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How did then CIA Director John Brennan target James Comey?

Lee Smith
Tablet
Fri, 09 Feb 2018 09:30 UTC

The Russia investigation put the FBI in a bind well before Trump ever landed in the White House

Former CIA director John Brennan is having trouble keeping his Trump-Russia stories straight. On Meet the Press this past Sunday, host Chuck Todd asked MSNBC's new national security analyst about George Papadopoulos, a volunteer adviser to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and his reputed ties to Russia.

The question should have been a simple one to answer, for anyone who has been following the twists and turns of the Russiagate narrative. For over a year, press reports had proclaimed that the FBI's July 2016 investigation into the Trump campaign's Russia connections had originated with a dossier compiled by an impeccable British intelligence source who alleged that Russia had compromising material on the Republican candidate. Further, the document alleges that Trump aides had committed serious crimes in coordination with Russian officials. But the so-called Steele dossier, named for the former British spy Christopher Steele, who allegedly authored it, proved to be opposition research that the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee paid the Washington, D.C. strategic communications firm Fusion GPS millions of dollars to produce and distribute to the press.

Maduro announces 30-day power rationing plan to address Venezuela's blackouts

RT
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:25 UTC

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has approved a 30-day plan to ration power across Venezuela until its power grid is restored. Caracas blames US-backed sabotage for crippling power outages that have led to water shortages.

Maduro announced the measure on Sunday, as the Latin American country was struck by yet another wave of blackouts. By capping the energy supply, the government hopes to "balance the [power] generation process, secure the transmission process as well as service and consumption processes across the country," he said.

Emphasis has been placed on making sure that all residents have access to fresh water, he said. Maduro said that he expects school classes, called off in the wake of a major incident at the biggest hydroelectric power plant last week, to resume either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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Rand Paul offers amendment to disclose Obama's role in probing Trump campaign

Ivan Pentchoukov
The Epoch Times
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) offered an amendment on March 28, which, if approved, would reveal what role former President Barack Obama played in the investigation of the Trump campaign and the use of the debunked Steele dossier.

Paul's amendment would modify a resolution, which calls on the attorney general to release the full report by special counsel Robert Mueller to Congress and the public. The resolution passed the House by a vote of 420-0 on March 14 and is now before the Senate.

"What we need to discover, and we do not yet know, was President Obama involved? Was this done for partisan purposes? Was this done to try to elect Hillary Clinton?" Paul asked on the Senate floor.

According to a summary of Mueller's final report released by Attorney General William Barr, the special counsel did not find any evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller's finding raises questions about the origins of the investigation of the Trump campaign and suggests that the probe was started without evidence of wrongdoing.

Not just spied upon, Trump was entrapped

Roger L. Simon
PJ Media
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:00 UTC

© AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

It's bad enough, as has been evident for some time, that Donald Trump and his campaign were being spied upon by our own government, but it's highly likely they were also subject to literal entrapment--at least a serious attempt was made.

I don't mean the entrapment of promulgating the salacious Steele dossier both to the public and the FISA court as if it were the truth. That was more of a smear to justify a phony investigation. I mean something more subtle and LeCarré-like coming from the depths of our intelligence communities. It raises once more the question of the power of such agencies in a free society, a conundrum with no easy answers but of great significance to our lives.

For all his New York rough-and-tumble, Trump was an innocent abroad when he arrived in Washington. Way back in January 2017, he was warned by old-timer Chuck Schumer that "intel officials have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."

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Ukraine poll results: Zelensky, Poroshenko go to second round of elections amid charges of fraud

Paul Antonopoulos
FRN
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

The comedian and rookie in politics Volodymyr Zelensky received 30.4% of the votes and moves to the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine in the lead, show the results of polls. Current President Pyotr Poroshenko came in second with 17.8% of the vote.

According to the poll organized by 112 Ukraina and NewsOne, most of the pro-Zelensky votes came from parts of the east of the country, which gave the presidential candidate 42.2% of the votes. Zelensky failed to mobilize significant support from the western part of Ukraine, gaining few votes in the area.

39 candidates participated in the presidential race. Zelensky, Poroshenko, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko were the favorites. Although officially failed to get votes to go to the second round, the candidate accuses the Federal Security Service of having defrauded the vote.

Yulia's team issued a statement in which it places the former prime minister as Zelensky's legitimate opponent, claiming she got 20.9 percent of the vote while the current president would have actually received 17.5 percent of the vote.

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Trey Gowdy: CIA could stop giving Schiff information - 'he leaks like a screen door on a submarine'

Chuck Ross
The Daily Caller
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 11:33 UTC

Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy predicted Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community might stop providing information to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff because he leaks "like a screen door on a submarine."

Gowdy was asked to weigh in on Republicans' decision Thursday to call on Schiff to step down as chairman of the House panel. "Never seen that before," said Gowdy, who served on the intelligence panel before leaving Congress in January. "We never voted to remove or ask a chairperson to step down."

"Adam is a deeply partisan person. He did everything he could to make sure Hillary Clinton became president. And he's done everything he could to keep a cloud over the Trump presidency," Gowdy said of Schiff.

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Rand Paul drops Spygate bomb on John Brennan: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Kane
Citizen Free Press
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:33 UTC

© Unknown
Senator Rand Paul (R:KY) sheds light on his mysterious tweet concerning John Brennan
'Officials must be asked under oath what Obama knew, and when' at 3:02

Exclusive - Rand Paul: 'Absolutely' James Clapper, John Brennan, Susan Rice, Others Should Testify On Spygate Role, We Will Use Subpoenas If Necessary

Citing a 'high-level source,' Rand Paul says former CIA Director John Brennan grew frustrated that no one was giving credence to the Clinton-funded dossier, so he attached it to an intelligence report, ensuring that it would be seen by President Obama and President-elect Trump.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Breitbart News exclusively on Wednesday that President Donald Trump told senators at the weekly GOP luncheon that he backs his call for an investigation into the origins of the Russia scandal "hoax" that Trump has now been cleared of by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Former DHS chief Jeh Johnson: US has a 'crisis' at the southern border

Adam Shaw
Fox News
Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:00 UTC

Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Saturday that America has a "crisis" at the southern border, and that the number of apprehensions exceed anything he encountered during his time serving under former President Barack Obama.

"By anyone's definition, by any measure, right now we have a crisis at our southern border," he said on Cavuto LIVE. "According to the commissioner of [Customs and Border Protection], there were 4,000 apprehensions in one day alone this past week, and we're on pace for 100,000 apprehensions on our southern border this month."

"That is by far a greater number than anything I saw on my watch in my three years as Secretary of Homeland Security," he said.

Johnson's remarks come after President Trump this week accused Mexico of doing nothing to stop the illegal immigration flow to the U.S. and threatened to close to southern border next week.

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Juncker warns Theresa May that EU's 'patience coming to an end' over Brexit

Adam Forrest
The Independent
Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:07 UTC

European Commission chief says he wants parliament to make clear 'which way they want to follow now'

The EU is running out of patience with Britain over Brexit, the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has warned. In an interview with Italian state TV, Mr Juncker said he would like MPs in the UK to be able to reach an agreement over the way forward in the coming days.

"We have had a lot of patience with our British friends but patience is coming to an end," he told RAI.

The commission president added: "So far we know what the British parliament says no to, but we don't know what it might say yes to."

Comment: Not to worry Claude. An accommodation will be found to keep the old order; your laments are just for show. Brexit will die a slow torturous death, as the elite MPs and the EU counterparts who never wanted Britain to leave the EU run out the clock.

Patrick Cockburn: How the Islamic State's brutal project was finally overthrown, and what might come next

Patrick Cockburn
Independent, UK
Sat, 23 Mar 2019 17:44 UTC

Up to its dying days the self-declared Islamic State has retained the ability to top the news agenda, even as its fighters were losing their last battle for bomb-shattered villages in the deserts of eastern Syria. When their spokesman promised retaliation for the massacre of Muslims in the Christchurch mosques his threat was taken seriously.

Given the record of Isis atrocities it is not surprising that nobody can discount its ability to exact revenge through existing adherents, new converts or those using its name to spread terror. This is not just western paranoia: in Syria and Iraq people speak continually of Isis sleeper cells waiting to emerge and exact revenge.

There is a largely sterile debate about whether or not Isis - whose territory once stretched from the outskirts of Baghdad to the hills overlooking the Mediterranean - is dead and buried, as Donald Trump claims. Could it be reborn if the pressure against it is relaxed? The answer is simple enough: Isis is defeated as a state apparatus that once ruled eight million people, but it can persist as a terrorist and guerrilla organisation.

I was in Baghdad in June 2014 when Isis was advancing south towards the capital, capturing cities and towns like Tikrit and Baiji with scarcely a shot being fired. The rout of the Iraqi army seemed total and for several days there was no defensive lines between us and Isis advance patrols. As many as 1,700 Shia air force cadets were massacred amid the ruins of Saddam Hussein's old palaces on the banks of the Tigris river near Tikrit.

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Puppet Masters

How did then CIA Director John Brennan target James Comey?

Maduro announces 30-day power rationing plan to address Venezuela's blackouts

Rand Paul offers amendment to disclose Obama's role in probing Trump campaign

Not just spied upon, Trump was entrapped

Ukraine poll results: Zelensky, Poroshenko go to second round of elections amid charges of fraud

Trey Gowdy: CIA could stop giving Schiff information - 'he leaks like a screen door on a submarine'

Rand Paul drops Spygate bomb on John Brennan: What did Obama know and when did he know it?

Former DHS chief Jeh Johnson: US has a 'crisis' at the southern border

Juncker warns Theresa May that EU's 'patience coming to an end' over Brexit

Patrick Cockburn: How the Islamic State's brutal project was finally overthrown, and what might come next

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