Thursday, August 29, 2019
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Trump can change history by declassifying three Obama-era documents
BY JOHN SOLOMONMy sources tell me President Trump is putting the finishing touches on a White House initiative to declassify documents that have remained hidden from the public for far too long.
This welcome effort to provide more public transparency and accountability almost certainly will focus early on the failings of the now-debunked Russia collusion probe. And I’m sure it will spread quickly toward other high-profile issues, such as the government’s UFO files that have been a focus of clamoring for decades.
But my reporting indicates three sets of documents from the Obama years should be declassified immediately, too, because they will fundamentally change the public’s understanding of history and identify ways to improve governance.
The first includes the national security assessments that the U.S. intelligence community conducted under President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton concerning the Russia nuclear giant Rosatom’s effort to acquire uranium business in the United States.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) — made up of Secretary Clinton and eight other senior federal officials — approved Rosatom’s purchase of mining company Uranium One’s U.S. assets in fall 2010, even as the FBI was gathering evidence that the Russian company’s American arm was engaged in bribery, kickbacks and extortion.
Sources who have seen these classified assessments tell me they debunk the last administration’s storyline that there were no national security reasons to oppose Rosatom’s Uranium One purchase or Vladimir Putin’s successful efforts to secure billions of dollars in new nuclear fuel contracts with American utilities during the Obama years.
“There were red flags raised, and the assessments expose other weaknesses in how CFIUS goes about these approval processes,” one knowledgeable source told me.
Clinton, for example, claims she allowed a deputy to decide the Uranium One purchase, even as her family foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the transaction and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, collected a $500,000 speech fee from Moscow.
Since Trump took office and Steve Mnuchin took over as Treasury secretary, laudable legislative and administrative changes have been designed to tighten up the CFIUS process, and the percentage of rejected foreign acquisitions has increased because of more aggressive national security vetting.
But sources say the release of the Rosatom intelligence assessments would identify...
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...
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