[Breitbart] The Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed lawmakers Thursday that he has found the missing five months of text messages between senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that the DOJ said were lost due to a technical glitch.
In a letter to Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Horowitz wrote:
The OIG has been investigating this matter and, this week, succeeded in using forensic tools to recover text messages from FBI devices, including text messages between Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page that were sent or received between December 14, 2016, and May 17, 2017.
That time period covered a number of significant developments in the FBI’s investigation of the Trump Russia allegations and the lead-up to the special counsel, which was convened on May 17, 2017.
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From what I have read elsewhere, they found the messages archived on the cell phones in question. The messages were found on FOUR cell phones used by Strzok and Page.
Seems the IG took possession of the phones smelling a rat.
Horowitz appears to be a straight shooter but I could be wrong.
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Wonder if there were burners for the more criminal connectivity? They can't have been so stupid to put directly criminal text on a government cellphone, unless the level of FBI arrogance is so ingrained that they never imagined they would be examined?
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#3Wonder if there were burners for the more criminal connectivity? They can't have been so stupid to put directly criminal text on a government cellphone, unless the level of FBI arrogance is so ingrained that they never imagined they would be examined?
Posted by: NoMoreBS 2018-01-25 18:37
"...Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."
Mike
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[Rasmussen Report] Voters think a special prosecutor is needed to see if the nation’s top cops have been playing politics.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters believe a special prosecutor should be named to investigate whether senior FBI officials handled the investigation of Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump in a legal and unbiased fashion. Thirty-one percent (31%) disagree, but a sizable 19% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Sixty-two percent (62%) of Republicans are calling for an outside prosecutor to investigate the FBI, as is a plurality (49%) of voters not affiliated with either major political party. Among Democrats, 38% favor a special prosecutor; 40% are opposed, but 22% are undecided.
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Voters by a narrow 48% to 41% margin said in December that senior federal law enforcement officials broke the law in an effort to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election.
Seventy percent (70%) of voters who Strongly Approve of the job President Trump is doing think a special prosecutor is needed to investigate the FBI. Among those who Strongly Disapprove of the president’s job performance, only 36% agree.
Sixty-four percent (64%) of all voters think Clinton is likely to have broken the law by sending and receiving e-mails containing classified information through a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of State.
[PoliZette] A friend of mine, Peter Wing, once actually hid an elephant in plain sight at the castle he built with his bare hands from reclaimed materials near Millbrook, New York.
The evolution of the Clinton Foundation since Oct. 23, 1997, proves that gigantic frauds, spread across the globe under the harsh glare of public attention and in the media, are tough to grasp ‐ and tougher still to police.
Who would imagine, for example, that a former president, an aspiring president and a highly educated only child would work together, purposefully gaming controls at supposed "charities," produce false and misleading public filings, and do so for more than two decades using a bevy of outside professional advisers and world-renowned directors?
Yet close examination of available facts demonstrates the Clinton Foundation and its network of false-front charity "initiatives" and affiliates remains the largest set of unprosecuted charitable frauds in American history.
In a sad sense, international charities are perfect vehicles for such questionable activities. After all, who can check effectively how much money is in truth raised and where discrete portions of these revenues are disbursed in far-flung corners of the world?
And, as you will see, unregulated and unaudited "charities" allow donors to send much more money towards politicians clandestinely than is allowed under national laws concerning political campaigns.
Meanwhile, international charity also provides cover to disguise payoffs that might unlock mining and energy concessions, telecommunications and other licenses, and largesse (grants and subsidized loans, for example) from multilateral organizations, including the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation, among others.
Though such frauds began escalating in 2002, it is helpful to begin examining the thread illustrating the internationalization of the Clinton Foundation in 2009. Note that was during the first year of the Obama presidency.
What really was happening with the Russia "reset" starting in 2009? Large contributions to political campaigns come with strings attached.
Evidence already in the public domain shows that certain Russians found common cause with green investors, as Peter Schweizer’s work for the Government Accountability Institute explained in "From Russia with Money: Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset, and Cronyism."
Under Obama’s leadership, Hillary Clinton’s role in improving America’s relations with Russia started on the wrong foot in March 2009 in Geneva.
Despite this inauspicious beginning, tensions with Russia started to ease. To the consternation of many, the U.S. announced in September 2009 that it would abandon plans to provide a missile defense shield to Poland and other Eastern Europe nations.
By May 2010, Russia surprisingly joined with the U.S. and China to impose fresh sanctions on Iran over that rogue nation’s nuclear programs.
So, after a rocky start, Obama’s rapprochement with Russia seemed to bear tangible fruit. However, the real "gains" likely were occurring for political contributors who also were active investors and financiers for capital projects inside Russia, especially those involving transfers of technology.
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How else were the bunch from Arkansas supposed to make money without land swindling deals?
"However, the real "gains" likely were occurring for political contributors who also were active investors and financiers for capital projects inside Russia, especially those involving transfers of technology."
Russia Russia Russia, unless it is true and cackles has a lot to hide. And her whole entourage.
They are all a disgrace and I told them to shut up but this will be better.
I have bank statements :) I have Speaking engagements and even personal dippong from nonprofit funds.
I have stolen money from Haiti, Whitewater, and Uranium deals with the Russians.
I have too many corpses to count and a corrupt Judiciary.
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Although the FBI has been reported to be investigating the CF down in Little Rock (and I think in NY), I'd like to see an honest man like Ortel turned loose on this. He is a charity fraud expert.
[American Thinker] Let me get this straight. Sen. Diane Feinstein gets to release the testimony of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson due to a head cold but it takes a vote of the House Intelligence Committee and presidential approval to release the memo detailing the FBI and DOJ collusion to overthrow the President of the United States. I have a suggestion -- vote to release the memo, send a copy to President Trump and have him read it during the State of the Union.
Isn’t this supposed to be the government of the people, by the people, and for the people? So why are the people kept in the dark about the attempted overthrow of their government? Our representatives can see the memo but the people they represent can’t? Will someone please catch a cold and release the memo?
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, who has a mind so closed it would take the jaws of life to open, is a typical patronizing progressive who thinks the peasants are too stupid to read and understand the memo. He’s afraid the bitter clingers and deplorable would grab their pitchforks and torches and storm the castle if they knew how their democracy was being subverted:
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) joined CNN Saturday to discuss the explosive FISA memo. Asked why he is fighting to keep the report under wraps, the California Democrat said he doubts the American people will understand its contents....
Partial transcript provided by Grabien:
CABRERA: "Let me ask you about the Russia investigation. I can’t have you here and not. Especially given how much we talked about it in the first year of the presidency. And now if you turn on any conservative media, they keep talking about this Nunez memo, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, that he’s put out there and many Republicans have taken a look at it and they want it made public. Can you tell us what exactly is it?"
SCHIFF: "It is essentially a set of talking points that the Republican Intel staff drafted. Based on the highly classified materials which most of the Republican members were forced to acknowledge. They’ve not even read. So they don’t know how distorted these talking points are. But as part of the narrative they want to push out. Interestingly enough, they’ve made common cause once again with Russian bots because Russian bots are pushing their narrative out there. It’s in a redux of the campaign. We have Assange and Wikileaks and Russian trolls and bots saying, you know, hash tag whatever the GOP narrative is. That ought to tell you a lot about what’s driving this. And that is‐"
CABRERA: "Why not allow people to look at it and let Americans make the decision for themselves about whether it’s useful information or not?"
SCHIFF: "Well, because the American people unfortunately don’t have the underlying materials and therefore they can’t see how distorted and misleading this document is. The Republicans are not saying make the underlying materials available to the public. They just want to make this spin available to the public. I think that spin, which is a attack on the FBI, is just designed to attack the FBI and Bob Mueller to circle the wagons for the White House. And that’s a terrible disservice to the people, hard working people at the Bureau, but more than that, it’s a disservice to the country."
In other words, Schiff believes Americans are too stupid to understand the memo.
Sorry, Rep. Schiff, but according to an internal Twitter analysis, it is an outraged electorate, not Russian bots, that are protesting under the hash tag "#releasethememo":
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It really is an intriguing paradox. Trump attempts to see that we receive something every chance he gets. The democrats attempt to keep something from us every chance they get.
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Obviously, the Democrats are scrambling to hide their stupidity in allowing Zero to run for POTUS. The media now understands that he was unqualified but fully capable of immense damage to the Republic. The memo provides the bare outline of what he was turning the Executive branch into.
The contents of the memo question why he was allowed to run for POTUS, why wasn't he vetted better, why did the media run cover for him, and why did the hierarchy of the democratic party tolerate and enable his activities.
Seems that anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see what Zero was up to and taken into combination with UraniumOne, the Bundy standoff, and the non-investigation of the murder of Seth Rich.
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#releasethememo. Assistant AG Stephen Boyd (a Session's appointee and Pub) claims the release of the memo without review by the FBI & other 3-letter agencies would be "extremely reckless" (The Hill). Personally, I think we are far beyond such niceties and considerations since we are talking about treasonous behavior. The extremely reckless behavior has already been done within the FBI.
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How many days until Rep. Schiff gets voted back in or out? This tally should be the 2nd line on every headline featuring a D-Incumbent, from now on until the election.
[LouderWithCrowder] Today just keeps getting worse for Chuck Schumer (see Ben Shapiro on Government Shutdown: Schumer is a Loser). That tends to happen when one is outrageously stupid and wrong. But now Chuck’s own are turning against him. Uh oh!
Late this evening, a herd of enraged Dreamers showed up outside the Schumester’s house. They’re stomping their hooves in anger. Witness them: Gotta' Click.
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was on the receiving end of a pro-amnesty protest Tuesday night.
A Facebook page advertising an "Our Lives Are On The Line, Chuck" demonstration invited protesters to congregate at Schumer’s apartment building along New York City’s Prospect Park.
"If Chuck won’t let us dream, we won’t let him sleep," they chanted, according to video captured by a man at the scene.
Schumer is taking heat from the left after joining a vote to reopen the federal government after a weekend shutdown.
Of course, the irony here is that Chuckie really went to bat for these folks and, more importantly, their votes. Oh, to be hated by those one fought so hard for (see WATCH: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Spanks Wailing Democrats for Delaying DACA). This is the entitled monster the left has created. Never satisfied.
Looks like Chuck won’t be getting sleepies anytime soon. Thanks to his precious Dreamers, the space outside his home has turned into a living nightmare. He wanted to keep them planted in America, now they’re planted outside his front porch. With megaphones.
Karma. This is the most fun President I can remember (Lincoln had his wit, but it lost something in the translation from Morse code.). May the ride last through 2024!
[Politico] But House Democrats may not support a spending deal that lacks relief for young undocumented immigrants. Yeah, there's always a "but."
Senate Democrats are willing to drop their demand that relief for Dreamers be tied to any long-term budget agreement ‐ a potential boost for spending talks, but which could face opposition from their House counterparts.
The shift comes in response to the deal struck between Senate leaders Monday to reopen the government and begin debate on an immigration bill next month. Meanwhile, budget negotiators are expressing optimism that a two-year agreement to lift stiff caps on defense and domestic spending is increasingly within reach.
"We’re viewing [immigration and spending] on separate terms because they are on separate paths," Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s "procedural concession means we’ve got a deadline and a process," Durbin added. "That to me is a significant step forward. It’s not everything I wanted, that’s for sure, but it’s a step forward."
But House Democrats have signaled they are not ready to go along with a long-term budget deal without a fix to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that President Donald Trump is ending. Continues.
[DailyCaller] President Trump said Wednesday that he’s "looking forward" to meeting with Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump also told reporters at the White House that he is willing to speak to Mueller under oath during an interview that he expects to take place within two or three weeks.
"I’m looking forward to it, actually," Trump told reporters when asked whether he will meet with Mueller, a former FBI director tapped in May to investigate possible collusion involving the Trump campaign as well as obstruction of justice.
"There’s been no collusion whatsoever. There’s been no obstruction whatsoever, and I’m looking forward to it," Trump said during the impromptu press gaggle.
"I would love to do it," he continued moments later, adding: "I should say, subject to my lawyers."
Earlier this month, Trump expressed skepticism that he would even need to meet with Mueller.
"When they have no collusion ‐ and nobody’s found any collusion at any level ‐ it seems unlikely that you’d even have an interview," Trump said earlier this month.
Trump also said that he would speak under oath to Mueller, though he did so while taking a jab at Hillary Clinton.
"Did Hillary do it under oath?" he asked one reporter before asserting that Clinton did not testify under oath as part of the FBI’s email investigation.
"I would do it," he said of testifying under oath. Might I hazard that Mr. Trump, owing to his own intelligence-gathering capabilities, will be giving Mr. Mueller an offer he, Mueller, can't refuse?
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Trump also told reporters at the White House that he is willing to speak to Mueller under oath during an interview that he expects to take place within two or three weeks.
It depends upon who's being 'interviewed'. I believe as the Chief Executive, Trump can call Mueller before him, put him under oath, and question him about what he knows about the people and activities within the FBI and DoJ starting in the fall of 2016 and any 'secret societies'.
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Tape Everything - audio and video - from several angles. have a family member tape it and control the tapes afterwards.
Otherwise 'someone' will leak highly edited portions to the media.
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Trump usually doesn't do much talking in situations like this. The people around him will be doing a lot of talking to Mueller. And the discourse will be interesting. "We have a few questions for YOU!"
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If you've ever watched Better Off Ted, when the lawyers interview Veronica should give you an idea of what Trump should do.
"Were you involved in the development of this product?"
"Yes."
"And how would you summarize the companies reaction when they found out that women who used this product were savagely attacked by insects?"
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IMHO, I think it would be a big mistake on the part of Trump and his attorney's to give Mueller a free shot at Trump unless they are certain of the outcome a prioi.
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All questions must be submitted in advance to the President's legal advisers. No exceptions and no, repeat NO additional questions will be answered. And Have A Nice Day, Mr. Mueller Torquemada.
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Mueller would be foolish or ill-advised to go to the White House and interview Trump.
Trump is very smart and knows all the rules in "Art of War" and even "The Book of Five Rings"
The liberals believe all of their own propaganda that any Republican POTUS is a simple minded dolt. AND that is going to be their downfall in this.
I don't understand why DoJ didn't drop the whole thing when it came out that Shillary had paid for the danged thing. Oh Wait, DoJ is full of burrowed down true believers.
[DAILYCALLER] John Conyers III, an alleged domestic abuser and the son of disgraced former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr., has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to officially launch his campaign to fill his father’s seat.
Conyers Jr. resigned in disgrace last month following several sexual harassment accusations against him. The outgoing congressman endorsed his son as his appointed successor.
Conyers III’s campaign comes despite his own history of allegedly mistreating women. Conyers III was incarcerated Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! in February 2017 after he allegedly body-slammed his girlfriend, spat on her and sliced her arm with a knife.
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In other words, a typical black Detroit Democrat!
[New York Post] Ex-Secretary of State John Kerry has confided that he may make a second bid for the White House
...what an amusing thought, and such a delightful way to waste as much Democratic donor money as they are willing to part with. After all, this is the man who could not beat George W. Bush...
‐ as he urged Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to resist President Trump, according to a report.
"[Abbas] should stay strong in his spirit and play for time ‐ that he should not break down and not capitulate to Trump’s demands," Kerry told an Abbas confidant, according to the Hebrew daily Ma’ariv.
The Jerusalem Post picked up the Ma’ariv story in English.
Kerry also suggested during his London confab with Hussein Agha, the Palestinian Authority president’s close associate, that the PA formulate its own peace proposal.
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Go ahead and run JFK. And the voters might just choose to punish you (and vicariosly, the Kenyan Flash) for the treacherous Iran nuclear deal--if you all aren't in jail before then.
[WSJ] World Bank Chief Economist Paul Romer resigned Wednesday, two weeks after apologizing to the nation of Chile for the way it was treated in one of the institution’s flagship reports on business competitiveness.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced the departure in a memo posted on the international development organization’s intranet and viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The abrupt departure follows a Journal article two weeks ago in which Mr. Romer raised concerns about the extent to which repeated changes to the methodology of the World Bank’s “Doing Business” report had hurt Chile’s rankings over several years.
Mr. Romer had expressed concern about the potential for political motivations in the shifting rankings, and numbers subsequently published on his blog showed that Chile’s ranking had slid sharply due to methodology changes for the first three years of Michelle Bachelet’s presidency.
Chile’s ranking changed almost entirely because of the way the World Bank had altered its methodology, and not because of changes in Chile’s business environment relative to that of other nations. Without the Bank’s methodology changes, Chile would have dropped two places in the rankings, Mr. Romer’s numbers showed. With the changes, Chile’s ranking declined by 23 places.
Not all World Bank officials shared Mr. Romer’s concerns. Chief Executive Officer Kristalina Georgieva said in a letter to Chile’s finance minister last week that Mr. Romer’s comments were “unfortunate,” and she wrote, “we do not have any evidence to support the notion that the methodology is skewed to disfavor Chile or that any of the changes in the methodology were conducted for any other than technical reasons.”
In a follow-up blog post, Mr. Romer said that he hadn’t “seen any sign of manipulation” and “I’m sorry that in my attempt at promoting clarity, I myself was not clear.”
The World Bank has announced that there will be an independent external audit of the competitiveness report, a move welcomed by skeptics of the report.
“Aside from obvious questions raised by Paul Romer’s resignation, serious concerns remain around the ‘Doing Business’ report,” said Nadia Daar, head of Oxfam International’s Washington, D.C., office. “Hopefully the next chief economist will be given the mandate to bring coherence and fairness to this ranking.”
Mr. Kim’s memo didn’t cite a specific reason for Mr. Romer’s departure, saying only that Mr. Romer “is an accomplished economist and insightful individual, and we have had many good discussions on geopolitical issues, urbanization, and the future of work. I appreciated Paul’s frankness and honesty, and I know he regrets the circumstances of his departure.”
Alejandro Guillier, the Chilean left-leaning senator who lost in the nation’s recent December election, said the changes were a “betrayal of public faith.”
The World Bank’s board of executive directors issued a statement expressing confidence in the Bank’s research but also expressing “regret and concern about the impact on Chile.”
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What do you mean? the issue is leftists(including Paul Romer) getting a bad rap and protesting it.
As you can see even the WSJ suck to leftist tit promotting Oxfam, an organisation that wants to spread famine in the world.
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slid sharply due to methodology changes for the first three years of Michelle Bachelet’s presidency.
This is so typical. Anyone care to rely on the methodology behind the governments economic numbers? I believe cooking the books is a time honored tradition, it all depends on what the recipe calls for.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] The Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz informed lawmakers Thursday that he has found the missing five months of text messages between senior FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that the DOJ said were lost due to a technical glitch.
[PoliZette] A friend of mine, Peter Wing, once actually hid an elephant in plain sight at the castle he built with his bare hands from reclaimed materials near Millbrook, New York.
[American Thinker] Let me get this straight. Sen. Diane Feinstein gets to release the testimony of Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson due to a head cold but it takes a vote of the House Intelligence Committee and presidential approval to release the memo detailing the FBI and DOJ collusion to overthrow the President of the United States. I have a suggestion -- vote to release the memo, send a copy to President Trump and have him read it during the State of the Union.
[LouderWithCrowder] Today just keeps getting worse for Chuck Schumer (see Ben Shapiro on Government Shutdown: Schumer is a Loser). That tends to happen when one is outrageously stupid and wrong. But now Chuck’s own are turning against him. Uh oh!
[DAILYCALLER] John Conyers III, an alleged domestic abuser and the son of disgraced former Democratic Michigan Rep. John Conyers Jr., has filed paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission to officially launch his campaign to fill his father’s seat.
