In Cliff's post above, DiGenova explains an important feature of congressional testimony.

In the open testimony sessions, the person asking questions bounces back and forth between REPs and DEMs. Seems like 5 minutes is the duration. All of the committee members get a turn.

It frequently turns into a circus w DEMs disrupting the flow when the questions get into a critical topic.

But for the closed door sessions, the REPs designate one person to ask questions for 30 minutes or more. Then the DEMs designate a person to ask questions for their time. And it goes back and forth. Sounds like it is not required to have all the committee members ask questions.

So the closed door sessions can get into more in depth questions from the best people.

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In Cliff's post above, DiGenova explains an important feature of congressional testimony.

In the open testimony sessions, the person asking questions bounces back and forth between REPs and DEMs. Seems like 5 minutes is the duration. All of the committee members get a turn.

It frequently turns into a circus w DEMs disrupting the flow when the questions get into a critical topic.

But for the closed door sessions, the REPs designate one person to ask questions for 30 minutes or more. Then the DEMs designate a person to ask questions for their time. And it goes back and forth. Sounds like it is not required to have all the committee members ask questions.

So the closed door sessions can get into more in depth questions from the best people.

But there is no world wide TV live coverage, so what is the point of even attending, if you can't get your mug on the tellie?

Peter Strzok fired by FBI

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.de7a9fe77c4b

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Peter Strzok fired by FBI

It's about time that evil MF was shown the door.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Peter Strzok fired by FBI

It's about time that evil MF was shown the door.

Agreed, but now it is time to show him another door. The one to Leavenworth!!!!! Along with all his fellow swamp critters.

Hahaha!

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Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — The dress code for President Trump’s by-invitation meet-and-greet with motorcycle enthusiasts here on Saturday was biker chic — leather, bandannas and for at least one of the supporters who posed with Trump at the raucous event, sexist and other offensive patches.

A bearded man who is part of a New Jersey “Bikers for Trump” group stood with the president as he shook hands inside his posh golf club near here, and again when the group posed for photos outside, engines revving.

“I (heart) Guns & Titties,” reads one patch on the unidentified man’s vest. The patch features a drawing of a woman’s naked torso and breasts and a pair of handguns atop her nipples.

Full article: Trump poses with supporter with sexist patch at motorcyclist event

Wow! Bikers wear outrageous clothing? Who'd have thought

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Peter Strzok fired by FBI

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.de7a9fe77c4b

And he's already got a GoFundMe page for legal bills and lost income. That didn't take long.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Peter Strzok fired by FBI

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.de7a9fe77c4b

And he's already got a GoFundMe page for legal bills and lost income. That didn't take long.

I wonder if the Klintons contributed to it, given their history I highly doubt it but sometimes strange things happen.

The Trump Administration should find a way to confiscate it, Sessions likes civil forfeiture, maybe he'll wake from his long nap and look into it.

I feel sure that I will be contributing to Strzok's go fund me.....NOT!!!!!

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Peter Strzok fired by FBI

https://www.washingtonpost.com...m_term=.de7a9fe77c4b

And he's already got a GoFundMe page for legal bills and lost income. That didn't take long.

I hope the IRS is taking note and makes sure that he pays taxes on it at the very highest possible tax rate as unearned income

A little artillery action....these guys must have been training hard for the demonstration!!!




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/61N6S44NizE

very disappointing

Rep Goodlatte has been doing an excellent job as chair of the House Judiciary Comm. He will be retiring from congress and not running for office in November.

His 32 y.o. son Bobby Goodlatte lives in San Francisco. Bobby has taken to twitter to denounce his father :

“I’m deeply embarrassed that Peter Strzok’s career was ruined by my father’s political grandstanding. That committee hearing was a low point for Congress,”

Bobby called Strzok a patriot.

And Bobby donated the maximum amt to the DEM who is running to win the seat that Robert Goodlatte currently holds.

How can people be so blind ?

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How can people be so blind ?

“Blind” isn’t the term that came to mind as I read that.

His son lives in San Francisco, he is well indoctrinated. "These aren't the drones we are looking for" is as deep as he thinks.

The Russian farce continues.

Strzok Out, Ohr In

American Spectator
George Neumayr

The FBI finally pink-slipped Peter Strzok on Monday. The Deep State’s policy is to keep its bad employees close and its worst employees even closer. The cocky Strzok had thought he might survive under that rule, but apparently even Mueller pal Christopher Wray has his limits. The FBI had made sure to keep Strzok employed until the Congressional hearings, thereby controlling his testimony. But now Strzok, widely regarded as one of the biggest dirtbags in the history of the FBI, has outlived his usefulness.

Bruce Ohr, on the hand, still hasn’t testified before Congress. Apparently, he will appear before it later this month. So he is still picking up a DOJ check. Ohr was the number four man in Obama’s Justice Department. His boss was the anti-Trump saboteur Sally Yates. During the 2016 campaign, Ohr and Yates, among many others, had turned the DOJ into a branch office of Hillary’s headquarters. Ohr’s wife, Nelly, worked for Hillary’s opposition research firm, Fusion GPS. The media has reported that Bruce Ohr, starting in January 2016, served month in and month out as a conduit for Hillary’s chief opposition researcher, the former British spy Christopher Steele. Steele might as well have had an office next to Ohr’s at DOJ.

The DOJ corruption on display here is staggering, and were the roles reversed, were it a Republican Justice Department spying on a Democratic presidential campaign (with, say, Lee Atwater calling Ed Meese’s deputy every month to check in on the spying), the Ohrs and Strzoks would be run out of DC on a rail. As it is, they can count on at least a few years of well-paid punditry at CNN and MSNBC. The ethos of official Washington supports all things dastardly toward Trump. Spy on him, tape him, raid his lawyer’s office, harass his family, fabricate stories about him — anything goes. He is to be treated, according to official Washington, like, or perhaps even worse than, a foreign occupier.

If James Comey deserves the gold medal for sanctimonious phoniness, Sally Yates surely deserves a silver. What a low, nasty partisan, who dressed up her vicious hack work for Hillary at Trump’s expense in the pompous garb of the “independence of the Justice Department.” Yates was engaged in nothing less than a three-stage coup against Trump: first, she joined Peter Strzok, Christopher Steele, and John Brennan in trying to “stop” Trump from winning; then, once he won, she allowed Ohr to continue collecting dirt from Steele in the hopes of preventing Trump’s inauguration (not to mention her entrapment of Michael Flynn, based on her Eddie Haskell-like concern about “Logan Act violations”); finally, once Trump did enter office, she used her Justice Department perch to defy his Travel ban, a ban that the Supreme Court has thoroughly vindicated. How are Yates and her pitiful subordinate Bruce Ohr any different from crooked officials in some Latin American banana republic?

Sometimes party and marital loyalty ask too much, Ohr may be muttering to himself these days. In pictures, he looks like a goofball and a geek, easily led by Yates and his wife, who was working alongside Hillary’s hatchet man at Fusion GPS, into partisan mischief.

The forthcoming Inspector General’s report about the Obama administration’s all-hands-on-deck espionage against Trump should be a doozy. One can only laugh at the exculpatory, “by the book,” note Susan Rice wrote to herself on Inauguration day, as she waited to see if her buddy Sally Yates might yet take Trump out. What book was Susan Rice referring to? Chairman Mao’s? She couldn’t have been referring to the DOJ’s ethics book. Ohr left that one in shreds, not only failing to report that his wife worked for the Hillary campaign (through Fusion GPS), but that he had used his job at DOJ for at least a year to serve as her opposition research team’s backchannel.

It is hilarious to see Hillary still whining about the alleged disadvantages she suffered in 2016, given that the entire Obama administration — from John Brennan at CIA to Sally Yates, Bruce Ohr, and Loretta Lynch, among others, at the Justice Department to Peter Strzok and Lisa Page at the FBI — had weaponized its most sensitive powers against her opponent. Yet she still couldn’t win. It can’t be repeated enough that one government did in fact collude with a U.S. campaign — ours, under an Obama administration that had stuck its Ohr in the water for Hillary.

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Meet the new dross- same as the old dross.

After slag slingin' Strzok, more needs attention . . .

I didn't know where to put this so....

This is just one aspect of what we're up against. We're winning now, we have more winning coming our way when these people are exposed.

Deep State Husbands

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Most of us are familiar with the Stepford Wives, but how many of us realize that the men involved in the so-called Deep State have wives that are anything but Stepford-type women?

Those of us who seek news outside of the mainstream know who Nellie Ohr is. Fox News spent the past week inundating us with information about her. The question is: Why did they wait so long to broadcast data published seven months ago? Fox News treated it like a news alert – called it that, in fact.

Pretty good write-up over at Zero Hedge today.

How amazing would that be if this Mueller thing ends and the only person who goes down is Hillary Clinton?

here's a part of it:

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Russian Collusion: It Was Hillary Clinton All Along

Russia Investigation: It's beginning to look as if claims of monstrous collusion between Russian officials and U.S. political operatives were true. But it wasn't Donald Trump who was guilty of Russian collusion. It was Hillary Clinton and U.S. intelligence officials who worked with Russians and others to entrap Trump.

That's the stunning conclusion of a RealClear Investigations report by Lee Smith, who looked in-depth at the controversial June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between officials of then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign staff and a Russian lawyer known to have ties with high-level officials in Vladimir Putin's government.

The media have spun a tale of Trump selling his soul to the Russians for campaign dirt to use against Hillary, beginning with the now-infamous Trump Tower meeting.

But "a growing body of evidence ... indicates that the meeting may have been a setup — part of a broad effort to tarnish the Trump campaign involving Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures and Department of Justice officials," wrote Smith.

Smith painstakingly weaves together the evidence that's already out there but has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, which have become so seized with Trump-hatred that their reporting even on routine matters can no longer be trusted.

But he adds in more evidence that the Justice Department only recently handed over to Congress. And It's damning.

Memos, emails and texts now in Congress' possession show that the Justice Department and the FBI worked together both before and after the election with Fusion GPS and their main link to the scandal, former British spy and longtime FBI informant Chris Steele.

As a former British spook in Moscow, Steele had extensive ties to Russia. That's why he was picked as the primary researcher to compile the "unverified and salacious" Trump dossier, as former FBI Director James Comey once described it.

Steele's dossier, for which Fusion reportedly received $1 million, was largely based on interviews with Russian officials. And who paid that $1 million? As we and others have reported, it was Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee, then under Hillary's control.

The media knew all this, of course, but largely ignored it...

Russian Collusion: It Was Hillary Clinton All Along