The long-awaited watchdog report on the FBI and DOJ’s Hillary Clinton investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign will be released next Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz said. In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Horowitz said “we anticipate releasing the report on June 14, 2018.” That day is also President Trump’s birthday. […]
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Dershowitz: Someone ‘Leaked’ Comey Info Out of Fear IG Report Would Be Changed…
Alan Dershowtiz appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday to react to a report that the Justice Department inspector general has determined that former FBI Director James Comey defied authority at times and was “insubordinate.” Inspector General Michael Horowitz has been exploring the DOJ’s and FBI’s actions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including whether Comey […]
UPDATE: Pathetic!: 3 Out of 86 Lawmakers Attended Priestap’s Testimony…Not Even the Committee Chairmen Could Be Bothered…
UPDATE: 7:45pm – According to email from congressional staff, participation at the closed hearing was limited to only those selected by Committee Chairman (Gowdy, and Goodlatte). The hearing was not available to all committee members. Only Jordan, Meadows and Krishnamoorth were allowed to participate…
Trump Grants Mercy with Little Input from Justice Department…
President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he has “the absolute right to PARDON myself,” though he said there’s no need to because “I have done nothing wrong.” It was the sort of Twitter pronouncement that drives Trump’s critics crazy while prompting supporters to cheer him on. The surprise is that some lawyerly types find themselves […]
Fired FBI Director Andrew McCabe Requests Criminal Immunity in exchange for Congressional Testimony…
Wait, what? We’ve obviously come a full 180° from the place where Democrats were proclaiming McCabe’s innocence; and we’ve entered the phase where McCabe is requesting criminal immunity in exchange for testimony about what he knows of the corrupt FBI operations in 2016 and 2017. In a series of letters going back and forth between […]
Yates’, McGahn’s Accounts of Meetings on Flynn Differ: What That Tells Us…
Newly revealed details about how White House Counsel Don McGahn remembered his late January 2017 meetings with Sally Yates, then the acting Attorney General, confirmed much of Yates’ own account of the meetings. Yates has testified that she informed McGahn of false statements given by then-National Security Advisor Mike Flynn to Vice President Mike Pence […]
IG Leaks – Media Frame Clinton/Obama Defense: James Comey as “Insubordinate”…
While no-one has yet to see the actual Inspector General Mike Horowitz report outlining how the DOJ and FBI handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation, the media are beginning to shape the narrative. In a summary of Bill Priestap’s testimony, via The Hill, the narrative begins by focusing on James Comey: “Priestap “completely” backed up […]
The American Empire and its Media…
Largely unbeknownst to the general public, executives and top journalists of almost all major US news outlets have long been members of the influential Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Established in 1921 as a private, bipartisan organization to “awaken America to its worldwide responsibilities”, the CFR and its close to 5000 elite members have for […]
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Not So Honorable: Docs Show Mueller’s FBI Denied Justice to Four Innocent Men…
As FBI director in 2002, Special Counsel Robert Mueller directed his agents to oppose the pardons of four wrongfully imprisoned men because exculpatory evidence was merely “fodder for cross-examination,” newly revealed FBI documents show. Four years later, the four men, or their estates, were awarded $102 million by a federal judge in Boston for their […]
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Sketchy Simona Mangiante, Papadopoulos Wife (?) Asks President Trump to Interfere in Mueller Investigation…
Given the fact we are certain that George Papadopoulos was working as an informant for Special Counsel Robert Mueller as an outcome of a plea deal in July 2017, it is rather sketchy for his wife-not-wife Simona Mangiante to be requesting a pardon for her husband, the “proactive cooperator.” Robert Mueller is looking for a […]
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Lengthy FBI Official Testimony Ongoing – Briefing Report: Agent Strzok Worked Off Range on Counterintelligence Ops…
FBI Director of Counterintelligence E.W. “Bill” Priestap has been delivering testimony to a joint congressional committee for more than seven hours. This is Bill Priestap’s first testimony to congress. Previously all of Priestap’s statements have been made to FBI and INSD (Inspection Division) investigators. This is also likely the first time many congressional members will […]
Saudi Government Lavished Obama Aides with ‘Suitcases Full of Jewels’ Worth Hundreds of Thousands…
Saudi Arabia gave White House aides jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in large suitcases, according to Ben Rhodes, former speechwriter and deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration. In his memoir The World As It Is, published on Tuesday, Rhodes recounts a trip to Saudi Arabia in June 2009 soon after Barack […]
Lawmakers Warn IG Being Pressured to Slow Roll Clinton FBI Report…
The Department of Justice and the FBI are deliberately attempting to slow roll and redact significant portions of DOJ Inspector General, Michael Horowitz’s report on the bureau’s handling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, according to numerous congressional officials and investigators. The 400-page report, which was completed several weeks ago and addresses Clinton’s use of her […]
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Newt: If Trump Is ‘Dumb Enough’ to Pardon Himself, Republicans Will ‘Impeach Him in a Week’…
Tuesday on CBS’s “This Morning,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned if President Donald Trump were to pardon himself, the Republican-controlled Congress would move to impeach “in a week.” Gingrich said, “If a president was dumb enough to pardon himself, that would be such an arrogant statement of power that the House would […]
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Yes, the President Can Pardon Himself by Jonathan Turley…
President Trump this morning has caused a stir by declaring that he can grant himself a self-pardon. As I argue in today’s column and prior writings (here and here), he is right. In his tweet today, Trump declared: As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but […]
Lee Smith on ‘Spygate’: “It was a larger political operation to dirty the Trump campaign” (VIDEO)…
Real Clear Investigations’ Lee Smith tells FOX News host Laura Ingraham said there was a press campaign by Obama administration intelligence officials to dirty Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency. From the Friday edition of FNC’s Ingraham Angle: Well John Solomon discovered that the FBI violated its own rules by using informants before the investigation […]
Accused Supporter of Russian Troll Farm Readies Defense…
A Russian company said Friday it has four courses of attack ready to contest the charge that it funded pro-Donald Trump troll farms during the 2016 election. Nearly four months since special counsel Robert Mueller indicted it along with two other companies and 13 Russian nationals, Concord Management and Consulting LLC to date has been […]
Ex-Navy Sailor Pardoned by Trump Says He’s Suing Comey and Obama…
A former Navy sailor who is one of five people to receive a pardon from President Donald Trump is planning to file a lawsuit against Obama administration officials, alleging that he was subject to unequal protection of the law. Specifically, Kristian Saucier, who served a year in federal prison for taking photos of classified sections […]
The Papadopoulos Case Needs a Closer Look by Andrew C. McCarthy…
Congress should be taking a very hard look at the prosecution of George Papadopoulos. To these eyes, the harder one looks, the more the Papadopoulos case appears to be much ado about nothing. That is no small thing: The “much ado” here is a purported Trump–Russia conspiracy to subvert a presidential election. There has always […]
Signs of Sophisticated Cell-Phone Spying Found Near White House…
A federal study found signs that surveillance devices for intercepting cellphone calls and texts were operating near the White House and other sensitive locations in the Washington area last year. A Department of Homeland Security program discovered evidence of the surveillance devices, called IMSI catchers, as part of federal testing last year, according to a […]
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