Anonymous ID: 078657 March 31, 2019, 12:21 p.m. No.5993585   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3615 >>3701 >>3813 >>3855

>>5993545

>Comey

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-jim-comey-mueller-report-obstruction-20190327-story,amp.html

https://outline.com/d2cnb3

 

James Comey: 'It doesn't make sense' that Mueller didn't rule on obstruction of justice

 

James Comey, the former FBI director who started the Russia investigation, expressed confusion over why special counsel Robert Mueller III didn't conclude whether President Donald Trump tried to obstruct justice.

 

In an interview with Lester Holt of "NBC Nightly News" on Wednesday, Comey said it is the role of the special counsel to make a judgment so political appointees, such as the attorney general, aren't left to make the call. That Mueller left it up to Attorney General William Barr to decide on obstruction of justice "doesn't make sense on its face," Comey said.

 

"I don't know why he didn't and don't know what combination of law and fact led him to that," Comey said, who urged that Mueller's final report be made public.

 

Comey also weighed in on Holt's now-famous 2017 interview with Trump soon after he was fired. In that conversation, Trump admitted to Holt that he had "this Russia thing" on his mind when he fired Comey.

 

Comey told Holt that when he saw that Trump interview he "thought, 'that's potentially obstruction of justice and I hope somebody is going to look at that.' " Comey has made similar comments in the past regarding whether Trump obstructed justice by firing him.

 

While Republicans have been very critical of the investigation after Mueller did not establish there was a conspiracy between Russia and the Trump campaign, Comey believes the report actually rehabs the FBI's image by showing that the organization is not "a nest of vipers and spies, but an honest group of people trying to find out what is true."

 

Some Republicans, including Trump ally and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have suggested opening a congressional probe into the FBI's handling of the Russia investigation.

 

President Trump has said that the two-year investigation was a "disgrace" and should "never happen to a president again."

 

But Comey posited this scenario when asked whether he should have opened up an investigation in the first place:

 

Imagine the Iranians interfere in the election to help elect Barack Obama, an Obama aide meets with the Iranians to talk about the dirt they have, then President Obama's national security adviser lies to the FBI about his communications with the Iranians, then President Obama asks Comey to drop the investigation of that, fires Comey and said he did so while thinking about the "Iranian thing." Then he invited mullahs to the Oval Office and told them he lifted a lot of pressure by firing Comey.

 

"Who on earth doesn't think the FBI should investigate that?" Comey asked. "The hypocrisy is revealed just by changing the names," he said.

Anonymous ID: 078657 March 31, 2019, 12:42 p.m. No.5993841   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>3847

https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/still-cult-y-after-all-these-years/

 

Still cult-y after all these years

 

Checking in with a leader of long-running local post-cult support group

 

One Jewish group that has straddled the line between religion and cult is Lev Tahor. The group, founded by Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans, who since has died, has become most notorious for cloaking women and girls over 3 years old in black, head-to-toe, burqa-like coverings โ€” and for repeated brushes with legal authorities, most recently involving the arrest of a Lev Tahor member for kidnapping two of Rabbi Helbransโ€™ grandchildren, after their mother โ€” his daughter โ€” tried to remove them from the group after she objected to the forced marriage of her 13-year-old daughter.

 

The group has divided the ultra-Orthodox community, with some anti-Zionist sectors taking Lev Tahorโ€™s side in its struggles against civil authorities in Israel, Canada, and Central America.

 

Rabbi Helbrans was convicted in 1994 for kidnapping, after helping a bar mitzvah student hide from his mother. He served two years in prison for that felony.

 

โ€œThe mother had immigrated from Russia with her young son,โ€ Mr. Goldberg said. โ€œThe son was taking bar mitzvah lessons with somebody from Lev Tahor. Suddenly, the son just disappeared. He said, โ€˜Iโ€™m going to study Torah, Iโ€™m not coming home.โ€™ The mother contacted me. I met with her son. He was as starry-eyed and other-worldly as anybody from any cult I ever worked with.โ€

Anonymous ID: 078657 March 31, 2019, 12:43 p.m. No.5993853   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>5993847

http://www.israelhayom.com/2019/03/31/5th-member-of-jewish-sect-charged-in-new-kidnapping-plot/

 

5th member of Jewish sect charged in new kidnapping plot

Matityau Malka appears in federal court in New York โ€ข FBI: Malka and other members of Lev Tahor planned to kidnap a girl and her younger brother three months after they were taken from their mother in New York and later recovered by authorities in Mexico.