Somebody leak this goddamn memo already!

I want to see REAL panic over at CNN and MSDNC when they start realizing this "Russian collusion" was going on alright, but it was all Democrats involved.

I wouldn't expect the memo to be a silver bullet that kills the werewolf.

No matter what it says, DEMs & MSM will attack it.

The memo will be one more step in convincing more and more voters that a conspiracy occurred and is actually ongoing.

Hopefully the memo will wound the werewolf quite deeply, and expose the wolf to further attack.

One might as well expect a glacier to move quickly.

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One might as well expect a glacier to move quickly.

You have to allow time for everyone who can to find a seat when the music stops.

as posted before, here is the link to the Grassley ltr to the DoJ IG on 23 Jan 2018

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/m...ng-fbi-text-messages

"We write to request information about the loss of FBI records connected to this investigation."

on page 12 is the DoJ IG response on 25 Jan 2018

took DoJ IG 2 days to find some of the missing texts

How hard did the Federal Bureau of Impeachment look for the texts ?

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How hard did the Federal Bureau of Impeachment look for the texts ?

You should be a little more sympathetic to the hardworking forensic techs at the FBeye. If they hadn't been so busy deleting the texts they would have had enough time to find them for Congress.

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If the FBI hadn't recovered these texts, the FBI would loose all credibility as the premier forensic digital evidence re-creator in law enforcement.

They didn't. The FBI lost them. For good. A glitch!

The Inspector General recovered them. He then told them that in the event they forgot what was in them, he would be gracious enough to provide them a copy.

Can we all please agree that 'nothing' was ever lost because electronic correspondence in today's word is never really lost. The FBI made a conscience decision not to provide Congress this info. End of story.

What's far more important is why no one has secured the personal phones and associated data for both Strok and Page's personal phones and email. I can only imagine the jewels that might be reflected there.

I heard some reporting on some of the Strzok/Page texts that was misleading because they addressed the texts as individual items without context.

Back on page 9, I posted a group of texts that were from 19 May 2017 (shortly after the missing ones)

The texts are in chorographical order starting at 00:11:58 (11 minutes after midnight)

and ending at 01:00:40 (about 1 am)

The meaning of the texts is more obvious as a group.

Shape of things that could come to pass...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to give another break to immigrant Dreamers by extending free public college tuition to students who were brought into the United States illegally as kids.

You know...because they have suffered so much...the stigmatization...the constant abuse...the incessant reminders that they are only citizens of their parents' countries of origin.

But in spite of all that...they give so much...

Franklin Graham video on Fox News:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...president-trump.html

One of the nation’s most prominent Christian leaders said he fears President Trump is facing a grave domestic threat by forces who want to take over the White House.

"I believe we are in a coup d'etat," Franklin Graham said Wednesday on the "Todd Starnes Radio Show." "There are people in this country who are wanting to destroy the president and take over the government by force."

Graham revealed his concerns as congressional Republicans ramp up accusations that deep state actors within the FBI and the Justice Department may have been plotting against the president.

The evangelical leader did not name names, but he suggested the mainstream media was complicit in the silent coup. Click here to listen to the shocking interview.

"They are not going to use bullets. They are using the media – to plant thoughts in people's minds that he's incompetent, that he's dangerous, that you can't trust him with nuclear weapons, that he is mentally unstable," Graham said.

Graham and other Christian leaders have been targeted in recent days by the mainstream media for their unwavering support of the president. Many have been accused of hypocrisy for backing a man who is accused of cheating on his wife and using profanity.

“I have a very simple admonition at this point,” Michael Steele said on MSNBC’s “Hardball.” “Just shut the hell up and don’t ever preach to me about anything ever again. I don’t want to hear it.”

Steele, the former head of the Republican National Committee, was furious at evangelicals.

“After telling me how to live my life, who to love, what to believe, what not to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don’t matter? The grabbing the you-know-what doesn’t matter? The outright behavior and lies don’t matter? Just shut up.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, drew fire after he said evangelicals gave President Trump a second chance.

“Yes, evangelicals, conservatives, they gave him a mulligan,” he told CNN. “They let him have a do-over. They said we’ll start afresh with you and we’ll give you a second chance.”

Both Graham and Perkins pointed out that Trump’s alleged sinful transgressions occurred long before he took the oath of office. On the other hand, Bill Clinton’s admitted indiscretions not only happened during his presidential term – they literally happened in the Oval Office.

“Just shut the hell up and don’t ever preach to me about anything ever again. I don’t want to hear it.”
- Michael Steele, former head of the Republican National Committee

So how does Graham respond to Trump’s admitted sinful past?

“We are all flawed people,” he told the "Todd Starnes Radio Show." “The president is a sinner. Franklin Graham is a sinner. We are not perfect people.”

He called the accusations against the president unfortunate and distracting.

“Has he had scandals in his life? Sure he has,” Graham told me. “These scandals happened a number of years ago. That doesn’t make it right. I don’t condone bad language. I don’t condone adultery.”

But for now – Graham said he still supports President Trump.

“He’s not perfect, but he’s our president,” Graham said. “He said he didn’t do it. I have to take his word over that of the media – that is trying to lynch him.”

However, should evidence come to light that Trump had engaged in such behavior while in office, Graham said he would speak out with condemnation.

"We need to pray for those that surround the president that God will protect them and keep them safe," he said.

"I believe that he's the president of this nation because God allowed it," Graham. "And I think on election night, God intervened. He wasn't supposed to win -- he was supposed to lose. And I think it was God who worked in a mysterious way on election night to turn the tables.”

During the 2016 presidential election, Graham declined to endorse a candidate. He also held non-political prayer rallies at every state capitol in the nation. There was a reason for that.

“The only hope for this country is God,” Graham said. “I don’t have any faith in the Republican Party. I don’t have any faith in the Democrat Party. The only hope for this nation is God.”

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WMAL Interview - JOE DIGENOVA - 01.22.18

For those of you not in the DC area. Joe Digenova is featured on WMAL, our conservative radio station every Monday morning starting at 7:06EST. WMAL is also online for those of you not in the area. Joe is very informative, down to earth, knows the law, and is like a pit bull dog in relating the injustices of the Obama administration, how it relates to the Trump presidency just like in the video. Worth a listen.

Thanks for posting this. Excellent information clearly and compellingly presented.

Thanks,

Silent

^^^^^^

Holy shit, what the hell happened to Michael Steele?

I remember like 8-10 years ago, he’d be filling in on Fridays for Rush Limbaugh on the radio!

Sen Grassley sends FBI Dir Wray another letter dated 25 Jan 2018.

http://www.washingtonexaminer....ship/article/2647120

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said newly released text messages exchanged between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page “raise serious concerns about the impartiality of senior leadership running both the [Hillary] Clinton and [President Donald] Trump investigations.”

The Iowa Republican on Thursday released seven pages of texts between Strzok and Page, both of whom were part of the Clinton and Trump investigations, ranging in dates from February 2016 to June 2017, including one where they discuss how many personnel from the Justice Department and FBI will be part of the investigation into Clinton’s private email server, and that if they were part of the investigation and possibly interview with her, they would need to be “loaded for bear.”

“One more thing: she might be our next president. The last thing you need us going in there loaded for bear. You think she’s going to remember or care that it was more doj than fbi?” Page said on Feb. 25, 2016, to which Strzok replied: “Agreed. I called Bill and relayed what we discussed. He agrees. I will email you and [redacted] same.”

Investigators believe the "Bill" referred to in the text was not former President Bill Clinton, but rather FBI counterintelligence head Bill Priestap.

text messages at link

and Grassley ltr at link

Same thing that happened to Bill Kristol/McBlame/Flake and all the other never-Trumpers.

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^^^^^^

Holy shit, what the hell happened to Michael Steele?

I remember like 8-10 years ago, he’d be filling in on Fridays for Rush Limbaugh on the radio!

Steele was a disaster as the head of RNC.

And thanks for the link to The Conservative Treehouse. Now my head aches.

Steele and Romney Stay Lost on Public Policy Versus Personal Morality

Michael Steele is just another self reporter. The 2016 general election is when the Evangelical community finally grew up. Steele is not concerned about religion but NeverTrumpism.

Jimmy Carter was a perfect presidential choice in 1976 for those who prioritize morality over all else. One could hardly find a more moral candidate than Carter. However, although Carter was morally stout, he was policy ineffectual. Steele inadvertently sharpens the folly of prioritizing morality over policy results.

It took Reagan to rescue us from Carter’s economic, military and leadership malaise filled with ineffectual policies that left Americans in long gas lines, suffering crippling debt and enduring disastrous foreign policies.

Are Evangelical or religious voters to ignore possible policy advances merely because an officeholder does not have some minimum personal morality – even after elected?

Steele says yes and even goes so far as to tell Evangelicals to “shut the hell up” because in Steele’s view, it is not what President Trump could or does do to advance religious freedom, moral policies, economic success, and international strength, it is that President Trump doesn’t meet Steele’s subjective Evangelical moral standard. Steele seems to say that President Trump’s morality is something that must drive Evangelicals away.

Maybe it reflects Steele’s wishful thinking about who should attack President Trump. But, Steele’s standard is not one he would apply to himself. If he was in an emergency room, needing life saving treatment, Steele would not quiz the doctor about morality. No, he would seek someone competent to handle the emergency regardless of morality. Given many years of Barak Obama, our economy and collective future needed bold, clear action to restore a constitutional balance and economic vitality that affects Evangelicals and crass sinners alike.

Yet, Steele seeks to chide Evangelicals for making a choice among flawed candidates. Evangelicals were not electing a religious leader but a flawed person who would advance policies that would benefit their interest in being able to freely exercise their own religious views. They needed and got a bold solution for desperate times in President Trump.

Steele is not alone in erroneously pitting policy versus personal morality. Last month, Mitt Romney stated: “No vote, no majority is worth losing our honor, our integrity." Although Romney was stating his philosophy against Roy Moore, the point is that Romney said that no policy result is worth having one who Romney sees as a morally deficient in office. Leaving aside the question of who is Romney to foist this off on all Americans, Romney misses the irony of arrogating to himself moral superiority.

Of course, Romney never addressed why Joseph Smith, a founder of Mormonism and presumed source of Romney’s moral superiority, had 40+ wives several of whom were 14 years of age when he married them. This is not to denigrate Mormonism but to say that Romney’s moral superiority does not seem to be self-reflective. Rather, it seems that Romney and Steele are making opportunistic political arguments rather than ones about morality. They want a NeverTrump result.

Steele wants Evangelicals to “shut up” by seeking to shame them into weaker support for a president who has delivered so much for the Evangelical and broader community. President Trump did not deliver it as a pastor or moral leader. He is delivering policy results as a pluralistic leader of a free country.

Romney wants Trump out and less influential in society. But, when Romney found himself in the big show, he failed miserably as he salved his own conscience with his internal moral superiority. Romney has not delivered any presidential policy results as president of the United States. Why? It is because Romney didn’t have what it took to bust through the straight jacket of our times. Romney is wrong and seems to have stayed on the scent trail that leads to his own tail.

Romney is essentially saying that his ineffectiveness and even loss of control of the federal government is better because he is morally better than those he criticizes. Policy control and effectiveness is more important than Romney claims.

Both Steele and Romney express a philosophy that it is better to be morally superior even though it may lead to no practical conservative help to the people of the United States.

Evangelicals and other highly moral voters finally seem to understand that both Steele and Romney are wrong. In a train wreck, the moral values of those wielding life saving care are not the priority.

Friggen NYT with some undoubtedly made up bullshit this morning about how Trump allegedly tried to fire Mueller last year but his aides “stopped” him.

DAVOS — “America is roaring back and now is the time to invest in the future of America,” preached President Donald Trump at a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday. “I’m inviting you to be part of the future we are building together.”

In a measured, 20-minute speech that was pointed towards Europe and the rest of the world rather than the U.S., the president extolled the virtues of America and spoke of U.S. engagement with the global community.

In highlighting the economic prowess of the U.S., Trump was essentially selling America and his policies. The theme of the speech said one White House official, was ‘America is open for business again,’ a line Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made here earlier this week. (A senior White House official described current economic conditions in the U.S. as “a Renaissance.”)

The president also reiterated his vision and openness to trade and engagement, but only if nations “played by the rules.”

“We can’t have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others,” he said.


https://www.c-span.org/video/?...world-economic-forum

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Friggen NYT with some undoubtedly made up bullshit this morning about how Trump allegedly tried to fire Mueller last year but his aides “stopped” him.

This has been all over the news, but who really cares? He didn't fire him (although he should have). Mueller is a scumbag. How the hell can he investigate the firing of his protege without bias? I mean come on. The democrats gave Mueller orders to take down Trump and that traitor said "Yes Sir!" and is doing his best. Innocent? He could care less. He needs to be investigated (along with the deputy AG he reports to) for his malfeasance during the Uranium One shenanigans.