Monday, May 11, 2020
Newly declassified evidence undercuts former DNI Clapper's testimony to Congress
Newly declassified evidence undermines James Clapper's testimony to Congress, raising questions about whether the former Director of National Intelligence misled lawmakers about briefing former President Obama on former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s telephone conversations with a Russian diplomat.FBI records released late last week show that senior Justice Department officials were surprised to find in early January, 2017 that Obama already knew details of Flynn’s Dec. 29, 2016 phone call with Russian Ambassador to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak before they had briefed the president.
Senior Republicans want to know what Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, knew about the call and how they knew it.
Interviews declassified by the House Intelligence Committee may provide answers.
Starting in early 2017, the committee interviewed dozens of witnesses for its investigation into Russian election interference. In a July 2017 interview with Clapper, Republican members asked if he had briefed Obama on the Flynn-Kislyak phone calls.
“No,” Clapper answered.
Clapper’s denial conflicts with earlier congressional testimony provided by former FBI Director James Comey. According to Comey’s March 2017 account, he briefed Clapper on the Flynn-Kislyak calls and then gave the former DNI copies of the transcripts, as he requested.
“In the first week of January,” said Comey, Clapper “briefed the President and the Vice President and then President Obama's senior team about what we had found.”
Comey’s testimony squares with the account of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. In his 2019 book “The Threat,” McCabe writes that after an analyst shared the information with him, he “shared it with Comey; Comey shared it with the director of national intelligence, James Clapper; and Clapper verbally briefed it to President Obama.”
Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Sunday said his team has referred several people to the Justice Department for possible false testimony based on the evidence in the newly released transcripts.
"You will begin to see where some of our criminal referrals are based out of, some of the false testimony that was given to Congress," Nunes told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
Interest in Clapper's testimony and Obama role in the Flynn matter is growing. On Sunday morning, President Trump retweeted a thread of anonymous Twitter user “Undercover Huber,” who noted the discrepancy between Clapper and...
Surveillance Videos Show Ahmaud Arbery Trespassed Into Man's Home Before Shooting
Newly released surveillance videos show Ahmaud Arbery trespassed into a home -- which the homeowner says was robbed of $2,500 worth of fishing gear earlier this year -- before running away down the street after a neighbor called 911.
WATCH:
[Embed starts 13:30. Arbery exits the front door at 14:37. Video is clearly sped up at parts as can be seen in the timestamp.]
Arbery can be seen walking down the street -- not jogging -- then stopping on homeowner Larry English's lawn and looking around. After seeing no one was in the area, he then trespassed into the house at around 2:09 p.m. on the timestamp, which is actually most likely around 1:08 p.m as police said the first neighbor to call 911 did so at 1:08 p.m. Arbery is seen exiting the building around 5 minutes later and took off running or "jogging" after 911 had been called on him (possibly by the onlooking man who is seen standing next to a tree across the street that appears to be holding a phone up to his left ear and likely would have been in Arbery's view).
The first 911 caller can be heard telling police about the trespassing incident and saying the suspect was "caught on camera a bunch before at night" and it's "kind of an ongoing thing out here."
He told the dispatcher in real time that he was witnessing the suspect leaving the house and "running down the street" (which suggests he was the onlooker seen on the video).
The second 911 caller, who reportedly made his call at 1:14 p.m., can be heard yelling at a man to "stop," which was presumably Arbery.
Homeowner Larry English, told The Daily Beast that his house was robbed of $2,500 worth of fishing equipment earlier this year but he did not report it to the police. The Daily Beast said that a 9mm handgun was also reportedly stolen out of Travis McMichael's unlocked...
China's president Xi Jinping 'personally asked WHO to hold back information about human-to-human transmission and delayed the global response by four to six WEEKS' at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, bombshell report claims
- Der Spiegel published bombshell claims from its Federal Intelligence Service
- President Xi 'asked WHO to delay global warning about Covid-19 on January 21'
- WHO called the report's shock claims 'unfounded and untrue' in a statement
- Trump has repeatedly accused the WHO of being 'China-centric' and a 'disaster'
- Some 4million people have contracted coronavirus with 279,000 reported dead
Germany's Der Spiegel published the allegations this weekend, citing intelligence from the country's Federal Intelligence Service, known as the 'Bundesnachrichtendienst' (BND).
According to the BND: 'On January 21, China's leader Xi Jinping asked WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to hold back information about a human-to-human transmission and to delay a pandemic warning.
'The BND estimates that China's information policy lost four to six weeks to fight the virus worldwide'.
The WHO released a statement shortly after the publication of the shock claims, calling them 'unfounded and untrue'.
A bombshell report in Der Spiegel claims Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) personally asked World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom (left) to 'delay a global warning' about the threat of COVID-19 in January. The pair are pictured together in Beijing on January 28 of this year. The WHO has denied the allegation
'Dr Tedros and President Xi did not speak on January 21 and they have never spoken by phone. Such inaccurate reports distract and detract from WHO's and the world's efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic,' the statement read.
It continued: 'China confirmed human-to-human transmission of the novel coronavirus on January 20 [prior to the alleged phone conversation].
'The WHO publicly declared on January 22 that...
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #285
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #984
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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