quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
There is no penalty for lying to the media

Why should there be? They lie to us all the time.

as they get identified, the dossier "sources" claim they never said what is in the dossier

if only we had an honest press corps

https://twitter.com/ClimateAud.../1323448840918368258

Stephen McIntyre twitter

Interview with Olga Galkina (Source 3) published today in Russia. She says that Danchenko fabricated information attributed to her

in my jugement, there are multiple layers of fabrication involving both Steele and Danchenko, with Steele's fabrications being much the worse. However, Steele and Danchenko both employ the classic The Other Dude Did It defense. Both should have been charged as co-conspirators.

Read the interview. It's very interesting. Galkina says that it is impossible that she had the communications attribution to her by Danchenko. She calls for a full investigation of Steele dossier fraud.

there is indication in the Horowitz Report that the FBI interviewed Galkina, though nothing from her interview has thus far been produced. The corruption and rot in the FBI on this topic is very deep.

here's another article on Galkina (Oct 31) by Andrey Shipilov, a Russian writer who knows her and vouches that she had nothing to do with Danchenko/Steele fairy tales

it seems like Millian isn't the only source that is framed in Steele dossier.

Galkina:

Conservative TreeHouse "deplatformed"

https://theconservativetreehou...tformed/#more-203863

One week after the 2020 presidential election, The Conservative Treehouse received the following notification:

…”given the incompatibility between your site’s content and our terms, you need to find a new hosting provider and must migrate the site by Wednesday, December 2nd.

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tyranny. We have moved back in time by 250 years

Scary as all shit!!! What is this, the USSR? Oh, wait! I forgot that China isn't really any different than the USSR in so far as their own take on socialism/communism. Not just scary, but dangerous and a direct threat to our freedoms.

https://redstate.com/shipwreck...ed-as-to-why-n280644

note shipwreckedcrew and CTH have tangled a few times about interpretation of events, but they both are fighting on the side of the angels


Popular Website the Conservative Treehouse Being Kicked-off WordPress -- No Reasons Offered as to Why

By Shipwreckedcrew

Conservative Treehouse, a popular right-wing website operated by a person under the pseudonym “Sundance” announced a couple of days ago that WordPress gave them notice that they would need to find a new hosting service for the site due to unspecified violations of the agreed-upon terms of service. Sundance operates on Twitter under the name “@theLastRefuge2

The website is very popular judging by the number of comments that have posts log each day. He reports that the site receives between 500,000 and 1 million unique page views each day, and he has 200,000 subscribers. I have no reason to question those numbers, and they are impressive for the space he occupies.

Sundance is provocative in some of the reporting he does, and the “turns” he takes in some of his analysis has often caused me to step back and reconsider some of my own thoughts and ideas.

We have tangled a few times on Twitter, and I have been critical of what I see as jumps in logic or unwarranted assumptions/conclusions that he sometimes needs to reach what seems like a predetermined destination. But that boldness is what gets him to some thought-provoking outcomes ahead of the pack.

Sometimes it leads him down rabbit-holes. Other times it leads to what might be epiphanies for others.

The immediate problem for Sundance is the security of the content he has developed during the decade that the site has been hosted by WordPress. I suspect he won’t have much difficulty in securing a new hosting service, but making that transition in a seamless fashion might be problematic.

I’m not sure I would categorize WordPress as “big tech” because it is open-source software and run by a foundation, not any sort of corporate enterprise. But it is quite troubling that any hosting service would deplatform a site based on political content and point of view — there doesn’t seem to be any obvious reason to conclude that WordPress has another motivation for its action. Sundance might advance arguments and theories not in the mainstream of conservative thinking — which I think is a feature of his analysis and writing — but nothing on his site constitutes any kind of “threat” that would warrant the kind of action that WordPress is taking.

It is nice to see that what’s happening to Sundance isn’t escaping notice. The Washington Examiner has a story today on what is happening and notes that news of the deplatforming caught the attention of Rep. Devin Nunes who used it to urge conservatives to move away from Facebook and Twitter – with an announcement made by him on Parler.

So, while this is a difficult turn of events for The Conservative Treehouse, it’s also something that conservative social media sites need to be diligent about monitoring to make sure no pattern develops in this regard. At the same time, actions such as this will likely drive the move by conservatives away from the tech companies that so willingly engaged in content-based censorship for the benefit of Joe Biden in the run-up to the election.

Look for deep-pocketed interests on the GOP side to begin investing into media properties that cater to the 70+ million voters who saw what was done to Pres. Trump the last six months.

about time

They will keep people on wild goose chases/snipe hunting until they just get fed up and throw in the towel.

Had Von Pantsuit gotten in, none of this would have seen the light of day, and now they're just trying to run out the clock. If DJT doesn't get his second term, most, if not all of this will simply 'go away.'

$.02 worth,
Boss

Carter Page files a lawsuit versus:

JAMES COMEY
ANDREW McCABE
KEVIN CLINESMITH
PETER STRZOK
LISA PAGE
JOE PIENTKA III
STEPHEN SOMMA
BRIAN J. AUTEN
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATON
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
JOHN DOES 1-10
JANE DOES 1-10,

Defendant United States of America is sued for Dr. Page’s injuries caused by the
wrongful acts of its employees acting within the scope or office of their employment

Seeking $ 75 million

Most of the complaints are related to the 4 FISA Warrants that were enacted against Carter Page

https://drive.google.com/file/...PqqrXzO7Ql_AnoQ/view

Declassified texts to FBI's Jen Boone (oversaw Carter Page investigation):

"so on Friday there were a bunch of DNC emails posted on Wikileaks, that was our guys"

"That was our guys"






https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog.../1334530153435820037

Durham files a Govt Sentencing memo for Kevin Clinesmith

The FBI agent preparing one of the Carter Page FISA warrants asked Clinesmith if Page was a source for the Other Govt Agency (assumed to be CIA).

Clinesmith reported that Page was not a source for CIA, but the CIA liaison had written to Clinesmith that Page had been a CIA source.

https://www.washingtonexaminer...-russiagates-secrets

Ratcliffe: We can't declassify all of Russiagate's secrets

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe says he shared thousands of documents with U.S. Attorney John Durham and is counting on the now-special counsel to get the truth out to the public about what he views to be massive wrongdoing by those who conducted the Trump-Russia investigation. But, the spy chief stressed, that doesn't mean all the documents given to the federal prosecutor should be declassified, as some Republicans, including President Trump, have discussed.

“Between my predecessor Richard Grenell in an acting capacity and myself, we have declassified most of the intelligence community documents that would be suitable for the public to see, that wouldn’t jeopardize sources and methods,” Ratcliffe said in a phone interview with the Washington Examiner on Thursday. “There are others, many many documents — I think it’s been out there that I’ve provided literally thousands of documents to John Durham, but many of those do contain sources and methods that we can’t make public for a number of reasons, including to jeopardize any investigation that’s going there. So I think the level of cooperation — I’ve given them everything that they’ve asked for.”

Republican allies of Trump had high expectations for Durham leading up to the election, and some even insisted there should be full transparency with mass declassifications of secrets they expected would be damning for the Obama administration and top intelligence and law enforcement officials in what has become known as the "Russiagate" controversy. In early October, it looked as though they got their wish. Trump tweeted a call for all of the Russia investigation documents to be made public.

"I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!" Trump tweeted, adding that “all Russia Hoax Scandal information was Declassified by me long ago. Unfortunately for our Country, people have acted very slowly, especially since it is perhaps the biggest political crime in the history of our Country. Act!!!”

But following a federal court order, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told the judge later that month that the president’s tweets were not declassification orders and were not meant to reveal any further information related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Despite rampant speculation that Durham might release a report prior to the conclusion of the presidential race, that didn’t happen, and Trump even vented about it. But Attorney General William Barr did reveal this week that, days before the November election, he elevated Durham to special counsel status, tasked with investigating any violations of law related to the inquiries conducted by the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation and, later, Mueller’s team. The order, which was revealed on Tuesday, provides the federal prosecutor from Connecticut further protection against the prospect of President-elect Joe Biden trying to shut down the criminal inquiry.

So far, Biden has not been asked about and has not said whether he would allow Durham's work to continue during his administration. Democrats such as House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff have attacked Durham’s appointment as special counsel and suggested how Biden could undo it.

Barr said Durham should submit a final report once he has concluded his investigation so that the public can learn what he has uncovered.

“I don’t know what conclusions he is going to come to, but people deserve the truth — they deserve a full accounting of it,” Ratcliffe said.

Durham's inquiry, which began in 2019, has already led to one guilty plea, with Kevin Clinesmith admitting that he fraudulently changed the wording of a CIA email to say that former Trump campaign associate Carter Page was “not a source” for the agency despite the FBI being informed that Page had been an “operational contact” for the CIA for years. Nearly all of the signers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against Page — former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, fired Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and fired Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates — testified earlier this year that they would not have signed off on the FISA warrants against Page if they knew then what has come out about the process. Fired FBI Director James Comey testified that he would not have signed off on the FISA applications without a “much fuller” discussion.

“There was an abuse of power and of legal authorities, and it’s not a question about whether those things took place — they did. I mean, there’s an FBI lawyer who is going to jail for counterfeiting evidence before the FISA court. And that after all of the Obama-Biden senior national security officials said the idea of illegal spying and abuse at the FISA court is a bunch of nonsense, and now, they’re sprinting the opposite direction,” Ratcliffe said. “I mean, literally, every one of them — Comey, McCabe, Yates — they’ve all said, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re shocked and had we only known.’ And so, again, the American people deserve an accounting, and I’ve certainly provided a lot of information to the now-special counsel to provide that accounting, and I’m counting, like all Americans, on him to talk about a lot of the things that I know that I can’t talk about.”

DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in December 2019 that concluded the FBI’s investigation was filled with serious missteps and concealed exculpatory information from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Horowitz criticized the bureau for at least 17 “significant errors and omissions” in its surveillance of Page and for its reliance upon a discredited and Democratic-funded dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele.

Declassified footnotes showed that the FBI was aware that Steele’s dossier might have been compromised by Russian disinformation, and Horowitz said that FBI interviews with Steele's main source, U.S.-based and Russian-trained lawyer Igor Danchenko, “raised significant questions about the reliability of the Steele election reporting."

In October, Ratcliffe declassified handwritten notes from former CIA Director John Brennan showing he briefed then-President Barack Obama in 2016 on an unverified Russian intelligence report claiming former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned in July 2016 on tying then-candidate Trump to Russia’s hack of the Democratic National Committee to distract from her improper use of a private email server. He also declassified a September 2016 CIA counterintelligence referral on the allegations to Comey and fired Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Operations Peter Strzok.

Ratcliffe's move was met with a backlash from Democrats and national security veterans. Brennan responded on CNN, saying that "it is appalling, his selective declassification of information that clearly is designed to advance the political interests of Donald Trump and Republicans who are aligned with him." At the time, Ratcliffe released a statement saying that "this is not Russian disinformation and has not been assessed as such by the intelligence community."

The same month, the nation’s spy chief also sent the intelligence community’s watchdog an investigative referral related to a 2018 Republican-led House Intelligence Committee report that critiqued some of the tradecraft in the Obama-era Intelligence Community Assessment of 2017 on Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Mueller released a report in 2019 concluding that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election in a “sweeping and systematic fashion" but "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government."

Quite an interesting article…

“How should the next attorney general, whoever he or she turns out to be, handle the John Durham probe?

The more I study what Attorney General Bill Barr did in his secret October order naming the Connecticut U.S. attorney as a special counsel, the more devilishly clever it seems—and the bigger the pickle it creates for Barr’s successor. This, presumably, is Barr’s intention. Untangling this knot is going to take no small amount of diplomacy, lawyering and finesse. And a false move in any of several directions could create a real mess…”

www.lawfareblog.com/how-do-you...-problem-john-durham

John Ratcliffe interview w Maria Bartiromo

https://video.foxnews.com/v/62...101001#sp=show-clips

video at link


Ratcliffe says:

- There was no intelligence to support opening Crossfire Hurricane

- There was intel that Trump /Russia collusion allegations were created by the Clinton campaign

- There should have been an interim Durham report before the election

- There was illegal spying on the Trump campaign

- There was FISA abuse


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OT, but also Ratcliffe warns of China using ‘gene editing’ to boost military

video at

https://video.foxnews.com/v/62...101001#sp=show-clips

And yet nothing will happen to anyone

We have ceased being a nation of laws.

^^^^^

To pile up truisms, the left are a den of thieves, there is no honor among thieves, sooner of later they'll go after one another, guaranteed, so there's that.

Hell!
I'm still waiting for action from Benghazi!

This arrogant SOB needs to be in front of the firing squad, as far as I'm concerned.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.c...-amicus-briefs-case/

Judge Sullivan Refuses to Dismiss Flynn Case After Pardon by President Trump; Rogue Judge Issues Orders Allowing Amicus Briefs in Case

By Kristinn Taylor
Published December 7, 2020 at 11:56pm

In new orders issued Monday allowing amicus briefs, Judge Emmet Sullivan makes clear he is ignoring President Trump’s pardon of Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (U.S. Army Ret.) granted November 25 that he was given formal notice of by the Justice Department on November 30.

Several minute orders by Sullivan were posted to the court docket Monday allowing the filing of amicus briefs in the Flynn case that were filed earlier in the fall when the GOJ motioned to dismiss the case against Flynn. Among those allowed to file are House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) joined by several committee members as well as former Watergate prosecutors. Sullivan refused to dismiss the case even with the charges dropped and has delayed ruling for months even though he was ordered by the D.C. Court of Appeals in a decision rejecting a writ of mandamus request filed by Flynn to “proceed with appropriate dispatch” on the motion to dismiss. That ruling came on August 31. Sullivan is now dragging the case out into December with no end in sight unless another mandamus case is filed by the DOJ or Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell.

The minute orders were first reported by Courthouse News reporter Megan Mineiro who posted a copy of the docket:


Just last Friday a fellow federal judge of Sullivan’s on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Senior Judge Reggie Walton, said at a court hearing in a civil case involving FOIA requests about the Flynn investigation that Sullivan may challenge the Flynn pardon as too broad, according to a report by the National Law Journal:

quote:

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said at a hearing Friday that he doesn’t think U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, his colleague presiding over the Flynn case, “has a lot of options in reference to what he does” after the pardon was granted, “unless he takes the position that the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”

“I don’t know what impact that would have, what decision he would make, if he makes that determination that the pardon of Mr. Flynn is for a period that the law does not permit. I don’t know if that’s correct or not,” the judge continued. “Theoretically, the decision could be reached because the wording in the pardon seems to be very, very broad. It could be construed, I think, as extending protections against criminal prosecutions after the date the pardon was issued.”

“I don’t know if Judge Sullivan will make that determination or not,” Walton added.
Walton made the comments in a public records case over FBI interviews from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s investigation. CNN and BuzzFeed News, represented by Ballard Spahr’s Charles Tobin at Friday’s hearing, want the records from Flynn’s FBI interviews to be reprocessed in light of the pardon, revealing information that was initially shielded due to an exemption tied to ongoing prosecutions…

Can Flynn just no longer show up or pay attention to what the judge wants to do at this point?

Flynn should show up at the next hearing wearing a robe with a cigarette in one hand and a White Russian in the other.

Well, if the plaintiff and the defense don't submit anything, or stop showing up, it won't be much of a circus, will it?