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Originally posted by JALLEN:
The House Intel Committee transcript of Monday is out.

http://docs.house.gov/meetings...nscript-20180129.pdf

That was a great slap down.

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Originally posted by ChicagoSigMan:

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

Very true....His net worth is also 41 times that of the average Congress Critter, which is really saying something...and the truth is he did nothing to earn it other than being a member of the Lucky Sperm Club.

The Kennedys can't ....

skipper a boat

drive a car

fly a plane

but they can drink like a fish.

I don't know why the member who posted this removed it, but to call this significant is an understatement:

Robert Mueller Requests Postponement of General Mike Flynn Sentencing



The dog and pony show is falling apart.

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Originally posted by 12131:
Haven't seen a SOTUS POTUS this great in all the years I've been here. So proud to be an American.

Rephrased it for you

Best POTUS in decades. You're goddamn right

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Originally posted by parabellum:
I don't know why the member who posted this removed it, but to call this significant is an understatement:

Robert Mueller Requests Postponement of General Mike Flynn Sentencing



The dog and pony show is falling apart.

That was me Para. I was going to track down the General Flynn thread and post it there. But yes, I thought it was significant.

Nunes Statement on FBI, DOJ Objections to Release of HPSCI Memo

Washington, January 31, 2018

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes issued the following statement today:

“Having stonewalled Congress’ demands for information for nearly a year, it’s no surprise to see the FBI and DOJ issue spurious objections to allowing the American people to see information related to surveillance abuses at these agencies. The FBI is intimately familiar with ‘material omissions’ with respect to their presentations to both Congress and the courts, and they are welcome to make public, to the greatest extent possible, all the information they have on these abuses. Regardless, it’s clear that top officials used unverified information in a court document to fuel a counter-intelligence investigation during an American political campaign. Once the truth gets out, we can begin taking steps to ensure our intelligence agencies and courts are never misused like this again.”

https://intelligence.house.gov....aspx?DocumentID=854

Maybe the extension is significant, maybe it is not.

Extending a sentencing date doesn’t seem unusual or out of the bounds of ordinary, routine, etc.

It may well be that the special Counsel’s case is hitting some bumps, perhaps fatal ones, but this by itself doesn’t really portend that. It’s not a move that tips their hand.

I read the minutes of the House Intel Comm from 29 Jan 2018.

Almost all of the members on the Comm (REP and DEM) have been put in a terrible position by the DoJ/FBI limit of only one REP and one DEM (plus a couple staffers) having access to the underlying documents.

DEMs are relying on what Schiff says. REPs relying on what Gowdy says. They should all be furious w DoJ/FBI.

The Comm has 24 members, not 2.

Nunes statement above gives the best clues to what is in the memo. This agrees w the general comments made earlier by Trey Gowdy.

I hope President Trump is checking w Dan Coats, ADM Rogers and Mike Pompeo to see if they have any guidance or suggestions.

I wish the FBI had scrutinized the Steele dossier as much as they have the Nunes FISA memo.

EXCLUSIVE: Gowdy Was Approached For Federal Judgeship
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Kevin Daley
Supreme Court Reporter
2:57 PM 01/31/2018

GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina was offered a federal judgeship in 2017, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.

The four-term Republican announced Wednesday that he will retire from Congress, just one day after Judge Dennis Shedd of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals assumed senior-status, a form of quasi-retirement under which judges leave active service while still participating in a handful of cases. The timing prompted speculation that Gowdy, a career prosecutor, would be tapped to succeed Shedd.

“He is not planning on becoming a judge,” a source close to the congressman told TheDCNF. “He was approached months ago and turned it down.” The source added that he will return to private practice.

A White House official confirmed that Gowdy was approached for a seat of the 4th Circuit, but declined the offer.

The 4th Circuit is the federal appeals court based in Richmond, Va. Shedd’s seat covers the portion of the 4th Circuit covering South Carolina, the congressman’s home state.

President Donald Trump also filled a vacancy of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina in Nov. 2017. As a lawyer with extensive trial experience, Gowdy would have been a strong candidate for that appointment as well.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/01...&utm_content=2183548

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Originally posted by sdy:
I read the minutes of the House Intel Comm from 29 Jan 2018.

Almost all of the members on the Comm (REP and DEM) have been put in a terrible position by the DoJ/FBI limit of only one REP and one DEM (plus a couple staffers) having access to the underlying documents.

DEMs are relying on what Schiff says. REPs relying on what Gowdy says. They should all be furious w DoJ/FBI.

The Comm has 24 22 members, not 2.

Nunes statement above gives the best clues to what is in the memo. This agrees w the general comments made earlier by Trey Gowdy.

I hope President Trump is checking w Dan Coats, ADM Rogers and Mike Pompeo to see if they have any guidance or suggestions.

13 Repub, 9 Demos

I believe the WH is doing just that, some or all.

you keep me honest.

glad you don't review my tax returns

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Originally posted by sdy:
you keep me honest.

glad you don't review my tax returns

I’m the 17th reason to use H&R Block! My brother is who you want on your taxes.

I appreciate getting things right, and depend on you to watch my imaginings.

video capturing the moments of DEMs imitating zombies during SOTU

https://youtu.be/qd_a6ilbNLQ

from:

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...umps-speech-n2442082

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI said on Wednesday it had “grave concerns” about the accuracy of a top-secret House Intelligence Committee memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department, challenging President Donald Trump’s pledge to release it.


But a few hours after the rare public rebuke by the top U.S. law enforcement agency, a Trump administration official said the memo was likely to be released on Thursday.

“The FBI was provided a limited opportunity to review this memo the day before the committee voted to release it,” the FBI said in a statement. “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

The FBI declined to say if Director Christopher Wray, who viewed the memo during the weekend, approved the statement. Trump named Wray to head the Federal Bureau of Investigation after firing Director James Comey last May.

The memo has become a lightning rod in a partisan fight over investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and possible collusion by Trump’s campaign, which Russia and Trump have both denied.

Justice Department officials have also said releasing the memo could jeopardize classified information.

Representative Devin Nunes, the intelligence committee’s Republican chairman who commissioned the document, dismissed the FBI and Justice Department objections to its release as “spurious” in a statement on Wednesday.

Although White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Wednesday that Trump had not yet read the document, the president told lawmakers after his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night that there was a “100 percent” chance the memo would be released.

A White House official said the four-page document was delivered to the White House on Monday after the committee voted to release it. Administration lawyers were working against a Friday deadline to determine if any of it should be redacted to protect national security, the official said.

Late on Wednesday, Representative Adam Schiff, the intelligence committee’s ranking Democrat, said he had discovered Nunes had sent a version of the Republican memo to the White House that was “materially altered” and thus was not what was approved for release by the committee’s vote.

A spokesman for Nunes did not immediately respond to a request for comment. And an aide to Schiff did not immediately respond when asked how Schiff had obtained that information.

Republicans, who blocked an effort to release a counterpoint memo by the panel’s Democrats, say their document exposes anti-Trump bias by the FBI and the Justice Department in seeking a warrant to conduct an eavesdropping operation.

Democrats say the memo selectively uses highly classified materials in a misleading effort to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the Justice Department’s Russia probe, and Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who hired him.

SETTING THE STAGE?

In an opinion piece published on Wednesday in the Washington Post, Adam Schiff, the intelligence committee’s senior Democrat, said the Republican memo was intended to set the stage for Trump to fire Mueller or Rosenstein.

Four sources familiar with the memo told Reuters it accused the FBI and Justice Department of misleading a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge in seeking an extension in March 2017 of a warrant for a secret eavesdropping operation against Carter Page, an adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign.

Link

This post presents some info regarding Michael Flynn. There won’t be a conclusion, just some odd twists identified.

Whether any of this ties into the delay in sentencing, that isn’t known.

Conservative Treehouse has a report on this; that report is more comprehensive than what is here.

So Mueller was going to go to sentencing for Flynn. If you were Flynn, you would have some real issues w the process.

Flynn pled guilty to lying to the FBI in a 24 January 2017 interview.

1. The agent who conducted the interview was Peter Strzok. That is an issue right there. An FBI agent who has been thrown off the Mueller investigation did the interview.

2. As discussed in another post, the interview was set up by Andrew McCabe’s office. Flynn wasn’t informed of the purpose of the interview and reportedly didn’t realize that he was being targeted. (This is 4 days after the inauguration. A lot is going on). Andrew McCabe has resigned from the FBI in a cloud of suspicion.

3. The judge who took the plea agreement on 1 Dec 2017 was Judge Rudolph Contreras (an Obama 2012 appointee). In May 2016, Contreras was also appointed to the FISC.

6 days after the plea, on 7 Dec 2017, Judge Contreras was recused from further handling the case.

https://www.reuters.com/articl...-court-idUSKBN1E202V

Court spokeswoman Lisa Klem did not say why Contreras was recused, and added that the case was randomly reassigned. Now, Flynn’s sentencing will be overseen by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan.

At a hearing at the House Judiciary Committee, Republican lawmaker Jim Jordan pressed FBI Director Christopher Wray on whether a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to Trump’s campaign and associates was used by Strzok to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil Trump’s transition team. Wray did not answer.

So there is no conclusion here. But as things play out, we can keep these strange twists in mind

It's not going to be necessary to fire Mueller or Rosenstein. These things may occur, but if Nunes' hints about the memo are accurate, Mueller's investigation is over.

Any reasonably intelligent person who has seen all this unfold- no matter what their political beliefs- knows by now that neither Donald Trump nor anyone associated with his campaign "colluded" with Russia. It doesn't matter that those on the left can never bring themselves to admit this truth, but any reasonably intelligent person who is in possession of the facts knows by now that ALL of this has been a gigantic, treasonous lie.

People should be tried and executed.

Remember when the FBI did a crash effort over a weekend before the Nov 2016 election?

That was to check Weiner's laptop to see if there more classified emails.

guess who did that check ?

"Strzok and two other agents spent the weekend before the Nov. 8 election sifting through about 3,000 emails from Weiner's laptop, the Journal reported. Early on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 6, Strzok texted Page that the team had found "no new classified" emails."

That same day, Comey informed Congress that the Weiner emails had not altered the FBI's initial decision not to prosecute Clinton.

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It has been said that Strzok is the Forest Gump of the FBI.

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Originally posted by sdy:


It has been said that Strzok is the Forest Gump of the FBI.

Ummmm ... please explain?

Forest Gump kept popping up in one major event after another. He was involved in everything.

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California Rep. Adam Schiff (D) claimed late Wednesday that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) shared with President Trump a "secretly altered" version of the Republican-crafted memo alleging corrosive abuse of United States surveillance powers by the Justice Department.

Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, made the claims in a letter to Nunes, accusing the committee chair of making "substantive" changes to the confidential memo before sharing it with White House counsel for release.

Those changes, Schiff said, were not approved by the full committee as protocol dictates.

"Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House – changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release." Schiff said in a tweet.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schummer (D-N.Y.) called on House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to "put an end to this charade" after Schiff sent his letter to Nunes.

"It’s clear that Chairman Nunes will seemingly stop at nothing to undermine the rule of law and interfere with the Russia probe," Schumer said. "He’s been willing to carry the White House’s water, attack our law enforcement and intelligence officials, and now to mislead his House colleagues. If Speaker Ryan cares about the integrity of the House or the rule of law, he will put an end to this charade once and for all.”


but:

Jack Langer, the spokesman for Nunes, said in a statement that Schiff's letter amounted to another "strange attempt to thwart publication of the memo."

"In its increasingly strange attempt to thwart publication of the memo, the Committee Minority is now complaining about minor edits to the memo, including grammatical fixes and two edits requested by the FBI and by the Minority themselves," Langer said. "The vote to release the memo was absolutely procedurally sound, and in accordance with House and Committee rules. To suggest otherwise is a bizarre distraction from the abuses detailed in the memo, which the public will hopefully soon be able to read for themselves."

http://thehill.com/homenews/ho...ng-trump-edited-memo