US Officials Investigating Obama Admin. Lawyer for FARA Violations

In an attempt to prove that the law applies equally, federal prosecutors have reinvigorated the investigation determining whether Gregory Craig, former Obama White House counsel, failed to register as a foreign agent over ties to Paul Manafort's lobbying work for Kiev.

Craig, Democratic super-lobbyist Tony Podesta and Republican strategist Vin Weber were initially roped into special counsel Robert Mueller's collusion probe before he referred their case to prosecutors in New York, Sputnik reported. On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that federal investigators had "stepped up" the investigation into Craig.

After Mueller handed the investigation to the United States Attorney for Southern District of New York's in April 2018, critics alleged that Mueller didn't bring down indictments himself because they didn't align with the goal of taking down Donald Trump.

For Jim Kavanagh, editor of The Polemicist blog, the latest development is a sign that investigators are trying to make it seem as though they're not just trying to take down Republican-linked individuals, he told Radio Sputnk's Loud & Clear on Monday.

"It is kind of obviously opportunistic and selective persecution," Kavanagh told host John Kiriakou. "It's like laws against jaywalking. Who gets stopped for that? It's only going to be the people the cops want to stop for some other reason." Nevertheless, Craig has yet to be indicted.

Court filings obtained by the Washington Post detail that Craig's former law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom, was paid some $4 million to review to the prosecution of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's rival, in 2012. Through an offshore account, Manafort paid the law firm for a 187-page report on the trial and imprisonment of Tymoshenko.

Tymoshenko was convicted in October 2011 of exceeding her powers as premier while negotiating a 2009 gas contract with Russia. She was sentenced to serve seven years in prison. The Ukrainian politician was later released from jail in 2014.

Attorneys for the former Obama White House counsel maintain that even though Craig wrote the Tymoshenko report, he did not play a role in Manafort's lobbying campaign.

"Mr. Craig never disseminated Skadden's report on the Tymoshenko trial to US government officials, and he did not discuss Skadden's findings with officials in the Executive Branch or the Congress or their staffs," Craig's attorneys told the Post.

"Moreover, Mr. Craig's few media contacts about the report were not part of an effort to promote the report on behalf of a foreign government. As a result, he was not required to register."

Though doubtful that prosecutors will bring charges against Craig, Kavanagh suggested that the legal proceedings would likely lead to an increase in foreign agent registrations as a precaution among the Washington elite. On August 31, prosecutors obtained a guilty plea from longtime DC lobbyist W. Samuel Patten for illegally advancing Ukraine's interests from 2014 to 2017, Sputnik News reported.

"People will hide out for a while, lay low and make sure that they've submitted their [Foreign Agents Registration Act] registration forms," the editor said, before predicting that fears would die down, and things would revert back after some time.

"If we're going to be serious about policing relationships between lobbyists and foreign regimes, we're going to have to do a lot more than this," Kavanagh added, emphasizing the importance of being consistent in the application of the law.

https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201809251068302083-us-officials-obama-admin-fara-violations/

Tucker Goes SCORCHED EARTH on Ball-less Republicans: If GOP Cared, They’d Protect You and Kavanaugh – But They Don’t! (VIDEO)

TUCKER CARLSON went SCORCHED EARTH on the ball-less Republican Party in his opening monologue on Monday night.

Carlson was irate — along with most of his audience — with the shameful performance of the Republican Senators and Representatives who are unwilling to protect their constituents and supporters and who are willing to protect Judge Brett Kavanaugh.

Tucker Carlson: This is bad joke. That’s clear at this point. What’s amazing is Republicans, for some reason, are still playing along… Republicans in the senate don’t really care about you. If they did care about you they would protect you. That’s what you do for people you care about. You’d protect them. If Republicans cared they’d protect you from the foreign invasion our immigration system has become, they’d protect your children from the mandatory propaganda they face in schools that are bankrupting you. They’d protect your privacy and your freedom of speech, freedom from worship from the tech monopolies that seem to crush all of those things. And, they would protect Brett Kavanaugh from the obvious smears that are destroying his family and his life. But they won’t protect him. And they won’t protect him for the same reasons they won’t protect you. Because it’s hard and embarrassing or they just don’t feel like it. This could be a Socialist country in a few years. It’s moving that way. A lot of us would like to be protected from that. Our representatives don’t seem to notice.

Bravo, Tucker! for putting into words what millions of us are thinking!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/09/tucker-goes-scorched-earth-on-ball-less-republicans-if-gop-cared-theyd-protect-you-and-kavanaugh-but-they-dont-video/

WHY DO THE UK AUS + OTHER GOVS KNOW WHAT'S IN THE DOCS? IF THEY ARE A MATTER OF NAT SEC?

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Rhetorical questions, we know the answers just some mind seeding for the lurkers!