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It just takes a cursory look
at the ages of current Supreme Court justice to notice that Democrats
have a distinct disadvantage, for now. That’s because its two oldest
justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg at 86 and Stephen Breyer at 80, are both
long past the time when normal working folks typically trade in their
work boots for fedoras and beach sandals.
But SCOTUS is
no ordinary job, and these are not ordinary times. Both Ginsburg and
Breyer know the politics behind any potential retirement plans, and both
are doubtless planning to cling to their jobs like a pair of good
dentures until it’s no longer humanly possible, or a Democrat is elected
president, whichever comes first.
After Ginsburg and
Breyer the age count drops a decade, and next up is conservative
Clarence Thomas at 70, and after him another Republican appointee,
69-year-old Samuel Alito. With Roberts (Republican) and Sontomayor
(Democrat) both virtual spring chickens at 64, barring something
unforeseen, any thoughts of the court’s immediate future likey rests on
its four oldest justices.
Islamic State defector reveals ISIS plot to send jihadis into US from Mexico
By Christine Douglass-Williams / Jihad Watch
An Islamic State defector who was interviewed by researchers from the
International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism revealed that
the Islamic State “plotted to send terrorists into the US through the
border with Mexico to attack the financial system” and “cripple the
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DOJ Documents Show Bruce Ohr Was Given a $28,000 Bonus During Russiagate Investigation Plus a Raise
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch today released documents
from the U.S. Department of Justice in response to a Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request showing the removal of Bruce Ohr from the
position of Associate Attorney General in 2017; his transfer from
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force to International Affairs in
2018; and that Ohr received a total of $42,520 in performance bonuses
during the Trump/Russia investigation. Ohr’s bonus nearly doubled from
$14,520 (received in November 2015) to $28,000 in November 2016.
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
First we saw two years time being
wasted, over 500 subpoenas being issued, with almost $35 million of
our hard-earned taxpayer monies being spent on an investigation that
itself was corrupt from the start, an investigation pushed forward by
the disgruntled simply because Hillary Rodham Clinton...who was to be Barack
HUSSEIN Obama's coveted third term in office...lost to Donald Trump.
And we all remember how the Democrats,
especially those of the “snowflake” kind, threw temper
tantrum after temper tantrum while hugging their therapy puppies,
blowing bubbles, and coloring in coloring books while safely ensconced in their “safe spaces,” as the party hierarchy was busy helping to “manufacture” a dossierin a desperate attempt to right what they perceived was an
election wrong.
But in
their trying toprovethat then candidate Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to win the
2016 election, what the Democrats did instead wasprove
themselves to be the very colluders they accused Donald Trump
of being. And their recourse...their hoping to save “political face”
if you will...is to call for now President Trump's impeachment
even though no wrong doing on his part was found...except to
beat Hillary Clinton that is.
Refusing to set the entire sorted
mess aside, and with the gaggle of Democrat presidential hopefuls
having no legitimate platform to run on, the Democrats desperately
need the collusion now morphed into the impeachment
nonsense to remain a key component of the 24/7 news cycle and to remain
so right up until November 3, 2020.
Impeachment
is now their sole platform as Democrats have proven themselves to be
totally useless in Congress for they refuse to do the job they were
elected to do...as in focus on the truly important issues we as a
country now face. And besides, too much time and too much money has
already been wasted not to keep the collusion morphed intoimpeachment nonsense
going...it's the Democrats way and has been since even before they
retook the House in 2018...it's just more laser focused now.
So with the Democrats call for
impeachmentshowing
no sign of abating, what is the current status of two
of the key players in this most vile of political games...a game
called "conspiracy" whose end they hoped would see the overthrow of
newly-elected President Donald Trump.
Let's start with Special Counsel Robert
Mueller, the man charged back in 2017 with conducting the
investigation into eleven “episodes”
supposedlyinvolving President Trump...“episodes”
ranging from possible collusion with the Russians to the firing
of FBI Director James Comey to Trump's 'supposed' attempts to dismiss
Mueller himself... that man decided in the end to play both sides
against the middle when in a public statement concerning the end of
his investigation said that, “We
concluded that we would not reach a determination, one way or the
other, about whether the president committed a crime,” because
it would “be unfair”
to accuse the president of a crime when he can’t be legally
charged.
And
with those words Mueller has now basically left the charge of
“obstruction statutes” open to if not further
investigation at least to further time and money wasting discussion.
But discussion of what exactly? How
about discussion asking the questions did President Trump’s actions
meet three key elements pertaining to “obstruction
statutes”...as in were said actions obstructive acts; did said
acts progress to an official proceeding; and was there corrupt intent
in said actions. And by leaving this discussion basically open-ended
in both time and content, Mueller has allowed the call for impeachment
to gain momentum amongst those on the left side of the aisle even
though he knows well the answer to those three questions is an emphatic...no.
And while Robert Mueller might take
some warped sense of pride in his now actually being the defacto leader of the
“Impeach Trump” movement, he is also the man who once
again is finding himself being suspected of having committed a
crime...the crime of violating the Brady Act.
And what is the Brady Act...it's the
very act that clearly states all prosecutors must turn over all
the exculpatory evidence to the defense, which Mueller did not do in the
case pertaining to Lt. General Michael Flynn and 13 Russian agents. This
was the case where the
prosecutors were members of the special counsel’s office and
defendant Lt. Gen. Flynn was a cooperating witness. Simply, Mueller
refused even when ordered
by D.C. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to produce and turn
over any and all FBI interview reports (called 302's) and/or memorandum pertaining to the original interview of Lt. Gen. Flynn...a
witch hunt actually of President Trump's first choice and probably
best choice to be National Security Advisor... until John Bolton came
along that is. And this request is standard procedure in order to
"protect a defendant" before sentencing as it's the defendant who must bear the burden to prove that the undisclosed evidence was both material and favorable.
But
why at this point in time are Brady Act allegations again being
talked about regarding Robert Mueller... because with Mueller having
withheld evidence during the Flynn case it's believed by some that
he's withholding evidence now...evidence that would exonerate
President Trump of all charges leveled against him. And why
so... because with Mueller and his team having learned about the
Steele dossier from some of Lt. Gen. Flynn’s former national security
team members while the case against the general was both ongoing and
dominating the media spotlight means Robert Mueller knew of the Brits
serious concerns about said dossier long before being appointed to
investigate possible election collusion... he knew and still went ahead with
this anything but impartial farce of an investigation.
It
seems that a week or so before President Trump’s inauguration Great
Britain's top National Security Adviser, Sir Mark Lyall Grant, sent a
private communique to a few key members of the incoming Trump
administration...a communique addressing Britain's part in the
counterintelligence probe into the Trump-Russia collusion
accusations. Kept from the media and the public, as well as from
President Trump himself, was the fact that the
British government lacked “confidence” in both the
“credibility and reliability” of Christopher Steele's supposed evidence.
Lacked confidence...translation: the
Brits did not believe either Christopher Steele himself or his
vile dossier's musings...and yet Mueller knew this and went ahead with the
investigation or should I say witch hunt. And how do we know
this...because Lt. Gen. Flynn was told about the communique when
Mueller’s team questioned him during debriefings after Flynn
reached a plea deal on a charge of “making false statements to
the FBI” as well as making a “cooperation agreement”
with Mueller...a keep your mouth shut or else deal perhaps. And
Robert Mueller in turn kept the communique from the investigators, the
media, President Trump, and most importantly from his finalized
investigative report.
So even though Robert Mueller has
resigned his position as special council and while he also officially
resigned from the Justice Department itself saying, “I'm done
with the investigation and will not testify if asked,” Democratic
House leaders remain salivating over these words of Mueller's, “If
we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a
crime, we would have said so. We did not, however, make a
determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.”
Translation:
for the Democrats the race to impeachment is courtesy of Robert
Mueller's very own words..words that implied that both the
Constitution itself and the institutional legitimacy of Congress as
an independent body requires an immediate start to impeachment
hearings...the right side of the aisle and the truth be damned.
But in the end
Robert Mueller will, I believe, be subpoenaed to testify before
Congress not if but when impeachment charges are brought to the House
floor, and his apparent newest Brady Act violations will rightfully
be brought up by Republicans. Remember, the Michael Flynn case was
what started the actual ball rolling against President Trump.
Now
regarding main character number two...actually ground zero of this
entire baseless witch hunt...enter center stage the Steele Dossier
itself and its author, former British M16 operative Christopher
Steele. According to leading British papers, Steele...who had
declined being interviewed in the past because of the possibility of
“impropriety” regardinghis involvement in a previous
internal Justice Department investigation...will now supposedly meet
in London with
Justice Department officials within the next few weeks to discuss his
“dealings
with the FBI.” But
Steele's willingness to meet comes with an important caveat...the
caveat being only if U.S. officials first reach an agreement with the
British government for him to do so. Interesting to say the least.
But
why the intense focus on the Steele dossier and it's nefarious Obama
and Hillary supporting author now and not before the official
investigation got underway? The answer is really quite
simple...because while the claims Steele made in his dossier were
known beforehand by Mueller to be but a compilation of lies, Mueller
needed those lies as the basis by which to go forward with said
investigation...an investigation that saw to the Democrats chagrin
their hoped for
“Trump is guilty” scenario
instead not being substantiated by the very key
piece of “manufactured” evidence at hand...the bought and
paid for Steele dossier. And logic then dictates that without the
much needed substantiation, and with Mueller not even mentioning
the dossier in both his investigation statement and his news conference,
how can Mueller's report, let alone the investigation itself, be
taken seriously...simply it cannot.
Remember, this is the
very same dossier talked about in the communique from British
National Security Adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant...the very same
dossier that Grant claimed the British government lacked “confidence”
in... the very same dossier Mueller knew was “unreliable”
way
back when Lt. Gen. Flynn was under investigation. And Mueller and his
team never bothered to personally check on the dossier's
verifiability let alone its accuracy, as they needed Trump to be
proven guilty of collusion. All the key players knew well that said
dossier was dirty...that its author was dirty; that it was funded by
the DNC and the Hillary campaign (with Hillary obviously knowing);
and most importantly their actions or lack thereof allowed the
dossier to be used in 2016 by then-President Barack HUSSEIN Obama to
secure surveillance warrants for former Trump campaign adviser
Carter Page.
Also, not to be forgotten regarding what is indeed actual
collusion is that back in August 2018 it was revealed that Steele
himself...the very man who had assisted in past FBI investigations and who
in October 2016 reached a deal with the FBI to continue doing research
and to be paid for what became the Steele dossier...saw that deal being made
in the guise of his being a “Confidential Human Source” (CHS).
In fact, Steele himself told
the FBI that he had informed a “third party” that he was
acting as a CHS for the FBI...the what was then the Comey corrupt,
Hillary supporting FBI that is.
So with AG William Barr's appointment of Connecticut U.S.
Attorney John Durham to lead the review as to what was the FBI’s
role in the Russia probe, and with Barr saying that he himself as
well as the Justice Department will be reviewing the “very
unusual” role both Christopher Steele and his dossier played
in the Trump-Russia investigation along with whether or not British
officials supported intelligence-gathering activities targeted at
Trump and his associates or if they coordinated in any way with
Christopher Steele.
And to this affect, I believe, somehow, someway William Barr will
get to the bottom of this sorted mess and that in the end arrests
will be made. And here I mean arrests of the true conspirators and
collusionists behind it all...former CIA Director John Brennan, former
FBI Director James Comey, Robert Mueller himself, information-leaker
and disgraced FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok, sore-loser
Hillary Clinton, as well as the head of the snake...one Barack
HUSSEIN Obama himself...the man who in my opinion gave the orders to
Christopher Steele to compile “whatever was necessary” to
take Trump down....after all his third term in office truly depended
on it.
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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