I would like to apologize for my tomfoolery, debauchery, shit posting and general poor attitude towards digging.

My hiatus as a professional digger was exacerbated by the general mood, and personal displeasure of captcha, although I harbor no feelings of ill will towards BO, as I assume he was acting with good intentions.

I ship pick up where I left off, and continue the deep digging and screening of news, and my tomfoolery and shit-posting will end. Drinking and posting will also end.

Q and BO deserve some tits, some meme's and a good nights rest.

Good luck Anon's, praying to God is easy, digging is God's work!

Rand Paul angles to become Trump's emissary to Iran

The senator pitched the idea during a recent round of golf with the president.

By ELIANA JOHNSON and NAHAL TOOSI 07/17/2019 12:16 PM EDT

Over a round of golf this past weekend, Sen. Rand Paul asked President Donald Trump’s blessing for a sensitive diplomatic mission.

Paul proposed sitting down with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif to extend a fresh olive branch on the president’s behalf, according to four U.S. officials. The aim: to reduce tensions between the two countries. Trump signed off on the idea.

With Zarif in New York City this week for U.N. meetings and private sitdowns with journalists and think-tank experts, the prospect of the dovish Kentucky senator serving as the administration’s chief diplomatic emissary has rankled many administration officials, who are expressing concern that Paul’s intervention threatens to scuttle the president’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran.

It is unclear whether the senator will meet with Zarif. He and his office declined multiple requests for comment. But the president’s willingness to tap Paul as the go-between with a top Iranian official is a demonstration both of his unorthodox approach to foreign affairs and his continuing desire, even as his aides threaten to squeeze Iran until it capitulates to U.S. demands, to entice the Islamic Republic’s leaders to the negotiating table.

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"It’s a fine idea to make it clear you’re interested in negotiating and a diplomatic path, but you have to be selective and circumspect," Dubowitz said. "Right now, Trump has tapped everybody and their mother to be an emissary."

"The one thing that these guys don’t understand is the more desperate they look for a deal the more the Iranian regime will play hard to get," he added. "Then when it comes to the table it will be even more inflexible in its negotiating position. And the final result will end up looking like Obama 2.0."

When told that the president had blessed an outsider to reach out to Zarif, a Trump administration official familiar with Iran issues laughed and quipped: "He's given up on all of us!"

Iranian officials did not reply to requests for comment.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/17/rand-paul-iran-talks-donald-trump-1418075

Jim Jordan: Timing of final Carter Page FISA extension is 'significant'

by Daniel Chaitin - July 18, 2019 08:53 AM

Rep. Jim Jordan said a "significant" question is why the FBI submitted a third Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act renewal to surveil onetime Trump campaign adviser Carter Page after Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel.

During an interview Wednesday evening, the Ohio Republican said Mueller could be asked about this when he testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees next week.

"They signed it after he was named special counsel. I think that's significant. I’m sure someone's going to ask about that question," Jordan told Fox News host Sean Hannity. Jordan, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said he and his fellow Republicans on the panel are working out the "best approach" in how to question Mueller.

Four FISA warrant applications and renewals were filed from October 2016 through June 2017 against Page. Mueller was appointed special counsel of the Russia investigation in May 2017, after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.

The applications relied heavily on the unverified dossier about Trump's ties to Russia compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, who was hired by Fusion GPS. The opposition research firm was hired by Marc Elias of the Perkins Coie law firm at the behest of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. Steele and Fusion GPS shopped the research around to various government figures, including one skeptical State Department official, as well as the media in the run-up to the 2016 election.

Jordan said the government surveilled an American citizen, who was never charged with any wrongdoing, for a better part of a year based on information that was "bogus." He also said former FBI General Counsel James Baker's admissions about the FISA application was important.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is looking into Steele as part of his investigation into alleged FISA abuse.

VIDEO AT LINK

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/jim-jordan-timing-of-final-carter-page-fisa-extension-is-significant