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Jeff Sessions fired McCabe late Friday saying he had likely lied under oath
It came just two days before McCabe was due to retire, cancelling his pension
Full government pension was said to be worth about $1.8million
He was involved in Clinton email investigation and Russia meddling probe
Nunes memo said McCabe testified that FBI did not rely on 'dirty dossier'
That memo also alleged the dossier was a key piece of FBI's FISA application
Full inspector general report on potential FBI malfeasance due in coming weeks
Comes amid mounting calls for second special counsel to investigate FISA court
TIK TOK Comey..
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Wasn't Sessions accused of lying under oath? Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black? Old fashioned politics at work, nothing has changed under Trump other than it has gotten blatant.
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Mueller now has McCabe's memos
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/mccabe-memos-trump/index.html
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Mueller now has McCabe's memos
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/17/politics/mccabe-memos-trump/index.html
Muellet should be fired and stand trial as a traitor.
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Muellet should be fired and stand trial as a traitor.
You should be detained and given a complete mental health evaluation
Just for your own safety
You seems completely out of touch with reality
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You should be detained and given a complete mental health evaluation
Just for your own safety
You seems completely out of touch with reality
Talking to yourself?
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Talking to yourself?
He’s not that clever
He’d end up arguing with himself
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He’s not that clever
He’d end up arguing with himself
And he'd probably still think he won the argument.
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And he'd probably still think he won the argument.
It's weird that you every thread is a debate or argument to be or lost
I curious how you think Mueller is a traitor
Any chance you can actually explain that belief?
Try to keep in mind that he is doing a job he was appointed to by Trumps Deputy AG
I haven't figured out how he is a traitor but you must know do tell us
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And he'd probably still think he won the argument.
Trump is done! You better cheer for church boy Mike Pence
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You should be detained and given a complete mental health evaluation
Just for your own safety
You seems completely out of touch with reality
And he seems to be getting worse by the day.
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Muellet should be fired and stand trial as a traitor.
Who is Muellet? OK, it's a slam on Mueller. Really? I thought you were more mature than to stoop to this nonsense.
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It's weird that you every thread is a debate or argument to be or lost
I curious how you think Mueller is a traitor
Any chance you can actually explain that belief?
Try to keep in mind that he is doing a job he was appointed to by Trumps Deputy AG
I haven't figured out how he is a traitor but you must know do tell us
Mmmmm, going after Trump with almost 2 years of not finding anything without going after Killary, Obama, Lynch and Co despite the hard evidence against her, him and her. Comey writing and exoneration before the investigation even began. Keep getting your info from CNN and MSNBC, tard.
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Mmmmm, going after Trump with almost 2 years of not finding anything without going after Killary, Obama, Lynch and Co despite the hard evidence against her, him and her. Comey writing and exoneration before the investigation even began. Keep getting your info from CNN and MSNBC, tard.
Not sure what all your timeline pertains to, but if it is the investigation into Trump and Russia, technically it dates back to January 2013.
Energy industry consultant Carter Page meets a man named Victor Podobnyy at a conference in New York and begins sharing with him “basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents” (in Page’s words). Podobnyy was an officer with Russia’s foreign intelligence service and is later charged with being an agent of the Russian government.
Here is the link to a complete timeline of events pertaining to Russian interference in the election: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/05/a-so-far-complete-timeline-of-the-investigation-into-trump-and-russia/?utm_term=.d183d5dfd802
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Not sure what all your timeline pertains to, but if it is the investigation into Trump and Russia, technically it dates back to January 2013.
Energy industry consultant Carter Page meets a man named Victor Podobnyy at a conference in New York and begins sharing with him “basic immaterial information and publicly available research documents” (in Page’s words). Podobnyy was an officer with Russia’s foreign intelligence service and is later charged with being an agent of the Russian government.
Here is the link to a complete timeline of events pertaining to Russian interference in the election: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/05/a-so-far-complete-timeline-of-the-investigation-into-trump-and-russia/?utm_term=.d183d5dfd802
That's pretty good seeing Trump didn't announce it candidacy until 2015. So what you're saying and an international businessman he's not allowed to do business IN Russia? If you're saying that then you're saying ANYONE shouldn't. Am I understanding this correctly?
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Mmmmm, going after Trump with almost 2 years of not finding anything without going after Killary, Obama, Lynch and Co despite the hard evidence against her, him and her. Comey writing and exoneration before the investigation even began. Keep getting your info from CNN and MSNBC, tard.
So in your mind, Mueller is going after trump for 2 years and not finding anything... that is funny
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That's pretty good seeing Trump didn't announce it candidacy until 2015. So what you're saying and an international businessman he's not allowed to do business IN Russia? If you're saying that then you're saying ANYONE shouldn't. Am I understanding this correctly?
I provided a link to a source article from the Washington Post. "A (so far) complete timeline of the investigation into Trump and Russia" By Philip Bump March 16 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/05/a-so-far-complete-timeline-of-the-investigation-into-trump-and-russia/?utm_term=.e35ed8673a87 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/05/a-so-far-complete-timeline-of-the-investigation-into-trump-and-russia/?utm_term=.e35ed8673a87)
I am saying nothing of the kind. You peaked my interest because you posted that this investigation has been going on for almost two years. Trump has been President for one year and almost three months, which is barely over halfway to twenty four months. I wanted to see if you were correct, so I Googled it and found the information I posted.
By the way, if you had bothered to read the article, it merely covers the timeline of suspicious events which bring us to the present. It neither implicates Trump nor exonerates him because that is not the author's intent.
But yes, I am suggesting that someone intending to run for President of the U.S. should not be doing business with Russia, neither beforehand or after being nominated and elected President.
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But yes, I am suggesting that someone intending to run for President of the U.S. should not be doing business with Russia, neither beforehand or after being nominated and elected President.
You do realize your heroes Killary and Mueller both did business with Russia before the election? Mueller himself handed Russian the uranium sample so they could increase their nuclear arsenal. Couple of traitorous botches, your two heroes. ::)
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You do realize your heroes Killary and Mueller both did business with Russia before the election? Mueller himself handed Russian the uranium sample so they could increase their nuclear arsenal. Couple of traitorous botches, your two heroes. ::)
Let’s see what the Faggott Peadophile Defender has to
Say about His heroes dealing with Russia.
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You do realize your heroes Killary and Mueller both did business with Russia before the election? Mueller himself handed Russian the uranium sample so they could increase their nuclear arsenal. Couple of traitorous botches, your two heroes. ::)
You don't actually have a clue what the word traitor means do you?
Mueller was hired by Rosenstein who Trump chose as Deputy AG
So if Mueller is committing treason then he's doing it at the direction of the Trump Administration
What are Mueller's treasonous actions again?
I don't think you've clarified that for us yet
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You don't actually have a clue what the word traitor means do you?
Mueller was hired by Rosenstein who Trump chose as Deputy AG
So if Mueller is committing treason then he's doing it at the direction of the Trump Administration
What are Mueller's treasonous actions again?
I don't think you've clarified that for us yet
Good God you're an idiot..
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/the-uranium-one-treason-why-robert-mueller-must-be-removed-and-his-partisan-hit-squad-dismantled/#masthead
Uranium One 101
The short version is that in 2010, when Mueller was FBI director, members of an interagency committee working under the Obama administration facilitated a highly-suspicious business deal that had grave public implication. The result of it was that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton effectively handed Russia and Vladimir Putin control over as much as 20 percent of the uranium production capacity of the United States.
As this deal was coming to fruition, after years of nefarious Clintonian machinations urging it along, Mueller’s FBI was investigating — and may have uncovered clear evidence of — Russian bribery and fraud to the detriment of U.S. uranium contractors, as part of a larger Russian (Putin) racketeering scheme to gain control of global uranium resources, namely by purchasing the power and influence being peddled by the Clintons to anyone who would meet their terms.
The FBI appears to have been investigating a Moscow-compromised uranium trucking company called Tenex As early as 2009. Tenex was allegedly engaged in racketeering through a pattern of bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Tenex was operating out of Bethesda, Maryland through a subsidiary named “Tenam USA.” The company was run by a Russian official named Vadim Mikerin. As the FBI was investigating Tenam’s alleged extortion and bribery scheme, Russia was seeking permission from the Obama administration and the Clinton State Department to acquire ownership in Uranium One. Despite evidence of Tenex’s and Mikerim’s alleged corruption as early as 2009, the Obama administration rubber-stamped a U.S. work visa twice for Mikerim, as late as 2014.
And what did our intrepid paragon of justice Robert Swan Mueller III do to thwart this alleged scheme and arrest its perpetrators? The answer is absolutely NOTHING. In fact, a confidentiality agreement prevented a key witness to the Clinton-Russia uranium treason from testifying. The Justice Department only just lifted on October 25, 2017, a full seven years after the fact, under pressure from congressional intelligence committee leadership.
Robert Mueller ensured that his own FBI investigators were effectively walled off from exposing the real players in our own government who were complicit in this epic influence-peddling scam founded on the Clintons’ ruthless greed and epic criminality.
Obama’s Justice Department and Mueller’s FBI knowingly kept Congress and the American people in the dark about Russia’s significant and quite possibly illegal manipulations involving American uranium companies and the highest officials of American government, possibly among them U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The result was that the Clintons’ criminal treason, in collusion with Russian nuclear criminals, went full steam ahead, unperturbed.
Mueller’s key role in the covering up of these Russia-Clinton uranium dealings constitutes more than enough justification for Robert Mueller’s immediate and unceremonious removal as an autonomous, secretive inquisitor limitlessly probing the newly-inaugurated president who defeated Mueller’s former Obama administration crony and cohort, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There are probably a dozen other reasons why Mueller should be criminally charged but, for now, let’s just focus on this most heinous of schemes to which Mueller has been party: the transfer of our precious uranium resources to criminal Russian oligarchs to benefit the Clinton-Obama crime junta and sleazy hucksters from the ranks of the Democratic Party.
You might ask: How is it even possible that Russia (a supposed enemy) could acquire an in U.S. uranium capacity? The answer is that while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, was handed official U.S. government authorization to purchase a Canadian company named Uranium One which controlled uranium mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West..
Uranium One, as handed over to the Russians by the Obama-Clinton cabal, was effectively the creation of a Canadian entrepreneur named Frank Giustra. Mr. Giustra conveniently happened to be a major Clinton donor and a personal friend of Bill Clinton.
Guistra and Clinton Getty Images/Joaquin Sarmiento
Guistra and Clinton Getty Images/Joaquin Sarmiento
The Clinton-Giustra genesis of the Uranium One scam was detailed in a lengthy New York Times story in April 2015 titled “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal.”
(Based on the old Grey Lady’s incessant animus for Donald Trump and its complicity in puffing up the Russia collusion delusion about the president, it would seem that Clintonian amnesia is the order of the day at the New York Times.)
In 2005, Clinton was flown on Giustra’s lavish private jet to Kazakhstan, a central Asian country once part of the former Soviet Union. By some estimates, Kazakhstan possesses around 12 percent of the world’s uranium resources and Giustra wanted to acquire ownership interest in several uranium mines.
Using his substantial network of contacts as a former U.S. president, Bill Clinton reportedly had arranged for Giustra and himself to dine with Kazakhstan’s despotic ruler, Nursultan Nazarbeyev. During the meal, Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when Clinton expressed support for Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group.
Apparently it was of no consequence or concern to officialdom in Washington that this move by Clinton ran directly counter to American foreign policy and undermined much-deserved criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Clinton’s wife, at the time a U.S. senator.
The new company Giustra formed to effectuate the Uranium One deal, UrAsia Energy Ltd., reportedly signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by Kazatomprom, the government agency that runs Kazakhstan’s uranium mines and nuclear energy industry. In 2007 UrAsia merged with Uranium One in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction, with the successor company retaining the name Uranium One.
Mukhtar Dzhakishev, president of Kazatomprom, subsequently alleged that then-Senator Hillary Clinton had pressured Kazakh officials to cede the uranium rights to Giustra.
Basically, Hillary served as the stick to her husband Bill’s proverbial carrot in making the deal happen.
According to The Washington Post, Dzhakishev “described the deal as ‘a financing mechanism of the Democratic Party’ and said a Clinton adviser named Tim Phillips championed it in meetings with him and other officials.”
From the same WaPo article:
At the time, Clinton denied taking any action to support Giustra’s purchase. Giustra also said Clinton played no role in the deal and rejected any link between the deal and his Clinton Foundation donations. But in the leaked video of him speaking to the authorities, Dzhakishev said a senior Kazakh official told him to look into the deal after then-Sen. Hillary Clinton canceled a meeting with him. Dzhakishev said he was told that “investors who currently work in Kazakhstan and have ties to Clinton have problems and meetings will be resumed only after Kazakhstan resolves the problems.” “I called them, and they came. I met them in Astana and then Clinton’s aide, Tim Phillips, began to scream that this deal involves Democrats and is financed by them, and that we were hampering the deal,” Dzhakishev said.
When all was said and done, UrAsia’s investors controlled the new Uranium One. The chairman of the new company was Canadian Ian Telfer.
Telfer reportedly donated $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Frank Giustra, who had shepherded Bill Clinton’s influence with the Kazakhstanis, held a personal stake in the deal estimated by some reports at about $45 million. Through a spokesperson, Giustra said he sold his stake in 2007. According to the New York Times, one year after the 2005 uranium deal was final Giustra donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation with a promise of $100 million more.
One adviser on the Uranium One-UrAsia merger was Paul Reynolds.
Reynolds reportedly donated $1 to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.
A company called U.S. Global Investors Inc. held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares. A U.S. Global executive named Frank Holmes reportedly donated $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
This is just the short list of Uranium One-connected donations that flowed back to the Clintons. Although the Clintons had an obligation to report these donations, they conveniently waited until 2008 to do so, and only when The New York Times was poised to expose and publish details about this obvious multi-million dollar pay-to-play scheme.
As is modus operandi with all of the Clintons’ sleazy machinations, any questions or suggestions posed about the connections between shady Clinton influence-peddling business deals and the inevitable cash windfalls realized by the Clintons were glibly pooh-poohed as either mere coincidence (please!) or lacking any “evidence” (as if we need signed receipts and written agreements to connect the obvious dots of the Clintons’ epic lucre).
With classic Clintonian prevarication, treating the public as either blind or stupid (or both), the Clintons steadfastly deny the obvious quid pro quo connections at the root of the Uranium One Kazakhstan acquisitions.
Of course, the Clinton crony-beneficiaries of the deal knew enough to follow suit with similar huffy denials, lest they meet with an unfortunate premature demise like so many others who have dared run afoul of the Clintons’ scamming and scheming, all the way back to their Arkansas backwater days.
Russo-Clinton Treason: Phase II
Once Uranium One was set up with the Kazakhstani uranium holdings firmly in the control of Clinton cronies, the stage was set for the next step in the Clintons’ treasonous plot: handing over Uranium One and its holdings to the Russians, or more accurately to Vladimir Putin.
Clinton and Putin AFP/Getty Images/Alexey Druzhinin
Clinton and Putin AFP/Getty Images/Alexey Druzhinin
The Clinton cabal’s uranium wheelings and dealings began immediately at the commencement in 2009 of the Obama administration, under the close direction of newly-installed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In order for Russian nuclear entity Rosatom to purchase Uranium One the deal required approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. The committee consists of top officials from nine different federal agencies. Not surprisingly, given the foreign subject matter intrinsic to the committee’s work, the key agency — the main driver out of all government players involved — is the U.S. Department of State, which was conveniently headed by Mrs. Bill Clinton in 2009.
To be clear, Hillary Clinton did not have the authority to push such a potentially-controversial deal through by herself. Such power ultimately resides with the president, in this case Barack Obama.
The CFIUS voted twice, first in 2010 and then in 2013, to approve Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One, thereby conceivably giving Vladimir Putin control of up to 20 percent of all U.S. uranium capacity.
It would be ridiculous to think that Obama, Hillary, Holder and Mueller would not have been well aware of the FBI’s investigation into the Russian racketeering and all of the bribes and kickbacks — in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — that formed a backdrop to the Uranium One acquisition by Russia.
These sworn federal officials did not step in to expose and halt the tainted Uranium One deal. They may have cleared the way for it.
Robert Mueller appears to have known about the delivery of 10 grams of HEU (highly enriched uranium) to the Russians in September 2009.
The highly enriched uranium in question had been confiscated in 2006 by the U.S. Department of Energy in a “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices.” A cable, one of several released by WikiLeaks, details Director Mueller’s mission to personally deliver the HEU to Russian law enforcement at the behest of Hillary Clinton.
Another interesting bit of “innocent timing” or convenient coincidence (take your pick): In June of 2010, the same month that Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One, Bill Clinton spoke in Moscow for the tidy sum of $500,000, the second-highest fee he had ever received for a speech.
Clinton’s half-million dollar bonanza for 90 minutes of “work” was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin. Renaissance Capital analysts talked up Uranium One’s stock, assigning it a “buy” rating and saying in a July 2010 research report that it was “the best play” in the uranium markets. Of course this, too, is just a “coincidence.”
If you think all of these connections and occurrences are too mind-boggling to accept as mere coincidence, hold onto your seat for this next one. Remember how the alleged Tenam/Rosatom racketeering activities were centered in Bethesda, Maryland at the Tenex U.S. offices? As rank-and-file FBI agents were assiduously investigating these Russian schemes to obtain U.S. uranium resources through corruption of public officials, Robert Mueller handed his longtime legal crony the Uranium One case to be buried and forgotten, clearing the way for approval of the Rosatom deal by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.
The crony’s name was Rod Rosenstein.
And the rest is history.
I leave you, good reader, to draw the obvious conclusions about what is really behind this cozy little bromance between Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein, the two lawyers who promulgated Mueller’s grotesque, unaccountable partisan hit squad that is clearly intent on taking out our president.
Let’s not forget what Donald Trump said to Hillary Clinton and the entire nation in a televised presidential debate on October 9, 2016:
“I’ll tell you what. I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it. But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor.”
After his election, Donald Trump chose to be magnanimous and forward-looking rather than follow through on his words and appoint that special prosecutor. Trump naively thought he could commence his presidency free from the tentacles of his seething, embittered dragon lady of an opponent.
Donald Trump genuinely did not want his presidency tangled up with the Clinton stain. He knew this would be impossible to avoid were he to see to the much-deserved prosecution of Hillary Clinton and her extensive syndicate of cohorts, cronies, flunkies and fellow travelers, including the likes of Mueller and Rosenstein, for their countless crimes and endless scandals.
Unfortunately for Donald Trump, they turned his debate promise around and gave him his “special prosecutor.” And now this “prosecutor” is ruthlessly and illegitimately driving towards nothing less than a coup d’état, that will only end with Donald Trump’s removal as the duly-elected President of the United States.
It will be ugly. It will be noisy. It will be dirty. It will be extremely difficult. The deep state’s spooky guardians will threaten the president with everything they can summon. But, by God, it is high time for President Trump to end this despicable sedition being perpetrated by repugnant, monomaniacal partisan degenerates and begin the work of draining the swamp…for real.
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The FBI apparently ignored evidence of Russian involvement in the uranium market “when they approved the deal back in 2010,” said Peter Schweizer of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’s (CFI) 2010 approval of the Russian government’s purchasing of a majority stake in Uranium One.
Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, offered his remarks in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Robert Mueller — director of the FBI between 2001 and 2013 — must have known of corrupt dealings related to the Uranium One deal in 2010, said Schweizer.
“It’s been long known by the FBI that the Russian involvement in the uranium market was highly suspect, that their efforts were nefarious, and that there was a lot of corruption involved with these programs,” said Mueller:
There was a megatons program that was designed to, in a sense, help the Russian nuclear industry transition from sort of military-based work to civilian work — a lot of detailed corruption that the FBI tracked in the 1990s and 2000s, so going up to the 2010 approval for Uranium One, it’s really impossible for senior FBI officials, including the director at the time — Mueller — to argue that they are just completely shocked that Uranium One and these kickbacks were taking place. It was widely known.
Schweizer spoke of William Douglas Campbell, a “Uranium One whistleblower” who has testified privately before Congress about his involvement in the Uranium One deal.
“[Bruce Campbell] testified before Congress,” said Schweizer:
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It was behind closed doors, so we don’t know the details, but essentially he was asked about what he knew as it related specifically to the Clinton Foundation, and what you hear indirectly — I was certainly not there — but what you hear indirectly is that he was told specifically by the Russians to work on helping get Uranium One approved. One of the things that they did was the Russians hired the lobbying firm APCO, and then APCO turned around and essentially gave an in-kind or free donation to the Clinton Foundation, valued somewhere in the order of $3 million.
Campbell’s work as an undercover informant for the FBI led to convictions of Russian executives related to Rosatom — the nuclear agency of the Russian state — in 2015 on bribery and money-laundering charges related to the Uranium One deal.
“APCO denies that charge, but Campbell is a pretty credible guy,” said Schweizer:
This is a guy who was an FBI witness. It’s known that the Russians were paying him $50,000 a month to do work for them, and some of that work included, according to his job description, setting up meetings with high-level ranking U.S. officials. That’s all not in dispute. So this is a guy that certainly was there. The FBI found him credible. He got FBI executives thrown into jail, and they eventually pleaded guilty to a variety of charges, including bribery and kickbacks. So you can’t dismiss, as some Clinton defenders want to, this whistleblower as if he has no credibility because he was there.
It was Campbell’s “testimony and undercover work that got them convicted,” said Schweizer.
“It’s also been hinted that [Campbell] has audiotapes that talk about some of these meetings, and essentially, that some of these Russian officials were bragging and making claims as it related to the Clintons and providing support for them,” said Schweizer.
The Clintons stood to benefit financially from approval of the Uranium One deal, said Schweizer.
“Looking at the approval of Uranium One, it seems pretty clear to me that the Clintons had a huge financial motive to see this deal approved because so many of their big financial supporters stood to gain from this deal being approved, and of course, they had a lot of Russians that were involved in supporting the Clinton Foundation and were partners,” said Schweizer.
The ostensibly charitable Clinton Foundation received $145 million in donations from nine of the deal’s investors.
The CFI’s 2010 approval of the Uranium One deal — through which approximately 20 percent of America’s uranium supply came under Russian state control — occurred while the Obama administration was pursuing a “Russian Reset” policy.
“This occurred in 2010, and this was a time when Barack Obama’s number one foreign policy agenda was the ‘Russian Reset,’” said Schweizer:
I’m sure there were professionals within parts of the national security bureaucracy that were concerned about this transaction, we know that they were, we know on Capitol Hill that there here half a dozen members of Congress on powerful committees dealing with national security deadly opposed to this deal. Those voices were clearly never heard in the Obama administration because there was no debate about this. I think the reason there was no debate about this was because the Obama administration decided very early on: we’re going to do whatever we can to have warmer relations with Moscow, and if that means turning over this uranium company to a corrupt Russian government institution, so be it. We’re going to ram it through.
“It’s got to go down as one of the worst deals that has ever been done in American foreign policy,” said Schweizer.
“We have no idea where that uranium is now,” said Mansour. “We’ve completely lost track of it. It could be going to Iran, it could be going to North Korea. No one can tell.”
The statute of limitations — “where the allegation is that the Clintons traded favors for financial gain and benefits,” as Schweizer described it — has passed on crimes of corruption related to the Uranium One transactions, said Schweizer. Such crimes have statutes of limitations ranging between five and seven years, he added.
Criminal use of a charity for self-enrichment does not have a statute of limitations, said Schweizer: “If you use a charity for personal gain, which is a violation of the IRS tax code, those statutes of limitation do not run out.”
According to a January report in The Hill, the FBI launched a new investigation of possible criminal conduct related to the Clinton Foundation, including possible monetization of political influence by the Clintons:
The Justice Department has launched a new inquiry into whether the Clinton Foundation engaged in any pay-to-play politics or other illegal activities while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of State, law enforcement officials and a witness tells The Hill. … The probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes. … The probe may also examine whether any tax-exempt assets were converted for personal or political use and whether the foundation complied with applicable tax laws, the officials said.
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/02/20/peter-schweizer-clintons-had-a-huge-financial-motive-in-approval-of-2010-uranium-one-deal/
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Good God you're an idiot..
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/the-uranium-one-treason-why-robert-mueller-must-be-removed-and-his-partisan-hit-squad-dismantled/#masthead
Uranium One 101
The short version is that in 2010, when Mueller was FBI director, members of an interagency committee working under the Obama administration facilitated a highly-suspicious business deal that had grave public implication. The result of it was that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton effectively handed Russia and Vladimir Putin control over as much as 20 percent of the uranium production capacity of the United States.
As this deal was coming to fruition, after years of nefarious Clintonian machinations urging it along, Mueller’s FBI was investigating — and may have uncovered clear evidence of — Russian bribery and fraud to the detriment of U.S. uranium contractors, as part of a larger Russian (Putin) racketeering scheme to gain control of global uranium resources, namely by purchasing the power and influence being peddled by the Clintons to anyone who would meet their terms.
The FBI appears to have been investigating a Moscow-compromised uranium trucking company called Tenex As early as 2009. Tenex was allegedly engaged in racketeering through a pattern of bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Tenex was operating out of Bethesda, Maryland through a subsidiary named “Tenam USA.” The company was run by a Russian official named Vadim Mikerin. As the FBI was investigating Tenam’s alleged extortion and bribery scheme, Russia was seeking permission from the Obama administration and the Clinton State Department to acquire ownership in Uranium One. Despite evidence of Tenex’s and Mikerim’s alleged corruption as early as 2009, the Obama administration rubber-stamped a U.S. work visa twice for Mikerim, as late as 2014.
And what did our intrepid paragon of justice Robert Swan Mueller III do to thwart this alleged scheme and arrest its perpetrators? The answer is absolutely NOTHING. In fact, a confidentiality agreement prevented a key witness to the Clinton-Russia uranium treason from testifying. The Justice Department only just lifted on October 25, 2017, a full seven years after the fact, under pressure from congressional intelligence committee leadership.
Robert Mueller ensured that his own FBI investigators were effectively walled off from exposing the real players in our own government who were complicit in this epic influence-peddling scam founded on the Clintons’ ruthless greed and epic criminality.
Obama’s Justice Department and Mueller’s FBI knowingly kept Congress and the American people in the dark about Russia’s significant and quite possibly illegal manipulations involving American uranium companies and the highest officials of American government, possibly among them U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The result was that the Clintons’ criminal treason, in collusion with Russian nuclear criminals, went full steam ahead, unperturbed.
Mueller’s key role in the covering up of these Russia-Clinton uranium dealings constitutes more than enough justification for Robert Mueller’s immediate and unceremonious removal as an autonomous, secretive inquisitor limitlessly probing the newly-inaugurated president who defeated Mueller’s former Obama administration crony and cohort, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There are probably a dozen other reasons why Mueller should be criminally charged but, for now, let’s just focus on this most heinous of schemes to which Mueller has been party: the transfer of our precious uranium resources to criminal Russian oligarchs to benefit the Clinton-Obama crime junta and sleazy hucksters from the ranks of the Democratic Party.
You might ask: How is it even possible that Russia (a supposed enemy) could acquire an in U.S. uranium capacity? The answer is that while Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State under President Barack Obama, the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, was handed official U.S. government authorization to purchase a Canadian company named Uranium One which controlled uranium mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West..
Uranium One, as handed over to the Russians by the Obama-Clinton cabal, was effectively the creation of a Canadian entrepreneur named Frank Giustra. Mr. Giustra conveniently happened to be a major Clinton donor and a personal friend of Bill Clinton.
Guistra and Clinton Getty Images/Joaquin Sarmiento
Guistra and Clinton Getty Images/Joaquin Sarmiento
The Clinton-Giustra genesis of the Uranium One scam was detailed in a lengthy New York Times story in April 2015 titled “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal.”
(Based on the old Grey Lady’s incessant animus for Donald Trump and its complicity in puffing up the Russia collusion delusion about the president, it would seem that Clintonian amnesia is the order of the day at the New York Times.)
In 2005, Clinton was flown on Giustra’s lavish private jet to Kazakhstan, a central Asian country once part of the former Soviet Union. By some estimates, Kazakhstan possesses around 12 percent of the world’s uranium resources and Giustra wanted to acquire ownership interest in several uranium mines.
Using his substantial network of contacts as a former U.S. president, Bill Clinton reportedly had arranged for Giustra and himself to dine with Kazakhstan’s despotic ruler, Nursultan Nazarbeyev. During the meal, Clinton handed the Kazakh president a propaganda coup when Clinton expressed support for Nazarbayev’s bid to head an international elections monitoring group.
Apparently it was of no consequence or concern to officialdom in Washington that this move by Clinton ran directly counter to American foreign policy and undermined much-deserved criticism of Kazakhstan’s poor human rights record by, among others, Clinton’s wife, at the time a U.S. senator.
The new company Giustra formed to effectuate the Uranium One deal, UrAsia Energy Ltd., reportedly signed a preliminary deal giving it stakes in three uranium mines controlled by Kazatomprom, the government agency that runs Kazakhstan’s uranium mines and nuclear energy industry. In 2007 UrAsia merged with Uranium One in what was described as a $3.5 billion transaction, with the successor company retaining the name Uranium One.
Mukhtar Dzhakishev, president of Kazatomprom, subsequently alleged that then-Senator Hillary Clinton had pressured Kazakh officials to cede the uranium rights to Giustra.
Basically, Hillary served as the stick to her husband Bill’s proverbial carrot in making the deal happen.
According to The Washington Post, Dzhakishev “described the deal as ‘a financing mechanism of the Democratic Party’ and said a Clinton adviser named Tim Phillips championed it in meetings with him and other officials.”
From the same WaPo article:
At the time, Clinton denied taking any action to support Giustra’s purchase. Giustra also said Clinton played no role in the deal and rejected any link between the deal and his Clinton Foundation donations. But in the leaked video of him speaking to the authorities, Dzhakishev said a senior Kazakh official told him to look into the deal after then-Sen. Hillary Clinton canceled a meeting with him. Dzhakishev said he was told that “investors who currently work in Kazakhstan and have ties to Clinton have problems and meetings will be resumed only after Kazakhstan resolves the problems.” “I called them, and they came. I met them in Astana and then Clinton’s aide, Tim Phillips, began to scream that this deal involves Democrats and is financed by them, and that we were hampering the deal,” Dzhakishev said.
When all was said and done, UrAsia’s investors controlled the new Uranium One. The chairman of the new company was Canadian Ian Telfer.
Telfer reportedly donated $2.3 million to the Clinton Foundation.
Frank Giustra, who had shepherded Bill Clinton’s influence with the Kazakhstanis, held a personal stake in the deal estimated by some reports at about $45 million. Through a spokesperson, Giustra said he sold his stake in 2007. According to the New York Times, one year after the 2005 uranium deal was final Giustra donated $31.3 million to the Clinton Foundation with a promise of $100 million more.
One adviser on the Uranium One-UrAsia merger was Paul Reynolds.
Reynolds reportedly donated $1 to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation.
A company called U.S. Global Investors Inc. held $4.7 million in Uranium One shares. A U.S. Global executive named Frank Holmes reportedly donated $250,000 to $500,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
This is just the short list of Uranium One-connected donations that flowed back to the Clintons. Although the Clintons had an obligation to report these donations, they conveniently waited until 2008 to do so, and only when The New York Times was poised to expose and publish details about this obvious multi-million dollar pay-to-play scheme.
As is modus operandi with all of the Clintons’ sleazy machinations, any questions or suggestions posed about the connections between shady Clinton influence-peddling business deals and the inevitable cash windfalls realized by the Clintons were glibly pooh-poohed as either mere coincidence (please!) or lacking any “evidence” (as if we need signed receipts and written agreements to connect the obvious dots of the Clintons’ epic lucre).
With classic Clintonian prevarication, treating the public as either blind or stupid (or both), the Clintons steadfastly deny the obvious quid pro quo connections at the root of the Uranium One Kazakhstan acquisitions.
Of course, the Clinton crony-beneficiaries of the deal knew enough to follow suit with similar huffy denials, lest they meet with an unfortunate premature demise like so many others who have dared run afoul of the Clintons’ scamming and scheming, all the way back to their Arkansas backwater days.
Russo-Clinton Treason: Phase II
Once Uranium One was set up with the Kazakhstani uranium holdings firmly in the control of Clinton cronies, the stage was set for the next step in the Clintons’ treasonous plot: handing over Uranium One and its holdings to the Russians, or more accurately to Vladimir Putin.
Clinton and Putin AFP/Getty Images/Alexey Druzhinin
Clinton and Putin AFP/Getty Images/Alexey Druzhinin
The Clinton cabal’s uranium wheelings and dealings began immediately at the commencement in 2009 of the Obama administration, under the close direction of newly-installed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In order for Russian nuclear entity Rosatom to purchase Uranium One the deal required approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS. The committee consists of top officials from nine different federal agencies. Not surprisingly, given the foreign subject matter intrinsic to the committee’s work, the key agency — the main driver out of all government players involved — is the U.S. Department of State, which was conveniently headed by Mrs. Bill Clinton in 2009.
To be clear, Hillary Clinton did not have the authority to push such a potentially-controversial deal through by herself. Such power ultimately resides with the president, in this case Barack Obama.
The CFIUS voted twice, first in 2010 and then in 2013, to approve Rosatom’s acquisition of Uranium One, thereby conceivably giving Vladimir Putin control of up to 20 percent of all U.S. uranium capacity.
It would be ridiculous to think that Obama, Hillary, Holder and Mueller would not have been well aware of the FBI’s investigation into the Russian racketeering and all of the bribes and kickbacks — in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act — that formed a backdrop to the Uranium One acquisition by Russia.
These sworn federal officials did not step in to expose and halt the tainted Uranium One deal. They may have cleared the way for it.
Robert Mueller appears to have known about the delivery of 10 grams of HEU (highly enriched uranium) to the Russians in September 2009.
The highly enriched uranium in question had been confiscated in 2006 by the U.S. Department of Energy in a “nuclear smuggling sting operation involving one Russian national and several Georgian accomplices.” A cable, one of several released by WikiLeaks, details Director Mueller’s mission to personally deliver the HEU to Russian law enforcement at the behest of Hillary Clinton.
Another interesting bit of “innocent timing” or convenient coincidence (take your pick): In June of 2010, the same month that Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One, Bill Clinton spoke in Moscow for the tidy sum of $500,000, the second-highest fee he had ever received for a speech.
Clinton’s half-million dollar bonanza for 90 minutes of “work” was paid by Renaissance Capital, a Russian investment bank with ties to the Kremlin. Renaissance Capital analysts talked up Uranium One’s stock, assigning it a “buy” rating and saying in a July 2010 research report that it was “the best play” in the uranium markets. Of course this, too, is just a “coincidence.”
If you think all of these connections and occurrences are too mind-boggling to accept as mere coincidence, hold onto your seat for this next one. Remember how the alleged Tenam/Rosatom racketeering activities were centered in Bethesda, Maryland at the Tenex U.S. offices? As rank-and-file FBI agents were assiduously investigating these Russian schemes to obtain U.S. uranium resources through corruption of public officials, Robert Mueller handed his longtime legal crony the Uranium One case to be buried and forgotten, clearing the way for approval of the Rosatom deal by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.
The crony’s name was Rod Rosenstein.
And the rest is history.
I leave you, good reader, to draw the obvious conclusions about what is really behind this cozy little bromance between Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein, the two lawyers who promulgated Mueller’s grotesque, unaccountable partisan hit squad that is clearly intent on taking out our president.
Let’s not forget what Donald Trump said to Hillary Clinton and the entire nation in a televised presidential debate on October 9, 2016:
“I’ll tell you what. I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it. But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it, and we’re going to have a special prosecutor.”
After his election, Donald Trump chose to be magnanimous and forward-looking rather than follow through on his words and appoint that special prosecutor. Trump naively thought he could commence his presidency free from the tentacles of his seething, embittered dragon lady of an opponent.
Donald Trump genuinely did not want his presidency tangled up with the Clinton stain. He knew this would be impossible to avoid were he to see to the much-deserved prosecution of Hillary Clinton and her extensive syndicate of cohorts, cronies, flunkies and fellow travelers, including the likes of Mueller and Rosenstein, for their countless crimes and endless scandals.
Unfortunately for Donald Trump, they turned his debate promise around and gave him his “special prosecutor.” And now this “prosecutor” is ruthlessly and illegitimately driving towards nothing less than a coup d’état, that will only end with Donald Trump’s removal as the duly-elected President of the United States.
It will be ugly. It will be noisy. It will be dirty. It will be extremely difficult. The deep state’s spooky guardians will threaten the president with everything they can summon. But, by God, it is high time for President Trump to end this despicable sedition being perpetrated by repugnant, monomaniacal partisan degenerates and begin the work of draining the swamp…for real.
Fake News
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Come on Coach
You Not allowed to post those negative reply’s
About the
Holy Trinity Bill - Obama & Killary
Someone is going to Call Fake News.
Ha ha ha
Well done.
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Yeah, someone on Fox News might call it Fake News
Wait, only the President is allowed to refer to something factual as "fake"
Everyone knows that
Can any Trumptard here sum up the Uranium One CT in their own words in a few sentences?
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Yeah, someone on Fox News might call it Fake News
Wait, only the President is allowed to refer to something factual as "fake"
Everyone knows that
Can any Trumptard here sum up the Uranium One CT in their own words in a few sentences?
third party was used to facilitate the sale of uranium to Russia, Clinton's received $$ for sale...the end
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third party was used to facilitate the sale of uranium to Russia, Clinton's received $$ for sale...the end
fake news
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Yeah, someone on Fox News might call it Fake News
Wait, only the President is allowed to refer to something factual as "fake"
Everyone knows that
Can any Trumptard here sum up the Uranium One CT in their own words in a few sentences?
His show is a daily CNN try out
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His show is a daily CNN try out
I'm definitely willing to listen to you refute anything he has said
just sum um what things he said that are not accurate
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I'm definitely willing to listen to you refute anything he has said
just sum um what things he said that are not accurate
you'll be waiting awhile
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fake news
why ? ........................ ........................ ........................ .....silence............ ..........
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I'm definitely willing to listen to you refute anything he has said
just sum um what things he said that are not accurate
I don’t need too. Everyone else already has.
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why ? ........................ ........................ ........................ .....silence............ ..........
Our phony coach seems incapable of providing any details but maybe you can
You wrote
third party was used to facilitate the sale of uranium to Russia, Clinton's received $$ for sale...the end
who was the third party
when did the sale of the uranium to Russia take place
how much did Clinton receive for the sale and paid by whom
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Our phony coach seems incapable of providing any details but maybe you can
You wrote
who was the third party
when did the sale of the uranium to Russia take place
how much did Clinton receive for the sale and paid by whom
Google it yourself.
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Google it yourself.
already did
it's all false
still waiting for you to explain what treasonous actions you think Mueller has done
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Here's what Strawhead did. He googled Robert Mueller Uranium One, the first two searches come up 'Snopes" and "Vox" figure it out from there.
Feel free to Refute the two articles I posted.
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already did
it's all false
still waiting for you to explain what treasonous actions you think Mueller has done
Straw Man's source:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/03/18/16/4A513DC900000578-5515545-image-m-27_1521389358181.jpg)
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Mueller was still the Director of the FBI. There is NO WAY he couldn't have known about this. This article was back when the liberal NYT was somewhat reputable..
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html
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You do realize your heroes Killary and Mueller both did business with Russia before the election? Mueller himself handed Russian the uranium sample so they could increase their nuclear arsenal. Couple of traitorous botches, your two heroes. ::)
If either of them colluded with Russia than two wrongs do not make a right. HRC is not my hero. Never heard of Mueller prior to this current FBI investigation.
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already did
it's all false
still waiting for you to explain what treasonous actions you think Mueller has done
Bullshit. You're either a complete moron or a fucking liar. Safe to assume the first is more accurate.
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And he seems to be getting worse by the day.
Hopefully, he doesn't start defending adults who are sexually attracted to little kids the way YOU DO:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=638091.msg8932410#msg8932410
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Good God you're an idiot..
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/the-uranium-one-treason-why-robert-mueller-must-be-removed-and-his-partisan-hit-squad-dismantled/#masthead
Thanks for supplying your resource. It says a lot about where and how you form your opinions. The Daily Caller....The Daily Caller is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Daily Caller produces sensational headlines and has a right wing bias in reporting and has made false claims according to Snopes and Politifact. (7/19/2016) Updated (4/21/2017)
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Snopes and politifact both sponsored and paid for by Soros. ::)
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Good God you're an idiot..
http://dailycaller.com/2017/12/20/the-uranium-one-treason-why-robert-mueller-must-be-removed-and-his-partisan-hit-squad-dismantled/#masthead
Thanks for supplying your resource. It says a lot about where and how you form your opinions. The Daily Caller....The Daily Caller is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Daily Caller produces sensational headlines and has a right wing bias in reporting and has made false claims according to Snopes and Politifact. (7/19/2016) Updated (4/21/2017)
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Thanks for supplying your resource. It says a lot about where and how you form your opinions. The Daily Caller....The Daily Caller is an American news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C.. It was founded by Tucker Carlson, a libertarian conservative political pundit, and Neil Patel, former adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney. The Daily Caller produces sensational headlines and has a right wing bias in reporting and has made false claims according to Snopes and Politifact. (7/19/2016) Updated (4/21/2017)
Snopes and politifact both sponsored and paid for by Soros. ::)
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Snopes and politifact both sponsored and paid for by Soros. ::)
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Why didn't you put up the video of him talking about going door to door with the Nazis and collecting Jews?
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Bullshit. You're either a complete moron or a fucking liar. Safe to assume the first is more accurate.
then tell me what's not true
that's what I asked to begin with but you and that other idiot just deflected and ran away
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then tell me what's not true
that's what I asked to begin with but you and that other idiot just deflected and ran away
Nobody ran away. I'm not a special ed teacher, if you're not smart enough to figure it out yourself I'd suggest you give up your right to vote.
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Nobody ran away. I'm not a special ed teacher, if you're not smart enough to figure it out yourself I'd suggest you give up your right to vote.
wow what a suprise
you still can't say which part of what the narrative is false
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wow what a suprise
you still can't say which part of what the narrative is false
Nobody ran away. I'm not a special ed teacher, if you're not smart enough to figure it out yourself I'd suggest you give up your right to vote.
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Talking to yourself?
He’s not that clever
He’d end up arguing with himself
And he'd probably still think he won the argument.
Ok. This seriously made me laugh out loud. ;D
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wow, another day and Chaos can't support or defend or explain his claim that Mueller is a traitor and no Trumptard on this thread can say what part of the dossier is fraudulent or false
what a surprise
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wow, another day and Chaos can't support or defend or explain his claim that Mueller is a traitor and no Trumptard on this thread can say what part of the dossier is fraudulent or false
what a surprise
Do your own research. Try Google
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Do your own research. Try Google
I did
Mueller has not committed treason and the contents of the dossier have never been proven fake or fraudulent and many parts have been corroborated
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This was an easy search on Google. Yes, and I agree he is committing treason. So is the MSM and all the politicians supporting illegal immigration. All those in favor of sanctuary cities, states etc. are in fact committing treason. It is clear cut and the time has come to start arresting and locking up the traitors. Some will have to be executed. Not sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Bye!!
http://wsau.com/blogs/ben-armstrong-blog/20344/robert-mueller-is-committing-the-very-definition-of-treason/
Robert Mueller is Committing The Very Definition of Treason
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:35 a.m. by Ben Armstrong
Let me say it again; Robert Mueller is committing the very definition of treason! I will give you the definition of treason from the dictionary in just a moment.
Some people may think that's an over-the-top statement. Robert Mueller is committing treason? How can someone say such a thing? Easy, Robert Mueller is 100% aware that his entire investigation started on a lie.
Mueller knows that the fake Russian dossier was used to trick our FISA courts in order to spy on President Trump.
Mueller knows that the Hillary campaign was behind hiring Fusion GPS to obtain fake Russian information from the Russians.
Mueller knows no crime has ever been presented to justify his investigation.
Mueller knows about all the new information that is come out regarding FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Mueller Had Peter Strzok on his Special Counsel Team!
Mueller is 100% aware of the memo that exist in which over 100 Congressmen have seen and confirmed, that its contents show corruption between the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Yet, Robert Mueller has not immediately ended his investigation. He continues his effort to overthrow a sitting president, in the hopes to bring impeachment charges through fraudulent means. The fact that Robert Mueller is using fake Russian information against the sitting president, proves he is colluding with the Russians to overthrow President Trump. If that's not the case, then Robert Mueller would have ended his investigation when news of the memo first broke.
Mueller didn't end his investigation because he was already aware of everything that is in the memo. Since we know these things to be true, then we also know Robert Mueller is committing treason against the American people and our sitting President.
Here is the definition of treason from Merriam-Webster. The most respected dictionary in America.
Definition of treason
1 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family
2 : the betrayal of a trust : treachery
I don't have to prove that Robert Mueller committed Treason anymore. His Defenders need to prove that he is NOT. They can’t, because everything I stated it true.
P.S.
Here is one of the legal statute's that could be used.
18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of treason
US Code
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States , or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807 ; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII , § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 .)
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This was an easy search on Google. Yes, and I agree he is committing treason. So is the MSM and all the politicians supporting illegal immigration. All those in favor of sanctuary cities, states etc. are in fact committing treason. It is clear cut and the time has come to start arresting and locking up the traitors. Some will have to be executed. Not sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Bye!!
http://wsau.com/blogs/ben-armstrong-blog/20344/robert-mueller-is-committing-the-very-definition-of-treason/
Robert Mueller is Committing The Very Definition of Treason
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:35 a.m. by Ben Armstrong
Let me say it again; Robert Mueller is committing the very definition of treason! I will give you the definition of treason from the dictionary in just a moment.
Some people may think that's an over-the-top statement. Robert Mueller is committing treason? How can someone say such a thing? Easy, Robert Mueller is 100% aware that his entire investigation started on a lie.
Mueller knows that the fake Russian dossier was used to trick our FISA courts in order to spy on President Trump.
Mueller knows that the Hillary campaign was behind hiring Fusion GPS to obtain fake Russian information from the Russians.
Mueller knows no crime has ever been presented to justify his investigation.
Mueller knows about all the new information that is come out regarding FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Mueller Had Peter Strzok on his Special Counsel Team!
Mueller is 100% aware of the memo that exist in which over 100 Congressmen have seen and confirmed, that its contents show corruption between the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Yet, Robert Mueller has not immediately ended his investigation. He continues his effort to overthrow a sitting president, in the hopes to bring impeachment charges through fraudulent means. The fact that Robert Mueller is using fake Russian information against the sitting president, proves he is colluding with the Russians to overthrow President Trump. If that's not the case, then Robert Mueller would have ended his investigation when news of the memo first broke.
Mueller didn't end his investigation because he was already aware of everything that is in the memo. Since we know these things to be true, then we also know Robert Mueller is committing treason against the American people and our sitting President.
Here is the definition of treason from Merriam-Webster. The most respected dictionary in America.
Definition of treason
1 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family
2 : the betrayal of a trust : treachery
I don't have to prove that Robert Mueller committed Treason anymore. His Defenders need to prove that he is NOT. They can’t, because everything I stated it true.
P.S.
Here is one of the legal statute's that could be used.
18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of treason
US Code
Notes
prev | next
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States , or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807 ; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII , § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 .)
the premise of your claim is total bullshit
The FBI's counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump campaign officials had improper contacts with Russia was triggered by information the bureau obtained about George Papadopoulos,
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This was an easy search on Google. Yes, and I agree he is committing treason. So is the MSM and all the politicians supporting illegal immigration. All those in favor of sanctuary cities, states etc. are in fact committing treason. It is clear cut and the time has come to start arresting and locking up the traitors. Some will have to be executed. Not sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Bye!!
http://wsau.com/blogs/ben-armstrong-blog/20344/robert-mueller-is-committing-the-very-definition-of-treason/
Robert Mueller is Committing The Very Definition of Treason
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:35 a.m. by Ben Armstrong
Let me say it again; Robert Mueller is committing the very definition of treason! I will give you the definition of treason from the dictionary in just a moment.
Some people may think that's an over-the-top statement. Robert Mueller is committing treason? How can someone say such a thing? Easy, Robert Mueller is 100% aware that his entire investigation started on a lie. WRONG. Speculation not based on any facts presented
Mueller knows that the fake Russian dossier was used to trick our FISA courts in order to spy on President Trump. Not even close to accurate
Mueller knows that the Hillary campaign was behind hiring Fusion GPS to obtain fake Russian information from the Russians. :)
Mueller knows no crime has ever been presented to justify his investigation. Yet he has indictments of several people some of them Russians
Mueller knows about all the new information that is come out regarding FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Mueller Had Peter Strzok on his Special Counsel Team!
Mueller is 100% aware of the memo that exist in which over 100 Congressmen have seen and confirmed, that its contents show corruption between the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Silly comment
Yet, Robert Mueller has not immediately ended his investigation. He continues his effort to overthrow a sitting president, in the hopes to bring impeachment charges through fraudulent means. The fact that Robert Mueller is using fake Russian information against the sitting president, proves he is colluding with the Russians to overthrow President Trump. If that's not the case, then Robert Mueller would have ended his investigation when news of the memo first broke.
Mueller didn't end his investigation because he was already aware of everything that is in the memo. Since we know these things to be true, then we also know Robert Mueller is committing treason against the American people and our sitting President. This is a horrible conclusion not based on any information excluding Hannity
Here is the definition of treason from Merriam-Webster. The most respected dictionary in America.
Definition of treason
1 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family
2 : the betrayal of a trust : treachery
I don't have to prove that Robert Mueller committed Treason anymore. His Defenders need to prove that he is NOT. They can’t, because everything I stated it true.
P.S.
Here is one of the legal statute's that could be used.
18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of treason
US Code
Notes
prev | next
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States , or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807 ; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII , § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 .)
This has to be a troll.. no way anyone can read that and take it serious
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Why didn't you put up the video of him talking about going door to door with the Nazis and collecting Jews?
Simple....I have not seen that video nor do I know of it. Be careful not to take my aforementioned post as something of a serious nature. I posted it because I thought video and the commentator were funny. Chill.
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This was an easy search on Google. Yes, and I agree he is committing treason. So is the MSM and all the politicians supporting illegal immigration. All those in favor of sanctuary cities, states etc. are in fact committing treason. It is clear cut and the time has come to start arresting and locking up the traitors. Some will have to be executed. Not sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Bye!!
http://wsau.com/blogs/ben-armstrong-blog/20344/robert-mueller-is-committing-the-very-definition-of-treason/
Robert Mueller is Committing The Very Definition of Treason
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 9:35 a.m. by Ben Armstrong
Let me say it again; Robert Mueller is committing the very definition of treason! I will give you the definition of treason from the dictionary in just a moment.
Some people may think that's an over-the-top statement. Robert Mueller is committing treason? How can someone say such a thing? Easy, Robert Mueller is 100% aware that his entire investigation started on a lie.
Mueller knows that the fake Russian dossier was used to trick our FISA courts in order to spy on President Trump.
Mueller knows that the Hillary campaign was behind hiring Fusion GPS to obtain fake Russian information from the Russians.
Mueller knows no crime has ever been presented to justify his investigation.
Mueller knows about all the new information that is come out regarding FBI agent Peter Strzok.
Mueller Had Peter Strzok on his Special Counsel Team!
Mueller is 100% aware of the memo that exist in which over 100 Congressmen have seen and confirmed, that its contents show corruption between the FBI and the Department of Justice.
Yet, Robert Mueller has not immediately ended his investigation. He continues his effort to overthrow a sitting president, in the hopes to bring impeachment charges through fraudulent means. The fact that Robert Mueller is using fake Russian information against the sitting president, proves he is colluding with the Russians to overthrow President Trump. If that's not the case, then Robert Mueller would have ended his investigation when news of the memo first broke.
Mueller didn't end his investigation because he was already aware of everything that is in the memo. Since we know these things to be true, then we also know Robert Mueller is committing treason against the American people and our sitting President.
Here is the definition of treason from Merriam-Webster. The most respected dictionary in America.
Definition of treason
1 : the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family
2 : the betrayal of a trust : treachery
I don't have to prove that Robert Mueller committed Treason anymore. His Defenders need to prove that he is NOT. They can’t, because everything I stated it true.
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Here is one of the legal statute's that could be used.
18 U.S. Code § 2382 - Misprision of treason
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Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States , or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 807 ; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII , § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147 .)
He doesn't end the investigation because of his involvement in Uranium One and his connection with Killary/Osama, if he's willing to deliver uranium to a country that is supoosedly so corrupt like Russia for money, what else is he willing to do?
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He doesn't end the investigation because of his involvement in Uranium One and his connection with Killary/Osama, if he's willing to deliver uranium to a country that is supoosedly so corrupt like Russia for money, what else is he willing to do?
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Are you saying you believe Mueller is investigating this with an open mind, looking for the truth?
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Are you saying you believe Mueller is investigating this with an open mind, looking for the truth?
as far as we know, yes he is.
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Are you saying you believe Mueller is investigating this with an open mind, looking for the truth?
yep
and you should be very happy about that
try to keep in mind that Mueller is a life long Republican
Here is an anonymous statement from a well known Republican from a couple of days ago
"If you’ve done nothing wrong, you should want the investigation to be as fulsome and thorough as possible."
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yep
and you should be very happy about that
try to keep in mind that Mueller is a life long Republican
Here is an anonymous statement from a well known Republican from a couple of days ago
"If you’ve done nothing wrong, you should want the investigation to be as fulsome and thorough as possible."
Hahahahahahahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You think because someone in politics that claims to be a “republican” is actually that?? His entire fucking team of attorneys are leftists with most contributors to the Clinton campaign. Lmao. Go to bed sonny, Trump is DEEP inside your head (which there’s plenty of air to around in) it keeps you awake at night. Hahahahahaha
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Hahahahahahahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You think because someone in politics that claims to be a “republican” is actually that?? His entire fucking team of attorneys are leftists with most contributors to the Clinton campaign. Lmao. Go to bed sonny, Trump is DEEP inside your head (which there’s plenty of air to around in) it keeps you awake at night. Hahahahahaha
nope
I don't think it matters either way
do you?
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Hahahahahahahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You think because someone in politics that claims to be a “republican” is actually that?? His entire fucking team of attorneys are leftists with most contributors to the Clinton campaign. Lmao. Go to bed sonny, Trump is DEEP inside your head (which there’s plenty of air to around in) it keeps you awake at night. Hahahahahaha
You say his entire team but you know that isn't true just because Trump tweeted it right?
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nope
I don't think it matters either way
do you?
You’re trolling.
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You say his entire team but you know that isn't true just because Trump tweeted it right?
all but two are clinton supporters..
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all but two are clinton supporters..
why do people like coach feel the need to repeat lies?
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You’re trolling.
I don't think the truth matters whether you're Republican or Democrat
do you?
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I don't think the truth matters whether you're Republican or Democrat
do you?
Get over it shill..
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/polls-hillary-clinton-win_us_5821074ce4b0e80b02cc2a94
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Get over it shill..
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/polls-hillary-clinton-win_us_5821074ce4b0e80b02cc2a94
so you can't answer the question
what a surprise
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so you can't answer the question
what a surprise
I actually come on here to watch you and Agnostic meltdown...lol. The fact that you still think Clinton is innocent is enough for me to think you 1. You're wrong about 99.8% of the time and 2. You should be committed because Trump owns that piece of real estate between your ears..lol
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I actually come on here to watch you and Agnostic meltdown...lol. The fact that you still think Clinton is innocent is enough for me to think you 1. You're wrong about 99.8% of the time and 2. You should be committed because Trump owns that piece of real estate between your ears..lol
Your insightful comments and in-depth analysis always keep me on my toes. oh.. lol
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Good summary. Very interested to see what specific evidence they had about his alleged misconduct.
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Good summary. Very interested to see what specific evidence they had about his alleged misconduct.
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Impossible! Demoncrats keep repeating the lie that Trump fired McCabe!
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Unbelievable the maggot now has a Go Fund Me with over $200,000
https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund (https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund)
(https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/28709974_1522271747.0818.jpg)
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Unbelievable the maggot now has a Go Fund Me with over $200,000
https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund (https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund)
(https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/28709974_1522271747.0818.jpg)
He is poised to become a liberal icon. How long before he is hired by MSNBC or CNN?
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Unbelievable the maggot now has a Go Fund Me with over $200,000
https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund (https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund)
(https://d2g8igdw686xgo.cloudfront.net/28709974_1522271747.0818.jpg)
"No funds raised for the Andrew McCabe Legal Defense Fund will be used for anything beyond his defense of the allegations against him." https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund (https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund)
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Impossible! Demoncrats keep repeating the lie that Trump fired McCabe!
Technically he didn't. Realistically, he did fire McCabe. Jeff Sessions is a puppet whose strings are controlled by Trump.
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Technically he didn't. Realistically, he did fire McCabe. Jeff Sessions is a puppet whose strings are controlled by Trump.
And Trumps are controlled by Hitler and Putin. Eleanor Roosevelt told Hillary Rodham Clinton
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"No funds raised for the Andrew McCabe Legal Defense Fund will be used for anything beyond his defense of the allegations against him." https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund (https://www.gofundme.com/andrewmccabelegaldefensefund)
Well that’s comforting.
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And Trumps are controlled by Hitler and Putin. Eleanor Roosevelt told Hillary Rodham Clinton
Eleanor Roosevelt was one great First Lady....way ahead of her time.
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Technically he didn't. Realistically, he did fire McCabe. Jeff Sessions is a puppet whose strings are controlled by Trump.
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If he lied, especially under oath, will he go to prison?
IG report faults ex-FBI official McCabe for lying four separate times, congressman says
The inspector general report that led to the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe faults him for lying four separate times, a Republican congressman said.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the House Oversight Committee, made the revelation during a Thursday night interview on Fox News.
“It wasn't once, twice, it wasn’t even three times,” Jordan said on "The Ingraham Angle." “Four times he lied about leaking information to the Wall Street Journal about the FBI.”
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the FBI and DOJ’s actions related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server has not been released publicly. But some lawmakers, like Jordan, have obtained copies of the report.
“He lied to James Comey. He lied to the Office of Professional Responsibility. And he lied twice under oath to the inspector general,” Jordan said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/30/ig-report-faults-ex-fbi-official-mccabe-for-lying-four-separate-times-congressman-says.html
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If he lied, especially under oath, will he go to prison?
IG report faults ex-FBI official McCabe for lying four separate times, congressman says
The inspector general report that led to the firing of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe faults him for lying four separate times, a Republican congressman said.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a member of the House Oversight Committee, made the revelation during a Thursday night interview on Fox News.
“It wasn't once, twice, it wasn’t even three times,” Jordan said on "The Ingraham Angle." “Four times he lied about leaking information to the Wall Street Journal about the FBI.”
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s review of the FBI and DOJ’s actions related to its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server has not been released publicly. But some lawmakers, like Jordan, have obtained copies of the report.
“He lied to James Comey. He lied to the Office of Professional Responsibility. And he lied twice under oath to the inspector general,” Jordan said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/30/ig-report-faults-ex-fbi-official-mccabe-for-lying-four-separate-times-congressman-says.html
Probably not. Prison is for us little people.
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Technically he didn't. Realistically, he did fire McCabe. Jeff Sessions is a puppet whose strings are controlled by Trump.
So that's why Sessions recused himself.
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Can someone remind me how many times DJT has lied?
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Can someone remind me how many times DJT has lied?
Once. When he told your mom he was going to the store for smokes and he'd be right back.
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DOJ IG releases explosive report that led to firing of ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe
Andrew McCabe, the onetime acting FBI director, leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to his boss and federal investigators, prompting a stunning fall from grace that ended in his firing last month, according to a bombshell report released Friday by the Justice Department's internal watchdog.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz, appointed by President Obama, had been reviewing FBI and DOJ actions leading up to the 2016 election.
The report, handed over to Congress on Friday and obtained by Fox News, looked at a leak to The Wall Street Journal about the FBI's probe into the Clinton Foundation. The report says McCabe misled investigators about leaks and did so in a way that did not fall under a "public interest" exemption.
"[W]e concluded that McCabe’s decision to confirm the existence of the CF investigation through an anonymously sourced quote, recounting the content of a phone call with a senior department official in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of department leadership, was clearly not within the public interest exception," the report says.
"We concluded that McCabe lacked candor on four separate occasions in connection with the disclosure to the WSJ. Three of those occasions involved his testimony under oath."
"We concluded that McCabe lacked candor during an INSD interview under oath on May 9, 2017, when he falsely told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did."
"We concluded that McCabe lacked candor during his OIG audio-recorded interview under oath on July 28, 2017, when he falsely stated that: (a) he was not aware of Special Counsel being authorized to speak to reporters around October 30 and (b) he did not know, because he was out of town, “where [Special Counsel] was or what she was doing” during the relevant time period."
"We concluded that McCabe lacked candor during an OIG interview under oath on November 29, 2017, when he falsely told the OIG in a recorded interview that: (a) he told Comey on October 31, 2016, that he (McCabe) had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and that Comey agreed it was a “good” idea; (b) he did not deny to the INSD agents on May 9 that he had authorized the disclosure to the WSJ; and (c) the May 9 INSD interview occurred at the end of an unrelated meeting when one of the INSD agents pulled him aside and asked him one or two questions about the October 30 article."
"As detailed in this report, the OIG found that then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lacked candor, including under oath, on multiple occasions in connection with describing his role in connection with a disclosure to the WSJ, and that this conduct violated FBI Offense Codes 2.5 and 2.6. The OIG also concluded that McCabe’s disclosure of the existence of an ongoing investigation in the manner described in this report violated the FBI’s and the Department’s media policy and constituted misconduct."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/13/doj-ig-releases-explosive-report-that-led-to-firing-ex-fbi-deputy-director-andrew-mccabe.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/376298359/DOJ-IG-releases-explosive-report-that-led-to-firing-of-ex-FBI-Deputy-Director-Andrew-McCabe
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Well that’s comforting.
Yeah... we wouldn't want something like using a charity fund to buy a self portrait or anything unethical like that
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Crooked McCabe's testimony also contradicts the Dolt Comey, more to come on these two dolts.
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Yeah... we wouldn't want something like using a charity fund to buy a self portrait or anything unethical like that
Again, funny how you're offended and upset when one side does it but not the other.
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Again, funny how you're offended and upset when one side does it but not the other.
again, funny how you characterize me at every turn.
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again, funny how you characterize me at every turn.
It's what I do 8)
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It's what I do 8)
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Yeah... we wouldn't want something like using a charity fund to buy a self portrait or anything unethical like that
Always bringing up alleged misconduct by Trump whenever we see misconduct by liberals.
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The McCabe Report is Just an Appetizer
By Roger Kimball| April 17th, 2018
What a delicious hors d’oeuvre Michael Horowitz gave the world on Friday! The inspector general for Department of Justice finally issued his eagerly awaited (eagerly awaited by some of us, anyway) report on Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former deputy director of the FBI.
Note that this is only an appetizer. In the coming weeks, Horowitz will follow up with entrees on the FBI’s partisan activities in the 2016 presidential election and, later, another report on (if I may employ the term) collusion with the State Department.
As of this writing, it is unclear exactly what the scope of the inspector general’s inquiries will be.
Speaking for myself, I hope the dessert course includes a close look at the January 5, 2017 meeting at the White House meeting at which President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, NSA director Susan “By the Book” Rice, and Acting Attorney General Sally “Insubordinate” Yates were briefed by the country’s chief spooks—former FBI director James “Higher Loyalty” Comey, NSA chief Michael Rogers, CIA chief John “I Voted for Gus Hall” Brennan, and James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence who delighted the television audiences everywhere when he instructed Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood was “a largely secular organization” that had “eschewed violence.” The country was in the very best of hands back then! What was the subject? Exactly what they were and were not going to tell the incoming administration about the ongoing investigation into possible Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election? The “knotty question,” as Andrew McCarthy put it in a searing column on the event, was how to “engage” the incoming administration while also keeping them in the dark. Amazing.
But I digress. We’ll have to wait for Horowitz to serve up the additional courses he has cooking. But right now we can enjoy his refreshing treat of McCabe-kabob, grilled to perfection.
Andrew McCabe, you might recall, was a central player in the pseudo-investigation of Hillary Clinton’s misuse of classified information and self-enrichment schemes while Secretary of State. He was one of the people who made sure that went nowhere. He was also a central figure in the get-Mike-Flynn operation and, later, the Great Trump Hunt that has been occupying Robert Mueller for nearly a year.
McCabe leaked information about an investigation to a Wall Street Journal reporter, lied about leaking in casual conversations with superiors as well as under oath. Attorney Jeff Sessions, digesting a preliminary report on McCabe’s conduct, fired him in March 2018 (not even a month ago, but it seems like forever).
The Left got its collective nappy in a twist over that, claiming that it somehow impeded Mueller’s boundless fishing expedition and also that it was callous to Andrew McCabe because he was fired just a day before he was entitled to his full pension. (He did not, by the way, “lose his pension” as some reported, merely a final escalator, and it is not even clear that that will survive litigation.)
For his part, McCabe took to the pages The Washington Post to deliver a weepy threnody of self-pity and attempted self-exoneration. It was an embarrassing performance. “I felt sick and disoriented,” he sniffed. He complained of President’s Trump’s “cruelty.” Just as the President had been a meany to James Comey, so he was to little Andy. “The president’s comments about me were equally hurtful and false, which shows that he has no idea how FBI people feel about their leaders.”
But the meat of McCabe apologia is contained in these few sentences:
I have been accused of “lack of candor.” That is not true. I did not knowingly mislead or lie to investigators. When asked about contacts with a reporter that were fully within my power to authorize as deputy director, and amid the chaos that surrounded me, I answered questions as completely and accurately as I could. And when I realized that some of my answers were not fully accurate or may have been misunderstood, I took the initiative to correct them.
As the recent Inspector General’s report shows, however, every claim in those sentences is a lie. To wit:
We found that, in a conversation with then-Director Comey shortly after the WSJ article was published, McCabe lacked candor when he told Comey, or made statements that led Comey to believe, that McCabe had not authorized the disclosure and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.5 (Lack of Candor – No Oath).
We also found that on May 9, 2017, when questioned under oath by FBI agents from INSD, McCabe lacked candor when he told the agents that he had not authorized the disclosure to the WSJ and did not know who did. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).
We further found that on July 28, 2017, when questioned under oath by the OIG in a recorded interview, McCabe lacked candor when he stated: (a) that he was not aware of Special Counsel having been authorized to speak to reporters around October 30 and (b) that, because he was not in Washington, D.C., on October 27 and 28, 2016, he was unable to say where Special Counsel was or what she was doing at that time. This conduct violated FBI Offense Code 2.6 (Lack of Candor – Under Oath).
Allow me to translate the central phrase here: “lack of candor” is DOJ bureaucratese for “false statements, misrepresentations, the failure to be fully forthright, or the concealment or omission of a material fact/information,” i.e., lying.
Bottom line, partisan hack Andrew McCabe leaked information to the media about an ongoing investigation because he wanted to help Hillary Clinton and harm Donald Trump. He then lied repeatedly about his behavior both under oath and in unsworn conversation with superiors. He deserved to be fired by Jeff Sessions. I think he also deserves to be prosecuted. But since he is a Hillary partisan and Trump hater, I very much doubt he will be.
Still, reading Michael Horowitz’s meticulously researched report is a bracing experience. And who knows, perhaps Andrew McCabe was prudent to assemble a $500,000 GoFundMe legal defense fund. “It is not easy,” Jonathan Turley noted at The Hill, “to transform oneself from a once-powerful public official terminated for cause to the equivalent of a late-night, mud-splattered stray seeking shelter. However, McCabe had the media, which portrayed him as a noble civil servant viciously and unfairly targeted by Trump operatives.” Thanks to Michael Horowitz, however, we now know that, far from “noble.” Instead, he was a lying, partisan hack. What we’ll find out next, I predict, is that he was also part of the largest political scandal in U.S. history: a concerted effort by operatives in the Department of Justice, the FBI, and other intelligence agencies to influence the course of a presidential election and then, when that didn’t work, to sabotage the people’s choice.
This meal is far from over. But I suspect that Michael Horowitz will be filling out the menu at least as robustly as that fisher of men, Robert Mueller.
https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/17/the-mccabe-report-is-just-an-appetizer/
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Let's see if the IG has found more interesting incidents. However, aside from "damning reports" and hollow speeches about political catharsis, some people need to go prison. McCabe's excuses are pathetic; the agency he used to work at routinely used instances like this to catch and extort people when they couldn't get any other charges to stick. He (and several others) belong in prison.
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Let's see if the IG has found more interesting incidents. However, aside from "damning reports" and hollow speeches about political catharsis, some people need to go prison. McCabe's excuses are pathetic; the agency he used to work at routinely used instances like this to catch and extort people when they couldn't get any other charges to stick. He (and several others) belong in prison.
I agree, but don't hold your breath.
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I agree, but don't hold your breath.
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Far too many internal connections. One goes, there will be massive outings, it would be awesome. :D
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Let's see how this goes.
DOJ watchdog sends criminal referral for McCabe to federal prosecutor
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog has sent a criminal referral for fired FBI official Andrew McCabe to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.
The move follows a recent DOJ inspector general report that found McCabe leaked a self-serving story to the press and later lied about it to then-Director James Comey and federal investigators, prompting Attorney General Jeff Sessions to fire him on March 16.
A source confirmed to Fox News that the referral was sent.
The Washington Post reported earlier that the IG referred the finding that McCabe misled investigators "some time ago," asking the top federal prosecutor for D.C. to examine whether he should be charged.
Representatives with the Justice Department, inspector general’s office and U.S. attorney’s office all declined to comment.
Republican Rep. Mark Meadows backed the move in a tweet Thursday afternoon.
"The criminal referral from the IG is the right decision. It's about time we have some accountability for this type of conduct at the Justice Department," he said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/04/19/doj-watchdog-reportedly-sends-criminal-referral-for-mccabe-to-federal-prosecutor.html
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/12/andrew-mccabe-justice-department-643386
McCabe sues Justic Dept for cause of firing....more discovery coming.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/12/andrew-mccabe-justice-department-643386
McCabe sues Justic Dept for cause of firing....more discovery coming.
[/quote Trying to get some money to pay for his coming legal bills.
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US attorney recommends proceeding with charges against McCabe, as DOJ rejects last-ditch appeal
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against Andrew McCabe, Fox News has learned, as the Justice Department rejects a last-ditch appeal from the former top FBI official.
McCabe -- the former deputy and acting director of the FBI -- appealed the decision of the U.S. attorney for Washington all the way up to Jeffrey Rosen, the deputy attorney general, but he rejected that request, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The potential charges relate to DOJ inspector general findings against him regarding misleading statements concerning a Hillary Clinton-related investigation.
A source close to McCabe’s legal team said they received an email from the Department of Justice which said, "The Department rejected your appeal of the United States Attorney’s Office’s decision in this matter. Any further inquiries should be directed to the United States Attorney’s Office."
McCabe, who recently was hired as a paid CNN commentator, spent 21 years with the FBI. He became the acting director in May 2017 after President Trump fired former director James Comey.
Last month, a source close to the process told Fox News that McCabe had a “target on his back” because of the Justice Department inspector general findings.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March 2018 after the inspector general found he had repeatedly misstated his involvement in a leak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
The IG report faulted McCabe for leaking information to then-Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett for an Oct. 30, 2016 story titled “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.” The story -- written just days before the presidential election – focused on the FBI announcing the reopening of the Clinton investigation after finding thousands of her emails on a laptop belonging to former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The Journal's account of the call said a senior Justice Department official expressed displeasure to McCabe that FBI agents were still looking into the Clinton Foundation, and that McCabe had defended the agent's authority to pursue the issue.
That leak confirmed the existence of the probe, the report said, which Comey had up to that point refused to do.
The report said that McCabe "lacked candor" in a conversation with Comey when he said he had not authorized the disclosure and didn't know who had done so. The IG also found that he lacked candor when questioned by FBI agents on multiple occasions since that conversation.
McCabe has denied any wrongdoing and said the inspector general's conclusions relied on mischaracterizations and omissions, including of information favorable to McCabe.
Last month, McCabe sued the FBI and the Justice Department over his firing, arguing it was part of Trump's plan to rid the bureau of leaders he perceived as disloyal to him. McCabe argued in his complaint that the two officials responsible for demoting and then firing McCabe — FBI Director Chris Wray and Sessions — created a pretext to force him out in accordance with the president's wishes.
The stated reason for the firing was that McCabe had misled investigators over his involvement in a news media leak, but McCabe says the real reason was "his refusal to pledge allegiance to a single man."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-attorney-recommends-proceeding-with-charges-against-mccabe-as-doj-rejects-last-ditch-appeal
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US attorney recommends proceeding with charges against McCabe, as DOJ rejects last-ditch appeal
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu has recommended moving forward with charges against Andrew McCabe, Fox News has learned, as the Justice Department rejects a last-ditch appeal from the former top FBI official.
McCabe -- the former deputy and acting director of the FBI -- appealed the decision of the U.S. attorney for Washington all the way up to Jeffrey Rosen, the deputy attorney general, but he rejected that request, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The potential charges relate to DOJ inspector general findings against him regarding misleading statements concerning a Hillary Clinton-related investigation.
A source close to McCabe’s legal team said they received an email from the Department of Justice which said, "The Department rejected your appeal of the United States Attorney’s Office’s decision in this matter. Any further inquiries should be directed to the United States Attorney’s Office."
McCabe, who recently was hired as a paid CNN commentator, spent 21 years with the FBI. He became the acting director in May 2017 after President Trump fired former director James Comey.
Last month, a source close to the process told Fox News that McCabe had a “target on his back” because of the Justice Department inspector general findings.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March 2018 after the inspector general found he had repeatedly misstated his involvement in a leak to The Wall Street Journal regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
The IG report faulted McCabe for leaking information to then-Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett for an Oct. 30, 2016 story titled “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.” The story -- written just days before the presidential election – focused on the FBI announcing the reopening of the Clinton investigation after finding thousands of her emails on a laptop belonging to former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The Journal's account of the call said a senior Justice Department official expressed displeasure to McCabe that FBI agents were still looking into the Clinton Foundation, and that McCabe had defended the agent's authority to pursue the issue.
That leak confirmed the existence of the probe, the report said, which Comey had up to that point refused to do.
The report said that McCabe "lacked candor" in a conversation with Comey when he said he had not authorized the disclosure and didn't know who had done so. The IG also found that he lacked candor when questioned by FBI agents on multiple occasions since that conversation.
McCabe has denied any wrongdoing and said the inspector general's conclusions relied on mischaracterizations and omissions, including of information favorable to McCabe.
Last month, McCabe sued the FBI and the Justice Department over his firing, arguing it was part of Trump's plan to rid the bureau of leaders he perceived as disloyal to him. McCabe argued in his complaint that the two officials responsible for demoting and then firing McCabe — FBI Director Chris Wray and Sessions — created a pretext to force him out in accordance with the president's wishes.
The stated reason for the firing was that McCabe had misled investigators over his involvement in a news media leak, but McCabe says the real reason was "his refusal to pledge allegiance to a single man."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-attorney-recommends-proceeding-with-charges-against-mccabe-as-doj-rejects-last-ditch-appeal
I have to admit I am surprised.
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I have to admit I am surprised.
About time.
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Ordinary people go to prison for "lying" to police, FBI or courts but goons like McCabe and his ilk can lie or conveniently "omit" information with impunity.
McCabe apologized for misleading investigators on leak, transcripts show
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to federal investigators concerning an October 2016 leak to The Wall Street Journal about the Hillary Clinton email probe, newly released transcripts indicate -- underscoring McCabe's legal jeopardy as U.S. Attorney John Durham continues the Justice Department's criminal probe into bureau misconduct.
The transcripts specifically raised the possibility that McCabe, now a paid CNN commentator, could face a false statements charge similar to the one leveled against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The account of McCabe's remarks was released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general (IG) because of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C.
The IG concluded in 2018 that McCabe "lacked candor" when speaking to then-FBI Director James Comey and DOJ Oversight and Review (O&R) internal investigators about the leak to the Journal on May 9, 2017. In the transcripts, released Thursday, an unidentified O&R investigator asserted that McCabe had claimed "he did not grant anyone permission to divulge the information to the media" and that he "personally hadn't shared the information" or "granted anyone else permission to."
But on Aug. 18, 2017, McCabe's story changed when he was confronted with other evidence, including emails and witness accounts, that conflicted with his prior statements. Asked again whether he was aware of the leak to the Journal and had personally authorized it, McCabe was unequivocal.
"And as nice as could be, he said, 'Yep. Yep I did,'" the FBI agent said, according to the transcripts.
“I remember saying to him, ‘Sir, you understand that we’ve put a lot of work into this based on what you told us,’” the investigating agent told McCabe, according to the documents. “I mean, and I even said, long nights and weekends working on this trying to find out who amongst your ranks of trusted people would, would do something like that. And [McCabe] kind of just looked down, kind of nodded and said, ‘Yeah, I’m sorry.’”
The agent said McCabe's lie had caused weeks of investigative "sidetracking," and indicated that criminal liability popped into his mind: “In our business, we stop and say, look, now we’re getting into an area for due process,” the agent said, per the transcript.
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu recommended moving forward with charges against McCabe last year.
But McCabe has denied any wrongdoing and said the inspector general's conclusions relied on mischaracterizations and omissions, including of information favorable to McCabe.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccabe-apologized-misleading-investigators-leak-transcripts
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Ordinary people go to prison for "lying" to police, FBI or courts but goons like McCabe and his ilk can lie or conveniently "omit" information with impunity.
McCabe apologized for misleading investigators on leak, transcripts show
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to federal investigators concerning an October 2016 leak to The Wall Street Journal about the Hillary Clinton email probe, newly released transcripts indicate -- underscoring McCabe's legal jeopardy as U.S. Attorney John Durham continues the Justice Department's criminal probe into bureau misconduct.
The transcripts specifically raised the possibility that McCabe, now a paid CNN commentator, could face a false statements charge similar to the one leveled against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The account of McCabe's remarks was released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general (IG) because of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C.
The IG concluded in 2018 that McCabe "lacked candor" when speaking to then-FBI Director James Comey and DOJ Oversight and Review (O&R) internal investigators about the leak to the Journal on May 9, 2017. In the transcripts, released Thursday, an unidentified O&R investigator asserted that McCabe had claimed "he did not grant anyone permission to divulge the information to the media" and that he "personally hadn't shared the information" or "granted anyone else permission to."
But on Aug. 18, 2017, McCabe's story changed when he was confronted with other evidence, including emails and witness accounts, that conflicted with his prior statements. Asked again whether he was aware of the leak to the Journal and had personally authorized it, McCabe was unequivocal.
"And as nice as could be, he said, 'Yep. Yep I did,'" the FBI agent said, according to the transcripts.
“I remember saying to him, ‘Sir, you understand that we’ve put a lot of work into this based on what you told us,’” the investigating agent told McCabe, according to the documents. “I mean, and I even said, long nights and weekends working on this trying to find out who amongst your ranks of trusted people would, would do something like that. And [McCabe] kind of just looked down, kind of nodded and said, ‘Yeah, I’m sorry.’”
The agent said McCabe's lie had caused weeks of investigative "sidetracking," and indicated that criminal liability popped into his mind: “In our business, we stop and say, look, now we’re getting into an area for due process,” the agent said, per the transcript.
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu recommended moving forward with charges against McCabe last year.
But McCabe has denied any wrongdoing and said the inspector general's conclusions relied on mischaracterizations and omissions, including of information favorable to McCabe.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccabe-apologized-misleading-investigators-leak-transcripts
so basically no different than Trumptard and his cast of criminal traitors that surround him
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so basically no different than Trumptard and his cast of criminal traitors that surround him
Do your parents, if alive, still refer to you as "son" in public? In truth, I seriously doubt it. You are one dumb twatling.
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Ordinary people go to prison for "lying" to police, FBI or courts but goons like McCabe and his ilk can lie or conveniently "omit" information with impunity.
McCabe apologized for misleading investigators on leak, transcripts show
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe apologized for lying to federal investigators concerning an October 2016 leak to The Wall Street Journal about the Hillary Clinton email probe, newly released transcripts indicate -- underscoring McCabe's legal jeopardy as U.S. Attorney John Durham continues the Justice Department's criminal probe into bureau misconduct.
The transcripts specifically raised the possibility that McCabe, now a paid CNN commentator, could face a false statements charge similar to the one leveled against former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The account of McCabe's remarks was released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general (IG) because of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, D.C.
The IG concluded in 2018 that McCabe "lacked candor" when speaking to then-FBI Director James Comey and DOJ Oversight and Review (O&R) internal investigators about the leak to the Journal on May 9, 2017. In the transcripts, released Thursday, an unidentified O&R investigator asserted that McCabe had claimed "he did not grant anyone permission to divulge the information to the media" and that he "personally hadn't shared the information" or "granted anyone else permission to."
But on Aug. 18, 2017, McCabe's story changed when he was confronted with other evidence, including emails and witness accounts, that conflicted with his prior statements. Asked again whether he was aware of the leak to the Journal and had personally authorized it, McCabe was unequivocal.
"And as nice as could be, he said, 'Yep. Yep I did,'" the FBI agent said, according to the transcripts.
“I remember saying to him, ‘Sir, you understand that we’ve put a lot of work into this based on what you told us,’” the investigating agent told McCabe, according to the documents. “I mean, and I even said, long nights and weekends working on this trying to find out who amongst your ranks of trusted people would, would do something like that. And [McCabe] kind of just looked down, kind of nodded and said, ‘Yeah, I’m sorry.’”
The agent said McCabe's lie had caused weeks of investigative "sidetracking," and indicated that criminal liability popped into his mind: “In our business, we stop and say, look, now we’re getting into an area for due process,” the agent said, per the transcript.
U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu recommended moving forward with charges against McCabe last year.
But McCabe has denied any wrongdoing and said the inspector general's conclusions relied on mischaracterizations and omissions, including of information favorable to McCabe.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccabe-apologized-misleading-investigators-leak-transcripts
I really hope they prosecute this criminal, but I'm not all that optimistic.
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Not surprised.
DOJ won't pursue criminal charges against McCabe
By Brooke Singman, Jake Gibson | Fox News
Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe claims there is an 'inherent weakness' in the process the FBI uses to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
The Justice Department said Friday it will not pursue criminal charges against former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, after a nearly two-year-long investigation into accusations brought by the agency's independent watchdog who found that he lacked "candor" when questioned about leaking to the media.
TRUMP INSISTS HE HAS ‘LEGAL RIGHT’ TO INTERVENE IN DOJ CASES, BUT HAS CHOSEN NOT TO
In a letter to McCabe attorney Michael Bromwich obtained by Fox News, Justice Department attorney J.P. Cooney said the investigation is now “closed.”
“We write to inform you that, after careful consideration, the government has decided not to pursue criminal charges against your client, Andrew G. McCabe,” Cooney wrote.
The DOJ added: “Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the government at this time, we consider the matter closed."
In a statement to Fox News, Bromwich and McCabe counsel David Schertler confirmed they received the information through a phone call from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington, D.C. They said that call was followed by the letter notifying them that “the criminal investigation of Andrew McCabe has been closed.”
“This means that no charges will be brought against him based on the facts underlying the Office of the Inspector General’s April 2018 report,” Bromwich and Schertler said. “At long last, justice has been done in this matter.”
Steve Pomerantz on Andrew McCabe's 'lack of candor'Video
“We said at the outset of the criminal investigation, almost two years ago, that if the facts and the law determined the result, no charges would be brought,” they said. “We are pleased that Andrew McCabe and his family can go on with their lives without this cloud hanging over them.”
The announcement Friday comes at the end of a dramatic week at the Justice Department relating to the case of former Trump associate Roger Stone. The week saw federal prosecutors recommend a tough sentence for Stone, only to have the leadership at the Justice Department overrule the prosecutors and call for a lesser sentence. That provoked withdrawals and resignations from several of the prosecutors on the case.
After the president expressed his frustrations about the case against Stone over Twitter, Attorney General Bill Barr said in a television interview on Thursday that “it’s time to stop the tweeting about Department of Justice criminal cases.”
President Trump responds to Attorney General Barr's headline-making interviewVideo
Trump, who has railed against McCabe and has argued prosecutors have been tougher on his allies than people on the other side of the political spectrum, is likely to decry the Justice Department’s decision on McCabe.
As for the case against McCabe, the 2018 inspector general’s report faulted the former deputy director for leaking information to then-Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett for an Oct. 30, 2016 story titled “FBI in Internal Feud Over Hillary Clinton Probe.” The story, written just days before the presidential election, focused on the FBI announcing the reopening of the Clinton investigation after finding thousands of her emails on a laptop belonging to former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The Journal's account of the call said a senior Justice Department official expressed displeasure to McCabe that FBI agents were still looking into the Clinton Foundation, and that McCabe had defended the agent's authority to pursue the issue.
MCCABE CALLS ON DOJ TO CLOSE INVESTIGATION AMID SPECULATION OVER POSSIBLE CHARGES
That leak confirmed the existence of the probe, the report said, which Comey had up to that point refused to do.
The report said that McCabe "lacked candor" in a conversation with Comey when he said he had not authorized the disclosure and didn't know who had done so. The IG also found that he lacked candor when questioned by FBI agents on multiple occasions since that conversation.
McCabe served at the FBI for 21 years. He became the acting director in May 2017 after President Trump fired former director James Comey.
Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired McCabe in March 2018 after the inspector general found he had repeatedly misstated his involvement in a leak to The Journal regarding an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
Throughout the investigation, McCabe denied any wrongdoing and said the inspector general’s conclusions relied on mischaracterizations and omissions, including of information favorable to McCabe.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-wont-pursue-criminal-charges-against-mccabe
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Not surprised.
Me neither
Just another politically motivated witch hunt
Next up.....John Bolton
Trump will go after him to try prevent him from publishing his book but Trumptard will fail yet again
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Not surprised.
DOJ won't pursue criminal charges against McCabe
As usual. Ordinary people lying or "lying" to law enforcement: prison. Cops, government goons and their ilk lying to law enforcement/Congress: impunity.
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As usual. Ordinary people lying or "lying" to law enforcement: prison. Cops, government goons and their ilk lying to law enforcement/Congress: impunity.
Yep, I don't expect anything to happen in any remotely meaningful way.
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Me neither
Just another politically motivated witch hunt
Next up.....John Bolton
Trump will go after him to try prevent him from publishing his book but Trumptard will fail yet again
YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, BROTHER!
CAN'T BELIEVE HOW BADLY TRUMPTARD IS FAILING, BROTHER!!
THIS IS GREAT, BROTHER!!!
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YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, BROTHER!
CAN'T BELIEVE HOW BADLY TRUMPTARD IS FAILING, BROTHER!!
THIS IS GREAT, BROTHER!!!
You misspelled sister.
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Old but still timely commentary.
McCabe and Papadopoulos: Two-Tiered Justice
By ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
August 24, 2019
“Equal justice under the law” is not supposed to be an aspiration or a quaint slogan. It is supposed to be a guarantee.
The date of a meeting, that’s all the lie was about.
George Papadopoulos claimed that a meeting he’d had with the mysterious Maltese professor, Josef Mifsud, happened slightly before the green-as-grass 28-year-old was recruited into the Trump campaign. In reality, it was slightly after.
It wasn’t a very important lie. It was of no consequence to the FBI or the special counsel’s investigation. Papadopoulos was such an afterthought that the Bureau did not bother to interview him until late January 2017 — about 10 months after he met Mifsud. By the time Papadopoulos was charged, the Trump–Russia investigation had been ongoing for well over a year — it was already clear that there was no conspiracy.
Yet that didn’t stop Mueller’s staff and Rod Rosenstein, their Justice Department superior, from indicting Papadopoulos on a felony charge. Nor did it stop them from exhorting a federal court to impose a sentence of incarceration. (The judge thought so little of the case, a prison term of 14 days was imposed.)
It wasn’t enough that prosecutors and agents had scared the bejesus out Papadopoulos by scheming to arrest him as he disembarked from a flight in the early evening – after the court was closed, ensuring that young George would spend the night in jail. The fact that he had voluntarily spoken to the feds, that he had counsel who’d made themselves and him available to Mueller’s prosecutors, that he was no flight risk – none of that counted for anything. After all, what fun would it be to call his lawyers and arrange his surrender for processing and quick release on bail? Not when government officials could flex their muscles and show him who’s boss, right?
I couldn’t help thinking about the hardball treatment of Papadopoulos when, yesterday, CNN announced the hiring of Andrew McCabe as a commentator. McCabe, of course, was the FBI’s deputy director before being fired after the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, concluded that he made multiple false statements to the FBI — including under oath. McCabe was questioned in connection with his leak of investigative information to the media. The leak may have damaged the FBI’s investigation of the Clinton Foundation (it certainly exposed information the Bureau was trying to keep under wraps).
As I’ve previously recounted, McCabe is quite the operator: According to the IG report, to try to throw snoops off the scent, the then–deputy director indignantly reamed out subordinates in New York and Washington — as if these FBI field offices were guilty of the leak McCabe himself had orchestrated. His mendacity obviously obstructed the leak investigation, requiring additional interviews as agents ran down the misleading information.
McCabe has never been charged.
Government officials who leak while demonstrating their contempt for Donald Trump manage to land on their feet. McCabe joins a CNN stable that includes former Obama national intelligence director James Clapper, who is best known for lying to Congress about the government’s bulk collection of telephone metadata . . . and for discussing Steele dossier information with CNN shortly before the network published a report about it . . . and not long before it hired Clapper as a commentator. CNN missed out on former Obama CIA director John Brennan, who falsely denied to the Senate that his agency spied on the chamber’s intelligence committee. Brennan, who said he was really sorry, was inked by MSNBC.
As Papadopoulos can tell you, non-government types who mislead government investigations don’t do so well.
Viewed in isolation, the Papadopoulos prosecution is not the sort of thing that tugs at my heartstrings. One of the many reasons Americans are winners of life’s lottery is that we live in a country in which no one may be forced to be a witness against himself. Refusing to speak to police is always an option, so lying should not be. If people came to think they could lie with impunity, the justice system would break down.
But it is supposed to be a justice system. One tier, not two. Everyone systematically given equal justice, which is the only justice worthy of the name.
For about ten days, I’ve had a new book out on Russiagate, called Ball of Collusion. I’ve gotten to do lots of speeches and interviews. Most interesting are the ones when members of the audience ask questions. Without fail, they home in on the thing I least like to talk about: What is going to happen to government officials who are suspected of abusing their powers and misleading such bodies as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court? A name that reliably comes up is Andy McCabe. People who have followed the story know the IG referred him to the Justice Department for a possible false-statements prosecution. They know other aspects of McCabe’s conduct are still under investigation.
I hate this topic because I am not one to cheerlead for comeuppance against law-enforcement people. I know how hard their jobs are, how readily errors can be made because one often has to act on imperfect information; because there is a natural zeal to catch bad guys that can easily become overzealousness. I have no problem analyzing their judgment calls — mine got analyzed plenty, and we all make our share of mistakes. But I am hard-wired not to presume bad motive.
So I tell people what they don’t want to hear: We don’t know all the salient facts; we should wait for the imminent reports of investigations being conducted by Horowitz and John Durham (the Connecticut U.S. attorney tasked by AG Bill Barr to probe Russiagate); and we should disabuse ourselves of the notion that errors in judgment and abuses of discretion, even egregious ones, necessarily entail criminal-law violations. It is much more important to have a factual accounting of what happened, and to take whatever curative measures are apt to prevent bad things from happening again.
Suffice it to say, this does not get a warm reception.
There is a great deal of anger out there. People see the kid-gloves approach to the Clinton-emails investigation, and they can’t square it with the aggression of the Trump–Russia probe. They see the laws contorted to let Mrs. Clinton slide, while the screws get put to Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort over the Logan Act and the Foreign Agent Registration Act – statutes the Justice Department almost never invokes.
They see the false-statements investigations of Andy McCabe and George Papadopoulos and think, “Hey, wait a second . . .”
“Equal justice under the law” is not supposed to be an aspiration or a quaint slogan. It is supposed to be a guarantee.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/andrew-mccabe-george-papadopoulos-two-tiered-justice/
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You misspelled sister.
;D