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[Daily Caller] Adding further mystery to the "who knew what and when" question was the revelation on Thursday that Podesta testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month that he was not aware of who paid for the dossier.
But Podesta happened to be sitting next to Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer who orchestrated the deal to pay opposition research firm Fusion GPS to conduct the investigation that led to the dossier. Elias was general counsel for the Clinton campaign and DNC. He is also Podesta’s attorney.
In his interview with Panetta, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer wondered why Elias did not inform Podesta during the Senate interview that he was involved in the dossier.
"It certainly makes the situation very awkward," Panetta responded.
"If you’re testifying and saying you have no knowledge and the attorney sitting next to you is one of those that knew what, what was involved here, I think it does raise an issue that the committee is going to have to look at and determine just exactly what knew what," he added. Emphasis added.
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"It certainly makes the situation very awkward," Panetta responded.
Former US Army Intelligence officer, Secretary of Defense, Director of the CIA, White House Chief of Staff, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and as a U.S. Representative from California. Unable to connect the dots? Poor bastid must feel miserable.
Yes, let's keep it in the intelligence community for additional examination, testimony, and exploration. Everyone in Washington knows the 'memory hole' is your friend. Besides, we need as much additional time as possible to destroy evidence and lawyer up.
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Hillary's campaign dossier payments need to be looked at. A few RINOs are involved in this and they need to be included in this investigation. The DNC records need to be examined as well. The DNC email servers that the FBI never examined need to be obtained, if still available, and examined. Real investigations need to be initiated that can be trusted instead of the sham investigations used for cover-up under Comey.
Wonder if ValJar, Axelrod, and Mootch (plus maybe some old DNC Bernie supporters, except Seth Rich) aren't involved in the takedown somehow. They absolutely hated Hillary.
Obean himself doesn't have the bullocks to do this.
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Collapsing Like a punctured balloon! Those who blamed Trump are being revealed for who they are. If nothing comes of this, it will show the justice system for what it has become in recent years--a corrupted system made up of two different systems of justice; one for elites and another for the rest of us.
... we get more Trump. In the meantime, President Trump has significantly reduced regulations and executive branch staffing and spending, hamstrung Obamacare, tee'd up literal Constitution judges to fill empty seats at all levels of the federal judiciary, put Republican politicians on notice that they will have to choose between working with him and retiring, and forced Democratic politicians to choose between working with him -- to Democratic voter disapproval -- or moving far to the left to placate their remaining core constituencies -- a position that will reduce their appeal in any but the safest of districts/states.
[Wash Times] Author Mark Steyn joked this week that investigations into President Trump’s possible "collusion" with Russia are like an absurd "high-concept thriller" in which he’s the only innocent party.
Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson and Mr. Steyn sat down Wednesday night to discuss revelations that an anti-Trump dossier created by the research firm Fusion GPS was partially funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee. The author excoriated everyone but Mr. Trump when asked to put the news into its proper political context.
"Everyone is colluding with Russia except Trump," Mr. Steyn said, The Daily Caller reported. "You’ve got the Podesta Group, you’ve got the Hillary campaign, you’ve got the DNC, you’ve got the FBI, you’ve got Christopher Steele, who you credit as an ex-MI6 agent. He’s not just any old ex-MI6 agent, he’s the head of the Russia desk at MI6, which is a pretty big deal."
The dossier, first published by BuzzFeed News in January, was originally financed by an anonymous Republican, although Mr. Trump told reporters this week that he anticipates the individual’s identity will be made public.
"I have one name in mind," Mr. Trump said Wednesday. "It will probably be revealed."
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>head of the Russia desk at MI
Which may imply more about how dismal the hiring practices at the "intelligence" agencies were.
I've always felt the MIx lot were establishment protection agencies and the proles were on their own but with these incompetents, the establishments better watch their back!
[DAWN] RARE is the minister who goes to parliament and briefs its members in a candid manner. On Wednesday, Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif briefed the Senate on US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s trip to Pakistain and, in speaking with clarity and authority, demonstrated once again what had been missing in the Foreign Office for over four years. Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts... ’s decision to not appoint a full-time foreign minister was one of the more perplexing mistakes of his third term. Mr Asif’s comments in the Senate, however, painted a picture of a Pakistain-US relationship that is deeply strained, rejecting the Trump administration strategy in the region as a creation of the US military and responding to a list of alleged forces of Evil that the US handed over to Pakistain by reminding the Senate that Pakistain has presented its own list to Afghanistan.
If there is a US South Asia strategy that is emerging, it appears to involve the US, Afghanistan and India acting together to put pressure on Pakistain to do more in the fight against militancy, inside Pakistain and regionally. To push back against the unfair or unrealistic aspects of that strategy, Pakistain ought to consider drawing up its own South Asia strategy: a coordinated approach towards the US, Afghanistan and India, recognising the interconnectedness of its ties with them. The strategy should also be proactive, suggesting what steps Pakistain can take and what it needs those countries to do for the interests of all to better align. Currently, it appears that Pakistain complains to the US about India and Afghanistan, lectures Afghanistan on India and lets bilateral problems with the latter interfere with the necessary dialogue that needs to occur on Afghanistan. That has the collective effect of achieving very little in terms of advancing Pakistain’s interests in the region, leaving it vulnerable to concerted pressure from the US, India and Afghanistan.
A South Asia strategy by Pakistain would necessarily entail a domestic dimension too. As the foreign minister has acknowledged before, Pakistain continues to have the problem of some bully boy and krazed killer groups being able to operate relatively openly here. Peace and stability in the region will not be established on a piecemeal basis involving one country at a time. If Afghanistan is unstable and denied peace, there are always likely to be spillover effects in Pakistain. If certain groups are allowed to operate on Pak soil, the dialogue with India risks being derailed by regional spoilers. If India continues to see Pakistain’s western border as a weakness to be exploited, Pakistain will be unable to broaden its fight against militancy, which is currently focused on anti-Pakistain bully boys. Simply, if Pakistain is to be stable and peaceful over the long term, Afghanistan and India must reassess their policies towards this country and vice versa.
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[PJ] Bravo, Charles Grassley! The Iowa senator has turned into something of an aging Mr. Smith taking on corruption in the Obama administration (and its Justice Department) and calling for a special investigator for the metastasizing Uranium One Scandal. But is it enough?
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... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
[PJ] Bravo, Charles Grassley! The Iowa senator has turned into something of an aging Mr. Smith taking on corruption in the Obama administration (and its Justice Department) and calling for a special investigator for the metastasizing Uranium One Scandal. But is it enough?
