Thread: Mueller's Russian Interference investigation

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

lright, alright so we tried to collude but nothing came of it and, by the way, collusion is not a crime! OK...There was collusion but it didn’t involve Trump!!'

"Crime is not a crime"
-Rudy Giuliani

rudy throwing everyone except trump under the bus has some people wondering if this is the friday when mueller's grand jury drops indictments on those within trump's inner circle. this is partly based on the recently released (and heavily redacted) document by mueller regarding manafort.....because manafort's attorney's are sharing info with trump's lawyers.

Originally Posted by raycarey

has some people wondering if this is the friday when mueller's grand jury drops indictments on those within trump's inner circle.

Hopefully we'll know on in a few hours. I'm guessing Jr. will be first, especially after Rudy's rant about people in the campaign might have colluded with the Russians. It's the perfect time to try and flip Jr for Mueller.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Hopefully we'll know on in a few hours.

This Deripaska guy keeps coming up in the news. Lindsey Graham even got 800 grand from him. Now old Mitch is implicated. The whole phackin GOP is complicit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...russia-780221/

Originally Posted by thailazer

Deripaska

I could be wrong, but isn't this the guy the Russian tart was with when she "got evidence" of something on Trump (claimed)? The bimbo who got jailed in BKK.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I could be wrong, but isn't this the guy the Russian tart was with when she "got evidence" of something on Trump (claimed)? The bimbo who got jailed in BKK.

Your recall is correct. Looks like she has been eliminated.

https://www.facebook.com/NowThisPoli...8374599388792/

You have to ask yourself why the Senate want to get their paws on Cohen before Congress does....

President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was subpoenaed Thursday to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in mid-February, a source close to Cohen told CNN.



It is not clear how Cohen will respond. The source said that Cohen has the same concerns regarding the safety of his family that led him to postpone his scheduled public appearance before the House Oversight Committee next month.

Senate Intelligence traditionally does their interviews behind closed doors, not publicly.



Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr, a North Carolina Republican, declined to comment on the subpoena. A spokeswoman for the committee also declined to comment.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You have to ask yourself why the Senate want to get their paws on Cohen before Congress does....

If you were cynical.
I'm cynical.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

It is not clear how Cohen will respond.

Hopefully by changing his mind and agreeing to talk to the House prior to appearing before the Intelligence Committee.
Is it possible for the Senate to make a gagging order after hearing his testimony, thereby forcing the House to hear him in camera?

Newly revealed testimony by a former top FBI counterintelligence lawyer shows that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe examined “line-by-line” the faulty warrant applications to spy on Trump presidential campaign adviser Carter Page.
There is little question that senior officials at the FBI and Justice Department committed egregious abuses of power in obtaining the warrants and then moving forward on a baseless investigation of President Trump, now being conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
In fact, the conduct of high-level FBI and Justice Department officials in this whole matter has been outrageous and disgraceful.
GREGG JARRETT: MUELLER'S TEAM KNEW 'DOSSIER' KICKING OFF TRUMP INVESTIGATION WAS BIASED AND DEFECTIVE
The plain truth is that the spying on Page should never have occurred. Information gathered by the spying was eventually turned over to Mueller, who is investigating allegations that the Trump campaign or perhaps Trump himself may have worked with Russia to help Trump win the presidential election.
The president has stated many times that “there was no collusion” with Russia. As I documented in my book – “The Russia Hoax: the Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump” – supporters of Clinton who wanted to prevent Trump from being elected improperly used their positions in the FBI and Justice Department in an unsuccessful effort to keep Trump out of the White House.
Even though the applications to spy on Page were deficient and deceptive, Yates and McCabe affixed their signatures to at least one of the four warrant applications. They then submitted the applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and obtained warrants to wiretap Page, who worked briefly on a foreign policy board advising presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016.
The bulk of the information contained in those applications was based on an anti-Trump “dossier” that was not verified and was funded by Trump’s opponents – the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and Democrats.
It’s of critical importance that this vital information was deliberately concealed from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.And on top of this, the judges on the court were never advised that the author of the “dossier” – ex-British spy Christopher Steele – had expressed severe bias against Trump and may have had a motive to lie.
Specifically, the judges were not told that Steele had confided to Justice Department official Bruce Ohr that he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.”
Ohr passed these incendiary comments along to top FBI officials and his colleagues at the Justice Department – together with a warning that the “dossier” might be phony.
But instead of abandoning their warrants or fully disclosing such critical details to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – as they clearly should have – the FBI and Justice Department represented to the court that Steele was “credible,” even though the FBI had terminated his contract after he lied to officials.
Had the judges been told the truth, it is highly doubtful they would have ever granted approval to wiretap Page.
In seeking their warrants, the FBI and Justice Department boldly and conclusively asserted that Page was a Russian spy. Yet, after a year of secretly monitoring his telephone calls and electronic communications, no incriminating evidence was ever discovered and Page was never charged.
The new information implicating Yates and McCabe reveals that they did not simply sign their names to at least one of the warrant applications. They examined in detail all of the uncorroborated and dubious material that was then presented to the intelligence court.
By signing the documents, Yates and McCabe were attesting to the veracity of material that they either knew or should have known was unreliable, misleading and unverified.
As I noted in a Fox News column last week, submitting unverified information to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is a direct violation of both FBI and Justice Department regulations. It may also constitute a fraud on the court – a matter that Congress has been investigating.
The confirmed testimony dealing with FBI and Justice Department misconduct comes from Trisha Anderson, who served as the deputy general counsel of the National Security Law Branch, a division of the FBI. The division is in charge of counterintelligence lawyers and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act cases for the bureau.
Anderson reported directly to James Baker, who was then FBI general counsel, when the FBI and Justice Department obtained four successive warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to wiretap Page.
Here is the relevant part of Anderson’s testimony before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees on Aug. 31, which only recently came to light:
“The sensitivity level of this particular FISA resulted in lots of very high level attention both within the FBI and DOJ. The general counsel (Baker) … personally reviewed and made edits to the FISA, for example. The deputy director (McCabe) was involved in reviewing the FISA line-by-line. The Deputy Attorney General (Yates) over on the DOJ side of the street was similarly involved, as I understood, reviewing the FISA application line-by-line.”
Anderson explained that Yates and McCabe did not merely rely on Baker’s vetting of the warrant application:
“I would not say that this was a circumstance where there was any deference given to Jim Baker. In other words, when Andy McCabe looked at it, certainly when Sally Yates looked at it, I don’t believe they were simply relying on the judgment of Jim Baker having reviewed the application,” Anderson said. “My understanding and my impression at the time was that they very much gave it their own de novo independent review and that, you know, it was very carefully reviewed by those individuals.”
Anderson’s testimony is a damning indictment of Yates, McCabe, Baker and others, who appear to have intentionally abused the FISA process in order to frame Trump in their quixotic scheme to prove that he “colluded” with Russia to steal the 2016 presidential election.
Baker admitted during his own congressional testimony Oct. 3 that he was very involved in the drafting of the FISA warrant application.
Others who signed off on the flawed warrants were FBI Director James Comey, Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Here’s the bottom line: The FBI and Justice Department officials used an unverified and likely fictitious “dossier” to launch a damaging investigation of Trump without credible evidence or probable cause. They used that same document as a pretext to spy on the Trump campaign, perpetrating a fraud on the intelligence court.
Then, when Comey was fired for just and ample cause, the FBI sought retribution by opening a new counterintelligence investigation to determine if Trump was actually working for Russia.
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When powerful forces in government misuse their positions of trust to subvert the legal process and target or punish people for personal or political reasons, democracy is threatened. Reverence to the rule of law is lost and corruption prevails.
If it can happen to the president of the United States, it can happen to any one of us.

Well, I'm not going to do it for him. Prolly not worth reading anyway.

One of the few legible parts is "in my book" so that tells you all you need to know.

Just another 'opinion piece' from some undoubted right-wing whackjob shilling his own book. Perfect Fox News regurgitation material for those who find thinking for themselves all a bit too hard.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

“The Russia Hoax: the Illicit Scheme to Clear Hillary Clinton and Frame Donald Trump” – supporters of Clinton who wanted to prevent Trump from being elected improperly used their positions in the FBI and Justice Department in an unsuccessful effort to keep Trump out of the White House.

ho hum

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Well, I'm not going to do it for him. Prolly not worth reading anyway.

Of of course you won’t read it,fear of reading something that makes sense that opposes your Trump hating agenda.

[QUOTE=uncle junior;3890576]ho hum[/QUOTE

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Of of course you won’t read it,fear of reading something that makes sense that opposes your Trump hating agenda.

Hillary raped kids in a Pizza hut you know. Or something.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Hillary raped kids in a Pizza hut you know. Or something.

and McConnell couldn't investigate because of Comey and the biased FBI

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Hillary raped kids in a Pizza hut you know. Or something.

Typical libtard response when you can’t comment intelligently on the facts,but do carry on in your fantasy world.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Typical libtard response when you can’t comment intelligently on the facts,but do carry on in your fantasy world.

You silly old fool, fancy confusing facts with the Fox New Angry Old White Man Reaffirmation channel.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

ypical libtard response when you can’t comment intelligently on the facts,

What was the last fact you posted about literally anything? Opinion pieces from Faux News are just that ..... opinions. There is extremely little real news on Fox, it's all talking heads giving opinion pieces. Wake up and smell the Fox shit.

Repeater: can't spell or construct a grammatically correct sentence; can't correctly format a post on an Internet forum; regurgitates Fox News and email FWD; fwd; fwds; confuses opinion for fact; questions the intelligence of others...

If he didn't exist someone would have to make him up (and potentially did).

Long time associate of trump Roger Stone was arrested today...apparently it's the wikileaks connection...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/p...ted/index.html

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Long time associate of trump Roger Stone was arrested today...apparently it's the wikileaks connection...

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/p...ted/index.html

You would think these chumps would have worked out by now that when Mueller asks them questions, he already knows the answers.

Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone has been indicted by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. He was arrested by the FBI Friday morning at his home in Florida, his lawyer tells CNN.

Stone was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on seven counts, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering.

Stone will make an appearance later Friday at the federal courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel's office.

Law enforcement raided Stone's house, and CNN witnessed uniformed and armed law enforcement approach his house just after 6 a.m. ET in Fort Lauderdale.

Pounding on his door, one agent said: "FBI. Open the door."

Stone opened the door.

great news!

jr. should be next.

I do wonder how CNN got exclusive coverage....