Anonymous ID: e025f3 April 19, 2019, 6:22 p.m. No.6246771   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6948 >>7128

Pelosi Schedules Monday Conference Call With Top House Dems to Discuss Mueller Report and “Next Steps to be Taken”

 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) scheduled a Monday conference call with top House Democrats to discuss Mueller’s garbage report and the “next steps to be taken.”

 

Democrat lawmakers in both chambers have been beating the impeachment drum since Mueller’s report was released Thursday morning.

 

In a statement, Pelosi accused Attorney General Bill Barr of presenting a “disrespectfully late and selectively redacted version of Special Counsel Mueller’s report.”

 

The special counsel actually assisted Attorney General Bill Barr with the redactions, but when have facts ever mattered to lawless Democrats like Nancy Pelosi?

 

“This report includes several alarming findings, including that “the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential election in sweeping and systematic fashion.” It also explicitly states that the President’s campaign took actions with an expectation that “it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.” Pelosi stated.

 

Pelosi said that Mueller’s report “undercut” Bill Barr’s claims that President Trump did not obstruct justice.

 

“Our Chairmen are studying the report, and have released a joint statement. As we continue to review this document, we will have more to report and will update you on the next steps that must be taken. The Caucus is scheduling a conference call for Monday to discuss this grave matter, which is as soon as our analysis and this Holy Season’s religious traditions allow.”

 

Pelosi then cited the portion of Mueller’s report that states, “We concluded Congress has authority to prohibit a president’s corrupt use of his authority in order to protect the integrity of the administration of justice,” which “accords with our constitutional system of checks and balances and the principle that no person is above the law.”

 

“Congress will not be silent,” Pelosi added.

 

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) floated impeachment on Thursday during a presser.

 

Nadler told reporters that impeaching President Trump is “one possibility,” but that it is too soon to tell as he wants see the unredacted Mueller report and “other evidence.”

 

In the other chamber, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called for the House to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump.

 

It will interesting to see if Pelosi plays with fire and decides to move forward with impeachment, something she previously stated she would not do.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/here-we-go-pelosi-schedules-monday-conference-call-with-top-house-dems-to-discuss-mueller-report-and-next-steps-to-be-taken/

Anonymous ID: e025f3 April 19, 2019, 6:23 p.m. No.6246790   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7305

CIA Chief Says Russia And Iran Are New Focus, Praises Trump's North Korea Efforts

 

On the same day the Mueller report went public, CIA Director Gina Haspel made a rare public appearance at Auburn University outlining the Central Intelligence Agency's new priority to better understand "nation-state adversaries such as Russia and Iran," according to a new WSJ report.

 

Though she made no mention of the special council's now public report, she said the agency had made both Russia and Iran a central focus over the past year, shifting resources to these areas to better prepare for the threat.

 

“Our Russia and Iran investment has been strengthened after years of falling behind our justifiably heavy emphasis on counter-terrorism” in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Haspel said in the remarks. “We still have a lot of work to do on that front, but we’re making good progress,” she added.

 

She mentioned new potential government adversaries "whether in Moscow, Tehran or Pyongyang" according to the WSJ's summary of the speech, but also pledged to put continued focus on threats from al-Qaeda and ISIS.

 

Significantly, it was only the second time the CIA chief had given public remarks since taking the director post last May. She's seen as having kept a low profile, given her clandestine service background and intelligence community tensions with the Trump White House.

 

Also interesting is her praise of Trump's engagement with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, per the WSJ:

 

On North Korea, the CIA director said Mr. Trump “has shown a lot of wisdom” in reaching out to leader Kim Jong Un in a bid to rid the country of its nuclear arms. “And that’s not to downplay the difficulty or the obstacles and challenges associated with” the effort, she said.

 

In January, Mr. Trump clashed with his spy chiefs via Twitter after intelligence leaders, including Ms. Haspel, told a Senate panel that U.S. analysts were skeptical about Mr. Kim’s willingness to give up his nuclear program.

 

On state actors like Russia, as well as resurgent terror groups, she stopped short of saying these threats were "existential," however.

 

But given her remarks revealing the CIA prioritizing efforts focused on Russia, it doesn't appear the Mueller report, which has now effectively debunked the past three years of "Moscow-centric national security threat hysteria," will make Washington's neo-Mccarthyite anti-Russia craze go away anytime soon.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-04-19/cia-chief-says-russia-and-iran-are-new-focus-praises-trumps-north-korea-efforts

 

And Israel????

Anonymous ID: e025f3 April 19, 2019, 6:27 p.m. No.6246829   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6836

France to deploy tanks and military to Russian borders

 

PARIS – French armed forces will be deployed to Estonia as part of the NATO mission to strengthen the military presence in the Baltic countries and Poland.

 

On April 23, France will deploy almost 300 soldiers to Estonia, as well as four tanks and twenty infantry fighting vehicles. RIA Novosti reports regarding the press service of the French Embassy in Tallinn.

 

According to the Ministry, the French military equipment and personnel will be deployed in the Estonian city of Tapa, located about 140 km from the border of Estonia and Russia.

 

It is noted that the French armed forces will be sent to Estonia as part of the NATO mission to strengthen the military presence in the Baltic countries and Poland. It is assumed that the French soldiers will be present in Estonia until August of this year.

 

Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov pointed to the activity of NATO at the borders of Russia.

 

https://www.fort-russ.com/2019/04/france-to-deploy-tanks-and-military-to-russian-borders/

Anonymous ID: e025f3 April 19, 2019, 6:31 p.m. No.6246888   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6921 >>6976 >>6995 >>7068 >>7237 >>7414 >>7463

Iranian Intel Minister: We Identified, Arrested 290 CIA Spies In Different Countries

 

The Iranian intelligence has identified 290 spies of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) across different countries, the country’s Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi revealed on April 19.

 

“CIA operatives in these countries were identified and arrested and the contacts of the US intelligence agency with its sources were disrupted in such a way that a committee to assess the failure was set up in America,” Alavi said during Friday prayers in Tehran, according to Press TV.

 

Alavi said that the arrest of these spies was one of the biggest defeats in the history of the U.S. intelligence. The Iranian minister also promised that the details of these operations will be made public soon.

 

Last year, a report by Yahoo News revealed that the Iranians intelligence managed to compromise a secret internet-based communications system that CIA agents used to contact their operatives worldwide. The hack reportedly allowed the Iranian intelligence to identify dozens of U.S. spies between 2009 and 2013.

 

“We’re still dealing with the fallout … Dozens of people around the world were killed because of this,” a former U.S. national security official told Yahoo.

 

The Iranian intelligence minister said his country carried out a similar successful counter-intelligence operation against Britain’s MI6 secret service. He promised that the details of this operation will be also published soon.

 

Alavi’s announcement casts serious doubts on the efficiency and work ethics of the CIA, which has reportedly suffered from a similar failure in China.

 

https://southfront.org/iranian-intel-minister-we-identified-arrested-290-cia-spies-in-different-countries/

Anonymous ID: e025f3 April 19, 2019, 6:41 p.m. No.6247038   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7071 >>7237 >>7414

Senior Russian Diplomats Held Talks With Saudi Crown Prince On Syria

 

A high-level Russian delegation, including Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Syria Alexander Lavrentyev, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin and representatives of the Defense Ministry, arrived in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on April 19 and held a meeting with the Kingdom’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud.

 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia said in an official statement that the delegation and Bin Salman discussed several issues during the meeting, mainly the situation in war-torn Syria.

 

“Special attention was paid to ensuring a long-term political settlement in Syria based on the U.N. Security Council resolution 2254 and providing necessary aid to help rebuild the country after the conflict,” the ministry’s statement reads.

 

Under the rule of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabia strengthened its relations with Russia and adopted a more moderate stand on the ongoing conflict in Syria. The oil-rich kingdom reportedly suspended its support for Syrian militants few years ago.

 

Despite this development, Saudi Arabia is still anxious to restore its relations with Damascus, unlike its key regional ally, the UAE, who did so in late 2018. Local observers believe that pressure from the U.S. is preventing the Kingdom from taking additional positive steps on Syria.

 

Meanwhile, Russia probably believes that Saudi Arabia could be a part of a long-awaited political solution in Syria. The kingdom’s vast wealth and its relations with Arab tribes in Syria could help to reconstruct the country, materially and socially.

 

https://southfront.org/senior-russian-diplomats-held-talks-with-saudi-crown-prince-on-syria/