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The 'never-Trump' press close to panic over FBI memo

Patrick J. Buchanan
The American Conservative
Fri, 02 Feb 2018 12:01 UTC
MEMO
© NDTV/KJN
"All the News That's Fit to Print" proclaims the masthead of the New York Times. "Democracy Dies in Darkness," echoes the Washington Post.

"The people have a right to know," the professors at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism hammered into us in 1962. "Trust the people," we were admonished.

Explain then this hysteria, this panic in the press over the release of a four-page memo detailing one congressional committee's rendering of how Trump-hate spawned an FBI investigation of Republican candidate and President Donald Trump.

What is the press corps afraid of? For it has not ceased keening and caterwauling that this memo must not see the light of day.

Do the media not trust the people? Can Americans not handle the truth?

Is this the same press corps that celebrates The Post, lionizing Kay Graham for publishing the Pentagon Papers, top-secret documents charging the "Best and the Brightest" of the JFK-LBJ era with lying us into Vietnam?

Why are the media demanding a "safe space" for us all, so we will not be harmed by reading or hearing what the memo says? Security secrets will be compromised, we are warned.

Comment: A flag on the play. If nothing else, the release of the MEMO and the aftermath of public/press/government dialog it produced should be viewed as a wake-up call to the people, the media, government officials, Congress, the Executive Branch, and all agencies tasked with supporting and protecting constituents from such manipulating actions and inferences as found and implicated within the MEMO. Service agencies have guidelines and restrictions. Boundaries were breached.

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Netanyahu lays blame on Soros for thwarting his immigrant deportation program


Sputnik
Sun, 04 Feb 2018 21:35 UTC
NetiSoros
© Veterans Today
Netanyahu • Soros
This is not the first time that the billionaire involves himself in the immigration policy of a foreign country. The Israeli campaign is aimed at sending African immigrants and asylum seekers to an unnamed African country, forcibly if needed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has allegedly accused Jewish-American billionaire of Hungarian origin George Soros of undermining the state's deportation program and "funding the protests". The incident reportedly happened during a weekly meeting of ministers from the ruling Likud party as a response to the science minister's comment that Israeli aid organizations had been receiving help from foreign governments and foundations, according to the local Channel 10 television channel.

Reports also claim that Netanyahu drew parallels between the Israeli deportation campaign and Obama's deportation of "two million infiltrators," which he noted remained undisputed. Israel's Population and Immigration Authority began notifying immigrants and asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan that they are to be deported to an unnamed African country with a relatively "stable government." In case they don't go voluntarily, they will be forcibly expelled starting April 1.

Comment: See also:

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Schiff's craziest claim yet: FISA memo may lead to Oklahoma City-style bombing

Cristina Laila
Gateway Pundit
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
OKCity bombing/Schiff
© Brandon Haught/AP
Ranking member of the House Intel Committee and suspected leaker Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) perhaps made his craziest claim yet about the FISA memo.

Old Schiffty implied that an Oklahoma City Style bombing may occur due to Americans' distrust of the FBI after the FISA memo was released.

Schiff appeared on ABC Sunday morning to speak with George Stephanopoulos about the FISA memo.


Comment: Schiff concluded that our country is now less safe because the FISA memo was released. The country is less safe in the hands of those who think 'what the public doesn't know won't hurt it'. It is less safe in the hands of those who think 'what the public doesn't know will protect me.'

Another commentary on Schiff's prediction:



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Arrow Up

The push to disbar James Comey after Clinton scandal

Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Wed, 18 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC
Comey
© AP/J. Scott Applewhite
Former FBI director James Comey
A crusading lawyer filed a bar grievance this week accusing former FBI Director James Comey of lying to Congress and destroying potential evidence in the Clinton email scandal, in a process that could end up costing him his law license.

Ty Clevenger filed the grievance in New York, where Mr. Comey was a former U.S. attorney and is licensed to practice law.

Mr. Clevenger said Mr. Comey's testimony to Congress that he did not predetermine the outcome of the FBI's probe into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is belied by revelations [...] that he in fact started drafting an exoneration months before even speaking with Mrs. Clinton.

"Insofar as Mr. Comey gave materially false testimony to Congress, it appears that he violated Rules 1.0(w), 3.3(a)(1), and 8.4 of the New York Rules of Professional Conduct," Mr. Clevenger wrote.

He also asked to renew grievances in New York against former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, saying Mr. Comey's claim that she tried to pressure him to downplay the Clinton probe should subject her to scrutiny. The state grievance committee had deferred an investigation in January, saying there were ongoing probes by Congress and they would await the outcome. Mr. Clevenger said this week that those probes appear to be over, so the time is ripe to renew the investigation.
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FISA Court Judge James Boasberg has ruled Comey memos will remain secret

sundance
The Last Refuge
Sat, 03 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
FBIguys
© The Intercept
The media are pointing out that a Federal District Court Judge has ruled against the release of the memos former FBI Director James Comey wrote to himself while acting head of the FBI. However, one little thing they fail to notice:
US FISAlist
© US FISA
WASHINGTON DC - A federal judge has rejected requests from news organizations to release memos of former FBI Director James Comey's conversations with President Donald Trump, adding that publicizing the documents could harm special counsel Robert Mueller's probe.

Comment: Senator Grassley points out in his letter: If four of seven Comey memos were marked classified and four were given to Professor Richman to 'detail memos to the press,' then Richman was given at least one classified memo that was subsequently revealed to a New York Times reporter. Judge Boasberg has put the kibosh on any reveals.

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Unraveling of Pelosi, a sad sight

Joseph Curl
The Washington Times
Tue, 30 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Pelosi
© iamatexan.com
Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in the House of Representatives, is, in a word, a mess.

But let's pause for one moment to do something we almost never do: Offer a few words of praise for Mrs. Pelosi, born Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro in 1940. The Italian-American has spent nearly her whole life in politics, first as a 20-year member of the Democratic National Committee from California, then as the state party's chairman.

She first won election to the House in 1987 - when Ronald Reagan was president - and she's been there ever since. In 2002, after working her way to the top, Mrs. Pelosi was elected Speaker of the House, the first woman ever to helm a national party in the august chamber.

It cannot be denied that Mrs. Pelosi has devoted her life to public service, and that (at least) is a noble cause.

Now, the bad news. She's done - she's past done. Her ever-growing list of verbal blunders is far too long to catalog here, and the 77-year-old seems more and more out of touch with regular Americans (dubbing the recent tax cuts by President Trump - which amounts to thousands of dollars for many people - "crumbs" is just the latest example).

Worse, Mrs. Pelosi seems to keep coming up with new ways to embarrass herself.

Comment: Time to retire? Last year.

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Eye 1

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah blacklisted in Mossad's terror list


FARS
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:55 UTC
Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad
© FNA
Israel's spy agency Mossad has put the name of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on its blacklist, an Arabic-language newspaper reported
"In fact, the Mossad authorities tried to justify their decision by highlighting the recent threats made by President Assad against Israel's sensitive and vital facilities in the event of a new Israeli attack on his country," the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida wrote on Sunday.

The Kuwaiti newspaper goes on to explain that, in general, the names on the list are those of individuals considered by Tel Aviv to have participated in so-called "terrorist" attacks, or those of leaders of resistance movements, which Israel considers to be terrorist groups. But if you put the name of a head of state on a blacklist, it has no antecedent in the entire common history of humanity.
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Top officials in Russia's North Caucasus detained on financial fraud charges


RFE/RL
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:45 UTC
Prime Minister Abdusamad Gamidov

Acting Daghestani Prime Minister Abdusamad Gamidov is among those who have been detained.
Several senior government officials in Russia's North Caucasus region of Daghestan have been detained on financial fraud charges, the Investigative Committee says.

The committee said that acting Daghestani Prime Minister Abdusamad Gamidov and acting deputy prime ministers Shamil Isayev and Rayudin Yusufov were detained on February 5 on suspicion of misuse of federal funds allocated for social programs.

Former Education Minister Shakhabas Shakhov and several other people were also detained, it said in a statement, adding that the detainees' homes were searched.
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Trump tweet leads to Twitter battle with Jeremy Corbyn over universal healthcare


RT
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 15:26 UTC
Corbyn
© Peter Nicholls / Reuters
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has hit out at Donald Trump's "wrong" criticism of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) after the president claimed that thousands of people were protesting because "the system is going broke."

Corbyn replied to Trump on Twitter, saying: "People were marching because we love our NHS and hate what the Tories are doing to it. Healthcare is a human right."


Hunt - the Tory health secretary accused of ordering the cuts that have angered protesters - also took issue with Trump's claim. He said on Twitter: "I may disagree with claims made on that march but not ONE of them wants to live in a system where 28m people have no cover.

Comment: There's obvious distortions on both sides of the pond. It wasn't wrong for Trump to say the UK's health care system is going broke, but the situation is also different in the United States where most average Americans didn't like being fined for healthcare they couldn't afford.

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Pope's claim of ignorance on sexual abuse by priest doesn't hold up to scrutiny

Nicole Winfield & Eva Vergara
Yahoo News
Mon, 05 Feb 2018 00:00 UTC
Pope Francis
Pope Francis received a victim's letter in 2015 that graphically detailed how a priest sexually abused him and how other Chilean clergy ignored it, contradicting the pope's recent insistence that no victims had come forward to denounce the cover-up, the letter's author and members of Francis' own sex- abuse commission have told The Associated Press.

The fact that Francis received the eight-page letter, obtained by the AP, challenges his insistence that he has "zero tolerance" for sex abuse and cover-ups. It also calls into question his stated empathy with abuse survivors, compounding the most serious crisis of his five-year papacy.

The scandal exploded last month when Francis' trip to South America was marred by protests over his vigorous defense of Bishop Juan Barros, who is accused by victims of witnessing and ignoring the abuse by the Rev. Fernando Karadima. During the trip, Francis callously dismissed accusations against Barros as "slander," seemingly unaware that victims had placed him at the scene of Karadima's crimes.

Comment: You'd think by now that Pope Francis would be far more sensitized to such information given the immense record of abuse the Church has been ignoring, enabling and facilitating internationally for so many decades...

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