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Pelosi Impeachment Inquiry
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Can you do us a favor...
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...Joe Biden
LOL.
The Dems are so transparent and the people who believe them are as dim as a Chinese lightbulb.
Imagine boasting about intelligence with Trump as your dear leader, what's next, a lecture on how Trump has a beautiful slim neck and chin?
Lefties at CNN whining like a bunch of little babies about the GOP sticking together- so far anyway-for once on impeachment.
Boggles the mind how someone can wrtie this article railing on about Repbublcian partisanship in the process as though the House dems have been neutral parties up on Mount Olympus, instead of the viscious mob that they are, committed to impeaching him the day he was elected.
The fact that John McCain is no longer on the scene is very noticeable in this process. He would have fucked it up as usual with some high on his horse need to put country first and do this or that. Translation: He was butthurt majorly from Trump. McCain and Romney and Lindsey would have formed some little motion-for-censure club or something and just convoluted the hell out of everything, instead if just batting this horseshit hoax down. Even Rand Paul seems to be containing himself. He is usuall goodf for a couple episodes of rising up and forming some little alternative movement at criticial times. Sometimes that is good. Sometimes it is not.
There has been a lot of butthurt with the Dems in the recent past, and they have a whole lot more ahead of them. Two big losses coming up for them in 2020. Impeachment and the election. They will be buying butthurt ointment by the barrel.
GOP's lockstep opposition to impeachment may shatter last limits on Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/impeachment-congress-republicans-president/index.html
Boggles the mind how someone can wrtie this article railing on about Repbublcian partisanship in the process as though the House dems have been neutral parties up on Mount Olympus, instead of the viscious mob that they are, committed to impeaching him the day he was elected.
The fact that John McCain is no longer on the scene is very noticeable in this process. He would have fucked it up as usual with some high on his horse need to put country first and do this or that. Translation: He was butthurt majorly from Trump. McCain and Romney and Lindsey would have formed some little motion-for-censure club or something and just convoluted the hell out of everything, instead if just batting this horseshit hoax down. Even Rand Paul seems to be containing himself. He is usuall goodf for a couple episodes of rising up and forming some little alternative movement at criticial times. Sometimes that is good. Sometimes it is not.
There has been a lot of butthurt with the Dems in the recent past, and they have a whole lot more ahead of them. Two big losses coming up for them in 2020. Impeachment and the election. They will be buying butthurt ointment by the barrel.
GOP's lockstep opposition to impeachment may shatter last limits on Trump
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/17/politics/impeachment-congress-republicans-president/index.html
The Incredibly Incurious Mr. Comey
The IG report shows investigators who didn’t investigate Steele.
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The Editorial Board
Dec. 16, 2019 7:01 pm ET
James Comey in Washington, D.C., Dec. 15.PHOTO: KEVIN WOLF/ASSOCIATED PRESS
James Comey has finally admitted some “sloppiness” over the surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The former FBI director should re-read Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report because it lays out a record of willful incuriosity about Christopher Steele and his dossier that is hard to credit as mere incompetence.
The report quotes Bill Priestap, a key FBI player in the 2016 Crossfire Hurricane probe into the Trump campaign, that the FBI had “concerns” about Mr. Steele’s “reporting the day we got it . . .ome of it was so sensational, that we just, we did not take it at face value.”
But if the FBI was initially skeptical, it isn’t evident in the IG report. The report shows how the FBI avoided taking any action, or asking any question, that might have undermined its use of the dossier in its application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
The Crossfire team obtained Mr. Steele’s dossier on Sept. 19, 2016. The FISA court didn’t grant its warrant on Mr. Page until Oct. 21, 2016, giving it weeks to explore Mr. Steele’s revelations. The former British spook had operated as a confidential FBI source since 2013, which meant he had his own “Delta” file, containing all information concerning sources.
Yet the IG says the FBI didn’t bother looking at Mr. Steele’s file prior to obtaining the first FISA warrant. Even Mr. Steele’s overseas handling agent was astonished at this, telling the IG that the Crossfire team should have “turned the file upside down” two months earlier, when first handling Mr. Steele’s information.
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The FBI also waited until November to talk to anyone who had worked with Mr. Steele during his tenure at Britain’s MI6—after the FBI had fired him for talking to the press. Only then did it learn that former colleagues believed Mr. Steele was prone to “rash judgments” and had a “lack of self awareness.” It didn’t bother talking to his primary source until January 2017, when it discovered that much of the reporting Mr. Steele provided was gossip.
The IG confirms that the FBI also made no effort to “determine who was financing Steele’s election related research.” Mr. Steele told the IG he knew who his paymasters were by late July, and Justice official Bruce Ohr told Congress that he warned FBI officials in August that Mr. Steele was hired by somebody “related to the Clinton campaign.” A team of FBI officials interviewed Mr. Steele in early October. Nobody asked about his employer.
Nor did they ask if Mr. Steele had been the source of a Sept. 23, 2016 Yahoo News article that revealed the FBI was looking into Trump-Russia collusion. Various case agents at the time of publication expressed alarm that Mr. Steele was talking to the press (he was), and a draft version of the FISA application fingered him as the leaker. But the IG says nobody at the October meeting asked Mr. Steele if he talked to the press. The final FISA application incorrectly asserted to the court that Mr. Steele had not.
The Crossfire sleuths also went to great effort to deny information to Justice Department attorneys reviewing the FISA application. The IG “did not find any written communications indicating that anyone on the Crossfire Hurricane team advised [Justice] about the potential or suspected political connections to Steele’s reporting.” One Justice lawyer, Stuart Evans, asked the FBI team three times if Mr. Steele “is affiliated with either campaign and/or has contributed to either campaign.”
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The Crossfire team answered only the second part of his question, saying that because Mr. Steele was a “foreign national” he was “unable to contribute to either campaign.” Mr. Evans told the IG that he remembered being “frustrated and annoyed” by the answer. The FBI ultimately acknowledged that Mr. Steele was working on “political opposition research,” but rolled past Mr. Evans’s concern that the application was not worth the “risk” of going after such a “politically sensitive” warrant.
Which brings us to Mr. Comey’s incredible incuriosity. Crossfire Hurricane was among the most politically fraught investigations in recent American history. Yet the IG says Mr. Comey recalls few details, says he was only periodically updated on the “status,” and didn’t make any “significant investigative decisions.” This is at odds with former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s testimony to the IG that Mr. Comey in spring 2016 went out of his way to “[pull] her aside” to tell her the FBI believed the Russians intended to “use Page for information.”
Had the FBI done even basic due diligence on Mr. Steele, his financiers and sources, it would never have sought a FISA warrant. Mr. Comey and his investigators have more to answer for than sloppiness.
Wonder Land: Speaking at the WSJ CEO Council on Dec. 10, 2019, Attorney General Bill Barr discussed Michael Horowitz’s report on alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Images: Getty Composite: Mark Kelly
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Looks like the reacted documents the WH has been forced to release by court orders after repeatedly obstructing congress.
Mitch McConnell is an interesting figure. He epitomizes the establishment republican party, but he also has balls. He faced down the media and Obama over Obama's lame duck Supreme Court appointment. He faced down John McCain over campaign finance "reforms" that made it essentially impossible to criticize an incumbent. So facing down Schumer on impeachment is not a big reach for him.
He has 15 or 20 Senators in his caucus however who would really love to be rid of Trump. Keeping them in line will be a real test of his leadership.
He has 15 or 20 Senators in his caucus however who would really love to be rid of Trump. Keeping them in line will be a real test of his leadership.
Yes, he will go all in if it gives him a chance to bolster himself and any conservative reputation he may have. He has done well several times here, but make no mistake, he is a huge swamp creature.
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