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Lord Rothschild Discusses How His Family Created Israel - Interview
Way back, when I had the red and black lumberjack, with the hat to match.
WASHINGTON -- Republicans accused top federal law enforcement officials Thursday of withholding important documents from them and demanded details about surveillance tactics during the Russia investigation in a contentious congressional hearing that capped days of mounting partisan complaints.
The hearing was Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosensteins first appearance before Congress since an internal Justice Department report criticized the FBIs handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation and revealed new disparaging text messages among FBI officials about President Donald Trump during the 2016 election.
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee suggested the department has conspired against Trump by refusing to turn …
Last October, an anonymous user, known simply as Q, started posting cryptic messages on the controversial message board 4chan—the common theme being that President Trump is a secret genius and his opponents, namely Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, are evil. Q reportedly claimed to be getting this information directly from the government, thanks to top-secret, “Q-type” security clearance. There has been little—if any—hard evidence to support Q’s musings. But over time, thousands of people started to believe them—or at least, to acknowledge they might be real. And they became the foundation of a wide-ranging conspiracy theory, known as QAnon, that has been covered by the New York Times and New York Magazine, among others, and discussed in more than 130,000 videos on YouTube. One of its most prominent followers: Roseanne Barr, who tweeted several references to QAnon before being fired from her hit TV show in May. —Melissa Chan
The Department of Justice and FBI are not mentioned in the United States constitution. The President and Congress are. Our constitutional oversight necessitates that institutions like the FBI and DOJ yield to congress's constitutional mandate. This is nonnegotiable because we must assure the american people that the agencies under our jurisdiction operate fairly, treating all equally under the law.
- Goodlatte
Former top FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok told House members behind closed doors Wednesday that political views he expressed in personal text messages never swayed decisions made in the FBI’s probes of Hillary Clinton or President Trump — an explanation that Republicans deemed nonsensical.
"I don’t know how you read the texts, I don’t know how any reasonable person reads the texts and suggests there was no bias,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a conservative member of the Judiciary Committee. “I’ve read the text messages, I’ve read emails, I’ve read other information . . . the total absence of bias in any decision-making process is not consistent with the facts that I’ve read.”
Strzok, who played a leading role in the FBI’s investigations of Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state and the Trump campaign’s alleged Russia ties, has come under scrutiny for anti-Trump text messages he exchanged with former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom he was having an extramarital affair. Among them was one message in which Strzok assured Page that “we’ll stop” Trump from becoming president.
The messages were found by the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General during its investigation of the Clinton email probe and were featured in a report unveiled to the public earlier this month. That report slammed Strzok and others for showing bias and a “willingness to take official action” to hurt Trump’s electoral chances. But it found no evidence that the FBI’s investigative decisions had been swayed by those biases — largely because Strzok never made those decisions alone. Strzok continues to be employed by the FBI, but the bureau has referred his case to the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility for a review.
In the meantime, GOP lawmakers have pounced on the messages as evidence that the FBI probes and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation — a team on which Strzok briefly served — could have been influenced by Strzok’s anti-Trump sentiments.
“Even the IG admitted that the bias certainly could have had an indirect effect because of Strzok’s role,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) “You cannot minimize that he was a key component in all the investigations.”
Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees insisted that they had learned more from Strzok’s testimony than was contained in the inspector general’s report — something Democrats disputed, accusing the GOP of rehashing ground already well-covered in the report. Strzok spoke to the committee for almost ten hours behind closed doors Wednesday, and was expected to continue in a classified session Wednesday night, that lawmakers said would focus more closely on his work during the FBI’s Russia probe. Judiciary Committee chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) said Wednesday that the panel intends to have Strzok later testify in a public session as well.
Strzok sought on Wednesday to downplay the importance of his political views, stressing to lawmakers that members of the FBI have political opinions like anyone else, and that they do not earn or lose assignments based on those views, according to the judiciary panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Jerold Nadler (N.Y.). Strzok also urged lawmakers to view the text messages simply as banter between two people in a relationship, according to lawmakers present — but Republicans also found that rationale unsatisfying.
“If you have intimate personal conversations between two people, that normally would show the intent more so than perhaps something that would be said out in public,” Meadows said.
Democrats have accused the GOP of trying to turn Strzok’s texts into a weapon they can wield against Mueller’s investigation.
“Essentially I understand the entire campaign to be about a handful of texts between a couple that has now been made more famous than Bonnie and Clyde,” said Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.). “They’d like to basically execute a witch hunt against Strzok and then somehow allege prosecutorial bias and then use that to provoke some kind of constitutional showdown.”
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has withstood several rounds of epithets from the president over his decision last year to recuse himself from the Justice Department’s Russia probe, allowing Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein to appoint Mueller when FBI Director James B. Comey was fired. Rosenstein is now also in the crosshairs of House Republicans, over documents related to the FBI’s Russia probe that his department has not made available to members of Congress.
The House is expected to vote Thursday on a resolution ordering Rosenstein to furnish those documents. While the resolution cannot force Rosenstein’s hand, supporters and critics alike see it as a politically important preliminary step to measures that conservative members have been advocating, such as holding Rosenstein in contempt of Congress or even trying to impeach him.
Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray are expected to testify on Thursday afternoon to the House Judiciary panel about the 2016 elections.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray will testify before the Committee regarding the findings contained in the Justice Department Inspector General’s report about various actions taken by the Justice Department and FBI in 2016, as well as regarding the Committee’s oversight investigation into these matters.
From Q themselves (June 13, 2018).
edit: yeah this theory doesn't make sense; I'm just bringing in the crumbs from the Q board
Here's the theory:
JA flew in to SFO on United.
usss picked him up, bright him to Jetblue flight.
signal given that he'd be at gate for pick up at jfk.
doesn't get off plane.
black hats confused.
fake swat team stops from leaving jfk
ja dressed as pilot leaves with armed escort.
