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Tuesday, May 12, 2020

RussiaGate Collapses: CrowdStrike Admits 'No Evidence' Russia Stole Emails From DNC Servers









Fox News' Tucker Carlson and The Grayzone's Aaron Mate on Monday broke down new evidence released by the Department of Justice exposing RussiaGate as a farce.

Mate broke down newly released testimony from CrowdStrike president Shawn Henry admitting behind closed doors before House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) that "we did not have concrete evidence" that Russian hackers stole emails from the DNC's servers.

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Interesting admission in Crowdstrike CEO Shaun Henry's testimony. Henry is asked when "the Russians" exfiltrated the data from DNC.

Henry: "We did not have concrete evidence that the data was exfiltrated from the DNC, but we have indicators that it was exfiltrated." 🤔
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More from Crowdstrike's Shaun Henry: "There are times when we can see data exfiltrated, and we can say conclusively. But in this case it appears it was set up to be exfiltrated, but we just don’t have the evidence that says it actually left." (https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/sh21.pdf )
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Henry: "Sir, I was just trying to be factually accurate, that we didn't see the data leave, but we believe it left, based on what we saw."
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As Mate noted, the DOJ in March quietly dropped their case against the Russian "troll farm" Robert Mueller accused of meddling in the 2016 election.

Tucker Carlson reported on new documents showing how former national security advisor Susan Rice said Obama discussed denying classified evidence to the incoming Trump White House with James Comey.

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From Fox News:

Tucker Carlson opened Monday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight." by criticizing former President Barack Obama for his role in the Russia investigation, accusing him of using "federal law enforcement to hurt his political enemies."

"The president of the United States turned to the head of the FBI, the most powerful law enforcement official in America, and said, 'Continue to secretly investigate my chief political rival so that I can act against him.' [Then-FBI Director James] Comey's response? 'Yes, sir,'" Carlson said. "That's what Obama was saying, openly.

"In any normal period in American history, this exchange would define Barack Obama forever," Carlson continued. "Obama would be known as the disgraced...


Nut-jobs Rachel, Nut jobs...


Is Obama’s Long History of Playing Dirty Finally Catching Up With Him?










The unraveling of the Michael Flynn case and ongoing investigation into Obama’s Justice Department should put an end to the preposterous claim that his administration was “scandal-free.”

As it became clear Mitt Romney would be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, the Obama campaign fired up its Chicago-style machine to attack the incumbent president’s election foe. Team Obama identified several Romney donors to smear publicly; one was a wealthy businessman from Idaho.

A former Democratic Senate staffer, according to a 2012 editorial in the Wall Street Journal, contacted an Idaho courthouse seeking the divorce records of Frank VanderSloot, who had donated $1 million to Romney’s campaign. The operative was traced to a professional opposition research shop based in Washington, D.C.

The name of the outfit? Fusion GPS. “Fusion GPS is run by a former Wall Street Journal reporter, Glenn Simpson, who wouldn’t say who is paying him for this high-minded slumming but said in an email that Mr. VanderSloot was a ‘legitimate’ target because of ‘his record on gay issues,’” the Journal wrote.

As we now know, that would not be the last time Obama loyalists would hire Fusion GPS to oversee its dirt-digging operation. Nor was it the first time Obama sought to unseal divorce records to ruin a political opponent.

Obama’s pathway to winning the Illinois U.S. Senate seat in 2004 was cleared after divorce records of his Democratic primary opponent, who had been in the lead, were made public just weeks before the election. After Obama won the primary, the Chicago Tribune sued to get the divorce settlement of Jack Ryan, Obama’s Republican opponent, unsealed. (Many suspect at the behest of Obama advisor and longtime Tribune columnist David Axelrod.) Embarrassing details sank Ryan’s candidacy and he dropped out of the race. Obama won the seat with 70 percent of the vote.

No one wins the presidency without using hardball tactics to get there. Barack Obama is a special case, however, because the media not only covered for him but aided his scorched-earth tactics while he alternated between feigning either innocence or ignorance. This lasted during his two presidential campaigns and eight years in the White House.

The same pattern has been playing out the last four years. In May 2016, the Democrats hired Fusion GPS again to destroy Barack Obama’s rival, Donald Trump. But this time, the artillery would involve the world’s most powerful law enforcement agency, a secret court, and the full complicity of the national news media.

And as the biggest scandal in American political history has unfolded, Obama’s media accomplices have denied, excused, and/or justified his involvement while desperately creating other scandals to serve as diversions. To date, the former president has not faced one question about what he knew and when he knew it. His vice president, safely bunkered in his home studio away from uninvited media scrutiny, is enjoying the same protection despite Joe Biden’s known participation in the Trump-Russia collusion ruse.

Obama’s unmatched political good luck, however, might finally have run out. Fox News Channel’s Ed Henry reported that acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell delivered more secret documents to the Justice Department last week that could prove “Barack Obama knew about...

She's Done Asking: Karen Falling Down....


Karen Learns A Lesson...

Senators Ask Obama Officials, Including Biden: ‘Why did you unmask Flynn and what did you do with it?









Sixteen top Obama administration officials – including Vice President Joe Biden – requested information to ‘unmask’ the identity of retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn during the presidential transition period, according to the declassified list given to two top GOP Senators from Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell.

Former United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power, however, appeared to have the most requests for Flynn’s information from November 30, 2016 until Jan. 11, 2017 she had issued seven requests to unmask Flynn’s name.

“Only certain personnel are authorized to submit unmasking requests into the NSA system,” stated Grenell in the documents to the Senators. “In this case, 16 authorized individuals requested unmaskings for (redacted) different NSA intelligence reports for select principals. While principals are identified below, we cannot confirm they saw the unmasked information. This response does not include any requests outside of the specified time-frame.”

Grenell had declassified the list this week and sent it to the Department of Justice for review before releasing the documents to Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson on Wednesday. Both Senators demanded that the documents be made public Tuesday night in a formal letter to Grenell.

The much anticipated documents were stunning, as former Vice President Biden’s name was revealed on the official list of those requesting the classified information on Flynn. It appears that the officials on the list all had access to Flynn’s highly classified conversation with then Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the transition in December, 2016.

Flynn’s conversation was leaked to several Washington Post reporters and then printed in a column by David Ignatius, who stated that numerous senior officials had verified the information in his column. The column was the impetus for the FBI’s continued investigation into Flynn, which eventually led to his firing from the White House after a short tenure as Trump’s first national security advisory. The Department of Justice has now asked the courts to drop Flynn’s case against him after his Defense attorney Sidney Powell and DOJ appointed U.S. Attorney Jeffery Jenson revealed a litany of information that was withheld from his defense by prosecutors and what appeared to be a perjury trap set up by...

Univ. Of Arkansas Professor Arrested, Accused of Ties To Chinese Government




Fayetteville, Arkansas – Simon Saw-Teong Ang, 63, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was arrested on Friday on charges related to Wire Fraud. The complaint and complaint affidavit were unsealed this evening after Ang’s initial appearance in court.

In the one-count complaint, Ang was charged with one count of Wire Fraud. The complaint charges that Ang had close ties with the Chinese government and Chinese companies, and failed to disclose those ties when required to do so in order to receive grant money from NASA. These materially false representations to NASA and the University of Arkansas resulted in numerous wires to be sent and received that facilitated Ang’s scheme to defraud.

If convicted, Ang faces a statutory maximum punishment of 20 years in prison. If convicted, Ang’s sentence will be determined by...

I Want To See Firing Squads...


These Traitorous Crimes Are Reprehensible, They Amount To Nothing Less Than Sedition.

DNI Ric Grenell declassified Obama officials who unmasked Flynn!




Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has declassified a list of former Obama administration officials who were allegedly involved in the “unmasking” of former national security adviser Michael Flynn in his conversations with the former Russian ambassador during the presidential transition, a senior U.S. official tells ABC News.

If this is revealed shortly, which presumably it will, it might provide strong evidence as to what the Obama administration was up to after President Trump was elected.

It is highly suspect when an outgoing administration spies on an opponent’s campaign and nominees.

Why were they classified in the first place? The Obama administration selectively leaked these conversations.

Grenell, who remains the U.S. ambassador to Germany along with being the acting DNI, visited the Justice Department last week and brought the list with him, according to the official.

During the Russia hoax investigation, former officials improperly unveiled Flynn’s identity from intercepts of his call with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.

Grenell’s visit came the same week that Attorney General William Barr moved to dismiss the criminal case against Flynn following his guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his conversations with Kislyak.

Barr has said that new information revealed in recent weeks about the conduct of FBI officials involved in the interview of Flynn showed that their investigation was not “legitimate.”

“They did not have a basis for a counterintelligence investigation against Flynn at that stage, based on a perfectly legitimate and appropriate call he made as a member of the transition,” Barr said in an interview with CBS last week.

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Critics, including nearly 2,000 former DOJ officials, have argued the move was part of a pattern of Barr looking to undermine an investigation that was politically damaging for President Donald Trump. The officials called for Barr to resign over his intervention in the...

CBS Sides with China Commies Over America, Peddles Piles of Fake News on Coronavirus





From the newscast that brought you the infamous Bill and Hillary Clinton interview, Dan Rather’s fake news on George W. Bush, and one Obama love letter after another, CBS’s 60 Minutes added a new chapter Sunday to its embarrassing history by peddling Chinese coronavirus propaganda.

Throughout the lengthy report, Scott Pelley dutifully touted one piece of fake news after the next, including a deceptively-edited clip of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (hours after NBC had their own kerfuffle).

Pelley largely relied on EcoHealth head Peter Daszak, who’s worked with (and defended) the Wuhan Institute of Virology to peddle the tiresome premise that scientists aren’t political and only want facts.



The nonsense started from the get-go as Pelley bemoaned EcoHealth losing an NIH grant as “the kind of politics which might seem ill-advised in a health crisis” and that “President Trump is blaming China’s government for the pandemic.”

Our friend Ryan Saavedra had a devastating takedown at the Daily Wire and began with Pelley’s cowardice in downplaying China’s failures: “Both the White House and the Chinese Communist Party have been less than honest and so, in China, and in the U.S., the work of scientists like Peter Daszak is being undercut by pandemic politics.”

For the sake of space, be sure to check out Saavedra’s entire piece, including his ten-point takedown of the above claim.

Pelley ensured that China wasn’t the villain, but instead were the President, Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Newsmax’s Emerald Robinson.

To reiterate because it’s so farcical, EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab were painted as Avengers looking out for mankind (even though the initial genetic sequence was made available in January)

DASZAK: We’re a nonprofit research organization that focuses on understanding where the pandemics come from, what’s the risk of future pandemics and can we get in between this pandemic and the next one and disrupt it and stop it.

PELLEY: In China, EcoHealth has worked for fifteen years with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Together they’ve catalogued hundreds of bat viruses, research that is critical right now.

DASZAK: The breakthrough drug, Remdesivir, that seems to have some impact on COVID-19 was actually tested against the viruses we’ve discovered under our NIH research funding.

PELLEY: And so that testing would not have been possible ---

DASZAK: No, it would not.

PELLEY: --- if it hadn’t been for the work that you did with the NIH grant?

DASZAK: Correct.

PELLEY: But his funding from the NIH, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, was killed two weeks ago by a political disinformation campaign targeting China’s Wuhan Institute.

(….)

PELLEY: On April 14th, Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz claimed China’s Wuhan Institute had, "birthed a monster." Gaetz is a vigorous defender of the President. He’s been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for allegedly threatening a witness against Mr. Trump and he led a protest to delay impeachment testimony.

GAETZ: The NIH gives this $3.7 million grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. They then advertise that they need coronavirus researchers. Following that, coronavirus erupts in Wuhan.

PELLEY: There never was a $3.7 million U.S. grant to the Wuhan lab. But the falsehoods spread like a virus in the White House, and without verification, in the briefing room.

ROBINSON: There’s also another report that the NIH, under the Obama administration, in 2015 gave that lab 3.7 million dollars in a grant. Why would the U.S. give a grant like that to China?

(….)

DASZAK: [T]he idea is that we know that viruses that affect people and pandemics tend to come from wildlife, so our strategy is to go to the wildlife source, find out where the viruses are, and try and shift behaviors like hunting and killing wildlife that would lead to the next outbreak. We also get the information into vaccine and drug developers so they can design better drugs. Expand

Saavedra also exposed how, again, Daszak and Pelley lied as the above parties were citing an April 11 Daily Mail item, so it wasn’t conceived on the dark web.

It should also be stated that Gaetz’s impeachment actions had nothing to do with the virus.

Next, Pelley almost did the right thing in citing a Washington Post column detailing concerns U.S. Embassy staff made two years ago (in a diplomatic cable) about the lab’s safety protocols.

Sadly, he chose to stay a Chinese Communist Party hack by boasting that they “the cable….emphasized the Wuhan Institute is critical to future outbreak prediction and prevention.”

Josh Rogin’s Post column cited a U.S. official who summarized the cable as “begging people to pay attention to what was going on,” so that sure doesn’t sound like everything’s squeaky clean.

Pelley tacked on a throwaway line about a key doctor who “was silenced by local officials” before dying from the virus, but that’s as far as Pelley went. He then pivoted back to Trump-bashing, trusting China’s official death toll, and misleading viewers on Pompeo’s statements about...

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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #985


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, 
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This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 
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