UPDATE: Mueller and FBI Arrest Roger Stone Because Major FBI Scandal Out Today – FBI Agent Pientka Linked to Major FISA Abuse Scandal and General Flynn Setup

Over the past couple of days the testimony of former FBI General Counsel James Baker was released. Baker resigned and he too was a crook and involved in Deep State efforts to aid Hilary Clinton in her bid to become President and their attempted coup to remove President Trump after he defeated Hillary in the 2016 election.

What Baker said was shocking, especially his testimony surrounding the missing corrupt FBI agent Joseph Pientka.

According to Brian Cates at the Epoch Times the Baker testimony was explosive. Baker stated that –

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISC] was not alerted to the fact that much of the information in the surveillance warrant on Trump campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page was being provided by paid political propagandists employed by the Hillary Clinton campaign.

To continue receiving Trump-Russia collusion propaganda from opposition research firm Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele—who had been hired by Fusion GPS on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC—the FBI established a backchannel through former Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr at the Department of Justice. After every meeting with Steele, Ohr would sit down for an interview with FBI Special Agent Joseph Pientka, who would fill out official FD-302 interview forms to pass on the information within the FBI.

According to Cates –

It seems something spooked the SpyGate plotters into presenting an appearance of drawing back from Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS while still surreptitiously using that political propaganda shop as a source for their ongoing investigations.

This backchannel allowed the FBI to hide Fusion GPS’s—and the Clinton campaign’s–role in providing much of the “evidence” being used to drive these politically-motivated investigations of Trump and his associates.

Cates continues [emphasis added] –

The point was to launder Fusion GPS’s Trump-Russia allegations through Ohr to Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and lead agent on the Trump case, Peter Strzok, so it could be claimed the information was coming from a legitimate intelligence source instead of from paid political propagandists working for Hillary Clinton.

This means it’s highly likely that when Bruce Ohr’s personal notes from his meetings with Fusion GPS are compared with the official FD-302 interview forms that Agent Pientka filled out following his interviews with Ohr, they are not going to match when it comes to what the stated source was for the Trump-Russia information.

For Pientka to write down on the 302 forms that this information on Trump-Russia he was being given by Ohr was still coming from the Fusion GPS boys after the FBI had supposedly severed all ties with them would have defeated the entire reason for going to the trouble of establishing a backchannel in the first place.

Cates tweeted the point from his article where he states that Pientka is involved in two major scandals involving the Trump – Russia collusion sham – these phony 302s he took from his discussions with Ohr was one. Pientka was also the agent, along with the very corrupt and now fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who ambushed General Michael Flynn at the White House which led to reports Flynn lied to the FBI.

CAST YOUR VOTE: Do You Still Trust President Trump?

Pientka has now been revealed to be at the center of the beating heart of not just 1 big scandal in the FBI, but TWO big scandals:

1) the @GenFlynn prosecution

and

2) The secret Fusion GPS/FBI backchannel.

OF COURSE they've got him under oath on both of these.

— Brian Cates (@drawandstrike) January 23, 2019

Cates believes that Pientka has some very damaging goods on the entire Russia collusion sham which may all be connected to Uranium One, the Iran deal and other real Russia collusion actions taken by the Obama White House. This is why he was not interviewed by Congress (because they all know the Dems would leak and mislead any information from these investigations).

Today’s corrupt actions by the Mueller gang, which was created as a result of the criminal acts taken by the FBI and DOJ to set up Trump related individuals, is just another action by the very criminal and corrupt Deep State to prevent real news from getting out. Hang in there Roger Stone. It looks like you’re unfortunately just a pawn in Deep State’s corrupt and conflicted game to unseat President Trump.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/01/update-mueller-and-fbi-arrest-roger-stone-because-major-fbi-scandal-out-today-fbi-agent-pientka-linked-to-major-fisa-abuse-scandal-and-general-flynn-setup/

U.S. calls out Cuba for ‘meddling’ in Venezuela, urges UN member nations to choose sides

Venezuela's political showdown on Jan. 26, 2019 moved to the United Nations where US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his administration's support of the country's self-declared interim leader Juan Guaidó.

Presenting the Trump administration’s case on Venezuela before the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo minced no words calling out Cuba as the foreign power meddling in Venezuela and propping up what Pompeo called the “illegitimate mafia state” of Nicolás Maduro’s regime.

“End this nightmare. No excuses,” Pompeo said Friday during a special meeting of the UN Security Council. He called on the UN’s member nations to choose sides in the political showdown that has pit backers of Maduro against supporters of the internationally-recognized interim President Juan Guaidó.

No regime has done more to sustain the nightmarish condition of the Venezuelan people than the regime in Havana,” Pompeo said. “Cuban security and intelligence thugs, invited into Venezuela by Maduro himself and those around him, have sustained this illegitimate rule. … Cuba has directly made matters worse.”

Noting the protracted humanitarian crisis that has forced more than three million Venezuelans to flee the country and relegated those who remain to starvation — without basic utilities and services and no hope for economic prosperity — Pompeo posed an ultimatum for the UN’s member nations.

“Either you stand with the forces of freedom,” he said, “or you’re in league with Maduro and his mayhem.”

Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia accused the U.S. of a long history of meddling in other nations’ politics, citing as examples the U.S.-financed Nicaraguan rebels and the Iran Contra Affair, the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, and the overthrow of Chile’s former Marxist leader, Salvador Allende.

“Venezuela is just another chapter in the U.S.’s long history of meddling,” Nebenzia said.

Nebenzia also accused National Security Advisor John Bolton of making a “Bolshevik-style declaration” that the U.S. would “appropriate” Venezuelan assets and accused the U.S. of meddling in Venezuela’s elections.

Referencing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections, he said the Trump administration had interfered in Venezuela’s presidential election in May.

“There’s enough evidence,” he said, “that on a number of opposition candidates [in Venezuela’s presidential elections], the strongest pressure was exerted so they would withdraw their candidacies and not compete.”

Nebenzia accused the U.S. and its allies of “implementing a plan to overthrow” Maduro, adding that the intervention included “prominent members” of the U.S. Congress.

China’s envoy also spoke in favor of Maduro, though with less caustic language against the U.S. The Chinese envoy said her nation supports “efforts made by the Venezuelan government to uphold sovereignty, independence and stability” and urged the UN’s member nations to “abide by principles of the United Nations charter, especially norms governing international relations and principles of international law, such as no interference in each other’s internal affairs.”

Germany was the first to answer Pompeo’s call, with the nation’s envoy to the UN stating that Germany now recognizes Guaidó as the interim president of Venezuela.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt stopped just short of recognizing Guaidó, stating that unless Maduro calls for elections within eight days the United Kingdom would recognize Guaidó.

The representative of France also said that if a new presidential election is not announced within the next eight days, the European nation will recognize Guiadó as the legitimate ruler of Venezuela.

“Nicolás Maduro must understand that this is his last opportunity and he must take it,” the French envoy said.

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Spain also has said it will recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the interim president of Venezuela if President Nicolás Maduro’s government doesn’t hold new presidential elections.

Pompeo’s presentation was nearly derailed when a procedural vote won just enough support to allow the meeting to proceed.

The U.S., which called the meeting, received the minimum nine “yes” votes to hold Saturday’s meeting on the situation in Venezuela, with four countries voting “no” and two abstaining.

Russian ambassador Nebenzia opposed the meeting, saying Venezuela does not represent a threat to international peace and security. Instead, he said, the country is facing a U.S. effort “to attempt a coup d’etat in the country.”

Pompeo was the first to speak. He cited China, Russia, Syria and Iran as four nations that stand with Maduro, and accused them of propping up Maduro’s regime in the hope of recouping billions in failed investments that Pompeo said had gone to line the pockets of Venezuela’s Socialist leader and his supporters.

“It’s not a surprise,” Pompeo said, “that those who refuse to allow democracy in their own countries support Maduro.”

Immediately after Pompeo’s speech, the United Kingdom’s representative tore into Maduro’s regime, too.

“Children are starving … essential items are absent from bare shelves of bankrupt stores, and millions have fled to neighboring countries,” he said, urging the UN’s member nations to support Guaidó and reject Maduro.

Hunt, the British foreign secretary, called the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela “entirely the creation of one man and his cronies.

“The ranting socialism of Nicolás Maduro has destroyed an entire country,” he said, “and despite his self-congratulatory moral posturing his enduring legacy will be not to have just made the poor poorer but destitute.”

Words of support for Maduro’s regime came first from representatives of South Africa and Equatorial Guinea, who urged “due process” and called on nations to consider what would follow if Maduro were removed.

Prospects for united action are slim. Among the five permanent members with veto power, France and Britain have condemned Maduro but not followed U.S. actions, China has called for calm and remained neutral, and Russia has denounced the administration.

On Friday, Pompeo announced that Elliott Abrams, a veteran of past administrations and the State Department, would lead the administration’s efforts on Venezuela.

Pompeo said the U.S. called the UN Security Council meeting to urge other nations to support Venezuela’s democratic transition.

Addressing the media on Friday, Abrams called the crisis in Venezuela “deep and difficult and dangerous”.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/venezuela/article225107520.html#storylink=trendingstories