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Sep 25, 2018 • 23 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
"[Rosenstein] was hired by Jeff Sessions. I was not involved in that process because, you know, they go out and they get their own deputies, and the people that work in that department and Jeff Sessions hired him."

2. I post this interview because so many people keep claiming some ridiculous 3-d chess strategy around Trump hiring Rosenstein etc.
3. President Trump brought the CEO perspective to the White House. Part of that perspective is to let Department Executive Officers (ie. cabinet members) select their own deputies.
4. Attorney General Jeff Sessions wanted Rod Rosenstein as Deputy AG.

That's why President Trump nominated Rosenstein. Nothing more. Not strategic Machiavellian deep state chess nonsense. Sessions wanted him, so Trump nominated him.
5. This is not difficult to ascertain. It is not complex. It is quite simple.
6. So the question becomes why did President Trump select Jeff Sessions as Attorney General?
7. Again, not a difficult question to answer. President Trump has repeatedly said why he selected Jeff Sessions. (His biggest mistake). thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…
8. Senator Jeff Sessions told President-elect Trump he wanted to be the Attorney General. Senator Sessions lobbied P-E Trump for the job. Trump gave Sessions the position out of appreciation for his campaign support.
9. There wasn't a political strategy behind selecting Senator Jeff Sessions, other than thinking he would likely do a good job. President-elect Trump did not know Sessions was going to recuse himself and create two-years of DOJ chaos... thehill.com/hilltv/rising/…
10. Sessions wanted to be Attorney General. Trump gave the position to him.
Sessions wanted Rosenstein as his Deputy AG. Trump gave Rosenstein to him.

These are not complex multidimensional strategic decisions.
These are straightforward reasons for what transpired.
11. Not complex. That's why we are here,... *and*.... where it all stands today.
12. DAG Rosenstein then hired former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel. In part due to the recommendation of FBI Legal Counsel Jim Baker and FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
13. Likely unbeknownst (at least in initial operational totality) to Rosenstein, Andrew McCabe and James Baker were part of the corrupt DOJ/FBI inside network trying to take-down the President. Hence the: "what do you want me to do Andy, wear a wire"... conversation.
14. Which has now created two camps:

Camp Rosenstein - supported by Sessions, Boente et al.
Camp McCabe - supported by Page, Baker, Lawfare et al
15. Each camp leaking damaging information on the other camp to media. Hence, disparate stories within the Washington Post and New York Times because each "source group" is actually each "camp".
16. Because Rosenstein either: (a) participated; or (b) was a useful idiot, he has now put himself into a massive position of compromise. His stewardship over the DAG position (which is more powerful due to JS recusal), has failed massively.
17. And now there's the stuff behind the declassification directive (temporarily on hold) which makes DAG Rosenstein look even worse. Either: (a) more corrupt; or (b) more stupid.
18. So Rosenstein wants OUT before it gets worse. According to the New York Times (Team McCabe) the DAG tried to politely resign five times recently. 1x McGahn, 2x Kelly, and 2x to POTUS.
19. But White House is saying.... 'not so fast knucklehead, you willfully made this mess - now clean it the hell up'!!
20. Forget the media spin on Rosenstein. This is his actual position. President Trump has him by the proverbial b*lls. 18 months worth of headaches as a result of his: (a) intentional efforts; or (b) ineptitude - because for all things that mattered the DAG was in charge.
21. When you have this much leverage on someone, you don't want them to quit. You want to use their damaged and tenuous position to your advantage.

Trump is in no hurry to fire Rosenstein (not yet), because the DAG is so weak.
22. I can imagine the convo: '"OK, you want to quit, then *YOU* get rid of the Special Counsel *YOU* started, and then *YOU* can quit."'

Until then, it's your mental and reputational death by a thousand paper cuts.
23. /END

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Oct 6
The CBS move was easy to see coming.

Larry Ellison previously said he "would never let Elon Musk fail." Ellison is Musk's financial backstop.

Musk will never stake a position against Oracle, Google or Thiel's interests.

Ellison then began moving toward TikTok. K-Street funded to assist with lobbying. Trump circle directly part of the assist (Sacks, Lutnick, Musk).

David Ellison simultaneously begins moving toward Paramount (CBS). There is no distance between father and son. Trump circle then assists (Hollywood tariffs).

Ideologically social media and boomer media target operations complete. Now watch what happens with CNN.
At the end of this construct, AI enmeshed with govt., and Social Media data, via national security and Palantir.

L Ellison wins. D Ellison wins. Musk wins. Thiel wins. Sacks wins. Ackman wins. Alex Karp wins. Bibi wins.
The Kentucky Derby is won by horses, but it’s the owners who get the prize money.
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Sep 30
Inside the released report by John Durham, the special counsel outlined how former FBI Director James Comey was intimately involved in the creation of the Carter Page FISA application.

Durham noted that Comey kept asking the DOJ National Security Division and FBI counterintelligence investigators, “Where’s the FISA, we need the FISA.”  However, John Durham never interviewed James Comey or Andrew McCabe. 

The former FBI Director and Deputy refused to cooperate or give testimony to John Durham.  So, how did John Durham have details about the demands of Comey?

The answer is found in the footnotes. 

Durham reviewed transcripts of interviews given by Andrew McCabe to the Office of the Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, who previously investigated FBI conduct in the origin of the Carter Page FISA.  Durham pulled quotes from that transcript. [Footnote #1207, page 199 – Durham Report]

justice.gov/storage/durham…

QUESTIONS: If Andrew McCabe gave testimony to the OIG about the motives and impetus of FBI Director James Comey in pushing for the Carter Page FISA application, why did the OIG report never outline those transcribed interviews?  Why was the interview transcript never included in the 2019 OIG report?

[ NOTE: A transcribed interview of Andrew McCabe exists in the OIG office. @DNIGabbard through @AGPamBondi can request the transcription and release it to the public.]

However, let me answer the questions without the customary pretending from the DC professional political class.  The short version is that OIG Michael Horowitz was protecting the DOJ and FBI. The longer version is a coverup that includes Rod Rosenstein, Bill Barr and ultimately yes, John Durham. 

“Where’s the FISA?  We need the FISA?” ~ James Comey

You see, the DOJ-NSD and FBI CoIntel needed to find a safe and legal justification for previous spying on the Trump campaign.

The Clinton operation and 2016 FISA Title 1 surveillance of former CIA operative Carter Page became the fraudulent justification for that intent.

Because “FISA Title I” surveillance authority against a U.S. citizen is so serious (the U.S. government is essentially calling the target a spy), only a few people are authorized to even apply for such surveillance warrants.  One of the four people authorized to make such a Search Warrant request is the Asst. Deputy Attorney General as head of the National Security Division of the DOJ.

In September and October of 2016 a few critical things were happening:

1. NSA Director Mike Rogers was about to inform the FISC of the FBI spying operation using the NSA database.

2. CIA Director John Brennan was informing President Trump of the risk factors associated with the Clinton/FBI operation (that included #1).

3. The DOJ-NSD was quickly assembling the FISA Court application, sans Woods File, to be used against Carter Page. The Clinton/Steele Dossier was going to be used in lieu of the mandatory Woods File.

While Comey was saying, "where’s the FISA?  We need the FISA?" Pressure was building on the office of the Asst. Deputy Attorney General in charge of the DOJ-NSD, that's John Carlin.

Subsequently, Asst. Attorney General John P Carlin resigned as head of the DOJ-NSD.

Did Carlin resign in fear? Seems likely.

washingtonpost.com/world/national…Image
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A few years later, while COVID was raging and few people were paying attention, OIG Horowitz released a COVID delayed letter and summary report about the FBI spying operation [technically, exploiting the NSA database].

On its face the OIG release outlines a review and finding, actually a warning, by Horowitz’s office about FBI contractor access to “a certain national security database.” 

The OIG report was titled: “Management Advisory: Notification of Concerns Identified in the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Contract Administration of a Certain Classified National Security Program.”

The advisory part is particularly interesting when absorbed through the prism of prior information.

oig.justice.gov/reports/manage…

On the surface of the release, the OIG was noting concerns and a warning shared with the FBI about ongoing contractor access to the NSA database. Thus, a “classified national security program” becomes defined.

However, in the background of the release it appears the OIG was using this public notification as a CYA of sorts.

Meaning the OIG was saying publicly they have advised the FBI of “concerns” they carried with the FBI abusing access to the NSA database.

Within the report you will note the IG calls out the FBI because the FBI hid their response to the IG warning behind the cloud of “classification.”

This left the IG with no alternative except to say the classified response has to be accepted as the final FBI response to the IG warning. 

The IG goes on to say to the FBI you have 90 days to tell me what you did to address the contractor access abuses.

In reality OIG Michael Horowitz was covering his ass and telling us why. Perhaps that's why Horowitz was removed from his position recently and sent to the IRS office where Secretary Bessent could keep an eye on him.

Keep in mind this contractor access to the bulk NSA metadata is a big deal.  All of the FISA audits in the past eight+ years have pointed out how FBI contractors continue to abuse their access to the database and unlawfully extract information without minimization efforts required by fourth amendment protections. 

The scale of the abuse is actually stunning; and the OIG reviewed the process and found the same issues that existed in 2015 and 2016 remained uncorrected five years later.

/END
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Sep 30
1/ During the period of Nov 2015 to April 2016, the Obama administration, through the FBI under James Comey and Andrew McCabe, was conducting a political spying operation against all republican presidential primary candidates using the power of their offices.

The intent was two-fold. (1) Tracking the candidates to identify activity; and (2) conducting opposition research to be fed to the campaign of Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton.

This surveillance activity was happening in concert with Comey, McCabe and a small group inside the FBI, running a defensive operation for the issues surrounding Hillary Clinton's prior use of private email servers -which included classified information transmission- during her tenure as Secretary of State.

SOURCE: DNI

dni.gov/files/document…
2/ Documentary evidence of the Obama spying operation surfaced as an outcome of the NSA compliance officer discovering the FBI activity.

The compliance officer reported the activity to National Security Agency Director, Admiral Mike Rogers.

The spying operation is not an issue of FISA-702, or any FISA system or process. However, the availability of FBI access to the NSA database is what triggered the discovery of the spy operation.

That FBI access is created under the auspices of FISA, but FISA-702 or any aspect therein was not the issue.

The issue was the spying operation. FISA and using the NSA database to conduct the electronic surveillance, was simply the tool to exploit the electronic communication (metadata) of the targets.

The Obama administration was spying on their political opposition and telling the Clinton team the results of their surveillance.

The United States government was spying on candidates for office in order to control the outcome of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
3/ After Director Mike Rogers was made aware of the operation, the exploitation of the NSA database, the NSA Director blocked the FBI from access and begun an investigation.

That investigation culminated in Director Mike Rogers informing the regulatory body in charge of protecting the database from exploitation.

FISC:

With the NSA now collecting the private electronic communication of Americans, the FISA Court was assigned the responsibility of oversight; intended to protect the growing metadata library and ensure the 4th Amendment provisions to the constitution were maintained.

The FISC oversight was intended to stop the government from reviewing the private records of Americans, the NSA database, without a warrant.Image
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Sep 26
1) Newly appointed U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan, from the Eastern District of Viginia, has released a criminal indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. [LINK BELOW]

The indictment alleges three counts. Counts one and two are ‘false statements’ to congress on September 30, 2020, [18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2)] and count three is ‘obstruction of a federal proceeding’ stemming from the same testimony. [18U.S.C. § 1505]

The first false statement charge surrounds Hillary Clinton’s “approval of a plan concerning” Donald Trump and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…Image
2) COUNT #1 – James Comey claimed he could not remember being made aware of the Trump-Russia collusion plan, and there is ample evidence from his own previous public statements, from public and sworn statements by former CIA Director John Brennan, from former statements by officials in the January 5, 2017, meeting memorialized by Susan Rice, from statements that remain sealed as recounted by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, and from statements under oath by the former Clinton campaign team -including campaign manager Robby Mook- that James Comey was well aware of the plan.

While this first count is based on the tenuous “I don’t remember” aspect, this count holds more material benefit than simply Comey’s recollection. This count could open the door to public testimony by McCabe, Rice, Mook, Brennan and even Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton herself as to Comey’s knowledge; each was a first-hand witness.

This first count holds strong material value in a public trial regardless of the outcome. This first count establishes the baseline for USAO Lindsey Halligan to bring all material witnesses into court and publicly put them on record outlining the Trump-Russia collusion scheme.

You could say, I hope the intent is not just to incarcerate Comey per se’ – but rather to use what Comey represents to indict the entire enterprise around him.  The facts behind Count #1 make this possible.

Let’s all hope this strategic intent unfolds.Image
3) Count #2, involves James Comey falsely testify he did not direct former his FBI Special Government Employee (SGE) Daniel Richman to leak information to New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt.

This second count is easily evidenced through the prior investigation of Office of Inspector General Michael Horowitz and all prior witness statements therein. Again, that includes testimony to Horowitz given by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.

Additionally, the second count is evidenced by the direct testimony of Daniel Richman himself, who was hired by James Comey and given special access privileges to classified information systems. Richman was likely a grand jury witness during the assembly of the case against Comey.  Count #2 is the easiest to prove beyond any reasonable doubt.Image
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Sep 16
1) Grassley does a pretty good job of outlining the predicate for the search warrants issued by the Biden DOJ (Lisa Monaco) and FBI (Arctic Frost).

Where Grassley falls short (by design?) is connecting the search warrant results to their destination.

The J6 Committee!

See it now?

grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…
2. The results from the FBI search warrants, was the predicate material for the J6 team to begin targeting Trump supporters in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Image
3. Those Arctic Frost search warrants included banking records, networks, affiliations, communications, Google search results, social media platform user IDs and much more.

theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/2…
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Sep 15
1) Okay @PeterKlyng , you want to play that "proof" game again. You want receipts? OK, I'm good with that approach. Let's go....
2) It was in June 2022, when Senator Chuck Grassley sent a letter to then Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, notifying them of whistleblower allegations from within the FBI that senior leadership in both Main Justice and FBI are involved in a coordinated effort to cover up criminal activity related to Hunter Biden.

t.co/cu8I1OEayZ
3) The whistleblower allegations, in combination with the documented history of DOJ and FBI misconduct, culminate in Senator Grassley stating:

...“If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are – and have been – institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law. Attorney General Garland and Director Wray, simply put, based on the allegations that I’ve received from numerous whistleblowers, you have systemic and existential problems within your agencies.”

Grassley was admitting what has been visible for years.
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