I think Grenell wants to make Schiff do it with the idea that Schiff may endure political backlash from it. I'm really starting to like this man Grenell.

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At this point, Schiff is preparing a public relations response to cover himself and his decisions.

He should have understood by now that he should not engage in a strategic operation against an opponent who easily exceeds him in both intelligence and communications skills.

Here's the tweet the @**h*t, steve pasquale, posted that Grenell responded to. Of course the jerk deleted it. For some reason these idiots think delete means it is gone. The internet is forever.

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Here's the tweet the @**h*t, steve pasquale, posted that Grenell responded to. Of course the jerk deleted it. For some reason these idiots think delete means it is gone. The internet is forever.

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Like Tucker Carlson, Grenell may politely eviscerate so many idiot reporters that may not be enough in DC to cover the news...

"That's a good thing", to steal a quote...

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PS: it's "you're"

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Based on the usage in Pasquale's tweet, I think Grenell is incorrect, but it still makes for a good caning of an idiot reporter...

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Grenell is correct.

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Based on the usage in Pasquale's tweet, I think Grenell is incorrect, but it still makes for a good caning of an idiot reporter...

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Your the DNI? Grenell is absolutely correct.

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You can read the Rosenstein Memo redacted vs unredacted in the above tweets. Pretty disgusting. Who is the fifth target, still completely redacted?

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Donald J. Trump

Jr.

It's amazing how all those cases have turned out to be garbage except for Manafort and that was for stuff done well before his involvement with Trump.

Logan Act. Unbelievable. As a member of the Transition Team, Flynn's conversations with Kislyak were entirely legal & conducted with the knowledge of the Obama Admin -- that's one of the reasons he was cleared on January 4, 2017 of any derogatory info. Rosenstein is a super POS.

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The unredacted bullet points include four names, beginning with former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page. It tasks Mueller with determining whether Page committed a crime by "colluding with Russian government officials" as they interfered in the 2016 election.



Mueller was also tasked with investigating whether former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort likewise colluded with the Russian government, whether he committed crimes related to his work in Ukraine, and whether he committed a crime by taking loans from a bank CEO who was pursuing a job in the Trump administration.

The memo makes the same collusion allegation regarding former Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopolous, and also asks Mueller to look into whether he was an unregistered agent of the government of Israel.

The memo asks Mueller to probe four questions regarding Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who was fired less than a month into the job: whether he committed crimes by talking to Russian government officials during the Trump transition, whether he lied to the FBI about contacts he had with the Russian government, whether he failed to report foreign contacts and income on his background investigation application and whether he did not properly register as an agent for the Turkish government.

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That's from the Politico article, linked in the tweet will posted.

So let's drill down on this for a bit.

Carter Page:

The FBI had freakin' Title I FISA warrants on Page for ten months preceding Rosenstein's August 2, 2017 scope memo, the last of which Rosenstein himself signed. Too cute by half and completely fabricated.

But what really caught my eye was Papadop stuff.

Papadopoulus was detained at Dulles airport on July 27, 2017. Just a few days before this memo was sent. Agent of Israel? That's pretty much confirmation that the $10,000 payment from Tawil was a set-up. Only Papadop didn't have the cash on him as he had left it with his lawyer and the FBI had to let him go eventually.

LINK to refresh people's memories.

Manafort:

The Black Ledger from Ukraine is raised. A forged document obtained by Alexandra Chalupa, from the DNC and Eric Ciaramella. But notice what isn't specifically mentioned? Tax evasion. The old EDVa investigation that was closed in 2014 when Yanukovych fled to Russia. And Rosenstein's memo was just days after Manafort and his wife had been raided in a dawn no knock raid and his offices and storage facilities searched. That was a CYA memo on searches already applied for and done. Like post-dating a check, conferring that authority on Team Mueller after the fact does not completely cure the original jurisdictional question, in my view.

Now onto Flynn.

The Turkish crap and the Logan Act crap. Both piles of dookie as tall as Rosenstein at the time he wrote that memo. The questionable invocation of the Logan Act has been discussed here ad nauseam. So has the Turkish deal, which was actually with a Dutch company and Flynn's lawyers, Covington, Burling had been in negotiations on the FARA filings since the preceding November 2016. The mention of the Turkish deal was cover for not only putting Flynn in the cross-hairs but also his attorneys who advised him on what he was required to file. Still think there was a very secret FISA warrant on Flynn or on one his associates that they could then spy on him through two hops and 702 queries, though.

What a load of horses***!

Rosenstein was and is a weaselly black hat.

ETA: And that final redaction was another named target. Had to be Trump.

Just need a sturdy tree and some rope for these folks.

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I was half jesting when I said Donald J Trump for the fifth target, but it almost has to be, doesn't it? How else to you get a special counsel for this? None of the other four targets come close to needing a special counsel to investigate. Yes, we know they charges are mostly lies, but even if true, no special counsel was needed.

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And explains why it would still be redacted. Only other person that I can think of that would justify the redaction now is Flynn Jr. since he was never charged.

If Rosenstein gave Mueller authority to squeeze Flynn through his son, back in August 2017, that would be a bombshell, for sure.

The FBI leadership needs to be gutted and replaced with field agents. The DOJ needs House cleaning in any office homed in DC. You might lose a few good people with the refuse but they would do fine in the private sector. Justice depends on it.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/rosenstein-asked-mueller-investigate-already-discredited

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Then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein instructed Special Counsel Robert Mueller in August 2017 to investigate allegations against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that originated with the Steele dossier and had already been discredited by the FBI, a newly declassified memo showed Wednesday night.

The Justice Department's release of the unredacted version of Rosenstein's so-called investigative scoping memo provided the first declarative evidence that Mueller was asked to investigate widely suspect allegations from Christopher Steele's opposition research conducted for the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party back in 2016.

Specifically, Rosenstein's memo instructed Mueller to investigate "allegations that Carter Page committed a crime or crimes by colluding with Russian government officials with respect to the Russian government's efforts to interfere with the 2016 election for President of the United States, in violation of United States law."

By the time that instruction was given, the FBI had fired Steele as an informant for leaking, interviewed Steele's sub-source who disputed information attributed to him and had ascertain that allegations Steele had given the FBI specifically about Page were inaccurate and likely came from Russian intelligence sources as disinformation, recently declassified evidence showed....

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IMO, Rosenstein included Page in this scope memo to cover his butt because he had signed the June 2107 FISA renewal application on Page.

Regarding the Steele dossier, remember that when Mueller testified, he wouldn't answer any questions about the Steele dossier: