Friday, August 30, 2019
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #32
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #729
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.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Solving The Problem Of Paid off Senators...
If A Corrupt Politician Cries In A Tomb Does Anyone Hear A Sound?
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...
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