Stretch (06-26-2019)
He doesn't have to answer shit. But we would like to see these questions answered:
1. Your report seems to indicate that you could not corroborate the Christopher Steele dossier. What steps did you take to review Steele’s source material?
Did you identify any of his original sources and speak to them?
Did you interview Steele directly? Was that interview transcribed?
Did any of Steele’s sources come from inside the United States—e.g., the State Department or individuals with ties to the Democratic National Committee or the Clinton campaign?
Did you determine whether Steele paid any of these sources? If so, how much and who did he pay?
2. Public reports indicate that your number two, Andrew Weissmann, received briefings from Justice Department (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr regarding the Trump investigation as early as the summer of 2016. When did you and Weissmann first discuss the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 election? In 2016, did anyone discuss with you the possibility of you participating in an investigation of Trump?
3. During the course of the investigation, did the special counsel’s office receive any assistance or leads from Fusion GPS?
4. Did you authorize any contact with the media by any member of the special counsel staff (including investigators)? Would you object to an investigation into whether any of the more than 25 leaks attributed to your team violated DOJ policy on media contact or its Rules of Professional Conduct regarding prosecutors releasing information to the media about a target?
5. How did the Washington Post obtain a copy of your March 17 letter to Attorney General William Barr, in which you objected to his summary of the bottom-line conclusions of your report?
6. You indicate in your report that the investigation into the Trump campaign began with a contact between George Papadopoulos and Alexander Downer. Where did you get that information?
7. The New York Times has speculated that the Russians may have fed Steele disinformation in order to sow chaos into the U.S. election. Do you agree or disagree with that assessment? Why? Why doesn’t your report address this aspect of Russian interference?
8. Was there any discussion within the special counsel team on whether to include in the report information about the Fusion GPS research project on Trump and Russia?
9. What is your understanding of why the FBI didn’t notify Donald Trump that there was a concern the Russians were trying to influence the election? Was the FBI trying to catch Trump in the act of colluding?
10. Public reports indicate that you learned of a series of text messages between FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page in the summer of 2017 and that you ultimately dismissed Strzok from the investigation. Is that true? Which text messages caused you concern?
11. It’s also been reported that you returned or allowed to be returned the Strzok/Page cell phones back to the FBI information technology department, leading to the irretrievable erasing of many of those text messages. Why didn’t you preserve their text messages after you learned that they had exchanged inappropriate text messages on their phones?
12. Public reports indicate that FBI investigators did not think that former national security advisor Michael Flynn intentionally lied to the FBI during his interview and that his misstatements were inadvertent or the result of misremembering. Is that true?
13. Why was a summary of Flynn’s interview prepared in July 2017, approximately six months after it occurred?
14. Did any of the members of the special counsel team seek or were they provided an ethics opinion regarding any conflicts of interest? Who? What were the sources of those potential conflicts?
15. On April 27, 2018, the House issued a report finding Trump did not collude with the Russians. Why were you not prepared to issue a similar finding in early 2018? What steps in your investigation remained unresolved that kept you from reaching a similar conclusion last year?
16. Barr testified that if a president is falsely accused of a crime, he may properly end an investigation into that accusation if the investigation is interfering with his executive functions. Do you agree? Why or why not?
17. Jeannie Rhee, a member of your team, was assigned to work on the Papadopoulos case. She also worked to protect the Clinton Foundation in a case a few months earlier while at the law firm WilmerHale.
It has since come out that Clinton paid for the Steele dossier that falsely accused Trump of colluding with the Russians. To deflect blame from Clinton for starting the Russia investigation, many claimed the investigation didn’t start with the Steele dossier but with the Papadopoulos encounter with Downer. Can you see how Rhee’s participation in the prosecution of Papadopoulos shields Clinton (Rhee’s former client) from liability for the Steele dossier?
18. There is a report that you turned over the day-to-day operations of the special counsel team to Weissmann. How do you respond to that account? Is there any evidence or log of how much time you physically came to the office to supervise the team?
19. Several of the public announcements made in connection with the special counsel report coincided with important foreign policy trips by the president. For example, days before the president had his first summit with Vladamir Putin on July 16, 2018, the special counsel unsealed indictments against Russian GRU actors and the deputy attorney general held a highly sensational press conference.
In November 2018, a number of leaks that appeared to originate from your office coincided with the president’s G-20 summit, which may have played a role in the cancellation of a meeting between Trump and Putin. Has there ever been any discussion within the special counsel’s office regarding its impact on current events? Was any strategy discussed to either minimize or maximize that impact?
20. Several members of the special counsel team left high-paying jobs outside of the government. For example, you and Rhee both left jobs at WilmerHale. Were you aware of what, if any, assurances or arrangements were made so people would have jobs to return to when the special counsel project was over? Have any of those arrangements or assurances been submitted to an ethics advisor for an opinion on conflicts of interest?
21. Did the special counsel’s office attempt to interview Julian Assange to determine how he obtained the emails from the DNC and the John Podesta hacks?
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Stretch (06-26-2019)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Got to love it when a Trumpkin post a "copy and paste" piece and leaves off the source, says a lot
One could go thru each one of the segments, but why, most of them are just a regurgitation of Hannity conspiracies, but we'll look at the first given we like to attempt content rather than just echo personal attacks
Why would Mueller have to concern himself with the dossier? There are I believe four FISA applications, three approved by Trump's own picked assistant AG, and none which rely on the Steele dossier for authorization. As I've said before, if a Trumpkin would actually read the applications, the primary source, rather than listening to demogogues, they'd see at best it was minor player
In addition, Mueller's appointment by the Trump Justice Dept wasn't to investigate the investigators, but rather Russian influence in the election. Finding no evidence of Russian involvement might have led to inquires regarding why the whole issue was raised, but we all know that wasn't the case, Russia was everywhere, including the Trump campaign
Again, this is just the Trump deflection promoted by the demogogues and obviously swallowed by the Trumpkins, the remainder of "truthie's" plagiarized piece is largely similar
I have to laugh at an nitwit like you who thinks this is a an argument. https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/14...fies-congress/
This didn't come from Hannity you sad pathetic sack. You can't argue without your predictable LYING and CRYING can you snowflake?
Simple; because if you dealt in facts instead of CNN talking points, the Dossier was the primary catalyst used to spy on a Presidential campaign by useless Obama holdovers that thought they could overturn the results of an election like a Third World Fascistic coup.
Who is claiming it was scarecrow? You love constructing strawmen, crying and lying don't you? The Mueller investigation wasn't about Russian influence in the election you simple minded tool, it was to investigate collusion between the Trump campaign and Russians. An asinine HOAX that turned out to be just that.
Robert S. Mueller III is appointed to serve as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice.
(b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confined by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
Wrong again you whiny nitwit; it is about a cabal of Obama holdovers in the Justice Department spying on the Trump campaign in an effort to derail with the mistaken belief that their corrupt behavior would be hidden by a Hillary victory.
Once that turned out to be a false hope, they began a disinformation campaign that would embarrass the former Communist KGB
The facts are coming out nitwit; you're going to look as pathetic and stupid as you always do with this bullshit you construct every damned day. You do realize that you are a nitwit who is NEVER right about anything don't you?
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Southern Chicken (06-26-2019), Stretch (06-26-2019)
"The Federalist," my bad, not Hannity conspiracies, rather pseudo intellectual attempts to rationalize Hannity conspiracies, does explain why he left the site source off his intial post
Dossier was not the "primary catalyst" in anything, again, for the umpteenth time, read the primary source, the dossier doesn't even make its way into the first FICA applications till the later stages, the rationale was already made before they even got to the dossier. You are just recycling the same erroneous talk radio rhetoric
https://www.lawfareblog.com/document...sa-application
Also misquoted the authorization memo leaving off the purpose of appointing a Special Counsel, "to ensure full and thorough investigation of Russian Governmemt efforts to influence the 2016 election," part of which included why you attempted to pass off as the actual reason why Mueller was appointed
Rest of your whatever is again just a repeat of the same inneundos Hannity propagandized nightly
silliness.Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified before the Committee that but for reliance on the 35-page dossier, authored by Christopher Steele, the FISA warrant would neither have been sought nor obtained. After previously rejecting their initial request, The FISA judges relied on two sources as a basis for the eventual issuance of the warrant: the dossier authored by a foreign agent, Christopher Steele, and a Yahoo News report Mr. Steele gave to Yahoo News.
https://aclj.org/government-corrupti...court-revealed
Steele got his info from da Russians contacts. doing business with Russians on the other hand is not illegal or unethicalIn addition, Mueller's appointment by the Trump Justice Dept wasn't to investigate the investigators, but rather Russian influence in the election. Finding no evidence of Russian involvement might have led to inquires regarding why the whole issue was raised, but we all know that wasn't the case, Russia was everywhere, including the Trump campaign
Stretch (06-26-2019), Truth Detector (06-26-2019)
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Evidently, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified before the Committee that but for reliance on the 35-page dossier, authored by Christopher Steele, the FISA warrant would neither have been sought nor obtained. After previously rejecting their initial request, The FISA judges relied on two sources as a basis for the eventual issuance of the warrant: the dossier authored by a foreign agent, Christopher Steele, and a Yahoo News report Mr. Steele gave to Yahoo News.
This behavior is a massive abuse of power and should outrage all Americans of both political parties.
In essence, a surveillance warrant was issued against an American citizen grounded in unverified, uncorroborated claims made by a foreign agent who “was desperate” to prevent the current President from winning the 2016 election and was passionate about him not being President. Despite this hostility toward the current President, in a 2017 filing in a British Court, Mr. Steele, said the claims he made in the dossier were unverified. Speaking through his attorneys regarding an alleged hacker, Steele “acknowledges that the part of the 35-page dossier that identified Mr. Gubarev as a rogue hacker came from “unsolicited intelligence” and “raw intelligence” that “needed to be analyzed and further investigated/verified.” Mr. Steele’s court filing portrays him as a victim of Fusion GPS — the Washington firm that hired him with money from a Hillary Clinton backer. Fusion GPS specializes in opposition research for political parties and circulated the Steele dossier among reporters in an effort to injure the opponent of one of the major political parties. Mr. Steele’s unreliability is confirmed by virtue of evidence that Christopher Steele lied to the FBI when he said he did not speak to the media.
Based largely on the information contained in the Steele dossier, financed by Fusion GPS and funded by a political party with the aid of the party’s law firm, on October 21, 2016, the DOJ and FBI obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting a peripheral member of the Trump campaign and subsequently three FISA renewals from the FISC.
The FISA statute, 50 U.S.C. §1805 (d)(1) requires a FISA order on an American citizen be renewed by FISC every 90 days. Each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-FBI-Director James Comey, the now-disgraced former director, signed three FISA applications on behalf of the FBI, and former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Signing on behalf of the DOJ were the Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, and current Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of the Department of Justice. Parenthetically, readers should note that Mr. Boente currently serves as General Counsel for the FBI currently led by FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Because foreign intelligence activity is very sensitive and because surveilling American citizens implicates the important constitutional rights we hold as citizens, the integrity of the FISA process depends on the court’s ability to hold the government to the highest standards. This means that the evidence adduced before the court must demonstrate probable cause as well as the absence of bias. Thus, all material and relevant evidence favorable to the American target should be released to the court, including evidence that the affidavit on which the FISA warrant was issued was grounded in unverified evidence funded by a political party. In addition, FISC’s rigor in protecting the rights of Americans including applications for a 90-day renewal of surveillance order depends on the government’s production to the court of all material relevant facts including evidence of bias attributed to Mr. Steele, Fusion GPS, and an opposition political party.
Failure to submit all material evidence to the FISA court constitutes a fraud on the court. Even more outrageous, the source of the relevant FISA order targeting Carter Page was created by a foreign national. This means that the FBI and DOJ outsourced their research and arguably violated their solemn duty to the American people. By doing so, these two government departments fueled the narrative that the Russian interfered in America’s last presidential election. On the contrary, the adducible evidence shows that members of the FBI and the DOJ interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign much more than any Russian operative. They placed their fingers on the scales of democracy to favor one candidate over another.
This behavior suggests that each individual who signed the FISA applications on behalf of the DOJ and/or the FBI, should be required to testify under oath before Congress and the American people and give a defensible account for their misconduct. Otherwise they must face consequences. They must be held accountable.
https://aclj.org/government-corrupti...court-revealed
Truth Detector (06-26-2019)
Lying and CRYING again.
You low IQ nitwit; READ the application. Who do you think SOURCE #1 is??? It's in YOUR link Moron.
I pasted it directly from the document you dishonest hack. Stop the lying you clueless nitwit. The investigation had NOTHING to do with the election hacking or influence in the election.
Robert S. Mueller III is appointed to serve as Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice.
(b) The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct the investigation confined by then-FBI Director James B. Comey in testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on March 20, 2017, including:
(i) any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump; and
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-re...67231/download
The only one crying, lying and using innuendos is you nitwit. Unfortunately for you, I don't watch Hannity so you can stop that stupid nonsense as well you low IQ dumb fuck.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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