalists and persons with ties to President Donald Trump.

    Reports suggest that the Ukrainian Embassy was a hotbed of anti-Trump, Deep State activism and tried to promote and protect leftist allies in Ukraine and the United States. As the coup attack on President Trump continues, this new federal lawsuit is designed to get to the real truth of the Deep State’s games in Ukraine.
     
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    Lawsuit Targets Intelligence Community Watchdog’s Communications
    By William Patrick
    December 5, 2019 Updated: December 5, 2019

    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has refused to release an eight-hour closed-door interview transcript with Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, but a new lawsuit could help shed light on Atkinson’s involvement in the origins of the ongoing House impeachment inquiry—and much more.

    Atkinson received a complaint from a mysterious whistleblower in August that served as the basis for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. Atkinson’s actions in bringing the complaint forward have raised questions, and conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing for his unclassified communications.

    Judicial Watch announced a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Justice on Dec. 3, seeking all of Atkinson’s communications relating to Trump and emails and text messages with Schiff and his staff. The suit also seeks communications referencing Hillary Clinton, Anthony Weiner, the 25th Amendment, and impeachment.

    “Mr. Atkinson has been a key Deep State official involved with questionable and abusive investigations of President Trump,” stated Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “As Adam Schiff keeps Atkinson’s testimony on the impeachment attack on President Trump secret, Judicial Watch goes to court for transparency under the law.”


    The whistleblower complaint alleged Trump abused his power by pressuring the government of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden. It also alleged Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr were involved.

    Those assertions are currently being debated in the House Judiciary Committee and could lead to an impeachment vote and subsequent Senate trial. Atkinson was at the center of events that led to congressional involvement.

    At the outset, Atkinson changed internal IG policy requiring firsthand information to allow the complaint to qualify for the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act. He then recommended the complaint be referred to Congress, although acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire disagreed, and the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel determined the complaint didn’t involve an “urgent concern.”

    Under intense questioning from Schiff on Sept. 26, Maguire testified that the whistleblower complaint was essentially “hearsay” and uncorroborated. “This is secondhand information,” he said. Days later, it was revealed that the whistleblower had contacted Schiff and his staff before submitting the complaint to the IG’s office, about which Atkinson has denied any foreknowledge.

    Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, wrote about the issue on Nov. 30. When a reporter asked why Schiff has held back Atkinson’s transcript despite releasing 15 other witness transcripts, Ratcliffe wrote on Twitter: “It’s because I asked IG Atkinson about his ‘investigation’ into the contacts between Schiff’s staff and the person who later became the whistleblower. The transcript is classified ‘secret’ so Schiff can prevent you from seeing the answers to my questions.”

    Prior to his appointment to oversee the intelligence community, Atkinson served as an assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s National Security Division from 2016 to 2018. Judicial Watch noted that during his two-year tenure, Atkinson was the senior legal counsel for both John Carlin and Mary McCord when they respectively headed the National Security Division.

    Carlin was Robert Mueller’s chief of staff when Mueller was FBI director, and McCord accompanied former acting Attorney General Sally Yates to confront White House counsel Don McGahn about Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn in 2017. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI during the Mueller special counsel investigation, though his attorney insists he was targeted to “take out” the president.

    During the same period, the National Security Division partnered with the FBI Counterintelligence Unit on Operation Crossfire Hurricane, a covert investigation headed by then-FBI Director James Comey that involved surveillance of the Trump campaign and presidential transition. In April 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found “significant non-compliance with the NSA’s minimization procedures involving queries of data,” which Judicial Watch called “spying.”

    Judicial Watch also noted that FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page worked on Crossfire Hurricane, with Page being the liaison between FBI Counterintelligence and the DOJ National Security Division.

    Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) wrote to Atkinson on Oct. 2, expressing concern about intelligence community leaks of classified information that fall under his purview. The letter was a follow-up to a May 6 inquiry.

    “In response to our May 6, 2019, letter, although you shared in our concern about the harms posed by leaks during the Russia investigation, you refused to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation,” the senators wrote. “We request that you show the same transparency that you and the White House have shown with respect to making the IC complaint’s allegations and supporting documentation public.”

    The Ukraine whistleblower complaint was itself illegally leaked. The transcript of Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was declassified on Sept. 25, and the complaint was made public a day later. But The Washington Post had already written about them.

    “News reports used anonymous sources to report on information relating to the complaint and phone call that were classified at the time,” Grassley wrote to Atkinson. “There was only a finite amount of individuals that had access to the complaint and phone call transcript.”

    To date, no one has been held accountable, and Atkinson hasn’t committed to an investigation.

    Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), the ranking minority member on the House Intelligence Committee, referred to Atkinson as a member of the “deep state” after his Oct. 4 closed-door testimony led by Schiff.

    “[Atkinson is] either totally incompetent or part of the deep state, and he’s got a lot of questions he needs to answer because he knowingly changed the form and the requirements in order to make sure that this whistleblower complaint got out publicly,” Nunes said.

    “He’s going to have more to answer for, I can promise you, because we are not going to let him go. He is going to tell the truth about what happened.”
     
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    Horowitz: No one vindicated despite what Comey claims
    Dec. 13, 2019 - 4:26 - IG rips FBI's failure to meet basic standards in FISA process; former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker weighs in.

     
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    Comey's in a panic suddenly.

    Finally realizing actual prison time is likely in his future.:cheers:
     
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    FISA court judge demands info about FBI lawyer linked to Carter Page warrant
    By Bill Mears | Fox News

    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s presiding judge has sent another directive to the Justice Department, ordering officials to identify previous surveillance requests from an FBI lawyer linked to the 2016 warrant from former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

    In an order unsealed Friday, Judge Rosemary Collyer asked the Justice Department to identify steps to ensure the accuracy of those filings and whether the unnamed DOJ lawyer was ever disciplined.

    DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz recently identified in a scathing public report numerous mistakes and omissions in the warrant used against Page that launched the FBI investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

    The letter unsealed Friday was dated Dec. 5, which was four days before Horowitz’s report was released.

    Collyer had earlier this week ordered DOJ to identify by January 10 what steps it was taking to correct problems with the FISA warrant process. The FBI had promised to work with DOJ to comply.

    Sources have said the unidentified FBI lawyer in question has since resigned his post, and the Horowitz report said he faces possible criminal prosecution.

    In a rare public order earlier this week, Collyer strongly criticized the FBI over its surveillance-application process, giving the bureau until Jan. 10 to come up with solutions, in the wake of findings from Horowitz.

    While Collyer's order earlier this week did not specify exactly what reforms the FBI needed to implement to its policies for obtaining permission to wiretap people under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, the order did say that the FISA court will weigh in on whether the reforms are deemed sufficient.

    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court deals with some of the most sensitive matters of national security: terror threats and espionage. Its work, for the most part, cannot be examined by the American public, by order of Congress and the president. Its work is mostly secret, and its structure largely one-sided.
     
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    Witch hunt. This is a total sham. The product of Trump's deep state.
     
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    No Lanny, this is why Trump was elected.

    Remember when Snowden exposed to the world that our Intelligence agencies were illegally spying on every citizen in American?

    Remember when Brennan and Clapper lied under oath to Congress about it?

    Remember when Wikileaks exposed that they were still doing it years later, after they were told to stop and promised under oath they would?

    Real Americans take that shit pretty seriously.

    AG Barr just confirmed John Durham's investigation is delving deeply into their antics and has subpoenaed all emails of Clapper and Brennan.

    Pretty soon even you will see what this whole 3-year smear of Trump was trying to cover for.
     
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    Snowden is a traitor and needs to be behind bars. He could have gone the Whistle blower route but chose not to.
    I have seen no evidence that either Brennan or Clapper lied about anything under oath and find that extremely improbable. I have heard of some evidence dug up by the FBI under Barr which has been disputed by the CIA but I haven't seen it. If you're talking about the Steele dossier being the reason for the FISA warrant then you would be wrong.
    Wikileaks undoubtedly broke American laws when they collaborated with Russia. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them and in my current disabled condition I'd have trouble throwing a pencil very far.
    Barr is clearly a Trump lackey and violates his oath of office nearly every day.
    John Durham is an attorney from the Justice Department working in the state of Conneticut and would normally not be investigating the issue of the Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. That investigation would normally be handled by someone else. Barr appointed Durham because he was seeking a wanted result rather than letting the facts lead the way.
     
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    Wrong Lanny, your entire post has already been proven false. Mostly in Federal courts.
     
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    Show me a ruling.
     
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