Thank you for your service, Sir!drcrinum said:
Not far from the truth. I'm flattered to say the least. I think I'm doing rather good though, considering I can say that Joe Biden is several years my junior.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is warning his country's citizens against interfering in foreign elections, calling it "unacceptable" under any circumstance.
Zelensky also rejected any possibility that Ukraine is involved in attempts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The comments came just a day after a top U.S. counterintelligence official said that a pro-Russian Ukrainian lawmaker was participating in a Kremlin effort to meddle in the November election.
"Once again, I assure our partners that Ukraine did not allow and will not allow itself to intervene in the future in the elections and thereby harm our trustworthy and sincere partnerships with the United States," Zelensky said in a statement shared on Facebook on Saturday.
He added that preventing Ukraine's domestic policy from interfering in U.S. affairs was a "matter of our national security."
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William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said Friday that foreign adversaries including Russia, China and Iran are targeting the upcoming U.S. presidential election. In his report, he said that Russia was deploying a range of measures to "primarily denigrate" presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and boost President Trump.
"Some Kremlin-linked actors are also seeking to boost President Trump's candidacy on social media and Russian television," Evanina said.
He said that Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach, whom he described as "pro Russia," was "spreading claims about corruption including through publicizing leaked phone calls to undermine Biden's candidacy and the Democratic Party."
He's been pretty good on the Russia hoaxGarrelli 5000 said:
From Matt Taibbi's site no less.
He has historically been pretty far left and anti-right.
Agreed, it appears McCabe did it:TRM said:
This person says it was McCabe who did the briefing
This was a requested briefing by the SSCI -- pre-arranged from sometime earlier. In preparing for this briefing though, McCabe would have consulted with Laufman and reviewed his Danchenko negotiating & interview notes notes as well as the official 302s on Danchenko for that 3 day January 2017 interview. Methinks Laufman could see the handwriting on the wall that McCabe was going to mislead the SSCI in order to provide cover for Mueller & decided to jump ship so he could obtain a lucrative private practice before the 'fit hit the shan'.Quote:
5 (U) SSCI Transcript of the Interview with Andrew McCabe, February 14, 2018, p. 36.
He/She is right, as usual...read the whole thing.Quote:
A stunning FBI document was released by the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier today.
The document is titled "SSCI Briefing on Former Employee of Christopher Steele", and subtitled "Draft Talking Points As Of 14 February 2018."
A general characterization of the content of the document would be that it lays out ways to address the issue of the FBI's knowledge of Steele's "Primary Subsource", now known to have been Igor Danchenko. A 57 page "electronic communication" detailing the late January 2017 interview of Danchenko, lasting over a period of 3 days, has previously been declassified and released by the Senate. I wrote about the contents of the EC here.
That "EC" revealed that Danchenko's "network" of sources for the information he delivered to Steele was nothing more than childhood friends and drinking buddies, none of whom were in positions in Russia that brought them into the orbit of Russian intelligence services, or had access to any insider information from the Putin government as was portrayed in Steele's memos.
The newly released FBI document, which is captioned as a "Draft" addresses how the information known by the FBI about Danchencko should be communicated to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Those details are important, and I will get to them in a moment. But what is most important to understand here is the calendar.
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But the most outrageous parts of the memo comes at the end when the FBI offers its assessment of Danchenko and the impact of his interview on the allegations of the memos which by this time have been used 4 times to secure FISA warrants on Carter Page.
Why? Because by this point in time the SCO knew the Russia allegations were baseless and they had now turned their effort into an inquiry into "obstruction." But they needed to maintain the "cover" of a continuing investigation of Russia connections, and the best way to do that was to take the information that was already made public with the publication of the Steele Memos and advise the Senate Intelligence
Committee that the sourcing behind the claims in those memos was valid even if the specific claims themselves had been difficult to confirm.
What we don't know at this point is who was behind this memo, and this effort to blatantly mislead the Senate Committee. The potential class of actors involved cannot be that big. This is why the silence of certain former FBI officials is so intriguing. Someone has talked about how this memo came to be, and who was behind the formulation.
Hopefully, that question will be answered by Durham soon.
"Reasonably sound intelligence tradecraft'????? Reasonably?Quote:
But the most outrageous parts of the memo comes at the end when the FBI offers its assessment of Danchenko and the impact of his interview on the allegations of the memos which by this time have been used 4 times to secure FISA warrants on Carter Page.Quote:
How have discussions with Danchenko affected the FBl's understanding of or confidence in the Steele dossier? At MINIMUM, our discussions with Danchenko confirm that the dossier was not fabricated by Steele. Our discussions with Danchenko confirmed that he operates within high level academic and government circles, maintains trusted relationships with individuals who are capable of reporting on the material he collected for Steele, and that Steele and utilized reasonably sound intelligence tradecraft.
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.....Everything in this memo would have been vetted by the SCO. Everything in this memo was part of "Crossfire Hurricane", and when Rosenstein appointed Mueller he assigned to the SCO the entirely of the investigation that Comey had referred to during his testimony before Congress in late March 2017 -- including everything in the Steele memos. These subjects were now under the control and supervision of the SCO, and on these issues the FBI was working for the SCO.
To the extent this memo misled the Senate, that was Robert Mueller's SCO misleading the Senate -- plain and simple.....
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The only possible purpose for taking this clearly unjustified view at this point in time was to keep the Senate Intelligence Committee in neutral and on the sideline and to use the Senate Intelligence Committee members as a "shield" to ward off pursuit by AG Barr of inquiries that could have exposed the fraud......
Personally, I'm not 'so quick' to give Mueller 'carte blanche'. He likely 'handed off' the bulk of the investigation to Weissmann, but doubt he was blind/obtuse as to its direction and illicit intent.drcrinum said:Quote:
.....Everything in this memo would have been vetted by the SCO. Everything in this memo was part of "Crossfire Hurricane", and when Rosenstein appointed Mueller he assigned to the SCO the entirely of the investigation that Comey had referred to during his testimony before Congress in late March 2017 -- including everything in the Steele memos. These subjects were now under the control and supervision of the SCO, and on these issues the FBI was working for the SCO.
To the extent this memo misled the Senate, that was Robert Mueller's SCO misleading the Senate -- plain and simple.....
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The only possible purpose for taking this clearly unjustified view at this point in time was to keep the Senate Intelligence Committee in neutral and on the sideline and to use the Senate Intelligence Committee members as a "shield" to ward off pursuit by AG Barr of inquiries that could have exposed the fraud......
At this juncture, I doubt Mueller knew much about what was going on with his investigation. Rather, this was Weissmann's doings. And as far as the SSCI was concerned, we know that Warner was helping Weissmann keep blinders on the other Committee members.
Mueller knew what he wanted to know. Same with the weasel, Rod Rosenstein. Both could be Sergeant Schultz when it suited them.Quote:
Personally, I'm not 'so quick' to give Mueller 'carte blanche'. He likely 'handed off' the bulk of the investigation to Weissmann, but doubt he was blind/obtuse as to its direction and illicit intent.
McCabe was soooooo close to getting away with it too. Thought he had skated on federal charges. So when he gets charged with multiple counts of perjury before Congress??drcrinum said:
More confirmation that McCabe did the briefing with the SSCI on February 14, 2018. Scott Schools, a career civil servant, was Associate Deputy Attorney General from 2016 to July 2018.
RulesForTheNotForMe said:
Sounds like the answer for everyone that worked under Obama. Either the most incompetent administration or the most corrupt.
I think everyone knows the answer to that question...
RulesForTheNotForMe said:
Sounds like the answer for everyone that worked under Obama. Either the most incompetent administration or the most corrupt.
I think everyone knows the answer to that question...
CYA attempt at least 2 years too late. He still may have some good info thoughaggiehawg said:
sundance doesn't like Schrage very much.
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drcrinum said:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/08/10/status-update-meet-at-the-old-mill-we-ride-at-midnight/
Sundance & his group have briefed someone on Durham's Team about their findings. If Durham hasn't acted by Friday night, the name of Durham's staffer will be leaked & Sundance's group will begin briefing larger audiences on their findings. He says their briefing lasts about 1.5 hours.
Too much drama. Color me skeptical.drcrinum said:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/08/10/status-update-meet-at-the-old-mill-we-ride-at-midnight/
Sundance & his group have briefed someone on Durham's Team about their findings. If Durham hasn't acted by Friday night, the name of Durham's staffer will be leaked & Sundance's group will begin briefing larger audiences on their findings. He says their briefing lasts about 1.5 hours.
I pray you are wrong.who?mikejones said:
Also, no one is going to listen to it. It's a wacky conspiracy theory starter kit, even if the information is true and verified.
Perception is reality and when those who control the perception arent on your side... good luck.
As many other have said, nothing will come from Durham's or Barr's investigations. The beast is too big.
You'll be in a much better mood within the next 20 business days.Rockdoc said:
Too many subpoenas, too many hearings, too much bravado. Too little action. I'm done.
benchmark said:You'll be in a much better mood within the next 20 business days.Rockdoc said:
Too many subpoenas, too many hearings, too much bravado. Too little action. I'm done.
