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Are we sure Comey wrote his memos on his work computer?

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aggiehawg said:

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Rosey and Katy Ruemmler? (Now Susan Rice's attorney, IIRC.)

So in effect, Cartwright was promised a pardon if he pled to the minor charge so the Iran Deal could go through?

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Note someone else: Rod Rosenstein led the prosecution.

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So why were Comey leaks illegal? Did he leak memos that have since been officially classified?

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This is the best timeline and sequence of events I've seen yet, from Imperator Rex. He does an excellent job of laying it all out, as an epic rebuttal to some liberal troll using the "R's paid for the dossier talking point":

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aggiehawg said:

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sam callahan said:

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Are we sure Comey wrote his memos on his work computer?

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That is what Comey says. On his FBI laptop, in his FBI car, minutes after leaving a meeting with Trump. Or in his FBI office on his FBI computer emailing FBI upper team management seconds after getting off of his FBI phone with President Trump.

Any questions?

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aggiehawg said:

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sam callahan said:

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Are we sure Comey wrote his memos on his work computer?

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That is what Comey says. On his FBI laptop, in his FBI car, minutes after leaving a meeting with Trump. Or in his FBI office on his FBI computer emailing FBI upper team management seconds after getting off of his FBI phone with President Trump.

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Yes. Were the conversations Comey had with the POTUS privileged and the resulting memos made by Comey be classified?

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Hawg, et al, have you guys who are attorneys and investigators EVER seen such an incestuous relationship, or are all criminal investigations like this?

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Oh, BTW, assuming we find out who the 7-8 silicon valley backers are (other than Soros---that's a given), can we find out their names, and could they be culpable in a willful criminal enterprise?

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Ahawg and other legal eagles, the sheer volume of shenanigans and participants is starting to get ridiculous in scope. When it's all said and done, what do y'all think the aftermath will be? Not what you want it to be or what it should be, but what will be? I just can't see big names like Comey or Clinton going down. I don't have a lot of faith. The rule of law appears to have several definitions.

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Steele was an MI6 undercover agent in Moscow around the time when Skripal was recruited and handed over Russian secrets to the MI6. He also ran the MI6 Russia desk so anything about Skripal will have passed through him. It is very likely that they personally knew each other. Pablo Miller, who worked for Steele's private company, lived in the same town as Skripal and they seem to have been friends since Miller had recruited him. Miller or someone else attempted to cover up the connection to Steele by editing his LinkedIn entry.

Here are some question:

• Did Skripal help Steele to make up the "dossier" about Trump?
• Were Skripal's old connections used to contact other people in Russia to ask about Trump dirt?
• Did Skripal threaten to talk about this?

If there is a connection between the dossier and Skripal, which seems very likely to me, then there are a number of people and organizations with potential motives to kill him. Lots of shady folks and officials on both sides of the Atlantic were involved in creating and running the anti-Trump/anti-Russia campaign. There are several investigations and some very dirty laundry might one day come to light. Removing Skripal while putting the blame on Russia looks like a convenient way to get rid of a potential witness.
Update: Steele's company issued a weak denial of Skripal's involvement in the dossier:

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Sources close to Orbis, the business intelligence firm run by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele, who was behind a dossier of compromising allegations against Donald Trump, said Mr Skripal did not contribute to the file. But they could not say whether Mr Skripal was involved in different investigations into the US President for other interested parties.
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RoscoePColtrane said:

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GWS is a strange bird, following him is a lot like trying to follow the Q thing. But he's been all over these Awon Brothers for a while.

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Think that is why Awan's case keeps getting bumped back? I am very suspicious of how his criminal case is being approached. Could go either way. He is cooperating and dishing the dirt or the Dem judges are slow-playing his case until after the mid-terms.

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Think that is why Awan's case keeps getting bumped back? I am very suspicious of how his criminal case is being approached. Could go either way. He is cooperating and dishing the dirt or the Dem judges are slow-playing his case until after the mid-terms.

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It's either that or the Awan's have so much dirt on the left, and likely the right, that they are radioactive and have to remain quarantined from any media. If they had that much free access to the Dem network on Capitol Hill, you can likely bet your backside that they found a way in the backdoor if the Republicans too.

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A direct line of communication between the Kremlin-connected Agalarov family and the Trump family was open during the transition after President Donald Trump's presidential election, BuzzFeed News has learned.
The "first of a series" of text messages was sent between Emin Agalarov and Donald Trump Jr. two days after the 2016 election, a source familiar with the communications told BuzzFeed News.

The communications continued through at least mid-December 2016, according to information made public Friday.

It is not clear how many messages were sent, whether Trump Jr. sent any of them, or how many were sent by either party although BuzzFeed News confirmed that multiple messages were sent.

Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee revealed one of the text messages, from Dec. 13, 2016, in their "minority views" report on Friday one of several new pieces of information that suggest that the Trumps' relationship with the Agalarovs was much closer than the president and his family have said.

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The Majority also made no effort to engage the Special Counsel about interviewing central witnesses in this probe: Michael Flynn, Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, and George Nader. To ensure a credible investigation, particularly on the issues of collusion, financial leverage and money laundering, and obstruction of justice, the Committee must interview these individuals.


All but Manafort have entered into cooperation agreements with the Special Counsel, and the Committee should have engaged with his office to determine when interviews could proceed without impairing his work. Sure, like Mueller gives a crap and would tell anyone that.


The Minority made a motion to do so at the time the Majority sought adoption of its report, but the Majority voted against pursuing interviews of these key witnesses. The transcript of the March 22, 2018 Committee business meeting is incorporated in Chapter VI. The Majority's refusal to seek testimony from George Papadopoulos exemplifies its efforts to impair the investigation. He couldn't testify, you puke.

Without interviewing Papadopoulos and seeking relevant records to determine whom on the campaign he would have reported this overture to and assess whether any follow-up occurred, the Committee was unable to examine the precise facts regarding Russia's approach to Papadopoulos, during which they informed him they possessed stolen Clinton-related emails and, crucially, previewed their later dissemination of this information.Oh good grief! Papadop was soooo far down on the Trump hierarchy that his emails were ignored and not acted upon.

Only weeks later, the President's son, Donald Trump, Jr., would take a meeting in Trump Tower with other Russian emissaries offering dirt on Clinton. This yawning gap in the investigative record, and many others, fundamentally undermines the credibility of the Majority's findings.

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