@WSJ The Justice Department’s release of documents from the Obama Administration’s 2016-17 Trump-Russia investigation is beginning to paint a picture, and the more we learn the worse the FBI looks.
The latest evidence comes from Friday’s declassification via the Senate Judiciary Committee of the FBI’s interviews, over three days in January 2017, with the primary source for the infamous Steele dossier.
Former British spy Christopher Steele, whose dirt-digging was financed by the Hillary Clinton campaign, based nearly all of his dossier allegations on information from one unidentified “primary subsource.”
The FBI didn’t corroborate the Steele's claims prior to its first application to surveil Mr. Page in October 2016, and it didn’t interview the source until nearly four months later. It was then that the source made clear that there was no factual basis to the dossier’s claims.
Friday’s disclosure also includes a February 2017 document in which leading FBI investigator Peter Strzok acknowledges the dossier is a bust, and that the FBI still had no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Mr. Strzok wrote an internal FBI analysis highlighting the story’s numerous inaccuracies, explaining “we are unaware of ANY Trump advisors engaging in conversations with Russian intelligence officials.”
Former FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe expanded the investigation to include the President, and former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel.
The more evidence that is made public, the clearer it becomes that the Steele dossier and collusion narrative were dirty political tricks that became abuses of power.
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There's so much hypocrisy in Democrats' discussions of voting rights. They make sweeping claims of “voter suppression.” Here’s what that looks like:
EARLY VOTING: In MA, early voting lasts a week. In NJ, it lasts nine days. Next year, Biden’s home state of Delaware will allow early voting for the first time, and voters will have ten days.
Meanwhile, Texas and Georgia offer 17 days of early voting.
ABSENTEE VOTING: In New York, Connecticut, Delaware, and other liberal states you have to have a reason for voting absentee. In a number of red states, including GA, you do not.
HHS will be activating another “Temporary Influx Care Facility” for Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) in Pecos, Texas. Projected capacity is 500 children, with potential to expand to 2000. HHS believes that the first arrivals will begin 10+ days from now..
.@axios is reporting that DHS has awarded an $86.9 million contract for hotel rooms near the border to house 1,239 aliens from family units. They “do not have to follow the same safety protocols that official government detention spaces do.”
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Compounding the crisis, DHS says the Migrant Protection Plan, or “remain in Mexico” program, wind-down will soon be expanded. As of Thursday, 2264 aliens previously enrolled in MPP had entered the United States.
The 1/6 attack on the Capitol was horrific & appalling. Those who planned & participated in the violence that day should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I agree w/Speaker Pelosi – a 911-type investigation is called for to help prevent this from happening again.
I’ve had concerns with the process of this second, snap impeachment from the start. This could establish a dangerous, and sure to be used in the future, precedent of impeaching a former President after they have left office.
This practice would, I fear, make impeachments a routine part of our political competition as a tool of the majority party to exact political revenge over the minority party.
As President-elect Biden contemplates re-entering the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran's nuclear activities, the first question we should ask is: Would it prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons? The answer is "no."
Bottom line: we can never allow Iran to get nukes.
Many of the JCPOA’s restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program have expiration dates. For example, after ten years (from January 2016), centrifuge restrictions will be lifted, and after fifteen years, so too will limits on the amount of low-enriched uranium Iran can possess.
Incoming National Security Advisor @GenFlynn was sandbagged by Comey’s henchmen and convicted in a dubious abuse of government investigative power.
Then Comey orchestrated the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller and a two year investigation of alleged collision and obstruction ensued, resulting in no charges against POTUS.