Trump: Barr should make call on Mueller testimony
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442953-trump-barr-should-make-call-on-mueller-testimony
>I'm thinking Mr. Nadler just commited a crime of Incitement or Extortion on telling Barr to release the fully redacted Mueller's report or he will be in contempt of court
>Bitch sold access to her computer.
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Aug 1, 2016 Clinton worked to advance Russian military tech
Hillary Clinton worked as secretary of state to funnel U.S. dollars into Russia's technological development, including military technology, in exchange for Russian investment in the United States, a new report claims.
Though the activity was legal, the report further illuminates the tangled alliances Clinton developed in her role leading the State Department, the lengths she went in trying to develop a relationship with Russian leaders, and the common ground that donors to the nonprofit Clinton Foundation appeared to share with donors tied to the Kremlin.
The report, released Sunday by the Government Accountability Institute, found the activity began in 2009, when President Obama worked with the country to establish the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission.
The commission, led by Clinton on the U.S. side and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for Russia, was tasked with "identifying areas of cooperation and pursuing joint projects and actions that strengthen strategic stability, international security, economic well-being, and the development of ties between the Russian and American people."
In that role, leaked diplomatic cables show, Russia won Clinton's assistance in obtaining funding for Skolkovo, an "innovation city" akin to Silicon Valley. The Russians established the nonprofit Skolkovo Foundation to assist with the effort, while Clinton's State Department began helping the Russian State Investment Fund, Rusnano, seek investment opportunities among U.S. tech firms.
Documents show the State Department was ultimately successful in obtaining 28 Russian, American, and European "key partners" to fund the Skolkovo Foundation. Some of those likely happened as a result of Clinton's personal clout: A total of 17 companies, like Google, Cisco and Intel, were either donors to the Clinton Foundation or had paid for speeches from Clinton's husband, President Bill Clinton.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-clinton-worked-to-advance-russian-military-tech
Trump admits he has policy differences with his national security adviser: "I actually temper" Bolton
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on Thursday conceded he has policy differences with John Bolton, even as he defended his national security adviser amid media reports he has grown frustrated with some of his hawkish foreign policy moves.
“John’s very good. He has strong views on things, but that’s OK. I actually temper John, which is pretty amazing isn't it?” Trump said during an impromptu briefing with reporters in the White House Roosevelt Room when asked if he is satisfied with Bolton’s advice.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/442960-trump-defends-bolton-but-admits-they-have-differences
FBI's Steele story falls apart: False intel and media contacts were flagged before FISA
The FBI’s sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir t-shirt bought at a tourist trap.
Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media.
The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016.
Her observations were recorded exactly 10 days before the FBI used Steele and his infamous dossier to justify securing a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant to spy on Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the campaign’s contacts with Russia in search of a now debunked collusion theory.
It is important to note that the FBI swore on Oct. 21, 2016, to the FISA judges that Steele’s “reporting has been corroborated and used in criminal proceedings” and the FBI has determined him to be “reliable” and was “unaware of any derogatory information pertaining” to their informant, who simultaneously worked for Fusion GPS, the firm paid by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign to find Russian dirt on Trump.
That’s a pretty remarkable declaration in Footnote 5 on Page 15 of the FISA application, since Kavalec apparently needed just a single encounter with Steele at State to find one of his key claims about Trump-Russia collusion was blatantly false.
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In her typed summary, Kavalec wrote that Steele told her the Russians had constructed a “technical/human operation run out of Moscow targeting the election” that recruited emigres in the United States to “do hacking and recruiting.”
She quoted Steele as saying, “Payments to those recruited are made out of the Russian Consulate in Miami,” according to a copy of her summary memo obtained under open records litigation by the conservative group Citizens United. Kavalec bluntly debunked that assertion in a bracketed comment: “It is important to note that there is no Russian consulate in Miami.”
Kavalec, two days later and well before the FISA warrant was issued, forwarded her typed summary to other government officials. The State Department has redacted the names and agencies of everyone she alerted.
But it is almost certain the FBI knew of Steele's contact with State and his partisan motive. That's because former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says she instructed her staff to send the information they got from Steele to the bureau immediately and to cease contact with the informer because "this is about U.S. politics, and not the work of — not the business of the State Department, and certainly not the business of a career employee who is subject to the Hatch Act."
Even if the FBI didn’t get Kavalec's memo, it is just as implausible that the bureau couldn’t figure out, during the many hours that its agents spent with Steele, what Kavalec divined in a few short minutes: He was political, inaccurate, spinning wild theories and talking to the media.
All those concerns would weigh against Steele’s credibility and should have been disclosed to the judges under the honor system that governs the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, experts say.
Kavalec’s handwritten notes clearly flagged in multiple places that Steele might be talking to the media.
“June — reporting started,” she wrote. “NYT and WP have,” she added, in an apparent reference to the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Later she quoted Steele as suggesting he was “managing” four priorities — “Client needs, FBI, WashPo/NYT, source protection,” her handwritten notes show.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/442944-fbis-steele-story-falls-apart-false-intel-and-media-contacts-were-flagged
Anyone else getting 404'd?