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5 Nov

On this DOJ war against Project Veritas, in the below video O’Keefe fails to mention that the diary in question found its way onto the internet last year before the election. Most of it wasn’t newsworthy, just things that could be embarrassing to Ashley Biden. My recollection

is that there were a couple of pages that could have been embarrassing to Joe or his sons, but there was nothing on its face to authenticate the diary. But I also recall someone posting something claiming that Ashley herself admitted it was hers. So it’s not clear what’s going

on with the FBI seizing reporters’ notebooks regarding a diary that’s already been published- and not by Project Veritas. Is this an effort to put a lid on it? Or did someone try to blackmail the Bidens? Your guess is as good as mine, but First Amendment rights are at stake.

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5 Nov

Here’s some more random thoughts on the Danchenko indictment. One thing in particular caught my eye. Durham alleges that Danchenko lied to the FBI when he told them that none of his friends or acquaintances knew that he was Steele’s primary source in creating the dossier. It

stood out because of its seeming randomnesss. That false statement isn’t one that Danchenko is charged with making, but it’s there for the broader context. Durham cites as proof of its falsity evidence that Dolan, the PR Executive knew of Danchenko’s role, as shown by his written

communication to a client in January 2017. And by evidence that Olga, SubSource 1 , who was in Cyprus, also knew. So what does this mean? Well, begin with the premise that Danchenko lied for a reason. He had immunity when the FBI interviewed him, and his lawyer in Jan 2017 would

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4 Nov

For those who’ve been following these developments on Twitter, the Steele dossier blew up primarily when Danchenko was identified by investigators in this corner of Twitter, then the same group identified Danchenko’s sub sources, and then the same group figured out, with help

@SergeiMillian

from @SergeiMillian, that Millisn had been framed as Source D and that he and Danchenko had never met or spoken. This indictment brings that story almost full circle , but it leaves one question outstanding: Who was Danchenko covering for? He had immunity- a get out of jail free

card- so long as he told the truth. When he fabricated the story and framed Millian, who was he covering for? Did someone tell him what needed to be in the reports he then sourced to Millian? My guess is yes.

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28 Oct

Paul Sperry’s latest claims that Durham has given out more than one immunity deals is not surprising. Defense lawyers in DC probably already figured this out. The question then, is, who are the lucky culprits who got get-out-of-jail-free deals and are now singing like songbirds?

Looking at this from a trial lawyer’s standpoint, there was always one major issue that gave defendants a window of opportunity at trial to confuse the jury into believing that the Alfa Bank DNS lookups were genuine and justified a complete, thorough investigation by the FBI and

CIA. If the jury could be convinced of that fact, then the argument would be that everything that was done was not only justified, but protected by the First Amendment right to petition the govt and right of free speech, in the form of going to the press. A jury could easily be

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23 Oct

Merick Garland promised he would remove politics from the Dept of Justice. Now, there is no stronger proof of the hollowness of those words than his own memo in response to a Sept 29 letter to the WH from the NSBA. Garland’s politically charged, attempted federalization of local

school politics has turned into an utter embarrassment to the DOJ and the administration. First, Garland admitted to Congress that the DOJ had no genuine data showing that violence and threats of violence against local school boards were a serious national problem. Second, he

admitted that parents except using their First Amendment rights were not domestic terrorists and were not candidates for prosecution under the Patriot Act. Without expressly saying so, Garland repudiated the hot button language in the very letter he admitted had been the primary

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22 Oct

It’s no surprise that wooden-headed Peter Strzok has yet again weighed in on the Russiagate investigation. He argues, for the umpteenth time,that Durham and all his predecessors have a chilling effect on the FBI’s honorable calling to protect us all from evil Russia- even if that

means accepting that not everyone who is an FBI source always tells the whole truth- indeed, they may even shade things if they have hidden motives. The FISA process is such a great tool that such things can be overlooked, Strzok seems to suggest. Strzok’s piece in and of itself

is evidence of someone with a motive who only gives a portion of the story, making what he wrote entirely misleading. He goes on about a Section 1001 omission charge, and suggests that perhaps Sussmann’s defense will be that as a “source,” Sussmann had no duty to disclose who his

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