Anonymous ID: 4df1bc May 11, 2018, 3:30 p.m. No.1376674   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6809 >>6886 >>7249 >>7337

Senator Chuck Grassley Drops Atomic Sledgehammer on FBI – Requests FBI Reports and Testimony From Special Agent Joe Pientk…

Posted on May 11, 2018 by sundance

 

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has just dropped a sunlight grenade into the prosecution of Michael Flynn with a jaw-dropping request letter (full pdf below) to FBI Director Christopher Wray. [Judiciary Link Here]

 

Within the letter Chairman Grassley outlines a prior briefing from fired FBI Director James Comey to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and contrasts the false presentations of Comey -regarding Michael Flynn- against recently known evidence.

 

Additionally, Grassley is requesting: ♦the transcription of the phone call(s) intercepted by the FBI between Flynn and Russian Ambassador Kislyak; ♦the FD 302’s written by the FBI in their interview with Michael Flynn; ♦and testimony from Special Agent Joe Pientk, likely the second FBI agent who was partnered with Peter Strzok for the Flynn interview.

 

The name of the second FBI agent was previously unknown, and it’s likely Chairman Grassley outed the name for a very specific reason. This is a BIG shot across the bow.

 

Previously the Justice Department was refusing to provide any information to the committee pertinent to Grassley’s requests, citing the ongoing investigation. However, the Senator is now outlining his request against the backdrop of the Judge in the Flynn case demanding the Special Counsel turn over all exculpatory information.

 

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/11/senator-chuck-grassley-drops-atomic-sledgehammer-on-fbi-requests-fbi-reports-and-testimony-from-special-agent-joe-pientk/#more-149152

Anonymous ID: 4df1bc May 11, 2018, 3:35 p.m. No.1376715   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Syrian Army, backed by the wider coalition of government forces, has made sweeping gains in Damascus in recent months, liberating the entire East Ghouta region via operation Damascus Steel, and recovering chunks of territory in south Damascus, where the Daesh* terror organization maintains a presence.

 

Terrorists in the south Damascus towns of Babila, Yelda and Beit Sahem handed over their "medium and heavy weapons" to the Syrian Army on Friday, according to reports by the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA.) The militants will now be transported to the Idlib governorate as part of the agreed transfer deal.

 

An Israeli soldier stands next to signs pointing out distances to different cities, on Mount Bental, an observation post in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights that overlooks the Syrian side of the Quneitra crossing, Israel May 10, 2018

© REUTERS / Ronen Zvulun

Iran Accuses Israel of Assisting Terrorists in Syria in UN Letter

A local SANA reporter said the militants handed over an array of armaments, including weapons produced by Israel. The list of relinquished weapons includes machine guns, sniper rifles, mortar launchers, improvised explosives and landmines.

 

Both Iran and Syria have accused Israel of aiding terrorists, including Daesh fanatics, in Syria, especially in Damascus and near the Golan Heights.

 

Tehran described the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) attack against Syria on May 10 as Tel Aviv’s latest attempt to assist terrorists in the country, who have suffered a string of defeats at the hands of Syrian government forces, backed by their Russian and Iranian allies.

 

The reporter said that some of these weapons had been used in recent attacks on civilian and military facilities in Damascus.

 

Earlier in the day, terrorists in another area of the south Damascus pocket fired rockets at a government-held neighborhood, injuring three civilians, SANA reported, citing an informed source in the Damascus Police Command.

 

*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in Russia.

 

https://sputniknews.com/military/201805111064369777-israeli-weapons-damascus-syria/

Anonymous ID: 4df1bc May 11, 2018, 3:42 p.m. No.1376775   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6834 >>6869 >>7182 >>7443

Former Obama Officials In NYT: European Countries Should Expel American Ambassadors, Sanction American Companies To Punish Trump Over Iran Deal

 

 

Try to remember just a few months back when former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was being accused by broad swaths of the Left of having undermined America’s foreign policy. His supposed sin? Discussing a United Nations vote regarding Israel with the Russian government after the election, and just before the inauguration. This, we were told, might have violated the dread Logan Act (second only to the Dread Pirate Roberts in the annals of dread).

 

Fast forward a few months.

 

On Friday, The New York Times printed a piece from Steven Simon, President Obama’s former National Security Council’s senior director for Middle East and North Africa, and Jonathan Stevenson, a director for political-military affairs in the Middle East and North Africa for the Obama NSC. That piece explicitly called on the Europeans to undercut President Trump. “Europe Doesn’t Have to Be Trump’s Doormat,” these two former Obama officials suggested.

 

This follows on former Obama Secretary of State John Kerry galumphing around the planet trying to gin up support for the Iran deal. So it’s not really a shock. Still, the spectacle of former Obama officials openly appealing to foreign countries to undermine Trumpian policy is rather amazing.

 

They begin by suggesting that Trump had somehow trampled on “European leaders, who urged Mr. Trump to exercise restraint in the interest of international security and multilateralism.” That’s odd, since President Obama trampled on America’s Congress, which didn’t approve the Iran deal, and America’s public, which hated it according to polls. But politics has its winners and its losers.

 

The authors then call on the Europeans to join the #Resistance.

 

Notwithstanding an abundance of kvetching, European powers have not yet shown Mr. Trump that he has anything to fear from ignoring their wishes. Since taking office, Mr. Trump has treated Europe like a doormat, questioning the value of NATO, ridiculing the mission of the European Union and dismissing European exhortations on policy matters.

 

Well, that’s a rather large exaggeration. In fact, Europe is not the European Union – there are a lot of countries with actual identities beyond Brussels. Trump has, for example, granted a hell of a lot more help to Russian-pressured Ukraine than President Obama ever did. And he’s reached out to Eastern European countries Obama left hanging in order to placate Vladimir Putin. He’s pulled out of some meaningless paper arrangements like the Paris Accords, but it’s hard to spot just what Trump has done practically to undermine the European position.

 

But the authors say that Europe must buck Trump nonetheless. How? Well, these European countries should continue to do business with the terrorist regime in Tehran. They must OWN TRUMP! by siding with the worst people on the planet.

 

Next, they should withdraw their ambassadors from the United States. Remember, these former Obama officials are now calling for foreign countries to withdraw their ambassadors from America and expel America’s ambassadors because we’re no longer going to funnel cash to the largest state sponsor of terrorism on the globe:

 

Isn’t this what states do when diplomatic partners breach solemn agreements, expose them to security risks and threaten to wreak havoc on their economies? That is, after all, what the administration is threatening to do by courting the risk of a Middle Eastern war and applying secondary sanctions to European companies. Depending on the American response, European capitals might even follow up with expulsion of American ambassadors.

 

So America wants to prevent Iran from gaining a bomb, and to protect its actual Middle Eastern allies from the predations of Iran’s non-nuclear aggression – and Obama’s team says Europe should throw America’s ambassadors out for this. Good luck with that one.

 

But then these Obama officials go further: they suggest that Europe should start sanctioning American companies. Yes, really:

 

If the administration’s next move were to impose secondary sanctions on Europe, the Europeans could slap its own penalties on American multinational corporations, which in turn would place additional pressure on the White House.

 

So we penalize companies doing business with one of the most evil regimes on the planet, and Team Obama wants Europe to stop doing business with America. Could we safely call this un-American? If not, perhaps this metaphor suggesting that America is the new King George III and the EU the new colonies would do it:

 

More:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/30545/former-obama-officials-nyt-european-countries-ben-shapiro