Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday requesting documents related to former vice president Joe Biden and his communications with Ukrainian officials, a step seen as a GOP effort to counter the House impeachment investigation of President Trump.
The inquiry by Graham (R-S.C.) is focused on any calls Biden may have had with Petro Poroshenko, then the Ukrainian president, regarding the firing of the country’s top prosecutor, as well as any that referenced an investigation of Burisma, the Ukrainian natural-gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter Biden.
This (of course) is being treated as a "witch hunt" by the left, who do not understand their hypocrisy and irony of demanding that investigations should not actually start unless there is already evidence of something diabolical. Trump has been investigated for the past four years, without any evidence to back up these investigations.
More odd is that two Ukrainians have already been convicted in Ukrainian court of interfering with our 2016 election, and we know for a fact that Ukraine was involved with a joint investigation with the Obama administration of Paul Manafort (during the election). We also know that Ukrainian investigators leaked information to the US press that was damaging to the Trump campaign.
While this is not proof that the Bidens did anything wrong, it is certainly enough to dispute the claims from many liberals (including several witnesses in the impeachment hearing) who demand that investigating Ukraine is a dead end, and desperately should be avoided at all cost. One "really" has to wonder what these people are hiding.
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***without any evidence to back up these investigations***
Help me up off the floor where I have fallen laughing.
No one is "desperately avoiding" investigating Ukraine. It is being investigated and held accountable all the time.
Accusations are still not evidence.
Neither are opinions, assumptions, presumptions, or rumor mill talk.
That's why there's no evidence of a concerted attempt on the part of government of Ukrain to"take me down" (Trump).
Why did Adam Schitt halt the inquiry abruptly?
What Should Democrats Do?
November 22, 2019 at 3:31 pm EST
Playbook:
“One theory that’s been bouncing around is that Democrats will get near wrapping up impeachment and someone like John Bolton or Mick Mulvaney will decide — or be forced — to testify. Do Democrats wait for their testimony? A judge is scheduled to hear testimony Dec. 10 on whether people have to give depositions.”
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Oh! Either of them, or both, would be WORTH waiting for!
Yes, indeedy!!!
Help me up off the floor where I have fallen laughing.
At your advanced age i guess life alert is a given
Americans are enjoying an all-too-unusual combination of peace and prosperity. The probability that you will be killed or lose a loved one in a foreign war has dropped to nearly zero, while the chance that you or anyone you know will be involuntarily unemployed is lower than it has been in half a century. Moreover, real wages are increasing and inflation is negligible. Life isn’t problem-free, of course, but times are genuinely good. Much of the credit for this gratifying state of affairs is unquestionably owed to President Trump. Yet the Democrats assure us that he is a clear and present danger to the republic.
He is, they believe, such a menace to our sacred freedoms that the speaker of the House recently issued a press release declaring him too dangerous to leave in office long enough for the voters to decide his political fate. The next presidential election is only a year away, but Speaker Pelosi avers that allowing the democratic process to play out is a “weak response” to Trump’s crimes: “That dangerous position only adds to the urgency of our action, because the President is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections.” She is, however, oddly vague about the details of this alarming threat.
[...]
All of the above, and much more, was accomplished even as President Trump was subjected to the absurd Mueller investigation and the even more asinine “impeachment inquiry.” Imagine what the president might have accomplished if the Democrats had accepted the will of the voters. And, make no mistake, that’s what “the resistance” is about. Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have refused to acquiesce in the peaceful and orderly transfer of power to the president chosen by the electorate. They have nothing to offer but impeachment. That makes them far more dangerous than Donald Trump.
https://spectator.org/trump-results-v-the-mindless-resistance/
Seig Heil Mr. TRUMP
Voters Fear Violence From Trump’s Foes More Than His Supporters
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Voters see a bigger threat from President Trump’s opponents over policy issues than from his supporters if Democrats succeed in removing him from office. One-in-three still see the threat of civil war in the near future.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters are concerned that Trump’s impeachment and removal from office will lead to violence, with 24% who are Very Concerned. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
But 59% are concerned that those opposed to Trump’s policies will resort to violence, including 34% who are Very Concerned. These findings are unchanged from June of last year.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/november_2019/voters_fear_violence_from_trump_s_foes_more_than_his_supporters
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-calls-for-senate-trial-seeks-whistleblower-and-schiff-as-impeachment-witnesses
I just listened to all the above and made a few notes...
LOL Just look at the three Fox "friends" sitting there with looks on their faces that say, "What in the hell will he say next?" and trying to pull him away from diatribe to telling what his sources are OR having something that vaguely resembles a sensible non rant of an interview....
"I can't tell you that... a lot of bad things happened...."
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He is off the rails, OFF OFF OFF the rails.
They played a portion Schiff's strong closing statement.
Trump's response: He's sick, he's a sick puppy.
And Trump is still trying to say Schiff's parody was to be taken seriously.
When they try to ask him a serious question, he goes off on a tangent.
Then he tries to say Holmes didn't hear the phone conversation because such a conversation couldn't be heard even though Sondland himself said Trump's voice was so loud he had to hold the phone away from his ear! From his ear!
LOL Trump's still trying to say the Ukrainian prosecutor whom everyone one wanted removed was a good guy. Or did he say great guy?
Then they played Sondland talking about how he and others worked with Giuliani even though they didn't want to work with him...
Trump's answer ... was he didn't know these people, but Rudi's a great crime fighter...
So they asked him about the two corrupt people who were with Giuliani. Trump tries to change the subject to Yovanovitch. and then he goes off on the Ukraine wanted to "take me down"... and then he talks about the lie that Yevanovitch refused to hang his picture in the embassy... and absolute lie....
boy, is he a nut...
so then they point out that a key witness for Trump was called trash by Kellyanne Conway....
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Boy, any other President, and they'd already be getting out the straight jacket by now, BUT THIS IS JUST NORMAL-CRAZY FOR HIM.
HE JUST SAID HE WANTS A TRIAL! Great! Let him be the chief witness, I say.
Now he's off again on the parody idiocy... Schiff's made up version of his call...
TALK ABOUT A SICK PUPPY? THE SICK PUPPY IN THAT CALL WAS TRUMP HIMSELF!!!
He IS off the rails!!!!
TRUMP WANTS A TRIAL... TRUMP SAID HE WANTS TO PUT SCHIFF ON TRIAL BEFORE HIM... HE WANTS SCHIFF TO TESTIFY ABOUT THE WHISTLEBLOWER....
HE HAS GOT THE WHISTLEBLOWER ON HIS BRAIN...
HE HAS THE NOTION THAT SCHIFF SOMEHOW PULLED THE WOOL OVER EVRYONE'S EYES WITH WHAT SCHIFF HIMSELF SAID WAS JUST PARTLY A PARODY!) That again!
Now he says he has "thousands of people" who are Never Trumpers around him...
Now he says he has respect all over the world...
The three embarrassed friends keep trying to get some sensible talk out of him...
Now he's saying he doesn't think he's going to be impeached...
Now he's off on Comey...
What is amazing is he doesn't even know how he's coming off looking in this rant of an "interview."
OFF THE WALL! OFF THE WALL!
he gets off on Kellyanne's husband
now he's waffling a little on whether Pence or Niki will be his running mate
Asked about seeing the doctor (it should have been a psychologist), he didn't tell what is really the matter with him...(mental)
The biggest problem this MAN HAS IS THIS::::
HE IS AN EGOMANIAC!
They actually laughed when they finally got the "President" to sign off.
Voters Fear Violence From Trump’s Foes More Than His Supporters
Why? We don't have as many weapons of mass destruction as they have?
If any of our Founding Fathers could have seen that interview.....
Independents souring on impeachment as inquiry heats up, polls indicate
Recent polling on impeachment indicates that independent voters are far from sold on ousting President Trump from the White House. In fact, the national surveys suggest support for impeaching and removing the GOP incumbent has deteriorated over the past month, even as the House inquiry has ramped up.
Fifty percent of independents questioned in an NPR/PBS/Marist poll conducted Nov. 11-15 did not support impeaching and removing Trump from office, with just 42 percent backing such a move. That’s a slight dip in support compared with the previous NPR/PBS/Marist poll – conducted the first week in October – when support stood at 45 percent.
So independents don't support impeachment, and Republicans don't support impeachment who are you left with?
Oh yeah , James. Like lemming over a cliff the Democrats go.
Not one of the Three Socialist Stooges of CHT have put thier support behind a Canidate.
The idea of one that can beat Trump is a failed strategy.
did the alky give up on willie brown's side piece?
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA): Trump "trying to use the court system" is "obstruction of justice"
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1197971313987473408?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1197971313987473408&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fdougp-3137%2F2019%2F11%2F22%2Fthis-isnt-real-is-it-you-wont-believe-how-a-dem-rep-claims-trump-is-trying-to-obstruct-justice%2F
Yep, he had her as a frame wrapped hos head on his Facebook Page. But he has removed her.
Intelligence Officials Say GOP Theory Is FALSE
November 22, 2019 at 3:39 pm EST
New York Times:
“Republicans have sought for weeks amid the impeachment inquiry to shift attention to President Trump’s demands that Ukraine investigate any 2016 election meddling, defending it as a legitimate concern while Democrats accuse Mr. Trump of pursuing fringe theories for his benefit.
“The Republican defense of Mr. Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony on Thursday… She said that it likely came from a disinformation campaign by Russian security services, which also propagated it.
“In a BRIEFING THAT CLOSELY ALIGNED with Dr. Hill’s testimony, American intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a years long campaign to essentially FRAME UKRAINE as responsible for MOSCOW’S OWN HACKING of the 2016 election.”
AND WHO FELL FOR IT THE MOST? WE KNOW.
So they knew she was right even as she was saying it.
Blogger James said...
Intelligence Officials Say GOP Theory Is FALSE
this is the fucking point, pederast.
intel "officials" are how we got into this mess to begin with. all those "officials" with their fake FISA's, fake dossiers, circular reporting, lame coup attempts and every other dumb fucking stunt they pulled never expecting to be found out because hillary was supposed to win.
intel "officials", career "diplomats" and every other deep state fuckstick in DC are the fucking PROBLEM.
and you can tell trump is squarely over the target by all the flak he's taking.
you had better make piece with the fact that you are not going to beat this man no matter what you pull or how hard you try.
my fear is that one of you fucking idiots will pull a james hodgkinson and try to take him out.
it's the only thing you haven't tried.
yet.
if the alky was ambulatory and not in lockdown i'm sure he'd try seeing as he has absolutely nothing left to lose.
Maybe rrb has a reading problem. The attempt to frame Ukraine by the GOP & Trump has proved wrong, as Yovanovitch said.
Russia was the culprit, not our intelligence officials or Ukraine.
WAIT FOR THE REPORT then the results of the CRIMINAL REFERALS from that report, then Barr's actions.
Dec 11th, and hearing 13th.
Relying on people who may be indicted is probably not a good source.
And after 3 years of FAKE NEWS REPORTING on alleged Trump/Russia collusion and having that spammed over here by the lying "pastor" maybe the NYT should sit this one out.
Of course they have lost all credibility they may ever have had over this and at this point, what do they have to lose. They've jumped off a cliff without a parachute, followed by a bunch of idiots
Ukraine officials were actively interfering on behalf of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. That is a fact.
@ProtectBorders1
Escalation of lies
Trump won't run
Trump can't win
Trump won't last 90 days
Russia!
FBI didn't spy on Trump
Russia!
It was necessary to spy on Trump
Collusion!
Nobody was inserted in his campaign
A mole was protecting Trump
Obstruction!
Bribery!
A rogue lawyer made a mistake?
he missed a bunch of steps (like Trump didn't want to win etc.) but you get the gist. The left has used a mountain of LIES and continues. And at each step they projected their lies on Trump. Still are.
Charges of Ukrainian Meddling? A Russian Operation, U.S. Intelligence Says
Moscow has run a yearslong operation to blame Ukraine for its own 2016 election interference.
Republicans have used similar talking points to defend President Trump in impeachment proceedings.
Following orders from Moscow is Treason!
U.S. Intelligence said that the Russians did attack our election in November of the last national election.
Beheadings of Trump and his supporters should take place in the Rose Garden.
Oops, release on Monday Dec 9th, hearing 11th
and Roger you are now venturing into criminal behavior yourself if anyone took you seriously.
An insane plea would definitely be on the table for you otherwise.
I was being sarcastic because I was just trying shout out loud about the feckless cunt who rrb wants to be lynched by the President. Jimmy Hitler would drop the hammer!
Scott A**hole you actually agree with rrb
intel "officials", career "diplomats" and every other deep state fuckstick in DC are the fucking PROBLEM.
Lifetime patriots are not attempting to overturn the last election asshole
Bullshit again menstra
@bennyjohnson
MUST WATCH
An important and essential rundown of the most critical points Democrats made in the impeachment hearings.
So many 'bombshells' and 'explosive' moments.
Stunning to watch.
Sound ON.
Please RT: https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1197964223126614016
@Lrihendry
Fascinating paradox: the more President Trump gets investigated, the more crimes are exposed involving prominent Democrats.
The Republican defense of Mr. Trump became central to the impeachment proceedings when Fiona Hill, a respected Russia scholar and former senior White House official, added a harsh critique during testimony under oath on Thursday. She told some of Mr. Trump’s fiercest defenders in Congress that they were repeating “a fictional narrative.” She said that it likely came from a disinformation campaign by Russian security services, which also propagated it.
In a briefing that closely aligned with Dr. Hill’s testimony, American intelligence officials informed senators and their aides in recent weeks that Russia had engaged in a yearslong campaign to essentially frame Ukraine as responsible for Moscow’s own hacking of the 2016 election, according to three American officials. The briefing came as Republicans stepped up their defenses of Mr. Trump in the Ukraine affair.
The revelations demonstrate Russia’s persistence in trying to sow discord among its adversaries — and show that the Kremlin apparently succeeded, as unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference seeped into Republican talking points.
American intelligence agencies believe Moscow is likely to redouble its efforts as the 2020 presidential campaign intensifies. The classified briefing for senators also focused on Russia’s evolving influence tactics, including its growing ability to better disguise operations.
In effect the President is colluding with the Russians.
Moscow has long used its intelligence agencies and propaganda machine to muddy the waters of public debate, casting doubts over established facts. In her testimony, Dr. Hill noted Russia’s pattern of trying to blame other countries for its own actions, like the attempted poisoning last year of a former Russian intelligence officer or the downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine in 2014. Moscow’s goal is to cast doubt on established facts, said current and former officials.
You have been tricked by the Russians to believe everything you just said.
the more President Trump gets investigated, the more crimes are exposed involving prominent Democrats.
American intelligence agencies believe Moscow is likely to redouble its efforts as the 2020 presidential campaign intensifies. The classified briefing for senators also focused on Russia’s evolving influence tactics, including its growing ability to better disguise operations.
Roger Amick said...
You have been tricked by the Russians to believe everything you just said.
Or perhaps you have been tricked by the dems that Russia/Trump collusion really occurred and the Mueller "investigation" was all above board, and despite their ultra-partisan makeup finding there was no collusion. And they sure tried to flip people into saying there was. And funny Mueller was unaware of who Steele was, as his document started this whole thing and was funded by Hillary and sourced through the Ukraine. What a team he put together.
Don't worry roger, Horowitz is releasing a massive report looking into FISA warrant abuse by the FBI and has referred criminal behavior to Durham and Barr. While the press is scrambling, if nothing wrong was done then it should all be cleared up in a few weeks. And I'm sure the FISA warrants into spying on the Trump campaign and the FBI operatives are all A-OK too. And Durham's 3 trips to Italy must have cleared that all up. Funny it took more than one though. A lot of money sure was paid out though. And at least one person has apparently disappeared.
Else a lot of prominent Obama officials should be really worried. And they sure look to be
Russia has been mounting a disinformation campaign for years to frame Ukraine for its 2016 election meddling, American intelligence officials told senators. Those unfounded claims about Ukrainian interference have seeped into Republican impeachment talking points.
Oh my God Yes TIME
he CEO of Ukraine’s state gas company, Naftogaz, is ready to give evidence in a U.S. federal investigation that is reportedly probing the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani, the CEO said in an exclusive interview on Friday.
“I will with a high likelihood be invited to testify in this case,” Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev told TIME, citing his lawyers and contacts in the U.S. “If I am called, I would be willing to come and testify,” Kobolyev added.
Federal prosecutors are investigating Giuliani for possible campaign finance violations and illegal lobbying, according to reports published in the past week by Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, both of which cited unnamed U.S. officials and sources familiar with the matter.
These reports claimed that the investigation stems from a federal case against two of Giuliani’s associates, Igor Fruman and Lev Parnas, who were indicted last month for allegedly violating campaign finance laws. Giuliani has not been charged with any wrongdoing.
The planned closed-door testimony from Kobolyev, which has not previously been reported, could shed light on recent allegations from U.S. and Ukrainian energy executives that Parnas and Fruman tried to use their connections to Giuliani and the Trump Administration to replace the leadership of Naftogaz, which had resisted their efforts to land a lucrative gas deal in Ukraine.
Asked whether he is preparing to give prosecutors information about Giuliani or about Parnas and Fruman, the executive said, “Both. Everything is connected.”
Giuliani has simultaneously been acting as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and diplomatic envoy while pursuing his own lucrative business interests. In one or several of those roles, Giuliani has been working with Fruman and Parnas.
While seeking gas deals in Ukraine this spring, Fruman and Parnas also helped Giuliani to pressure the Ukrainian government to open investigations against President Trump’s political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden. That campaign was later exposed by an intelligence-community whistleblower, whose complaint sparked the ongoing impeachment inquiry against President Trump.
Giuliani, who did not respond to TIME’s request for comment on Friday, has denied allegations of wrongdoing and insisted that he is not involved with a gas company owned by Fruman and Parnas, Global Energy Producers. “I have no personal interest in any business in Ukraine, including that business,” Giuliani told the Journal last week.
https://time.com/5737518/ukraine-naftogaz-ceo-preparing-giuliani-probe-testimony/
Giuliani Associate Sent Evidence to Investigators
November 22, 2019 at 9:36 pm EST
“One of the Florida businessmen who worked with Rudy Giuliani on his hunt for Ukrainian dirt on Democrats has turned over a trove of ‘hard evidence’ to impeachment investigators — including photos and videos,” the New York Daily News reports.
“Lev Parnas, who was criminally charged last month in a sweeping campaign finance scheme that overlaps with the House impeachment inquiry, had SO MUCH evidence it had to be sent to House probers in SEVERAL BATCHES.”
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OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR
I SURE DO HOPE HE HASN'T TURNED OVER ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE RUDI LOOK BAD.
OR TRUMP EITHER.
The very effeminate faints.
"The majority of independent voters in New York oppose the Democrats’ ongoing impeachment effort against President Trump, a Siena College Research Institute poll releasedthis week revealed.
More independents in New York state, which was up until recently President Trump’s home state until he switched his residency to Florida, oppose impeachment than support it, the survey showed."
Keep going Socialist Democrats .
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/intense-week-of-impeachment-hearings-ends-where-does-it-go-from-here-73878085786
"John Bolton needs to testify. Not simply for the Congress. Not for Adam Schiff. But for the American people. He was at the center of the President's National Security power. It has been clearly corroborated from the witnesses of the past two weeks that John Bolton himself had concerns about the President's behavior... John Bolton could put it all in context, and frankly could say to his fellow Republicans,'Yes, the President has done wrong.'
--------"Wise political words were said about ten years ago:
'It is not one's patriotic duty to advance the political interests of a politician whose principles are adverse to yours. That is not the calling of patriotism.'
-------"Those words were uttered by John Bolton."
The Three Socialist Stooges of CHT have been cheering, begging and parying for a Reccession/Depression.
Wrong again sickos.
"Consumer sentiment unexpectedly surged higher in November, according to data released Friday by the University of Michigan.
The University of Michigan’s survey of consumers produced a final November read of 96.8, the highest reading since July. Economists had expected a dip to 94.9 from the prior reading of 95.7."
No Ny Times, the fisa docs weren't sloppy. They were criminally altered.
Hegde Fund Bets Big on Huge Market Drop
November 22
Bridgewater, the world’s biggest hedge fund, has bet more than $1 BILLION that stock markets around the world will fall by March, the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The wager, assembled over a span of months and executed by a handful of Wall Street firms, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, would pay off… if either the S&P 500 or the Euro Stoxx 50 declines.”
John Bolton says "MORE TO COME."
“Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned… We have now liberated the Twitter account, previously suppressed unfairly in the aftermath of my resignation as National Security Advisor. More to come…”
Bring it on, John.
I am so glad I now have access to Twitter. Without it I have been unable to speak for the last 2 months. There was so much I wanted to say but I couldn't.
I forgot I even had a phone, email or the ability to even speak. Even lost snail mail. I even forgot I could post here.
My bad.
The State Department has released a group of documents that show how Rudy Giuliani's smear campaign against U.S. Amb. Marie Yovanovitch reached Secretary of State Pompeo, via the Oval Office. The documents were sought as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by ethics watchdog American Oversight. The Last Word talks with the group's executive director about what they've learned so far.
The deep state conspiracy theory bullshit is being destroyed by the Trump administration investigation into.
CNN
(CNN)The Department of Justice Inspector General's report on the start of FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election will say the probe was properly launched but lower-level employees made a series of mistakes, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
The investigation on the effort to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, is expected to conclude that the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation was properly predicated, and that there were a series of mistakes and improper handling of the Page FISA application by lower-level employees.
The New York Times was first to report on the expected conclusion of the report.
The report is also expected to conclude that Page was appropriately targeted for surveillance and that the FBI appropriately disassociated itself from Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the infamous "Steele Dossier" about President Donald Trump, after leaks and contacts with the media were uncovered.
CNN first reported that a former FBI lawyer is under criminal investigation after allegedly altering a document related to the 2016 surveillance of Page.
People familiar with the report told the Times that while it characterizes the pursuit of the FISA request as careless and slapdash, the report discredits major conspiracy theories that Trump has advanced about the investigation -- finding, for example, that the FBI met the legal evidence threshold to open the probe.
Notably, the people said that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz did not find evidence of politically motivated actions by former FBI Director Jim Comey, subsequent acting Director Andrew McCabe -- now a CNN analyst -- or former senior official Peter Strzok, who was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller's team after an internal investigation revealed text exchanges that could be read as exhibiting political bias.
The paper reported that Horowitz identified the lawyer under criminal investigation as one of a small group of FBI officials who sent texts disparaging Trump, prompting him to depart the investigation in February 2018. After being interviewed by the inspector general's office, the lawyer resigned from the FBI in September, according to the Times.
The people told the paper that the lawyer made additions to an email from an official at a different federal agency containing multiple factual assertions -- such that the lawyer's own assessment looked like an additional assertion.
That modified email was included in the lawyer's briefing for another FBI official to read before signing a court affidavit asserting the evidence supplied for the FISA application, and contains details that will remain classified upon the report's release, the Times reported.
The forthcoming report also determines that Joseph Mifsud, a Malta-born professor referenced in Mueller's report, was not an FBI informant, the people told the Times.
Mifsud allegedly told Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had damaging emails on 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton -- an event that factored in to opening the investigation.
Papadopoulos, right-wing pundit ., Thecoldheartedtruth have suggested that Mifsud was working for the FBI when he discussed Clinton's emails with Papadopoulos, and that the conversation was a setup by the FBI to entrap the Trump campaign. There is no evidence supporting those discredited theories, which is also undermined by the new watchdog report.
The report is also expected to conclude that Page was appropriately targeted for surveillance and that the FBI appropriately disassociated itself from Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the infamous "Steele Dossier" about President Donald Trump, after leaks and contacts with the media were uncovered.
Scott Applewhite has been diagnosed with Trumpism stage four brain cancer.
The investigation on the effort to obtain warrants under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, is expected to conclude that the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation was properly predicated, and that there were a series of mistakes and improper handling of the Page FISA application by lower-level employees.
The New York Times was first to report on the expected conclusion of the report.
The report is also expected to conclude that Page was appropriately targeted for surveillance and that the FBI appropriately disassociated itself from Christopher Steele, the former British spy and author of the infamous "Steele Dossier" about President Donald Trump, after leaks and contacts with the media were uncovered.
The IG report according to James Comey.
only an imbecile alcoholic locked down in a nursing home would believe the ny times' or cnn's reporting on the IG report a full two weeks before it's released.
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog is expected to find in a forthcoming report that political bias did not taint top officials running the FBI investigation into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign in 2016, while at the same time criticizing the bureau for systemic failures in its handling of surveillance applications, according to two U.S. officials.
The much-anticipated report due out Dec. 9 from Inspector General Michael Horowitz will allege that a low-level FBI lawyer inappropriately altered a document that was used during the process to renew a controversial warrant for electronic surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, the officials said. The inspector general referred that finding to U.S. Attorney John Durham, and the lawyer involved is being investigated criminally for possibly making a false statement, they said.
But Horowitz will conclude that the application still had a proper legal and factual basis, and, more broadly, that FBI officials did not act improperly in opening the Russia investigation, according to the officials, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive report.
His own Department of Justice is saying that the investigation into the Russian intervention into the election was completely legitimate.
How much longer before the President says that Horowitz is a never Trumper?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/justice-dept-watchdog-finds-political-bias-did-not-taint-top-officials-running-the-fbis-russia-probe-but-documents-other-errors/2019/11/22/4b2f51de-0d48-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html
It's also being reported is the President is very upset about Matt Drudge, because he links negative comments about the President and his pathological lying supporters, as exhibited here on a daily basis!🧨🧨🧨🧨
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