@JohnWHuber They said the Debra Wasserman-Schultz letter about what Loretta Lynch told Amanda Renteria was a forgery, but they turned around and classified it SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION (SCI). Letter said Hillary email investigation by Comey would "not go very deep,"...
Now, Robert Barnes reminds me about HSBC case in which the bank (Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank) got off for money laundering. Loretta Lynch was US Attorney. James "The Jimster" Comey was on the board. Just like old home week with that bunch.
@JohnWHuber AND, for added good measure, it was allegedly the Russian hacking group "Cozy Bear" that stole the DWS letter about the email "investigation" dominated by Comey, who declined prosecution even though Comey was not the US Attorney handling the case.
@JohnWHuber I've been wondering lately about why Putin would order the GRU to hack the DNC when SVR Cozy Bear was already inside the DNC network, and had been there unmolested for 10 months before GRU's Fancy Bear group allegedly breached the cardboard DNC network.
@JohnWHuber Dmitri Alperovitch and Shawn Henry told Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Cozy Bear could read and monitor all the emails, but said nothing about Cozy Bear stealing anything. Fancy Bear only stole two files of opposition research about Donald Trump, nothing more.
@JohnWHuber That story changed when Guccifer 2.0 materialized and told the world he stole the DNC emails and gave them to Wikileaks as of June 15, 2016 as a reply to Nakashima's article about the exclusive interview with Alperovitch and Henry of Crowdstrike and Wasserman-Schultz and...
@JohnWHuber ...Amy Dacey of the DNC. When Crowdstrike published their report, it did not describe a hack that was done because the Russians "didn't know anything about how Trump would act as a politician" when he wrote a book about it for his campaign. They could just take it to Moscow.
@JohnWHuber The hack became a horrifying "act of war" by Russia against our democracy in Crowdstrike's final report. In Nakashima's article, the alleged hack was about as dangerous as a fraternity prank.
@JohnWHuber Now, Cozy Bear had complete run of the DNC network, and must have stolen something since the NSA told the FBI that a transmission from the DNC to Moscow was made in November 2015. Cozy Bear first breached the DNC in July 2015 according to the official story.
@JohnWHuber I'll just pull in this link to another thread to avoid having to reproduce the entire thing:
@McAdooGordon They don't do their homework and cannot read statutes properly. Three of the four counts in Smith's indictment on the J6 case are not applicable to what Smith wrote in the main body of the indictment. Judges should have checked the elements of the statutes, 18 USC 241,,,
@McAdooGordon ...and 18 USC 1512 have no elements that apply to any of that case.
Trump did not perform any acts of physical violence on anyone, and certainly did not do such things while wearing a disguise. Lawyers keep reading the Title of the Statute, "Conspiracy Against Rights," and....
@McAdooGordon ...just charge someone with 18 USC 241, the anti-KKK statute from the 1870s. The title means nothing. The elements of the statute are what determine if someone is chargeable. Smith was actually accusing Trump of violating 18 USC 1346, "Scheme or Artifice to Defraud,"...
With the passage of amendments to the Electoral Count Act, the Vice President, as President of the Senate, can no longer make unilateral decisions of this kind, but is only there for ceremonial duties. These measures were passed in 2022 to make sure such decisions cannot be...
...made by the President of the Senate.
I don't they could after the Hayes-Tilden contested election that included "Alternate Electors'" certificates of votes along with the "Certificates of Ascertainment" submitted by the governors of some former Confederate States in 1877.
@pitch4kdemocrat@marklevinshow@MarcSeeks Ask yourself why there are only 30+ counts in the indictment when 337 total documents were involved in the investigation. Let's take a look back to see what happened to the rest of them.
@pitch4kdemocrat@marklevinshow@MarcSeeks The First 197 documents with classification markings were inside 14 of the 15 boxes that were sent by Trump to NARA. It was THOSE documents with classification markings that were sent to the National Security Division (NSD) of the DOJ for Jay Bratt, the chief of NSD for...
@EdKrassen According to the US v Miller (1939) the maintenance of a "Well Regulated Militia" means that those firearms most like those used by the military are the protected arms under 2d Amendment.
@EdKrassen "In the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a "shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" at this time has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia,
@EdKrassen "we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument. Certainly it is not within judicial notice that this weapon is any part of the ordinary military equipment,
@Chris_D_Steele So, we can be confident that Putin had compromising information about BOTH of the candidates of the two major parties since you reported as much in the dossier, starting in the first memorandum.
@Chris_D_Steele "Asked about the Kremlin’s reported intelligence feed to TRUMP over recent years and rumours about a Russian dossier of ‘kornpromat’ on Hillary CLINTON (being circulated), Source B confirmed the file’s existence. S/he confided in a trusted compatriot that it had been collated by
@Chris_D_Steele "Department K of the FSB for many years, dating back to her husband Bill’s presidency, and comprised mainly eavesdropped conversations of various sorts rather than details/evidence of unorthodox or embarrassing behavior. Some of the conversations were from bugged comments..
@emeriticus Not a thing odd about semi-covert CIA connections in situations like this. Here's some more:
In their book, THE ESPIONAGE ESTABLISHMENT, David Wise and Thomas Ross discuss the findings of the Church Committee about how CIA used charitable foundations as money laundries.
@emeriticus One man running the MD Anderson Foundation of Houston, Texas as a "conduit" for CIA money was LEON JAWORSKI, the Special Counsel investigating Watergate.
@emeriticus On Twitter today, we find another example: