What was that thing they taught us, the best and strongest defenses are those the enemy plans a little harder to overcome, making anything preset stupid at best. Almost like government agencies buying GM bulletproof products that the doors automatically unlock when the vehicles are put in park! Not to bright!
I have read the Durham Report. The whole darn thing. What a waste of taxpayer money, done at the behest of Lord Trump, to show that the FBI and DOJ showed more restraint in pursuing the Trump-Russia issue than it did with the Clinton email issue.
Even as the Durham report fails to have any real impact, I keep seeing conservative trumpeting that the Libs are in for it now. When I ask them point blank what part of the report should have Democrats worried, to a (wo)man, the response has been “Read it yourself.”
Which is always a good sign for this sort of thing.
They want so much to find a “smoking gun” but it’s just not there. So they just make believe that it’s there. If anyone should have a problem with the FBI, it should be Hillary. They put out that false report about her emails just a few days before the election, and that may have cost her the election
Durham just further showed what we knew all along! The Russia Hoax was a WITCH HUNT initiated by the Hillary campaign and furthered along by the willing USEFULL IDIOTS in the FBI, DOJ and media.
As Durham failed, obviously it needs to be done again.. and again, until the desired outcome is found. Best everyone vote for trump and republicans to insure the right man is picked this time to lead the investigation.
Q: Read it? It’s online. All 306 pages and over 2,000 footnotes. Not a John Grisham thriller, but there uncensored. What a slog. I went for the Readers Digest version from. CNN, NBC, Fox, Politico, etc. and perused the Table of Contents. Before you vent your biases, open your mind and do a bit of research and draw your own conclusions, if that is possible.
These days, sanity and justice seem to be lacking. We’re under the control of an extreme liberal mob who have turned thugs and bad guys into heroes and victims and make good guys the villains.- NY Post
According to Durham, the senior FBI officials who ordered the probe did not look at the Bureau’s intelligence databases, or consult its experienced Russia analysts, who could have told them they had seen no information about Donald Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials.
Nor did they seek such information about Trump and Russia from the CIA, the NSA or the State Department.
“Neither US law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” when the investigation began, the report said.
Further, the FBI opened a full-scale investigation “without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information.”
Sensational stories published in the New York Times in February and March 2017 claiming Trump associates were in contact with Russian intelligence agents were false.
Getting a bead on Page was “a top priority for the director,” one intelligence agent said. The attorney who prepared the first of four FISA applications on Page “recalled being constantly pressured to move forward by FBI management.” The report cites Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report in stating that McCabe and Comey were agitating for lawyers to complete the Page FISA. McCabe told interviewers that, “Comey repeatedly asked him ‘Where is the FISA, where is the FISA? What’s the status… with the Page FISA?”
The FISA was found by the IG to be deeply flawed, riddled with false information and errors. Comey declined to be interviewed by the Durham team.
At the direction of the FBI, confidential human source Stefan Halper recorded lengthy conversations with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, in which each denied the campaign had any involvement with Russian officials.
These tapes were in the possession of Crossfire Hurricane investigators, who discounted their denials and ignored exculpatory information they provided in seeking FISA warrants. From the report:
The FBI chose to adopt an interpretation of Papadopoulos’s denials of any knowledge of the Trump campaign’s involvement with the Russians in connection with the DNC computer intrusion and subsequent publication of certain DNC emails as being “weird,” “rote,” “canned,” and “rehearsed.”
The Bureau ignored assertions by Papadopoulos that assistance from the Russians would be “illegal,” and that “espionage is treason.” Agents were so determined to elicit incriminating comments from Papadopoulos that they pressed one of his friends into making 23 separate recordings of him, challenging him with “approximately 200 prompts or baited statements which elicited approximately 174 clearly exculpatory statements.” None of this information ever reached either the FISA court or the news media.
Failed to act on what should have been—when combined with other incontrovertible facts—a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election.
The report notes in detail how false information intended to damage Trump – the Steele Dossier and the Alfa Bank claims – was provided to the FBI by people tied to the Clinton campaign. Had the FBI investigated what Durham termed the “Clinton intelligence plan” as it pursued its “Crossfire Hurricane” probe, it “would have increased the likelihood of alternative analytical hypotheses and reduced the risk of reputational damage both to the targets of the investigation as well as, ultimately, to the FBI.”
Durham added that if the FBI looked into the “Intelligence Plan,” it might at least have cast a critical eye on the phony evidence it was gathering in Crossfire Hurricane, and/or questioned whether it was “part of a political effort to smear a political opponent and to use the resources of the federal government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies in support of a political objective.”
Both Clinton campaign Chairperson, John Podesta and Senior Policy Advisor Jake Sullivan called the information “ridiculous,” but the failure to investigate it in real time had a lasting impact.
Durham’s investigation found that Trump never stayed in the presidential suite where the rumored “golden shower” episode
Durham Report: Hillary Clinton Ally Charles Dolan Identified as ‘Likely’ Source Behind ‘Salacious’ Golden Shower Allegations Against Donald Trump
According to Durham’s report, Dolan served as a public relations expert with Russian contacts as well as a political advisor who helped both Bill and Hillary’s respective presidential campaigns.
In 2016, shortly before the presidential election between then-candidates Trump and Clinton, Dolan reportedly visited Russia and met with key staff members at Ritz Carlton in Moscow.
“I’m in Russia making plans to be adopted in the event this madman gets elected,” Dolan quipped in an email to an acquaintance during his Moscow trip at the time.
During his visit, Dolan was reportedly told of a rumor involving Trump, Russian prostitutes, and the Ritz Carlton presidential suite where President Barack Obama and then-First Lady Michelle Obama stayed in 2009.
That rumor ultimately made its way into the infamous Steele Dossier and it accused Trump of hiring prostitutes, in 2013, to urinate on the same bed where the Obamas slept four years prior.
But Durham’s investigation found that Trump never stayed in the presidential suite where the rumored “golden shower” episode took place in 2013 and that the allegation was “most likely” fabricated by Dolan in 2016.
“Our investigation revealed that it was Dolan […] who actually interacted with the hotel staff identified in the Steele Reports [and] Dolan appears the most likely source of the allegations,” the Durham Report read.
Drip, Drip, Drip… the next “conspiracy theory” that will drain the swamp in 2025:
Jeffrey Epstein Moved $270,000 for Noam Chomsky and Paid $150,000 to Leon BotsteinAcademics acknowledge financial transactions with the late convicted sex offender
The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton’s oppo-doc against Donald Trump, but it regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous. Others were devious. But no one “stole” our democracy — other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.
John Brennan, Hamas-loving authoritarian and partisan propagandist, almost surely knew it was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public.
As Durham points out, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report, and after Brennan admitted no one found a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, the former head of the CIA went on with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, another all-star election “denier,” and claimed that he “suspected there was more” to collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin than Mueller had let on.
Brennan must have been relying on that same gut instinct that led him to sign a letter asserting that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop scoop, a journalistic effort with more corroboration than virtually anything connected to Trump’s alleged “collusion,” had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
Of course, Brennan should have been denied access to any classified material and driven into exile after he was caught overseeing an operation of illegal spying on staffers in the Senate. CIA officials broke into Senate computer files and viewed emails and drafts of a report on torture. All of it was illegal. Brennan covered up the agency’s actions (also illegal), blamed the Senate, and pushed to fire at least one staffer who was tasked with investigating his agency.
All this happened when the tan-suited Obama was in charge, so most people probably missed it.
It wasn’t until the CIA’s inspector general confirmed this wrongdoing that Brennan began negotiating with the lily-livered senators about owning up to the spying. Even then, Brennan was lying. When asked about the CIA hacking into Senate computers at an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan responded by saying, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Nothing? “I mean, we wouldn’t do that,” he went on. “I mean, that’s just beyond the — you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.” Brennan went on to say: “Let me assure you the CIA was in no way spying on [the committee] or the Senate.”
The Obama administration backed Brennan fully, and the Senate moved on. No one put him under oath and grilled him about the specifics. As with the FBI interference in the 2016 election, not one person was held accountable for domestic spying, much less fired.
Oh, no, we can’t have the swamp drained, where will all the scum move to?
Trump said he believed DOJ and FBI officials went along with investigating an allegation without evidence because they feared the changes he was about to make to the federal bureaucracy and their agencies. He said the agencies were loaded at the time with Democrats and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) who did not support him.
“A lot of bad things went on at DOJ and the FBI, and a lot of bad things went on a lot of places,” Trump told Just the News. "You know, when I got there, it was loaded up with RINOS, and with Democrats. There’s thousands and thousands of people in every different department.
“This is deep state stuff. It has been 30 years some people have been there. And they, you know, in many ways, they ran government for a long period of time,” he continued. “And we came in and we really broke up the act and a lot of people weren’t too happy about it. That’s why things like this happen.”
Trump vowed to make sweeping reforms to the bureaucracies at the FBI, DOJ and other federal agencies if he recaptures the White House in 2024.
“This is the deep state,” he said. “I will make very big changes.”
BREAKING: The FBI has been exposed for hiring private contractors to infiltrate and surveil on online chatrooms of people who opposed forced vaccinations and mask mandates, according to Lee Fang. An FBI surveillance contractor infiltrated the chatrooms of two airline industry groups opposed to vaccine mandates to collect intelligence on the groups’ organizing activities.
The contractor, Flashpoint, which in the past infiltrated Islamic terror groups, is now focused on “anti-vaccine” groups and other domestic political organizations whom they’ve deemed “Too Radical”, according to Fang.
In a webinar presentation for clients last year, which Fang analyzed on his Substack, Flashpoint analyst Vlad Cuiujuclu demonstrated his company’s methods for identifying and entering encrypted Telegram chat groups.
He explained how the company attempted to join chatrooms of transportation workers resisting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Its focus shifted from surveilling Muslims after 9/11 and followed the money into both the Pentagon’s information warfare programs and the business of monitoring domestic protest groups.
This kind of domestic spying violates the implicit protection Americans have in these kinds of settings. This isn’t terrorism, this doesn’t have anything to do with national security, and the government needs to be held accountable for their illegal spying on U.S. citizens. -@pattwebbjr
OnPolitics: Whistleblower alleges removal from Hunter Biden IRS probe. Why it matters.Story by Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY
Hi there, OnPolitics readers. The investigation into Hunter Biden for potential tax violations might have gotten a little more complicated.
A whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service told lawmakers his entire team was removed from the investigation into Biden, USA TODAY reporter Bart Jansen writes.
Why this matters: This comes after IRS Commissioner Daniel Wefel testified to the House and Ways and Means Committee April 27 that no one at the agency would be retaliated against.
The lawyers for the undisclosed whistleblower call it an “obstruction of a congressional inquiry.”
The Durham Report Leaves No Doubt: The FBI Is A Mortal Threat To DemocracyBY: JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON, The Federalist
What the report reveals above all is that the deep state is real, it’s corrupt, and it’s at war with the American people.
Imagine someone told you that in the run-up to a U.S. presidential election, the FBI tried to undermine a candidate at the behest of the opposing campaign by cooking up a false narrative of collusion with Moscow.
And let’s say this conspiracy implicated not just the FBI but also the White House, Justice Department, and CIA — and that nearly the entire corporate press went along with it, gleefully spreading the false narrative that this candidate was a Russian agent, running story after story of fabricated nonsense in a coordinated effort to ensure the opposing candidate won.
In normal times, you’d scoff at such an outlandish story, dismiss it as the plot of some half-baked Tom Clancy novel. That could never happen in America, you’d say, where we have free and fair elections, the rule of law, and so on. And anyway, the media would never allow it to happen. They’d be too invested in exposing the conspiracy and claiming, rightly, a Watergate-type story of their very own.
But you’d be wrong. All of that really happened in 2016, the big takeaway from the report is that the Obama-era FBI launched a full investigation of the Trump campaign, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, in the summer of 2016 despite having zero evidence of any collusion between Trump and Russia.
Not only that, but officials at the highest levels of the U.S. government, including President Obama, knew that the entire false narrative that Trump was colluding with Moscow was completely made up by the Clinton campaign in an effort to weaponize the federal government against Trump and distract from Hillary Clinton’s own email server scandal.
We know, too, that corporate media are undeterred by these embarrassing episodes. Some of the outlets that did the most to push the Russia-collusion hoax were rewarded for their efforts with Pulitzer prizes and other accolades. None of them have recanted their fake stories, and nearly all of them reacted Monday to the Durham report by dismissing it as a “big fat nothing” or, in the words of CNN’s Nicolle Wallace, a “rabbit hole conspiracy” — without a hint of self-awareness that her own network was a chief purveyor of the very real Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Beyond the shamelessness of the media and the corruption of government officials, the Durham report is a sobering reminder that we can’t sustain a self-governing republic under these conditions. When the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the federal government can be used as a weapon to undermine an outsider candidate for high office, it means our republic is in grave danger.
It means, too, that it would be better if we had no FBI at all than the corrupt agency we have now, which sees fit to traffic in actual disinformation, spread conspiracy theories, and throttle the democratic process whenever a candidate comes along who threatens the status quo. That’s the real lesson of the Durham report, and we ignore it at our peril.
And what are the results of this of this “Investigation”? Indictments? Convictions? Public scoldings? A firm finger wagging at the FBI? Fodder for RWNJ “’toonists” and equally trumpchump news sources. Don’t forget it was the t**** justice department that instigated this nothing-burger.
Crazy how many folks want to claim that the report is inconsequential, a “nothing burger”. Fact is whether you like or don’t like Trump, Durham’s investigation couldn’t find anything positive to say about the FBI and revealed a plan by Hillary Clinton to feed them false information. “ We conclude that the Department and the disgraced FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report. As noted, former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith committed a criminal offense by fabricating language in an email that was material to the disgraced FBI obtaining a FISA surveillance order. In other instances, FBI personnel working on that same FISA application displayed, at best, a cavalier attitude towards accuracy and completeness. FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities.” Anybody, left or right should be concerned.
Blistering DOJ watchdog report reveals why Biden-nominated US Attorney Rollins is resigning
Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins resigned after a lengthy investigation by the Department of Justice into her alleged misconduct found that she unethically attended a partisan Biden fundraiser last summer and “falsely testified under oath” about leaking “sensitive DOJ” information to the press in an effort to help a Democrat win elected office.
RCB Ooze 12 months ago
Comparing Hillary to witches is an insult to witches.
XF8U-3 12 months ago
Durham did not find a damm thing.
Grandma Lea 12 months ago
What was that thing they taught us, the best and strongest defenses are those the enemy plans a little harder to overcome, making anything preset stupid at best. Almost like government agencies buying GM bulletproof products that the doors automatically unlock when the vehicles are put in park! Not to bright!
DC Swamp 12 months ago
Yes, the Hildabeest and top levels of government are as corrupt as Putin, but the DC Swamp will protect itself. It always does.
Vidrinath Premium Member 12 months ago
Interesting. This seems like Lisa’s way of saying “I only see things I want to.”
tpcox928 12 months ago
I have read the Durham Report. The whole darn thing. What a waste of taxpayer money, done at the behest of Lord Trump, to show that the FBI and DOJ showed more restraint in pursuing the Trump-Russia issue than it did with the Clinton email issue.
mysterysciencefreezer 12 months ago
Even as the Durham report fails to have any real impact, I keep seeing conservative trumpeting that the Libs are in for it now. When I ask them point blank what part of the report should have Democrats worried, to a (wo)man, the response has been “Read it yourself.”
Which is always a good sign for this sort of thing.
suzalee 12 months ago
They want so much to find a “smoking gun” but it’s just not there. So they just make believe that it’s there. If anyone should have a problem with the FBI, it should be Hillary. They put out that false report about her emails just a few days before the election, and that may have cost her the election
The Nodding Head 12 months ago
The Durham report, an epic fail
But we will try, try, try,
To make it into something big
We will cry, cry, cry
The prosecutions, they both failed
Not a single person jailed
Sigh, sigh, sigh
dandye 12 months ago
Durham just further showed what we knew all along! The Russia Hoax was a WITCH HUNT initiated by the Hillary campaign and furthered along by the willing USEFULL IDIOTS in the FBI, DOJ and media.
FJB Premium Member 12 months ago
Trump – Innocent FBI – Guilty DOJ – Guilty Comey – Guilty McCabe – Guilty Struck – Guilty Lisa Page – Guilty FISA Judges – Guilty Rosenstein – Guilty Chris Wray – Guilty Gina Haspel – Guilty Sally Yates – Guilty Lisa Monaco – Guilty John Carlin- Guilty Michael Sussman – Guilty Christopher Steele – Guilty Fusion GPS – Guilty Mark Elias – Guilty Hillary Clinton – Guilty Chris Ohr – Guilty 5 / 16 / 2023 Never Forget
librarylady59 12 months ago
Over $6 million and 4 years and he comes up with nada. Typical GOP investigation. I wonder to which cronies the money went.
Alberta Oil Premium Member 12 months ago
As Durham failed, obviously it needs to be done again.. and again, until the desired outcome is found. Best everyone vote for trump and republicans to insure the right man is picked this time to lead the investigation.
Al Fresco 12 months ago
Q: Read it? It’s online. All 306 pages and over 2,000 footnotes. Not a John Grisham thriller, but there uncensored. What a slog. I went for the Readers Digest version from. CNN, NBC, Fox, Politico, etc. and perused the Table of Contents. Before you vent your biases, open your mind and do a bit of research and draw your own conclusions, if that is possible.
martens 12 months ago
Is Lisa not capable of reading English?
Bill.Franklin 12 months ago
And now the DOJ and FBI is going to gaslight people and tell them they are honest, fixing things and aren’t political.
MEANWHILE, if you are anti-government you are a white supremacist who needs to be persecuted because they are the biggest threat to our democracy. . .
charliekane 12 months ago
Nuthin’ like that there Mueller guy who actually landed some punches.
MuddyUSA Premium Member 12 months ago
He showed how corrupt the FBI led by J.Comey was…..
cdbro 12 months ago
These days, sanity and justice seem to be lacking. We’re under the control of an extreme liberal mob who have turned thugs and bad guys into heroes and victims and make good guys the villains.- NY Post
cdbro 12 months ago
According to Durham, the senior FBI officials who ordered the probe did not look at the Bureau’s intelligence databases, or consult its experienced Russia analysts, who could have told them they had seen no information about Donald Trump being involved with Russian leadership officials.
Nor did they seek such information about Trump and Russia from the CIA, the NSA or the State Department.
“Neither US law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” when the investigation began, the report said.
Further, the FBI opened a full-scale investigation “without ever having spoken to the persons who provided the information.”
Sensational stories published in the New York Times in February and March 2017 claiming Trump associates were in contact with Russian intelligence agents were false.
cdbro 12 months ago
Getting a bead on Page was “a top priority for the director,” one intelligence agent said. The attorney who prepared the first of four FISA applications on Page “recalled being constantly pressured to move forward by FBI management.” The report cites Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report in stating that McCabe and Comey were agitating for lawyers to complete the Page FISA. McCabe told interviewers that, “Comey repeatedly asked him ‘Where is the FISA, where is the FISA? What’s the status… with the Page FISA?”
The FISA was found by the IG to be deeply flawed, riddled with false information and errors. Comey declined to be interviewed by the Durham team.
cdbro 12 months ago
At the direction of the FBI, confidential human source Stefan Halper recorded lengthy conversations with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos, in which each denied the campaign had any involvement with Russian officials.
These tapes were in the possession of Crossfire Hurricane investigators, who discounted their denials and ignored exculpatory information they provided in seeking FISA warrants. From the report:
The FBI chose to adopt an interpretation of Papadopoulos’s denials of any knowledge of the Trump campaign’s involvement with the Russians in connection with the DNC computer intrusion and subsequent publication of certain DNC emails as being “weird,” “rote,” “canned,” and “rehearsed.”
The Bureau ignored assertions by Papadopoulos that assistance from the Russians would be “illegal,” and that “espionage is treason.” Agents were so determined to elicit incriminating comments from Papadopoulos that they pressed one of his friends into making 23 separate recordings of him, challenging him with “approximately 200 prompts or baited statements which elicited approximately 174 clearly exculpatory statements.” None of this information ever reached either the FISA court or the news media.
cdbro 12 months ago
The report concludes the FBI:
Failed to act on what should have been—when combined with other incontrovertible facts—a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election.
The report notes in detail how false information intended to damage Trump – the Steele Dossier and the Alfa Bank claims – was provided to the FBI by people tied to the Clinton campaign. Had the FBI investigated what Durham termed the “Clinton intelligence plan” as it pursued its “Crossfire Hurricane” probe, it “would have increased the likelihood of alternative analytical hypotheses and reduced the risk of reputational damage both to the targets of the investigation as well as, ultimately, to the FBI.”
Durham added that if the FBI looked into the “Intelligence Plan,” it might at least have cast a critical eye on the phony evidence it was gathering in Crossfire Hurricane, and/or questioned whether it was “part of a political effort to smear a political opponent and to use the resources of the federal government’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies in support of a political objective.”
Both Clinton campaign Chairperson, John Podesta and Senior Policy Advisor Jake Sullivan called the information “ridiculous,” but the failure to investigate it in real time had a lasting impact.
Frankfreak 12 months ago
“U.S. intel agencies possessed no “actual evidence of collusion” when the probe began”
All the meetings between Trump’s people, republicans and Russian operatives was evidence.
David Riedel Premium Member 12 months ago
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cdbro 12 months ago
LOCK HER UP!
Durham’s investigation found that Trump never stayed in the presidential suite where the rumored “golden shower” episode
Durham Report: Hillary Clinton Ally Charles Dolan Identified as ‘Likely’ Source Behind ‘Salacious’ Golden Shower Allegations Against Donald Trump
According to Durham’s report, Dolan served as a public relations expert with Russian contacts as well as a political advisor who helped both Bill and Hillary’s respective presidential campaigns.
In 2016, shortly before the presidential election between then-candidates Trump and Clinton, Dolan reportedly visited Russia and met with key staff members at Ritz Carlton in Moscow.
“I’m in Russia making plans to be adopted in the event this madman gets elected,” Dolan quipped in an email to an acquaintance during his Moscow trip at the time.
During his visit, Dolan was reportedly told of a rumor involving Trump, Russian prostitutes, and the Ritz Carlton presidential suite where President Barack Obama and then-First Lady Michelle Obama stayed in 2009.
That rumor ultimately made its way into the infamous Steele Dossier and it accused Trump of hiring prostitutes, in 2013, to urinate on the same bed where the Obamas slept four years prior.
But Durham’s investigation found that Trump never stayed in the presidential suite where the rumored “golden shower” episode took place in 2013 and that the allegation was “most likely” fabricated by Dolan in 2016.
“Our investigation revealed that it was Dolan […] who actually interacted with the hotel staff identified in the Steele Reports [and] Dolan appears the most likely source of the allegations,” the Durham Report read.
cdbro 12 months ago
Drip, Drip, Drip… the next “conspiracy theory” that will drain the swamp in 2025:
Jeffrey Epstein Moved $270,000 for Noam Chomsky and Paid $150,000 to Leon BotsteinAcademics acknowledge financial transactions with the late convicted sex offender
cdbro 12 months ago
Brennan Should Be In Prison – The Federalist
The just-released Durham report confirmed that the FBI not only failed to corroborate the Steele dossier, Hillary Clinton’s oppo-doc against Donald Trump, but it regularly ignored existing, sometimes dispositive, evidence to keep the investigation alive. Some officials were credulous. Others were devious. But no one “stole” our democracy — other than perhaps intelligence officials and the journalists who helped feed the collective hysteria over Russia.
John Brennan, Hamas-loving authoritarian and partisan propagandist, almost surely knew it was a con from the start. Yet he spent four years on television sounding like a deranged subreddit commenter. Even after privately admitting he knew there was no collusion, Brennan kept lying and using his credentials to mislead the public.
As Durham points out, even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered his report, and after Brennan admitted no one found a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, the former head of the CIA went on with MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, another all-star election “denier,” and claimed that he “suspected there was more” to collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin than Mueller had let on.
Brennan must have been relying on that same gut instinct that led him to sign a letter asserting that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop scoop, a journalistic effort with more corroboration than virtually anything connected to Trump’s alleged “collusion,” had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.”
cdbro 12 months ago
Of course, Brennan should have been denied access to any classified material and driven into exile after he was caught overseeing an operation of illegal spying on staffers in the Senate. CIA officials broke into Senate computer files and viewed emails and drafts of a report on torture. All of it was illegal. Brennan covered up the agency’s actions (also illegal), blamed the Senate, and pushed to fire at least one staffer who was tasked with investigating his agency.
All this happened when the tan-suited Obama was in charge, so most people probably missed it.
It wasn’t until the CIA’s inspector general confirmed this wrongdoing that Brennan began negotiating with the lily-livered senators about owning up to the spying. Even then, Brennan was lying. When asked about the CIA hacking into Senate computers at an appearance at the Council on Foreign Relations, Brennan responded by saying, “Nothing could be further from the truth.” Nothing? “I mean, we wouldn’t do that,” he went on. “I mean, that’s just beyond the — you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we would do.” Brennan went on to say: “Let me assure you the CIA was in no way spying on [the committee] or the Senate.”
The Obama administration backed Brennan fully, and the Senate moved on. No one put him under oath and grilled him about the specifics. As with the FBI interference in the 2016 election, not one person was held accountable for domestic spying, much less fired.
dpatrickryan Premium Member 12 months ago
Not real good at reading comprehension, are we Lisa?
cdbro 12 months ago
Oh, no, we can’t have the swamp drained, where will all the scum move to?
Trump said he believed DOJ and FBI officials went along with investigating an allegation without evidence because they feared the changes he was about to make to the federal bureaucracy and their agencies. He said the agencies were loaded at the time with Democrats and RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) who did not support him.
“A lot of bad things went on at DOJ and the FBI, and a lot of bad things went on a lot of places,” Trump told Just the News. "You know, when I got there, it was loaded up with RINOS, and with Democrats. There’s thousands and thousands of people in every different department.
“This is deep state stuff. It has been 30 years some people have been there. And they, you know, in many ways, they ran government for a long period of time,” he continued. “And we came in and we really broke up the act and a lot of people weren’t too happy about it. That’s why things like this happen.”
Trump vowed to make sweeping reforms to the bureaucracies at the FBI, DOJ and other federal agencies if he recaptures the White House in 2024.
“This is the deep state,” he said. “I will make very big changes.”
cdbro 12 months ago
More evidence of control from the Deep State…
BREAKING: The FBI has been exposed for hiring private contractors to infiltrate and surveil on online chatrooms of people who opposed forced vaccinations and mask mandates, according to Lee Fang. An FBI surveillance contractor infiltrated the chatrooms of two airline industry groups opposed to vaccine mandates to collect intelligence on the groups’ organizing activities.
The contractor, Flashpoint, which in the past infiltrated Islamic terror groups, is now focused on “anti-vaccine” groups and other domestic political organizations whom they’ve deemed “Too Radical”, according to Fang.
In a webinar presentation for clients last year, which Fang analyzed on his Substack, Flashpoint analyst Vlad Cuiujuclu demonstrated his company’s methods for identifying and entering encrypted Telegram chat groups.
He explained how the company attempted to join chatrooms of transportation workers resisting the COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Its focus shifted from surveilling Muslims after 9/11 and followed the money into both the Pentagon’s information warfare programs and the business of monitoring domestic protest groups.
This kind of domestic spying violates the implicit protection Americans have in these kinds of settings. This isn’t terrorism, this doesn’t have anything to do with national security, and the government needs to be held accountable for their illegal spying on U.S. citizens. -@pattwebbjr
cdbro 12 months ago
USA Today on the Deep State…
OnPolitics: Whistleblower alleges removal from Hunter Biden IRS probe. Why it matters.Story by Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY
Hi there, OnPolitics readers. The investigation into Hunter Biden for potential tax violations might have gotten a little more complicated.
A whistleblower at the Internal Revenue Service told lawmakers his entire team was removed from the investigation into Biden, USA TODAY reporter Bart Jansen writes.
Why this matters: This comes after IRS Commissioner Daniel Wefel testified to the House and Ways and Means Committee April 27 that no one at the agency would be retaliated against.
The lawyers for the undisclosed whistleblower call it an “obstruction of a congressional inquiry.”
cdbro 12 months ago
The Durham Report Leaves No Doubt: The FBI Is A Mortal Threat To DemocracyBY: JOHN DANIEL DAVIDSON, The Federalist
What the report reveals above all is that the deep state is real, it’s corrupt, and it’s at war with the American people.
Imagine someone told you that in the run-up to a U.S. presidential election, the FBI tried to undermine a candidate at the behest of the opposing campaign by cooking up a false narrative of collusion with Moscow.
And let’s say this conspiracy implicated not just the FBI but also the White House, Justice Department, and CIA — and that nearly the entire corporate press went along with it, gleefully spreading the false narrative that this candidate was a Russian agent, running story after story of fabricated nonsense in a coordinated effort to ensure the opposing candidate won.
In normal times, you’d scoff at such an outlandish story, dismiss it as the plot of some half-baked Tom Clancy novel. That could never happen in America, you’d say, where we have free and fair elections, the rule of law, and so on. And anyway, the media would never allow it to happen. They’d be too invested in exposing the conspiracy and claiming, rightly, a Watergate-type story of their very own.
But you’d be wrong. All of that really happened in 2016, the big takeaway from the report is that the Obama-era FBI launched a full investigation of the Trump campaign, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane, in the summer of 2016 despite having zero evidence of any collusion between Trump and Russia.
Not only that, but officials at the highest levels of the U.S. government, including President Obama, knew that the entire false narrative that Trump was colluding with Moscow was completely made up by the Clinton campaign in an effort to weaponize the federal government against Trump and distract from Hillary Clinton’s own email server scandal.
cdbro 12 months ago
We know, too, that corporate media are undeterred by these embarrassing episodes. Some of the outlets that did the most to push the Russia-collusion hoax were rewarded for their efforts with Pulitzer prizes and other accolades. None of them have recanted their fake stories, and nearly all of them reacted Monday to the Durham report by dismissing it as a “big fat nothing” or, in the words of CNN’s Nicolle Wallace, a “rabbit hole conspiracy” — without a hint of self-awareness that her own network was a chief purveyor of the very real Trump-Russia conspiracy.
Beyond the shamelessness of the media and the corruption of government officials, the Durham report is a sobering reminder that we can’t sustain a self-governing republic under these conditions. When the law enforcement and intelligence agencies of the federal government can be used as a weapon to undermine an outsider candidate for high office, it means our republic is in grave danger.
It means, too, that it would be better if we had no FBI at all than the corrupt agency we have now, which sees fit to traffic in actual disinformation, spread conspiracy theories, and throttle the democratic process whenever a candidate comes along who threatens the status quo. That’s the real lesson of the Durham report, and we ignore it at our peril.
lawguy05 12 months ago
Karma’s a you know what.
LJZ Premium Member 12 months ago
And what are the results of this of this “Investigation”? Indictments? Convictions? Public scoldings? A firm finger wagging at the FBI? Fodder for RWNJ “’toonists” and equally trumpchump news sources. Don’t forget it was the t**** justice department that instigated this nothing-burger.
Drgnslr Premium Member 12 months ago
Crazy how many folks want to claim that the report is inconsequential, a “nothing burger”. Fact is whether you like or don’t like Trump, Durham’s investigation couldn’t find anything positive to say about the FBI and revealed a plan by Hillary Clinton to feed them false information. “ We conclude that the Department and the disgraced FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report. As noted, former FBI attorney Kevin Clinesmith committed a criminal offense by fabricating language in an email that was material to the disgraced FBI obtaining a FISA surveillance order. In other instances, FBI personnel working on that same FISA application displayed, at best, a cavalier attitude towards accuracy and completeness. FBI personnel also repeatedly disregarded important requirements when they continued to seek renewals of that FISA surveillance while acknowledging – both then and in hindsight – that they did not genuinely believe there was probable cause to believe that the target was knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities on behalf of a foreign power, or knowingly helping another person in such activities.” Anybody, left or right should be concerned.
Patjade 12 months ago
The report came from “Bull” Durham, someone whose investigation has been discredited from the beginning, so the “conclusion” should follow suit.
cdbro 12 months ago
checkmate to the Santos chess move:
Blistering DOJ watchdog report reveals why Biden-nominated US Attorney Rollins is resigning
Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins resigned after a lengthy investigation by the Department of Justice into her alleged misconduct found that she unethically attended a partisan Biden fundraiser last summer and “falsely testified under oath” about leaking “sensitive DOJ” information to the press in an effort to help a Democrat win elected office.
Hank Gillette Premium Member 12 months ago
Wishful thinking by Lisa Benson.