Thursday, August 29, 2019
IG Report on Comey Leak: Violated FBI Policy, But DOJ Passes on Criminal Prosecution
Good news for disgraced former FBI director James Comey. He won’t be criminally prosecuted for leaking memos of his conversations with President Trump.
The bad news for Comey. It ain’t that he didn’t break the law. In a scathing report, DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded Comey’s “retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement.” Also, it “set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees.” Michael Horowitz also slammed Comey for releasing sensitive information in his personal desire to force the appointment of a Special Counsel. Especially when there were other, “lawful” means to do so.
Put another way, the white hat Comey insists on wearing is as filthy as the man is tall.
The OIG Report on Comey
On Thursday Horowitz released a “Report of Investigation of Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda.” This is not the IG Report on the phony Trump-Russia investigation that is expected to drop in the coming weeks. Consider this a side report. A clearing out of the brush.
And boy, does Horowitz set that brush ablaze.
The basics: Comey wrote seven detailed memos about his conversations with first President-elect, then President Trump. After getting dumped by Trump, Comey leaked Memo Four via a friend to The New York Times. His stated goal: to force the appointment of a Special Counsel to investigate Trump.
Comey, in short, unlawfully leaked FBI information to “get” the President of the United States.
Horowitz’s conclusion is absolutely withering. Comey “failed to live up to” his responsibility to “protect sensitive law...
Giuliani points to CIA as lead agency to ‘frame Trump’ in counterintelligence ‘conspiracy’: ‘Comey couldn’t do this’ (Video)
Claiming that former FBI Director James Comey likely committed an illegal act when he swore, under oath on surveillance applications to the FISA Court that the infamous “Russia dossier” was legitimate intelligence, Giuliani noted further that the level of involvement internationally in Spygate was beyond an FBI director’s pay grade.
Asked by host Laura Ingraham if Comey’s leaks of his classified presidential encounter memos were illegal, the former NYC mayor said they could be “more unethical” than anything else.
However, “I think there was a conspiracy…to frame Trump. I think there is a conspiracy to frame Trump,” he said.
Okay — but who is involved, Ingraham wanted to know.
Giuliani laid out the scenario:
I can’t name them yet because they are unidentified but this is a counterintelligence conspiracy feeding information of Papadopoulos and then Papadopoulos regurgitated to Australia Ambassador. It involves Ukraine. It involves Italy. It involves U.K., Australia at the bare minimum.
Who could do that for the CIA? Comey couldn’t actually do that. Comey could know about it, Comey could be part of it, Comey could be a player in it but somebody else is the brainchild of this.
Comey played his part as a liar to the court. There is no confusion about the crime. There is nothing clearer than you are swearing under penalties of perjury, name, James Comey paragraph such and such, total like, go to jail.
That leaves only three people who would have had the power and authority to direct global U.S. intelligence assets: Brennan, Clapper, and, of course, President Barack Obama.
Keep in mind this was an intelligence operation designed to thwart a presidential candidate from taking office and, after he surprisingly won, to drive him from office. That’s a coup attempt; it’s sedition.
In August during an interview with Fox Business Network‘s Maria Bartiromo, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham appeared to confirm that investigators were focused on...
Suicide or Murder?
ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL WITH CRIMINAL HISTORY STABBED D.C. INTERN TO DEATH
D.C. police found Margery Magill, 27, of Northwest D.C., with multiple stab wounds in the 400 block of Irving Street around 8:45 p.m.
After going through video surveillance and canvassing the area, police arrested 24-year-old Eliyas Aregahegne, of Northwest D.C., inside a residence in the 500 block of Columbia Road.
Police said that Magill, who was working as a dog walker, was walking dogs across MedStar Washington Hospital Center when the suspect approached her and stabbed her multiple times.
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| Margery Magill |
Magill’s call for help can be heard on video surveillance, police added.
Police Chief Pete Newsham said during a news conference Wednesday that it does not appear that the suspect and victim knew each other, but he could not yet say that the attack was random.
Preliminary investigation does not suggest that the suspect intended to rob or attempted to sexually assault the victim, and that the interaction between them had been brief, as Magill cried out for help and neighbors came out to help her. Newsham said that police do not yet have...
Why Does Darpa Need a Huge Underground Facility by Friday?
Darpa is often described as the “mad science” wing of the Defense Department. They’re the ones who have a history of working on cutting edge technology for the military like virtual fences, disaster relief robots, and the invention of the internet itself. They even tried to build Skynet in the 1980s.
But Darpa sent out a tweet today that’s making people a little nervous. The agency wants a large underground facility for “testing” of some sort. And they need it by Friday at 5pm ET.
Gizmodo reached out to Darpa and the agency confirmed that the turnaround time was short, but said that it was originally posted last week. That’s still incredibly short notice for a government agency that needs a large space for its experiments. Darpa wouldn’t explain why they needed an underground facility so quickly.
“Complex urban underground infrastructure can present significant challenges for situational awareness in time-sensitive scenarios, such as active combat operations or disaster response,” a Darpa spokesperson who asked to remain...
MUST WATCH: Dan Crenshaw’s Wife Allegedly Steals Phone From Activist to Delete Gun Control Rant by Husband
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) recently held an “Ask Me Anything” event in Houston, TX where he was confronted about his support of red flag gun control, which began as a polite discussion.
Second Amendment Daily first reported the wild scene that would quickly develop between Crenshaw, his wife and pro-2nd Amendment activists.
At first, Crenshaw attempted to explain that although he does not support any red flag laws that are currently in place, he would theoretically support a red flag law to deprive U.S. citizens of their firearm rights if it was written up to his standards.
“If you’re arresting somebody, then you’re doing it according to the law that already exists,” Crenshaw said.
“Then why do we need red flag laws?” an activist asked in response.
The response is largely unintelligible because an individual believed to be Crenshaw’s wife, Tara Blake, can be heard angrily badgering a different activist for taping the conversation Crenshaw is having about his support for gun control.
In another part of the audio that can be heard, Crenshaw fumbles around trying to provide the specifics of the red flag laws that he is on the record as supporting.
“That’s what we would have to figure out, right? Is it family? Is it doctors? Is it school teachers? Is it only the police doing the investigation?” Crenshaw said, as he explained the type of people he would consider giving the ability to revoke the 2nd Amendment rights of Americans.
Once Crenshaw was flustered, he walked away from the questioning and claimed he just wanted to “encourage people to have a conversation.” This is when someone can be seen grabbing at the videographer’s phone in an attempt to delete the video.
The video can be seen here:
The activist who posed the questioning to Crenshaw posted a lengthy response video here:
“When everything was all said and done, I turned to my friend and reached for the… iPhone, and before I could get to the phone, his wife Tara grabs my phone, ends my broadcast, then tries to delete the video,” he said.
He claims Crenshaw’s wife mistakenly thought she had deleted the video and then handed the iPhone back to the questioner. He was able to restore the video, much to her chagrin. When the activist told a nearby female cop he wanted to file a police report against Crenshaw’s wife, that is when he says Crenshaw lost his cool. The female cop refused to file the report after Crenshaw’s objections.
“This is who these f**king people are. This is how f**king dangerous they are. They will take your f**king property, they will limit your voice, and f**king do whatever they want to you, and law enforcement officers – the ones they want in charge of red flag law – will not do a f**king thing to stop it,” he said.
Just yesterday, we reported that Crenshaw told Kaitlin Bennett of Liberty Hangout in a direct message on Twitter he was plotting red flag gun control measures well before he was elected to Congress last year.
Crenshaw was also photographed earlier this year alongside gun confiscation advocates from the group Mothers Demand Action, funded by billionaire left-wing oligarch Michael Bloomberg, where he discussed further gun control...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #31
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #728
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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