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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Chuck Grassley Demands More Transparency from Robert Mueller as Pressure Grows

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) increased the pressure on FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller Thursday, calling on him to be more transparent amid questions over anti-Trump text messages from a top FBI investigator.

“I’ve got some advice for Mueller, but I’ve still got confidence in the work he’s doing, because I know him as an individual,” Grassley told reporters, according to Bloomberg News. “But he could help himself a lot by being more transparent.”

Grassley is the latest Republican to pile more pressure on Mueller amid a growing controversy over instances of bias in the FBI and the Department of Justice. That controversy has centered around text messages sent in 2016 between top investigator Peter Strzok and fellow official Lisa Page, with whom Strzok was having an affair.

“I cannot believe Donald Trump is likely to be an actual, serious candidate for president,” Page texted Strzok in March 2016. In another, she describes Trump as a “loathsome human being.”

In August, Strzok texted Page, “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in [Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s] office that there’s no way he gets elected — but I’m afraid we can’t take that risk. It’s like an insurance policy in the unlikely event you die before you’re 40.”

Strzok, who was also a key investigator on the Hillary Clinton email probe, was dismissed from Mueller’s Russia “dream team” after Mueller was informed about...

Remaining mostly unscathed from Twitter’s censorship, progressives have rampaged the platform with tweets inciting violence and expressing anti-white racism during 2017.

Despite their prestige, professors often occupied the front lines of social media left-wing lunacy, with tweets inciting violence against President Donald Trump and Republicans, blaming white people for the Las Vegas massacre, and noting how completely okay they would be if Education Secretary Betsy DeVos were sexually assaulted. Without further ado, here are the top five most insane professor tweets from 2017.

5. Prof Suggests Hurricane Harvey Is “Instant Karma” For Texas Republicans

“I don’t believe in instant Karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas,” tweeted University of Tampa professor Kenneth L. Storey during Hurricane Harvey. “Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesnt [sic] care about them.”

The University of Tampa fired the sociology professor after the remark, saying “we condemn the comments and the sentiment behind them, and understand the pain this irresponsible act has caused.”

4. Prof Says He’d “Be OK” If DeVos Were Sexually Assaulted

“I’m not wishing for it…but I’d be ok if #BetsyDeVos was sexually assaulted,” said Robert Ranco, an Austin Community College professor.

The paralegal studies adjunct professor resigned from his position at a law firm a few days later, with his employer stating “I wasn’t going to make a rash decision about a member of this family just to appease people on social media…that said, I considered the health of everyone in our organization, promised my partners and my employees that we would act according to the values of our firm, and sat down to speak with Mr. Ranco.”

Austin Community College distanced itself from Ranco’s remark and the professor himself later called it “harsh” and deleted both the tweet and his account.

3. Prof Wishes Someone “Would Just Shoot [Trump] Outright”

“Trump is a f***ing joke,” tweeted Kevin Allred, a professor famous for teaching a course on Beyoncé. “I wish someone would just shoot him outright.”

Montclair State University had previously hired the professor, but Allred reported that the school fired him after the tweet and before he had even begun teaching.

“It’s funny cuz [sic] in my interview [Montclair State was] super excited about me being young, hip, and calling out power,” Allred said. “Guess not in practice, huh?”

2. Prof Says Vegas Massacre “Is What Happens When” White People “Don’t Get What They Want”

“White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything,” said Drexel University professor George Ciccariello-Maher. The Vegas massacre “is what happens when they don’t get what they want.”

Drexel University placed the tenured politics professor on leave following the remark, citing threats received by Ciccariello-Maher and concern about the university community’s safety. The school has since allowed Ciccariello-Maher to resume teaching classes, but only in an online capacity.

Ciccariello-Maher, a self-professed communist, received waves of support following his ban from campus, with students, fellow professors, and academic organizations demanding that Drexel fully reinstate him.

“Get back to me when I’m #1,” Ciccariello-Maher said when The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to him for comment on his receipt of this distinction.

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RUSH: John Solomon, Alison Spann had at TheHill.com: “A well-known women’s rights lawyer” Lisa Bloom, the daughter of Gloria Allred “sought to arrange compensation from donors and tabloid media outlets for women who made or considered making sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump during the final months of the 2016 presidential race, according to documents and interviews.”

Now, let’s be clear what this story says. The story says that Lisa Bloom “sought to arrange … for women who” would come forward and accuse Trump of sexual harassment, to be paid by either tabloid media or donors, in order to get them to come forward. She offered “to sell alleged victims’ stories to TV outlets in return for a commission for herself, arranging a donor to pay off one Trump accuser’s mortgage and attempting to secure a six-figure payment for another woman who ultimately declined to come forward after being offered as much as $750,000…”

Now, wait. This story does not...

Evidence has emerged that top FBI officials successfully coordinated a conspiracy to exonerate Hillary Clinton during the email investigation.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee has discovered that edits made to former FBI Director James Comey’s statement absolving Hillary Clinton for transmitting classified information over an unsecured, private email server went far beyond what was previously known, as detailed in a letter from committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson to FBI Director Christopher Wray.

Zerohedge.com reports: The letter reveals specific edits made by senior FBI agents when Deputy Director Andrew McCabe exchanged drafts of Comey’s statement with senior FBI officials, including Peter Strzok, Strzok’s direct supervisor, E.W. “Bill” Priestap, Jonathan Moffa, and an unnamed employee from the Office of General Counsel (identified by Newsweek as DOJ Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson) – in what was a coordinated conspiracy among top FBI brass to decriminalize Clinton’s conduct by changing legal terms and phrases, omitting key information, and minimizing the role of the Intelligence Community in the email investigation. Doing so virtually assured that then-candidate Hillary Clinton would not be prosecuted.

Also mentioned in the letter are the immunity agreements granted by the FBI in June 2016 to top Obama advisor Cheryl Mills and aide Heather Samuelson – who helped decide which Clinton emails were destroyed before turning over the remaining 30,000 records to the State Department. Of note, the FBI agreed to destroy evidence on devices owned by Mills and Samuelson which were turned over in the investigation.

Sen. Johnson’s letter reads: