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Though Russiagate was fake, Spygate is real and Horowitz is ready to prove it

Brian Cates
The Epoch Times
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
US AG William Barr
© Aaron P. Bernstein/ReutersUS AG William Barr
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz turned in his report into potential FISA abuses to Attorney General William Barr almost four weeks ago. That report detailing his extensive and meticulous year-and-a-half-long investigation into issues surrounding how fake evidence was presented to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in order to obtain warrants to spy on at least one American citizen is currently undergoing the required classification review.

During this time, nothing has leaked, which is quite telling in itself. If there was anything that could be leaked from this report that would mitigate the coming fallout, we'd have seen it by now. This points to the report being incredibly damaging to the Obama administration.

During this four-week interim period, several developments have emerged:

Comment:
Gateway Pundit, 25/10/2019: Get your popcorn ready!
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1. The FISA Report

The first event reported is that the DOJ IG's FISA report is about to be released. FOX News reported yesterday the following -
The "lengthy" draft report "concerns sensitive national security and law enforcement matters," Horowitz wrote in the letter, adding that he anticipated "the final report will be released publicly with few redactions."

the DOJ IG may have been held back from releasing his report until a time when it would not impede AG Barr's investigation by his DA John Durham into the Deep State actions before and after the 2016 election. Had IG Horowitz released his document before all the players in Durham's investigation were questioned, they might have altered their testimonies based on Horowitz's report.
Horowitz noted that he did not anticipate a need to prepare or issue "separate classified and public versions of the report."

2. AG Barr and John Durham's Investigation into Deep State crimes

Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry. The move gives John H. Durham the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges. IG Horowitz can now release his IG report because Durham has met with all the individuals he needs to meet with to begin indictments for criminal activity.

3. Sidney Powell's filing Regarding General Flynn's case

Sidney Powell is aware of numerous documents and actions by Obama's Deep State that have been withheld from General Flynn that are damning to the government's case. These are so damning that she is asking the court to dismiss the case against General Flynn.

Former Deep State and FBI attorney Lisa Page altered the 302 document materially in a manner that implicated General Flynn for lying to the FBI. Obama's former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was involved in the felony release of General Flynn's phone call with a Russian diplomat before the 2017 Inauguration.

4. Recent Reports regarding Obama VP Biden's pay-for-play scandals

We also learned last night that Joe Biden during the time he was Obama's VP, partook in actions resulting in payments to him and his son Hunter. These payments go beyond the Ukraine and China. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed previously that Biden was suspect of a pay-for-plan scandal in Romania.
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Eating their own: Clinton faction's elevation of Kai Kahele

Robert Jaeger
Medium.com
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownHillary Clinton • Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard
How The Establishment Retaliated Against Tulsi Gabbard By Endorsing Her Opponent

If you have paid any attention whatsoever to the political discourse in the last week, you undoubtedly know at least one thing: Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard do not like one another. The reasons for this could theoretically stretch back to 2016, when Gabbard stepped down from her Vice-Chair position at the DNC to endorse Clinton's opponent — Bernie Sanders. Most recently, and more importantly most tangibly, a war of the words sparked between the two when Clinton alluded to Gabbard being "groomed" as a Russian asset. As you can imagine, this didn't sit well with the Congresswoman and National Guard Major. Gabbard fired back with a series of tweets and a video, taking Clinton to task on her foreign policy record. While the message was important, it was the action that was most significant. A Democrat taking a fiercely public stand against Hillary Clinton is an act of defiance rarely seen in a non election scenario — and while Gabbard is indeed running for President, Clinton is (at the moment) a spectator. The aftermath of the exchange has very quickly brought out the full force of a very much alive Clinton-wing of the establishment left. Their response has been strategic and cutthroat — the Democrats have decided to Primary one of their own. To make sure that is goes their way, they need elevate her congressional opponent, Kai Kahele.

So that's exactly what they're doing.
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Arrow Up

US fears Beijing is 'closing gap' in UAV race as new armed drone passes first test


Sputnik
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 22:01 UTC
Chinese drone
© YouTube/fish BigChinese Army drone China Rainbow-4, USV Test CH-4 Test
Chinese aerospace company Rainbow UAV Technology's first Taizhou-assembled Rainbow-4 drone recently passed its inaugural test flight - pointing to Beijing's increased armed drone production capabilities.

In a Wednesday statement, Rainbow UAV Technology's parent company Aerospace CH UAV announced that the first Rainbow-4 drone constructed at its large and medium-sized drone plant in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, had completed its first test flight.
The armed UAV's 95-kilometer maiden flight lasted approximately 48 minutes - meeting Rainbow-4 drone design requirements, reported Yicai Global.
According to the Asia Times, the Rainbow-4 UAV is equipped with upgraded electronic payloads and satellite controls which assist the aircraft's ability to strike a target with a margin of error of less than 1.5 meters.

"The drone will be the first delivery in a contract Rainbow UAV Technology and National Geomatics Center of China," Yicai Global reported, citing the company's statement. The deal, worth $22 million, is also said to include seven emergency mapping drones.
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Bombshell: Sidney Powell shows how the FBI trapped Michael Flynn

Margot Cleveland
The Federalist
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:00 UTC
FlynnPowell
© azerbaycan24.com/Fox NewsGeneral Michael Flynn • Attorney Sidney Powell
'Mr. Flynn will ask this Court to dismiss the entire prosecution based on the outrageous and un-American conduct of law enforcement officials and the subsequent failure of the prosecution to disclose this evidence.'

Earlier this week, Michael Flynn's star attorney, Sidney Powell, filed under seal a brief in reply to federal prosecutors' claims that they have already given Flynn's defense team all the evidence they are required by law to provide. A minimally redacted copy (Scribd) of the reply brief has just been made public, and with it shocking details of the deep state's plot to destroy Flynn.

While the briefing at issue concerns Powell's motion to compel the government to hand over evidence required by Brady and presiding Judge Emmett Sullivan's standing order, Powell's 37-page brief pivots between showcasing the prosecution's penchant for withholding evidence and exposing significant new evidence the defense team uncovered that establishes a concerted effort to entrap Flynn. Along the way, Powell drops half-a-dozen problems with Flynn's plea and an equal number of justifications for outright dismissal of the criminal charges against Flynn.

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Breitbart, 25/10/2019, reports:
The apparent "sealed" filing, dated October 24, 2019, was posted to social media on Thursday evening. US v Flynn; DE 129-2 on Scribd

Flynn has been awaiting sentencing [...] and even told the sentencing judge in 2018 that he would not claim FBI misconduct, despite growing evidence that they had departed from normal practice in interviewing him and had only completed their "302" — the report of their meeting — after he had already been forced to resign from his position in the administration over the allegations.

That evidence, Flynn's legal team alleges, includes an apparent admission by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page — that she had edited the 302 — something that she allegedly told FBI investigators she did not recall, the filing states.

...the filing adds that former FBI general counsel James Baker "is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr. Flynn's calls to [Washington Post reporter David] Ignatius." It also alleges that former National Intelligence Director James Clapper told Ignatius to "take the kill shot on Flynn."

The filing emerged hours after reports that the Department of Justice had shifted its investigation of the origins of the Russia probe to become a criminal investigation under the supervision of prosecutor John H. Durham.

Critics have alleged that Mueller may have induced Flynn to plead guilty by suggesting that the government had more evidence of "Russia collusion" than it actually did.
Fox News, 25/10/2019, reports:
Powell also claims that the official who leaked the transcripts of the calls to Ignatius was a Pentagon official who was Stefan Halper's "handler."

Also in the filing, Powell referenced U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras, who accepted Flynn's guilty plea just days before he was "suddenly and inexplicably recused."

"The government knew that well in advance of Mr. Flynn's plea that Judge Contreras was a friend of Peter Strzok and his recusal was even discussed in an exchange of multiple texts," Powell wrote, referencing text messages between Strzok and Page where they discussed Strzok and Contreras speaking "in detail" on anything "meaningful enough to warrant recusal."

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has set a Dec. 18 sentencing date, though it's unclear whether it could be pushed off again.
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Alarm Clock

Microsoft beats out Amazon for Pentagon $10 billion cloud contract - Mattis aide alleges Trump vengeance on Bezos


The HIll
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:18 UTC
microsoft amazon
The Pentagon announced Friday that it has awarded its $10 billion "war cloud" computing contract to Microsoft over rival Amazon.

The announcement from the Department of Defense (DOD) marked a surprising turn of events — for months, Amazon was viewed as the favorite to win the contract amid an increasingly political lobbying battle.

The Pentagon said that awarding Microsoft the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract (JEDI) "continues our strategy of a multi-vendor, multi-cloud environment," adding that "the department's needs are diverse and cannot be met by any single supplier."

"Today, the Department of Defense has taken another step forward in the implementation of our Cloud Strategy with the award of an enterprise general-purpose cloud contract to Microsoft," the Pentagon said in a statement. "This contract will address critical and urgent unmet warfighter requirements for modern cloud infrastructure at all three classification levels delivered out to the tactical edge."
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Eagle

Southern goodbye: Column of US troops heads BACK to Syria from Iraq


Sputnik
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 18:28 UTC
american military vehicles
© AP Photo / Arab 24 network
The development comes after Washington decided to withdraw US troops from northeastern Syria following the start of a Turkish military operation against Kurdish forces on October 9.

A column of US troops has returned to northeastern Syria's al-Hasakah Province from Iraq, Syria TV reports.

The news outlet claimed that "the column of American occupation forces entered [...] the province through the illegal al-Walid border crossing" and that the column, which includes "dozens of soldiers and military hardware" is covered by US combat helicopters.

This comes a day after US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said that the US would maintain a "reduced presence" in Syria, citing concerns about Daesh terrorists taking control of nearby oil fields.

Almost two weeks ago, Esper pledged that the US would withdraw all of its force of 1,000 soldiers from northeastern Syria, after Turkey launched its military operation in the area to drive Kurdish militias and remaining Daesh militants away from the border.

Comment: Try as he might, Trump cannot get out of Syria. He's being subverted at every turn by his advisers and the military-intelligence services. It sounds like they really do want Americans to be there for the next '400 years'.

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Stop

Not just Iraq: Bundestag MPs demand US troops leave Germany


RT
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:15 UTC
us troops germany
© Global Look Press / Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert
German MPs have demanded that the government expel US forces stationed in Germany. MPs argue that their presence only serves the purposes of the US illegal wars in the Middle East and stokes tensions with Moscow.

Lawmakers from the opposition Left Party have tabled a motion calling on Chancellor Angela Merkel's government to immediately stop financing the American military presence in the country and to annul a 1990 treaty allowing US soldiers to be deployed on German soil in the first instance.

"More than 35,000 US soldiers are stationed in Germany, more than in any other European land," the document, published on the Bundestag's website, points out, adding that American military bases are used to further Washington's "policy of war in the Middle East." The lawmakers particularly expressed their outrage over the fact that the German bases are used "in the continuing illegal practice of targeted US assassinations in Pakistan and Afghanistan," apparently referring to the American use of strike drones.

The document also states that the continued presence of American forces on German soil leads to nothing but escalation of an already tense situation with regard to relations with Russia. The MPs also denounced any deployment of American troops to bases in Poland and other Central and Eastern European states, saying that such actions cannot be interpreted as anything but "war preparations."

Comment: Actually, if Americans want to occupy foreign nations like Germany, they should be the ones to pay, not Germans. And if they don't want to pay, they should get the hell out. It's that simple. The idea that the Americans are there to provide "security" is a joke. They're there for their own geostrategic purposes, which happen to align with a tiny minority of foreign toadies. It would be better for everyone for the Americans to just go home.

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Caesar

Planning in the long-term: How Russia's military operation in Syria laid groundwork for Erdogan-Putin agreement

Mikhail Khodarenok
RT
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:37 UTC
erdogan putin agreement syria
© Sputnik / Ramil SitdikovRussian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan during their meeting in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia.
Preparations for the events in northeastern Syria began around a year ago. Now, after the US dumped the Kurds, they have no choice but to abide by the Russian-Turkish memorandum.

The Memorandum of Understanding between Turkey and Russia on northern Syria, adopted in Sochi on October 22, put an end to the Turkish offensive against the Syrian Kurds, brought northeast Syria back under the control of Damascus and guaranteed protection of Turkey's national security interests.

The Turkish-Syrian border is currently split into four stretches specified below in geographical order from east to west.

Comment: Russia can and should be proud of its achievements in Syria. The goals set by Putin, decisively defeating the jihadist terror threat, preserving the integrity of Syria as a country, and stabilizing the duly-elected government of its people, have been met. Further, Russia had demonstrated its commitment to being a partner, not a conqueror for all the world to see. The U.S. does not measure up well by comparison.

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Light Saber

Taking the gloves off: Trump accuses Obama of treason for 'spying' on his 2016 campaign

Paul Bedard
Washington Examiner
Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:38 UTC
trump Doug Wead book
© Official White House Photo/Tia Dufour/Courtesy Doug WeadPresident Trump (seated) meets with Doug Wead in the Oval Office of the White House. Wead provided the photo to Secrets.
President Trump has ratcheted up his claim that the Obama White House spied on his 2016 campaign, charging in a new book that it was a "treasonous" act by the former Democratic president.

"What they did was treasonous, OK? It was treasonous," he told author Doug Wead for his upcoming book, Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story of His Presidency.

"The interesting thing out of all of this is that we caught them spying on the election. They were spying on my campaign. So you know? What is that all about?" said Trump.

"I have never ever said this, but truth is, they got caught spying. They were spying," said Trump who then added, "Obama."

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Snakes in Suits

EU delays Brexit extension decision as France pressures MPs ahead of Bojo's demand for a general election

Daniel Boffey
The Guardian
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:09 UTC
Michel Barnier
© Johanna Geron/ReutersMichel Barnier talks to the media after the meeting of ambassadors in Brussels.
The EU will delay its decision on the length of the Brexit extension until next Monday or Tuesday after France piled pressure on MPs ahead of a vote on Boris Johnson's demand for a pre-Christmas general election.

During a meeting of EU diplomats, the French ambassador stood alone in arguing that it was not the right time to agree a three-month delay, in a move that will be welcomed in Downing Street.

Only after the vote on Monday should the EU decide to "go short, to push for ratification, or long to accommodate a general election", the ambassador told the other member states, according to a diplomatic note.

Comment: Is it any wonder most British voters think violence against MPs is 'price worth paying' over Brexit ?

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