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More coincidences
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/14681
R. Scott Pastrick
President & CEO, Prime Policy Group. WPP (Martin Sorrell)
https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=38703148&privcapId=8160247
Obstruction of Justice is a wide reaching offence in the US.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice
Obstruction of justice, in United States jurisdictions, is the crime of obstructing prosecutors or other (usually government) officials. Common law jurisdictions other than the United States tend to use the wider offense of perverting the course of justice.
Obstruction also applies to overt coercion of court or government officials via the means of threats or actual physical harm, and also applying to deliberate sedition against a court official to undermine the appearance of legitimate authority.
Inspector General report - leaked?
Since I don't know if this is genuine or the actual protocol for release - treat with caution.
tomo, you could try here?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/15/james-comey-andrew-mccabe-clash-story-media-leak/
If McCabe and Comey are now trying to throw each other under the bus, more will follow their skills in leadership, and honour.
The US Legal Definition of "Obstruction of Justice", and appropriate punishments, could be exercising some US Legal minds.
Comey has a lucrative book tour planned, and is now getting Presidential publicity.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/383319-trump-comey-mccabe-committed-many-crimes
"President Trump on Monday accused former FBI Director James Comey and former deputy director Andrew McCabe of committing "many crimes." "
Now that Comey has gone into print, his account of events, is available for public and legal scrutiny. He needs to be confident that no one will challenge him.
Clearly McCabe has a different version of events, and may be legally obliged to explain.
Will Comey's book signing tour be interrupted by Legal Investigators?
It'll be amusing if Comey's book tour is interrupted by an arrest :-)
That's the thing about telling lies all the time - it's like Jenga - you keep piling on and eventually the whole shebang becomes unstable
Apr 16, 2018 at 4:48 PM | tomo
It would make Comey's publishers very happy, and would increase the value of any book deal that McCabe might sign.
If either of them have previously withheld evidence, for the purpose of making a financial gain from a publishing deal,, that might constitute Obstruction of Justice.
Apr 16, 2018 at 5:22 PM | tomo
Presumably the delaying tactics were intended to outlast Trump.
"In his book, "A Higher Loyalty," Comey expresses a similar sentiment, writing, "It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls."
Clinton herself has cited Comey's handling of the email probe as a reason she lost the election. "
The only person who knows what was and was not possible for Comey to believe, is Comey. He does not actually admit anything.
He is admitting that HE ALREADY had concerns about the closure of the previous investigation(s) into St Hillary's EMails. What did he know at that time that made him realise that the truth about St Hillary might emerge, once she was elected President, and that HIS backside would be in the bacon slicer?
It is a bit early for St Hillary and Democrats to be cheering Comey.
Longtime HRC chum, The "Love Judge", rejected as Bill Clinton's Attorney General pick in vetting (she lied) gets to be first to pronounce on DJT personal lawyer raid.
The swamp is real.
wow...
sure is a small world
Judge Kimba Wood officiated George Soros’ wedding
Apologies for the rubbish formatting
If even a portion of the below is true then Ms. May has some serious relationship repair work to do acroos the Atlantic.
Loretta Lynch’s Justice Department and James Comey’s FBI worked together with the Hillary Clinton campaign to entrap Donald Trump and associates — including his eldest son — prior to the 2016 presidential election, according to records and testimony of federal law enforcement insiders.
One high ranking official in the Justice Department called it a sweeping “highly illegal” scheme to ensure Hillary Clinton’s election to the White House.
“This was clearly a scheme using Justice (Department) resources and State (Department) resources to get the Russian lawyer into the United States,” one Justice Department insider said. “Who has the power to do this? Only the people at the very top.”
Lynch. Comey. Andrew McCabe. Preet Bhahara. Sally Yates.
And according to high ranking FBI sources, the Bureau played a definitive role in plotting this sweeping privacy breach. But the FBI had much help from the NSA, CIA, the Office of of the Director of National Intelligence, Treasury financial crimes division under DHS, and the Justice Department, federal law enforcement sources confirmed.
John Brennan. James Clapper. Jeh Johnson.
That places the Barack Obama administration directly into this illegal soup, led by Lynch, Yates, Comey and the FBI’s McCabe and associates.
In fact, Hillary Clinton along with the DNC bankrolled Fusion GPS to set up Donald Trump Jr. in the large scheme to undercut his father’s path to the presidency, sources said.
The Russian lawyer who set up Donald Trump Jr. — Natalia Veselnitskaya — was paid by Fusion GPS. Fusion GPS was paid by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.
Veselnitskaya and Fusion GPS worked together on another caper in 2014, two years before the Trump Jr. operation. In Russia.
Veselnitskaya was barred from entering the United States. Federal law enforcement sources said Lynch and Comey — using Preet Bhahara’s clout in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the southern district of New York — ensured she was granted a special visa for entry, just to set up the Trump inner circle.
A Justice Department official said Clinton likely never expected her campaign’s role and finances to be uncovered and broke a host of federal laws while trying to get elected in 2016, including bringing Veselnitskaya — who was previously barred from entering the United Stated — into Manhattan for the Trump sit down.
Using research firm Fusion GPS as a buffer, Clinton and associates are now linked to financing a scheme to set up the controversial Trump Jr. meeting at Trump Tower before the 2016 presidential election.
Fusion GPS is already on the legal hot seat for commissioning the Dodgy Dossier on Trump, hiring former British spy Christopher Steele to compile the bogus manifesto with the financial backing of the DNC and Hillary Clinton campaign, as well as the FBI.
But these new revelations — that Fusion GPS played a key role in setting up President Trump’s elder son to make it look like he was colluding with the Russians to beat Hillary — pushes this scandal into a new and more troubling orbit.
Soon after the meeting, Clinton and her campaign flunkies began slamming Trump for his links to Russia and Vladimir Putin, a chorus that continues to this day.
But it appears now this loud chorus was a manufactured arrangement of lies from a paid choir.
Especially since this scheme was backed by Hillary-Clinton dollars which implicates Clinton and her campaign in helping orchestrate the Russian sit down to entrap members of the Trump family.
Perhaps even more alarming, it is now alleged Barack Obama’s Justice Department and FBI helped sneak the Russian lawyer into the United States for the Trump Tower meeting, the insider said. She was previously banned from entering the country (more on that below).
If you are paying attention, this scandal is shaping up into a serious and disturbing criminal plot.
The Democrats and Clinton herself lambasted Trump Jr. for meeting with Russian lawyer The Democrats alleged Trump Jr. was working a backroom and illegal deal at the behest of his father. The meeting has been part of U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s criminal investigation and Trump Jr. has testified at the Senate level to explain the meeting. Trump Jr., corroborated by evidence since the investigation began, met with the Russian delegation for anything but illegal reasons.
No collusion, as the Democrats have cried out for, has been proven on Trump Jr.’s part or that of his father. Nor does it appear it ever will be.
Fusion GPS has been fighting Congress in federal court to keep its banking records private, battling a federal subpoena to turn over the details of money coming in and flowing out of the Virginia-based research firm.
Following the Trump Tower sit down with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, investigators began digitally wiretapping Paul Manafort, Trump Jr., and Jared Kushner who were also at the meeting.
Federal agents previously disclosed to True Pundit that after the concocted Russian meeting, the British spy agency GCHQ could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because Russian lawyer Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.
Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who spearheaded the Trump Tower meeting with the Trump campaign trio, was previously barred from entering the United Sates due to her alleged connections to the Russian FSB (the modern replacement of the cold-war-era KGB).
Yet mere days before the June meeting, Veselnitskaya was granted a rare visa to enter the United States from Preet Bharara, the then U.S. Attorney for the southern district of New York. Bharara could not be reached for comment and did not respond the a Twitter inquiry on the Russian’s visa by True Pundit.
Now, according to new Intel gems from a White House insider, Fusion GPS may have played a role in paying Veselnitskaya’s way into the United States as well as a possible stipend, travel expenses and accommodations.
Veselnitskaya returned to Russia after the meeting, sources confirmed.
Federal law enforcement sources said Bharara was simply following the orders of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who lobbied the State Department to issue the disavowed Russian a B1/B2 non-immigrant visa. This permitted Veselnitskaya entry into the United States for the sole purpose of entrapping Trump associates to use as fuel to commission wiretaps, federal sources said.
Veselnitskaya may have been paid as well by the U.S. government, FBI sources said. It was reported previously by True Pundit that Steele, who compiled the Trump dossier was paid at least $100,000 from FBI funds as well. But that came later, after the wiretapping was well underway.
The illegal eavesdropping started long before Steele’s dossier. Federal sources said the wiretaps on Trump insiders began in late 2015, almost a year before the 2016 election. The targets then were Flynn and Page, sources confirmed. When no smoking gun was recovered from those initial taps, U.S. intelligence agencies moved to broaden the scope through their newly-formed alliance.
Intelligence garnered from the British eavesdropping, which again was merely a front for the NSA, was then used in August 2016 to secure a legitimate FISA warrant on Manafort, Trump Jr. and Kushner. That warrant was issued on or about September, 2016, federal sources confirm.
It was the third time the cabal of U.S. intelligence agencies sought a FISA warrant for the Trump associates and this time it was approved.
FBI sources said finally obtaining the FISA warrant was important because it provided the agencies cover for previous illegal wiretapping which they believed would never be discovered.
Here is what we now know, per intelligence gleaned form federal law enforcement sources with insider knowledge of what amounts to a plot by U.S. intelligence agencies to secure back door and illegal wiretaps of President Trump’s associates:
Six U.S. agencies created a stealth task force, spearhead by CIA’s Brennan, to run domestic surveillance on Trump associates and possibly Trump himself.
To feign ignorance and to seemingly operate within U.S. laws, the agencies freelanced the wiretapping of Trump associates to the British spy agency GCHQ.
The decision to insert GCHQ as a back door to eavesdrop was sparked by the denial of two FISA Court warrant applications filed by the FBI to seek wiretaps of Trump associates.
GCHQ did not work from London or the UK. In fact the spy agency worked from NSA’s headquarters in Fort Meade, MD with direct NSA supervision and guidance to conduct sweeping surveillance on Trump associates.
The illegal wiretaps were initiated months before the controversial Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.
The Justice Department and FBI helped set up the meeting at Trump Tower between Trump Jr., Manafort and Kushner with controversial Russian officials to make Trump’s associates appear compromised.
Following the Trump Tower sit down, GCHQ began digitally wiretapping Manafort, Trump Jr., and Kushner.
After the concocted meeting by the Deep State, the British spy agency could officially justify wiretapping Trump associates as an intelligence front for NSA because the Russian lawyer at the meeting Veselnitskaya was considered an international security risk and prior to the June sit down was not even allowed entry into the United States or the UK, federal sources said.
By using GCHQ, the NSA and its intelligence partners had carved out a loophole to wiretap Trump without a warrant. While it is illegal for U.S. agencies to monitor phones and emails of U.S. citizens inside the United States absent a warrant, it is not illegal for British intelligence to do so. Even if the GCHQ was tapping Trump on U.S. soil at Fort Meade.
The wiretaps, secured through illicit scheming, have been used by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 election, even though the evidence is considered “poisoned fruit.”
Manafort was wiretapped. Cater Page was wiretapped. Trump Jr. was wiretapped. Kushner was wiretapped. Gen. Michael Flynn was wiretapped. And likely there were others.
And none of it was very legal.
In fact, most of it was very illegal, according to federal law enforcement sources who are blowing the whistle on a sweeping scheme to undermine the Executive branch and the electorate’s choice for president of the United States.
Perhaps this all helps explain the nervous Tweets and public tantrums from the compromised former leaders of the U.S. intelligence agencies.
tomo, it was only after the death of Robert Maxwell that many people were prepared to come forward and denounce him. Maxwell was very quick with legal threats.
George Soros has been far more successful than Maxwell, in offending people and amassing wealth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros
gc
I'm waiting for public tantrums from some compromised former leaders of the UK's intelligence agencies :-)
The ordure seems to be in free-fall into the fan - obviously some distractions are required.
Apr 17, 2018 at 11:11 PM | tomo
If "FBI" and "Law Enforcement Officers" are now allegedly releasing/leaking such sensitive information, then the consensus amongst them must have changed, and with it, their loyalty to their superiors, both past and present.
If resentment has been simmering for sometime, what caused it to boil over now? Comey and McCabe have now decided to throw each other under the bus, perhaps their former staff want to ensure they are both successful?
Apr 17, 2018 at 11:46 PM | tomo
The private tantrums are going to come from those that thought they had got away with it. If their phones and other means of communication have been tapped, US Citizens will enjoy the eavesdropping.
The Comey & Mueller Show
By Conrad Black
April 17, 2018 12:52 PM
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/james-comey-robert-mueller-trump-advantage/
It has been a good week for President Trump. Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz provided indisputable evidence that former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe lied at least four key times and was fired by the attorney general for cause — and that Mr. Trump had nothing to do with it. McCabe and his former boss James Comey have now begun the public reciprocal allegation that they are liars. In this, for once, both are probably telling the truth.
Apr 17, 2018 at 11:11 PM |tomo
"Apologies for the rubbish formatting"
I was looking for a link-clickable.
Loretta Lynch is fighting back, and suggesting Comey is not honest in his accounts. This is becoming standard practice amongst the Clinton/Obama support network. None of them can be trusted, and they know that better than anyone.
https://www.axios.com/lynch-statement-comey-clinton-email-investigation-09ade149-b556-4b70-9a81-d408c57e9df9.html
Loretta Lynch: Comey never raised concerns to me about Clinton emails
"Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch released a statement on Sunday, saying that she and former FBI Director James Comey have known each other almost 30 years, and "he had ample opportunities to raise" any concerns he had over the Department of Justice's investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails, but "he never did."
The backdrop: Per CNN, Comey says in his forthcoming book that he found evidence that "would undoubtedly have been used by political opponents to cast serious doubt on the attorney general's independence in connection with the Clinton investigation." He also takes issue with Lynch's decision to refer to the Clinton email investigation as a "matter." Lynch's statement comes just before Comey's interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos airs — and days before his book release."
Lynch's statement in full:
"Over almost two decades as a federal prosecutor I have aggressively prosecuted drug dealers, violent gangs, mobsters, and money launderers, upheld the civil rights of all Americans, and fought corruption all types — whether by elected officials from both sides of the aisle or within organizations like FIFA. Through it all I have never hesitated to make the hard decisions, guided by the Department of Justice’s core principles of integrity, independence and above all, always doing the right thing.
The Justice Department’s handling of the Clinton email investigation under my leadership was no exception. It was led by a team of non-partisan career prosecutors whose integrity cannot be overstated and whom I trusted to assess the facts and make a recommendation — one that I ultimately accepted because I thought the evidence and law warranted it.
Everyone who works for the Department of Justice has an obligation to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the work of the Department. That is why, at the critical early stages of this case, I followed the Department’s long-standing policy of neither confirming nor denying the fact of an ongoing investigation. This policy both predates my tenure in the Department and will live on long after the current debate is over. It neither misleads nor misinforms, but instead both protects investigations and guarantees equal treatment of those under scrutiny, whether well-known or unknown. Any suggestion that I invoked this bedrock policy for any other reason is simply false.
Throughout the process I did what I always do: rise above politics and uphold the law. At no time did I ever discuss any aspect of the investigation with anyone from the Clinton campaign or the DNC.
I have known James Comey almost 30 years. Throughout his time as Director we spoke regularly about some of the most sensitive issues in law enforcement and national security. If he had any concerns regarding the email investigation, classified or not, he had ample opportunities to raise them with me both privately and in meetings. He never did."
Comey dumped on McCabe
https://www.thedailybeast.com/comey-pushed-for-the-investigation-that-ended-mccabes-career
Podesta dumped on Comey
http://dailycaller.com/2018/04/17/john-podesta-comey-is-an-idiot/
Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta joined the chorus of criticism for James Comey on Tuesday, calling the former FBI director an “idiot” during a CNN interview.
How are the Podesta brothers getting on?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/politics/john-tony-podesta-mueller-russia-investigation.html
clipe
that summary was from True Pundit
9000 sealed indictments loaded into the chute apparently
Seemingly nearly 10 times the historical number.
Something, it seems - is likely to be kicking off stateside.
tomo, we were warned back in Oct 2015 (complete with a composite photo of some of her loyal team.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/hillary-clinton-inside-circle-huma-abedin
I am sure that John Podesta could help many investigators with answers to their questions