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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by Ackks:
What does Hannity have to do with this? For the life of me I don't get why the judge demanded he be outed just for being a client. This is freaking insane.

I doubt the judge knew it was Hannity.

We don’t have the paperwork to know what issues were raised, what arguments were proferred or what authorities cited.

Sometimes these hearings ver off in unexpected directions, and when the media senses a story, it’s off to the races.

Before, all they had to prat about was how Judge Wood worked in the London Playboy Club in 1966 and presided at George Soros wedding a few years ago.

Who cares if it was Bob Smith from the coffee shop? What right does that judge have to violate their privacy and drag them into a matter that doesn't concern them? So anyone who is a client of his can be drawn into this fishing expedition? This is insane.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...clinton-ag-pick.html

In 2013, Wood presided over the marriage of George Soros to his third wife Tamiko Bolton in Bedford, N.Y.

Some things about the Mueller team

From a Dec 2017 story

https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/05...spent-fbi/index.html

For 17 May 2017 thru Sept 2017, $500,700 went to team members Mueller, Jeannie Rhee, James Quarles, Aaron Zebley, and Greg Andres.

So on a yearly basis, that would be $270k per year for each of them if the salaries were all equal.

Another $220k went to help Mueller team members relocate to work w Mueller

Mueller, Quarles, Rhee, and Zebley all came from the same private law firm - WilmerHale

For 2016 and 2017 combined, what did they make at WilmerHale ?

Mueller $3.4 million

Quarles $5.8 million

Rhee $ 2 million

Zebley $ 1.4 million

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.71866df0d6fc

Hugh Hewitt was running this down this morning about Hannity and Cohen. Hannity says he asked for advice and Cohen's perspective on some legal matters and never retained Cohen or received a invoice for services rendered from Cohen.

According to Hewitt if Cohen never said the words "I'm not your lawyer but here's what I think". Cohen could be considered Hannity's lawyer.
This is all splitting hairs and other than the msm who's sworn duty it is to attack any conservative voice in any media nobody really cares.

Also Rush spent a good half hour listing all the conflicts of liberal media members that they never disclosed after barking loudly that Hannity must go because he was reporting on Cohen and never disclosed his association with him.
The hypocrisy is astounding as usual.
He also ran down the conflicts of interest of the Mueller team. I never heard it layed out like that. How any body can think this is some kind of unbiased investigation is astonishing.
If your interested I'm sure the transcript is posted on Limbaugh's web site which even weak Google Fu should be able to find.

On second thought don't use Google use Duck Duck Go. Much better!

This will cause some liberal heads to explode. You just know someone was waiting to leak his return


President Trump has filed for an extension to submit his “complex” 2017 tax returns, the White House confirmed Tuesday.

“The President filed an extension for his 2017 tax return, as do many Americans with complex returns,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said. “He will file his tax return by the extension deadline of October 15, 2018.”

Tuesday was the deadline for Americans who didn't file for extensions to have their 2017 tax returns submitted.

During Trump’s campaign for the Oval Office, the then-candidate faced a swath of criticism for not releasing copies of his tax returns. The former businessman refrained from making his filings public, saying they were under audit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and said he’d release them once the review was complete.

Even after winning the White House, Trump continued to face pressure to release his returns, including from protesters across the nation on Tax Day in 2017.

Meanwhile, Americans hoping to file their income taxes electronically on Tuesday hit a bit of a snag, as some of the services on the IRS website were not working throughout the day.

The agency acknowledged the issue, saying it was “experiencing technical difficulties.”

“Currently, certain IRS systems are experiencing technical difficulties,” a statement from the IRS said. “Taxpayers should continue filing their tax returns as they normally would.”

However, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, who oversees the IRS, told reporters in New Hampshire that those affected will be given extensions.

"We'll make sure taxpayers have extensions once the system comes up to make sure they can use it and it in no way impacts people paying their taxes," Mnuchin said. "It was just a technical issue we're working through. A high volume technical issue that impacted the system."


http://www.foxnews.com/politic...2017-tax-return.html

Filing an extension does not mean you get to delay paying.

I just mailed my extension requests along with checks for Q1 estimates. Damn, I think taxes exceed all other expenses combined.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo traveled to North Korea over Easter weekend to meet with dictator Kim Jong Un, The Washington Post reported Tuesday night.

The White House and the CIA declined to comment to Fox News on the report.

"The administration does not comment on the CIA Director’s travel," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.

The Post report cited "two people with direct knowledge of the trip," which occurred soon after President Trump nominated Pompeo to be secretary of state.

Earlier Tuesday, President Trump said the U.S. and North Korea are holding direct talks at "extremely high levels" in preparation for what would be an extraordinary summit meeting following months of heated rhetoric over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.

Trump, who welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to his Florida resort Tuesday, said five locations for the potential summit are under consideration. The president would not disclose the sites but said the U.S. was not among them.

"We'll either have a very good meeting or we won't have a good meeting," Trump told reporters. "And maybe we won't even have a meeting at all, depending on what's going in. But I think that there's a great chance to solve a world problem."

The president did not answer shouted questions about whether he has spoken with Kim.


Kim's offer for a summit was initially conveyed to Trump by South Korea last month, and the president shocked many when it was announced that he had accepted. U.S. officials have indicated over the past two weeks that North Korea's government has communicated directly with Washington that it is ready to discuss its nuclear weapons program.

Abe, who has voiced fears that short- and medium-range missiles that pose a threat to Japan might not be part of the U.S. negotiations, praised Trump on Tuesday for his bravery in agreeing to meet with the North Korean dictator.

"I'd like to commend Donald's courage in his decision to have the upcoming summit meeting with the North Korean leader," Abe said.

Trump also confirmed that North and South Korea are working to negotiate an end to hostilities before next week's meeting between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. The meeting will be the third inter-Korean summit since the Koreas' 1945 division.

North Korea has long sought a peace treaty with the U.S. to formally end the 1950-53 Korean War. But it is unusual for the North to seek to broach the issue directly with South Korea rather than with Washington. The armistice that ended the fighting was signed by the United Nations Command — the U.S.-led forces in the conflict — North Korea and China. South Korea was a member of the U.N. Command but was not a direct signatory.

Trump said Tuesday that the two Koreas "have my blessing to discuss the end of the war."

Link

Not since Kissinger went to China has more jaw-dropping news come out of Asia.
First the news of a possible end to the state of war between north and south Korea; now that Mike Pompeo talked directly with Kim.

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Filing an extension does not mean you get to delay paying.

I just mailed my extension requests along with checks for Q1 estimates. Damn, I think taxes exceed all other expenses combined.

My CPA electronically filed an extension for me and I received confirmation from IRS by e-mail. I file an extension every year, just because I want to. I typically get a modest refund, so I don't have to file quarterly estimates, either.

I see nothing unusual about someone filing an extension. If he actually owes anything, there will be delay penalties and interest, too.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by Fenris:
Filing an extension does not mean you get to delay paying.

I just mailed my extension requests along with checks for Q1 estimates. Damn, I think taxes exceed all other expenses combined.

My CPA electronically filed an extension for me and I received confirmation from IRS by e-mail. I file an extension every year, just because I want to. I typically get a modest refund, so I don't have to file quarterly estimates, either.

I see nothing unusual about someone filing an extension. If he actually owes anything, there will be delay penalties and interest, too.

flashguy

I’ve filed an extension every year for the past 18 years. Well, my CPA did for me. No particular reason for doing so. It became a tradition. This is the first year I had a nice refund coming so we e-filed 3 weeks ago. I got my refund direct deposited on Monday.

Anyway, maybe Trump is just screwing with the media.

Let's move on from discussing filing taxes, please.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
Not since Kissinger went to China has more jaw-dropping news come out of Asia.
First the news of a possible end to the state of war between north and south Korea; now that Mike Pompeo talked directly with Kim.

Isn’t this the truth!

He flew back, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on his confirmation, not a peep said about it. I wonder if any of the Senators knew about it, and if not, how they react to not knowing.

I think one of the reasons no one knew about it is because none of the Congress knew about it

if a democrat ever found out, you can be sure that democrat would do everything he/she could to either scuttle or destroy whatever progress was made because its a change from the status quo

good for Trump on getting it done

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I think one of the reasons no one knew about it is because none of the Congress knew about it

if a democrat ever found out, you can be sure that democrat would do everything he/she could to either scuttle or destroy whatever progress was made because its a change from the status quo

good for Trump on getting it done

A lot of times, things like this are briefed to the so called “Gang of Eight”, the Speaker, Minority Leader, chairman and ranking member of the Intel committee of the House, the two leaders and committe chair and ranking member of the Intel committee in the Senate.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
if a democrat ever found out, you can be sure that democrat would do everything he/she could to either scuttle or destroy whatever progress was made because its a change from the status quo

Or they would have demanded to accompany him if for no other reason than to have a photo-op so they could say that it was them that made the progress and not Pompeo.

It's just how they roll.

back on p116 of this thread, there is a post about a ltr fm Goodlatte, Nunes, & Gowdy demanding to get the 7 Comey memos about his talks with President Trump.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...seeks-more-time.html

The Justice Department missed a Monday deadline to provide GOP congressmen copies of memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about his conversations with President Trump – but is seeking a brief extension while officials review the request.

Rosenstein:

"Department officials are consulting with the relevant parties … one or more of the memos may relate to an ongoing investigation, may contained classified information, and may report confidential Presidential communications, so we have a legal duty to evaluate the consequences of providing access to them,”

Nunes on Friday also cited Comey's admission in congressional testimony in June 2017 that he had given his friend, Columbia University Professor Daniel Richman, his memos about discussions with Trump in order to have his notes leaked to The New York Times.

The scheme, which Comey suggested was an effort to ensure the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, undercuts any claim that the documents need to remain secret, Nunes argued.

Previously, A federal judge ruled that memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, detailing his “conversations” with President Donald Trump, will not be made public.

Releasing the Comey memos would “likely interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into the 2016 presidential race,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote.

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endless hiding info from the public
Boasberg is on the FISC court. (not sure that is relevant)

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Originally posted by sdy:
back on p116 of this thread, there is a post about a ltr fm Goodlatte, Nunes, & Gowdy demanding to get the 7 Comey memos about his talks with President Trump.

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...seeks-more-time.html

The Justice Department missed a Monday deadline to provide GOP congressmen copies of memos written by former FBI Director James Comey about his conversations with President Trump – but is seeking a brief extension while officials review the request.

Rosenstein:

"Department officials are consulting with the relevant parties … one or more of the memos may relate to an ongoing investigation, may contained classified information, and may report confidential Presidential communications, so we have a legal duty to evaluate the consequences of providing access to them,”

Nunes on Friday also cited Comey's admission in congressional testimony in June 2017 that he had given his friend, Columbia University Professor Daniel Richman, his memos about discussions with Trump in order to have his notes leaked to The New York Times.

The scheme, which Comey suggested was an effort to ensure the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign, undercuts any claim that the documents need to remain secret, Nunes argued.

Previously, A federal judge ruled that memos written by former FBI Director James Comey, detailing his “conversations” with President Donald Trump, will not be made public.

Releasing the Comey memos would “likely interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into the 2016 presidential race,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg wrote.

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endless hiding info from the public
Boasberg is on the FISC court. (not sure that is relevant)

Chairman Gowdy was on last night, before the news broke about Mrs. Bush, claiming that he has read the memos, that there are one or two lines that might be properly redacted, that the NYT has them, the Comey friend has them, so why not Congress and the American people?

http://video.foxnews.com/v/577...1001/?#sp=show-clips

Get on with it!

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

If it's fine to give Willy nilly to friends and reporters then it's fine for the American people to read OR Comey needs to be charged.

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If it's fine to give Willy nilly to friends and reporters then it's fine for the American people to read OR Comey needs to be charged.

AND, not OR.

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Chairman Gowdy was on last night, before the news broke about Mrs. Bush, claiming that he has read the memos, that there are one or two lines that might be properly redacted, that the NYT has them, the Comey friend has them, so why not Congress and the American people?

Because Comey, the friend of Comey, team Hillary and the NYT have to be protected from the American people! Not the other way around, silly.