Adam Schiff: ‘We Look Forward to Mueller’s Testimony Before Congress

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, seemingly ignored special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement Wednesday ruling out any testimony before Congress, saying he and other congressional investigators nonetheless “look forward” to him testifying. “We look forward to Mueller’s testimony before Congress,” Schiff began in a statement. “While I understand his reluctance to answer hypotheticals or deviate from the carefully worded conclusions he drew on his charging decisions, there are, nevertheless, a great many questions he can answer that go beyond the report, including any counterintelligence issues and classified matters that were not addressed in his findings.”

In his first public remarks about his two-year Russia investigation, Mueller said the probe has been closed and he is leaving his role and returning to civilian life. Speaking at the Justice Department, Mueller reiterated his report’s findings — that there was no evidence to indicate collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign before the 2016 election, and there were several “episodes” in which President Donald Trump may have obstructed justice with attempts to disrupt the investigation. The report did not clear him on that issue, though Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined the president did not commit. obstruction of justice. Mueller stated he does not plan on speaking further about the investigation, precluding any testimony in Congress. “I hope and expect that this will be the only time I will speak to you about this matter,” Mueller said. “The report is my testimony.” “I would not provide information beyond that which is already public,” he added.

According to Schiff, Mueller’s statement was a “direct rebuke” of Barr’s handling of the special counsel’s report and left open the possibility that President Trump may have committed a crime. “Finally, in a direct rebuke of Attorney General William Barr—who deliberately and repeatedly misled the American people—Mueller today confirmed that he was unable to consider criminal charges of obstruction of justice against the President specifically because of Department of Justice policy prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president,” the California Democrat said. “Mueller reiterated that ‘if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.’ Instead, he made clear that, because of the Department’s own policy, it is left it to Congress—not the Attorney General—to evaluate and further investigate the president’s misconduct.”

Though Schiff is still adamant about Mueller’s testifying, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) appears to have softened on the idea — even as he and the special counsel continue to negotiate about a possible testimony. When asked in a press conference Wednesday if he would issue a subpoena for Mueller to appear before his panel, Nadler replied: “Mr. Mueller told us a lot of what we needed to hear today.” Earlier this month, talks between Nadler and Mueller fell through for the special counsel to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15th.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/29/adam-schiff-we-look-forward-to-muellers-testimony-before-congress/

Rouhani: Iran Might Talk with U.S. if Sanctions Are Lifted

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that negotiations with the United States might be possible if Washington lifts sanctions against Iran. His remarks might not represent a sea change in Iran’s position, but they are at least stylistically different from the string of Iranian officials who have declared negotiations are impossible under any circumstances. “Whenever they lift the unjust sanctions and fulfill their commitments and return to the negotiations table, which they left themselves, the door is not closed. But our people judge you by your actions, not your words,” Rouhani said on Iranian state television, only a day after the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s latest insistence that negotiations are unthinkable.

Rouhani made similar comments during a meeting with his cabinet on Wednesday, saying the door will be open for talks if the United States “chooses another way and returns to justice and law.” “The road is not closed for them, whenever they put aside their cruel sanctions and return to the negotiation table that they left,” he told the cabinet. He spoke on the occasion of “Quds Day,” Iran’s annual celebration of “resistance” against Israel. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. Iran’s notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently labeled a foreign terrorist organization by the United States, has a unit dedicated to espionage on foreign soil known as the “Quds Force.”

Rouhani declared Iran will “never leave Quds and the oppressed alone,” by which he meant Iran will never halt the destabilizing activities opposed by the United States, including its support for the brutal Houthi insurgency in Yemen and the Assad dictatorship in Syria. “Palestine and Quds are code names for the resistance of all Muslims, and Israel is the code name of oppressors in the world who want to oppress Muslims,” Rouhani said. “There was a time when the Palestinians used to defend themselves only with rocks and stones, but today, they have worked hard and developed a tool to give powerful responses to Israelis. Today, Palestinians respond missiles with missiles, in a way that after 48 hours, the Zionists were forced to retreat and their Iron Dome could not tolerate their missiles,” he boasted. Rouhani was endorsing a savage rocket attack launched against Israeli civilians by Palestinian terrorists at the beginning of May. Iron Dome is the Israeli anti-missile defense system. Palestinian terrorists were able to overwhelm the system by launching over 450 rockets in a single day. “The enemies of Palestine and Quds have tried to undermine Quds’ sanctity over the past year and have declared al-Quds as the capital of the intruders and moved their embassy there,” Rouhani said, a reference to President Donald Trump’s decision to move America’s embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/05/29/rouhani-iran-might-talk-with-u-s-if-sanctions-are-lifted/

Iran's Anti-Israel Ideology: Quds Day

https://www.unitedagainstnucleariran.com/quds-day

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>>6623367

None of these people will ever admit to (((their))) guilt. Proof is in the childish behavior of not taking "No" for an answer, this is all part of a temper tantrum they will never let go of.

'A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall' on Obama's Bad Cops and Spies

The skies are growing dark and increasingly ominous for dirty officials at the top of Obama-era law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Leading the “I’m really worried” list are James Comey, John Brennan, James Clapper, Loretta Lynch, and their senior aides, all political appointees. They expected Hillary Clinton to win in 2016 and bury any traces of malfeasance, just as they had buried hers. It didn’t work out that way. Now they need protection themselves. House Democrats and anonymous leakers are busy providing it. Many are delicately called “current and former senior officials” by the New York Times, Washington Post, and other legacy media. Gee, I wonder who they are?

These defenders of the old guard are sliming Attorney General Bill Barr, who heads the investigation into their actions. They have good reasons, if not clean hands, for their attack. First, they want to keep as much secret as they can. Exposure can only harm them. Their main argument is that any disclosures will damage U.S. national security. Second, they want to paint the disclosures and forthcoming indictments as President Trump’s revenge, the illegitimate use of powerful agencies that should be nonpartisan. That, of course, is precisely what they are accused of doing. Barr won’t be deterred. He did not return for a second stint as AG to pad his résumé or protect Donald Trump. He returned to clean out the Augean Stables. He needs to muck out the mess left by his predecessors and find the horses that left it. Barr is determined to do that. He intends to find out how and why the Department of Justice embarked on an all-consuming, two-year project to investigate Trump’s alleged cooperation with Putin’s Russia to win the presidency. The investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no such cooperation (going well beyond saying he simply could not indict). Now, Barr wants to understand the origins of the probe and whether the tools used to launch it were lies or distortions — and were known to be so by DoJ, FBI, and CIA officials. Barr wants to know if U.S. intelligence agencies were used to spy illegally on Americans, or if they outsourced that to friendly foreign services and then recovered the information from them. He wants to know if the investigations really began in July 2016, as the FBI testified, or earlier, and what evidence was used to begin them.

None dare call it spying. At least no Democrats or Obama officials will. But that’s exactly what it was. As that master of the English language, Winston Churchill, put it, “Short words are best and old words when short are best of all.” That’s far too clear for bureaucratic obfuscators, presidential contenders, and their media allies. They prefer long, Latinate terms like “surveillance” and “surreptitious investigation.” Barr is effectively telling them to “pound sand.” Over the next few months, the public will finally see what kind of malfeasance there was. At least they will see some of it. Some will remain classified to protect sources and methods; some will be released only after criminal charges are filed. The initial evidence will come from two sources: a major report by DoJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and the steady declassification of underlying documents by AG Barr, who was given that task by the president. Barr needed that authority because the FBI and intelligence community are resisting disclosure with all their institutional power. They fear years of abuse will be exposed.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/28/a_hard_rains_gonna_fall_on_obamas_bad_cops_and_spies_140429.html

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Indeed, they must sing to (((their))) base and tell the Steyer's, Soro's ect they will always be looking out for (((them))).

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Indeed, not so sure he'll even do well in a prison cell.