FBI Fights to Keep Leaker Comey’s ‘Trump Memos’ Secret

The battle for fired FBI Director James Comey’s ‘Trump memos’ escalated Tuesday.

The FBI argued in a new court filing Tuesday that the release of Mueller’s report “does not alter the FBI’s position with regard to the remaining redactions in the Comey Memos.”

In other words, the FBI is still blocking the release of leaker Comey’s Trump memos.

-REWIND-

In late March, US District Judge James Boasberg in Washington (also a FISA judge) ordered the FBI to turn over Comey’s ‘Trump memos’ — both clean and redacted versions by April 1st as he weighed releasing them to the public.

The FBI previously pushed back on March 1st and wrote to Judge Boasberg, an Obama appointee, saying that the memos were still redacted and classified and should remain under seal to avoid interfering with Mueller’s inquisition — Mueller’s witch hunt ended last month so the judge asked the FBI to file an opinion about the release of Comey’s memos.

The FBI dropped another bombshell in an April 9 filing — Comey was actually a witness in Mueller’s investigation.

“The FBI and the Special Counsel’s office have determined that disclosure of the Comey Memos … could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the pending Russia investigation. The Comey Memos are his contemporaneous notes about incidents that are of interest in that investigation …” said a court filing on April 9th – the same filing which revealed that Comey was actually a witness in Mueller’s investigation.

The documents also suggest then-FBI Director James Comey began his coup against President Trump because he didn’t like his foreign-policy decision-making.

The documents were released as part of a FOIA lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch, CNN, USA Today and others against the FBI in an effort to make Comey’s Trump memos public.

It turns out that hiding behind the Mueller investigation was just an excuse because the FBI is still pushing back and fighting like hell to keep the memos secret — the same memos Comey strategically leaked to the New York Times through his friend Daniel Goldman.

The DOJ did however authorize a release of the January 22, 2018 transcript (unclassified) from the ex parte hearing which means we will see perhaps the description of Comey’s memos and the argument to the judge for keeping them secret.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/new-fbi-fights-to-keep-leaker-comeys-trump-memos-secret/

America's Defense Budget Is Bigger Than You Think

Each year, Congress approves hundreds of billions of dollars for the US defense budget… but the real number exceeds $1 trillion.

In its latest budget request, the Trump administration is asking for a near-record $750 billion for the Pentagon and related defense activities—an astonishing figure by any measure. If passed by Congress, it will be one of the largest military budgets in American history, topping peak levels reached during the Korean and Vietnam wars. And keep one thing in mind: That $750 billion represents only part of the actual annual cost of our national security state.

There are at least 10 separate pots of money dedicated to fighting wars, preparing for yet more wars, and dealing with the consequences of wars already fought. So the next time a president, a general, a secretary of defense, or a hawkish member of Congress insists that the US military is woefully underfunded, think twice. A careful look at US defense expenditures offers a healthy corrective to such wildly inaccurate claims.

Now, let’s take a brief dollar-by-dollar tour of the US national security state of 2019, tallying the sums as we go, and see just where we finally land (or perhaps the word should be “soar”), financially speaking.

The Pentagon’s base budget: The Pentagon’s regular, or base, budget is slated to be $544.5 billion in fiscal year 2020—a healthy sum but only a modest down payment on total military spending.

As you might imagine, that base budget provides basic operating funds for the Department of Defense, much of which will be squandered on preparations for ongoing wars never authorized by Congress, overpriced weapons systems that aren’t actually needed, or outright waste, an expansive category that includes everything from cost overruns to unnecessary bureaucracy. That $544.5 billion is the amount publicly reported by the Pentagon for its essential expenses and includes $9.6 billion in mandatory spending that goes toward items like military retirement.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-07/americas-defense-budget-bigger-you-think

kek

I like fashion, but the pretentious Met Gala grotesquery made me physically repulsed

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/458678-met-gala-leto-perry-repulsive/

Satanism perhaps?