Guilty on the tax charges. (very confident)whatthehey78 said:
According to Fox/Drudge...it appears the jury will recess for the weekend w/o a verdict. Bets on the future verdict, guilty-all counts, some counts, hung jury or acquittal????
I think that's the point...Wildcat said:Quote:
"A thirsty press is essential in a free country," the Judge said in announcing the hearing.
OK, but what about the safety and security of these jurors? They didn't ask to be a part of this. They were conscripted. And frankly, I don't think these people will be safe if they return less than a conviction.
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U.S. special counsel recommends six months in prison for Papadopoulos
EKUAg said:
So the press is trying to force a verdict they want by doxxing the jury. Cute.
Pravda would be so proud of them.
I'm stealing this for twitter, succinctly and perfectly stated.EKUAg said:
So the press is trying to force a verdict they want by doxxing the jury. Cute.
Pravda would be so proud of them.
SpreadsheetAg said:I'm stealing this for twitter, succinctly and perfectly stated.EKUAg said:
So the press is trying to force a verdict they want by doxxing the jury. Cute.
Pravda would be so proud of them.
At a minimum, this a graymail, likely resulting in the invocation of the Classified Information Procedures Act. Which of course would mean most if not all of the proceedings would be conducted out of the public eyes.Quote:
The scant media coverage all focused on a narrative that Mr. Wolfe was requesting a gag order against President Trump in his case. However, as you can see above, that was not the request. More broadly Wolfe's attorneys were attempting to bar any government official from any public statement. This is Key. keep that in mind as you look at the second development.
After losing the gag order request, lawyers for Mr. Wolfe have sent letters to every Senator who sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. [As we have shared for years, the SSCI is the deepest and most corrupt part of the Deep State swamp.]
The lawyers for Wolfe are putting the senators on notice they might be called as defense witnesses. Read carefully, including between the lines (emphasis mine):Quote:
WASHINGTONMembers of the Senate Intelligence Committee have been notified they may be asked for testimony as part of the criminal trial of a veteran Senate staffer accused of lying to the FBI while working for the panel.
Attorneys for James A. Wolfe sent letters to all 15 senators on the committee, notifying them that their testimony may be sought as part of Mr. Wolfe's defense, according to two people familiar with the matter.Quote:
Mr. Wolfe, who for nearly 30 years served as the director of security for the intelligence committee, was arrested last month and charged with lying to the FBI about his contacts with reporters while the bureau was conducting an investigation into leaks of classified information to journalists. Mr. Wolfe wasn't charged with leaking any information.
Mr. Wolfe's defense lawyers are considering calling the senators as part of the proceedings for a variety of reasons, including as potential character witnesses and to rebut some of the allegations made by the government in the criminal complaint, these people say. (link)
I thought Warner was one of the good one. Who am I thinking of?drcrinum said:
Warner is a snake.
Trump right againAG 2000' said:EKUAg said:
So the press is trying to force a verdict they want by doxxing the jury. Cute.
Pravda would be so proud of them.
Yep. That was all because they're worried the verdict isn't in yet. CNN looks more and more like an enemy of the people by the day.
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George Papadopoulos' lies to FBI agents about his contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign impeded the investigation into Russian interference, preventing authorities from potentially arresting a witness before he left the United States, according to a Friday court filing.
"The defendant's lies to the FBI in January 2017 impeded the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election," the sentencing recommendation from special counsel Robert Mueller says. "The defendant's lies undermined investigators' ability to challenge the Professor or potentially detain or arrest him while he was still in the United States."
The filing says investigators had located the professor in D.C. two weeks after Papadopoulos was interviewed by the FBI on Jan. 27, 2017. The professor left the U.S. on Feb. 11, 2017, and has not returned.
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Mifsud, who is not named in the court filing but has been named in news reports, introduced Papadopoulos to a Russian woman and a Russian national connected to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Papadopoulos then communicated with the three over a period of months and discussed setting up a meeting between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos lied to investigators "on at least a dozen occasions," falsely saying he communicated with Mifsud before he joined the Trump campaign. After he hired a lawyer and met with investigator again in February 2017, Papadoplous still did not correct his false statements. Instead, he deactivated his Facebook account where he had communicated with the professor and Russian national and bought a new phone.
"The defendant's lies also hindered the government's ability to discover who else may have known or been told about the Russians possessing "dirt" on Clinton," the filing says. "Had the defendant told the FBI the truth when he was interviewed in January 2017, the FBI could have quickly taken numerous investigative steps to help determine, for example, how and where the Professor obtained the information, why the Professor provided the information to the defendant, and what the defendant did with the information after receiving it."
Exactly. Hell the FBI sent agents to his workshops over the years. He was likely more Western Intelligence than Russian.VegasAg86 said:
Sorry, but to claim he impeded the arrest of Mifsud is laughable. They knew who Mifsud was and could have detained and questioned Mifsud without any input from Papa.
Wasn't Mifsud the one that was front and center to this briefly, then last fall, he vanished. And his family and pregnant fiance have never heard from him again?aggiehawg said:
This is bugging the crap out of me.Quote:
George Papadopoulos' lies to FBI agents about his contacts with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign impeded the investigation into Russian interference, preventing authorities from potentially arresting a witness before he left the United States, according to a Friday court filing.
"The defendant's lies to the FBI in January 2017 impeded the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election," the sentencing recommendation from special counsel Robert Mueller says. "The defendant's lies undermined investigators' ability to challenge the Professor or potentially detain or arrest him while he was still in the United States."
The filing says investigators had located the professor in D.C. two weeks after Papadopoulos was interviewed by the FBI on Jan. 27, 2017. The professor left the U.S. on Feb. 11, 2017, and has not returned.LINKQuote:
Mifsud, who is not named in the court filing but has been named in news reports, introduced Papadopoulos to a Russian woman and a Russian national connected to the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Papadopoulos then communicated with the three over a period of months and discussed setting up a meeting between Russian officials and the Trump campaign.
Papadopoulos lied to investigators "on at least a dozen occasions," falsely saying he communicated with Mifsud before he joined the Trump campaign. After he hired a lawyer and met with investigator again in February 2017, Papadoplous still did not correct his false statements. Instead, he deactivated his Facebook account where he had communicated with the professor and Russian national and bought a new phone.
"The defendant's lies also hindered the government's ability to discover who else may have known or been told about the Russians possessing "dirt" on Clinton," the filing says. "Had the defendant told the FBI the truth when he was interviewed in January 2017, the FBI could have quickly taken numerous investigative steps to help determine, for example, how and where the Professor obtained the information, why the Professor provided the information to the defendant, and what the defendant did with the information after receiving it."
Wait a minute. Haven't we been told over and over that Crossfire Hurricane began in July 2016 because Papadop had a boozy conversation with Downer? And the FBI knew about Papadop since then?
But it was his January 2017 interview that impeded the investigation?? And they missed the chance to arrest and question Mifsud while he was in the States? I can't quite square that. But Mueller wants to go for the maximum sentence against him.
Pretty amazing how they are reportedly able to coordinate 60 signatures of former government members of the CIA to come forward in 24 hrs. The fact that they could be anyone from a cubicle analyst to a remote field agent, but they have them in the can in 24hrs. Of course you only see a handful that actually show their face in the media. The story starts with 12 that are pundits or past pundits, but by the end of the day the list is reportedly 60 names that you never fully see or ever hear from. They throw around names like Gates, and a former squid Admiral McRaven, "the man who oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden"; they have to quantify that letter with the Bin Laden line. He was in a situation room in Bagram Camp Alpha when Rob O'Neill put two pills in the skull of Bin Laden. We have heard from Rob O'Neill on what happened to Brennan. So from the guy who was on the 3rd floor in Abbottabad he feels differentlyblindey said:
The carefully targeted media outrage regarding Brennan's clearance ought to tell you a lot.
I wouldn't say set up to lie. Set up to misremember a detail. Why did they wait six months to talk to him? So he would be fuzzier on the dates, perhaps? Had they showed up at his door in late July, early August of 2016, his recollection might have been a bit crisper. (Or might not. Guy is kind of a ditz if you ask me.)coyote68 said:
Something is really amiss about the Papadop FBI interviews.
Why did they want to interview him? What is so important about the timing of his meeting with the professor? Smells like he was setup to lie.
Considering he was reported to have been on Hillary's short list for VP in 2016, I'd say he got the finished product via email from her staff and then was instructed to submit it under his own name.Quote:
McRaven had an opinion piece for The Washington Post ready to go in less than 24 hrs.
