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Comey's Clinton draft statement was heavily, repeatedly watered down: Ex-FBI chief gave her free pass 2 months before 'officially' closing case


RT
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:23 UTC
comey
© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
A release of documents reveals former FBI Director James Comey's draft statement on the Hillary Clinton email probe was edited several times before he went public with his findings in a way that downplays the impact of the case.

FBI documents obtained by Fox News on Thursday show that one of several edits to Comey's original draft statement written in advance of his interview with former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Comey initially wrote that Clinton and her colleagues' handling of classified information was "grossly negligent." This was later changed to say "extremely careless," in relation to how Clinton handled the information while she used a private email server during her tenure as the top US diplomat.

According to the Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin), the documents also reveal that Comey emailed a draft statement to a top FBI official, clearing Clinton of any wrongdoing two months prior to his official conclusion in the case.

In an early draft of his statement, Comey said that it was "reasonably likely" that "hostile actors" gained access to Clinton's private email server. That was later altered in the final statement to say it was "possible" the hostile actors gained access, Fox News reported.

Comment: Even the WSJ is catching on to what went down in 2016: WSJ's truth bomb! Agency collusion: FBI 'interfered in American presidential election'. See also:

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Quenelle - Golden

Russia bans US monitors from observing 2018 presidential election (as the US did to Russian observers in 2016)


RT
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:59 UTC
A man casts his ballot during presidential elections at a polling station in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia
© Yuri Maltsev / ReutersA man casts his ballot during presidential elections at a polling station in the far eastern city of Vladivostok, Russia
Russia may bar US monitors from its presidential election next year, in response to Washington's decision not to allow Russian monitors at the US presidential poll last year, a senior Russian diplomat has warned.

"Some time ago we sent an official note to our American colleagues notifying them that, after considering their refusal to accept monitors from Russian diplomatic offices in the United States at the presidential elections that took place in November last year, we are going to act out of the principle of reciprocity," deputy foreign minister Sergey Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Friday by TASS.

The diplomat added that he personally would not see it as a problem if US citizens arrive at Russian elections as part of such international monitoring missions. "This will be decided as we discuss the international elections monitoring, on equal conditions with other issues," he said.

Earlier on Friday, Russia's upper house speaker Valentina Matviyenko told reporters that she expected the number of Russian and international monitors at the March 18 elections to be higher than ever.
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Briefcase

Freedom Watch sues to remove judge presiding over case to remove Mueller, probe leaks


Freedom Watch
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:15 UTC
Judge Amy Berman Jackson
Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch (FW) and FW's current chairman and general counsel, having previously filed suit designed to have the Department of Justice remove Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and replace him and his conflicted prosecutorial staff with an ethical and honest special counsel, announced today that he has moved to disqualify the presiding judge over the case, the Honorable Amy Berman Jackson.

As set forth in the visually embedded pleadings below, Judge Jackson is not only highly partisan, having been nominated by former President Barack Obama and has exhibited a deep seated extra-judicial prejudice in favor of Mueller and against President Donald Trump in the prosecution of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, over which she is presiding, but she also has a manifest conflict of interest.

Klayman had this to say upon filing the motion to recuse and/or disqualify:

"It is incumbent upon Judge Jackson to do the ethical and right thing as her colleague the Honorable Rudolph Cantreras correctly did in the Flynn prosecution, and recuse herself from this case. The reasons for this are detailed and supported in the motion, which we urge all to review thoroughly. As the founder of both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, I believe strongly in having a fair and impartial judiciary, in particular with regard to a matter as serious as this.

Comment: Looks like a whole lotta swamp needs draining. See also:

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Stop

Russophobia: Law banning all federal use of Kaspersky Lab software comes into force

Taylor Hatmaker
TechCrunch
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 20:58 UTC
Kaspersky Logo
© Reuters Maxim Shemetov
Capping off months of controversy, espionage claims and international intrigue, the U.S. government ban on Kaspersky Lab software has been signed into law. The ban, wedged into the Fiscal Year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), would preclude all federal computers and connected networks from using antivirus software made by the Russian cybersecurity firm.

"Considering the grave risk that Kaspersky Lab poses to our national security, it's necessary that the current directive to remove Kaspersky Lab software from government computers be broadened and reinforced by statute," said New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, a key proponent of the legislation.

"The case against Kaspersky is well-documented and deeply concerning. This law is long overdue, and I appreciate the urgency of my bipartisan colleagues on the Senate Armed Services Committee to remove this threat from government systems. Going forward, I will continue to push for additional measures that strengthen our nation's cybersecurity and protect our democracy from harmful foreign interference," Shaheen wrote in a press release.

Comment: Pure bollocks. The only thing "well documented" is that Kaspersky works. The only thing "deeply concerning" to U.S. officials is that Kaspersky protects against NSA/CIA malware. The only reason this is an issue is because Kaspersky is Russian. See also:

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Light Sabers

Inevitable? Israeli-Saudi clash with Iran on Syrian soil

Alexander Orlov
NEO
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00 UTC
Syrian soldier flag
© Al Masdar
As was expected, once Moscow and Washington started disputing who attained victory over ISIS in Syria, the militants of this terrorist organization decided that they would need to demonstrate that it's too early to write them off completely. Especially since the last 25,000 of its fighters vanished in the desert, after being stationed for a considerable period of time in eastern and southern parts of the Syrian Arab Republic.

It turned out that all of those predictions were accurate, as Syrian media sources have just reported that ISIS launched a massive assault in the area of Abu Kamal, that had allegedly been liberated more than a month ago. To make the matters worse, the above mentioned Abu Kamal is under control of radical militants, with only western outskirts of the city still being defended by the local Shia militia, while the rest of the city remains to be occupied by militants. For sure, this latest offensive is relatively insignificant, but it creates an escape corridor to the deserted areas of Syria which are not controlled by local Shia militia groups and the Syrian army.

Comment: Before one agenda ends, another is activating in time and place...wheels within wheels, as they say.

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Arrow Up

Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's gaffe-riddled Secretary General, extends his reign


RT
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:17 UTC
Stoltenberg
© Eric Vidal/ReutersNATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg
NATO's Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has been given another two years at the helm of the world's most offensive defensive alliance. NATO said in a statement Tuesday that the 29 allies had decided to prolong Stoltenberg's term until September 30, 2020.

The former Norwegian prime minister has served as NATO's Secretary-General since October 2014 - and he already has so much to be proud of. Here are just a few of Jens' greatest NATO hits.

Comment: Here are some of headlines from Stoltenberg's watch not referenced in the above review: Note: There are more...and with two more years...many more.

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Bomb

WSJ's truth bomb! Agency collusion: FBI 'interfered in American presidential election'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 12:01 UTC
RosensteinMcCabe
© WSJRod J. Rosenstein • Andrew G. McCabe
Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation is unravelling at record speed, with mass corruption, partisanship, and vitriol hate for Trump discovered among Mueller's top agents and investigators.

This has prompted the The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board to post an article entitled, The FBI's Trump 'Insurance', which outlines how the real election collusion had nothing to do with Russia and everything to do with the FBI.

As The Duran noted yesterday, these are the very same FBI agents who assured all of America that Russia "meddled" in the US election. We are to believe that the FBI did not doctor evidence when it made the claims that it was "confident" Russia hacked the US election?

I am certain that somewhere in those 10,000 Peter Strzok messages are one or two texts exposing how the "insurance policy" against Trump was tied to Russia and the fake "dossier" it had obtained from a corrupt British spy, who was paid by PR smear firm (Fusion GPS), who was paid by Hillary Clinton and the DNC.

Democrats and the media are accusing anyone who criticizes special counsel Robert Mueller as Trumpian conspirators trying to undermine his probe. But who needs critics when Mr. Mueller's team is doing so much to undermine its own credibility?

Comment: Truth is percolating to the surface like deep methane in the sea. Mueller, to 'save the force', should have ended this fiasco months ago. He didn't and now each reveal is, instead, incriminating his team.

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Arrow Down

Biden allegations wrong: Italian intel finds no evidence of Russian meddling in Italian polls


RT
Thu, 14 Dec 2017 21:30 UTC
JoeBiden
© Chicago TribuneFormer VP Joe Biden
Italian intelligence services did not find evidence to back up allegations voiced by former US Vice President Joe Biden. He claimed Moscow had meddled with Italy's polls before and plans to do it again.

Two Italian intelligence agencies did not find any evidence of the alleged Russian interference into last year's constitutional reform referendum, despite conducting "attentive monitoring" of possible foreign meddling, ANSA news agency reported. The chiefs of the Internal Information and Security Agency (AISI) and the External Intelligence and Security Agency (AISE), Mario Parente and Alberto Manenti, respectively, faced the parliamentary intelligence committee this week.

The parliamentary hearings were triggered by an article by Biden, dubbed, How to stand up to the Kremlin, published earlier in December by the journal Foreign Affairs. Among the numerous accusations, largely repeating the mainstream media "Russian meddling" narrative, Biden claimed that Moscow interfered in the Italian Constitutional referendum and warned about alleged meddling in the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

Comment: "The lie must go on..." Too big for just the USA.

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Jet4

SOTT Focus: The Handsome Hypocrisy of Justin Trudeau: SJW Leader of Canada Sells Weapons to Ukraine

Timothy C. Trepanier
Sott.net
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 21:16 UTC
JT Pride Photo
© Toronto PrideJustin Trudeau indicating to his supporters the place where his heart used to be.
"Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." ~ Matthew 6:3
It is said that a genius is someone who can hold two contradictory ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. But a person who not only holds two contradictory ideas in mind at the same time but then proceeds to act on them, is obviously an idiot. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is just such an idiot.

When he is not virtue-signaling about diversity and inclusion, pretending to be a feminist, posing for photos with topless women, paying out over 10 million dollars to convicted terrorists, apologizing to various minority groups for every conceivable injustice that history may have visited upon them, and attempting to reintegrate ISIS fighters into Canadian society, he likes to sell weapons of war.
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Bad Guys

Lavrov: US Embassy constantly meddles in Russian elections


TASS
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 20:44 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

Moscow has no plans to act like Washington, who interferes in the domestic affairs of other states, Lavrov stated

Meddling in Russian elections is seen on a regular basis, and the US Embassy engages in this, in particular, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Federation Council, on Friday.

"Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly cited concrete examples of how the US Embassy is doing this, including through the participation of its diplomats in rallies of opposition parties," Lavrov said.
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