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...Top White House officials, with the assent of President Trump, agreed to back the decision to withhold the information. They were persuaded that turning over Justice Department documents could risk lives by potentially exposing the source, a U.S. citizen who has provided intelligence to the CIA and FBI, according to multiple people familiar with the discussion and the person's role....

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So it's a US citizen who is at the focus. Rules out the Russians, Brits & Aussies unless it's someone with a dual citizenship.

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Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday criticized a judge who voiced skepticism about the prosecution of Paul Manafort, saying the judge's comments about overstepping were themselves going too far.

"I don't know how a federal judge could possibly know enough about an investigation to offer a view like that," Comey said in an interview with The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig.

U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis last week told Justice Department prosecutors that he thought the financial crimes charges against the former Trump campaign chairman were really about "getting information that Mr. Manafort can give you that would reflect on Mr. Trump and lead to his prosecution or impeachment or whatever."

Comey also said that as an American, he thought President Donald Trump should cooperate with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe but if he were Trump's lawyer, "you'd have to be very thoughtful about that given that your client is somebody who lies a lot."

And he said he didn't know where allegations in a recent House Intelligence Committee report about the FBI's handling of former national security adviser Michael Flynn came from. The report alleged that bureau agents thought Flynn was merely confused, not lying, about meeting with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. "He pled guilty!" Comey said.

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He told Leonnig that he knew from the beginning Trump could come under criminal investigation since the Russia probe would inevitably reach into the Oval Office: "We discussed it and contemplated the possibility very early on."

Comey wouldn't divulge whether the FBI had any leads on compromising information Russia could leverage over Trump, but he left the door open. "It's possible I wouldn't say likely, but possible that they had something like that," he said.

And he also criticized Hillary Clinton for discussing classified material on an unclassified system and for not creating a "healthy leadership culture" in which advisers would counsel her otherwise.

He added that penetration of Clinton's servers, particularly China, "was a serious concern of ours but we couldn't find the trail that established that any foreign adversary had gotten into her servers."

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Okay, we're nearly done here as this thread is already long enough. Something I'll leave you with: @HouseIntelComm hasn't interviewed GEORGE PAPADOUPOLOS, STEFAN HALPER, or so far as we know, even ALEXANDER DOWNER & it is unlikely @JusticeOIG will either, at least anytime #soon

If nobody is looking into Hakluyt, maybe there is nothing there? Perhaps, but *ALMOST NOBODY* publicly knew former Dianne Feinstein staffer Dan Jones was running a *50m(!) campaign* to keep the Steele dossier & "collusion" alive either ...

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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Michael Avenatti has produced this garbage and is spreading it around

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pskgpwr15r48tx5/Executive%20Summary.pdf?dl=0

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Well, with this new information, I'm thoroughly confused as to who's side I'm on here. I can't imagine it having to do with the Trump investiagation, as there's been zero evidence, circumstansial, or otherwise, to suggest Trump, or anyone in his campaign "colluded" with Russia.

However, due to a lack of quality, and believable information, even if it is a genuine, there is next to nothing the DOJ and FBI can do to convince me they are telling the truth. If it really is a source delivering information to our intel agencies, and for the better, my opinion is "fine, shine the light, and put the source at risk".

I give exactly two ****s because the DOJ, FBI, and State, are corrupt, and full of criminals. And yes, it's possible it could be Clinton related, but why should I believe. Any help here, and I'll reconsider.

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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MSM is running with this Avenatti garbage

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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Michael Avenatti has produced this garbage and is spreading it around

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pskgpwr15r48tx5/Executive%20Summary.pdf?dl=0

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Either someone in the SDNY is leaking (would be no surprise) or he is pulling it out of his ass.

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What is it? Dropbox limit reached

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It means his cheap ass is using a free account, for the rich lawyer he claims to be that looks awful cheap

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Well I was just mentioning yesterday about how "someone" found Barry and elevated him from a nobody to the White House, and there it is.

There isn't a spy novel ever written that is better than what is unfolding right now. It's a dizzying amount of information. Thanks for the research.

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Well I was just mentioning yesterday about how "someone" found Barry and elevated him from a nobody to the White House, and there it is.

There isn't a spy novel ever written that is better than what is unfolding right now. It's a dizzying amount of information. Thanks for the research.

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Well I was just mentioning yesterday about how "someone" found Barry and elevated him from a nobody to the White House, and there it is.

There isn't a spy novel ever written that is better than what is unfolding right now. It's a dizzying amount of information. Thanks for the research.

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I don't think anyone believes Obama is a self made man. The media never asked the questions of where did he come from and who groomed him because they know America would have rejected him.

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RoscoePColtrane said:

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A lot of people have greatly underestimated Donald J Trump, they joke about him being a time traveler, and Nostradamus, but it's not a big secret. 5 yrs ago he predicted the downfall of Eric Schneiderman. It's not because he's got supernatural/magical powers. He knows, in the words of Gordon Gekko "the most precious commodity on Earth is information."

He has access to the best. He fools his enemies into thinking he doesn't. They think he's just some blowhard, and look at him like P.T. Barnum, who was much more than a circus showman, as is the POTUS. He's not appealing to everyone, but he gets stuff done, and fights against headwinds like no one we've ever seen in history. I can't think of anyone in recent history that could have overcome an onslaught like we are witnessing right now. This is absolutely the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in my life. the more you dig the worse it gets, it's like cleaning out an old silo, it's thick and nasty and every time you shovel some out the nastier it gets. If you've never been knee deep in silage before take my word for it, it's not pleasant.

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A lot of people have greatly underestimated Donald J Trump, they joke about him being a time traveler, and Nostradamus, but it's not a big secret. 5 yrs ago he predicted the downfall of Eric Schneiderman. It's not because he's got supernatural/magical powers. He knows, in the words of Gordon Gekko "the most precious commodity on Earth is information."

He has access to the best. He fools his enemies into thinking he doesn't. They think he's just some blowhard, and look at him like P.T. Barnum, who was much more than a circus showman, as is the POTUS. He's not appealing to everyone, but he gets stuff done, and fights against headwinds like no one we've ever seen in history. I can't think of anyone in recent history that could have overcome an onslaught like we are witnessing right now. This is absolutely the most bizarre thing I've ever seen in my life. the more you dig the worse it gets, it's like cleaning out an old silo, it's thick and nasty and every time you shovel some out the nastier it gets. If you've never been knee deep in silage before take my word for it, it's not pleasant.

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He definitely knows NYC better than most...decades of attending/hosting galas/parties where everyone gets liquored up (or drugged up) blabbing/gossuping while he remained stone sober. I'm sure he has dirt on a TON of people.

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After the 2016 election, the so-called deep state was confident that it had the power easily to either stop, remove, or delegitimize the outlier Donald Trump and his presidency.

Give it credit, the Washington apparat quite imaginatively pulled out all the stops: implanting Obama holdover appointees all over the Trump executive branch; filing lawsuits and judge shopping; organizing the Resistance; pursuing impeachment writs; warping the FISA courts; weaponizing the DOJ and FBI; attempting to disrupt the Electoral College; angling for enactment of the 25th Amendment or the emoluments clause; and unleashing Hollywood celebrities, Silicon Valley, and many in Wall Street to suffocate the Trump presidency in its infancy.

But now the administrative state's multifaceted efforts are starting to unwind, and perhaps even boomerang, on the perpetrators. If a federal judge should end up throwing out most of the indictments of Paul Manafort on the rationale that they have nothing much to do with the original mandate of the special counsel's office, or if Michael Flynn's confession to giving false statements is withdrawn successfully because the FBI politicized its investigation and FISA courts were misled in approving the surveillance of Flynn, then the Mueller investigation will implode.

Indeed, the Mueller investigation would likely lose so much public support that the Department of Justice could probably dismiss it with impunity. So, in an ironic sense, Mueller's overreach might well end once and for all the absurdities of the special counsel/prosecutor law that for nearly half a century has plagued the nation.

Until recently, deep-state apparatchiks such as John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe seemed immune from accountability after lying either to Congress or to federal authorities. In a perverse sort of way, the more Robert Mueller plays the role of the obsessed but impotent Inspector Javert, the more he demonstrates that there is no Russian-Trump collusion. Meanwhile, he is establishing precedents that those whom he exempts from his own zeal will inevitably have to account for their own lawbreaking. One cannot justifiably hound Michael Flynn for supposedly misleading FBI agents, when agency investigators were told by Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills that they had known nothing about Hillary Clinton's private server during her tenure as secretary of state despite evidence that they themselves had communicated over it (as had the former president of the United States).

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The Justice Department announced today that Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, of Hong Kong, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Eastern District of Virginia with one count of conspiracy to gather or deliver national defense information to aid a foreign government, and two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, Acting U.S. Attorney Tracy Doherty-McCormick for the Eastern District of Virginia, and Assistant Director in Charge Nancy McNamara of the FBI's Washington Field Office announced the charges.

"When government officials violate their oath to defend our nation and protect its secrets, the National Security Division will hold them accountable," said Assistant Attorney General Demers. "Lee, a former CIA case officer, allegedly conspired to provide information to the Chinese government about the national defense of the United States. Lee's alleged actions betrayed the American people and his former colleagues at the CIA. We will not tolerate such threats to our country or its national security."

"The allegations in this case are troubling," said Acting U.S. Attorney Doherty-McCormick. "Conspiring with foreign agents poses a real and serious threat toward our national security. The United States will hold accountable those who conspire to compromise our national security."

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