And McClatchy responds by filing for backruptcy:

If you remember (posted on this thread back in September), Nunes also filed suit against Fusion GPS wherein McClatchy was cited as being involved with Fusion GPS to pressure Nunes against investigating Simpson & Fusion GPS. Here's the link:


https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6382462/9-4-19-Nunes-v-Fusion-GPS-Complaint.pdf

and a quote from the Conclusion of the Complaint:

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CONCLUSION

Fusion GPS, Simpson and Steele fraudulently developed the "Steele Dossier" and disseminated it to U.S. Government officials and the press as if the salacious accusations were true. Plaintiff investigated this wrongdoing, causing Fusion GPS and Simpson to retaliate against him and to take action that was intended to harass, intimidate and influence Plaintiff in the performance of his congressional investigation. That retaliation and obstruction of justice consisted of a coordinated effort by the Defendants to manufacture "ethics" complaints against Plaintiff and to utilize the press (McClatchy) as a weapon to pressure Plaintiff to back off his investigation of Fusion GPS and Simpson. Defendants' corrupt acts of racketeering are part of their regular way of doing business. That way of doing business must end here and now......

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One wonders if McClatchy was formally on the payroll of Fusion GPS or was just a willing accomplice. This might be revealed during discovery.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1191712782498091008.html

Above is a threadreader from a news reporter who covered the jury selection process in the Roger Stone trial in detail. Many of the prospective jurors expressed negative views of Trump, & when the defense attempted to strike them, the judge overruled.

Retweeted by Sydney

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However, what the DOJ did not admit publicly was how the current FBI Chief Legal Counsel, Dana Boente, participated in obtaining the April 2017 warrant. Additionally, a review of the internal FBI & DOJ scheme to obtain the fraudulent April warrant shows FBI Director James Comey couldn't get the renewal unless he convinced Main Justice to trick the President into issuing an executive order to grant surveillance on himself.

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WOW on the McClatchy info.

Get woke, McClatchy, go broke.

drcrinum said:

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And McClatchy responds by filing for backruptcy:

If you remember (posted on this thread back in September), Nunes also filed suit against Fusion GPS wherein McClatchy was cited as being involved with Fusion GPS to pressure Nunes against investigating Simpson & Fusion GPS. Here's the link:


https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6382462/9-4-19-Nunes-v-Fusion-GPS-Complaint.pdf

and a quote from the Conclusion of the Complaint:

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CONCLUSION

Fusion GPS, Simpson and Steele fraudulently developed the "Steele Dossier" and disseminated it to U.S. Government officials and the press as if the salacious accusations were true. Plaintiff investigated this wrongdoing, causing Fusion GPS and Simpson to retaliate against him and to take action that was intended to harass, intimidate and influence Plaintiff in the performance of his congressional investigation. That retaliation and obstruction of justice consisted of a coordinated effort by the Defendants to manufacture "ethics" complaints against Plaintiff and to utilize the press (McClatchy) as a weapon to pressure Plaintiff to back off his investigation of Fusion GPS and Simpson. Defendants' corrupt acts of racketeering are part of their regular way of doing business. That way of doing business must end here and now......

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One wonders if McClatchy was formally on the payroll of Fusion GPS or was just a willing accomplice. This might be revealed during discovery.

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Learn to code

Heh, the fake news business is literally going bankrupt trying to stay out of trouble re: how fake it is.

Surely Wray will not be in that position long?

Unbelievable. Sundance needs to be added to Barr's/Durham's staff,

I guess this verifies he is the whistle blower...
....and Chief Justice Roberts consulted with Schiff.

McClatchy was one of the go to sources for our resident Collusion Delusion believers.

It seems rather dumb for them to go messing with Senators and such.

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McClatchy was one of the go to sources for our resident Collusion Delusion believers.

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Indeed. McClatchy went full TDS. On occasion when they got tremendous pushback, they would issue a retraction, but not very often. And their original false reporting remained online and not corrected, only to be reposted here time and time again.

Quite frustrating.

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It seems rather dumb for them to go messing with Senators and such.

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I prefer the term "brazen".

They don't fear anything.
They do what they want and can even control what messages the government and officials can publish/put forth for public consumption.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/13/roger-stone-jury-selection/

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When Tomeka Hart was interviewed during the jury selection process as part of the Roger Stone trial, the former Democratic congressional candidate said she was generally aware of developments in the Russia investigation, but that she didn't "pay that close attention" to the probe.

She also insisted that Stone's affiliation with President Donald Trump would "absolutely not" color her views of the longtime Trump confidante, according to a copy of a court transcript obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

But Hart's social media record, which emerged Wednesday after she came forward as the foreperson on Stone's jury, paints a different picture.

Hart's Twitter account shows that she tweeted frequently about developments in the special counsel's investigation, typically stories that were negative for Trump. She was also intensely critical of Trump and his followers.

In one Aug. 19, 2017 post, Hart referred to Trump as the "#KlanPresident," an apparent reference to the Ku Klux Klan.

In another, Hart asserted that all Trump supporters are racist.

"Then stop being racists. Co-signing and defending a racist and his racist rhetoric makes you racist. Point blank," she wrote on Aug. 2, 2019....

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There's plenty more in the article regarding tweets as well as direct questions she answered from the judge. Oh, and she was a CNN watcher.

Should be an automatic mistrial, amiright?

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Should be an automatic mistrial, amiright?

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Who knows? Undercover Huber, a white-hat lawyer, says he's still guilty. Read below:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1227977304338501632.html

Amy Obama Jackson won't declare a mistrial. But, she's never gonna be considered for the SCOTUS now, since she has proven to be incapable of being apolitical or running even a proper jury selection process at the trial court level, on a fairly mundane case.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/politics/jessie-liu-trump-administration/index.html

Boo-hoo. What's she going to do next? Take a CNN gig?

I like the way this guy presents things.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/us/politics/durham-cia-russia.html

This looks really significant, but the article is paywalled. Could someone please copy/paste?

It appears that a friendly foreign government obtained emails supposedly hacked by the Russians & provided them to the CIA. The emails included some from Obama, so Obama's WH counsel blocked the CIA from examining the emails. Brennan apparently was hiding evidence in order to make it appear that the Russians favored Trump when that wasn't the case.

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will25u said:

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There is a chrome extension that can help with that. If anyone is interested in it send me a message and I'll help you out.

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Well if you can do that, good God man, get crackin' and help us all out!


















Please and thank you!

I can't copy the whole thing or staph will give me a red checkmark, but here is the jist of it.

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WASHINGTON Trump administration officials investigating the government's response to Russia's election interference in 2016 appear to be hunting for a basis to accuse Obama-era intelligence officials of hiding evidence or manipulating analysis about Moscow's covert operation, according to people familiar with aspects of the inquiry.

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Questions asked by Mr. Durham, who was assigned by Attorney General William P. Barr to scrutinize the early actions of law enforcement and intelligence officials struggling to understand the scope of Russia's scheme, suggest that Mr. Durham may have come to view with suspicion several clashes between analysts at different intelligence agencies over who could see each other's highly sensitive secrets, the people said.

Mr. Durham appears to be pursuing a theory that the C.I.A., under its former director John O. Brennan, had a preconceived notion about Russia or was trying to get to a particular result and was nefariously trying to keep other agencies from seeing the full picture lest they interfere with that goal, the people said.

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But officials from the F.B.I. and the National Security Agency have told Mr. Durham and his investigators that such an interpretation is wrong and based on a misunderstanding of how the intelligence community functions, the people said. National security officials are typically cautious about sharing their most delicate information, like source identities, even with other agencies inside the executive branch.

Mr. Durham's questioning is certain to add to accusations that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies, like Mr. Brennan, who has been an outspoken critic of the president. Mr. Barr, who is overseeing the investigation, has come under attack in recent days over senior Justice Department officials' intervention to lighten a prison sentencing recommendation by lower-level prosecutors for Mr. Trump's longtime friend Roger J. Stone Jr.

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A spokesman for Mr. Durham did not respond to phone and email inquiries. The C.I.A. and the National Security Agency declined to comment. The people familiar with aspects of Mr. Durham's investigation spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.

The Durham investigation has rattled current and former intelligence officers. Little precedent exists for a criminal prosecutor to review the analytic judgment-making process of intelligence agencies, said Michael Morrell, a former acting C.I.A. director who left the government in 2013.
"This whole thing is so abnormal," Mr. Morrell said.

Prosecutors are ill equipped to assess how analysts work, he added. "The bar for making a legal judgment is really high. The bar for an analytic decision is much lower," Mr. Morrell said. "So he is going to get the wrong answer if he tries to figure out if they had enough information to make this judgment."

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Mr. Durham's questions shed additional light on where he may be going.

In recent months, Mr. Durham and his team have examined emails among a small goup of intelligence analysts from multiple agencies, including the C.I.A., F.B.I. and National Security Agency, who worked together to assess the Russian operation. Investigators have interviewed those analysts and their supervisors about the motivations behind several episodes in which some sought access to delicate information from the other agencies and were told initially, at least that they could not see it.

One fight, they said, concerned the identity and placement of a C.I.A. source inside the Kremlin. Analysts at the National Security Agency wanted to know more about him to weigh the credibility of his information. The C.I.A. was initially reluctant to share details about the Russian's identity but eventually relented.

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Officials also differed over access to unclassified emails of American officials that the Russian government had previously hacked, including at the White House and State Department.

A foreign ally's intelligence service had obtained its own copy of the stolen messages and provided drives with another reproduction of them to the United States government. Investigators, including at the F.B.I., wanted to look at those files. They argued that the Russian hackers' chosen focus while the Kremlin's election interference operation was gearing up might shed light on that operation.

But an index of the messages compiled by the unnamed foreign ally showed that they included emails from President Barack Obama as well as members of Congress. Mr. Obama's White House counsel, W. Neil Eggleston, decided that investigators should not open the drives, citing executive privilege and the possibility of a separation-of-powers uproar if the F.B.I. sifted through lawmakers' private messages.

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Thank you very much!

drcrinum said:

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Thank you very much!

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My pleasure. Thanks for all the good work you do on this board.

https://www.businessinsider.com/report-russia-hacked-the-white-house-2015-4

Here's a story from April 2015 about how Russian hackers gained access the State Department computer system, & from there they gained access to the White House.

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...A phishing-style attack allowed Russian hackers to access a State Department computer network, which in turn allowed access to the White House's system.

The hackers were working for the Russian government but did not succeed in accessing any classified networks, according to CNN....

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Well, if they obtained Obama's emails & Congressional emails per the above NYTs article, they were into 'classified' networks.

Ah. You don't have stars so I can't PM you. I don't know how you keep up with the threads without stars. I have tried it before, and it is horrible.

I have used it before and know it works. There is a long list of sites at the link. I think it only works on PC versions of chrome. Maybe Mac, not sure.

The install instructions are on the site also.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

aggiehawg said:

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But an index of the messages compiled by the unnamed foreign ally showed that they included emails from President Barack Obama as well as members of Congress. Mr. Obama's White House counsel, W. Neil Eggleston, decided that investigators should not open the drives, citing executive privilege and the possibility of a separation-of-powers uproar if the F.B.I. sifted through lawmakers' private messages.

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How rich is that? After this whole obstruction of Congress impeachment? White House Counsel "decided" that investigators could not open the drives and then the invocation of separation of powers?

Schiff should be made to choke on that article.

ETA: Thanks, Tailgate!! MMMWWWHHHAAA! Big kiss!

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Aww, it was nothing. Thank YOU for all the Hawgsplaining you do for us IANALs!!

Thank you dear.

And as for keeping up with threads, I have a good memory and at my age, doing that without prompting is mental exercise for me. I was a trial lawyer, after all. Keeping track of many different things at the same time is what I was trained to do.

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The Durham investigation has rattled current and former intelligence officers. Little precedent exists for a criminal prosecutor to review the analytic judgment-making process of intelligence agencies, said Michael Morrell, a former acting C.I.A. director who left the government in 2013.
"This whole thing is so abnormal," Mr. Morrell said.

Prosecutors are ill equipped to assess how analysts work, he added. "The bar for making a legal judgment is really high. The bar for an analytic decision is much lower," Mr. Morrell said. "So he is going to get the wrong answer if he tries to figure out if they had enough information to make this judgment."

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They're really worried, especially Brennan. Durham's expertise is investigating CIA activities; he's been chief investigator in two high profile instances involving the CIA. If you recall, back in December Durham requested to review all of Brennan's emails & communications --

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...Durham has "requested Mr. Brennan's emails, call logs and other documents from the C.I.A., according to a person briefed on his inquiry," The New York Times reported. "He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.'s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates."...

Durham is also reportedly taking a close look at whether Brennan made contradictory statements between his private and public remarks about the anti-Trump Steele dossier and about "any debate among the intelligence agencies over their conclusions on Russia's interference."...

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https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-durham-criminal-investigation-zeros-in-on-brennan-communications-with-comey

Obama's Intelligence Community Assessment -- if this is shown to be bogus, the whole Russian collusion business gets thrown out the window.

I do marvel at industries that require focus and memory all the time. For folks who have some form of attention issues, I don't see how they would be successful trial attorneys.

Just an observation.

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The Durham investigation has rattled current and former intelligence officers. Little precedent exists for a criminal prosecutor to review the analytic judgment-making process of intelligence agencies, said Michael Morrell, a former acting C.I.A. director who left the government in 2013.
"This whole thing is so abnormal," Mr. Morrell said.

Prosecutors are ill equipped to assess how analysts work, he added. "The bar for making a legal judgment is really high. The bar for an analytic decision is much lower," Mr. Morrell said. "So he is going to get the wrong answer if he tries to figure out if they had enough information to make this judgment."

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But Congresscritters, such as the Senate, are okay with doing that, right? Ever heard of the Church Committee?

Dumbass.