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FBI directors Mueller and Comey ignored dozens of female agents who were sexually abused by colleagues and extorted at alarming rate


True Pundit
Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:20 UTC
Robert Mueller and James Comey
Spanning more than a decade, former FBI directors Robert Mueller and his successor and protégé James Comey relied on their inner circles to help cover up a surging and troubling amount of sexual misconduct complaints filed by physically violated and emotionally battered female FBI agents.

There is a culture of corruption in the FBI. Or the FBI is a culture of corruption.

"They (Mueller and Comey) didn't care as long as they were insulated politically," one female FBI insider said. "It's rampant. People wouldn't believe it. Agents are being sexually assaulted and they are terrified to speak out."
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War Whore

War is good for business: US military operations overseas lead resurgence of global arms sales


RT
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:10 UTC
soldier standing on tank
© Alaa al-Faqir / Reuters
The worldwide trade of weapons and military services rose for the first time in five years, hitting $374.8 billion in 2016, according to the annual report published by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday.

The research revealed last year marked the end of five consecutive years of decline with a 1.9 percent rise in the sale of arms globally. The number represents an increase of 38 percent since 2002. The SIPRI report covers the top 100 companies manufacturing weapons and offering military services.
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MIB

Ex-CIA director Michael Morell admits role in 'Deep State' war on Trump

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:01 UTC
CIA Michael Morell
© Wiki Commons, DoD
Acting director of the CIA Michael Morell with Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta
in 2013.
An ex-spy chief who spoke out publicly against Trump while inspiring other career intelligence figures to follow suit has admitted his leading role in the intelligence community waging political war against the president, describing his actions as something he didn't "fully think through". In a surprisingly frank interview, the CIA's Michael Morell - who was longtime Deputy Director and former Acting Director of the nation's most powerful intelligence agency - said that it wasn't a great idea to leak against and bash a new president.

Morell had the dubious distinction of being George W. Bush's personal daily briefer for the agency before and after 9/11, and also served under Obama until his retirement. In the summer of 2016 he took the unusual step (for a former intelligence chief) of openly endorsing Hillary Clinton in a New York Times op-ed entitled, I Ran the C.I.A. Now I'm Endorsing Hillary Clinton, after which he continued to be both an outspoken critic of Trump and an early CIA voice promoting the Russian collusion and election meddling narrative.

As Politico's Susan Glasser put in a newly published interview, Morell "has emerged out of the shadows of the deep state" to become one of Trump's foremost critics speaking within the intel community. However, Politico summarizes the interview as follows:
But in a revealingly self-critical and at times surprising interview for this week's Global POLITICO, Morell acknowledges that he and other spy-world critics of the president failed to fully "think through" the negative backlash generated by their going political. "There was a significant downside," Morell said in the interview.

Comment: But he's not hyping it anymore it seems, what gives? Like the other Intel spooks ahead of him, he's one slimy character. See also:

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Flashlight

DOJ failed to interview FBI informant before it filed charges in Russian nuclear bribery Rosatom case

John Solomon
The Hill
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 11:51 UTC
ROSATOM
© Twitter
Rosatom
While he was Maryland's chief federal prosecutor, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's office failed to interview the undercover informant in the FBI's Russian nuclear bribery case before it filed criminal charges in the case in 2014, officials told The Hill.

And the prosecutors did not let a grand jury hear from the paid informant before it handed up an indictment portraying him as a "victim" of the Russian corruption scheme or fully review his extensive trove of documents until months later, the officials confirmed.

The decisions backfired after prosecutors conducted more extensive debriefings of William Campbell in 2015, learning much more about the extent of his undercover activities and the transactions he engaged in while under the FBI's direction, the officials said.

The debriefings forced prosecutors to recast their entire criminal case against former Russian uranium industry executive Vadim Mikerinn - removing the informant as a star witness and main victim for the prosecution, the officials added.
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Cheeseburger

Trump accusers seek congressional probe of 'sexual misconduct'

Brooke Singman
Fox News
Tue, 12 Dec 2017 05:23 UTC
Trump accusers press conference
© CNN Newsource
Three women, who previously have accused President Trump of sexual misconduct, banded together Monday to call for a congressional investigation into the president - in what could be an opening effort to shift the sexual harassment spotlight from Congress to the White House.

The women revived their allegations during a press conference and television interview in New York City.

Trump has long rejected the accusations from over a dozen women who have made such claims against him, and the White House called the revived accusations "false." The three accusers spoke out Monday following high-profile resignations last week on Capitol Hill over misconduct claims.

Comment: We hope for the accusers' sake the women in the video have more meat to their stories than a couple of kisses and a look. We also hope, for sanity's sake, that Congress looks at this call for investigation as the joke that it is - a few cry-baby snowflakes who had their feelings hurt. It seems like the more people try to dig up actual dirt on Trump, the more of a non-issue things turn out to be (the Epstein association, Russian collusion, the Trump dossier, and these sexual assault allegations). See also:

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Russian Flag

Did 200 Russian servicemen die during its intervention in east Ukraine?

Anatoly Karlin
Russia Insider
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:25 UTC
Ukraine Donbass war
This is one possible interpretation of a recent report in Vedomosti, which analyzed a Russian Ministry of Defense tender for military insurance for the years 2018-2019.

Included within was detailed Russian military mortality statistics for the 2012-2016 period, lifting the lid on a veil of secrecy on such matters since 2010.
deaths ukraine table
The 1,170 figure from 2005 is also taken from the Vedomosti report. At that time, the Russian military numbered around 1.2 million; Chechnya by then only accounted for 100 of them. As of 2016, the Russian military numbers one million. Consequently, non-combat mortality in the Russian military has approximately halved in the past decade.

Comment: Also See:

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Dig

Six months ago ALL Senate Democrats voted for Jerusalem move, now stoking divide

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:01 UTC
Jerusalem Congress vote
Hypocrisy in politics is as inevitable as the tide. However, all too often, partisan politics and the two-party paradigm draw people into a state of cognitive dissonance in which they can hold two entirely contradictory ideas as a single truth - just so long as their political rulers tell them to do so.

Case in point: Donald Trump vehemently opposed the Afghanistan and ran on a campaign to end it but when he got into office, he voted to extend it and his support base did not decry him for it. But it's not just Trump and the right, hypocrisy is rife throughout the nation's capital - no matter which side of the aisle you think has your interests at heart.

"The future of Jerusalem is an issue that should be decided by Israel and the Palestinians, not unilaterally by the United States," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., wrote to Trump last week. "Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital - or relocating our embassy to Jerusalem - will spark violence and embolden extremists on both sides of this debate."

Comment: So in other words, what Trump has done is the same thing that every President before him has done since '96 - recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and then delay the moving of the Embassy by six months. And then another six months. And then another... Only, because it's Trump, he gets lambasted for it by the hypocritical democrats (who all voted for it). It's pathetic.

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Footprints

Another mystery Clinton acquaintance death: Close friend of Hillary planning to "step away from politics" found dead in apparent suicide

Lauren Richardson
Truth Uncensored
Sun, 26 Nov 2017 10:49 UTC
Podesta Mostyn Clinton
How many people do you know who have died mysteriously or of a bizarre suicide, or have been beaten to death or murdered in a hail of bullets, how about someone who committed suicide by shooting themselves in the back of the head?

For most of us the answer is none, but if you are Bill and Hillary Clinton, the answer to that question is at least 56 - and possibly more.

The Clinton dead pool list has grown extensively over the years and we have a new 'suicide' to add to the list.

Comment: Even when considering that as public figures the Clintons probably know more people in their lives than the average person, the figure of 56 strange and often violent deads or suicides of people they knew should raise more than an eyebrow or two.

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Propaganda

"Bombshell" Bellingcat report unwittingly confirms Russia did not control the Donbass rebellion, nobody did

Paul Robinson
Russia Insider
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 12:00 UTC
The Free Donbass Movement

The Free Donbass Movement at the Parade on Independence Day in Donetsk, May 11 2017.
The 'investigative journalism' website Bellingcat has caused another stir this week by claiming to have identified a Russian general who operated in the rebel Lugansk People's Republic (LNR) in Ukraine in summer 2014. Several radio intercepts from the period involve a Russian operating under the codename 'Dolphin' ('Delfin' in Russian). By comparing the intercepts with a recorded telephone conversation, Bellingcat has come to the conclusion that Dolphin is a Russian general, Nikolai Tkachev, who officially retired from the Russian Army in 2010 but who has since held a number of military-related positions, including being an advisor to the Syrian army and for the past few years heading a military school in Yekaterinburg.

Because the Dutch commission investigating the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH-17 has expressed interest in Dolphin's identity, the Bellingcat report is being widely touted as further evidence of direct Russian involvement in the MH-17 affair. Indeed, Bellingcat titles its report "Russian Colonel General Identified as Key MH-17 Figure."


Comment: See:


I'm not qualified to comment on Bellingcat's methodology, and so won't express an opinion on whether Tkachev really is Dolphin, but I have a few things to say about other aspects of the affair:

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Attention

CNN And WaPo working on 20-40 Congressional sexual misconduct stories

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:09 UTC
Michael Trujillo CNN
© Michael Trujillo
CNN and Washington Post are working on exposing "20-30 congressional members" for sexual harassment, claims Michael Trujillo, former LA City Commissioner and Hillary Clinton's California Field Director during her 2008 bid for the White House.


Comment: Now that the Mueller investigation is falling apart, turning out to be a big nothingburger in terms of "Russian collusion", it's no surprise to see the string pullers try to capitalize on the sexual harassment swamp-draining to oust the President they love to hate. See also:

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