White House chief of staff John Kelly said Wednesday a controversial Republican memo alleging wrongdoing by FBI officials investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election would be released soon. “It will be released here pretty quick, I think, and the whole world can see it,” Kelly said during an interview on Fox News Radio.Trump overheard saying he is '100 percent' behind releasing surveillance memo
President Donald Trump was overheard telling a GOP lawmaker Tuesday night that he’s “100 percent” behind releasing a classified Republican intelligence memo detailing alleged surveillance abuses. "Don't worry," the president reportedly told U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., on the House floor after delivering his first State of the Union address. “One hundred percent."
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly advised White House Chief of Staff John Kelly against releasing the memo, saying such action would set a dangerous precedent and would not accurately characterize the FBI's investigative practices, the Washington Post reported. But two senior FBI officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division – who reviewed the memo said they “could not point to any factual inaccuracies,” Fox News reported Tuesday.I for one, am very curious as to what the Memo states. But according to most sources, the FBI and DOJ are a lot more worried about the upcoming Inspector General report that is expected out within the next couple of months.
CH TRUTH OFFERS A THEORY!
Many believe that Andrew McCabe was forced to step down due to a combination of what is on the memo, and what is going to be in the IG report. There are also rumors that Assistant Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be a major part of both the memo and the upcoming IG report. It could follow that Rosenstein will either voluntarily (or involuntarily) be removed from his post.
There has been some consideration that if the Assistant AG spot opened up, that Trump would find a heavy hitter to come in and become the active person overseeing the Mueller investigation. Names such as Rudy Giuliani and Chris Christie have been mentioned.
Today, Trey Gowdy offered a tweet that he will not be running for reelection, and that he would like to get out of politics and back into "the Justice system". How perfect would Trey Gowdy be for that Assistant Attorney General spot?
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Excellent
And not even on my radar.
FBI Director Says Secret Memo Is Not Accurate
“FBI Director Christopher Wray told the White House he opposes the release of a controversial, classified GOP memo alleging bias at the FBI and Justice Department because it contains inaccurate information and paints a false narrative,” Bloomberg reports.
President Trump was overheard telling a GOP lawmaker he’s going to release it to the public anyway.
Secret Society!
New York Times: “Christopher Wray, the FBI director, clashed publicly with the president for the first time on Wednesday, condemning a push by House Republicans to release a secret memo that purports to show how the bureau and the Justice Department abused their authorities to obtain a warrant to spy on a former Trump campaign adviser.”
. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who famously headed the congressional investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attack, will not seek reelection, instead returning to the justice system, he said in a statement on Wednesday.
Gowdy, a four-term congressman who chairs the House Oversight Committee, has been the Representative for South Carolina's 4th Congressional District since 2011, elected in the Tea Party wave of 2010. He chaired the United States House Select Committee on Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi from 2014 to 2016 and is currently a member of the House Intelligence Committee.
"Whatever skills I may have are better utilized in a courtroom than in Congress, and I enjoy our justice system more than our political system," Gowdy said in his statement.
He is now the ninth Republican committee chair to announce he will not run for reelection, and the second Oversight chair in under a year, as former Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz quit the position last year.
FBI Publicly Challenges GOP Secret Memo
“The FBI spoke out publicly Wednesday against a GOP memo criticizing the bureau’s use of surveillance authorities, challenging the classified document’s accuracy as the White House and congressional Republicans are expected to soon make its contents public,” the Washington Post reports.
From a statement: “As expressed during our initial review, we have grave concerns about the material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”
Replace a twenty year experienced FBI professional who lead an entirely discredit investigation to be the number two in the FBI.
If President Pocahontas does the same thing in 2021 your blog would be Thecoldhearted#impeachment
The old "omission of facts" deal, huh? Otherwise (and often times) known as you are not giving me a chance to explain. Doesn't really contradict the other statement that there are no "factual inaccuracies".
The President can always declassify whatever it is that the FBI would like to amend to the memo. He has the authority.
I would be more than happy to have "all" of the facts put out on the table... rather than none of them. Which apparently is what some of you are advocating.
Because, once again, you would rather let others think for you. Having the facts would require you to (gasp) think for yourself.
Blogger Roger Amick said...
. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, who famously headed the congressional investigation into the Benghazi terrorist attack, will not seek reelection, instead returning to the justice system, he said in a statement on Wednesday.
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old news. you fancy yourself to be the fucking town crier, eh alky?
dear, oh dear. I just can't imagine that a GOP generated memo could be criticized by an FBI director as "omitting any facts" or containing "inaccurate information" or painting a "false narrative."
The memo was written by staffers for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) earlier in January, after the panel procured from the FBI and Justice Department long-sought-after documents related to a now-famous dossier of allegations concerning Trump and his purported ties to Kremlin officials. Sanders told CNN on Wednesday that Trump was "not aware of any conversation or coordination" between Nunes and the White House on the production or release of the memo, but she did not rule out the possibility, saying, "I just don't know the answer."
The memo alleges that the British former spy who wrote the dossier, Christopher Steele, passed bad information to the FBI — though people familiar with the document said it does not determine whether he did so intentionally or by mistake. The memo alleges that the information was used in an application to conduct surveillance on former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, according to people familiar with the matter. Officials familiar with the Page case have said Steele's information represented a small part of the secret court document.
Republicans have long been suspicious of the dossier, particularly since learning that Steele's work was paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Democrats, however, allege that the GOP memo is nothing but a hit job designed to weaken the federal law enforcement agencies behind special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's
"But two senior FBI officials – one from the bureau’s counterintelligence division and the other from the legal division – who reviewed the memo said they “could not point to any factual inaccuracies,”
Someone is lying, release the memo.
The memo was written by staffers for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.)
Why aren't you calling them out for refusing to release The memo was written by staffers for House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member (D)
Why aren't you calling them out for refusing to release The memo was written by staffers for House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member (D)
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because it's a two step process, fuckstick. step one is complete - a vote to allow the full house to view schiff's rebuttal memo. step two is a vote to release it to the public. that vote has yet to occur.
read something other that your "TRUMP IS NOT MY PRESIDENT!!!11!" fakebook feed. you might learn something
you had better put a seatbelt on that walker, alky. the next few weeks is going to be a rough ride for your team. and the memo is just the beginning. trump fucking destroyed you assholes last night. and it's only downhill for you from here.
Someone is lying, release the memo.
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adam schiff is going to have to go into the witness protection program once all of HIS lies come out.
How perfect would Trey Gowdy be for that Assistant Attorney General spot?
it would be a natural. he either ends up in rosenstein's job or on fox news as a contributor.
oh darn! from a 15 point advantage to only 2.
In a look ahead to 2018, Democrats currently hold a negligible edge on the generic Congress ballot. If the election for House of Representatives were held today, 47% of registered voters say they would vote for or lean toward voting for the Democratic candidate in their district compared to 45% who would support the Republican. This marks a dramatic shift from last month, when Democrats held a 15 point advantage on the generic ballot (51% to 36%).
https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/MonmouthPoll_US_013118/
this is BIG. schiff's memo has LEAKED:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/01/exclusive-schiff-memo-leaks-to-power-line.php
WASHINGTON — Faiz Shakir, national political director at the American Civil Liberties Union, issued the following statement after President Trump’s first State of the Union address:
“Tonight, President Trump said the word ‘America’ more than 80 times in his speech. Yet, after a divisive first year, we hear and feel how exclusionary that ‘America’ is, with policies that have harmed so many vulnerable American communities. The ACLU stands ready to protect these communities, both in the courts and at the polls.
https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-trumps-america-exclusionary
The left is in a sweet twist.
No longer are Republican's sitting by and Taking it.
Oh poor Roger. Out of power and out of money. Unable to pay your debt.
So after 20 + months of one sided unrestrained leaks and lies.
The Republicans release 4 pages of facts, confirmed by the FBI and old crippled roger falls flat on his fat tummy. Hit your life alert boy.
CH, I think for myself. You blind yourself to the truth. Trump lies all the time and you ignore it. Six times last night. You have lost your mind.
this is BIG. schiff's memo has LEAKED:" RRB
Yep. Exactly.
K'putz I could kick your ass.
I'm healthy.
Come to the 24hr Fitness center in Walnut and I will be there to kick your ass.
You already lost the bet.
So cripple I forgive the debt you owe me.
Your just not worth it.
Little stable bumble walker bound cripple has found his "cyber bb balls"
Why aren't you calling them out for refusing to release The memo was written by staffers for House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member (D)
I would prefer that if the FBI or DOJ has an issue with what is being written, that they agree that the whole truth should come out...
all of the facts. Just release it all for public consumption. The FBI and DOJ owes us that, all things considered. Or at least they owe us that if they want a shred of credibility.
Roger's s real tough guy online. Lol. Whatta horse's ass.
Yep.
Thing is I feel sorry for him.
I don't know who embarrassed themselves more last night, dems or the tv networks (cbs and fox excluded). Trump could've spoke about rainbows and unicorns and Stephanopoulos' group still would've called it dark and negative.
"Notable that in the latest round of FBI/DOJ objections to the release of the House intel memo, earlier claims of dangerous disclosures of sources & methods have vanished."
This could be the end of The Secret Society theory.
An FBI agent accused of being biased against President Donald Trump may have played a role in helping elect Trump by working on a memo shortly before Election Day 2016 announcing that the FBI was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton.
The agent, Peter Strzok, has been sharply criticized for exchanging emails with another FBI employee in 2016 ridiculing Trump and seeming to hope for a Clinton victory. The discovery of Strzok’s email exchange with lawyer Lisa Page led special counsel Robert Mueller to dismiss Strzok from his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
But newly released emails show that Strzok helped draft an announcement in October 2016 that the FBI had received new information about Clinton’s emails and was reopening an investigation it had closed in early July 2016 after finding no criminal wrongdoing. Strzok was a lead investigator on the FBI’s probe into whether Clinton broke the law as secretary of state by sending official emails through a personal server. The new emails were first reported by CNN.
Since he quickly found her innocent perhaps he quickly intercepted any real investigation which should have occurred. Proves nothing without any context and surrounding details.
real investigation which should have occurred
So you say
So, that "blue wave" ,Oh oh , the Generic Ballot for 2018, "Dead Heat".
I love the smell of burning old pot belly crippled HB.
Hey CAsissy, NannystateNancy Polisi
Just the other day the Democratics said there are 800,000 illegal Dreamers, now.
"by JOHN BINDER
31 Jan 2018
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi responded to President Trump’s “State of the Union” (SOTU) address by claiming that the roughly 3.5 million illegal aliens who are enrolled and eligible for the President Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program “are Americans
Liberals are so fuck up.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/us/politics/trump-russia-hope-hicks-mueller.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
This expands on the infamous July meeting in the Gold Tower.
Muller is finding more important shit every single day.
I could kick your sorry ass K'putz.
Wow, jane, crippled -$100HB, oPie and WimP..
Fetch dumbasses
"The public’s perception of the Trump administration’s landmark tax overhaul is rapidly becoming more positive and more realistic.
Americans are now evenly divided over tax reform, with 44 percent saying they approve and 44 percent saying they disapprove, according to the latest Monmouth University Poll. In December, just 25 percent approved and 47 percent ."
Feb 2018 the money really starts hitting paychecks plumping them up.
Go figure those that labor want to keep more of the Fruit.
President Trump "In God We Trust". Our US Motto.
The lost years idiot
" 2010, while speaking at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, President Obama misinformed his audience with this: “I believe that the history of both America and Indonesia should give us hope. It is a story written into our national mottos. In the United States, our motto is E pluribus unum — out of many, one.”
After Obama’s flub, in November of 2011, by a vote of 396 to 9, the House of Representatives again reaffirmed that the official U.S. national motto is “In God We Trust.”
We saw our paychecks increase today. It was the equivalent to about a 3% raise. I won't retire on it, but it certainly helps the cause.
Someone here was bragging earlier that Obama increased wages by 4% over 8 years. Let's see what happens over the next 7 years.
Yep. Just the beginning of "kept wages" for labor already provided.
100 % of US House Democrats and US SENATE Democrats voted against you keeping that money.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
"Following President Donald Trump’s delivery of the State of the Union address on Tuesday, CNN host Jake Tapper said Trump did not “understand” how offensive it was to Democrats for him to state that “Americans are DREAMers, too.”
KD the non-thinker posted...
against you keeping that money.
While you prefer to pay your obligations with your kids money...smart if you ask me! BWAAAAAA!!!!!
Roger Amick said...
K'putz I could kick your ass.
I'm healthy.
Come to the 24hr Fitness center in Walnut and I will be there to kick your ass.
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so...
you require the assistance of a walker to get around, yet you think you can kick someone's ass.
geezus alky, you ARE delusional.
Schiff throws last minute hail mary to keep the memo from going public claiming it "was substantially changed".
What are the Democrats afraid of?
you require the assistance of a walker to get around, yet you think you can kick someone's ass.
Another episode of Kung Fu Geezer.
K'putz I could kick your ass.
His pig wife can kick his ass....LOL
Wonder why trump is afraid of muller....he keeps saying there was no collusion, no obstruction and now suddenly, mueller wants to know more of juniors meeting about adoption...Likely because that is a lie....Going to get ugly especially when the memo shows nunes to be a partisan hack dairy farmer.....and your hopes are dashed when the memo goes no where except reinforcing the bases belief trump is a god......
The look on Trump's face said volumes. He is not a happy man. He is not a well balanced man. And he comes across as so arrogant and stupid, standing there clapping, clapping, clapping.
Nunes Claims Only ‘Minor Edits’ Were Made to Memo
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) claims the changes made to a controversial memo after his committee voted to release it were only “minor edits” and not “secret” and “material,” as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) described, Buzzfeed News reports.
“Democrats, however, maintained that the changes were not insignificant and that Republicans should redo the vote to declassify the memo.”
House Intel source. Said total changes to memo were: A) Unknown number of 'grammatical and clarifying' fixes. B) One change requested by FBI due to sources & methods concerns. C) One two-word change requested by Democrats for accuracy."
and
"On re-vote: Committee can just do it Monday, with White House release immediately after. World won't end. OTOH, Congress often does not make members re-vote on 'technical and conforming' changes. If these changes go beyond that, they can re-vote."
RELEASE THE MEMO
Well Opie...
Some people love their families and have a reasonable desire not to have them being hassled by special counsels with multi-million dollar budgets and the ability to otherwise skirt issues that would have prevented normal law enforcement from engaging in questioning (that probably otherwise would never past the muster of probable cause).
I understand that liberals don't hold their own families to the same degree of loyalty and love. You would no doubt throw your kids under the bus, quite obviously, since that is how you believe Trump should play it all.
But I have a full understanding of this behavior, and I would do the same things if my family was being hounded by law enforcement without real probably cause to be doing so.
I would push back if neither my children or I had done anything wrong. I wouldn't sit back and just accept it, simply because that is the "liberal thing to do".
Just the difference in how we see our families and our instinct (which you, Roger, James, etc.. don't have) to protect them.
Trump Falsely Claims Largest Audience In History
President Trump claimed that the 45.6 million people who watched his State of the Union address was “the highest number in history.”
However, the president’s claim is not backed up by Nielsen’s numbers, which show Barack Obama at 48 million viewers in 2010, George W. Bush at 51.7 million in 202 and Bill Clinton at 45.8 million in 1994
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On the day of his SOTU, Trump well managed to exceed his 5.5 average of lies told per day while in office.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
James Boswell of Normal, Illinois is a pedophile.
Mueller Zeroes In on Trump Role In Drafting Statement
New York Times: “Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy.”
“The statement… has become a focus of the inquiry by Robert Mueller… Prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller in recent months have questioned numerous White House officials about how the release came together — and about how directly Mr. Trump oversaw the process.”
“What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trump’s aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad. They protected their own interests, shifted blame and potentially left themselves — and the president — legally vulnerable.”
SEVEN MORE YEARS or PRESIDENT TRUMP.
It's a beautiful day in America.
Liberal heads are exploding everywhere.
Please keep the sound down.
ROFLMFAO !!!
Will Obama end up as the first black president serving time in jail?
Looks like that may where we are heading.
Trump Falsely Claims Largest Audience In History
President Trump claimed that the 45.6 million people who watched his State of the Union address was “the highest number in history.”
With more and more people streaming the speech it could well be true.
What can't be denied is the overwhelming positive response to the speech from the American people.
Evertyhing else is just insignificant noise.
Some people love their families and have a reasonable desire not to have them being hassled by special counsels with multi-million dollar budget
Well those same people should keep their egos out of the limelight and while thinking they can run a country....Amazing the lengths you go to rationalizing the idiots in charge while ignoring the root cause....he is not capable of running anything but a family business like a tyrant....And your comments about running families is too funny, especially with your losing record of running your own....Sad....
.he is not capable of running anything but a family business like a tyrant.
Apparently he ran a better campaign that Clinton, the DNC, and everyone in the media out to destroy him.
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