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Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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pathetic that they did not follow the money now admitted by one of the investigators. and pathetic they did not spell out obstruction of justice. what do you expect by Mueller a life long republican.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mueller-prosecutor-says-special-counsel-could-have-done-more-to-hold-trump-accountable/ar-BB19hb0l?ocid=msedgntp
Mueller prosecutor says special counsel could have done more to hold Trump accountable
Quote: | Mueller prosecutor says special counsel could have done more to hold Trump accountable
Mueller ultimately concluded he could not prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the last presidential election. He drew no conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice in part because of a Justice Department legal opinion that a sitting president cannot be indicted, combined with concerns over fairness, because if he faced no indictment, Trump could not defend himself in court. Attorney General William P. Barr and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said ahead of the reports public release that they evaluated the case themselves and determined Trump could not be charged with obstruction.
Weissmann condemns Barr, White House attorneys and others for enabling a lawless president. He confesses that the office never overcame a key challenge: the presidents power to fire us and to pardon wrongdoers who might otherwise cooperate.
Weissmann is critical of Mueller for not stating plainly that he had concluded Trump obstructed justice, which Weissmann said the evidence showed. Weissmann said in an interview with The Washington Post that he told Mueller he would have stated that conclusion in the teams final report.
Director Muellers decision was to not make that conclusion, and by the way, I would have done it, Weissmann said. I told him why I would have done that.
Weissmann said that while he believed it remained possible for Trump to be charged after he leaves office, he was noncommittal on whether he should be.
I would want to know from the president or anybody else who you were focused on . . . please tell me why we are factually or legally wrong but what you want us to consider, Weissmann said. You want to hear from the defense and see what youre missing, and then you need to make the decision, assuming you got through all of that, whether its really the right thing for the country at that point. |
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2021 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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add to it the Police and border patrol...
https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-trip-problems-rekindle-221331515.html
Police union PACs launch text attacks on The Squad
https://news.yahoo.com/vp-harris-apos-advocating-lawlessness-181500213.html
VP Harris 'advocating for lawlessness,' Border Patrol union president says
and again here is FBI agent who illegally leaked FBI investigating Clinton Foundation so that trump would win.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/doj-s-relentless-pursuit-has-andrew-mccabe-talking-about-john-durham/ar-AAKZ1ve
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One such pursuit is special counsel John Durham's criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, which fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe brought up as he appeared alongside CNN anchor Pamela Brown on Friday to comment on the revelation that the Trump-era Justice Department seized data from at least two House Intelligence Committee Democrats and reporters as part of a leak investigation a matter which is now under review by the DOJ inspector general.
Both appeared to be of the same opinion that the Trump administration was abusing law enforcement to target political adversaries, and Brown said she is "bracing" for the next big disclosure to rock the media landscape. She asked, "Who else was targeted? Who are the others?"
In response, McCabe talked about his personal experience, casting himself as being the victim of an unprecedented retaliatory campaign. That's when he mentioned Durham's review.
"It's the relentless pursuit of these cases despite no factual results, right? Despite unproductive investigations. And look, that's been my own experience. I've been under investigation since January of 2017, right? It's one investigation after another. I guess if you count John Durham, then maybe I still am," he said.
"It is the relentless pursuit of retaliation against perceived enemies, and I don't think we've seen anything like that from the Justice Department or any part of this government prior to the Trump administration," McCabe added.
McCabe, who now has a job at CNN, was fired from the FBI in early 2018 and sued the Justice Department for wrongful termination, seeking to regain his job and back pay and claiming that former President Donald Trump was behind a scheme to force him out right before he was set to retire. A federal judge ruled in September that McCabes lawsuit should be allowed to move toward discovery, rejecting the Trump administrations efforts to dismiss the case.
The Justice Department declined to pursue criminal charges against McCabe last year after Inspector General Michael Horowitz released a report in 2018 detailing multiple instances in which McCabe lacked candor with former FBI Director James Comey, FBI investigators, and inspector general investigators about his authorization to leak sensitive information to the Wall Street Journal that revealed the existence of an FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation.
McCabe said in 2019 he was the one who ordered an obstruction of justice inquiry into Trump after the firing of Comey to ensure the Russia investigation would not "vanish in the night without a trace." He also told FBI investigators that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein sought Comey's advice on appointing a special counsel after playing a role in his firing.
The Russia investigation, which Trump derided as a "witch hunt," is now under review by Durham.
Durham began the review while serving as a U.S. attorney following an appointment by former Attorney General William Barr. Although Durham left his role as U.S. attorney, the Biden administration has let the inquiry continue.
Durham has so far secured only one guilty plea. FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who has since left the bureau, admitted to Durham in the summer that he falsified a document during the bureaus efforts to renew its authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to wiretap former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page by editing a CIA email in 2017 to state that Page was not a source." Page denied any wrongdoing and was never charged with a crime. Clinesmith was sentenced to one year of probation and no prison time.
McCabe testified to Congress last year that he was shocked and disappointed by the errors and mistakes found in these FISA applications and expressed regret about signing off on one of the renewals. As of mid-April, McCabe and Comey were two top FBI officials whom Durham's team had not yet interviewed, according to the New York Times. |
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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so IRS itself agrees this should be investigated.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/us/politics/irs-comey-mccabe.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20220707&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=115919677&segment_id=97854&user_id=f730a3b9531f5b2c781c5ff7996dd05c
I.R.S. Asks Inspector General to Review Audits of Comey and McCabe
Quote: | The I.R.S. said on Thursday that it had asked the inspector general who oversees tax matters to investigate how James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, and his deputy, Andrew G. McCabe â both perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump â came to be faced with rare, exhaustive audits that the agency says are supposed to be random.
âThe I.R.S. has referred the matter to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration for review,â the agency said in a written statement, adding that its commissioner, Charles P. Rettig had âpersonally reached outâ to the inspector general after learning about the audits.
The disclosure from the I.R.S. came a day after The New York Times reported that Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe had been the subjects of audits that target just several thousand Americans a year and are highly invasive.
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In 2017, the tax year Mr. Comey was audited for, the I.R.S. says it randomly selected about 5,000 returns for the audit out of the 153 million people who filed them. For 2019, the year Mr. McCabe was audited for, the agency says its picked about 8,000 returns of the roughly 154 million that were filed.
It is not clear how two close associates both came to be scrutinized under the same audit program in a matter of a few years. Mr. Comey and Mr. McCabe both told The Times that they had questions about how the audits had come about.
Mr. Trump said he had no knowledge of the audits. The I.R.S. has denied that any wrongdoing occurred. |
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Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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now even McCabes lawyer was slected for this audit...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-trump-s-appointee-to-the-irs-needs-to-be-walked-out-of-his-office-right-now/ar-AAZnXUx?ocid=winp2sv1plus&cvid=78e3af101f1a451cac3c2733a796c5e6
Why Trump's appointee to the IRS needs to be walked out of his office â right now
Quote: | report from The New York Times revealed this week that both former FBI director James Comey and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe found themselves on the receiving end of the rarest and most severe level of audit the Internal Revenue Service can conduct.
Former President Donald Trump fired both men from their positions toward the beginning of his term. And before Trumpâs term was over, both were subjected to a process that tax lawyers refer to âonly partly jokingly, as âan autopsy without the benefit of death,ââ according to The New York Times. Itâs been said that the only things certain in this world are death and taxes. But the odds that both Comey and McCabe would be subject to the IRSâ scrutiny at ârandomâ as the IRS claims leave me deeply, deeply suspicious.
Comey was notified in 2019 that his 2017 tax returns were selected for the rare audit program. McCabe was advised in 2021 that his 2019 returns would be scrutinized under the same program. Now, the chances of being selected for this audit are miniscule. There were almost 153 million individual returns filed for 2017, and the IRS selected only 5,000 for this most comprehensive of audits â thatâs about one return out of every 30,600. If thatâs not ârandomâ enough for you: McCabeâs attorney was audited, too.
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The odds that both Comey and McCabe would be subject to the IRSâ scrutiny at ârandomâ as the IRS claims leave me deeply, deeply suspicious.
Before dismissing this as pure coincidence, letâs consider the following facts: Comey was fired by Trump in 2017 after Comey refused to publicly refute the existence of an FBI investigation into Trump â Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign. âThe Department of Justice has authorized me to confirmâ the existence of a broader investigation into potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, Comey said during public congressional testimony. âWeâre not going to say another word about it until weâre done.â
McCabe was terminated in 2019, just 26 hours before hitting retirement and pension eligibility. The reason given was that he lacked candor while being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly inappropriate communication to a newspaper. McCabe later sued for wrongful termination and won in a settlement agreement. While the reason for the settlement isnât public, clearly DOJ found it necessary to undo McCabeâs firing and reinstate his pension â with back pay â because something was amiss with either the opening of the case, how it was conducted, or how he was terminated. |
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2022 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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ya they were pit bulls against hillary.. hater her at sdny but could not get a grand jury to indict. It was also reumored these FBI were leaking to Rudy... where was that investigation...
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republicans-refuse-grasp-clinton-standard-rcna45429?cid=eml_maddow_20220830&user_email=e73377d3e40790eecbf6a99203e1476ea2a23c644c2045abd739b8f9e629a73b&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TRMS%208/30/22&utm_term=Rachel%20Maddow%20Show
What Republicans refuse to grasp about the âClinton standardâ
Quote: | Sen. Lindsey Graham is facing quite a bit of criticism over his âriots in the streetsâ rhetoric, and for good reason: The South Carolina Republicanâs on-air comments about Donald Trumpâs followers turning to violence in the event of a possible indictment were indefensible.
There was, however, a key detail that shouldnât go overlooked. Graham didnât just seem to justify prospective violence, the longtime GOP lawmaker also went into some detail about the basis for the perceived injustice. âIf they try to prosecute President Trump for mishandling classified information after Hillary Clinton set up a server in her basement,â the senator told Fox News, âthere literally will be riots in the street.â
Yesterday morning, Republican Sen. John Cornyn wasnât nearly as reckless, though the Texan published a tweet touting the underlying partisan principle:
âDemocrats and the FBI created the Hillary Clinton standard for non-prosecution of mishandling classified information. Will Donald Trump be held to a different standard?â
Cornyn was referencing a Wall Street Journal editorial, published yesterday, pushing the idea.
For those who donât care about factual details, this framing may very well have superficial appeal: Clinton was accused of mishandling sensitive materials; Trump was accused of mishandling sensitive materials. She wasnât indicted, so therefore, he shouldnât be indicted. If the two are held to different standards, at least according to Graham, the Republicanâs most radical followers will feel justified in lashing out with literal societal violence.
The problem emerges when grown-ups bother to look beyond the surface â and notice that the allegations surrounding Clinton and Trump arenât especially similar.
Clintonâs email protocols were, of course, the subject of a lengthy criminal probe. Federal investigators appeared eager to find evidence of wrongdoing: then-FBI Director James Comey privately marveled at the âvisceral hatredâ some senior FBI officials in New York had for the former secretary of state.
But federal law enforcement nevertheless didnât charge the Democrat with any crimes because they couldnât find evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Comey took the extraordinary step of publicly criticizing Clinton anyway, but he grudgingly conceded that the FBI, following an exhaustive investigation, couldnât indict her.
Trumpâs State Department similarly conceded â late on a Friday afternoon â that there was no systemic or deliberate mishandling of classified information from Clinton. The inspector generalâs office in Trumpâs Justice Department also concluded that the FBI had no reason to charge Clinton.
Trumpâs scandal bears little resemblance to his former rivalâs. Clinton didnât take physical documents. She didnât ignore pleas for cooperation. She didnât store highly sensitive secrets at a private club that had an unfortunate habit of letting foreign spies walk around.
To be sure, itâs possible that federal investigators will examine Trumpâs alleged misconduct and come to a similar conclusion. Maybe the former president will be exonerated. Maybe it only appears that he committed a variety of felonies by bringing classified secrets to his glorified country club and refusing to give them back.
But, on the other hand, if prosecutors conclude that the Republican deserves to be indicted, it wonât be because of a double standard. It will be because the evidence proved that he broke the law.
Chances are, Graham, Cornyn, and the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal understand this. Itâs what makes their faux confusion that much more ridiculous. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 09, 2022 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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well well, FBI leaking about Presidents son...... gee near an election, again they leaked about hillary and even the head then went public before the election about Hillary. Remember Rudy even saying he was getting information when he was not in the government. But no firings or investigations on those....
And here we go with Hunter... I personally believe he should be charged right now if there is a grand jury indictment. There is just no way a jury would convict on the accounting because it is reported he had to know, which he is clueless at that time to accounting law. and the gun one, well he believed he was not using drugs when he bought the gun. daaa prove he was on drugs the timeframe he bought the gun. daaa. But i hope it does go to the jury. Anyway the laptop, well did the rusians make that hard drive and drop it off at the repair place? It was illegal for the repair person to look at personal information from what I have heard. And the FBI did not have reasonable cause and did not get a warrant to check that Russian computer.
And again if found guilty definitely Biden Pardon him, but do it in his mind and do not tell anyone till after he leaves office a few years later. Or publicly and dmand a amendment where no president can pardon anyone he personally knew or a person who acted in his behalf in any manner.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ratcliffe-surprised-by-hunter-biden-investigation-leaks/ar-AA12M8f0?ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover&cvid=0aff06f125e94ecb9ef9952b80eadbcf
Ratcliffe 'surprised' by Hunter Biden investigation leaks
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Evidence to support charges for tax crimes and a false statement pertaining to a gun purchase gathered by the FBI and Internal Revenue Service has already been sent to the U.S. attorney in Delaware, CBS News reported Friday. Now it is up to the Trump-appointed federal prosecutor, David Weiss, to pursue charges. Whatever Weiss chooses, Ratcliffe, a Trump-era spy chief, said by now he would have expected a leak about a different assortment of charges.
DAVID WEISS, THE US ATTORNEY WHO HOLDS HUNTER BIDEN'S FATE IN HIS HANDS
"What I am surprised at is that two years after having corroborating in a laptop and corroborating witnesses like Tony Bobulinski talking about foreign agent registration violations and influence peddling corruption that the leaks aren't about those types of charges," Ratcliffe told Fox News host Trey Gowdy in an interview that aired Sunday. "I would have expected that at this point in time."
Hunter Bidenâs lawyer, Chris Clark, said he wanted the Justice Department to conduct a leak investigation in response to the reporting on federal agents believing they have enough evidence to charge his client. "As is proper and legally required, we believe the prosecutors in this case are diligently and thoroughly weighing not just evidence provided by agents, but also all the other witnesses in this case, including witnesses for the defense. That is the job of the prosecutors," Clark also said. Hunter Biden has denied any wrongdoing.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2022 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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time for some real investigation to get started. We are learning the FBI knew more than they have told us about Jan 6.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/former-fbi-official-says-the-fbi-is-facing-a-crisis-of-credibility-over-questions-of-how-much-its-senior-officials-knew-leading-up-to-the-capitol-riot/ar-AA1385yT?cvid=bf16770201094e24ed14dd8733d82ae8&ocid=winp2sv1plustaskbarhover
Former FBI official says the FBI is facing a 'crisis of credibility' over questions of how much its senior officials knew leading up to the Capitol riot
Quote: | Former FBI assistant director Frank Figliuzzi says the FBI is facing a "crisis of credibility."
Figliuzzi said the agency was not being transparent about what it knew about the Capitol riot.
He called for the FBI to come clean if there was "political suppression" of its intelligence.
Frank Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director, says the agency is facing a "crisis of credibility" over conflicting information about what its senior agents knew leading up to the Capitol riot.
During an appearance on MSNBC's "Deadline" on Monday, Figliuzzi said the FBI's most senior leaders are not grasping the "gravity" of the situation. Information is now trickling out about what the FBI's officials knew leading up to the riot, he added.
"And it was a lot more than we thought they knew at the time preceding January 6," Figliuzzi said.
"It's time for complete transparency. It's time to come out and say, 'We dropped this ball, and here's why,'" Figliuzzi added.
Figliuzzi brought up how Steven D'Antuono, the head of the FBI's Washington field office, told reporters days after the Capitol riot that the FBI had not received any intelligence that pointed to the Trump Ellipse rally turning violent.
Figliuzzi also referenced FBI Director Christopher Wray's testimony to Congress in June 2021. Wray said his agency had no intelligence before January 6 that indicated that "hundreds and hundreds of people were going to breach the Capitol complex."
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On Thursday, Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the committee investigating the events of January 6, contradicted Wray's testimony. Schiff said during the panel's hearing that there was evidence that the FBI, the Capitol police, and other agencies had "gathered and disseminated" intelligence that suggested there would be violence at the Capitol.
"So which is it? You lacked specificity, or you had the intelligence to do something, and somehow it didn't happen?" Figliuzzi said.
"And I think it's going way up the chain here, even to involve political suppression of anybody who might have wanted to take further actions to secure the Capitol," Figliuzzi said. "Those are the questions that need to be answered and they need to be answered now. Not waiting for the committee to release a 1,000-page report, months from now."
In an op-ed published on MSNBC on Friday, Figliuzzi also called for the Biden administration to demand answers as to whether US law enforcement leaders fumbled their response to January 6, or if they were intentionally blocked from preventing the riot.
"Without substantive answers from agency leaders, many of us will be left to conclude that there was a willful blindness to the signs that were staring them in the face," Figliuzzi wrote.
Figliuzzi served in the FBI for 25 years and worked in the agency's Atlanta and Washington, DC headquarters. He was appointed as assistant director of the FBI's counterintelligence division in 2011. He is now a news analyst and commentator on MSNBC.
Representatives at the FBI did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. |
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