Op-ed:

Read Between the Redactions

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

 

….former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed brief former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to paint Donald Trump as a desperate man colluding with the Russians. Simply, there most certainly is more than enough evidence to go forward with both indictments and prosecutions, after all justice must be served even if said justice is forced to bring down the former occupants of both the White House and Number One Observatory Circle... 

 

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Op-ed:

Read Between the Redactions

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on Right Side Patriots Radio

 

“I think it’s a terrible thing, and I’ll say it to his face...I think it’s a disgrace. It’s an embarrassment.” So said President Trump upon hearing that the findings regarding who was at the bottom of the FBI’s 2016 Russia investigation will not be released until after the election.

It's a shameful moment for our side as Attorney General William Barr has proven himself to be not unlike former AG Jeff Sessions whose favored word was “recuse.” And all I can say is that, sadly, the hypocrisy seems to run deep within William Barr for while he's made no statement regarding Joe Biden’s veiled answer to the continuously asked question regarding Supreme Court packing...Barr has basically mimicked Biden's very response with his saying that the long awaited “Durham Investigation” findings will only be released “after the election.”

Three words we never expected to hear from someone we thought both strong of conviction and loyal to President Trump or is it simply that William Barr is like so many others holding key governmental positions...as in all talk but no action. Or could it be that William Barr is just too afraid of the sure to come reprisal from the Clinton's...reprisal because the 15-month long probe now known as the “Durham Investigation” most likely does validate President Trump’s contentions that he was “smeared as a Russian colluder” by “dirty cops” along with being smeared by Democrats in positions of power...Democrats including Hillary Clinton, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, and Joe Biden himself. And know that fear does tend at times to override one's conscience especially when the Clinton name is brought up, for we all know that those who either cross or speak out against the Clinton's have a history of suddenly committed suicide...just ask the family of Vince Foster and even the family of Jeffrey Epstein.

And with Republican leaders rightfully wanting to prosecute all guilty parties involved...that's in addition to former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith who has already said that he would plead guilty to falsifying records given to the FISA Court no matter that to date his specific case has not alleged any broader FBI conspiracy to go after Trump...still has led many key Republicans to believe that indictments and prosecutions will reach all the way up to the Obama White House. And with the fact that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has already provided nearly 1,000 pages of material to the Justice Department to support Durham’s investigation...an investigation which includes some already having been declassified documents showing that former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed brief former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to paint Donald Trump as a desperate man colluding with the Russians.

Simply, there most certainly is more than enough evidence to go forward with both indictments and prosecutions, after all justice must be served even if said justice is forced to bring down the former occupants of both the White House and Number One Observatory Circle.

Besides, President Trump himself has stated more than once that, “He’s (as in William Barr) got all the information he needs. They want to get more, more, more. They keep getting more. I said, ‘You don’t need any more,” and truly they don't thus leaving one to wonder why all the invasive stall tactics.

So now I'll tell you why...because delaying the “Durham Investigation's” release, especially now after President Trump has indeed once again, “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal. No redactions!”...is either yet another cover-up of sorts or more likely is that the findings are so incriminating that it could have serious constitutional ramifications regarding the Obama presidency. How so? Because already declassified information indicates that both Obama and his administration knew of allegations that Hillary Clinton was indeed attempting to tie then candidate Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin and the Russians as a means by which to distract all the prying eyes from her attention grabbing email server scandal. Also, remember that President Trump first gave the declassification authority to AG Barr back in May 2019, right after the Mueller report found no funny business going on between the president or his campaign and the Russians. But sadly, interest in these timely documents seems to have been buried as media pushed Democrat issues moved to the forefront. Impeachment anyone?

But why were these documents buried...because not only would they surely take the wind out of Joe Biden's presidential aspirations and actually open him up to being indicted, but because they would do so with evidence that would be almost impossible for him to dispute let alone deny. And said evidence includes a January 4, 2017, “note” credited to now rightfully disgraced FBI agent Peter Strzok...a “note” that implicates then Vice-President Joe Biden in selecting the never-used Logan Act of 1799 as a reason to keep open an investigation of Trump's then National Security Adviser Michael Flynn...an investigation that seemingly was going nowhere...yet an investigation that while the FBI was ready to close, saw on Strzok recommendation, being kept open.

And as per a number Republicans who have conducted their own investigations into the origins of the Trump-Russia conclusion nonsense, it seems to be officials like FBI Director Christopher Wray...the man now at odds with President Trump over his having said that there has not “historically been any kind of mass voter fraud” mail or otherwise, no matter that Trump has stated mail-in voting is “vulnerable to abuse” (Trump's most assuredly right)... and CIA Director Gina Haspel who are also helping to block the release of these current documents. And said blocking is no matter that Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe has already declassified certain redacted documents...documents revealing that former CIA Director John Brennan did indeed brief, via handwritten notes dated July 28, former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as a “means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server,” and do so before the 2016 election cycle got into full swing.

So what specifically was in these notes that are so damning? Written on Brennan's notes in areas not redacted (which of course encompasses most of the notes) were the words, “CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,” and that, “Any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign + Russia,”...notes seeing redaction at this point...also included the initials “JC, Denis, and Susan” scribbled in the margins. And who most likely do these initials refer to...how about "JC" being then FBI Director James Comey, "Susan" being then National Security Adviser Susan Rice, and "Denis" being Obama's then Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, after all who else could those initials be referring to.

Now add in that when James Comey was recently asked during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee if he remembered receiving a critical inquiry from the intelligence community to look at the allegations that the Clinton campaign was trying to create a distraction plan regarding Trump being a Russian agent or a “Russian stooge,” Comey's reply was, “I don't remember.”

Simply, I don't think so for James Comey's not remembering such a critical inquiry...an inquiry which became the central touch point of both Hillary's approval of the above stated distraction plan coupled with it being the basis for the issuing of FISA warrants that were used against then Trump campaign aide Carter Page...warrants that upturned an innocent man's life...is something I guarantee James Comey remembers well...as well as his remembering that he was an integral part of the Clinton campaign and the DNC (Democratic National Committee) having secured through the law firm Perkins Coie, both Fusion GPS and ex-British M5 agent Christopher Steele. And Christopher Steele is the very man who actually authored and compiled knowingly false information for what became known as the “Steele Dossier”...the very dossier used to set the entirety of the Trump distraction plan into motion.

So where do we stand right now after William Barr...the man who once called the witch hunt against President Trump one of the “greatest travesties in American history”... announced that no public release of the Durham findings be made until after the November 3rd election? First, it's important to understand how the Attorney General's office ...how the DOJ...works in regards to the release of information. So let's start by saying that one must both understanding the intricacies of the legal system and the steps that need to be taken to complete an investigation, including that the DOJ via the attorney general, tends most times not to release information about it's findings if someone in any said investigation is not going to be criminally charged. However, and specifically regarding Durham's findings, if anyone is indeed charged as a result of Durham’s findings, the DOJ has an unwritten “60-day rule”...a rule that stresses using caution before taking major action regarding any and all politically significant cases within a short window of time before an election, especially if it could affect the election's results.

But what exactly did William Barr and the DOJ specifically task Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham with...simply with his “exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election,” and with determining whether “intelligence collection activities by the U.S. government related to the Trump 2016 Presidential Campaign were lawful and appropriate.” But the question remains as to why if Durham's task has been completed is William Barr holding back those findings?

And the answer, I believe, is that the 15-month investigation has most probably been completed and it's findings already transcribed, but with President Trump being rightfully critical about a lack of arrests and with time running short regarding the report being released before the election brings me back to the beginning of this article where I stated that, William Barr might just be too fearful of reprisals from the Clinton's to do so. And when you add to that with Barr having already publicly expressed his frustration over Trump's tweeted comments regarding the delay in the findings release, and no matter that Barr does understand a president's authority to exercise control over federal agencies, it pains me to say that William Barr's delay in releasing what could be history changing findings might be just another case of one governmental agency covering up for the dirty deeds perpetrated by both another governmental agency as well his protecting those he truly does fear.

And might I add...dear God...for our beloved America's sake I truly hope I am wrong.

Copyright © 2020 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed: 
Filling the Mainstream Media Void 
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

As we were all focused on Passover and Easter preparations and celebrations, and as the fire at the Cathedral of Notre Dame dominated the 24/7 news cycle, three other key news stories slowly started making the rounds including last Friday's political bombshell concerning former presidential candidate and now Utah Senator Mitt Romney.

So let me start by saying that I volunteered and campaigned for Romney twice...when he ran for the nomination against John McCain and when he ran for the presidency against Barack HUSSEIN Obama. Romney's message and platform were strong as well as his having political experience as the Republican governor of a blue state. He was business savvy and ever so handsome...the epitome of a loving husband and family man. I worked hard as a campaign volunteer and even got to watch Romney debate Obama at a special “invite only” debate watching party. And while I felt he was not forceful enough against Obama at certain points in that particular debate, I held out hope that he'd pull off a presidential win...he truly was the better candidate...the better man...for the job after all.

Never did I think Americans would be so misguided or foolish enough to elect a community organizer, let alone an islamic condoner, to the presidency of these United States. But then I never thought the liberal media would be so successful in anointing a seemingly politically inexperienced half-black man as America's supposed “saviour-in-chief.”

And sadly, I too was fooled for the man I thought Mitt Romney was back then has now morphed into nothing but the late RINO John McCain's Senate replacement. And Romney is worse than McCain for McCain's disdain for Donald Trump could be called a somewhat “righteous stand” against Trump's uncalled for POW comments. But Romney...an early critic of candidate Trump...put on a grand show of pretending to mend fences when he was asked by now President Trump to interview for the position of Secretary of State...which fortunately he did not get.

Fool me once...shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me. Fool me three times...and it's time for me to set right a grievous wrong as my head hangs in shame for ever having supported this man. And why...because Romney never moved on from his anti-Trump stance...it grew and festered as he became just another RINO come home to the Senate to roost.

A RINO indeed for Mitt Romney could not keep his mouth shut or his tweeting finger still after reading the redacted version of the Mueller report. Choosing to criticize President Trump, his administration, and the report itself, Romney, last Friday, tweeted that he was “sickened” by the “dishonesty and misdirection by individuals in the highest office of the land including the President.”

“Sickened” by what...that no evidence of “collusion” either by Trump or his campaign was found...“sickened” that no chargeable “obstruction of justice” was found...“sickened” to such a degree that even proverbial “nice guy” former AR Gov. Mike Huckabee felt he had to jump to Trump's defense by saying that what made him “sick” was the thought that, “Mitt Romney might have become president in 2016.” 
 
But Mike Huckabee is right...for what Mitt Romney did was give the Democrats fodder to keep the “collusion” now morphing into “impeachment” nonsense going...but maybe that was RINO Romney's intention all along...payback for Trump's publicly criticizing him after losing to Obama most likely. Any thing's possible in today's heated political climate with Romney likely continuing to spew his anti-Trump rhetoric.

Next up and coming on the heels of the Notre Dame fire, the Indian Ocean island nation of Sri Lanka saw a wave of eight early Sunday morning explosions rocking three Catholic churches holding Easter services as well as three upscale tourist hotels. At least 359 people were killed (as per the latest count) with 500+ more injured, including at least two Americans (one being 40-year old Dieter Kowalski from Denver CO) and eight British citizens among those listed as killed.

Now believed to be in response to last month's Christchurch, New Zealand mosque massacre, the well coordinated attacks, as per Sri Lanka’s Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene, were carried out by Sri Lankan “muslim extremists” from "National Thowheed Jama'ath" (NTJ)... a local group that is both the fairly new islamist faction of the two decades old less extremist group Thableekh Jamaat, the group previously known for vandalizing Buddhist statues, and who in 2016 saw one of its leaders being arrested for “inciting racism.”

And with said attacks being highly suspected of having help from an “international terror network”...to that affect ISIS' news agency Amaq announced earlier this week on Telegram (via the NAshir News Agency) that the attacks in Sri Lanka were carried out by ISIS fighters. Also of note is that "National Thowheed Jama'ath” has on numerous occasions not only threatened to kill Sri Lankan nonbelievers but to bring islamic fundamentalism to the country as well.

And to date over 40 arrests have already been made, and two of the seven suicide bombers...including Mohamed Azzam Mohamed, who blew himself up at the Cinnamon Grand Hotel's Taprobane Restaurant as people were eating breakfast and Zahran Hashim, a well-known muslim “preacher” who claimed, “Allah created this land for Muslims”...have been identified as members of said goup. But to make matters worse, local intelligence had received warnings a full ten days prior to the attacks that “prominent churches” could be the target of suicide bombers. In fact, "National Thowheed Jama’ath" was specifically named in a police advisory to local security services as one they believed posed a threat to Catholic churches.

However, due to what he called “friction” within opposing factions of the government leadership, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe issued a statement saying that neither he nor his cabinet ministers had been notified about those warnings so little to nothing was done to keep the churches safe...safe from what Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera called “a well-coordinated attempt to create murder, mayhem and anarchy.”

Mission accomplished I'd say...mission accomplished because like within the different sects of Christianity who are constantly at odds with each other over just whose version of Christianity is the version Jesus intended...Sri Lanka has also seen religious issues arising from its own 1983-2009 civil war...a war between Hindu separatists from the minority Tamil ethnic group vs. the Sinhalese ethnic Buddhist majority. And as long as religious odds exist within a given country, islam will continue making inroads into that country whether or not they had significant numbers population wise, as now witnessed in Sri Lanka, a nation of 23 million people that currently is less than ten percent muslim...less than ten percent now but whose numbers are rapidly growing.

And as Sri Lanka starts to bury its dead, more bombs were discovered...bombs that thankfully did not go off. Found by Sri Lankan police were 87 bomb detonators at the capital of Colombo's main bus station, and on Monday a large bomb was defused on an access road leading to the country's international airport.

So as the scale of the intent to do as much carnage as possible becomes reality, Sri Lanka is being held hostage in fear of those who truly are out to kill us all.

And lastly, a big news item this week saw President Trump again standing strong not just against Iran herself but against Japan, South Korea, Turkey, China, and India saying that they will no longer be exempt from U.S. economic sanctions and could face economic penalties themselves if they continue to import oil from Iran.

Announced in a televised news conference this past Monday by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the decision not to reissue those country's waivers when they expire this May 2nd, was made after already having granted those countries extra time...as in eight waivers...to find other oil suppliers. Being done to “bring Iranian oil exports to zero” by “squeezing Tehran’s government” of even more much needed revenue...revenue that had been $50 billion a year before the sanctions ...while at the same time trying to both force political change in the islamic nation as well as trying to get Iran to “rein in” its military actions across the Middle East, most especially in Syria.

However, while U.S. officials say they don't expect to see any significant reduction in the actual “supply of oil” given production increases by other countries including Saudi Arabia and the UAE...and with Saudi Energy Minister Khalid a-Falih saying that his country "will coordinate with fellow oil producers to ensure adequate supplies are available to consumers while ensuring the global oil market does not go out of balance"...I still must play “devil's advocate” for a bit as we must be forewarned that this move could...and I only say could...still lead to higher oil and gas prices at the pump...at least temporarily...as sometimes prices have nothing to do with “supply” but have everything to do with simple “demand.”

 

And that “demand” was reflected by Monday's global crude prices rising three percent in Asia to more than $74 a barrel, the highest they've been since October, as soon as word of what Trump was doing leaked out. And let's not forget that this move...as rightful as we feel it may be...will indeed draw the ire of some of our allies while at the same time seeing a White House shuffling of some policy priorities, including maybe putting the all-important, ongoing trade talks with China and the garnering of China's assistance in helping to contain Kim Jung-un's nuclear ambitions, on the back burner for a bit.

So while Italy, Greece, and Taiwan, three other countries also originally waivered in, have stopped importing oil from Iran, the a fore mentioned five “big boys” have not. In fact, those five have actually begun lobbying for said waivers to be extended yet again no matter that Trump said “time's up.” And as for our NATO (supposed) ally Turkey, they continue to claim that Iranian oil is critical to meeting Turkey's energy needs and that as Iran's neighbors they cannot completely cut economic ties or close its economy to Iranian goods nor can Iran's economy be closed to Turkish goods.

Well obviously they can be or else President Trump would not be doing what he is doing...as in cutting off the head of the snake while its body withers and dies on the ground. A hoped for fitting end to the mother of all snakes...Iran.

So there you have it...three of this week's top stories as we move away from Notre Dame a bit...confident that it will be rebuilt...and back we go to stories that do have a greater and more direct impact on our country than does 850-year old Notre Dame.

 
Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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