Mueller Must Be Investigated For Destruction Of FBI Evidence: Giuliani

Special counsel Robert Mueller needs to be investigated for destruction of FBI evidence, President Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani said in an interview with Hill.TV's John Solomon and Buck Sexton.

Referencing recent reports that Mueller's office allowed text messages from former FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page to be destroyed, Giuliani levied harsh accusations at the special counsel.

"Mueller should be investigated for destruction of evidence for allowing those text messages from Strzok to be erased, messages that would show the state of mind and tactics of his lead anti-Trump FBI agent at the start of his probe," said Giuliani.

The Inspector General of the DOJ revealed in a report this month that it found large gaps in text message records between Strzok and Page, the top FBI agents in charge of investigating both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump during the 2016 US election. Of note, the two agents harbored extreme animus against then-candidate Trump, while supporting Hillary Clinton - bias which the DOJ claims never made its way into their work.

After Strzok was kicked off the special counsel investigation following the discovery of anti-Trump text messages between he and Page, his Mueller's Records Officer scrubbed Strzok's iPhone after determining "it contained no substantive text messages," reported the Conservative Review's Jordan Schachtel in mid-December.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-27/mueller-must-be-investigated-destruction-fbi-evidence-giuliani

After Trump's visit, Iraqi leaders demand US withdrawal from Iraq

Iraqi lawmakers say that American assistance is no longer needed in the fight against ISIS

Following President Donald Trump's surprise Christmas visit to U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, Iraqi leaders have expressed their desire for the remaining U.S. forces to leave their country permanently.

What's the background?

Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, American forces initially left Iraq in 2011 under the Obama administration. However, they returned to Iraq in 2014 at the request of the Iraqi government to help with the fight against ISIS. Now, Iraqi lawmakers argue that ISIS has been beaten back enough that they can finish that fight on their own.

Trump announced last week that the U.S. troops would be completely leaving Syria and that the number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan would be reduced. However, on Wednesday he said he had "no plans at all" for U.S. troops to pull out of Iraq.

While announcing the U.S. pullout of Syria on Dec. 19, Trump declared that ISIS in Syria had been defeated. Critics of the move have expressed concern that the pullout could leave U.S. Kurdish allies in Syria caught between the forces of Turkey, which views them as terrorists, and the forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, against whom they had rebelled. This decision also led to the resignations of both Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and U.S. envoy to the coalition to fight ISIS Brett McGurk.

While Iraq's Parliament is divided between two blocs, lawmakers from both sides have called for a vote to demand that U.S. troops leave the country. More than 5,000 U.S. troops are currently in Iraq.

What else?

Iraqi lawmakers also criticized Trump for failing to meet with any Iraqi leaders while he was visiting that country.

When he landed in Iraq, Trump reportedly gave the Iraqi prime minister two hours' notice to meet with him. The Iraqi prime minister could not make this meeting with Trump that quickly so the two talked on the phone instead, according to CBS News. During his visit, Trump did not meet with any other Iraqi leaders.

The base Trump visited is roughly 100 miles from Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-iraq-us-withdrawal

Western Media Silent as UN Panel Exposes Organ Theft, False Flag Attacks by White Helmets

Days after a more than one-hour-long panel on the White Helmets' criminal activity at the United Nations, and the Western corporate media is silent.

Utter silence. That is the sound of Western corporate media days after a more than one-hour-long panel on the White Helmets at the United Nations on December 20.

Journalists were present, so the silence isn’t due to lack of access. And in any case it was live streamed on the UNTV channel, and remains available on Youtube for keen observers to watch.

More likely, the silence is due to the irrefutable documentation presented on the faux-rescue group’s involvement in criminal activities, which include organ theft, working with terrorists — including as snipers — staging fake rescues, thieving from civilians, and other non-rescuer behaviour.

On the panel was one of corporate media’s favourite targets to smear, British journalist Vanessa Beeley, who gave a fact-based lecture on her years of research into the founding, funding and nefarious activities of the White Helmets, research which includes numerous visits to White Helmets centers, countless testimonies from Syrian civilians, and even an interview with a White Helmets leader in Dara’a al-Balad, Syria.

Maxim Grigoriev, the director of the Foundation for the Study of Democracy (a member of the UN’s Global Counter-Terrorism Research Network) spoke at length, detailing some of the over 100 eyewitnesses his foundation has conducted interviews with.

These include over 40 White Helmets members, 15 former terrorists, 50 people from areas where terrorists and WH operated, with another over 500 interviewed by survey in Aleppo and Daraa.

Among testimonies presented by Grigoriev were numerous accounts of the White Helmets’ involvement in organ theft.

A head of nursing in Aleppo is cited as seeing the body of his neighbour who had been taken by the White Helmets to Turkey for “treatment”. “I lifted the sheet and saw a large wound cut from the throat to the stomach… I touched him with my hand and understood there were clearly no organs left.”

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/white-helmets-corporate-media-silent/

>>4486610

There's no clean up needed nor Iran threat. Time to leave Mid East in full