clipe @12:40

That's a disappointment of sorts - but as a partial pensionectomy it's better than nothing....

gc

It's notable that UK MSM are by and large swerving making the connection between Steele and Skripal - what happens next really depends an what happens stateside. The proffered CW narrative from May &Co. is so shot full of contradictions, foot dragging over evidence and slow walk due process while rushing to screech at Putin that their motives must be called into question.

The series of nasty thuggish warnings that have emanated from Brennan and chums should not be discounted - dangerous times I feel....

Just to emphasise the situation McCabe was fired by his "own people" - the FBI - we're going to have to wait a bit for the detail but one must assume they don't do these things lightly at that rarefied level of seniority.

Brennan has quite a history of issuing warnings I do wonder if the reputed induction to Islam when he was CIA station head in Jeddah approving the visas for the 9/11 crews was the same sort of thing as the French CIGN troop did when nerve gassing the rebels at the Siege of Mecca in 1979?

Comey's likely up next.... but might get pipped at the post by the Ohrs ...

gc

There will be more.

I do wonder if the perps can be turned on each other - McCabe's purported threat to "burn down the FBI" looked promising.

A subpoena to Christopher Steele would be amusing.

With the fresh squawking about Cambridge Analytica "cheating" with Facebook to get Trump in - an inconvenient video surfaces from Obamah's campaign director where she says "Facebook were on our side"

it would appear that Christopher Steele has been a busy boy...

He prepared 100+ memos in 2014-6 on Ukraine, paid for by "private" party, sent to Victoria (Fuck the EU!) Nuland and distributed within US State Dept.

Who paid Steele to produce reports?

Quite a lot off immediate topic but two recent apparent developments that must impact on the Trump administration :

Pulse gay nightclub shooter's father.... is an FBI spook

Las Vegas hotel shooting - is the FBI leaking or is it conspiracy nuttiness?

Some weird stuff going on at the moment.

Andrew McCabe (a millionaire by most standards)

Has been out on the Internet rattling a collecting tin - presently to the tune of $376,230 - while one of his victims Mike Flynn has had to sell his house.

I guess that's irony for you.

FBI New Haven office seems to have gone full Keystone

If a field office can get that dysfunctional - it doesn't bode well for antics at the court of Comey + Mueller.

Steve McIntyre highlights a troubling detail in leaked HRC-SoS communications about chemical weapons policy.

It's not unreasonable to think that the detail of the Awan brothers business is simply so embarrassing that that is why the US and rest of the Anglophone MSM isn't talking about it.

The actual extents and ramifications of the Awan brothers antics are still undisclosed beyond some snippets like they were accessing the accounts of congresspersons who weren't paying them for "IT support"

Given the unscrupulousness of the Awan clan it seems a certainty that the present revelations are only the tip of an iceberg. I'd hazard a guess that access logs relating to the 40 or so directly compromised members of Congress on secure Federal systems contain simply thousands of unusual access events..... One wonders about harvesting off the record emails to "administration principals" too....

Dan Bongino is still pecking away at the story.

A glimpse of the Awan clan antics back home in Pakistan.

Looks like DNC / Debbie Wasserman Schultz picked a right crowd of bandits to run their Congressional IT ops.....

gc

Freelancers have long been a feature of spook life - even legitimate "on the books" state spooks have a propensity for doing side deals and the webs of conflicting relationships can be head spinning. There now looks to have been some considerable shenanigans behind the scenes in the Trump <> Russia spin-up involving UK and Aussie spooks plus a bunch of freelancers(?) like Steel, Mifsud and assorted Russian and Ukranian chums. The Russians aren't above employing freelancers and subcontractors.....

It really isn't difficult to imagine some murderous falling outs happening in the febrile intrigues being played out. I wonder what Colonel Skripal (retd) will have to say about it all...