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U.S., India Warned Sri Lanka Weeks Before Easter Terror Attacks. The attacks specifically targeted Christians, either in church or vacationing in hotels during Easter holiday. wsj.com/articles/sri-l…
Authorities have arrested 26 people in connection with the bombings. Nine men, all of whom the government said were employees in a factory owned by a suspected perpetrator killed in one of the hotel bombings, were remanded to jail by a judge.
Police said they discovered 87 detonators, apparently abandoned, at a private bus stand in the capital. 2 more explosive devices were also discovered, one late Sunday near the airport, another on Monday in a van near the location where one of at least 8 blasts occurred on Sunday.
"President Trump has every right to feel liberated. What the #MuellerReport shows is that he endured a special-counsel probe that was relentlessly, at times farcically, obsessed with taking him out." -@KimStrassel wsj.com/articles/muell…
"Note as well what isn’t in the report. It makes only passing, bland references to the genesis of so many of the accusations Mr. Mueller probed: the infamous dossier produced by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign...
...How do you narrate an entire section on the July 2016 Trump Tower meeting without noting that Ms. Veselnitskaya was working alongside Fusion GPS?" Good question. Or how about Mr. Rinat Akhmetshin? I wonder what happened to him? politicallyshort.com/2019/04/17/the…
“Not exposing our British partners has been the Justice Department’s justification for locking up secrets about the beginnings of the Trump investigation. The redactions try & fail to hide that Priestap met repeatedly w/his British counterparts in 2016.” realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/…
So what did we learn from Bill Priestap’s compendious and revealing testimony?
-We learned that the FBI and Justice targeted and took action against Trump.
-We learned that the FBI and Justice targeted and took action against Trump.
-We learned that the FBI, according to Priestap, is incapable of securing a FISA warrant with information that isn’t ‘credible’, although the judge’s approval of the warrant means by definition that the information is ‘credible.’
Baker, a longtime friend of Corn’s, said the reporter provided him with memos from the Steele dossier that the FBI did not previously have in its possession. dailycaller.com/2019/04/09/fbi…
“My recollection is that he had part of the dossier, that we had other parts already, and that we got still other parts from other people, and that — and nevertheless some of the parts that David Corn gave us were parts that we did not have from another source,” said Baker.
My recollection, from British court docs, is that Steele [second defendant], acting on Fusion GPS’ instructions, briefed Corn of Mother Jones by Skype in late October 2016. Fusion/Simpson/Steele were planting aspects of the dossier for circular reporting. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3892… 
Someone from the Obama admin committed a felony by leaking the contents of Flynn’s intercepted communications to Ignatius on January 12, 2017. This kickstarted the "Logan Act" narrative which was pushed by Sally Yates to go after Flynn. Why haven’t they been brought to justice?
Then, in a Feb 9, 2017, Ignatius article we find out that the leaked conversations were corroborated by “9 current/former officials who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls.” Cowards spoke on condition of “anonymity” to discuss intel matters.
That’s nine more felonies, we’re up to ten for starters and all within the first few weeks of 2017. I wonder how many of these people are still in the positions they were two years ago when they tried to sabotage the incoming administration via leaks? politicallyshort.com/2019/04/07/fly…
ICYMI: Sen. Cotton letter to IRS requesting an investigation into the tax-exempt status of #SPLC. "SPLC’s defining characteristic is to fundraise off of defamation...which has paid well. SPLC has accrued more than $500M in assets & holds $121M offshore in non-US equity funds."
"In addition to failing to have a tax-exempt purpose…Fed law prohibits tax-exempt orgzs from inuring to the benefit of any private individual. Yet, SPLC has accrued $500M in assets as of Oct. 2018...$121M of these assets are parked in offshore accounts." cotton.senate.gov/?p=press_relea…
So why would the SPLC need an offshore account in the Cayman Islands? From their latest 990. splcenter.org/sites/default/…
Rep. Doug Collins released the transcript of former top FBI official Bill Priestap today. Priestap acknowledges in a response to Baker that the behavior of Strzok and Page (their affair) would have made them vulnerable to an intelligence service. Yet...? scribd.com/document/40412…
Back and forth here is full of contradictions. Preistap says he heard about Page and Strzok's affair in "media reports" & "doesn't remember anybody saying that they were, in fact, having an affair." Yet then says, "it was being told to me that this was happening..."
When asked if he felt compelled to report the affair to OPR, Preistap's response is, "no. I felt compelled to report it to Lisa Page or the person she was reporting to, which was Deputy Director McCabe."
2 hours later not much has changed and as of my tweet, the @UnplannedMovie account was down to 43K followers then shot back up to 166K, in a single minute. So from 134k to 43K to 166K? What is going on @jack @Twitter?!
Over a one minute span...they’re messing with @UnplannedMovie’s follower AND following count.
Good PR nonetheless!
“Brennan in 2016 reached out to foreign intel services (British & Australian) to surveil/entrap Trump aides..& may well have also reverse-targeted Americans, under the guise of monitoring foreign nationals, in order to build a case of so-called collusion.” amgreatness.com/2019/03/31/the…
Steele is a foreign national. So are many of the Russian sources he claims he had contacted to solicit dirt on Trump & his camp. CIA, soon w/FBI, was used in circuitous fashion to facilitate surveillance of Trump’s camp through the use of foreign natls during the 2016 campaign.
“If there is a crime of foreign collusion—a conspiracy of U.S. officials to use foreigners to interfere with an American election—then Brennan’s efforts are the textbook example.” -@VDHanson amgreatness.com/2019/03/31/the…
Twitter created/developed the content at issue in this case by transforming false accusations of criminal conduct, imputed wrongdoing, dishonesty/lack of integrity into a publicly available commodity used by political operatives/donors/clients as a weapon. foxnews.com/politics/nunes…
Twitter knew the defamation was (& is) happening. Twitter let it happen because Twitter had (& has) a political agenda & motive as it allows its platform to serve as a portal of defamation in order to undermine public confidence in Nunes & Republicans while benefiting opponents.
Twitter breached its duty of reasonable care...it failed to take action to enforce its Terms & Rules in the face of known abusive behavior & failed to reasonably monitor and police the platform to ensure that rampant abuse and defamation was not occurring. scribd.com/document/40229…
Transcribed interviews of Lisa Page testimony by the Committee on the Judiciary. dougcollins.house.gov/page
Page say's they initially received the dossier not from Ohr but from Steele through his handler at the FBI...
Back and forth between @RepMarkMeadows and Page regarding Brennan/Reid/Comey is interesting...
1. Schiff/Dems have been directly leaking closed door testimony to their staffers.
2. Staffers then go to various "reporters" at CNN.
3. CNN reports the staffers as “multiple sources familiar w/committee” to corroborate the leak.
4. Schiff goes on CNN.
5. Rinse/repeat.
2. Staffers then go to various "reporters" at CNN.
3. CNN reports the staffers as “multiple sources familiar w/committee” to corroborate the leak.
4. Schiff goes on CNN.
5. Rinse/repeat.
CNN reported during Michael Cohen’s House Intelligence testimony that the former Trump fixer provided documents showing Trump’s lawyers edited congressional testimony in which Cohen admitted lying. Not true.
dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/cnn…
dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/cnn…
Where is the investigation into Schiff? Whenever he goes on CNN, there's a good chance he probably leaked something earlier in the day to one of their "reporters".
ICYMI: @Jim_Jordan & @RepMarkMeadows letter to AG Barr requesting info about the actions of 2 senior members of the Special Counsel's Office, Andrew Weissmann and Zainab Ahmad, & their knowledge of the info in the Steele dossier in 2016.
Bruce Ohr informed Weissmann and Ahmad in 2016 about his conversations with Steele...Ohr continued to give them summaries of his conversations with Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS and Steele as well into 2017...
One of the many key questions: Did Weissmann and Ahmad disclose their role in the transmission of the anti-Trump info from Fusion GPS and Steele to the DOJ as part of their appointment to the Special Counsels Team?
“In a perfect world, Mueller’s final report would be a nonevent. Alas, that is not our world, so Mueller’s conclusion will be only the beginning of a free-forall, featuring Washington hypocrisy at its worst.” -@AndrewCMcCarthy edition.washingtonexaminer.com/infinity/artic…
Rosenstein assigned Mueller a counterintelligence investigation, specifically, the investigation described in Comey’s March 2017 House Intelligence Committee testimony...Yet, Special counsel regulations do not provide for an appointment in a counterintelligence investigation...
A president cannot “obstruct” a counterintel investigation as he might a criminal investigation. A counterintel investigation is done for the president. It is an intelligence gathering exercise in support of his natl security duty to safeguard Americans against foreign threats.
Along with this Aspen Security Forum meeting, how many other meetings did Chairman Schiff have with Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS over the past three years? republicanleader.house.gov/adam-schiff-fu…
Why did Chairman Schiff go to such great lengths, including supporting Chuck Schumer’s former staffer who was representing Mr. Simpson – even going to court – to keep secret who was behind paying for the political attack piece on then candidate Trump?
Why did Schiff seek investigatory guidance and suggestions from Simpson during his testimony before the House?
Now that the House/Senate investigative committees have cleared Trump of Dem-inspired allegations of Russian collusion, it's worth revisiting one anecdote that escaped significant attention during the hysteria but continues to have US security implications.thehill.com/opinion/white-…
As secretary of State, Hillary Clinton worked with Russian leaders, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and then-President Dmitri Medvedev, to create U.S. technology partnerships with Moscow’s version of Silicon Valley, a sprawling high-tech campus known as Skolkovo...
From March 2017 hearing, @RepScottPerry highlights the real #RussianCollusion story, look at what Clinton/Obama did with Skolkovo.
Transcripts of Lisa Page’s Closed-Door Testimonies Provide New Revelations in Spygate Scandal. All roads lead back to Brennan... theepochtimes.com/transcripts-of…
Has Harry Reid ever been questioned about this?
Will the press (WaPo in particular) ever be held accountable for their role in being the vector for this hostile information operation? #Khashoggi was never a "journalist." So why did the WaPo & the rest of the media prop him up as one? securitystudies.org/khashoggi-case…
2 Chinese hackers associated with the Ministry of State Security charged with global computer intrusion campaigns targeting intellectual property and confidential business information and more! justice.gov/opa/pr/two-chi…
"Over the course of the Technology Theft Campaign, the defendants & their coconspirators successfully obtained unauthorized access to at least 90 computers belonging to, among others, commercial & defense tech companies & US govt agencies in 12 states..." justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
And more...
As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race. But it’s okay when Democrats do it? outline.com/K8cE9q
The project’s operators created a Facebook page on which they posed as conservative Alabamians, using it to try to divide Republicans and even to endorse a write-in candidate to draw votes from Moore.
It involved a scheme to link Moore camp to thousands of Russian accounts that suddenly began following him on Twitter. “We orchestrated an elaborate ‘false flag’ operation that planted the idea that the Moore camp was amplified on social media by a Russian botnet,” report says.
Last week, the Mueller team filed a court document effectively threatening prison time if Flynn’s defense team continued alerting the judge to the pattern of misconduct perpetrated by the rogue’s gallery led by former deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe. thefederalist.com/2018/12/19/evi…
“Among the many acts of misconduct committed to get Flynn, we’re now finding out that the Mueller team quietly returned the Strzok & Page phones back to the FBI to be deleted & re-issued when they knew messages on those phones undercut the credibility of their lead investigator.”
On January 21, Sen. Ron Johnson made public the revelation that Strzok-Lisa Page text messages spanning December 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017 were missing from the collection of recovered text messages. politico.com/story/2018/01/…
Thoughts on #Flynn: Intel agencies leaked Flynn’s phone call, violated interrogation procedures, discouraged use of a lawyer, overruled agents who said Flynn didn’t lie, bankrupted Flynn, and coerced a guilty plea out of him for answering a question “I don’t remember.”
”Reporters”, who traditionally go bananas at this kind of prosecutorial misconduct, don’t object because they’re not mere observers of the Flynn information operation but willing participants. Starting with David Ignatius of WaPo...
WaPo & others spun Kislyak call as horrific violation of Logan Act, thus providing intel agencies w/pretext to interrogate Flynn about the agencies’ own leak. Media collusion w/corrupt & politicized intel elements is neither normal nor tolerable, or at least it didn’t use to be.
How did the FBI not violate Woods Procedures by presenting unverified material to FISA court??
Woods Procedures were instituted in 01' to minimize factual inaccuracies in FISA packages, specifically w/regard to facts supporting probable cause, existence of related investigations involving subject of FISA & nature of any prior/ongoing asset relationship b/t subject & FBI.
The person who knows this process best is none other than the Special Counsel, Robert Mueller. In response to questions from Sen. Leahy back in August of 2003, then FBI Director Mueller explains the significance of the Woods Procedures...fas.org/irp/agency/doj…
The Iranian regime’s investment in missile testing and development is increasing. The regime’s pace of missile launches did not diminish after implementation of Obama’s Iran nuclear deal in January of 2016. state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/20…
Iran has conducted numerous ballistic missile launches since 2016 & continues to prioritize missile development as a tool of revolution. Jan. 2017, Iran launched a medium-range missile that can carry a payload of more than 500 kilograms & could be used to carry nuclear warheads.
Jan 2017 missile had a suspected range of over 1,200 miles, which is far enough to target some European capitals. Iran has the largest ballistic missile force in the region, with more than 10 ballistic missile systems either in its inventory or under development.
