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When does justice start coming for people who actually deserve it?

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

I believe justice is coming, and those who will bring it are merely waiting for the proper time.

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Originally posted by Sigmanic:
'Hope Over Reality': Dershowitz Doesn't See Obstruction of Justice Case Against Trump


http://insider.foxnews.com/201...-lead-constitutional

If we could harness Democrat head spinning as a source of power, we could retire nuclear and coal fired power-plants.

https://www.axios.com/exclusiv...tice-2514742663.html

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
The Washington press corps, the entire liberal establishment, and the Democratic congressional caucus practically get hives every time they hear his name . . .

Well, a Southern accent is racist, ya' know.

It's a dog whistle.

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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When does justice start coming for people who actually deserve it?

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

I believe justice is coming, and those who will bring it are merely waiting for the proper time.

President Donald Trump said he felt “badly” for his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI last week and added that 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton lied “many times” to the FBI. and “nothing happened to her.”

yet

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Originally posted by sdy:
good article by Andrew McCarthy

http://www.nationalreview.com/...-leading-impeachment

For all practical purposes, the collusion probe is over. While the “counterintelligence” cover will continue to be exploited so that no jurisdictional limits are placed on Special Counsel Robert Mueller, this is now an obstruction investigation.

That means it is, as it has always been, an impeachment investigation.

worth a read

Andrew McCarthy is a smart man. Obviously, the pleas and the indictment have nothing to do with collusion because Mueller has no collusion case.

It’s Now an Obstruction Investigation

... which is why it was such a shame that Sessions recused himself from the "Russian thing". The appointment of a "Special Counsel" gives the Democrats free reign and an unlimited budget to "investigate" for as long as they want. It's a clusterfuck.

FBI supervisor removed from Special Counsel’s Office had interviewed Michael Flynn

“The most logical thing to happen would be to call the other FBI Special Agent present during Flynn’s interview before the Grand Jury to recount his version,” said a former U.S. Intelligence Official, with knowledge of the interview.
A supervisory special agent who is now under scrutiny after being removed from Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel’s Office for alleged bias against President Trump also oversaw the bureau’s interviews of embattled former National Security advisor Michael Flynn, this reporter has learned. Flynn recently pled guilty to one-count of lying to the FBI last week.

FBI agent Peter Strzok was one of two FBI agents who interviewed Flynn, which took place on Jan. 24, at the White House, said several sources. The other FBI special agent, who interviewed Flynn, is described by sources as a field supervisor in the “Russian Squad, at the FBI’s Washington Field Office,” according to a former intelligence official, with knowledge of the interview.

Strzok was removed from his role in the Special Counsel’s Office after it was discovered he had made disparaging comments about President Trump in text messages between him and his alleged lover FBI attorney Lisa Page, according to the New York Times and Washington Post, which first reported the stories. Strzok is also under investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector General for his role in Hillary Clinton’s email server and the ongoing investigation into Russia’s election meddling. On Saturday, the House Intelligence Committee’s Chairman Devin Nunes chided the Justice Department and the FBI for not disclosing why Strzok had been removed from the Special Counsel three months ago, according to a statement given by the Chairman.

The former U.S. intelligence official told this reporter, “with the recent revelation that Strzok was removed from the Special Counsel investigation for making anti-Trump text messages it seems likely that the accuracy and veracity of the 302 of Flynn’s interview as a whole should be reviewed and called into question.”

“The most logical thing to happen would be to call the other FBI Special Agent present during Flynn’s interview before the Grand Jury to recount his version,” the former intelligence official added.

The former official also said that “Strzok’s allegiance to (Deputy Director Andrew) McCabe was unwavering and very well known.”

Flynn, a retired three-star general, issued a statement on Dec. 1, saying, “it has been extraordinarily painful to endure these many months of false accusations of “treason” and other outrageous acts. Such false accusations are contrary to everything I have ever done and stood for. But I recognize that the actions I acknowledged in court today were wrong, and, through my faith in God, I am working to set things right.”

According to another source, with direct knowledge of the Jan. 24 interview, McCabe had contacted Flynn by phone directly at the White House. White House officials had spent the “earlier part of the week with the FBI overseeing training and security measures associated with their new roles so it was no surprise to Flynn that McCabe had called,” the source said.

McCabe told Flynn “some agents were heading over (to the White House) but Flynn thought it was part of the routine work the FBI had been doing and said they would be cleared at the gate,” the source said.

“It wasn’t until after they were already in (Flynn’s) office that he realized he was being formerly interviewed. He didn’t have an attorney with him,” they added.

Flynn’s attorney Robert Kelner did not respond for comment.

A former senior Trump administration official, however, described Strzok as one of the “best agents in the bureau. And has now become the latest victim in the Russia investigation.”

“He was the top counterintelligence agent and an asset to the bureau and America,” said the official, who disputed that Strozk would let his political leanings influence his work, despite the alleged anti-Trump text messages his sent Page.

FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty could not be immediately reached for comment. Strzok could also not be reached for comment.

A former FBI agent said the investigation into Strzok and the reported text messages between him and Page, shows a “bias that cannot be ignored particularly if he had anything to do with Flynn’s interview and his role in it.”

The former U.S. intelligence official questioned, “how logical is it that Flynn is being charged for lying to an agent whose character and neutrality was called into question by the Special Counsel.”

According to an anonymous source in The Washington Post, Strzok’s and Page had exchanged a number of texts that ”expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other comments that appeared to favor Clinton.”

Nunes said Saturday that the mistress of Strzok, who was the top FBI official assigned to Mueller’s Special Counsel, was an FBI lawyer working for FBI Deputy Director McCabe.

The FBI and Justice Department have “failed to sufficiently cooperate with the Committee’s August 24 subpoena, and have specifically refused repeated demands from the House Intelligence Committee for an explanation of Pete Strzok’s dismissal from the Mueller probe,” Nunes said.

“We now know why Strzok was dismissed, why the FBI and DOJ refused to provide us this explanation, and at least one reason why they previously refused to make Deputy Director McCabe available to the Committee for an interview,” the chairman added.

Justice Department spokewoman Sarah Isgur Flores said, “we disagree with the Chairman’s characterization and will continue to work with congressional committees to provide the information they request consistent with our national security responsibilities.”

Isgur Flores said in a written statement to this reporter that the Justice Department provided the House Intelligence committee and leadership with “several hundred pages of classified documents and multiple briefings—including for example clear answers as to whether any FBI payments were made to a source in question related to the dossier—and has more recently cleared key witnesses they have requested to testify, including Mr. McCabe, Mr. Strzok, and the alleged handler in question.”

But Nunes said, “by hiding from Congress, and from the American people, documented political bias by a key FBI head investigator for both the Russia collusion probe and the Clinton email investigation, the FBI and DOJ engaged in a willful attempt to thwart Congress’ constitutional oversight responsibility.”

He added “this is part of a months-long pattern by the DOJ and FBI of stonewalling and obstructing this Committee’s oversight work, particularly oversight of their use of the Steele dossier. At this point, these agencies should be investigating themselves.”

Nunes instructed the House Intelligence Committee staff on Saturday “to begin drawing up a contempt of Congress resolution for DOJ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Unless all our outstanding demands are fully met by close of business on Monday, December 4, 2017, the committee will have the opportunity to move this resolution before the end of the month.”

A source familiar with the chairman’s request said Nunes knows the answers to “whether the FBI paid for dossier, whether the dossier launched investigation, and whether the dossier was used as a basis for FISA applications.”

https://saraacarter.com/2017/1...d-michael-flynn/amp/

Supreme Court permits full enforcement of Trump travel ban:

Handing the White House a huge legislative victory, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of President Trump’s travel ban affecting residents of six majority-Muslim countries.

The justices said the policy can take full effect despite multiple legal challenges against it that haven’t yet made their way through the judicial system.

The ban applies to people from Syria, Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Lower courts had said people from those countries with a “bona fide” relationship with someone in the United States could not be prevented from entry.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...rump-travel-ban.html

WINNING!

more on Strzok:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/...mes-comey/index.html

A former top counterintelligence expert at the FBI, now at the center of a political uproar for exchanging private messages that appeared to mock President Donald Trump, changed a key phrase in former FBI Director James Comey's description of how former secretary of state Hillary Clinton handled classified information, according to US officials familiar with the matter.

Electronic records show Peter Strzok , who led the investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server as the No. 2 official in the counterintelligence division, changed Comey's earlier draft language describing Clinton's actions as "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless," the source said.

The shift from "grossly negligent" to "extremely careless," which may appear pedestrian at first glance, reflected a decision by the FBI that could have had potentially significant legal implications, as the federal law governing the mishandling of classified material establishes criminal penalties for "gross negligence."

CNN has also learned that Strzok was the FBI official who signed the document officially opening an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to sources familiar with the matter. As the No. 2 official in counterintelligence, Strzok was considered to be one of the bureau's top experts on Russia.

But the news of Strzok's direct role in the statement that ultimately cleared the former Democratic presidential candidate of criminal wrongdoing, now combined with the fact that he was dismissed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team after exchanging private messages with an FBI lawyer that could be seen as favoring Clinton politically, may give ammunition to those seeking ways to discredit Mueller's Russia investigation.

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this whole thing is blowing up

BTW there are reports that Strzok's wife is also a pro-Obama, pro-Clinton govt lawyer

(wife, not the FBI lawyer mistress)

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by sdy:

here are the women on the View reacting to the ABC "news" that turned out to be horribly wrong

Such foul women.

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Originally posted by mbinky:
That will go nowhere. There is ample proof Comey was in dereliction of duty. And as such it was completely acceptable for him to be fired. Just bring out some quotes from the democrats deriding the job Comey was doing. Diane is reaching because she knows there was no collusion. Obstruction? Let's take a look at Hillary Clinton....

As I recall, the director of the FBI serves at the pleasure of the president. And, since the justice department is part of the executive branch, and Trump owns the executive branch, Trump was completely within his rights and powers to fire that asshole.

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/daOH-pTd_nk

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this whole thing is blowing up

BTW there are reports that Strzok's wife is also a pro-Obama, pro-Clinton govt lawyer

(wife, not the FBI lawyer mistress)

Sounds like things be blowin up on multiple fronts. Good! So nice to see some truths come out - even from CNN! Go figure.

Isn't he the same "agent" that interviewed Flynn? Guess he is


https://mobile.twitter.com/Hem...s/937813456727740417

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Originally posted by Sigmanic:

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this whole thing is blowing up

BTW there are reports that Strzok's wife is also a pro-Obama, pro-Clinton govt lawyer

(wife, not the FBI lawyer mistress)

Sounds like things be blowin up on multiple fronts. Good! So nice to see some truths come out - even from CNN! Go figure.

Of all the many things to be upset about, and angry about, regarding The Swamp, to me the very worst of all is the corruption of the FBI. Under Comey, it began to transform into a heavily armed, extremely powerful force with a political agenda. Had Hillary been elected, the FBI would very soon have been the literal equivalent of Stasi.

As it is, there is now a showdown, a confrontation, between the executive and Congress, versus the FBI, which is behaving as if it is accountable to no one.

A tyrannical FBI, accountable to no one-- above the law-- is the single greatest threat this country faces. That is the FBI that opened the investigation of Trump's Russian "collusion"-- which "investigation" was, and remains, in actuality nothing less than an attempted coup.

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Originally posted by justjoe:
Of all the many things to be upset about, and angry about, regarding The Swamp, to me the very worst of all is the corruption of the FBI. Under Comey, it began to transform into a heavily armed, extremely powerful force with a political agenda. Had Hillary been elected, the FBI would very soon have been the literal equivalent of Stasi.

Under Comey? When did Ruby Ridge and Waco happrm?

hard to get your arms around this

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Originally posted by justjoe:
A tyrannical FBI, accountable to no one-- above the law-- is the single greatest threat this country faces. That is the FBI that opened the investigation of Trump's Russian "collusion"-- which "investigation" was, and remains, in actuality nothing less than an attempted coup.

I bet the US Marines could do a pretty good job of clearing the Hoover Building.