[Washington Examiner] A former intelligence official predicted British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s intention to meet with Justice Department investigators "will be a car wreck" and a "hot mess."
Philip Mudd, a counterterrorism analyst for CNN and critic of President Trump, said on Tuesday he was confident Steele would have to tell the U.S. officials "no" if asked whether he could verify parts of his dossier that contained salacious claims about Trump's ties to Russia. That "no" would be disastrous for Steele in an interview with U.S. officials, Mudd claimed.
Attorney General William Barr declared his intention to look into the origins of the Russia investigation and examine how the DOJ and FBI conducted themselves. Trump recently gave Barr full declassification authority to aid in this inquiry, and he selected U.S. Attorney John Durham to serve as his right-hand man in the investigation. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz launched his own investigation into allegations of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse a year ago.
An article this week from the Times in the United Kingdom said Steele was open to meeting with U.S. investigators and strongly indicated that Steele would speak with Horowitz’s team rather than Barr and Durham.
In a segment with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday, Mudd condemned Steele’s decision, warning that "if you go to car races looking for car wrecks, this is significant" and predicted that "this will be a car wreck."
[DAILYCALLER] The woman who assaulted Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz at a town hall event in Pensacola, Florida, last week ran in Florida’s Democratic Primary election in 2016.
Amanda L. Kondrat’yev, who threw a cup of unknown red liquid at the congressman as he exited an event, has a history in politics. She ran in the Democratic Primary election for Florida’s 1st Congressional District in 2016, the district that Gaetz would go on to win, according to Ballotpedia. "HAD" a history in politics
During the early stages of that race, Gaetz and Kondrat’yev feuded over the presence of a large cross in a public park in Pensacola.
Kondrat’yev is the lead plaintiff in a case filed by the Freedom from Religion Foundation and the American Humanist Association that alleged the presence of the cross in a public space violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution. Gaetz challenged Kondrat’yev to a debate on the matter, and while Kondrat’yev accepted, the debate never occurred.
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unknown red liquid
Not to be confused with the unknown orange liquid sold at Dairy Queen.
[DAILYCALLER] Remington Christopher Steele will meet with Justice Department Sherlocks out of concern he will be "thrown under the bus" in a probe of the FBI’s handling of the dossier, a New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... news hound said.
"He is incredibly concerned, maybe obsessed, that this investigation is going to throw him under the bus," Matthew Rosenberg, a national security news hound for The Times, said on CNN Tuesday.
Gee whiz — why would he think such a thing about the painfully honest people he’s accustomed to dealing with?
Rosenberg was responding to reports that Steele has agreed to meet with Justice Department Sherlocks to discuss his interactions with the FBI regarding his work on the dossier, which accuses the Trump campaign of conspiring with Russians to influence the 2016 election.
Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, is close to wrapping up an investigation into the FBI’s handling of the dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and DNC. The FBI relied on Steele’s unverified report to obtain surveillance warrants against Carter Page, a Trump campaign adviser.
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[Washington Examiner] At a huddle among top Democratic lawmakers Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said she wanted to see President Trump jailed.
"I don’t want to see him impeached, I want to see him in prison," Pelosi said, according to Politico.
The California Democrat reiterated her stance that she would rather see Trump defeated at the ballot box during the 2020 elections and then prosecuted for alleged crimes that she believes he might have committed.
Pelosi spokeswoman Ashley Etienne said that the meeting between Democrats about special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was "productive."
"They agreed to keep all options on the table and continue to move forward with an aggressive hearing and legislative strategy, as early as next week, to address the president’s corruption and abuses of power uncovered in the report," Etienne said.
Pelosi is at odds with House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who wants to launch an impeachment inquiry against Trump. During the meeting he reportedly pressed her to begin the inquiry, only to receive pushback from Pelosi and others in leadership.
With her statement about Trump "in prison," Pelosi continues a balancing act among those in her party who want to see Trump impeached and those who think proceedings would be too politically divisive. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s first public statement on his investigation last week spurred new calls for impeachment among Democrats.
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I saw a piece the other day about the Rolling Thunder motorcyclists. They threatened that if the Dems try to impeach Trump they will have 1-2 million motorcyclists go to D.C. to shut down D.C.
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Projection is the primary motivation of the NPD left. Pelosi is worried about going to jail. Wonder what she thinks she's going to get found out about?
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good point she's been suckin the blood out of americans along time
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What if she's a vampire?
Acording to my sources *(AD&D Monster manual) driving a stake thru its hard kills it - but only as long as the stake remains. To finish the job you need to remove it's head and fill it's mouth with Holy wafers.
But, after viewing her latest videos he's more the Zombie type. Vanpires are intelligent and can charm people.
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Don't EVER refer to Nancy Palsi and "hard" in the same meme
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Somehow I think she'll turn out to be his 'ace in the hole'. I can't shake the feeling. Maybe it'll be a huge 'own goal'. Or maybe she'll do it to save her skin. I don't know.
The corrupt Mueller investigation was third world style failed coup attempt. They rightly fear the lies and corruption will get them prosecuted.
They have no choice but to take out their target by any means necessary now or be prosecuted for this coup.
In other words, they feat they may have put themselves in an impossible situation with this Mueller stunt.
The Democrats are extremists and a threat to freedom. While at Normandy today, Pelosi callously called for a duly elected US president to be thrown into prison. Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito would have been proud.
[Breitbart] Appearing Tuesday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the intelligence community over a recent report claiming it defied an order from President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
A partial transcript is as follows:
HOST BRIANNA KEILAR: I want to ask you, because you’ve been really a critic of John Brennan, who has been a critic of President Trump. You’ve not been a big fan of him. You’ve said that. He’s the former CIA director under President Obama. What do you think about this recent New York Times story that Brennan still has his security clearance? This was such a big, I guess, promise of the president’s, demand of the president. He said he was going to pull it, and he still has it.
SEN. RAND PAUL: Well, this is what worries me. People talk about the Deep State. Now the Deep State is actually protecting their own and not listening to the president’s orders. I was sitting in the White House when President Trump said, "I want his security clearance taken," and I saw the order given. I saw the chief of staff was there, not the current chief of staff, the previous chief of staff.
And if they’re working against the odds of the president, that really does disrupt our country, does disrupt a representative democracy where the president makes a decision, and if someone is countermanding that, I think we need to get to the bottom of that. And I hope President Trump will say, "who is countermanding my orders. I said get rid of his clearance." And I do think Brennan has been a partisan. And I think Brennan also abused his office in developing the Trump investigation. I think it was done under false pretenses and done for political reasons.
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Assuming the Agency held Brennan's clearance, it would be the responsibility of the Special Security Officer (SSO) of the Agency to suspend or revoke Brennan's clearance.
Rank Paul is very likely correct. The "Deep State Ignored the order".
[DAILYCALLER] Democrats want to bring a panel of psychiatrists to Washington to suggest that President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is mentally unfit to be president.
Kentucky Democratic Rep. John Yarmuth has been tasked with coordinating the project, now planned for July, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
"We’re planning to put together an event ... a town hall. We haven’t actually determined the format," Yarmuth said.
Dr. Bandy Lee, a persistent critic of the president who believes Trump’s state of mental health makes him unfit for office, is slated to lead the team of psychiatrists. Lee teaches at the Yale School of Medicine and is the editor of the book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump."
Goldwater Rule, you unethical asshole. But you go on putting your entire profession into disrepute if you feel the need.
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Hah. First you have Dem "witch hunts" and now you have Dem "witch doctors." This is going to backfire for the Dems like a Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon.
Da Mayor hopes to follow in far left, jihadi-lover Jeremy Corbyn’s footsteps.
[DAILYCALLER] Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio claimed that anti-Semitism is a product of a "right-wing movement," as anti-Semitic hate crimes surge in the city.
"I think the ideological movement that is anti-Semitic is the right-wing movement," de Blasio said at a presser Tuesday, according to the New York Post.
Attacks on Jews have increased by roughly 90% in the past year, and the New York Police Department (NYPD) has tossed in the clink Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! 75 people in connection with the crimes, according to the report.
De Blasio’s comments were consistent with his past statements on the rise of anti-Semitism in his city.
After a group of Hasidic Jews were attacked in Crown Heights, Brooklyn earlier this year, de Blasio blamed white supremacy, despite the fact that the alleged attackers were identified as black.
"It’s really clear that forces of white supremacy have been unleashed," de Blasio said. "A lot of folks used to be told it was unacceptable to be anti-Semitic, it was unacceptable to be racist and now they’re getting more permission."
At the news conference, the New York Police Department said that hate crimes have risen this year despite a decrease in overall crime. Sixty percent of the hate crimes counted were committed against Jews, in particular those living in predominantly Orthodox areas, Bklyner reported.
De Blasio’s comments drew criticism, including from City Councilman Chaim Deutsch.
“I have not seen any white supremacists coming in here committing these hate crimes,” the Jewish Democrat said, according to the New York Post
[Jpost] On a recent speaking tour in North America, I was asked repeatedly about antisemitism in the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn.
Corbyn’s Labour has become an existential threat to British Jews, and audiences smartly inquired what could be done to stop growing antisemitism in UK politics from endangering Britain’s Jews.
At Campaign Against antisemitism, the volunteer-run charity that I am proud to lead, we have been at the forefront of calling out Labour in the media. This media campaign has borne fruit: According to a May 17 YouGov survey, 80 percent of British voters are now aware of Labour’s antisemitism crisis, and just 19 percent are still convinced by Labour and Corbyn’s arguments that they are not antisemitic.
There are lessons to be learned in North America from our experiences in Britain, particularly with a similar dynamic starting to play out on the far left.
Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has played an outsized role in enabling the torrent of antisemitic incidents flowing from the once anti-racist Labour Party.
For years, British Jews watched and failed to do enough as the far-left allied with Islamists, and as their warped hatred took hold on university campuses and in sections of the media.
Then, in 2015, hundreds of thousands of new activists joined Labour, many of them from the far-left, following a change in membership rules which reduced membership fees to only £3 per year. They wasted no time in electing the little-known Jeremy Corbyn to lead them.
Soon after Corbyn’s improbable ascent to the Labour leadership, we saw two changes: Anti-Semites in the Party, who saw Corbyn as a kindred spirit, became bolder, and those anti-Semites ceased to be firmly punished, thereby emboldening others. One of the first, Sir Gerald Kaufman, claimed at an event in Parliament that British Jews donated to the Conservative Party so that Israeli Jews could kill what he referred to as “Arab-looking people.” Corbyn took no action.
Over the following months and years, more and more cases began to pile up, but in most cases, Labour dithered over how to treat Holocaust deniers and anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists, often excusing them and welcoming them back into the fold.
As this cycle developed, the sound of antisemitism grew, and it now roars from Labour’s grassroots with the support or acquiescence of its leadership.
Under Corbyn, the machinery of the party has been corrupted to excuse antisemitism whilst punishing those who stand up against it. Meanwhile, prominent Party figures deny antisemitism by claiming that it is just a “smear” campaign by Jews.
There are lessons to be learned in North America from our experiences in Britain, particularly with a similar dynamic starting to play out on the far left.
Communities elsewhere should learn from the mistakes made in Britain. Do not dismiss anti-Semites as fringe lunatics: They breed on the extremes of society and eventually seep into the mainstream.
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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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[DAILYCALLER] The woman who assaulted Republican Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz at a town hall event in Pensacola, Florida, last week ran in Florida’s Democratic Primary election in 2016.
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At a huddle among top Democratic lawmakers Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reportedly said she wanted to see President Trump jailed.
[Breitbart] Appearing Tuesday on CNN, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) slammed the intelligence community over a recent report claiming it defied an order from President Donald Trump to revoke the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
[DAILYCALLER] Democrats want to bring a panel of psychiatrists to Washington to suggest that President 
